The Israeli occupation authorities notified, this evening, Wednesday, to stop work and construction of a large number of homes, facilities and agricultural roads in the town of Qarawat Bani Hassan, west of Salfit.

The mayor of Qarawat Bani Hassan, Ibrahim Asi, said that the occupation forces stormed the western, northern and southern regions of the town, and delivered 23 notices to houses and facilities, agricultural rooms, agricultural roads, and a waste dump.

He explained that the notifications included stopping work and construction in these buildings, under the pretext that they are located in areas classified (C).

He pointed out that the total number of notifications that have been delivered since the end of 2022 until now has reached nearly 100 notifications in the town.

Today, Wednesday, the Arab Ministerial Committee charged with taking action to confront illegal Israeli policies and measures in the occupied city of Jerusalem held its seventh meeting at the headquarters of the General Secretariat of the League of Arab States in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.

The meeting was chaired by the Jordanian Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Ayman Safadi, in the presence of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Riyad Al-Malki, and the Secretary-General of the Arab League, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, prior to the convening of the 160th regular session of the Council of the League of Arab States at the level of foreign ministers.

The committee listened to the briefing given by Minister Al-Maliki on the illegal Israeli policies and practices in the occupied city of Jerusalem, including the prejudice to its status and its existing legal and historical status, and the aggression against Islamic and Christian sanctities, foremost of which is the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, and attempts to divide it temporally and spatially, and the increase in the frequency of its incursions and excavations. Below it, the escalation of home demolitions campaigns, the targeting of Palestinian citizens by killing, arrest, deportation, forced displacement, confiscation of property and lands, and the approval of settlement projects in the city of Jerusalem, which aim to change the face of the city and distort its Arab identity and character according to systematic Israeli colonial settlement plans.

In his briefing to the Ministerial Committee, Al-Maliki warned that these illegal Israeli practices and policies would undermine the foundations of peace and stability in the region, calling for Arab and international action to protect the city of Jerusalem and preserve its legal and historical status, including not opening missions. diplomacy in it or transferring it to it, which violates international law and United Nations resolutions related to the city of Jerusalem.

In turn, Minister Safadi presented the developments of the Israeli abuses and violations in Jerusalem, the work efforts of the committee since its sixth meeting, the contacts it made following the repeated incursions into the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque / Al-Qudsi Al-Sharif by the Israeli government minister and groups of Israeli settlers under guard and the protection of the Israeli occupation forces, and the moves taken It was carried out by member states with internationally influential states to confront the Israeli violations that target occupied Jerusalem, its people, and its Islamic and Christian sanctities.

At the end of its work, the committee called for organizing visits by the committee to influential countries and regional and international organizations in the international community in order to work to mobilize supportive positions for Palestinian rights and shed light on Israeli violations and practices.

And it demanded action at the legal level and holding the Israeli occupation authorities accountable for their violations and crimes in the city of Jerusalem.

The Ministerial Committee called for entrusting the League's missions and ambassadors of the member states of the Committee to take action in influential countries and organizations around the world to expose the illegal practices of the Israeli occupation authorities in the city of Jerusalem, and to take deterrent international stances towards them.

It also called for assigning the Secretary-General, in coordination with the member states of the Committee, to initiate the development of the necessary mechanisms for the Committee's movement in accordance with the contents of this statement and based on the decision to establish it.

In their interventions, the ministers affirmed that East Jerusalem is the capital of the Palestinian state, rejecting any attempt to detract from the right to Palestinian sovereignty over it, and any unilateral measures that affect the legal status of Jerusalem, and the need to adhere to the principle of a just and comprehensive peace conditional on the end of the occupation, and the embodiment of the independent and sovereign Palestinian state, with Jerusalem as its capital. occupied territories on the lines of June 4, 1967, on the basis of the two-state solution, and in accordance with international law and the Arab Peace Initiative.

The meeting also affirmed that the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque / Al-Qudsi Al-Sharif, with its entire area of 144,000 square meters, is a pure place of worship for Muslims, and that the Department of Endowments for Jerusalem and the Affairs of the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque of the Jordanian Ministry of Awqaf, Islamic Affairs and Holy Sites is the legal authority with exclusive jurisdiction to manage all the affairs of Al-Quds Al-Sharif. , and organizing access to it, and expressed their support for the Hashemite Custodianship over the Arab, Islamic and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem, which His Hashemite Majesty King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein undertakes in protecting these holy sites and preserving their Arab, Islamic and Christian identity, and the existing historical and legal status in them.

The ministers also praised the continuous efforts made by King Mohammed VI of Morocco, Chairman of the Al-Quds Committee, to defend Al-Quds Al-Sharif, and noted the projects being implemented by Bayt Mal Al-Quds Al-Sharif Agency, the executive arm of the Committee under the supervision of His Majesty, to establish the Jerusalemites on their land and support their steadfastness.

The Committee includes in its membership: the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in its capacity as chair of the current Arab Summit, the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, the State of Palestine, the State of Qatar, the Arab Republic of Egypt, the Kingdom of Morocco, the Republic of Tunisia, and the State of the United Arab Emirates, in its capacity as the Arab member of the Security Council, and the Secretary General of the League of Arab States.

The seventh meeting of the committee comes based on the decision of the League of Arab States Council No. (8660) issued on (11/5/2021) on the extraordinary session regarding the Israeli aggression against the occupied city of Jerusalem and its people, including the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, which decided to form An Arab ministerial committee to move and communicate with the permanent members of the Security Council and other internationally influential countries.

The Agricultural Development Association "Agricultural Relief" signed agreements to benefit 20 beneficiaries from the intervention of establishing water harvesting ponds "phase two", with the participation of community protection committees in the targeted areas, which are Al-Shawka, Mawasi, Khan Yunis, Khuza'a, Al-Zannah, and Al-Sarij.

This comes within the project "Enhancing the Resilience of Small Farmers and Communities Affected by Natural Hazards and Multifaceted Crises in the Gaza Strip" in partnership with the German Diakonie Foundation "DKH" and funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development BMZ.

Agricultural Relief stated that this intervention aims to mitigate the effects of water scarcity, the depletion of the aquifer capacity, the deterioration of water quality, and the high percentage of salts and nitrates in it, especially in the most vulnerable southern communities.

Relief attaches great importance to water harvesting ponds, as they contribute to providing a fresh water source and increasing storage space by collecting rainwater in agricultural ponds, which reduces the percentage of withdrawal from the aquifer water, which increases productivity and profitability for farmers by reducing costs related to providing quantities of water. In addition to providing an opportunity for agricultural diversification by cultivating crops that they were not able to grow previously.

It is noteworthy that these interventions came in response to community plans that were previously prepared in marginalized areas and those least able to face disasters. With the aim of raising the state of readiness of farmers to respond and prepare for risks.

Today, Wednesday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested two children from the town of Al-Isawiya, north of occupied Jerusalem.

According to local sources, these forces arrested the child Kamal Ghanem Mustafa and the child Bisan Yusef Obaid.

Today, Wednesday, two settlers were injured in a stabbing attack in the Bab al-Khalil area in occupied Jerusalem.

According to Magen David Adom, one of the injured was in serious condition.

The Hebrew channel Reshet Kan reported that the Israeli police arrested the perpetrator after pursuing him.

Jake Sullivan, US President Joe Biden's national security advisor, said in a press conference that he does not expect a breakthrough at the present time in the talks that the United States is conducting regarding the normalization agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia.

Sullivan said that the issue of the normalization agreement will be only one of the issues that will be raised during the visit of the White House official for Middle East affairs, Brett McGurk, to Saudi Arabia this week and in his planned meetings there with the envoys of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

Sullivan indicated that the talks that US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken held (in his phone calls on Tuesday) with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not result in an imminent breakthrough regarding a "normalization agreement" between Saudi Arabia and Israel.

In turn, US State Department spokesman Vedant Patel confirmed the visit of Deputy Assistant to the President (Biden) and National Security Council Coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa, Brett McGurk, to Saudi Arabia "to conduct routine consultations on a range of regional and bilateral issues," and that Assistant Secretary of State Barbara Lev Also, the US Special Envoy for Yemen, Tim Lenderking, will be accompanied by McGurk.

Patel said in his daily press briefing that this visit had been scheduled for a long time and that "Brett McGurk will visit Bahrain before the (Bahraini) Crown Prince's visit to Washington next week as well."

The administration of US President Joe Biden focuses in its policy towards the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on expanding normalization between more Arab countries and Israel, as it appointed, last July, the former US ambassador, Dan Shapiro, as an “envoy to the Abraham Accords,” instead of appointing an envoy to the peace negotiations that were interrupted nine years ago. Years.

In turn, the famous New York Times columnist, Thomas Friedman, warned both Washington and Riyadh against granting the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a normalization agreement with Saudi Arabia, arguing that this would push Israel towards the abyss.

Friedman explained that the Israeli government will never be able to be a stable ally of the United States or a partner of Saudi Arabia, at the present time, "because it is an unnatural government."

The article comes amid increased diplomatic activity to reach a security agreement between Riyadh and Washington that includes a normalization agreement between Saudi Arabia and Israel in exchange for initiatives for the Palestinians.

Today, Wednesday, President Mahmoud Abbas received, at the presidential residence in the city of Ramallah, Irish Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defense Michael Martin and the accompanying delegation.

President Abbas briefed the guest minister on the latest developments in the Palestinian territories, and the continued aggression of the Israeli occupation authorities against the Palestinian people, their land and their sanctities.

The President stressed that the continuation of the unilateral actions of the Israeli occupation authorities, in addition to the continuation of settler terrorism, contributes to the tension of the atmosphere and dragging the region into the square of escalation and violence, the results of which no one can predict, which requires effective international intervention to stop the deterioration and implement the resolutions of international legitimacy.

President Abbas praised the level of bilateral relations between the two countries, stressing the aspiration of the State of Palestine to strengthen and develop these relations in the interest of the friendly Palestinian and Irish peoples, appreciating the support provided by Ireland in the field of scholarships for Palestinian students.

The President stressed the importance of the role that Ireland can play through its membership in the European Union, to provide support for the political process in accordance with international legitimacy, and urged Europe to support the Palestinian endeavor in the United Nations in order to obtain full membership in the United Nations, in order to prepare the atmosphere for a political horizon that ends The Israeli occupation of the State of Palestine with East Jerusalem as its capital on the 1967 borders.

In turn, the Irish minister affirmed his country's firm position in support of achieving a political settlement on the basis of international legitimacy and the two-state solution.

He pointed out that Ireland will continue to provide support to the Palestinian people, especially in the field of scholarships for Palestinian students.

The meeting was attended by a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Ziyad Abu Amr, Palestinian Sharia Judge Mahmoud al-Habash, and the President of the Presidential Court, Intisar Abu Amara.

Today, Wednesday, the Israeli occupation forces delivered demolition notices in the Sawwana neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem.

Local sources reported that the occupation forces stormed the neighborhood and handed a number of residents notices to demolish their homes

Today, Wednesday, the Israeli occupation forces detained two girls at the Hawara military checkpoint, south of Nablus.

According to local sources, the occupation forces have been holding the two girls for nearly two hours, and their identities are not yet known.

Today, Wednesday, the Israeli police arrested a Jerusalemite citizen on his return from traveling through Lod Airport in Tel Aviv.

According to local sources, the Israeli police stationed at Lod Airport arrested Muhammad Abd Darwish on his return from travel.

The Hebrew newspaper Haaretz said, on Wednesday, that the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is continuing the policy of the Bennett-Lapid government to avoid holding Hamas in the Gaza Strip responsible for the attacks in the West Bank.

According to the newspaper, the Hamas leadership in Gaza is an active partner in efforts to ignite the situation in the West Bank.

The newspaper considered that placing responsibility on Hamas in Gaza requires measures in the Strip, but the current government has avoided that so far.

She said: Israel still allows about 18,000 workers to enter from the Strip to the Green Line, which is the price of calm and stability that it pays to Hamas, but at the present time it also involves ignoring the dangerous activities of the movement directed at the West Bank.

And I considered holding Netanyahu responsible for what is happening to Iran as the easiest option to blame it, especially since there is not much to be done against it anyway.

She pointed out that Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah are constantly seeking to ignite the situation in the West Bank and are trying to smuggle explosive devices in various ways, in an attempt to turn the recent wave of attacks into more deadly ones.

The Independent Commission for Human Rights monitored (196) deaths in abnormal circumstances in the West Bank and Gaza Strip during 2022.

According to the Authority’s annual statistics, (46) cases are for females, (150) are for males, (37) are for children, (5) are for persons with disabilities, and (10) are for the elderly.

And it indicated that it had received 4 complaints about patients who died in hospitals, one case in the West Bank, and 3 cases in Gaza.

3 suicides were recorded in the West Bank, and 38 deaths were due to failure to follow public safety measures.

In the Gaza Strip, 15 deaths were due to suicide, 32 were the result of non-compliance with safety measures, and 12 deaths were due to family quarrels.

The total number of complaints about the right to physical integrity reached (542) complaints, (264) complaints in the West Bank and (278) complaints in the Gaza Strip, compared to (445) complaints in 2021.

Regarding personal freedom, (182) complaints about detention without presenting a legal warrant issued by the Public Prosecution or a judicial order issued by the competent courts were monitored, and in cases outside the law allowing people to be arrested without a legal warrant, and (73) complaints related to detention. Administrative detention and detention of some for several months before their release, (94) complaints related to the failure to implement court decisions to release them, and a number of those are still under administrative detention despite the passage of several months after the courts issued decisions to release them.

Concerning the right to freedom of opinion and expression, the commission received (58) complaints, which included (76) allegations of violating the right to freedom of opinion and expression, with (40) complaints in the West Bank and (18) complaints in the Gaza Strip.

Concerning the right to peaceful assembly, (26) complaints about the violation of the right to peaceful assembly were registered, including (20) complaints in the West Bank, and (6) complaints in the Gaza Strip, of a political nature and to a lesser extent of a living nature, usually represented in preventing a contract. Peaceful assemblies, their dispersal, assaulting, detaining or summoning participants.

Regarding the right to hold public office, (210) complaints related to violations of the right to hold public office were registered, (118) complaints in the West Bank, (92) complaints in the Gaza Strip, and the complaints were distributed in terms of gender to (48) private complaints. In terms of disability, the Commission received (19) complaints related to persons with disabilities, (10) complaints from the West Bank, (9) complaints from the Gaza Strip, (221) complaints related to administrative disputes (promotion, pension rights, financial rights , the right to leave, arbitrary transfer), including (123) complaints in the West Bank, and (98) complaints in the Gaza Strip. (65) complaints, including for females, and (11) complaints for persons with disabilities. Complaints for females and persons with disabilities increased, (23) complaints related to dismissal from public office (arbitrary dismissal), without adhering to the legal standards for arrest, dismissal, or dismissal of the public servant.

Regarding the right to movement, (13) complaints were registered by citizens stating that the Palestinian security services prevented them from traveling without a judicial order in both the West Bank and Gaza Strip, (42) complaints in the Gaza Strip, about the refusal of the Ministry of Interior in Ramallah, As for issuing or renewing passports, the Ministry of Interior in Ramallah has been refusing since 2007 to issue passports to citizens in the Gaza Strip or to renew them before the approval of the security services is issued. (8) Complaints in both the West Bank and Gaza Strip, related to the detention of identification cards ID and passports.

Concerning human rights defenders, the independent commission said: Human rights defenders are exposed to a number of violations and harassment committed by official bodies or other unofficial parties. It may lead to murder, kidnapping, arrest, torture, threats, harm to the family and defamation. Defenders of women's rights are subjected to various harassments by social movements and religious and political parties, who see their defense of women as a contradiction with religion and in line with the goals of the West and a denial of Arab values, customs and traditions.

Concerning the right to health, (52) complaints were registered, most of which are related to referrals of treatment outside the official treatment institutions, and the unavailability of some medicines. (34) complaints for males and (18) complaints for females, (17) complaints in the Gaza Strip and (35) complaints in the West Bank.

Concerning the right to education, (23) complaints were registered, including (24) allegations of the expiration of the right to education, with (18) complaints in the West Bank, and (5) complaints in the Gaza Strip, which focused on adaptation and provision of education, equality in educational opportunities without Discrimination or prejudice due to political affiliation. Violation of academic freedoms and freedom of student activities. Freedom of scientific research. Freedom to engage in student activities and free university education.

Regarding the right to work, (4) complaints related to violations of the right to freedom of trade union work were registered, (42) complaints, all in the Gaza Strip, related to the violation of workers' right to obtain end-of-service benefits. The authority monitored (10) cases of death of citizens resulting from Failure to follow occupational safety and health standards in the work environment, of which (8) were in the West Bank, and two cases were in the Gaza Strip.

Regarding the right to adequate housing and reconstruction in the Gaza Strip, (40) complaints related to violations of the right to adequate housing, (2) complaints in the West Bank, (38) complaints in the Gaza Strip, the increase in complaints in Gaza due to the destruction of thousands of residential buildings by the occupation During its repeated attacks on the Gaza Strip, the slowdown in the reconstruction process, and the increase in the citizens' need for housing as a result of the high population density rate, and the worsening economic and social conditions.

According to WFP website: The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) welcomed a vital and timely contribution of JPY 200 million (US$1.5 million) from the Government of Japan which will enable WFP to provide much-needed food assistance to the most vulnerable Palestinian families in Gaza.

Amid a severe funding shortfall, deteriorating humanitarian conditions, economic fragility, and surging prices of food commodities, this contribution will enable WFP to sustain the provision of nutritious in-kind food sustenance to 27,000 food-insecure Palestinians in Gaza for a period of three months. Each family will receive fortified wheat flour, pulses, vegetable oil and iodized salt, which are essential for families to prepare daily nourishing meals.   

Mr. NAKASHIMA Yoichi, H.E. Ambassador for Palestinian Affairs and Representative of Japan to Palestine, said: “This support embodies Japan's commitment to continue its contribution to supporting Palestinian food security and its keenness on the future of the two-state solution.”  

In the Gaza Strip, soaring unemployment and high poverty combined with movement and access restrictions impede people's chances of bettering their lives and erode their purchasing power. Already exacerbated by the impact of the Ukraine crisis, more than 63% of Gaza's population is food insecure, struggling to make ends meet. WFP food basket represents their sole means of providing meals for their families. This includes those furthest below the poverty line in Gaza.  

The Minister of Social Development, Dr. Ahmed Majdalani, said that the Ministry of Social Development is seeking with all Arab and international partners to urge them to contribute to bridging the financial gap that the World Food Program suffers from, as a result of the decline in funding in favor of the program, in addition to the outbreak of many economic crises in the region, which reduced the amount of assistance for the program.

"Japan's steadfast partnership has been instrumental in our mission to provide vital assistance to tens of thousands of struggling families every year," said Samer Abdel Jaber, WFP Representative and Country Director to Palestine. "Especially during these challenging times where suffering is most acute, WFP food assistance remains a lifeline for vulnerable Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. We extend our heartfelt gratitude to Japan for their unwavering support for WFP during a sensitive era of funding shortfall.” 

As we welcome contributions from the Government of Japan with profound appreciation, we are raising the alarm for the severe funding shortfall that persists to hinder WFP's capacity to continue providing vital assistance to the most vulnerable families in Palestine. If no funding emerges, WFP operations in Palestine will be forced to halt by November this year. 

The Supreme National Committee of the National Captive Movement confirmed, on Wednesday, that the hunger strike will start next Thursday, the fourteenth of this month, unless the occupation and its tools back down from this decision and everything it threatens, and commit not to harming their rights that were taken away with their blood and suffering.

This came in a statement, on the second anniversary of Operation "Tunnel of Freedom", during which 6 prisoners were stripped of their freedom before being re-arrested.

She indicated that after that incident, the occupation tried to impose sanctions and measures against all prisoners, so the captive national movement overcame all differences, united and succeeded in repelling this aggression, and after that it fought challenges and battles that exceeded 6 rounds, and succeeded each time in strengthening unity and victory.

She indicated that the new strike aims to confront measures that affect the essence of their lives and the reality of their detention.

And she said: The renewed unity in the castles of families among the heirs of the martyrs must be embodied in reality in all arenas and institutions of Palestinian national action, and that your support for us is the key to our victory - God willing -, so be, as we have always promised you, our strong pillar and our impenetrable bulwark. As stated in its statement.

On Wednesday morning, the Israeli occupation forces arrested a leader of the Palestinian resistance in Jenin camp, after storming his house on the outskirts of the camp.

A special Israeli force infiltrated the outskirts of the camp, near the Mahmoud Tawalbeh Mosque, and stormed a house belonging to Ibrahim Naghniga, before arresting his son Muhammad.

Muhammad, a liberated prisoner, is considered one of the leaders of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, and the Resistance, in the Jenin camp, and he is the brother of two martyrs.

Violent clashes took place between the resistance groups and the Israeli occupation forces, which occupied several houses and deployed snipers in their vicinity.

For the second day in a row, the Israeli occupation forces continue to search students' school bags at the entrances to Al-Aqsa Mosque, looking for books from the Palestinian curriculum in Jerusalem.

Two days ago, the occupation police confiscated a number of textbooks from the Palestinian curriculum from students' bags while they were on their way to the Sharia school and the "Riyad Al-Aqsa" kindergarten, which are located inside the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque, under the pretext that they are from the Palestinian curriculum and the flag of Palestine is on them.

At the time, the Jerusalem Governorate considered that the seizure of books by the occupying forces was a new racist attack on Palestinian schools and our national curricula that implement the Palestinian curriculum.

The Israeli "Ministry of Education" and the occupation municipality in Jerusalem forced the school owners to sign a pledge that they had received books devoid of the Palestinian curriculum, otherwise those schools would be subject to the revocation of their license.

Palestinian sources confirmed that 237 martyrs have fallen since the beginning of this year, i.e. in approximately eight months, and no less than 28 martyrs per month, or an average of one martyr per day, and these waterfalls of blood continue to fill the Palestinian land in all its aspects and at different times, in addition to this. Of course, to the wounded and detainees, as well as the confiscation of land and the demolition of homes.

What country is this that is committing these crimes, and where is the silent global conscience towards all of this, and where are we going and how is the solution and salvation from this extremely dangerous and despicable human predicament?!

The president received a phone call from US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, and it was an occasion for Abu Mazen to ask Minister Blinken and the United States to intervene and compel Israel to stop its aggression and unilateral measures against our people and land.. But Blinken, as usual, heard the words and ignored the matter and did not ask, as expected. Except for the Palestinians to reduce their “aggression against Israel”!!

The Israeli District Planning and Building Committee has completed the preparation of a structural plan for building a new settlement on the lands of Sharafat and Beit Safafa, and the establishment of 593 settlement units on an area of about forty dunums, in addition to building public institutions and 120 settlement units for rent.

Talk about settlement has become repetitive and almost daily, because plans for expansion and Judaization never stop in all parts of the West Bank, and in the Jerusalem area in particular.

The occupation has devoured large parts of the West Bank, especially in the Jordan Valley and sparsely populated areas, because it fears nothing but the population presence and the relatively large increase among our people.

And Israel heard a lot of speech, but it is “a voice to a deaf” and the arrogance of power makes it not think about anything other than what sit sees as in its favor, and if we really want to resist this hateful occupation, the first thing we have to do is restore national unity and end this division between Gaza and the West Bank, which is greater point of our weaknesses, and work together to confront this occupation that understands nothing but strength and unity.

1. Whether you loved the late President Anwar Sadat, or you did not like him, you can only agree that he was the owner of a political school that differed from everything that preceded it, whether in his dealings with the Egyptian internal situation, or in his approach, which was at the time new in all directions, especially with regard to settlement with Israel.
   
   Sadat’s theory was based on a principle he declared boldly and frankly: “99 percent of the solution cards are in the hands of America.” So, according to the principle of the closest distance between two points is the straight line, and given his deep awareness of the organic bond between America and Israel, the principle of the straight line included a thunderbolt visit to Jerusalem, and to deliver a speech before the “Knesset” in the presence of all of Israel, government and opposition, headed by its most extreme right-wing leader, Menachem Begin.
   
   At the same time, he developed his relationship with the American administration, and among the preparations for his new relationship, he expelled the Soviet experts, fought the October War, achieved a remarkable achievement in it, and began work.
   
   The 99 percent theory was tested in the arduous talks that Sadat held at the “first” Camp David, and despite Begin’s desperate attempts to compress Egyptian claims within limits that suit Israel’s political and security strategy, what finally happened was that the 99 prevailed over the one, and Begin acquiesced in the settlement of President Jimmy Carter. The Egyptian-Israeli treaty was signed, implemented, and continues to this day.
   
   Over the long and busy years that have passed since that “Camp David”, great transformations took place, which would not have happened had it not been for what Sadat did: the wars of the Arab armies with Israel ended, the Israeli control over the Suez Canal ended, the Sinai was liberated, and after that the Jordanian treaty was signed. Israel, after the Palestinians recognized Israel's right to exist within secure and recognized borders, in exchange for Israel's recognition of the "Palestine Liberation Organization" to begin the Oslo process, as the beginning of the most important news, which is a final settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict, in a bet that the Middle East will enter a state of calm and stability. , in return for the "pariah" Israel being a natural part of it.
   
   The Jordanian-Israeli treaty was stabilized by virtue of the stability of the regime in Jordan, but the matter seemed completely different when the incursion into the Palestinian-Israeli file took place, and complications began to follow during the phase of implementing the agreements and understandings produced by Oslo, until it faltered and then retreated... Here it is worth paying attention to the American role since that historic handshake in the gardens of the White House, between Arafat and Rabin, to this day, and on this day, if Oslo is not dead, it is in a dying state.
   
   The American march to save the project, without specifying its many facts, was deteriorating from one failure to another, sometimes or often the Palestinians were blamed, and sometimes some blame appeared on the Israelis, until the radical coup that President Trump carried out with full participation with Benjamin Netanyahu, when he announced his deal, which the Arabs and the world - as well as the American Democrats - unanimously rejected, and emphasized its futility.
   
   The American march to address the failures of Oslo, the latest of which was Secretary of State John Kerry’s admission that Israel thwarted his efforts, which took him a whole year, in which he devoted himself to the task of saving the peace process, proved that the cards that were 99 percent in the hands of America moved to the hands of Israel, and it became the owner of the right to “veto” everything that it does not like about the American stances towards the Palestinians, which resulted in an equation that I do not see absent from the awareness and calculations of influencers in the Arab decision-making, which is that Israel is a partner in the American global policy, in varying proportions, but it is the decision-maker in the Palestinian issue. As if it is an Israeli internal affair, and herein lies the intractable knot.

According to Middle East Monitor website, a senior Israeli official has said that further progress in normalizing ties between Saudi Arabia and the occupation state hinges on the kingdom securing defense guarantees from the US. The unnamed official is involved deeply in diplomatic efforts, and said that the Saudis are focused foremost on getting a defense pact with the US. Riyadh views Washington’s security assurances as pivotal to advance the normalization process with the apartheid state.

The official is reported as saying that another “four to five” unresolved issues remain but are less complex. American and Palestinian delegations are traveling to Saudi Arabia this week to continue US-brokered negotiations on a potential normalization agreement.

Israeli concessions to the Palestinians are not, it is claimed, the chief Saudi focus, but the Saudi-US defense pact is. Israel’s far-right government is expected to fall in line if a deal with the Saudis can be struck.

Critics who have slammed the parameters of the reported deal argue that US-led efforts are misguided, especially as it requires an American pledge that is likely to see US soldiers killed in defence of Saudi Arabia. Moreover, the plan rewards Israel despite its appalling human rights abuses and illegal occupation while abandoning legitimate Palestinian rights and self-determination. True progress, says the deal’s critics, requires accountability and an end to Israel’s practice of apartheid, not just further support.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu believes he can rally his hardline coalition behind any concessions needed, the official said, despite partners opposing Palestinian statehood or sovereignty.

Netanyahu himself has reportedly vowed not to take any steps with the Palestinians that senior Israeli officials would be uncomfortable with. Despite his assurances, just like the far-right members of his coalition the Israeli Prime Minister is himself ideologically opposed to a Palestinian state and has proposed solutions that denies the right of self-determination to millions of non-Jews.

The Israeli leader is seeking to meet US President Joe Biden in Washington but has yet to visit since returning to office last December. The two leaders are expected to meet at the UN General Assembly in New York this month, although details remain unclear.

Today, Wednesday morning, the Israeli occupation forces arrested two Jerusalemites, after raiding their homes in Jabal Mukaber, south of occupied Jerusalem.

According to local sources, the occupation forces arrested two Jerusalemites, Karam Raed Owaisat and Osama Abu Hilal, after storming their homes.

Clashes erupted, after the arrest, with the occupation forces, who fired poison gas and sound bombs at the citizens.

Hearings in the trial of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are set to resume on Wednesday.

According to the Hebrew newspaper Haaretz, with the end of the court recess after a month and a half, Netanyahu's trial sessions will resume, by continuing to hear testimonies in File 4000.

She indicated that the Public Prosecutor's Office insists on the existence of suspicions of bribery in File 4000, known as Bezeq-Wala, despite the fact that the panel of judges recommended that the Office withdraw the charge.

The judges refused to add a fourth day of hearings each week, and agreed to add sessions starting next January if necessary.

On Wednesday, two people were killed in a new shooting crime inside the occupied territories.

According to the Hebrew website Ynet, the bodies of two people who were shot were found inside a vehicle they were traveling in in an olive grove near the town of Abu Sinan in Western Galilee.

The Israeli police opened an investigation into the circumstances of the incident.

The Hebrew newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth revealed, on Wednesday morning, secret negotiations taking place behind the scenes between Israel and Indonesia, the largest Islamic country in the world.

According to the Hebrew newspaper, the elections that will be held in Indonesia during February 2024, the results of which will decide whether it will normalize its relations with Israel.

Israel does not have any official diplomatic relations with Indonesia, but it has direct channels of communication with a number of parties in the country, and there are trade, tourism and security cooperation relations. As reported by the newspaper.

She noted that the US administration is working behind the scenes to persuade the Indonesians to normalize relations.

According to the newspaper, there is a disagreement within Israel about whether Indonesia will normalize its relations with Israel before Saudi Arabia, or whether it would prefer to follow suit.

In recent months, Indonesia has prevented an Israeli team from entering its territory, causing it to lose hosting the World Youth Cup and other international tournaments.

A senior Israeli official said that Indonesia fears demonstrations and protests that the population may stage, so it is expected that Saudi Arabia will wait.

Human rights organizations have called for a boycott of Israeli companies specialized in the field of water and agriculture, prior to their participation in the United Nations Climate Summit (COP 28) scheduled for the end of next November in the UAE.

These companies work to improve their image in front of the world in light of their theft of Palestinian rights to water and the destruction of the Palestinian environment through toxic agricultural pesticides.

The companies (Mekorot, Netafim, Haifa Chemicals, and Adama) seek to present themselves during the summit with their ability to achieve sustainable solutions regarding the environment around the world, at a time when these companies steal Palestinian resources and direct them towards illegal Israeli settlements according to international law.

Human rights organizations are working to reveal the true face of these Israeli companies, and to defend Palestinian rights against climate colonialism.

The Israeli occupation bulldozers demolished, at dawn today, Wednesday, houses and facilities in the Al-Buqaan neighborhood in the town of Anata, east of occupied Jerusalem.

Local sources in the town said that bulldozers, accompanied by the occupation forces, stormed the village at five in the morning, and proceeded to demolish industrial facilities, a car parts store, and some buildings, including residential ones.

The Israeli occupation forces launched, at dawn and Wednesday morning, a campaign of arrests among citizens in separate areas of the West Bank.

The campaign of arrests focused on the Arroub camp, north of Hebron, from which 6 young men were arrested, after raids on several homes, amid violent confrontations with the young men.

The detainees are: Nader Al-Sharif, Mahmoud Madi, Omar Al-Badawi, Thaer Awadat, Adam Mahfouz, and Baha Jawabreh.

While Omar Shafiq Al-Rimawi was arrested from the town of Beit Rima, west of Ramallah.

Ishaq Mahameed was arrested after storming his house on the outskirts of Nour Shams camp, Tulkarm.

The 17-year-old Muhammad Yusef Zubaidat was killed on Tuesday evening, as a result of being shot by an Israeli military police force in the Jordan Valley area in Jericho.

The so-called "Border Guard" of the Israeli police said that a Palestinian approached a force stationed at the Argaman intersection on Road 90 in the Jordan Valley, and the source of fire was responded to, and he was chased and killed nearby.

The statement stated that a female soldier affiliated with the force was lightly and moderately wounded, after an exchange of fire at the scene.

The Dawn Brigade, one of the resistance brigades in the West Bank, claimed responsibility for the operation, and published a picture of the martyr Zubaidat.

Thomas Friedman, chief commentator for the New York Times, who is close to US President Joe Biden, the latter, and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, warned against pushing for an agreement to normalize relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia, and to announce their rejection of the proposed deal.

Friedman said in an article in the American newspaper, addressing Biden and Bin Salman: "Do not let Netanyahu turn you into his useful idiots... It is impossible to normalize with an abnormal Israeli government... and it will never be a stable ally of the United States or a partner of Saudi Arabia."He added: Netanyahu will not make any concessions to the Palestinians, and therefore the United States and Saudi Arabia should demand real measures such as transferring part of Area C to the Palestinians, freezing construction in the settlements, and stopping the legalization of settlement outposts and the establishment of other outposts, and that the goal of this deal is that a solution must be implemented. two states later.

And he continued: Insisting on such conditions will lead to the disintegration of the Netanyahu government, which is led by a group of racist extremist Yemeni Jews, whose likes have not enjoyed security authorities in Israel before, and this will put the Israeli public before the choice: “annexation or normalization”, with the most important Islamic country, Which is the gateway to other large Islamic countries such as Indonesia and Malaysia.

He referred to the meeting that brought together the Israeli ambassador to Romania with the leader of the far-right party in Bucharest, at the behest of Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, and with the participation of the settler leader in the West Bank, Yossi Dagan, noting that Israel boycotted this right-wing party for many years because of its denial of the Holocaust and others.

And that this meeting was held against the background of Dagan's attempts to strengthen Israel's relations with the extreme right-wing European parties in order to convince them to support the settlements in the West Bank.

"Netanyahu and his allies are trying to build an alternative to US diplomatic support with xenophobic and extremist parties in Europe that don't care about the settlements," Friedman says.

He believed that the role currently required of American diplomats, the American army, and Jewish organizations in the United States is to save Israel from the internal Jewish threat that is evident in the Netanyahu government, considering that the current government is no longer a reliable ally for the United States.

He warned of the potential deal getting out of control, through which Netanyahu seeks not to make any concessions to the Palestinians and tries to exploit them to annex the West Bank and fulfill the dream of his allies.

He said: This Israeli ruling coalition must be stopped, and more importantly, this bad deal that could enable Netanyahu to crush the Israeli Supreme Court, win normalization with Saudi Arabia, and pay a small price for the Palestinians, so that the right-wing extremists in his government can continue to push Israel to what is Further, to the abyss.

He added: It must stop. This is not a deal that Biden should be part of his legacy, and it is not a deal that would form a stable basis for the Saudi-Israeli strategic partnership.

He continued: “No” should be said to this deal, and to do otherwise would be a shame.

Two civilians were shot and others suffocated, this evening, Tuesday, during clashes with the Israeli occupation forces in the town of Beit Furik, east of Nablus.

According to local and medical sources, the clashes erupted after the occupation forces stormed the Quneitra area, west of the town, during which the occupation soldiers fired bullets, stun grenades, and tear gas. A medical center in the town.

The sources pointed out that the gas bombs fired by the occupation caused a fire to break out in the area, and it was brought under control.

On Tuesday evening, the Israeli occupation forces arrested two young men and a girl, near the village of Al-Jib, northwest of occupied Jerusalem.

Eyewitnesses reported that the occupation forces set up a military checkpoint at the roundabout of the village of Al-Jib, and stopped a vehicle carrying two young men and a girl, before arresting them and confiscating the vehicle, and the identity of the detainees has not yet been known.