🟢 Deputy Head of the Political Bureau of Hamas, Sheikh Saleh Al-Arouri, in an interview on Al-Mayadeen today:
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The resistance is ready for the all-out war, and "israel" will suffer an unprecedented defeat.

We are preparing for the all-out war and discussing it behind closed doors with all the components involved in this war.

The equation has changed in the West Bank, and we are facing a new equation that is changing in favor of the resistance and its allies against the occupation.

The resistance is capable of closing the airspace and sea of the occupying entity, who will have no electricity, telecommunications, or economy.

We were offered the formation of a national unity government, and we rejected it except on the condition of holding legislative and presidential elections.

We want a national government as a prelude to steps including general elections to reunify the Palestinian situation.

We are afraid of tampering with the Palestinian situation by the United States and the occupation entity after President Abbas.

Presidential elections must be held with the presence of President Abbas, and he must ensure the building of the Palestinian system on a solid ground.
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Note: Sheikh Saleh Al-Arouri also conducted an interview yesterday on Al-Aqsa TV. You may read our highlights here.

Footage showing the moment the IOF brutally attacked an elderly woman today in Bab Al-Khalil, #AlQuds.

The IOF brutally assaulted Palestinians in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, #AlQuds.

🚨 Incendiary balloons were launched from #Gaza towards the occupied interior moments ago.

🟢 Hamas spokesman in Al-Quds, Mohammed Hamadeh:
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The occupation's attack on worshipers at the Asbat Gate is a serious attack and evidence of its brutality, Nazism, and aggression against places of worship and worshipers.

This attack is a direct result of the fascist government's targeting of those who want to pray in Al-Aqsa Mosque among Muslims, while allowing Jews to desecrate Al-Aqsa.

The religious war waged by the extremist occupation government is becoming increasingly apparent through the brutal aggression against worshipers, driven by all the inherent criminality within it.

The Palestinian people will make the occupation pay a high price and teach it lessons as a result of this fascist aggression.

Hamadeh called on the Palestinian people to rally around the blessed Al-Aqsa and confront the occupation's aggression, affirming that the days will prove the enormity of its crime in its attack on worshipers in the courtyards of Al-Aqsa.

Unprecedented spike in Israeli applications for European passports, visas

Israel's internal crisis is pushing large numbers of settlers to leave the country and discouraging new immigrants from coming

Resistance fighters opened fire towards the "Beit El" settlement north of #Ramallah.

Resistance fighters open fire on an IOF watchtower in Kharsa Triangle, south of Dura, #AlKhalil.

🟢 Deputy Head of the Political Bureau of Hamas, Sheikh Saleh Al-Arouri, in an interview on Al-Mayadeen today (more highlights):
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There are those in the cabinet who are considering steps such as taking control of Al-Aqsa Mosque, dividing it, and carrying out assassinations. Those who contemplate these steps know that it will lead to a regional war.

The Resistance Alliance has the readiness, reasons, will, and interest for a regional war, and the active parties are prepared and ready for it.

If the situation escalates into a comprehensive confrontation, “israel” will be defeated in an unprecedented manner in its history. The leaders of the resistance are confident in that. In a comprehensive confrontation, new realities will be imposed on “israel,” including putting an end to its continued existence and the continuation of external support for it.

The battle of liberation in the West Bank is on the table, the conflict has entered a stage of decisive resolution through the “israeli” occupation's judaization of the West Bank and the displacement of Palestinians.

The current right-wing “israeli” government and its mini security council are considering a series of steps that will lead to an all-out regional war in the region.

If the “israeli” entity is talking about an all-out war, and so are we, then this means that it has become inevitable and necessary.

The good man says, in front of a sign reading "patience": "I am afraid to live in an Arab country, O Fatima!"

Fatima replies, "That's not correct, man. You are crying because you are afraid to die in exile and far from Palestine!" #NajisAugust

Palestinian Prisoner’s Club:
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What the fascist minister “Ben-Gvir” called for is dangerous and will lead to an escalation of the confrontation in the prisons.

The Palestinian Prisoners' Club stated on Wednesday 23/8/2023 that the fascist “israeli” occupation government continues to escalate and incite against Palestinian prisoners, specifically through the fascist minister “Ben-Gvir,” who tries to use all platforms and tools to tamper with the fate of Palestinian prisoners and the essence of their incarceration life. Most recently, he called during a cabinet meeting to deprive the prisoners of television channels and tamper with the prisoners' organizational structure.

The Prisoners' Club confirmed that the measures called for by the fascist “Ben-Gvir,” especially regarding tampering with the prisoners' organizational structure, which forms the basis for managing the incarceration life by the prisoners, will lead to an explosion of the situation in the prisons and an escalation of the confrontation. This call came about a week after the fascist minister visited Ofer and Naqab prisons, followed by suppression operations in several sections of the Naqab prison.

The Prisoners' Club pointed out that since the fascist government took power, it has sought to impose a new reality in the prisons. However, the prisoners have been able, through their struggle tools, to impose a state of continuous confrontation against the measures pursued by this government, specifically the measures announced by the fascist “Ben-Gvir.” It should be noted that the prisoners' movement, during February of this year, carried out a confrontation based on acts of disobedience and rebellion against the measures of the fascist “Ben-Gvir,” which lasted for over a month and succeeded in protecting its achievements based on unity.

The Prisoners' Club emphasized that the prisoners' movement, in all the battles it has previously fought, has affirmed its readiness to resume its ongoing battle, which has never stopped, against any measure aimed at undermining its achievements. It has worked to protect these achievements through long decades of struggle and bloodshed.

The Prisoners' Club also pointed out that the prisoners' cause has been and still is the prominent tool for the “israeli” occupation governments and extremist parties to win over the “israeli” public opinion and to cover up the state of helplessness in the face of deep internal crises currently experienced by the occupation.

Today, the Lebanese Arab journalist Talal Salman passed away at age 85. The founder of Al-Safir newspaper, which hosted Naji Al-Ali, Talal was one of the Arab world's most prominent journalists. Weaving Arabism, Palestine, and resistance in his lifelong work, his legacy leaves an indelible mark on the history and consciousness of the region.

"Our Palestine, we will not forget you, and we will not accept any homeland but you."

In tribute to Talal Salman, we are honored to share a translation of his 2010 piece, "Why Palestine?"

Why Palestine?
Talal Salman, May 15, 2010

Our time begins with Palestine and extends with Palestine from the past to the future that Palestine will shape with its position within us and our position from it.

For Arabism is Palestine. Nationalism is Palestine. Religion is Palestine. The cause is Palestine, and the Nation is Palestine.

If Palestine is, then so are we, through it.

When Palestine is present, history is fully present.
If Palestine is absent or made absent, we all become absent from the future.

From the lowest point on earth to the farthest Arab land, there is no freedom without Palestine, no progress without Palestine, no independence without Palestine, no unity without Palestine, no Arabism without Palestine, and no Arabs.

Victory is in Palestine. Defeat is in the assassination of Palestine by disfiguration, diminishment, and fragmentation.

From before the time of Sykes-Picot: the target is Palestine!
From before the time of the Balfour Declaration: the target is Palestine!
From before the first zionist congress in Basel: the target is Palestine!

Palestine is the people, all peoples.
Palestine is the land, all the land.

Palestine before 1948 and the Nakba. Palestine after 1967 and the defeat. Palestine after the anticipated victory in 1973. Palestine before the civil war in Jordan and after the civil war in Lebanon.

Palestine's body is now scattered across the map of the whole world; distinguished talents and energies, scholars and university graduates, engineering firms and builders, refugee camps where refugees, displaced persons, and holders of other nationalities and stateless entities are distributed. They sell them passports so they do not die at airports or in tents erected on the dividing line between two states created so that Palestine would not exist.

In the east is Palestine, in the south is Palestine, in the north is Palestine, in the west is Palestine. The cause of the entire Nation. It is the cause of all the peoples: and yet no Palestine within us.

Strength is Palestine. Fortitude is Palestine. Unity is Palestine. Freedom is Palestine: and yet no Palestine within us!

When Palestine is present, the Nation is present. If Palestine is absent, there is no Nation and no identity for hundreds of millions counted as Arabs, and no future for them all.