Written by: Dr. Salah's mind

Many factors and events have affected the Palestinian cause, which led to a decline in interest in it, and it has become a secondary issue. The outbreak of the so-called Arab revolutions led to a direct and substantial impact on the Palestinian cause, and it became a marginal issue because the Arab countries and the world were preoccupied with the wars and destruction that befell the region of the Arab world, and attention began to focus on change in the region, and every country became preoccupied and searching for salvation from its crisis. Or the catastrophe that befell it as a result of the fighting and destruction, and the biggest beneficiary of that was Israel, which took advantage of that to pounce on what was left of the Palestinian cause. Israel has monopolized the Palestinian people and waged many wars against Gaza, taking advantage of the situation in the region and the state of indifference to the Palestinian cause on the part of the Arabs, to turn the Palestinian cause from the first issue to the forgotten issue, and this is considered the first factor. ‏
The second factor is neglecting and targeting the Palestinian cause after the election of the Zionist American President Donald Trump on January 20, 2017 - January 20, 2021, who took many decisions regarding the Palestinian cause, including the announcement on December 6, 2017, that The city of Jerusalem is the capital of the occupying state, and on May 14, 2018, the US embassy was transferred to occupied Jerusalem, and on August 2, 2018, US aid to the Palestinian Authority was stopped, and on August 3, 2018, all aid to UNRWA was cut off, and on September 10 September 2018, the PLO office in Washington was closed, and on November 18, 2019, the existing settlements on the lands of the West Bank were legalized, and the US administration announced its agreement to annex and impose Israel’s sovereignty over the Jordan Valley and the Dead Sea and to expand settlements in the West Bank, to annex 33% of the West Bank, which leads to the liquidation of the Palestinian cause, the end of the right of return, and the dream of establishing a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders; This is what former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced with the slogan “Peace in exchange for peace.” This is what happened after the UAE and many Arab countries brazenly normalized relations with Israel in light of the targeting of the Palestinian cause. This step must be defined as a step to open the Arab gate. For more free normalization with Israel, without a radical solution to the Palestinian issue and repudiation of the Arab Peace Initiative that was launched at the Beirut Summit in 2002, which ends the Palestinian issue as the central Arab issue to become the issue of the besieged and divided Palestinians. ‏
The third factor is the world’s preoccupation with the epidemic, which affected all levels and levels, as countries were preoccupied with how to confront the epidemic threat and economic collapse, and then the Russian-Ukrainian war, unlimited global support for Ukraine, and double standards towards the Ukrainian issue and the Palestinian issue that has been suffering for seven years. decades of continued occupation brutality; In light of Israel's preoccupation with settlement expansion, killings, wars, arrests, and demolitions without drawing even the world's attention to Israel's policies, this culminated in the announcement of the annexation of the West Bank, and the refusal of former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, elected on June 13, 2021, to negotiate with the Palestinian Authority, and refused to sit with The Palestinian President, and this was announced by Bennett on September 14, 2021, and Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked, on October 3, 2021, refused President Abbas's invitation to sit with her. ‏
The Palestinian cause has been and continues to be neglected by the international community, the bias and endless support of the American and British administrations for Israel, the weakness of international bodies, organizations and institutions and their inability to implement international resolutions, until the level of weakness has reached their inability to condemn settlements in the West Bank and all This is a result of the dominance of the United States of America through its veto over these human rights institutions, and the preoccupation of the countries of the world with the deteriorating economic situation and the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, in addition to the Arabs’ distancing from the Palestinian cause and the search for the interests of the Arab rulers by remaining in power by appeasing the Americans and implementing what they demand. Especially the rapprochement with Israel until the limit reached the stage of strategic alliance and security cooperation in all its details.
As for the subjective factors, they are many, varied, interrelated and interdependent with each other, such as division, administrative and financial corruption, security coordination, lack of freedoms, extreme poverty, high unemployment, lack of hope for change, political arrest, the killing of the popular activist Nizar Banat, the worsening level of crime in the shadow of the absence of a deterrent law, loss of hope and lack of confidence. Political leadership, the failure to hold general elections, the clinging of the influential political leadership to the chairs until all Palestinian institutions are led by the youngest generation of 70 years, and the lack of possession or development of programs and plans aimed at supporting the steadfastness of citizens.
In addition to the weakness of the position and the inability of the Palestinian leadership, which still does not believe in anything other than negotiations to end the occupation and fights the resistance and bets on the American position and sponsor of the stalled Palestinian-Israeli negotiations, and what remains of them and the Oslo agreement is only sacred security coordination, which increased the marginalization and absence of the Palestinian cause internationally and in the Arab world. In addition to the American, Israeli, and British targeting of the Palestinian cause, perhaps the recent British decision to consider Hamas a terrorist organization and an outlaw serves to punish the Palestinian people and shamelessly support the occupation and Arab normalization. And most importantly, the Palestinian policies that could not get out of the negotiation circle, and not to inspect and put forward plans that force the world to pay attention to the Palestinian cause, as martyr President Yasser Arafat did when he returned from Camp David in 2000 to announce the outbreak of a second intifada that was able to restore political life. And others for the Palestinian cause, and to turn the tables on everyone, and from here he was able to restore respect for the Palestinian cause and restore the Palestinian file to occupy the position and the Arab and international public opinion, and everyone is looking for solutions in order to put an end to the burning intifada.
As for the level of Palestinian internal politics within the framework of national relations; The Palestinian organizations' position does not rise to the size of the plan to liquidate the issue. The internal Palestinian politics go from one setback to the next, and the internal political disputes are exacerbated, which in turn affects the level of Arab and international sympathy and solidarity with the Palestinian cause. Division, siege, wars, and Gazan life are devastated at all levels. In the West Bank, the state of chaos, security chaos, unemployment, poverty, and corruption strikes with all the might of the people. ‏
The Palestinian case is unique, as the Palestinian elections took place in 1996 and then did not take place until after the martyrdom of President Yasser Arafat, as President Mahmoud Abbas was elected in 2005, and presidential elections can only be held after the death of President Abbas, may God extend his life, and then The radical change is taking place in the Palestinian case. But that does not mean stillness, as the Palestinian cause is governed by a rule that states that "the momentary variable is the only constant." ‏
The current official Palestinian leadership bears all responsibility for what the Palestinian cause has reached. Therefore, it and the factions and the national whole are required to take the following steps:
1. Implementing the decisions of the National and Central Councils regarding defining the relationship with Israel, withdrawing its recognition, and ending security coordination from the Palestinian dictionary. ,
2. Starting from the agreement that took place between the Palestinian organizations in Cairo in February 2021, with Egyptian mediation, which provided for the holding of the third general elections, as Presidential Decree No. 3 was issued on January 15, 2021, to hold presidential and legislative elections. And the National Council, which is to hold legislative elections on May 22, 2021, and according to the decree, presidential elections will be held at the end of July 2021, given that the results of the Legislative Council elections are the first stage in the formation of the Palestinian National Council, provided that the election of members of the Council is completed The National Assembly at the end of August 2021, in accordance with the basic system of the Liberation Organization and national understandings, so that the elections for the National Council will be held wherever possible, and the general elections will be reconsidered on the basis of this agreement, from the stopping point that began when the legislative elections were postponed on April 30, 2021.
3. Formation of a national unity government whose main task is to prepare for the legislative and presidential elections to renew the legitimacy of all the bodies of the Palestinian people, including the National Council, the Central Council, and the Executive Committee.
4. Immediately lifting the blockade imposed on the Strip, announcing the end of all decisions taken by the President regarding the Strip and Hamas, and treating Gaza employees as employees of the West Bank.
5. Rehabilitation of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the consideration of the Palestinian Authority and its government as one of the bodies of the Liberation Organization, leading to the termination of the Authority in its current form, so that the Liberation Organization is the one with sovereignty over power, and not the other way around.
6. Reforming the Palestine Liberation Organization, by taking an urgent step represented by the joining of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements to the organization, leading to the reconfiguration of the organization’s committees based on the elections.
7. Dealing positively with the vision paper that Ismail Haniyeh, head of the political bureau of Hamas, presented to the Egyptian leadership at the end of November 2021, and the document of leader Nasser Al-Qudwa, which he presented at the end of July 2022, to get out of the Palestinian crisis, which is a programmatic paper. A mission that can be built on, and open a serious dialogue towards implementing its provisions. ‏
8. Opening the way for the masses to take the initiative, and for the security services not to interfere with the popular action. Rather, the security services must be a supportive factor supporting the movements and protecting the people from the danger of occupation. ,
9. Releasing political prisoners in both parts of the country, stopping media harassment, and preparing the atmosphere for initiatives of unity and cohesion in confronting the occupation.
10. Moving away from the policy of leadership succession by stirring up rumors, feeling the pulse and preparing the ground for succession from the gate of history and revolutionary legitimacy and other names that are outside the democratic understanding and the foundations of assuming power. The process of circumventing the general elections will not succeed due to popular rejection. In addition to the sharp division within the political elites, specifically within Fatah centralism, and most importantly, the increase in the number of elites who are bossy in the Palestinian case, and most of them find electoral and even revolutionary eligibility for themselves. ‏
11. Fighting rampant corruption in the Palestinian Authority, giving freedom of expression, placing the right man in the right place, and reviewing all the promotions and appointments approved for the children of officials at the expense of the citizen.
* Palestinian writer and researcher specializing in ideological movements. ‏

Jenin - "Jerusalem" dot com - Ali Samoudi - Large crowds mourned, Monday evening, the body of the child martyr Mahmoud Muhammad Khaled Samoudi (12 years old) in the town of Al-Yamoun, west of the governorate.

Dozens of armed men from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades participated in the funeral, which set off from Ramallah towards the town of Al-Yamoun, the birthplace of the martyr, amid chants of patriotism condemning the occupation and calling for the continuation of resistance against the occupation.

The family of the martyr took a last farewell look at his body amidst tears and sadness, and the mourners headed to Al-Yamoun cemetery, then a memorial festival was held in which many words were delivered that held the occupation responsible for the crime of killing the child Al-Samoudi.

The child Smoudi was martyred after he was hit by a live bullet fired by the occupation soldiers during the aggression on the city and camp of Jenin last Wednesday.

Moscow - (AFP) - Russian Chief of Staff Valery Gerasimov said Thursday that the naval maneuvers planned for this week between the Russian and Chinese navies in the East China Sea are a "response" to the "aggressive" position of the United States in Asia.

"This cooperation is a natural reaction to the aggressive accumulation of US military capabilities in the region," Gerasimov was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying.

He added, "The Russian-Chinese naval and air patrols in the Asia-Pacific region, exercises and exercises have become a practical implementation of the strategic partnership with China."

Russia announced Monday that many of its warships will participate between December 21 and 27 in exercises with the Chinese navy, while Moscow and Beijing are their relations against the West at the height of the conflict in Ukraine.

The Russian Defense Ministry said at the time that joint missile, artillery and anti-submarine warfare exercises were also included in the programme.

Valery Gerasimov confirmed Thursday that "the aim of these exercises is to increase the combat harmony of the soldiers and forces of the two countries and their ability to resist new challenges and threats."

The Russian chief of staff said that Moscow and Beijing do not intend, however, to "create alliances" or create "new divisions in the region, as Washington does."

Russia has been seeking for months to strengthen its relations with Asian countries, especially China, in the face of Western sanctions imposed on it in the wake of its attack on Ukraine.

Written by: Ibrahim Ibrash

The final indecisiveness of the Palestinian leadership regarding the transition from a status of a limited self-governing authority to a state under occupation, even though President Abu Mazen, in his speech at the United Nations General Assembly, left the door open to all possibilities, requires a rational and objective approach to the future of the authority and its obligations according to the Oslo Accords, especially since Voices are rising calling for its overthrow, and some are working to weaken it. This coincides with: the escalation of commando operations against the occupation, the increasing state of anger against the authority, continuous Israeli efforts to weaken the authority, the suspension of the political settlement process, the consolidation of division, and the absence of a horizon for the electoral process.

We wrote dozens of articles on the national authority and talked about the subject in dozens of conferences, seminars, interviews and through audio-visual media, in which we said that the self-rule authority restricted by the requirements of the Oslo Accord is not a final or fixed given of our national rewards, but rather it is a temporary condition that can be overcome if there is the national will to change its function. Or by moving to the state or by returning to the state of national liberation, as we distinguished between the principle of the existence of a national authority on the one hand and the mistakes and abuses of the ruling political class on the other hand. However, for some to demand the dissolution of the authority without preparing a national alternative, this will lead to a state of chaos from which only the enemy will benefit. Today, after the passage of lean years, there has been no transition towards the state, nor a return to the state of national liberation, nor the rebuilding and revival of the PLO, nor an end to the division, but rather the authority has become even weaker. The weakness and exposure of its opponents has increased. Some are still calling for the abolition of the authority or working to weaken it!

The effects and repercussions of overthrowing or dissolving the Palestinian National Authority will not be limited to the collapse of the government and its institutions and the consequent cessation of the payment of salaries and the provision of basic services to the majority of citizens, or the end of the Fatah movement’s control over power. The Zionist entity and those with a non-national agenda, and with the state of weakness that the PLO is in, the Hamas movement and its authority in the Gaza Strip remain the main address for the Palestinians, and Israel is ready to deal with this address.

It is not a questioning of the intentions of all opponents of the authority, nor of the intentions of all the armed youth expelled from Israel and sometimes from the authority in the West Bank; The latter accumulated mistakes, which angered many, even those who belong to the PLO and the Fatah movement and defend the principle of the existence of a national authority. However, it is not guaranteed that weakening or overthrowing the authority serves the national interest in the absence of a national alternative to replace it.

There are three active political parties in the political scene: Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and the opposition forces - without ignoring other forces, including Arab and regional countries, that work in secret and without official addresses. Israel has well-known goals, and it is hostile to the Authority as well as its opponents, even if it coordinates tactically with some of them, because it considers every Palestinian an enemy to it, just as it views the West Bank as part of (the Land of Israel) and will not give it up to anyone. As previously mentioned, although it sees itself as a national achievement and gain and is supported by a large segment of the people, but what about the opposition parties?

The word or term “opposition” in the Palestinian case is ambiguous and ambiguous. If most of the opposition forces declare their hostility to Israel and stand against the authority, they do not agree on everything else, nor do they have any vision or strategy for the post-collapse period.

Under the heading of the opposition, the ropes are mixed with bombs, in which:

1- Activists and civil actors who oppose the authority because of its violations of freedom of opinion and expression, or the existence of corruption in it, or against some of its political positions, but they are not against the principle of the existence of a national authority, and among them are those who belong to the Fatah movement and the organization's factions.

2- Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, and they say that they are part of the Fatah movement, and the latter is the one that leads the authority!

3- Hamas and Islamic Jihad, with their hidden differences and disagreements. They are also committed to a truce with Israel in the Gaza Strip and binding on them even in the West Bank and the 48 areas.

4- The Islamic Liberation Party, which tweets alone and disagrees not only with the authorities, but with all other opposition parties.

5- Young men from the security services decided to rebel against the Dayton Doctrine, which deluded them that security coordination and suppression of activists and opponents of the authority achieve security and safety and bring the desired Palestinian state closer, but they discovered that what they are doing serves the occupying state more than it serves the Palestinian people.

6- Some families, clans and class of beneficiaries of the occupation who feel that the authority threatens their influence and interests.

7- And there are those who were formed by Israel to form the village associations again.

8- There are those who owe loyalty to Jordan and their loyalty to Jordan is stronger than their loyalty to Palestine.

9- And do not forget the criminals, thieves and bandits concerned with chaos, because it facilitates their criminal work.

10- In addition to spies and agents of Israel working in secret or under various names, we may find some of them in civil society institutions and within the authority itself.

If Israel is reducing the powers of the PA and its areas of influence and is trying to weaken it by various means and does not trust it despite all the political flexibility and security coordination provided by the PA leadership... Will it trust the opponents of the PA and this is their situation? Is it possible to grant them powers and the possibility of working that serve the national interest more than it granted the Liberation Organization and the national authority emanating from it?

There are those who compare, in the context of defending the national authority, between what was happening in Gaza before the Hamas coup and what is happening in the West Bank these days, and we believe that the comparison is relatively correct in one aspect, which is the weakening of the national authority. Israel is ready to leave the Strip, and Hamas was ready to take it. As for the West Bank, Israel will not allow any Palestinian national party to control the West Bank, because in its eyes, the West Bank is an essential part of their alleged state.

This does not mean sticking to power and defending it in its current situation, whether it is unjust or oppressed. Rather, we call for rational thinking for the sake of the national interest, away from the calculations of Arab and regional countries and those with foreign agendas, especially since the Palestinians’ experience with these countries and agendas throughout the decades of the history of the Palestinian cause was painful, and nothing will change it. Something about the slogans and ideologies raised by these parties, and we should also take advantage of what happened to the first uprisings in 1987 and the second in 2000, and how the absence of a vision and a unified national strategy led to the lack of practical political achievements.

On the other hand, the Palestinian leadership is required to work hard for the transition from the authority to the state, while we are aware of the legal and practical challenges and difficulties of this transition. All the Palestinian people, and in order for it to be so, it must be in the context of a national consensus, or the matter must be done through a popular referendum. We believe that the issue deserves discussion in the (reconciliation) meetings in Algeria, which, although we are not optimistic about achieving important breakthroughs, we hope that it will go beyond the frivolous dialogues that took place over the years in Cairo and other Arab and foreign capitals.

MADRID (Xinhua) -- Spain's health ministry said Wednesday that 679 people died in the first eight days (July 10-17) of the second heat wave that hit the country this summer.

The Carlos III Health Institute said 169 deaths occurred on July 17 alone.

According to the institute, 430 of the 679 victims were people aged 85 and over, 159 were between 75 and 84 years old, and 58 were between 65 and 74 years old.

The second heat wave of the summer ended with slightly lower temperatures on Tuesday, but temperatures are expected to top 40 degrees Celsius again in most parts of the country before the weekend.

The institute said that the first heat wave in 2022 occurred from June 11 to 17 and caused 829 deaths. As a result, 1,508 people have died in the country this summer due to the extreme heat.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid spoke this evening, Wednesday, with US President Joe Biden , and they discussed at length the negotiations related to the Iranian nuclear agreement.

According to Lapid's office - as reported by the Arabic-speaking Israeli Public Broadcasting Authority - Lapid and Biden discussed the various efforts being made to stop Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons.

They also discussed the latest developments and activities described as "terrorist" by Iran in the Middle East and beyond.

In this context, Lapid congratulated Biden on the recent raids launched by the United States in Syria.

Biden affirmed his deep commitment to Israel's security and to preserving its military capabilities in the face of any threat, whether near or far.

Montreal - (AFP) - Canada announced the imposition of more sanctions on Iran, on the grounds of human rights violations during the demonstrations taking place in the country.

The sanctions affect three Iranian entities and 17 individuals, including the prosecutor in the Iranian Revolutionary Court, Saeed Mortazavi, former Foreign Minister Muhammad Javad Zarif, senior officials in state media, and a former defense minister.

Canadian sanctions prohibit dealing with targeted persons and entities, freeze any assets they have in Canada, and prevent the 17 people from entering the country.

Foreign Minister Melanie Jolie said, "The Iranian regime's actions speak for themselves. The world has watched for years (the regime) as it implements an agenda of violence, fear and propaganda."

Since September 16, Iran has been witnessing protests sparked by the death of the young woman, Mahsa Amini, three days after she was arrested by the morality police for not adhering to the strict dress code.

Canada announced last week that it would permanently deny entry to more than ten thousand members of the "criminal" Iranian regime, including members of the Revolutionary Guards, which Ottawa accuses of committing "heinous" acts against the Iranian people.

In total, Canada imposed sanctions on 83 Iranians and 173 entities, in line with other countries such as the United States.

Bamako - (AFP) - A worker of the humanitarian organization "Doctors Without Borders" has been released after being kidnapped in Mali by jihadists, according to police and organizations.

And sources in the financial police told AFP that gunmen kidnapped the worker, who holds the nationality of Burkina Faso, in the northeastern city of Gao, the largest city in the region.

Another Gao police source added, "At 08:00 GMT, the Médecins Sans Frontières worker, who had been kidnapped on December 19, was released."

A source from a foreign humanitarian organization in the city confirmed the news.

"He was released while he is in good health, and he went to Bamako (the capital of Mali) on a plane belonging to a humanitarian organization," he told AFP.

A Doctors Without Borders official confirmed the worker's release, without giving further details.

Mali, one of the poorest countries in the world, has been witnessing a jihadist insurgency for nearly a decade, which has expanded to include neighboring Niger and Burkina Faso.
Thousands of civilians and security personnel in the three Sahel countries have been killed in the conflict, and more than two million people have been displaced from their homes.

There are many reasons for the kidnappings in Mali, some of which may be motivated by ideology sometimes, but the kidnapped are often released after paying a ransom.

Written by: Sri Al Qudwa

In front of the facts of the Israeli aggression and the usurpation of Palestinian rights, it is necessary to ensure the success of the Algerian meetings and its call to achieve Palestinian national unity and to take advantage of this important historical opportunity to end the division and face the current challenges. We must work to put an end to this division and those thorny relations between the Palestinian factions, as some are trying to take advantage of the existing contradictions Which has become outside the scope of any description and does not serve the higher interests of the Palestinian people and has become a threat to the Palestinian future as a whole. Therefore, work must be done to arrange the internal Palestinian conditions and put an end to attempts to sow discord and division within the Palestinian society under various masks with the aim of spreading frustration and despair to liquidate the Palestinian cause and prevent the achievement of the goals and aspirations of the Palestinian people. In the embodiment of freedom and national independence and self-determination.


Immediate action must be taken in order to implement the decisions of the National and Central Councils, to activate the departments and institutions of the Palestine Liberation Organization and rebuild its institutions to serve the establishment of the Palestinian state and strengthen its position as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people and achieve more political, legal, moral and material gains in all its forms to confront the schemes and ambitions that the existing authority seeks to achieve. By occupation through the colonial settlement policy in all occupied Palestinian lands, especially in East Jerusalem, preventing the displacement of its people, protecting Islamic and Christian holy sites, foremost of which is the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, and strengthening the unity of our people, which was manifested in its best form in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and within the Green Line and the diaspora around Jerusalem, the capital of the state Palestinian.

Urgent action and action must be taken at all Arab, regional and international levels, including international organizations, the United Nations, the Security Council and the Human Rights Council, and mobilizing the support and assistance of the international community to confront the consequences of the continuous aggression and put an end to it, and the continuation of diplomatic action in order to implement the resolutions of international legitimacy related to the Palestinian cause, especially the resolution Security Council No. 2334, and continue to work towards obtaining full membership in the United Nations and affirm support for the peace option, especially the two-state solution, in light of what can be achieved internationally.

The Israeli occupation continues its plans to displace citizens in occupied Jerusalem through the policy of demolition and settlement expansion, and commits brutal crimes in light of the displacement of tens of thousands of citizens from their homes as a result of their destruction, in addition to the destruction of the entire infrastructure in the Gaza Strip, including health, educational, social and economic institutions, and the continuation of its continuous aggression against neighborhoods Jerusalem and the lands of the occupied West Bank, in implementation of the policy of colonial settlement, plundering of lands, destruction of farms and homes of citizens, and granting it protection and cover for settlers who carry out orgies in all neighborhoods of the city and planting settlement outposts in all neighborhoods with the aim of emptying the city and displacing citizens in light of a clear disregard for all international laws and legislation that consider Jerusalem occupied lands and all The crimes that are taking place are considered a flagrant violation of international laws and laws.

In light of the conspiracies taking place and the imam of this Israeli extremism and international denial, the Palestinian people have no choice but to uphold their rights, legendary steadfastness, strengthen the bonds of trust, adhere to national constants, and defend the Palestinian lands. Resistance and defense of Palestinian rights in order for Jerusalem to remain the capital of the Palestinian state and to preserve the struggle constants and the path of the Palestinian national struggle.

Oslo - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Secretary General of the Federation of Palestinian Trade Unions, Shaher Saad, called today, Tuesday, for the participants in the Norway Labor Confederation (LO) conference, to put pressure on the management of the government pension fund in Norway (the oil fund) to stop its dealings with Israeli settlements and withdraw of his investments.

Saad said in Palestine's speech to the conference, in the presence and participation of the Ambassador of the State of Palestine to Norway, Marie Antoinette Seiden, that "the Norwegian Oil Fund is one of the most prominent dealers with Israeli settlements until its history, and this is something that needs to be corrected, by pressuring its management to reverse what it went to in continuing Dealing with those colonies, and withdrawing their investments from them.

Saad conveyed to the participants in the conference the greetings of the Palestinian working class, praising the great support enjoyed by Palestinian workers from the Norwegian Trade Union historically, led by the late Hans Christian, and the union's tremendous contributions in supporting the just Palestinian national struggle, especially its important initiative "Do not buy from the occupation." And his clear commitment to support the legitimate rights of the Palestinian Arab people, and his firm stand against the companies whose cooperation and commercial dealings with the Israeli colonies established over the occupied Palestinian Arab lands in 1967 were proven.

Saad said: "Palestine is still bleeding daily because of the continuation of the Israeli occupation, and the deprivation of our people from enjoying their right to self-determination and establishing their independent state like the rest of the peoples of the earth, in a miserable attempt by the Israeli occupation state to erase our people from existence, to monopolize their land and property, and to continue building colonies and demolishing More indigenous homes and displacement, with Jewish immigrants replacing them.

He pointed to the crimes committed by the Israeli occupation army against the workers, as it carries out daily clamoring military pursuits of them, during which live ammunition, police dogs and drones are used, and ends with fatal injuries to many of them, under the pretext that they cross the border without obtaining the necessary entry permits to Israel. And he does the same thing against the workers of the Gaza Strip, which has been besieged for more than 15 years, and the Palestinian fishermen were not spared from the bullets of the occupation army, so three of them were killed on March 7, 2021, during their fishing trip in the Khan Yunis sea, south of the Gaza Strip.

He added, "Our workers also suffer the scourge of daily and humiliating inspections at the Israeli military checkpoints built inside the occupied Palestinian Arab territories in 1967, and the brutal repression of Muslim and Christian worshipers in the city of Jerusalem."

He continued, addressing the participants in the conference: "You have witnessed, as the whole world has seen, how the soldiers of the Israeli occupation army killed the Palestinian journalist, Sherine Abu Aqleh, who was wearing the usual uniform for journalists and was equipped with all the signs and signals of the international press, including the jacket and helmet, which did not constitute an offense." Not only a journalist or a Palestinian citizen, but it constituted an assault on freedom of the press and freedom of opinion around the world.”

Saad explained that this situation, which is characterized by continuous escalation, is the result of the absence of a political horizon for the peace process, and as a result of the indolence of the major powers in sponsoring and paying attention to that process and pushing it forward, calling on the conference to exercise whatever influence and pressure it can, to put an end to the ongoing turmoil in Palestine, and push the two-state solution towards Move forward, and empower our people with their rights that have been recognized by international legitimacy since 1967 until now.

He said, "The world today, which deliberately forgets the suffering of the Palestinian people, is required to use a single ruler to measure the applicability of the rules of international law or not in all similar cases.

The conference demanded the recommendation to fully support the legitimate rights of our people, condemn the continuation of the Israeli occupation of our country, boycott and withdraw investments from Israeli settlements, and support the two-state solution.

TUNIS - (Xinhua) The head of the Independent High Authority for Elections in Tunisia, Farouk Bouaskar, announced today (Tuesday) that 262 candidates will run in the second round of the legislative elections at the beginning of next February to compete for 131 parliamentary seats.

Bouaskar said during a press conference held today that the elections for the second round of this electoral entitlement will be held in 131 constituencies, pointing out that the total number of voters registered to participate in the second round "will be more than 7 million voters, including those registered voluntarily and automatically."

He revealed that 23 candidates among the 262 competitors in the second round of the legislative elections belong to parties, according to authorizations issued by the legal representatives of their parties that the Elections Authority had received earlier.

He explained that the parties to which these candidates belong are the Tunisia Forward Movement (one candidate), the National Youth Movement of Tunisia (3 candidates), the People's Movement (12 candidates), and the Voice of the Republic party (7 candidates).

He added that the candidates running for the second round of the legislative elections are distributed between 34 women and 228 men, noting that 170 of them are employees from the public and private sectors, 50 are self-employed and businessmen, 5 are students, and 17 are retirees.

The first round of this election took place on December 17, in which only 23 candidates won a parliamentary seat, 20 of them in constituencies at home and 3 in constituencies abroad.

The first round of this election ended with a participation rate of 11.22 percent, according to what the head of the Independent High Authority for Elections in Tunisia announced, two days after the polls closed.

The majority of Tunisian parties and organizations unanimously agreed that this percentage is "weak" and reflects the Tunisian people's reluctance to hold elections, while voices were heard calling for the cancellation of the second round of legislative elections, and for going to a comprehensive national dialogue to get out of the current political crisis.

The Tunisian president rejects such calls, and he responded to them on the nineteenth of this month by accusing the opposition of fabricating crises, as he said..."This time, you did not find anything to focus on except for the participation rate in this first session to question the representation of the next Assembly of Representatives of the People, in While the participation rate is not only measured in the first round, but in the two rounds.”

القاهرة (أ ف ب) -يخوض الأهلي المصري الحالم أن يصبح أول ناد يتوج بلقب دوري أبطال إفريقيا في كرة القدم ثلاث مرات متتالية، مواجهة صعبة أمام الرجاء البيضاوي المغربي السبت على ملعبه "السلام" في القاهرة في ذهاب ربع النهائي الذي يشهد مواجهتين مغاربيتين بين وفاق سطيف الجزائري والترجي التونسي، وشباب بلوزداد الجزائري والوداد البيضاوي المغربي.
وفي المباراة الرابعة، يلتقي بترو اتلتيكو الأنغولي مع ماميلودي صنداونز الجنوب افريقي.

وبعدما انتظر الجولة الأخيرة لدور المجموعات لحسم تأهله الى دور الثمانية أمام الهلال السوداني، يتطلع الأهلي بقيادة مدربه الجنوب افريقي بيتسو موسيماني للذهاب بعيداً، إلا أن الرجاء يبحث عن الثأر اثر خسارته لقب الكأس السوبر الافريقي أمامه بركلات الترجيح (5-6)، بعد تعادلهما 1-1 في كانون الأول/ديسمبر الماضي في العاصمة القطرية الدوحة.
والفائز بينهما يلاقي الفائز بين وفاق سطيف بطل 1988 و2014 والترجي بطل 1994 و2011 و2018 و2019.

ويخوض "نادي القرن" المدعوم بنحو 20 الف متفرج والساعي الى تعزيز رقمه القياسي البالغ عشرة ألقاب، اللقاء بعد ايام قليلة من تلقيه خسارة مفاجئة أمام المصري البورسعيدي في الدوري المحلي.
وأعرب موسمياني عن استيائه من كثافة المباريات (3 في سبعة ايام) "من حسن الحظ أننا سنخوض المباراة المقبلة أمام الرجاء في القاهرة.. الأهلي سيلعب بطريقة مختلفة وبأسلوب لعبه".

أضاف "العامل الذهني للاعبي الأهلي مهم حاليا، والأمر الوحيد الذي سيعيدهم لحالتهم الطبيعية هو الفوز أمام الرجاء".
واستعاد الأهلي جهود عدد من المصابين أبرزهم لاعب الوسط حمدي فتحي والجناح طاهر محمد صاحب هدف التعادل في مرمى الرجاء في السوبر، والظهير محمد هاني.
في المقابل، يدرك "النسر الأخضر" صعوبة مهمته في القاهرة قبل لقاء الحسم في الدار البيضاء، وقد اعتاد حامل لقب كأس الاتحاد رفع نسق قتاليته في المناسبات الكبيرة.
ورأى المدرب رشيد الطاوسي ان فريقه واجه ضغط المباريات المزدحمة محلياً وقارياً "اجتيازنا للاختبارات التي خضعنا لها في مسابقة كأس العرش رفع معنوياتنا وكرّس شخصية البطل التي لطالما توفّر عليها الرجاء الرياضي". وأضاف "نحن ذاهبون إلى مصر لقطع شوط كبير نحو التأهل إلى نصف النهائي".
ويستعيد الفريق ثلة من لاعبيه ولا سيما القائد محسن متولي وبدر بولهرود وإلياس الحداد وعمر العرجون وأسامة سوكحان، فيما سيفتقد الموقوف محمد الناهيري وزكريا الوردي بسبب الاصابة.

وفي افتتاح دور الثمانية الجمعة، يحل الترجي ضيفاً ثقيلاً على وفاق سطيف على ملعب "5 جويلية" في الجزائر.
واستعاد المدرب راضي الجعايدي جهود المدافع الدولي الجزائري عبد القادر بدران ولاعب الوسط غيلان الشعلالي واطمأن على جاهزية محمد علي بن رمضان قبل اللقاء "الترجي جاهز لرفع التحدي أمام وفاق سطيف وسنسعى للعودة بنتيجة ايجابية من الجزائر لتسهيل المهمة في الاياب".
ويدخل "السطايفي" اللقاء بإدارة فنية جديدة يقودها الصربي داركو نوفيتش بديل التونسي نبيل الكوكي، بينما سيقوده في أرض الملعب المدرب الموقت رضا بن دريس المتواجد خلال حسم القمة المحلية مع مولودية الجزائر 2-1.
قال بن دريس "كنا مجبرين على تحقيق الفوز بعد النتائج السلبية التي سجلناها مؤخرا، هذا الفوز يسمح لنا بدخول مباراتنا المقبلة أمام الترجي بعزيمة وتركيز كبيرين".

ويستضيف شباب بلوزداد بطل الجزائر على ملعب "5 جويلية" الوداد البيضاوي بطل المغرب في دربي قوي السبت.
ويدخل بلوزداد اللقاء بمعنويات مرتفعة اثر فوزه على شبيبة الساورة بهدف، واقترابه بالتالي من لقب الدوري المحلي للمرة الثالثة توالياً والتاسعة في تاريخه.
قال المدرب البرازيلي ماركوس باكيتا بعد اللقاء "يمكنني تنفس الصعداء والتركيز أكثر على مواجهة الوداد، وسندافع عن حظوظنا ونيل بطاقة العبور للمربع الذهبي". وستكون صفوفه مكتملة بقيادة المهاجم كريم العريبي الذي يعد ابرز عناصر الفريق.
أما الوداد، فيتسلح بتفوقه التاريخي على الخصوم الجزائريين، إذ يطمح للقب الثالث في تاريخه بعد 1992 و2017. حضر الى العاصمة الجزائرية بكامل نجومه ولا سيما الدوليين الحارس أحمد رضى التكناوتي والمدافع يحيى عطية الله ولاعب الوسط يحيى جبران مع المهاجم الكونغولي غي مبينزا.

وقال التكناوتي بعد تأهل الفريق الى ربع نهائي كاس العرش على حساب شباب المحمدية 3-2 "تنتظرنا مباراة صعبة في الجزائر إذ نخطط للعودة بنتيجة إيجابية لخوض الإياب من دون ضغط".
ويأمل بترو اتلتيكو الأنغولي في تحقيق نتيجة طيبة ضد ضيفه الصعب ماميلودي صنداونز في لواندا قبل مواجهة الإياب.
وكان أتلتيكو قد تفوق في دور المجموعات على الزمالك المصري وأطاحه خارج المسابقة، بفضل أسلوب لعب جماعي وقوة تهديفية يجسدها البرازيلي تياغو أزولاو (5 أهداف).
وسجل صنداونز افضل الارقام في الدور الاول إذ لم يتلق أي خسارة (5 انتصارات وتعادل) بقيادة المدرب مانكوبا منكغيتي، كما يعد الفريق مرشحاً لنيل اللقب للمرة الثانية بعد 2016.

Kiev - (AFP) - A nuclear reactor at the Zaporizhia plant in southern Ukraine has been suspended due to Russian bombings, according to the police operating the atomic power plants, Energoatom, while an inspection team from the International Atomic Energy Agency is awaiting the arrival of the site.

And the company wrote in a statement on the Telegram application that at approximately 01:57 GMT, and following the launch of "a mortar shell at the site of the Zaporizhya station, the emergency system was activated and Unit No. 5 was stopped."

Jenin - "Jerusalem" dot com - Today, Thursday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested a citizen and his son from the village of Raba, southeast of Jenin.

According to press sources, the occupation forces stormed the village and raided the house of Ali Muhammad Bazour (52 years old) and his son Saqr (23 years old).

Jenin – “Jerusalem” dot com – Ali Samoudi – Today, Sunday, the occupation authorities released the captive, Bushra Jamal Al-Taweel, from the city of Al-Bireh, at the Salem military checkpoint, west of Jenin, and she was received by her father, her family, and representatives of the institutions.

Al-Taweel said in an interview with Al-Quds.com correspondent: The occupation, represented by the prison administration, is committing a real massacre against the female prisoners, as some of them suffer from difficult and harsh health conditions.

She added, "For 4 days, the female prisoners have been taking protest and escalatory steps against the policy of repression and medical negligence, which is practiced systematically by the prison administration, and endangers the patients' lives."

Al-Taweel stressed the importance of immediate and rapid action to save the lives of sick female prisoners, because some female prisoners need immediate transfer to hospitals for treatment, before it is too late.

The editor, Bushra, expressed her joy at meeting her father, and said, "Our freedom is incomplete because of the presence of male and female prisoners in prisons, but my joy is different, because of meeting my father and receiving me. Since 2013, I have only been with my father for 68 days, due to the continuous arrests."

Nusa Dua (Indonesia) - (AFP) - US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Monday that ending the war in Ukraine is the best way to address the problems of the global economy , in a clear message to Russia ahead of the G20 summit in Indonesia.

"Ending the war waged by Russia is a moral imperative and simply the best thing to do for the global economy," Yellen told reporters on the sidelines of a meeting with her French counterpart, Bruno Le Maire.

And the Russian invasion of Ukraine is not officially on the agenda of the summit, which includes 20 major economies.

Moscow called on the G20 to focus on economic and financial issues rather than political and security issues. But the war launched by Russian President Vladimir Putin nine months ago had profound economic repercussions, manifested in the rise in energy and food prices.

Indonesia, the host country, calls for peace negotiations and refuses to condemn Moscow directly.

Bruno Le Maire, for his part, stressed the need for action to mitigate the economic impacts of the conflict.

"I think the first issue on the table is ways to lower energy prices and how to get rid of inflation," said the French economy minister.

Today, Wednesday, the General Petroleum Corporation of the Ministry of Finance announced the prices of fuel and gas for the month of July in all governorates of the country, starting tomorrow, Thursday.

There has been no change in prices compared to the month of June.
The authority stated that the price of a liter of 95-octane gasoline, the most widely used in the Palestinian market, is sold at 6.06 shekels, the price of a liter of 98-octane gasoline is 6.89 shekels, the price of a liter of diesel is 5.19 shekels, and the price of a liter of kerosene is 5.19 shekels.

The authority set the price of a 12-kg gas cylinder at 63 shekels, a 48-kg cylinder at 252 shekels, a 2.5-kg cylinder at 13.5 shekels, a 5-kg cylinder at 27 shekels, a liter of gas for buildings and institutions 2.73 shekels, and a kilogram of gas for buildings and institutions 4.79 shekels, while the price of the cylinder delivery service to the consumer’s home is only 2 shekels.

The Petroleum Authority called on station owners and gas distributors to abide by the announced prices, warning that whoever violates them will put themselves under legal liability.

(AFP) - The Michelin Guide announced Monday a surprising decision to downgrade Guy Savoie's restaurant, one of the world's most famous chefs, from three stars to two.
Since 2002, the 69-year-old Savoy has been awarded a three-star rating, the highest rating given by the guide, for his restaurant located in the "La Money de Paris" building in Paris, overlooking the Seine River.
The Savoie restaurant has a second branch at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
In November, the French chef's restaurant topped the "La List" list of the best restaurants in the world, for the sixth time.
In addition, the guide, in its latest version, expected to be announced next Monday, downgraded the rating of Chef Christopher Cotanso's restaurant in La Rochelle.
"These two restaurants are very special, so the decision to downgrade them was carefully studied before it was made, in addition to taking into account the visits made by specialists from the guide to the two restaurants throughout the year," Michelin guide director Gwendal Pollenec told AFP.
The reasons behind the decisions will not be publicly disclosed, but will only be communicated to the chefs involved.
"In such decisions, we do not only rely on the opinions of French specialists, but we also take into account what others say from other countries," Poulenc added.
Reducing the rating of restaurants usually raises widespread controversy, especially after the suicide of Bernard Loiseau, a close friend of Savoie, 20 years ago after his restaurant lost one star in the rating.
In its highly anticipated release Monday, the Michelin Guide downgraded some twenty French restaurants from two stars to one.
Due to the difficulties faced by restaurants due to the COVID-19 pandemic, since 2019 the Michelin Guide has not downgraded any restaurant.
However, the challenges continued for restaurants, which are now facing a shortage of employees and an increase in prices.
However, the Michelin Guide confirmed that downgrading ratings is necessary. "Yes, there are challenges, but everyone faces them," Polinek said.

Geneva - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations and international organizations in Switzerland, Ambassador Ibrahim Khreishi , said that Israel is the first violator of the United Nations Charter, and continues its violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law.

In his speech during the interactive dialogue with the High Commissioner for Human Rights, on "the situation of human rights in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories, within the 52nd session of the Council," he added, "It is not possible to enforce the law and achieve justice and remedies in the world in light of double standards and the politicization of punitive measures." .

He expressed his thanks to the High Commissioner and his office for preparing the submitted report, which was presented to the Council, saying that the report monitored some violations committed by the occupation forces until the end of October of last year, according to the data of the Palestinian Ministry of Health, the number of Palestinian martyrs who rose Last year, it reached 224 martyrs in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, and there are about 4,800 detainees in the occupation prisons, including 24 female prisoners, about 150 minors, and 840 administrative detainees, including a number of women and children. The report referred to collective punishments, including the unjust siege on the Gaza Strip. 17 years ago, the report mentioned a number of violations in various fields.

Khreishi said that since the new occupation government assumed its duties under the leadership of Netanyahu, which includes a number of murderers and criminals, which began with a new escalation against the Palestinian people and prisoners inside the occupation prisons, attacks on mosques and churches and the storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque by the terrorist Ben Gvir, in addition to taking punitive measures against the Palestinian people. And the leadership and civil society, due to the decision of the General Assembly to request an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice on the nature of the long-term occupation, in addition to the approval of the Knesset on racist laws, including the withdrawal of nationality and residency, as well as approval on the first reading of the law of executing Palestinian prisoners, and approval of the legislation of 9 new settlement outposts, All of this coincided with the incursions into Jenin and Nablus refugee camps and the killing of dozens of Palestinian civilians, including children and women.

He added that since the beginning of this year, 66 martyrs, including 17 children, have passed away. The world followed what happened last Sunday of settlers' assault and orgy in the town of Hawara and the neighboring towns and villages south of Nablus. Burning homes, destroying property, and attacking citizens under the protection of the occupation army. Everyone also heard the statement of the terrorist Finance Minister Smotrich, who called for the annihilation of Hawara and its inhabitants. Some still describe Israel as a democratic country.

And he continued, "We are with accountability and holding accountable the violators of the law in the world, and it is not permissible to exclude Israel, the occupying power, calling on the international community and all international bodies and organizations and the high states parties to take punitive steps according to what is contained in the Fourth Geneva Convention, and to boycott the occupying power, its settlements, settlers, leaders and government Fascist killing, and not cooperating with them.”

Las Vegas - (AFP) - The company "Disney" in Las Vegas revealed the first scenes of the second part of the movie "Avatar", the main part of which still occupies first place in the history of cinema in terms of revenue worldwide, while the director considered James Cameron said that the new work "will push the boundaries of what cinema can offer."
The attendees of the "CinemaCon" forum put on 3D glasses to immerse themselves in the trailer for the new movie "Avatar: The Way of Water" and return to the planet "Pandora", where they saw its blue-skinned inhabitants swimming and floating in the air.
Disney distribution director Tony Chambers confirmed the title chosen for the sequel to "Avatar," and said, "I assure you, the work was worth the wait."
And "Avatar: The Way of Water" will be shown in cinemas next December, and it is supposed to be followed by three other parts of this series, whose original film has grossed about $ 2.8 billion since its launch in 2009.
Each work will constitute a separate film from the other parts, with its own plot. Producer John Landau said that the four parts will not be part of a single narrative story, but together they will represent a series of great importance.
Cameron was speaking to the audience at CinemaCon from New Zealand, where he was putting the finishing touches on the new work.
The director assured those present at Cinema Con that they would see a work characterized by great technical developments compared to the first part. And in the new part, a family is established for its main characters, Jake Sully (played by Sam Worthington) and Neytiri (embodied by Zoe Saldana).
"We decided once again to go beyond what cinema can offer," Cameron said, heading to the owners of cinemas gathered in Las Vegas for their annual gathering, in which major production companies present their latest work.
And the president of "Marvel Studios" Kevin Feige opened the presentation of excerpts from the second part of "Avatar".
Attendees also watched long excerpts from Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which opens next week, about a magician played by Benedict Cumberbatch who encounters flying octopuses and meets a teenage girl who travels from one world to another.
The year 2022 will also witness the release of two other large-scale films centered on the famous superheroes "Thor" and "Black Panther".
And Pixar showed thirty minutes of its movie "Light Year", a work that deals with the past of Buzz, the brave astronaut in the "Toy Story" series, who took over the embodiment of the voice of Chris Evans. In the film, set for release in June, Buzz feels guilty after causing his fellow space guardians to drown on a hostile planet. In order to try to save them, he must go to the future with a robotic kitten.
Scenes from “Amsterdam”, a romantic and police film that takes place in the thirties of the last century, were also shown in “Cinema Cone”, in which a number of stars, including Christian Bale, Robert De Niro, Margot Robbie and Chris Rock, participated.

JALALABAD, Afghanistan - (Xinhua) - Security forces stormed a hideout of the "Islamic State" terrorist organization in the Afghan city of Jalalabad, capital of eastern Nangarhar province, killing two and arresting another, according to a statement issued by the province's Department of Information and Culture on Monday. (Monday).

The statement said that the operation, which was carried out by personnel from the General Directorate of Intelligence or the country's counter-espionage agency in Police District 4 in Jalalabad city late on Sunday, resulted in the killing of two militants and the arrest of another.

The statement added that the security forces also found and seized a quantity of weapons and ammunition, including an AK-47 assault rifle, an M-16 assault rifle, and several landmines and explosive devices during the operation.

Prime Minister Dr. Muhammad Shtayyeh asserts that the occupation has no right to attack institutions and civil society organizations that operate within the Palestinian law. These statements came during a visit to the "Adameer" institution for the care of prisoners and human rights, which was closed by the occupation forces. He was accompanied on this visit by ambassadors and consuls of more than 16 countries and members of international human rights organizations working in our country. Addameer is one of several other institutions closed down by the occupation. The representative of the European Union, Sven Kun Burgsdorff, denounced this Israeli decision and the fierce attack launched by the Israeli forces, during which they seized property and files of these institutions and their activities.

This is a positive European position in terms of condemnation and rejection, but it is not sufficient and does not deter the occupation or stop these practices that are contrary to all laws and human rights.

On the other hand, the League of Arab States held a meeting at the level of foreign ministers, in which it affirmed support for Palestine's approach to obtain full membership in the United Nations and to hold another conference at the beginning of next year to support Jerusalem and reject the occupation's measures and Judaization efforts in Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank. In this context, it should be mentioned that the Egyptian delegation left the opening session in protest against the Libyan representative presiding over this session.

The issuance of these statements and positions was accompanied, and almost at the same time, by an Israeli approval of a plan to expand a settlement on various lands in Jerusalem, especially in the lands of Shuafat, Beit Hanina and Lifta. They called it the "Biden plan," and it was agreed upon during the former US president's visit to Israel.

All statements, whether international or Arab, remain without any actual results, and real field measures must be taken to stop the aggressions of the occupation, which do not stop except in the logic of force, and statements and words died years ago..!!

Washington - (dpa) - US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen acknowledged the existence of errors in her previous assessments of the high inflation that the United States is currently witnessing.

"I think I was wrong then about the path inflation will take," Yellen told CNN on Tuesday, adding that she underestimated shocks to the economy from factors such as high energy prices and problems in the international supply chain.

And in May last year, Yellen said she did not expect inflation to become a problem. However, consumer prices rose in April by 8.3% compared to the same month last year.

And in a meeting with Yellen and Federal Reserve (Central Bank) Chairman Jerome Powell on Tuesday, US President Joe Biden stressed that fighting inflation is his top priority.

Meanwhile, Biden insisted he would continue to respect the independence of the Federal Reserve. Powell, for whom tackling high inflation in the United States is a priority, tried to use tighter monetary policy to combat high inflation.

Powell's re-election was confirmed by a large majority in the Senate three weeks ago, after Biden nominated him for another four-year term as Federal Reserve chairman in November.

Powell has been leading the central bank of the world's largest economy since February 2018, when then-President Donald Trump nominated him for the position. Prior to that, Powell had been a member of the central bank's board since 2012.

Lviv (Ukraine) - (DPA) - In the midst of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, the American actress and director Angelina Jolie went to western Ukraine to meet the refugees there.

The Lviv region administration said on Saturday that as part of her tour, Jolie visited children in hospital who were wounded in a missile attack on the train station in Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine about three weeks ago.

The pictures show Jolie, 46, embracing children and taking selfies with the medical staff. "The visit was unexpected for all of us," said city governor Maksim Kosizkij.

He added that many could not believe their eyes.

A video clip also showed Jolie rushing to a shelter to take cover from airstrikes as the alarm sounded.

Another clip was also circulated on social media, showing Jolie as an envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, who is in a cafe in Lviv.

Many people have fled from many parts of Ukraine to this city in the west of the country since the start of the Russian war on February 24.

Madrid (AFP) - Argentine coach Diego Simeone responded to his Spanish counterpart, Pep Guardiola, after a tense night at the "Wanda Metropolitano" stadium on Wednesday, as the quarrel between Atletico Madrid players and its guest Manchester City in the stadium and the tunnel leading to the dressing rooms overshadowed the club's qualification. English to the semi-finals of the European Champions League.
Simeone was asked after the match if he felt that Guardiola disrespected him during the quarter-final confrontation that ended with City qualifying after winning 1-0 at home before the two teams drew 0-0 in Madrid.
The Argentinian said, "Sometimes, people who know the use of vocabulary and who are intelligent, can praise you scornfully. But we who do not know the use of vocabulary well, are not stupid either."

Guadiola said after the first match in Manchester last week, "Prehistory, today and after a hundred thousand years, the attack against (the lineup) 5-5 - (zero) is very difficult," in criticism of Simeone's excessive defensive style.
"He can play the way he wants, all I said is that it is very difficult to play against them," Guardiola insisted, adding, "I have always respected this institution and this team, and I wouldn't dare attack this team. When a team knows how to defend unlike Any other team in the world, it's difficult."

None of the coaches commented on the players' behavior during the match and in the tunnel leading to the dressing rooms.
"I didn't see what happened," the Argentine said. "I was on the pitch clapping and cheering the fans. By the time I entered, there was no one there."
The police entered the tunnel after the final whistle, as the quarrels continued between the players, as video footage showed Montenegrin Stefan Savic, the Atletico player, shouting at Jack Grealish, the City winger, while the players were forced to prevent the Croatian, Shemy Versalico, from confronting Kyle Walker. Versalico seemed to spit in the tunnel in Walker's direction. The European Football Association (UEFA) has not yet announced whether it will open an investigation into the incidents.
The Brazilian Felipe was sent off in stoppage time after an intervention on Phil Foden, knowing that the latter was wearing a bandage on his head due to a previous intervention from the same player, which led to the players of the two teams entering into a fight in the final minutes of the match.
Atletico felt the City players were wasting time.

Spanish-French defender Aymeric Laporte replied, "I don't know if we were wasting time or if they got themselves into stupid clashes. We know who they are and what they did previously."
While Atletico captain Koke considered, "We receive a lot of criticism because of these things. So let's see what people think today. You saw what happened, so let's see your opinions."
City will meet in the semi-finals with another side from Madrid, this time Real, the record holder in the number of championship titles (13), while Liverpool will meet Villarreal in a purely English-Spanish match in the Golden Square.

Prachuap Khiri Khan ( Thailand ) - (AFP) - Rescue teams recovered six bodies and found a survivor two days after a warship sank in the Gulf of Thailand, the Thai navy announced Tuesday.
And rescued 76 marines who were on board the ship Sukhothai, which sank on Sunday evening at a distance of 37 km off the coast of southeastern Thailand.

And 23 crew members are still missing, according to a spokesman.

Search and rescue efforts continued on Tuesday, with the participation of helicopters, two planes and four Navy ships.

After announcing the recovery of the bodies of four men, the Navy confirmed the death toll had risen to six.

"We will continue our efforts until the end of the mission and the return of our personnel," said Chief of Staff of the Royal Thai Navy, Choengchai Chomchongpet, at a press conference in Bangkok.

The Sukhothai had additional personnel on board as it was on its way to participate in a ceremony commemorating the founder of the navy, according to Chungchai, who admitted that the number of life jackets on board was not enough.

For his part, Admiral Chunlathi Navanoograha said the incident was "one of the worst tragedies" in the history of the navy.

The ship was sailing in rough seas and encountered problems after its electronic system failed and water leaked into the cabin.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - Today, Saturday, the occupation forces arrested three children from the village of Sinjil, northeast of Ramallah.

Security sources said that the occupation forces arrested Alaa Haitham Asfour (11 years), Muhammad Thaer Ghafri (13 years) and Youssef Ahmed Asfour (13 years), after they raided and searched their families' homes at dawn.

Written by: Dr. Abdullah Abu Eid

Introduction: The Palestinian Foreign Minister announced a few days ago that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had submitted to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague an integrated file related to the investigation conducted by the Palestinian Prosecutor in the case of the assassination of the martyr journalist Sherine Abu Aqleh, with all the evidence confirming the involvement of the occupying state and some of its officials in the murder. committing that crime.

In this article, I will try to shed light on the possibility of accepting the Public Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to conduct an international investigation into the case directly, or by assigning a specialized international committee to do so, all in light of the legal rules related to the court and its terms of reference contained in the texts The Statute of the International Criminal Court, and the well-known positions of the Court’s Prosecutor, Karim Khan, especially since about a year has passed since he assumed his job at the Court without moving a finger in the cases brought against Israel by the State of Palestine several years ago after the pre-trial chamber decided The Pre-trial Chamber, that the court has jurisdiction to consider all serious crimes committed in the three regions of Palestine, namely: the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem, since early 2021.

What can we expect from the Public Prosecutor of the Court regarding the procedures related to the case of the assassination of martyr Sherine Abu Aqleh:

We will shed light on the procedures that can be expected from the Public Prosecutor of the Court in response to the request submitted by the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs requesting the Public Prosecutor to start an investigation related to the murder of martyr Sherine Abu Aqleh.

Before starting to list what can be expected from the Public Prosecutor, we must refer to some legal provisions related to the court’s jurisdiction and how to act in such a situation, which are contained in the Court’s Statute and are beneficial to the Public Prosecutor and the Court, and these can be summarized as follows:

First: Perhaps the most important thing to start with is pointing out that Public Prosecutor Karim Khan assumed his job since the summer of last year 2021, as a public prosecutor of the Criminal Court, that is, since July 2021, but during that year he did not take any action in the cases submitted to the court. from the State of Palestine several years ago, rather ignoring it as if it did not exist, despite the fact that the former Public Prosecutor of the Court, Fatou Bensouda, had advanced quite a bit in those cases after obtaining the green light from the pre-trial circuit, as well as We referred to it above. There is no doubt that all of this can be considered an indication from which we can deduce what will be the position of Attorney General Karim Khan regarding the new request recently submitted by the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Second: The preamble and first article of the Court’s statute provide for the following important legal rules:

1) The jurisdiction of the court is considered complementary to the jurisdiction of national courts.

2) The Court considers only the most serious crimes that are of international concern. (Articles 1 and 5 of the Basic Law)

3) The court only considers crimes attributed to natural persons and not to states or national, regional and international organizations. (Article 1 and Article 25 of the Statute of the Court)

4) The Court may decide that a case is inadmissible where a State is investigating or prosecuting the case, unless that State is genuinely unwilling or unable to undertake the investigation or prosecution. (paragraph 1 of Article 17)

5) The statute of the court stipulates that the trial does not take place without the presence of the accused in person before the court, and this may encourage Israel not to hand over the accused or the accused to the court, so that the trial does not take place. (Article 63 of the Basic Law).

Therefore, Israel can start a formal investigation claiming that it was late in the investigation until it is sure of the accuracy and validity of the facts and events, thus providing the public prosecutor with an argument and a reason to dismiss the case and refer the matter to Israel to start investigation work, even though the Israeli public prosecutor had officially announced Unwillingness to start an investigation, however, he had announced that he is refraining from the investigation at the present time, in implementation of a decision issued by the Israeli Supreme Court, as a way out to postpone the investigation, a position that is considered a circumvention of the provisions of the Statute of the Criminal Court, and an indication of cunning and deception.

Likewise, the public prosecutor can find other justifications, among those mentioned above, to refuse to open an investigation into the crime, for example, to consider that the killing of one citizen is not considered among the most serious crimes and the most threatening to international peace and security, according to the provisions of Articles 1 and 5 of the law. basic, mentioned above.

The public prosecutor can also claim that any case submitted to the court must include the name of the accused person, his rank, and the names of the official or officials who ordered him to commit the crime or incited him and helped him to commit it. Therefore, he can return the case to the Palestinian Authority, asking it to mention the aforementioned parties, claiming That he cannot investigate such a crime and that the State of Israel is competent to do so, bearing in mind that the State of Palestine, i.e. the state in whose territory the crime occurred, is primarily competent to conduct the investigation of this crime, but the State of Palestine can claim that its territory in which it occurred The acts constituting the crime, it is an occupied territory, and it is unable to conduct the investigation, so it requests that it be conducted by the Public Prosecutor or his representative, or the formation of an international committee to conduct it.

It should be noted here that the State of Palestine has the right to raise its inability to conduct a sound and reasonable investigation that would enable it to know the soldier who took it to know the soldier who fired the bullet that killed the martyr Sherine Abu Aqleh, because it has no control over the situation, and because Israel is an occupying country. The armed force controls the occupied territory and many elements of sovereignty in the territory, which makes the Palestinian Authority and the public prosecutor in Palestine unable to conduct an investigation with any Israeli soldier or employee, so it submits the aforementioned request to the court so that the public prosecutor takes the necessary measures for the investigation In the subject.

Conclusion:

For all the reasons mentioned above, I highly doubt that Attorney General Karim Khan will fulfill the Palestinian request. Rather, it is very likely that he will find one or more arguments to justify his refusal to answer the Palestinian request, and that he will transfer the request to Israel, asking it to conduct the investigation within a specified period ( two or three months, for example).

In addition, there is a possibility that the Palestinian Authority’s request would be rejected, claiming that the killing did not rise to its consideration as “one of the most serious crimes of international concern” as stipulated in Articles 1 and 5 of the Statute of the Court, which is the most likely possibility in my opinion, because of what is known The public prosecutor is biased in favor of some colonial countries, meaning that he is expected to act in accordance with the political pressure exerted on him by some major countries, such as the United States, or from some lobbies with international influence, and this is considered a great possibility.

Nablus - "Jerusalem" dot com - Ghassan Al-Katout - Today, Wednesday, settlers attacked agricultural land and stole agricultural equipment from it in the town of Burqa, northwest of Nablus.

The citizen, Iyad Ahmed Amin Hajji, reported that a group of settlers attacked his land near the Al-Masoudia checkpoint, uprooted the fence and iron stakes and stole them.

They also attacked and smashed a mobile room on the ground, and stole quantities of fences and stakes that he was preparing to use from inside the room, in addition to the air conditioner, and fled in their vehicles upon the arrival of the citizens.

Hajji confirmed that this is the third attack carried out by settlers against his land within two weeks, and in a previous attack they stole solar panels, which caused him heavy losses.

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المراقب للأحداث في الاراضي الفلسطينية المحتلة، بل في دولة فلسطين الرازحة تحت الاحتلال، يرى بوضوح ان دولة الاحتلال تستهدف من بين ما تستهدفه في الجرائم التي ترتكبها ضد شعبنا وأرضه وممتلكاته ومقدساته، الأسرى المحررين. الى جانب الاسرى في داخل سجون الاحتلال التي هي عبارة عن سجون اكياس حجرية، أسوأ من سجن الباستيل في عصور الظلام.

فمن يتابع الاحداث والتطورات يلاحظ ان معظم الشهداء الذين استهدفتهم دولة الاحتلال ممثلة بقواتها العسكرية وقطعان المستوطنين هم من الاسرى المحررين.

فأمس على سبيل المثال استشهد شاب من يعبد متأثراً بجراحه التي أصيب بها قبل ايام لدى اقتحام قوات الاحتلال لبلدة يعبد، وهو الشهيد سميح عمارنة من الاسرى المحررين، كما استهدفت دولة الاحتلال قبل ايام معدودة ايضاً الصحفية وراسنة وهي ايضاً اسيرة محررة وكذلك الاسير المحرر ايمن محيسن من مخيم الدهيشة الى جانب الاسير المحرر داود الزبيدي من مخيم جنين، وغير الكثير من الاسرى المحررين الذين لا يتسع المجال لذكرهم في هذه العجالة.

وهذا يعني بكل وضوح ان جميع الاسرى المحررين هم هدف لقوات وقطعان المستوطنين، وكأن الأمر هو عبارة عن انتقام من هؤلاء الذين تم أسرهم ومن ثم تحررهم بعد ان امضوا سنوات في غياهب سجون الاحتلال.

وهذا الامر الذي يتطلب من الاسرى المحررين اتخاذ كافة اجراءات الحيطة والحذر، فقوات الاحتلال وقطعان المستوطنين وبالتعاون مع الجهات الامنية والمخابرات الاحتلالية تضعهم في مقدمة المستهدفين.

واذا ما أضفنا الى ذلك معانيات الاسرى داخل سجون الاحتلال جراء الاهمال الطبي وسوء الاحوال المعيشية داخل هذه السجون التي تفتقر لأبسط مقومات الحياة.

فهذه المعانيات وكذلك اعتداءات قوات السجون وعزل الاسرى وغيرها من الممارسات التي تتعارض مع القوانين والاعراف الدولية، ادت الى استشهاد عشرات الاسرى داخل وخارج السجون، خاصة الذين كانوا يعانون من امراض مزمنة وترفض سلطات الاحتلال تقديم العلاجات اللازمة لهم.

وأسطع دليل على ذلك رفض دولة الاحتلال اجراء عملية جراحية للأسيرة المصابة اسراء جعابيص، رغم التقارير الطبية التي تؤكد ان عدم اجراء عملية جراحية لها ستؤثر على حياتها وتعرضها للخطر.
فأي دولة هذه التي تستهدف الجرحى والمحررين والاسرى، ورغم ذلك فإن أسرانا ثابتين على مواقفهم، ولن تستطيع جميع اجراءات الاحتلال النيل من عزيمتهم وصمودهم وايمانهم بقضية شعبهم.