Uprooted Palestinians are at the heart of the conflict in the M.E Palestinians uprooted by force of arms. Yet faced immense difficulties have survived, kept alive their history and culture, passed keys of family homes in occupied Palestine from one generation to the next.
Several prisoners and human rights organizations published a report detailing the Israeli occupation’s measures and actions against Palestinian prisoners throughout October 2021.
A Palestinian demonstrator is arrested by occupation police at the Al-Aqsa Mosque on May 10, 2021, in Jerusalem
A not-so-shocking figure that reflects Israeli brutality showed that the occupation arrested nearly 470 Palestinians throughout October of 2021 across the occupied Palestinian territories. Those detained include 135 children and 10 women.
The figures came up in a monthly joint report issued by several prisoners and human rights organizations, namely the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoners Club, Al-Dameer Organization, and the Wadi Hilwe Information Center-Jerusalem.
The number of Palestinians incarcerated in Israeli prisons reached 4650 by the end of October 2021, including 160 minors, 34 women, and nearly 500 administrative detainees.
The report lists all policies and measures taken by the Israeli occupation against prisoners monthly. Administrative detentions made by the IOF in October amounted to 106, and since 2015, the Israeli supreme court issued an order related to the so-called suspension of the administrative detention against prisoners who decide to start a hunger strike on an individual basis. While Palestinian organizations considered the court order at the time as an Israeli tool to solidify administrative detentions, the supreme court has not stopped implementing the decision up till today.
The daily arrest rate in occupied Palestine amounted to 15 arrests
There are six Palestinian prisoners hunger-striking in protest of their administrative detention as of the date of the report’s publication.
The Israeli occupation authorities are arbitrarily arresting Palestinians daily to oppose their struggle, suppress their rights, and hijack their freedom.
The daily arrest rate in occupied Palestine amounted to 15 arrests with the IOF arresting Palestinians over their social media posts, completely suppressing their freedom of speech.
The arbitrary Israeli measure was followed by a military order that puts said NGOs at the risk of being closed and having their employees prosecuted.
The measure shocked human rights organizations all over the world, as the blacklisted NGOs played a pivotal role in delivering aid to those violated and oppressed by the IOF, defending their human rights in the face of Israeli abuses.
The arbitrary decision received denunciations from several international bodies
To add, just yesterday, the United Nations said the Israeli measure “deepens the concerns” of its agencies.
In a statement released Tuesday, the agencies said they “regretted the decision made on 7 November by the Military Commander in the West Bank,” saying it represents “a further erosion of civic and humanitarian space.”
The organizations in question are the al-Haq human rights group, the al-Dameer rights group, Defense for Children International-Palestine, the Bisan Center for Research and Development, the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees, and the Union of Agricultural Work Committees.
It seems as if the Israeli occupation is almost literally studying ways to further traumatize and oppress Palestinian children, for it is taking their right to live from them, as well as their right to being raised by their loving family.
Cancer-Stricken Palestinian child, Ahmad al-Qawasmi
The Israeli occupation uses many tactics to oppress the Palestinian people, such as depriving them of their freedom, making false allegations against them, and exercising inhumane practices. Its forces have always given a lot of thought to their ways of oppressing children, violating their child rights, and their right to peacefully live with their families in a psychologically and socially positive environment.
Al-Khalil’s Hijazi al-Qawasmi bid farewell to his cancer-stricken son, Ahmad, in a heart-shattering scene, which saw him being arrested Tuesday dawn by the Israeli occupation forces.
The child is Hijazi al-Qawasimi’s oldest son, and he is suffering from bone cancer. The Israeli occupation did not care for the child’s feelings upon arresting his father in front of him as he was unable to stand. The Israeli occupation did not cater to the child’s physical and psychological health. Instead, they showed their hatred for the Palestinian people and their arrogance regarding their needs.
Al Mayadeen interviewed the sick Palestinian child, who talked to us about how the first moments after his father’s arrest went. “Today, for the first time in my life, I bid farewell to a person I love. I hope to see my father once again,” Ahmad said. He also directed a message to his detained father, expressing his longing for him and hoping that his father returns, for he means everything to him.
Hijazi’s wife, Bayan al-Natshe said that this is her husband’s fifth time being arrested, expressing how hard it is to lose such an important person to the family, especially taking into consideration the difficult circumstances they are going through.
Regarding her son’s psychological health, Bayan noted that it would be hard for a person to recover in the absence of their father, who is also their support system. “My son needs a reassuring environment to respond well to treatment. But the Israeli occupation took everything away from him,” she added.
Ziyad al-Qawasmi, Hijazi’s father, says that his grandchild has had bone cancer for the past nine months. He underwent surgery to remove part of a bone in his right leg last July in Turkey.
These words sum up the Palestinian people’s struggle. They moved people all over social media, sparking all sorts of emotions in them. Social media users expressed their anger toward the Israeli occupation’s brutal and inhumane behavior, arguing that Hijazi might not be able to see his sick son ever again.
It is noteworthy Ahmad was meant to have a chemotherapy session on Tuesday in occupied Jerusalem. However, it was postponed due to the Israeli occupation forces detaining his father.
الاحتلال الإسرائيلي يمعن في سياساته القمعية بحق الأطفال في فلسطين المحتلة، حيث يسلب منهم حق العيش في كنف عائلاتهم.. هكذا كانت المعاناة مزدوجة مع الطفل أحمد القواسمي.
يعاني الطفل أحمد، وهو النجل الأكبر للمعتقل حجازي القواسمي، من سرطان العظام
من الأساليب التي يعتمدها الاحتلال الإسرائيلي بحق الشعب الفلسطيني، هي سلب حريتهم وتلفيق التهم بهم وتهجيرهم وتنفيذ الممارسات غير الإنسانية وغيرها، ولطالما أمعن في سياساته القمعية بحق الأطفال، وانتهاك طفولتهم واعتقالهم، والحق في العيش مع عائلاتهم في جو من الاستقرار النفسي والاجتماعي.
ونتيجة ذلك، ودّع الفلسطيني حجازي القواسمي من مدينة الخليل في مشهد مؤلم،، نجله أحمد، المصاب بمرض السرطان، وذلك خلال عملية اعتقاله من قبل قوات الاحتلال الإسرائيلي فجر يوم أمس الثلاثاء.
يعاني الطفل أحمد، وهو النجل الأكبر للمعتقل حجازي القواسمي، من سرطان العظام، غير أن الاحتلال الإسرائيلي لم يعبأ بمشاعر الطفل الذي كان يودع والده من دون قدرة على الوقوف، ولم يراعِ الاحتلال الأوضاع الصحية والنفسية للطفل بل أظهر حقده وعنجهيته في هذا المشهد.
الميادين نت أجرت مقابلة مع الطفل الفلسطيني أحمد القواسمة، الذي تحدث عن اللحظات الأولى التي عاشها بعد اعتقال والده، قائلاً: “اليوم، ودعت إنساناً أحبه لأول مرة في حياتي. أتمنى أن أرى والدي مجدداً”. ووجه القواسمة رسالة لأبيه الأسير، وعبر عن اشتياقه له، آملاً أن “يعود السند فالأب هو كل شىء”.
وأشارت زوجة الأسير بيان النتشة إلى أن هذا هو الاعتقال الخامس لزوجها حجازي القواسمة، قائلةً إنه “شعور صعب أن تفقد عمود البيت والسند في ظل هذه الظروف الصعبة التي تمر فيها العائلة”.
وحول صحة ابنها النفسية، لفتت إلى أنه “من الصعب أن يتعافى المرء في ظل غياب سنده ووالده”، مؤكدةً أن “ابنها بحاجة اليوم إلى جو من الطمأنينة لكي يتجاوب مع العلاج، لكن الاحتلال الإسرائيلي سلب منه كل شيء”.
ويقول زياد القواسمي، والد المعتقل حجازي وجدّ الطفل أحمد، إن حفيده مصاب بمرض السرطان في العظم منذ 9 أشهر، وأُجريت له عملية استئصال لجزء من عظم رجله اليمنى في أحد المستشفيات التركية في تموز/يوليو الماضي.
هذه الكلمات التي اختصرت معاناة الشعب الفلسطيني، حركت مشاعر الحزن في مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي. الناشطون عبروا عن غضبهم من هذا السلوك الهمجي وغير الإنساني لقوات الاحتلال، قائلين إن “حجازي قد لا يتمكن من رؤية ابنه المريض مرة أخرة”.
حجازي القواسمة من الخليل.. يودع ابنه الطفل "احمد" المصاب بالسرطان قبل اعتقاله من قبل الاحتلال الصهيوني صباح اليوم "فلا نامت اعين الجبناء" pic.twitter.com/WucTNgCY6g
ويذكر أن الطفل أحمد القواسمي كان من المفترض أن يتلقى، يوم أمس الثلاثاء، جرعة علاج كيماوية في مستشفى المُطّلع بالقدس المحتلة، غير أنها تأجلت بسبب اعتقال والده.
The Palestinian Prisoners Club announced that 5 Palestinian detainees have staged a hunger strike, in support of 8 other prisoners who are currently on an open hunger strike in protest of the “administrative detention” policy.
The club stated that the prisoners, Alaa El-Din Khaled Ali, Ahmed Abdel-Rahman Abu Sale, Muhammad Khaled Abu Sale, Hussam Taysir Rabi’i, and Fadi El-Amour decided to join the ongoing strike, bringing the number of prisoners on strike to 13, distributed in the Negev, Raymond and Ofer prisons.
The Palestinian detainees continuing their hunger strike in protest of their administrative detention are: Salem Zaidat, Muhammad Omar, Mujahid Hamid, Mahmoud Al-Fasfous, Kayed Al-Fasfous, Raafat Al-Darawish, Guevara Al-Namoura and Maher Delaysha.
According to a statement by the Prisoner Club, four detainees – Muntasir Billah Abu Azum, Muayyad al-Khatib, Muhammad Zaghir, and Nidal Muflih Khalaf – have suspended their hunger strike.
Zaghir obtained a substantial decision from the “Israeli” entity’s Military Court in Ofer Prison to end his “administrative detention” on October 13, 2021; while the two prisoners, Abu Azum and Khalaf, reached an agreement to determine a maximum duration for their “administrative detention”.
Earlier, the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Authority reported that Muayad Al-Khatib suspended his open hunger strike after a serious deterioration in his health, and he was subsequently transferred to the Raymond prison clinic.
The authority clarified that Moayyad suspended his strike against his “administrative detention” a week after starting the strike. His weight had clearly decreased, and he suffered from severe stomach bleeding and started vomiting blood.
A Palestinian young man, Abdo Al-Khatib Al-Tamimi, was martyred in al-Maskobiya Prison in occupied al-Quds [Jerusalem], under mysterious circumstances.
People close to the martyr indicated that he was tortured and electrocuted by the “Israeli” occupation forces [IOF], which led to his death.
JERUSALEM — In November of last year, an Israeli judge invoked the controversial Jewish Nation-State Basic Law when striking down a lawsuit against the city of Karmiel over funding transportation for two Palestinian students.
In his ruling, the chief registrar of the Krayot Magistrate’s Court, Yaniv Luzon, said that establishing an Arabic-language school in Karmiel or funding transportation for Palestinian Arab students would “damage the city’s Jewish character” and may encourage Palestinian citizens of Israel to move into Jewish cities, thereby “altering the demographic balance.”
Luzon cited Section 7 of Israel’s Jewish Nation-State Law, writing:
The development and establishment of Jewish settlement is a national value enshrined in the Basic Law and is a worthy and prominent consideration in municipal decision-making, including the establishment of schools and the determination of policies relating to the funding of [school] busing [of students] from outside the city.
The students’ father, Kasem Bakri, said of the judge’s decision, “The municipality treats my sons as guests in the best of times and as enemies in the worst of times.” The family was fined 2,000 shekels (roughly $600) and ordered to pay all of the court’s expenses.
The court ruling came just before a Supreme Court hearing on 15 petitions submitted by human rights organizations and Palestinian political leaders challenging the Nation-State Law in December. After only one discussion on the law, the high court last week rejected the petitions and upheld the 2018 law in a 10 to 1 decision. The single dissenting opinion was from the only Palestinian justice on the court, Justice George Kara.
Swift condemnation of the Supreme Court’s decision
“The Israel Supreme Court approved a law that establishes a constitutional identity, which completely excludes those who do not belong to the majority group. This Law is illegitimate and violates absolute prohibitions of international law,” Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel wrote in a press release. Adalah, one of the law’s petitioners, deemed this piece of legislation “a law that clearly shows the Israeli regime as a colonial one, with distinct characteristics of apartheid.”
Activists drop a banner reading “Israel: Not a Democracy. Apartheid” from atop the Israeli military court in Jaffa, July 12, 2020. Photo | Activestills
“The Supreme Court refrained from doing what was essential — to defend the basic right to equality,” Dr. Yousef Jabareen, chair of the Human Rights Forum in the High Follow-up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel and a former member of the Knesset, said in a statement, adding:
The so-called ‘Jewish Nation-State’ law formalizes in Israeli constitutional law the superior rights and privileges that Jewish citizens of the state enjoy over its indigenous Palestinian minority, who comprise roughly 20% of the population.”
What is the Jewish nation-state law?
In 2018, the Knesset voted to approve the nation-state law by 62 to 55. The basic law essentially legalizes Israel’s apartheid nature and states the following:
Exercising the right to national self-determination in the State of Israel is unique to the Jewish people.
The name of the state is ‘Israel.’
A greater, united Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
The director of the land and planning rights unit at Adalah, Adv. Suhad Bishara, helped formulate Adalah’s petition against the nation-state law. “The overriding objective of the basic law is to violate both the right to equality and the right to dignity of the Arab citizens of Israel,” she said.
Additionally, the law promotes Jewish settlement and views it as a national value. It also demotes Arabic from one of the two official languages to a “special status.” With the nation-state law’s basic tenets, Palestinian history and identity are effectively erased from the land.
Emphasizing the law’s notion of Jewish settlement and demotion of Arabic, Amnon Be’eri-Sulitzeanu — co-director of Abraham Initiatives, an Israeli nonprofit focused on Jewish-Arab partnership — said the legislation institutionalizes inequality between Israeli Jews and Palestinian citizens of Israel. “It’s creating a situation in which, according to our basic laws, there is a sector in society that is not equal,” Be’eri-Sulitzeanu told MintPress News. “This is something that no democracy can allow.”
In a tweet, Abraham Initiatives advocated for repealing the law, writing that it “establishes the status of Arab citizens in Israel as second-class citizens.”
The nation-state law’s impact
Only a few years old, the nation-state law has already proven it can serve as a legal tool for discrimination and racial segregation.
The Bakri family in Karmiel sued the local municipality over their school transportation costs. Since there isn’t an Arabic-language school in Karmiel, the Bakri children were forced to travel nearly four miles to the town of Rameh for their education. According to the Bakris, the traffic often made the commute more than 30 minutes and cost the family 1,500 shekels (or roughly $460) each month. The family’s lawsuit requested reimbursement for their transportation costs totaling 25,000 shekels (about $7,683).
Nizar Bakri, the children’s uncle and the attorney who filed the lawsuit, condemned the magistrate court’s dismissal of the suit, saying, “The court’s decision wasn’t based on law; it was based on Jewish existence.” Following the ruling, Nizar Bakri filed an appeal with the Haifa District Court. The district court denied the Bakris’ appeal in February but determined the lower court’s reliance on the nation-state law was “fundamentally wrong” and “liable to damage the public’s trust in the courts.”
“The court may have unequivocally ruled that the registrar of the Krayot Magistrate’s Court made a mistake in the use of the nation-state law and its connection to this case, but this ruling should not satisfy the opponents and victims of the nation-state law,” Nizar Bakri told Haaretz.
For Adalah’s Bishara, the district court’s opposition to the magistrate’s court’s use of the nation-state law is irrelevant when it comes to future court decisions, as the grounds for discrimination are officially embedded into law. She explained:
It doesn’t really matter whether it’s explicitly mentioned or not because it’s the legal, constitutional framework that’s there that sets the basic principles of supremacy and of the right to self-determination only for one national ethnic group in the state. This sends a very clear message to all the authorities that you can not only go on with what you have been doing so far in terms of violating the rights of the Palestinian citizens as individuals and as a group, but this will certainly give you more backing to deepen these policies.”
Bishara told MintPress that she anticipates the legislation will add another dimension to Israel’s ongoing discrimination and have huge implications for Palestinians on both sides of the Green Line — not just 1948-occupied Palestine. “Since it speaks about the land of Israel as the historic land of the Jewish people and Jewish settlement as a constitutional value, this combination of both becomes very problematic both in Israel proper and in the Occupied Territories,” she said.
Israel’s long list of discriminatory laws
Globally, the state of Israel touts itself as the “only democracy in the Middle East,” but Dr. Jabareen said the nation-state law “prioritizes the Jewishness of the state over its democratic character,” specifically in “omitting any reference to democracy or equality.” He added:
The nation-state law further marginalizes the Arab-Palestinian community and entrenches Israel’s regime of racial discrimination and deterioration into apartheid. It will lead to more racist, anti-democratic laws, adding to the more than 50 laws already on the books that disadvantage non-Jewish citizens.”
Palestinian workers cross the Eyal checkpoint, January 10, 2021. Keren Manor | Activestills
According to an Adalah database, Israel has more than 65 laws discriminating against Palestinian citizens of Israel and Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). These laws encompass nearly every facet of daily life, from property and housing rights to citizenship and finances. The following are just a few notable examples:
The Admissions’ Committees Law, which permits towns built on state land to deny housing to Palestinians based upon the criterion of “social suitability.”
The Nakba Law, which bans groups or schools receiving government funding from commemorating Israel’s 1948 ethnic cleansing campaign against Palestinians during the state’s founding (known as the Nakba or Catastrophe).
The Boycott Law, which prohibits calls to boycott Israel. This legislation effectively outlaws the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
The Absentees’ Property Law, which categorizes individuals who were expelled or fled their property after November 1947 as absentees and thereby having no ownership claims to their properties. However, Jews who lost property during this time are allowed to reclaim their land through the Legal and Administrative Matters Law. These laws are often used to displace Palestinian communities, as has been witnessed in the Occupied East Jerusalem neighborhoods of Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan.
The Law of Return, which guarantees citizenship to all Jews. No law exists guaranteeing Palestinians the right to citizenship — even if they were born in what is now considered modern-day Israel.
The Citizenship Law, which bans citizenship rights to Palestinians living in the OPT who are married to Israeli citizens. Settlers living in the Occupied West Bank are exempt. Israel’s new government failed to extend the law this month, but reunification still remains a significant problem for many Palestinian families.
Codifying apartheid into law
While the principles outlined in the nation-state law have always been part of Israel’s foundation and way of governing, enacting this legislation turns these de facto concepts into de jure ones and opens the floodgates for further inequity.
“This nation-state law is validating racist behavior against Palestinian Arabs,” Kasem Bakri said.
Despite the controversial legislation remaining, Kasem Bakri is steadfast. “I exist here as an Arab person and I have the right to be here,” he said. “Palestinians exist here like the cactus and the olive trees. We will never be gone from here.”
خاض الأمين العام لحزب الله ملفات عديدة في كلمته أمس، وقد خرج منها بحصيلة لا يُستهان بها، فقد نجح بقطع نصف الطريق على خصومه في الملفات التي ناقشها سجالياً، كملف تسليح الجيش اللبناني وملف المثالثة المفترضة في بعض الطروحات المتداولة كفزاعة سياسية حول علاقات الطوائف، وبالمقابل نجح بقطع نصف الطريق نحو خط النهاية في إنجاز الهدف، في الملفات التي تناولها من باب الإشارة لما يقوم به حزب الله أو سيقوم به، كحال المسعى المتجدّد لتنشيط المسار الحكوميّ، أو ملف استيراد المحروقات من إيران بالليرة اللبنانية.
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في البعد السجالي حول الجيش اللبناني والحديث الأميركيّ عن الرهان على تقويته بوجه حزب الله أصاب السيد نصرالله بالتساؤل عما إذا كان الأميركي حريصاً على الجيش عندما يحرّضه على فريق كبير من اللبنانيين ويحرّض هذا الفريق وبيئته على الجيش ويثير شكوكه حول دور الجيش، بينما في موضوع التسليح الذي يُراد من حزب الله أن يخشاه، فالسيد يؤكد انه أول المؤيدين والساعين لتقوية الجيش وتعزيز مقدراته وسلاحه وأن الأميركي هو العقبة أمام هذا التعزيز. وبالطبع يعرف كل متابع كيف ان دولة في حلف الأطلسي مثل تركيا تلجأ لصواريخ دفاع جويّ روسية، ويمنع الجيش اللبناني من أن يشتري أي سلاح نوعيّ يمكّنه من التصدي للاعتداءات الإسرائيلية المتمادية على سيادته وأجوائه.
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في البعد السجالي المتفرّع عن كلام رئيس التيار الوطني الحر النائب جبران باسيل حول الاستعانة بالسيد نصرالله كصديق، أصاب السيد هدفه بالتساؤل عما إذا كانت الاستعانة بغير الصديق وغير اللبناني مقبولة، بينما الاستعانة باللبناني الصديق مذمومة، مضيفاً أن فزاعة المثالثة مبنية على كذبة. فالصيغة المقترحة للحكومة ليس فيها الا ثمانية واحدة، هي حصة رئيس الجمهورية والتيار الوطني الحر كسقف يحول دون امتلاكهما الثلث المعطل، أما الباقي فحصص مختلفة لتشكيلات طائفية وسياسية متعددة لا يمكن احتسابها الا تلفيقاً ضمن معادلات ثمانيات رديفة بنيّة تصويرها تعبيراً عن لعبة مثالثة تجعل التمثيل السياسي من الحصة المسيحيّة لقوى كالمردة والقوميين مجرد امتداد شيعيّ، وقوى وازنة درزياً امتداداً للحصة السنية، ولذلك كل حديث المثالثة مفتعل، ولا حاجة لمناقشته.
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في الحديث عن قضيّة المحروقات ساجل السيد نصرالله الذين لا يرحمون اللبنانيين ولا يريدون أن تنزل رحمة الله عليهم، فاعتراضهم على شراء المحروقات من إيران بالليرة اللبنانية، يترجم بقيامهم بتأمين بديل أفضل، فليقوموا بذلك وسنكون أول المباركين، ولديهم أصدقاء لا تطالهم العقوبات، فليذهبوا إليهم كما ذهبنا الى أصدقائنا، وعندها نقبل ملاحظاتهم، أما أن يكون بديلهم الوحيد ترك اللبنانيين نهشاً لطوابير الذل والأسعار الملتهبة فذلك سقوط أخلاقي وتعبير عن انعدام روح المسؤولية واحتكام للحقد لا للسياسة. وتبقى المهزلة في ما قاله رئيس حزب القوات اللبنانية عن أنه ليس لدى إيران بنزين لتبيعه للبنان بينما منظمة أوبك تعتبرها الدولة الأولى في إنتاج البنزين وفائض إنتاجها عن استهلاكها يعادل استهلاك لبنان عشرين مرة.
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في جوهر مشكلة الحكومة، قطع السيد نصرالله نصف الطريق أيضاً، فهو تلقف بنيّة حسنة ما قاله باسيل بنية حسنة أيضاً. وأعلن ان المتابعة قائمة والاستعداد مستمر، والهدف هو المساعدة على الجبهات المعنية بتشكيل الحكومة لحل منصف قاعدته مبادرة رئيس مجلس النواب نبيه بري. وما قاله السيد نصرالله منح اللبنانيين الأمل بأن الأمور ليست في طريق مسدود، حتى لو لم يكن الحل غداً، فإن المساعي مستمرة ولا مكان لليأس فيها، ووجود قوة قادرة على الحفاظ على ثقة المعنيين الأساسيين بالملف الحكومي بمثل ما هو حزب الله والسيد نصرالله اليوم يعطي اللبنانيين بعض الأمل أمام السواد الذي يُحيط بهم، ويفتح كوة في الجدار لبصيص ضوء في نهاية النفق، لأن عتبة كل مساهمة جدّية في الخروج من النفق تبدأ بولادة حكومة، والنهوض عبرها بدور الدولة ومؤسساتها.
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في الشأن الاقتصادي والاجتماعي كما في الشأن الحكومي، كان السيد نصرالله صادقاً وشفافاً مع اللبنانيين فصارحهم بأن الآتي أشدّ قسوة، وأننا في طريق رفع الدعم ولو بعد حين، لكنه من موقع الإدراك لأهمية تخفيف الضغط عن طلب الدولار من السوق متمسك بمبادرته باستيراد المحروقات بالليرة اللبنانيّة، حيث تشكل فاتورة المحروقات نصف فاتورة الاستيراد، التي سيجري تمويلها بمزيد من الطلب على الدولار عندما يتوقف مصرف لبنان عن تأمين دولارات الاستيراد، ولأن إيران كدولة صديقة وافقت على بيعنا المحروقات، فنحن ماضون في سعينا مبشراً بأن كل الترتيبات اللوجستية والإدارية أنجزت وعندما تدق الساعة ويتخذ القرار، لن نحتاج الا لإطلاق الحركة للتنفيذ.
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في زمن يعمّ فيه السواد، جاء كلام السيد نصرالله بكل ما فيه واقعياً يلامس وجع الناس، كما في كلامه على قطع الطرقات، ودعوته للقيادات لقدر من المقاربة الأخلاقيّة لمسؤولياتهم تجاه من يمنحهم ثقته من الناس، وهم يرون الذل والهوان والوجع والألم، في عيون المواطنين ولا يحرّكون ساكناً، ولا يقدمون على ما يجب فعله بالحد الأدنى لتخفيف المعاناة، ولعل بعض ما تمّ وما سيتمّ يأتي على إيقاع محاولة تفادي الخيارات التي بشّر بها السيد نصرالله، التي ستحلّ ساعتها مهما استأخروها.
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نصف الطريق نعم، لكنه نصف صع1ب، وقطعه يسهّل قطع النصف الثاني.
After martyring more than 300 Palestinians, including 100 children and 80 women, injuring more than 3000 innocent civilians in Gaza Strip through airstrikes and ground shelling, Israel agreed on a ceasefire with Hamas, which ended the 11 days war.
Unmatched with Israeli arms, freedom fighters of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad group Abu Ubaida had no option except firing rockets inside Israel.
Very tensions had started when Israeli police stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem and attacked the Palestinians. Thousands of Palestinians staged protests in the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex.
In an emergency meeting of the foreign ministers, the OIC had called for an immediate halt to Israel’s barbaric attacks on Gaza.
Earlier, called by China, the UNO Security Council held an urgent meeting on the unrest in Jerusalem. The three sessions of the UN body failed after the US’s moves to block a joint statement that would condemn Israel for the violence and call for a cease-fire.
Like the past administrations, the US President Joe Biden reiterated that Israel has the right to defend itself.
Biden also sent Linda Thomas-Greenfield—the US’s UN envoy to de-escalate tensions. However, it was part of the double game of Washington. When American President Biden seriously pressured Netanyahu to prevent a full-scale war, Tel Aviv agreed for ceasefire.
But, Israeli Premier Netanyahu has not accepted the two-state solution of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute which was stressed by the US and some major Western countries.
In fact, international bodies such as the UNO Security Council, OIC and the US-led West failed to present a solution to end the Israeli state terrorism on the Palestinians, which have continued from time to time.
Notably, like the United States, Ottoman Empire of Turkey was a large multi-ethnic state. In order to maintain their control, one of the British strategies was divide and rule which was being practiced through various tactics like arrangement of rebellions, manipulation of ethnic and sectarian differences. The Britain provided soldiers, weapons and money to the Arab subjects against that Empire. According to the Sykes-Picot Agreement, the British and French agreed to divide the Arab world between them. The Britain took control of what are now Iraq, Kuwait, and Jordan. The French were given modern Syria, Lebanon and southern Turkey. Thus, they brought about the end of the Ottomans and the rise of the new states, with borders, running across the Middle East, dividing Muslims from each other.
Balfour Declaration of November 2, 1917 which was a conspiracy of the American and the British rulers against the Palestinians was implemented. On May 14, 1948, the UNO acted upon the 1947 UN Partition Plan and established the state of Israel.
Israel occupied East Jerusalem and Syrian Golan Heights during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and annexed the entire city in 1980 in a move that has never been recognized by the UNO and international community.
Once Henry Kissinger stated “legitimacy is not natural or automatic, but created.”
Under the cover of the 9/11 attacks, the US President George W. Bush started global war on terror. Occupation of Afghanistan by the US-led NATO, Anglo-American invasion of Iraq, like the creation of Al-Qaeda by the CIA, the Islamic State group (ISIS), proxy wars in Libya, Syria and Yemen, and elsewhere in the world were part of the same anti-Muslim campaign to continue old divide and rule policy.
Henry Kissinger had suggested the split of Iraq into three independent regions, ruled by Kurds, Shias and Sunnis. In this regard, the Asia Times Online reported in 2005: “The plan of balkanizing Iraq into several smaller states is an exact replica of an extreme right-wing Israeli plan…an essential part of the balkanization of the whole Middle East. Curiously, Henry Kissinger was selling the same idea even before the 2003 invasion of Iraq…this is classic divide and rule: the objective is the perpetuation of Arab disunity.”
Similarly, during the partition of the Sub-continent, the people of the state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) which comprised Muslim majority decided to join Pakistan according to the British formula. But, Dogra Raja, Sir Hari Singh, a Hindu who was ruling over the J&K in collusion with the Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Governor General Lord Mountbatten joined India.
The Security Council adopted resolution of April 21, 1948, which promised a plebiscite under UN auspices to enable the people of Jammu and Kashmir to determine whether they wish to join Pakistan or India. On February 5, 1964, India backed out of its commitment of holding plebiscite. Instead, Indian Parliament declared Kashmir-an integral part of the Indian union.
Indian cruel actions against the Kashmiris reached climax on August 5, 2019 when Indian extremist government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the leader of the fanatic ruling party BJP revoked articles 35A and 370 of the Constitution, which gave a special status to the disputed territory of the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). New Delhi unilaterally annexed the IIOJK with the Indian Federation to turn Muslim majority into minority.
Implementing the ideology of Hindutva ((Hindu Nationalism), Indian prejudiced rulers have Issued over 1.8 million domicile certificates to non-Kashmiris to change the demographic structure of the IIOJK.
And deployment of more than 900,000 military troops in the IIOJK, who have martyred thousands of the Kashmiris through brutal tactics-extrajudicial killings—non-provision of basic necessities of life and medicines for the coronavirus patients prove worst form of India’s state terrorism. Now, almost 21 months have been passed. But, Indian strict military lockdown in the IIOJK continues.
Besides, the Indian Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) further exposed the discriminatory policies of the Modi-led government against the Muslims.
It is mentionable that Article 42 of the 1907—Hague Regulations states that a territory is considered occupied when it is actually placed under the authority of the hostile army.
Moreover, in its resolution 3314, the United Nations General Assembly prohibits states from any military occupation. Article 2(4) of the UN charter explicitly prohibits the use of force.
In addition, General Assembly’s resolution 1541 adopted in 1960 accepts the legitimacy of the right of self-determination and opposes repressive measures of all kinds against the freedom fighters by the colonial powers.
Nevertheless, the US-led major Western countries continue old policy of divide and rule to create division among the Islamic countries.
In this respect, on the directions of the US ex-President Donald Trump, some Muslim countries’ various moves such as recognition of the state of Israel, opening of Israeli embassies in their countries, Shia-Sunni sectarian split, manipulation of Iran-Saudi Arabia differences, encouragement to Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, lack of practical action against the Modi-regime etc. might be cited as some instances. Undoubtedly, it is due to lack of unity in the Islamic Ummah that the Muslim countries have become easy target of this old policy.
Sajjad Shaukat writes on international affairs and is author of the book: US vs Islamic Militants, Invisible Balance of Power: Dangerous Shift in International Relations
Palestinians staged a nationwide general strike across the occupied West Bank and towns occupied in 1948 lands to protest the ongoing “Israeli” aggression on the Gaza Strip.
Shops, business centers, civil institutions, banks, and universities shut their doors across the West Bank. The general strike was called by Palestinian parties and unions as a “day of anger” over “Israel’s” military aggression in Gaza and Al-Quds.
“The strike is an expression of anger against this barbaric aggression by the ‘Israeli’ occupation and international silence toward [‘Israeli’] aggression against our people in Al-Quds, Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and Gaza,” Fahmi Shaheen, the coordinator of the national and Islamic forces in Al-Khalil said.
He further stated: “This strike acquires a special importance because it is joined by all the Palestinian people across historic Palestine.”
Meanwhile, shops and private institutions in Arab towns in 1948 occupied lands closed down as part of the general strike.
On Sunday, activists called on Palestinians to join the strike in protest of the ongoing “Israeli” attacks against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
Again it’s “Israel’s” brutality that governs the scene.
As part of the continuous “Israeli” barbarism in Gaza, the besieged strip’s Covid-19 testing and vaccination site was taken offline after it was struck in an “Israeli” air raid.
This comes as Palestinian health officials warned that Tel Aviv’s bombing campaign will drive a surge in the pandemic.
The strikes triggered a “complete halt” to immunizations, virus screenings and telemedicine services at Gaza’s Al-Rimal clinic on Monday, the territory’s Health Ministry said on Monday, noting that its own headquarters was also damaged in the bombing.
“The ‘Israeli’ occupation’s targeting of the Ministry of Health and Al-Rimal Clinic caused a complete halt to the work of the only central laboratory examining coronavirus tests in [Gaza],” Health Ministry Undersecretary Youssef Abu al-Rish said in a statement, condemning the airstrikes as “a heinous crime aimed at dissuading the ministry from continuing its humanitarian work.”
In a separate statement, the ministry said that “Israeli” forces were targeting “densely populated residential areas,” sending some 40,000 families to crowded shelters, which have become “a dangerous environment for the rapid spread of Covid-19.” It urged the international community to provide “critically needed personal protection equipment” for the shelters.
The official announcement followed similar reports from both the Palestine Liberation Organization [PLO], as well as the territory’s UN mission, which relayed a warning from UN chief Antonio Guterres that the fighting could “unleash an uncontainable security and humanitarian crisis” in Gaza.
The UN’s Gaza relief agency, the UNRWA, has also voiced fears that the eruption of violence could fuel a surge in the pandemic, with agency official Matthias Schmale observing that “Israeli” airstrikes were sending large numbers of unvaccinated Palestinians into cramped shelters, saying they “could turn into mass spreaders.”
With Gaza under a tight Israeli blockade, health agencies have found themselves ill-equipped for the ongoing health crisis, seeing major shortages in tests, treatments and vaccines. The latest aggression has only made matters worse, overwhelming Gaza’s hospitals with dead and wounded, and even martyring some healthcare professionals.
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