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For the 25th day in a row, the Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli occupation prisons continued the steps of "disobedience" against the measures of the Minister of Internal Security in the extremist occupation government, Itamar Ben Jvir.

According to the "disobedience" program, the prisoners will sit in the prison yards today, after Friday prayers, while wearing the "Shabas" uniform.

The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Prisoner’s Club confirmed that the “disobedience” steps will continue until the announcement of a hunger strike on the first of next Ramadan, based on the struggle program approved by the Supreme Emergency Committee of the Captive Movement emanating from all factions.

It is noteworthy that the prisoners took their steps since last February 14, after the prison administration announced the start of implementing the "Bin Juffair" procedures, and the approval of racist draft laws, most notably the draft law on the execution of prisoners.

For his part, the advisor to the Palestinian Foreign Minister, Ahmed Al-Deek, considered today, Friday, that the occupation’s crimes in Jaba’, Jenin, Nablus and other Palestinian areas are conclusive evidence that Israel is undermining the American and regional efforts made to achieve calm.

In a special statement to the American Al-Hurra channel, Al-Deek confirmed that the absence of accountability from Israel encourages it to commit more crimes, stressing that these crimes will not lead to anything other than shedding more blood of Palestinian citizens.

It is noteworthy that 3 Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli special forces, "undercover", yesterday, after they were shot inside their car, at the entrance to the town of Jaba, south of Jenin, in the northern West Bank. Jaba' with three young men inside, which led to their martyrdom.. Large forces of the occupation army stormed the town and deployed snipers on the rooftops.
Today, Friday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced the death of Abd al-Karim Badie al-Sheikh, 21, from the village of Siniriya, after a settler shot him, east of Qalqilya.

A settler had shot the young Sheikh in the vicinity of "Ma'aleh Shomron" settlement, which is located on the lands of the towns of Kafr Thulth and Azzun, east of Qalqilya, northwest of the West Bank, while the Israeli occupation forces detained the body of the martyr.

It is noteworthy that a large crowd of the Palestinian people in Jenin governorate, yesterday, Thursday, buried the bodies of the three martyrs who died at dawn, in an assassination crime carried out by the Israeli occupation forces and their "Arabized" units during their aggression on the town of "Jabaa" south of the governorate.

The funeral procession started in front of the "Martyr Khalil Suleiman" Governmental Hospital in the city, reaching the town of Jaba' with the participation of thousands of citizens, where the bodies of the three martyrs were carried on their shoulders and roamed the streets of the town.

The families of the martyrs, their friends, and their loved ones cast a final farewell look at their pure bodies, and then the mourners performed the funeral prayer for them, before they were buried.

Participants in the funeral chanted slogans calling for national unity and ending the division, to enable the people to confront the practices of the occupation and its continuous aggression and crimes committed against the people of Jenin, its camp, villages and towns, stressing the continuation of the struggle and that the people will not surrender.

With the rise of the three young men in Jaba, the death toll since the beginning of this year has risen to 77, including 13 children and a woman.
Meanwhile, a US official said Washington was concerned that escalating tensions in the West Bank could distract Israel and the United States from Iranian moves, a message US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin plans to deliver during a visit to Israel that began today. Austin pushed back his arrival in Israel and the government insisted on changing the venue for the meetings, due to the expectation of more protests against a plan by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right government to make changes to the judicial system.

"Secretary Austin is perfectly capable of talking on both issues (the West Bank and Iran)," said a senior US defense official, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter.

The official pointed out that Israel's preoccupation with the West Bank "distracts our ability to focus on the current strategic threat, which is Iran's dangerous nuclear progress and the continuation of its aggressive policy regionally and internationally."
On Thursday, the Israeli police announced that 3 people were injured after a gunman opened fire on passers-by on a street in central Tel Aviv, in what the Israeli authorities described as a "terror attack."

"The suspect has been neutralized," police said in a statement, while Zaka, an Israeli rescue service, said the gunman had been killed.

Zaki Heller, a spokesman for the Magen David Adom emergency rescue service, said the shooting on Dizengoff Street said one of the injured was in a critical condition, the second was in serious condition and the third was moderately injured.

The "Ichilov" Medical Center stated that one of the injured was shot in the neck and was taken directly to the operating room in critical condition.

The center said that the second person was wounded by a bullet in the upper part of the body and is in moderate condition, while the third person sustained minor shrapnel injuries and is undergoing treatment, according to the medical center.

Hamas announced that the suspect in the shooting was Al-Moataz Billah Salah Al-Khawaja, 23, from the West Bank.

In its statement, the movement called him the "heroic martyr," and said: "Al-Moataz Billah Salah Al-Khawaja is a liberated prisoner from the town of Ni'lin, west of Ramallah. He shot in response to the crimes of the occupation," according to the statement.