Day: 7 July 2022

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Pastors and Church Leaders Across America Attend Bible Seminar

NEW YORK, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Pastors and church leaders joined for a July 4th seminar revealing the secrets of the Bible and Revelation. The event was hosted by New Heaven New Earth Shincheonji Church of Jesus, the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony, and was broadcast worldwide through the church’s YouTube channel. Participants included pastors and leaders from across North and South America.

Chairman Lee Man-hee of New Heaven New Earth, Shincheonji Church of Jesus testifies at the Bible seminar on July 4th, 2022

The seminar titled, “Testifying to the 66 Books of the Bible’s Secrets of the Kingdom of Heaven and the New Covenant, the Revelation,” comes after the conclusion of online seminars that began being released in October 2021. These seminars presented content from the introductory, intermediate and advanced curriculum of the Zion Christian Mission Center, the theology school of Shincheonji Church that explains the Bible plainly, free of charge.

The seminars were successfully completed with 21 million YouTube views. Shincheonji Church also announced that it will produce 100,000 graduates from the Zion Christian Mission Center in 2022.

The main speaker, Shincheonji Church Chairman Lee Man-hee, testified that Jesus received the book of Revelation from God and fulfilled it today.

“If the testimony on the entire book of Revelation and the Testimony on the Revelation of the Old and New Testaments by Chapter revealed by Shincheonji is correct, then shouldn’t you believe?” Chairman Lee asked.

Chairman Lee also called for unity within Christianity.

“It is the word of God, for all people,” Chairman Lee said. “Therefore, we must fix the things that are incorrect and within God and Jesus, we must be one together is what I believe.”

“Testifying to the 66 Books of the Bible’s Secrets of the Kingdom of Heaven and the New Covenant, the Revelation” is available on YouTube. For more information, visit www.scjamericas.org.

MEDIA CONTACT: Gina Del Gigante, 16466287365, revelation@scjamericas.org

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Ningbo: A Maritime Legend with the Courage to be a Pioneer in the BRI

NINGBO, China, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — A news report from NBGD:

There are always more similarities than differences between cities. In the case of Ningbo and Dubai, according to Mr. Li Xuhang, Consul General of China in Dubai, both are “coastal cities with world-class ports, playing a critical role in global logistics and supply chain and in the Belt and Road Initiative.” After drawing on the experience of China’s Reform and Opening up, Jebel Ali Port established the first Free Trade Zone in Dubai in the 1970s and began attracting investment from across the world with preferential policies. Soon, the city witnessed an economic boom.

“Today, Dubai is the largest trade distribution center in the Middle East for products made in Zhejiang province. Many Chinese goods reach North Africa via the Jebel Ali Port in Dubai after leaving the Ningbo Zhoushan Port,” said Consul General Li. “Both Ningbo and Dubai contribute to the BRI with their mix of maritime and land transport.” In September 2018, the Ningbo Zhoushan Port and Dubai Ports World signed an agreement to launch new BRI projects in Dubai. The agreement is expected to build closer and wider-ranging commercial ties between the Yangtze River Delta Economic Belt and the Middle East.

In 2011, the Ningbo Zhoushan Port became the third port in the world to exceed 30 million TEU in container traffic, after the Port of Shanghai and the Port of Singapore. Shipping routes link the Ningbo Zhoushan Port to more than 600 ports in 200-plus countries and regions.

China-UAE trade ties are growing, as is the popularity of traditional Chinese culture in the UAE. Saeed Alhefeiti, Director of the Information Office of Fujairah, UAE, has visited China and fallen in love with its culture. He is a fan of Chinese hot pot, Peking Opera, and even gave himself a Chinese name, “Sa Zhonghua”, with “Sa” being a homophone of his first name’s first syllable, and “Zhonghua” meaning “China”. Alhefeiti hopes media cooperation between the two countries could help Ningbo achieve its goal of becoming a modern coastal metropolis. “Ningbo is an important coastal city in eastern China,” said Alhefeiti, “I look forward to closer ties between Dubai and Ningbo. Chinese cities have their own development goals and can consistently deliver on their promises; I don’t think Ningbo will be an exception.”

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‫ من أجل توسيع السوق العالمي أمامها، جي دبليو أم تانك تعقد مؤتمر ماركتها التجارية في المملكة العربية السعودية

باودنغ، الصين، 6 تموز/يوليو، 2022 / PRNewswire / — يوم 3 تموز/يوليو، عقدت شركة جي دبليو أم تانك مؤتمر ماركتها التجارية في المملكة العربية السعودية، عارضة موديليها المشهورين من سيارات جي دبليو أم تانك 300 وجي دبليو أم تانك 500، حيث تم الكشف عنهما رسميا للعملاء العالميين.

عقد المؤتمر تحت شعار “تجربة بلا حدود”.  وقد أنشأت العلامة التجارية تانك فئة سيارات الدفع الرباعي الجديدة للمشترين العالميين.  كما قدمت العلامة التجارية للجمهور سمات العلامة التجارية، بما في ذلك الفخامة والتنقل على الطرق الوعرة والذكاء.

ستغطي منتجات تانك جميع احتياجات التنقل وترضي المستخدمين من مختلف المستويات”، كما قال ديفيد شو، المدير العام لجي أم دبليو في منطقة الشرق الأوسط.

“هذا هو الإطلاق الأول خارج الصين لهذه الموديلات.  إنه يظهر قبول السوق السعودي والثقة التي تتمتع بها جي أم دبليو في نجاح هذه العلامة التجارية”، كما قال السيد فيصل القرشي، الممثل الكبير للوكالة المحلية لسيارات جي دبليو أم في السعودية.

في الوقت نفسه، تم افتتاح جي دبليو أم تانك 300 رسميًا للطلب المسبق، كما تم الكشف عن موديل آخر من وزن أثقل، وهو جي دبليو أم تانك 500، للجمهور.

تركز شركة جي دبليو أم على الرفاهية والراحة في سياراتها.  يعتمد كلا الطرازين في العرض على العديد من مخططات تصميم عزل الصوت وتقليل الضوضاء، التي يمكن أن تسمح للمستخدمين بالاستمتاع بجودة عالية من الهدوء حتى في البيئات الصاخبة.  تتميز المقاعد أيضًا بتصميمات مختلفة سهلة الاستخدام، مثل الجلد الناعم والحساس المستخدم للمقاعد في النسخة الراقية من جي دبليو أم تانك 300.

تتميز طرازات هذه العلامة التجارية أيضًا بقدرات قوية على الطرق الوعرة.  تم تجهيز كلا الطرازين المعروضين بمجموعة من الأجهزة المتخصصة للطرق الوعرة، مثل القفل التفاضلي الميكانيكي الإلكتروني التحكم للمحاور الأمامية والخلفية.  عندما تكون السيارة عالقة على طريق مليء بالحفر وانزلاق إحدى العجلات، يمكن للسائق استخدام الزر الكهربائي لقفل الترس التفاضلي والخروج بسرعة.

تعتبر القيادة الذكية للطرق الوعرة أداءً بارزًا آخر لهذه العلامة التجارية.  يتم تصنيع منتجاتها على أساس “منصة جي دبليو أم تانك”.  تحتوي المنصة على ثلاث ميزات، بما في ذلك قدرة القيادة على الطرق الوعرة والذكاء والموثوقية العالية.  وفي ما يتعلق بميزة الذكاء على الطرق الوعرة، تم تجهيز كلا الطرازين بنظام التحكم في الزحف، الذي يمكن أن يمنح السائقين تجربة قيادة أسهل وأكثر أمانًا.  عندما يتم تنشيط النظام، يمكن للسيارة أن تقوم تلقائيًا بالتحكم في الطاقة والفرملة.  يحتاج السائق فقط إلى التحكم في اتجاه القيادة لعبور الطريق بأمان وسلاسة.

حاليًا، تُعتبر جي دبليو أم تانك بالفعل خيارًا شعبيا في السوق الصينية منذ إطلاقها.  وفقًا لتقرير المبيعات الصادر عن جي أم دبليو، فإن جي دبليو أم الرياضية لديها بالفعل معدل انتشار في السوق يزيد عن 50 ٪ في قطاع سيارات الطرق الوعرة في الصين بعد إطلاقها بعام واحد فقط.

تخطط جي دبليو أم لإطلاق جي دبليو أم تانك 500 في المملكة العربية السعودية في وقت لاحق من هذا العام. سيتم إطلاق كلا الطرازين تانك، جي دبليو أم تانك 300و وجي دبليو أم تانك 500 على التوالي في الأسواق العالمية الأخرى، مثل أستراليا وجنوب إفريقيا وآسيان وأميركا الجنوبية، لإثارة موجات مستمرة من “توجه تانك” في جميع أنحاء العالم.

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‫Omdia تطلق ورقة بيضاء حول القيمة المستدائمة ل IP + Optical

برشلونة، إسبانيا، 6 يوليو، 2022 / PRNewswire/ — أصدرت Omdia ورقة بيضاء: “القيمة الدائمة ل IP + Optical ” في منتدى الجيل القادم من الشبكات البصرية ( NGON ) لعام 2022 الذي عقد في برشلونة، إسبانيا.

يقدم المستند التعريفي التمهيدي تحليلا ل “ IP عبر WDM ” و “ IP + Optical” ، حيث ينص على أن IP عبر WDM تم تصميمه في البداية لتطبيق متخصص محدد لمزود الخدمة السحابية. بالنسبة لمقدمي خدمات الاتصالات (CSPs) ، لا يزال “ IP + Optical ” هو الحل الأكثر عملية لشبكة CSP والتطبيقات والاحتياجات التشغيلية.

وكما هو مذكور في الورقة البيضاء، فإن مفهوم الملكية الفكرية عبر WDM (IPoWDM) موجود منذ سنوات عديدة. كانت فرضيتها الأساسية دائما هي القدرة على نشر بصريات الإرسال داخل منصات التوجيه لخفض مستوى الشبكات وتبسيطها.

ومع ذلك، فإن توحيد الأجهزة والبرمجيات في IPoWDM يعمل في مبادرات الصناعة الجارية ويتم تحويل جهد تكامل كبير من البائعين إلى CSPs .

على النقيض من البنية متعددة المتغيرات ل IPoWDM ، يستمر IP + Optical في إظهار قيمة دائمة لمجتمع CSP .

يمكن لمقدمي خدمات الطاقة الإنتاجية الاستمرار في الاستفادة بسرعة من أفضل التطورات التكنولوجية. يمكن إدارة الشبكات باستخدام مجموعات المهارات والموارد الموجودة. يستمر التقدم الكبير في إدارة الطول الموجي، سواء في القلب أو على نطاق واسع أو على الحافة.

يلبي رغبة الطاقة الشمسية المركزة في تحقيق أقصى قدر من الكفاءة الطيفية وإجمالي سعة النظام.

تعتقد Omdia أن التآزر البصري IP+optical سيجلب قيمة دائمة لمقدمي خدمات الطاقة الآمنة.

لمزيد من التفاصيل، قم بتنزيل المستند التقني الخاص ب the Enduring Value of IP + Optical.

 

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PCBS: Some 14.3 million Palestinians in the world in mid-2022

There are some 14.3 million Palestinians in the world in the mid-2022, according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS).

In a press statement on the occasion of the International Population Day, PCBS said that there are about 14.3 million Palestinians in Historical Palestine and the Diaspora in mid-2022, of whom about 5.35 million in the State of Palestine (the West Bank and the Gaza Strip); 2.72 million males and 2.63 million females.

PCBS went to say that the estimated population of the West Bank is 3.19 million (1.62 million males and 1.57 million females). While the estimated population of Gaza Strip is 2.17 million in the same year (1.10 million males and 1.07 million females).

The statement said that the percentage of individuals aged (0-14) years constitute 38% of the total population in mid-2022; of whom 36% in the West Bank and 41% in Gaza Strip.

The percentage of elderly population aged (65 years and above) reached 3% of the total population; of whom 4% in the West Bank and 3% in Gaza Strip in mid-2022.

With regards to fertility rates, PCBS pointed that the total fertility rate during (2017 – 2019) declined to reach 3.8 births, compared to 4.6 births during the period (1999-2003); 3.8 births in the West Bank and 3.9 births in Gaza Strip. On the other hand, fertility rate was 3.8 births in urban areas compared to 4.4 births in rural areas and 3.5 births in the Palestinian refugee camps.

Presenting the results of the Labor Force Survey 2021, PCBS said that 11% of the households were headed by females in Palestine (12% in the West Bank and 10% in Gaza Strip).

Regarding the average household size, the results of both the Labor Force Survey 2021 and the Population, Housing and Establishments Census 2017 indicate a decline in the average household size in Palestine compared to 2007. Thus, the average size of the household declined to 5.0 individuals in 2021 compared to 5.8 individuals in 2007. On the other hand, the average household size in the West Bank declined to 4.7 individuals in 2021 compared to 5.5 individuals in 2007. In Gaza Strip, the average household size declined to 5.6 in 2021 compared to 6.5 in 2007.

Highlighting smoking rates, PCBS said that the results of the Smoking and Tobacco Consumption Survey 2021 show that the percentage of individuals aged 18 years and above who smoke one or more products of smoked tobacco (manufactured cigarettes, hand-rolled cigarettes, cigars, and water-pipes) in Palestine increased to about 31% of the total individuals aged 18 years and above in the year 2021, while this percentage was about 23% for 2010. At the region’s level, the results of the survey indicated a large gap between the West Bank and Gaza Strip. There’s a clear increase in the prevalence of smoking among individuals aged 18 and above in the West Bank, as it reached about 40% in the West Bank, compared to 17% in Gaza Strip in 2021.

With regards to family planning, the statement said that data of the Palestinian Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2019-2020 (PMICS6) indicate that the percentage of women in the age group (15-49 years) who are currently married, able to have children and wish to space their pregnancies or reduce the number of children and do not use any means of family planning in Palestine reached 13% (14% in the West Bank compared to 12% in Gaza Strip).

Results of the PMICS6 for 2019-2020 also show that about 95% of women aged 15-49 years received prenatal health care at least four times by a health care provider during pregnancy; and about 73% of women in the same age received health care eight times or more during pregnancy.

The Labor Force Survey 2021 data show that illiteracy rate among individuals (15 years and above) was 2.3%. The illiteracy gap is significantly noticed among males and females with percentages of 1.2% and 3.5%, respectively. Data also indicate that the percentage of individuals (aged 15 years and above) who have completed university education (bachelor degree and above) was 17% (16% for males and 19% for females) while the percentage of individuals who didn’t complete any stage of education reached 7% (6% for males and 9% for females).

Regarding participation in the labor force, the results also show that more than one-fourth of the participants in the labour force were unemployed in 2021, where the percentage reached 26% (16% in the West Bank and 47% in Gaza Strip). Accordingly, unemployment rate reached 43% among females compared to 22% among males.

Spotlighting household access to Internet at home, the statement said that during the first quarter of 2022, around 91% of households stated that they have access to internet service at home or one of their household members has access to the internet (91% in the West Bank and 90% in Gaza Strip). Meanwhile, the percentage of individuals (10 years and above) who used the internet from anywhere reached 88% in Palestine (91% in the West Bank and 83% in Gaza Strip) with no differences on the level of sex.

Data also show that the percentage of individuals (10 years and above) who own a mobile phone is 78% (85% in the West Bank and 68% in Gaza Strip). Also, the percentage of individuals (10 years and above) who own a smart phone is 71% (82% in the West Bank and 56% in Gaza Strip) with no differences on the level of sex.

Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA)

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Israel’s Supreme Court bans Gaza residents from any redress and remedy in Israel, gives immunity to the state

A three-justice panel of the Israeli Supreme Court two days ago rejected an appeal demanding that the State of Israel pay tort compensation damages for the Israeli military’s shooting and serious injury of 15-year-old Palestinian Attiya Nabaheen in November 2014, according to a press release by Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel.

Nabaheen was shot on his family’s property near al-Bureij, 500 meters from the fence between Israel and Gaza, and as a result of the shooting, Nabaheen was left a quadriplegic confined to a wheelchair.

Adalah and the Gaza-based al Mezan Center for Human Rights, on behalf of the boy and his family, appealed to the Supreme Court the 2018 judgment of the Beer Sheba District Court finding that the State of Israel is not liable for damages.

At issue in the case was the constitutionality of Amendment No. 8 of Israel’s Civil Wrongs Law (State Responsibility) of 1952, which was enacted in 2012. This law prescribes that the residents of a territory declared by the Israeli government as “enemy territory” – as Gaza was declared in 2007 – are not eligible for compensation from Israel. In the appeal, Adalah and al Mezan argued that the lower court’s decision and the law violate both Israeli and international law, which require that protected civilians be entitled to effective legal remedies, especially when the injury resulted from actions not related to “acts to war”.

The Supreme Court ruled that the law is not contrary to international law, and even if it is, “the Knesset [Israeli Parliament] has the power to override the rules of international law.”

The Court acknowledged that the law infringes on Palestinian victims’ fundamental rights, namely the right to life, bodily integrity, dignity, liberty, property and the right of effective legal remedy. However, it ruled that the level of protection of fundamental rights afforded to Nabaheen is limited due to his residence in Gaza – an “enemy territory”.

The Court further determined that the law serves an appropriate purpose: “the prevention of economic or moral assistance to the enemy”. According to the Court, this rationale justifies the sweeping infringement of the fundamental rights of Palestinian civilians injured by Israel’s armed forces.

Adalah and Al-Mezan responded to the ruling: “The Israeli Supreme Court’s decision violates international humanitarian law, and justifies the immediate initiation of an International Criminal Court investigation, as it deprives Palestinian civilian victims of war crimes committed by Israel of any legal remedy, even remedies under civil law. The Court’s justification for the denial of compensation to an innocent boy, confined to a wheelchair for life because of Israel’s unlawful assault, is the ‘prevention of economic and moral assistance to the enemy’ is an unprecedented, moral low for the Court. This decision not only grants sweeping immunity to the Israeli military to injure Palestinians wherever they are, but also determines, in a radical move, that the deliberate denial of compensation is an appropriate tool for harming the enemy. There is no clearer evidence of the fact that the Israeli legal system is committed to the legitimization of war crimes and to assisting the military in its efforts, by denying all legal remedies to victims, especially when, at the same time, the Court refuses to intervene in the state’s closure of criminal investigations into alleged war crimes and thus also providing impunity for criminal actions committed by the Israeli military.”

International bodies have recognized the importance of this case. In its report of March 2019, the independent UN International Commission of Inquiry into the 2018 protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory concluded in regard to this case that: “The [District] Court ruling and the law on which it is based, excludes Gazan residents from eligibility for compensation under the law, without examining the harm itself. In doing so, Gazan victims of violations are denied the main avenue to fulfill their right to ‘effective legal remedy’ from Israel that is guaranteed to them under international law (…) The importance of this ruling is thus difficult to overstate.”

The Supreme Court’s ruling in Nabaheen also contradicts established legal precedent of the Court, said Adalah. Following a petition by Adalah, the Supreme Court decided in a unanimous ruling delivered by nine justices in 2006, that the State of Israel cannot exempt itself from paying compensation to Palestinians in the West Bank who have been harmed by the Israeli military, invalidating a provision of a recent amendment to the Civil Wrongs (Liability of the State) Law.

Adalah and al Mezan will file a request for a second hearing to the Supreme Court.

Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA)

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Newspaper Review: Palestinian killed by Israeli gunfire near Jenin focus of dailies

News about the Palestinian youth was shot dead by the Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin hit the front pages of the three Arabic Palestinian dailies on Thursday.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida, al-Ayyam and al-Quds said that Rafiq Riyad Ghannam, 20, sustained severe wounds after being shot by Israeli soldiers during confrontations in the northern West Bank town. Ghannam was shot as he was standing in front of his family’s house before he was detained along with another youth by the heavily-armed soldiers.

The papers said that Israeli occupation forces demolished parts of the old vegetable market in the Old City of Hebron, south of the occupied West Bank.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida and Al-Ayyam said that, in dedication to slain Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, a huge graffiti of her was drawn on the Israeli apartheid wall in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem.

The dailies said that Israeli forces detained 45 Palestinians in large-scale raids across the West Bank.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida and Al-Ayyam said that American ice cream brand Ben & Jerry’s has sued its parent company Unilever Plc to block the sale of its Israeli business to a local licensee, saying it was inconsistent with its values to sell its ice cream brand in the occupied West Bank.

Al-Quds said that 125 Israeli settlers raided Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque.

Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA)

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Israeli army infiltrates Gaza’s border, level land

The Israeli army today infiltrated Gaza’s eastern border, east of al-Maghazi refugee camp, and leveled a tract of farmland, according to WAFA correspondent.

He said that a convoy of six military tanks and bulldozers advanced several dozens of meters to the east of the camp and razed a tract of farmland in the area.

Fourteen years following the Israeli “disengagement” from Gaza, Israel has not actually disengaged from Gaza; it still maintains control of its land borders, access to the sea and airspace.

Two million Palestinians live the Gaza Strip, which has been subjected to a punishing and crippling Israeli blockade for 12 years and repeated onslaughts that have heavily damaged much of the enclave’s infrastructure.

Gaza’s 2-million population remains under “remote control” occupation and a strict siege, which has destroyed the local economy, strangled Palestinian livelihoods, plunged them into unprecedented rates of unemployment and poverty, and cut off from the rest of the occupied Palestinian territories and the wider world.

Gaza remains occupied territory, having no control over its borders, territorial waters or airspace. Meanwhile, Israel upholds very few of its responsibilities as the occupying power, failing to provide for the basic needs of Palestinian civilians living in the territory.

Every two in three Palestinians in Gaza is a refugee from lands inside what is now Israel. That government forbids them from exercising their right to return as enshrined in international law because they are not Jews.

Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA)

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Israel orders halt on house construction south of Tubas

Israeli forces today ordered a halt on the construction of a house in Khirbat Atuf locality, southeast of Tubas, according to a local activist.

Mutaz Bsharat, an official in charge of monitoring Israeli colonial activities in the Jordan Valley, said that Israeli forces stormed the northern Jordan Valley locality, one of three localities making up Al Bikai’a, and handed a villager a notice, ordering him to stop the construction of his 60-square-meter house.

On Wednesday, the gun-toting soldiers showed up at the house, held the workers inside and prevented them from proceeding with construction.

The valley, which is a fertile strip of land running west along the Jordan River, is home to about 65,000 Palestinians and makes up approximately 30% of the West Bank.

Since 1967, when the Israeli army occupied the West Bank, Israel has transferred at least 11,000 of its Jewish citizens to the Jordan Valley. Some of the settlements in which they live were built almost entirely on private Palestinian land.

The Israel military has also designated about 46 percent of the Jordan Valley as a closed military zone since the beginning of the occupation in June 1967, and has been utilizing the pretext of military drills to forcefully displace Palestinian families living there as part of a policy of ethnic cleansing and stifling Palestinian development in the area.

Approximately 6,200 Palestinians live in 38 communities in places earmarked for military use and have had to obtain permission from the Israeli authorities to enter and live in their communities.

In violation of international law, the Israeli military not only temporarily displaces the communities on a regular basis, but also confiscates their farmlands, demolishes their homes and infrastructure from time to time.

Besides undergoing temporary displacement, the Palestinian families living there face a myriad restrictions on access to resources and services. Meanwhile, Israel exploits the resources of the area and generates profit by allocating generous tracts of land and water resources for the benefit of settlers.

Israeli politicians have made it clear on several occasions that the highly strategic Jordan Valley would remain under their control in any eventuality.

Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA)

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Prisoners advocates: Israel detained 464 Palestinians in June, including 70 minors, 18 women, and 3873 since January

The Israeli occupation authorities detained 464 Palestinians in June, including 70 minors and 18 women, and 3873 Palestinians since the start of the year, today said Palestinian prisoners’ advocacy groups.

The Prisoners Affairs Commission, the Prisoner Society, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, and Wadi Hilweh Information Center said in their joint monthly report on Israeli detention of Palestinians that 159 of those detained in June and 1896 since the start of the year were from occupied East Jerusalem, and 15 detained in June and 64 since the start of the year were from the Gaza Strip.

They also said that Israel issued 153 administrative detention orders against Palestinians in June, including 58 new orders and 95 renewal of existing ones, and 862 orders since the start of the year, including 398 new ones.

The advocacy groups said a total of 4650 Palestinian freedom fighters are currently incarcerated in Israel for their resistance of the Israeli occupation, among them 30 women and 180 minors, in addition to around 650 held in administrative detention without charge or trial.

They said there are also hundreds of ill prisoners, 23 of them are suffering from various levels of cancer.

Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA)

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Settlers assault Palestinian family south of Hebron

Israeli settlers today assaulted a Palestinian family in Birin village, southeast of Hebron city, according to a local activist.

Rateb Jbour, an anti-colonial-settlement activist, said that a group of settlers showed up at the family house of Ibrahim al-Hreini in the village, muscled inside and brutally beat up the family members.

According to the Land Research Center, Israel has frequently issued military stop-construction and demolition orders against various residential and agricultural structures and dismantled barns in the locality, citing the lack of rarely-issued construction permits as a pretext.

In December 2017, Israel delivered stop-construction orders to the locality’s sole clinic and building intended to serve as a primary school for the community’s 60 children

In June 2019, as showed in a PLO’s Negotiations Affairs Department’s report, Israel seized 4,800 dunams of land from several localities, including Birin, for the expansion of Bani Haiver.

Located to the southwest of Bani Na‘im, Birin has a population of 160 and is flanked by Bani Haiver colonial settlement from the east and the settler-only bypass Road No. 60 from the west. Its residents were originally expelled from Naqab in southern Israel and now depend on agriculture and livestock as their main source of livelihood.

Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA)

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After visiting communities in Masafer Yatta, diplomats say forced displacement violates international law

Heads of Mission of the European Union and likeminded countries together with the United Nations today warned after visiting Masafer Yatta in the south Hebron Hills and hearing from its Palestinian residents about their concerns and fears regarding their impending uprooting and demolition of their homes by the Israeli occupation authorities that forced displacement violates international law.

Some 1200 Palestinians, including over 500 children, in at least 12 communities that make up Masafer Yatta in the south of the occupied West Bank are threatened by mass demolition, displacement and forced transfer.

“This visit comes after Israeli authorities increased coercive measures in the area, including military training, home demolitions, blocking civilian movement, impeding humanitarian aid operations and issuing demolition orders,” said the EU mission in a statement.

Diplomats met residents who explained the devastating impact of the increasingly difficult living conditions and the fear of losing their homes and livelihoods, following the Israeli Supreme Court ruling on 4 May, permitting the Israeli army to evict the residents in order to turn the area into a military training and firing zone.

Since the ruling Israeli authorities have demolished dozens of family homes and animal shelters, issued over 30 additional demolition orders and a seizure order to allow for the construction of a patrol road, reactivated military training in the area for the first time in years and impeded the delivery of humanitarian aid to families in need.

“I am deeply troubled by the testimonies I have heard today and by the coercive measures taken by Israeli Security Forces that could lead to the forced transfer of the largest community in decades in the occupied Palestinian territory. These actions are in clear violation of international law and basic human rights. By pursuing these actions notably in Area C representing 60% of the West Bank, Israel is not only acting in contravention to its obligations as an occupying power but is also taking us further away from a two state solution with a viable and contiguous Palestinian state at its core,” said the European Union Representative Sven Kühn von Burgsdorff.

As reiterated on 10 May 2022 by the Spokesperson of the EU High Representative, settlement expansion, demolitions and evictions are illegal under international law, said the statement.

“The EU condemns these actions and urges Israel to cease demolitions and evictions, in line with its obligations under international humanitarian and international human rights law. Under Art 49 of the IV Geneva Convention, forced transfer is prohibited regardless of motive, including the removal of persons from a designated firing zone or closed military area,” said the EU mission statement.

Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA)