Khimki - (AFP) - American basketball player Brittney Griner said during her trial on Wednesday that she did not intend to smuggle drugs into Russia, and that she came to the country despite warnings from the United States not to let her Russian team down.

Greiner, a player for the Phoenix Mercury team, has been imprisoned since her arrival at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport in February, when, according to the indictment, she was arrested with electronic cigarette packets filled with cannabis oil.

The Greiner case falls within the context of intense tensions between Moscow and Washington over the conflict in Ukraine, and many observers believe that Russia is exploiting this issue in order to reach a future prisoner exchange with the United States.

The player had arrived in Russia in order to play during the American League's downtime, which is a common practice for female basketball players who sometimes earn more abroad than at home.

During the trial on Wednesday, Greiner, who is two meters and six centimeters tall, said she still did not know how the canisters ended up in her bag.

"I did not think or plan to bring banned substances into Russia. I did not intend to break Russian law," she said, noting that she "was in a rush to pack for travel" and that she had "no intention of using" a banned substance in Russia.

"I will not do anything that would harm my team," she added.
On July 7, Greener pleaded guilty and faces up to 10 years in a Russian prison.
The 31-year-old said she received permission from an American doctor to use medical cannabis to relieve pain from her many injuries, "from the spine to the cartilage".

"I was in a wheelchair for four months. I sprained my ankle," she said, noting that she used medical cannabis "only during rest periods and when there are no competitions (...) It helps me a lot."

Greener said she did not want to use other painkillers because they had "bad side effects".

She confirmed that she had arrived in Russia, although the US authorities had recommended not to travel to Moscow, and said that she would "never risk" the tournament.

And she added, "My career is my whole life. I dedicated everything, my body, and my time away from my family. I played with injuries. There is nothing I wouldn't do for my career."

Translation by "Jerusalem" dot com - The Israeli Central Court in Jerusalem ruled, on Tuesday evening, that the Palestinian Authority should pay financial compensation to the families of dead Israelis.

According to the Hebrew Walla website, the authority will pay 130 million shekels to the families of 34 people killed in operations carried out during the years of the Intifada.

The site indicated that this decision was taken after the Israeli Supreme Court ruled two months ago that the Palestinian Authority's payment of money to Palestinian prisoners and their families constitutes confirmation of the "terrorist attacks they carried out", and therefore the authority can be prosecuted and financial compensation can be claimed.

Jerusalem - "Jerusalem" dot com - In a democratic atmosphere that reflects the concepts and culture of the Jerusalem Electricity Company and its endeavor to enhance communication with its crews and employees, the elections for the Council of the Employees and Workers Union of the Jerusalem Electricity Company took place on Monday, with a wide participation of employees in all branches.

And after conducting the voting and polling process at the company’s headquarters amid administrative control over the conduct of the elections, which took place with all responsibility and care, and after counting the votes of the employees and the workers, the results were announced in a democratic and fraternal atmosphere that represented the culture of the employees. The Palestinian National Liberation Movement Fatah held elections for the employees and workers union of the company, which took place with wide participation of the company's employees, in an annual democratic procedure.

The Jerusalem Electricity Company confirms through the elections that it aims to preserve the freedom to choose the employees who represent them. The elections were launched with two lists competing, in which the Fatah movement won 6 seats, and 3 for the workers’ assembly. Jawad Al-Dibs, Zuhair Al-Zaanin, Murad Al-Najjar, Abdel-Salam Al-Dajani, Alaa Al-Arnaqout and Fouad Sobh.

After the announcement of the elections, the Fatah movement, through the words of the director of international relations in the company, Firas Jubran, dedicated its victory in the elections to the spirit of the martyr Yasser Arafat and the martyrs, prisoners and wounded of Palestine.

Damascus - "Al Quds" dot com - 3 Syrian soldiers were killed and several others were wounded, this evening, Sunday, as a result of Israeli war raids, which were launched simultaneously on Syrian targets in the capital, Damascus, and Tartous, west of the country.

According to the same sources, violent explosions were heard in Damascus and Tartous as a result of the raids launched by the Israeli army .

The official news agency, SANA, said that the air defenses intercepted those missiles over the area.

According to a Syrian military source, the bombing targeted many points and targets in the Damascus countryside and south of Tartous, indicating that the aggression killed 3 soldiers and wounded several others.

On the other hand, sources from the opposition stated that there are a number of other dead people from armed groups affiliated with Iran.

Moscow - (AFP) - The Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed Thursday that talks for a prisoner exchange had taken place between Russia and the United States , but said that "no agreement has been reached yet," after Washington announced that it had made a "substantive offer" in Moscow.

A spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said in a statement that the negotiations "are being conducted by the relevant authorities. No practical result has been achieved so far."

She added that Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin had ordered talks to exchange prisoners, explaining that this issue had been constantly raised since their summit in June 2021 in Geneva.

And US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said on Wednesday that he would talk "in the coming days" with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, to discuss an American offer to reach the release of Americans in Moscow.

"I intend to raise a cause that is our priority: the liberation of Paul Whelan and Brittney Grainer, who are wrongly arrested and who should be allowed to return to their country," Blinken said.

He added, "We made an offer weeks ago to facilitate the release" of the American detainees, noting that "our government communicated repeatedly and directly about this proposal, and I will take advantage of the conversation to follow up personally."

And US media reported that it might be a matter of exchanging the two American prisoners for the Russian arms smuggler, Victor Bout, who was sentenced to 25 years in prison in the United States.

London, (AFP) - A large study conducted by the University of Oxford and published Wednesday found that the time spent playing video games had no consequences for their quality of life.

The study, which followed nearly 40,000 gamers over the age of 18 for six weeks, found little or no evidence of a causal relationship between video games and quality of life.

The researchers, whose study was published in the journal "The Royal Society", stated that "the average effects (video games) on the player's quality of life are likely to be very limited, whether positive or negative," noting that "more data is needed to identify potential risks." ".

The players were asked about their feelings in daily life, including their level of happiness, sadness, anger or frustration.

The researchers also drew on playtime data provided by the creators of seven video games, from simulation game Animal Crossing to open-world racing game The Crew 2.

The study noted that the consequences of video games, whether positive or negative, are only felt if the player spends more than ten hours playing daily.

These results contradict those of a study conducted by the same university in 2020, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, to the effect that playing video games may be beneficial for mental health, in contrast to this study, which indicates that there is no link.

It is regularly said that video games, especially those that are played online, affect the psychological health of players, and previous studies have criticized the impact of very long gaming sessions on young people.

"One thing is certain, and that is that there is not enough data and evidence at the moment to allow public authorities to pass laws and regulations aimed at restricting the playing of video games in certain groups of the population," said Matte Faure, who co-authored the new study.

TEHRAN, (Xinhua) -- Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi stressed on Wednesday that the language of coercion used by Washington does not work with Iran, and that Tehran will not back down from its "correct and logical positions," according to the Iranian presidency's website.

Raisi told a cabinet meeting that the US "maximum pressure" campaign had "failed miserably," advising Americans to "see the facts and learn from the past rather than repeat the failed experiment of applying maximum pressure on the Iranian nation."

Regarding the talks on reviving the 2015 nuclear deal , formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, Raisi said that the Americans said Iran should return to the agreement but the truth is that Iran never withdrew from the JCPOA, and it was the United States that broke it. the agreement.

Raisi touched on US President Joe Biden's visit to the Middle East, and stressed that the Islamic Republic is closely monitoring all regional developments, and has repeatedly warned that any action against Iran's territorial integrity will face a decisive response.

Gaza - “Jerusalem” dot com - Ahmed Al-Masharawi - About a week before the closing of the door for transfers of players in the sector league for the three divisions, excellent, first and second, specifically on the 21st of this month, transfer deals in clubs are in full swing in preparation for the start of the next Korean season 2022 -2023, which is scheduled to start on the ninth of next September, while the draw will take place on the 16th of this month, at the headquarters of the Football Association, announcing the start of a new season, most notably the Ma’an Youth Club succeeded in contracting with the players Khaled Abu Khadra, Moath Aslih, Ghaith Abu Nima and Mahmoud Abu Rope, Ahmed Al Bayouk, and Abdul Rahman Shaheen.

Shabab Maan recently promoted to the second division after being crowned champions of the third division last season, while Khan Yunis, who was relegated from the first division to the first division, contracted with distinguished striker Muhammad Abu Musa in a free transfer, to appear with him in the next season 2022-2023. Accompanied by the players Abdullah Shabeer and Ahmed Al-Akkawi.

Abdel-Ghani Al-Sheikh, president of Khan Yunis Club - one of the most prominent clubs in the governorate, said that these important deals come within the team's desire to return to the Premier League and present the best performances in the next season, to confirm the true position of this team, which produced a group of the best stars in the sector, and presented High levels in the leagues.

Al-Aqsa Sports Club had succeeded in signing midfielder Mohammed Al-Jaouni from Jabalia Youth Club to strengthen the team's ranks for the next season, as the team in turn aspires to win the First Division title, and compete to snatch one of the two promotion cards to the Premier Division.

And within the deals of the clubs promoted to the Premier League, the right-back, Muhammad Atallah, signed the statements of the Nuseirat Services Club to be among the team for the next season. Al-Nuseirat, accompanied by his neighbor Shabab Al-Zawaida, is racing to present the best performances in the Lights League, and to return to their previous era. It is noteworthy that Atallah signed for one season, coming from Al-Shatea Services. It is worth noting that Namaa Club, one of the clubs in the northern Gaza Strip, completed the largest contracting deals in Gaza and the North clubs, as it competes in the First Division in the summer transfers in preparation for the next football season 2022-2023.

The most prominent of which was the contract with the striker, Muhammad Al-Qadi, who came from the Rafah services. Namaa finished sixth in the first league in the last season, with 33 points.

Ramallah - " Jerusalem " dot com - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates warned the Israeli government, the international community, of the consequences of silence over the hijacking of Jerusalem and the attempts to impose Israeli sovereignty over it and the results and risks of this on the conflict arena and the chances of achieving peace.

In a statement today, Tuesday, the Foreign Ministry held direct responsibility for its Judaization campaigns in Jerusalem, stressing that there is no peace, security, or stability in the arena of conflict and the region without Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Palestine.

She said that the tendency to build more settlement units despite the opposition of the US administration is another new evidence of the arrogance of the occupation and its insistence on refusing to obey international law and resolutions of international legitimacy, and on its perseverance in rebelling against the signed agreements, and denying their existence.

The ministry condemned the continuous colonial expansionist occupation projects in occupied Jerusalem, and the accompanying launch of Israeli political positions and boasts of these projects as an integral part of the process of annexing Jerusalem and consolidating its unification as the capital of the occupying state, the last of which was what was stated by the Israeli minister during his inauguration of the so-called lighting project. The Biblical Garden, south of Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The Ministry also condemned the announcement of the so-called Planning and Building Committee of its intention to approve next week the construction of hundreds of new settlement units near the town of Beit Safafa, south of Jerusalem, with the support of the Israeli Minister of Interior, Ayelet Shaked, as part of the open occupation war on the Holy City with the aim of changing its reality. Its landmarks, its identity, its Judaization, and the submergence of its neighborhoods and towns in a huge settlement perimeter leads to its isolation from its Palestinian surroundings, and linking it to the Israeli depth.

And she continued, and this is accompanied by continuous daily targeting of Islamic and Christian sanctities, foremost of which is the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the imposition of more restrictions expelling the Palestinian presence in Jerusalem and deepening the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians, as is the case in the continuous aggression of the occupation on Palestinian educational institutions and the Palestinian curriculum.

She emphasized that the occupying state is exploiting its Talmudic narratives, occasions, holidays and religious sayings to achieve its colonial ambitions in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

The Ministry called on the UN Security Council to assume its legal and moral responsibilities in taking the necessary measures to implement the relevant UN resolutions, and to compel the occupying state to engage in a real political process that leads to ending the occupation of the land of the State of Palestine within a specific time frame.

بقلم: حمادة فراعنة

ثلاث صفعات سياسية وُجهت للمستعمرة الإسرائيلية من قبل الشعب الفلسطيني خلال هذه الانتفاضة النوعية المتقدمة، انتفاضة القدس خلال شهر رمضان ولازالت، وكادت تكون شاملة على كامل خارطة فلسطين.
أول هذه الصفعات كانت في القدس، ومن المقدسيين بشكل خاص، شاركهم في ذلك من وصل إلى المسجد الأقصى قبل يوم 10 أيار قبل ليلة القدر، للاعتكاف والصلاة والاعتصام، عبر خيار مدروس وممنهج لحماية القدس وحرمها القدسي الشريف.
لقد خطط قادة المستعمرة للاحتفال بـ”توحيد القدس” و”تحرير القدس” وأن تكون القدس “عاصمة موحدة” لمستعمرتهم، وفق التاريخ العبري، عبر مسيرة الرايات الإسرائيلية القادمة من كافة أماكن سكناهم ومستوطناتهم ليتجمعوا ويحتفلوا في القدس القديمة وساحات الحرم القدسي- المسجد الأقصى، بهدف التأكيد أن القدس لهم وعاصمتهم الموحدة.
وخطط الفلسطينيون لإحباط برنامج المستعمرة وإفشاله، وإظهار القدس الشرقية كما هي، ويجب أن تكون جزءا لا يتجزأ من خارطة دولة فلسطين، وأن سكانها جزء من الشعب العربي الفلسطيني، وهكذا أحبط الفلسطينيون برنامج حكومة المستعمرة وأفشلوه، وأظهروا رسالة للعالم أن القدس فلسطينية الإرادة والتاريخ والخيار والعزم والإيمان، فكانت ردة الفعل الإسرائيلية على هزيمتهم عنيفة شرسة همجية في اقتحام مصليات المسجد القبلي والمسجد المرواني ومسجد قبة الصخرة، بعنف لم يشهد مثله المسجد الأقصى.
وثاني الصفعات جاءتهم من غزة هاشم، غزة البطولة، غزة الصمود التي أعادت للشعب العربي الفلسطيني كرامته وهويته واستقلال قراره ومؤسسته التمثيلية منظمة التحرير الفلسطينية، حينما انطلقت الصواريخ متعددة الأوزان والأثقال التي هزمت معنويات الإسرائيليين، وقدمت لهم رسالة واضحة أن قوة ردع جيش الاحتلال وأجهزة المستعمرة الأمنية عجزت على توفير الأمن لهم في أغلب مساحات مناطق الاحتلال الأولى عام 1948.
هذه الصفعة الثانية دفعت لمزيد من الشراسة الإسرائيلية وأفقدت قدرات جيش المستعمرة المتفوق الذي عمل على تدمير غزة، وبناها التحتية من ماء وكهرباء وطرق وإسقاط الأبراج وهدم البيوت، وممارسة كل أنواع الجرائم بحق أهالي غزة للمرة الرابعة على التوالي 2008-2009، 2012، 2014، وهذه الرابعة 2021، ولكنه رغم الدمار فشل في اصطياد أي من قيادات فصائل المقاومة الفلسطينية رغم وصوله إلى القيادات الميدانية لأنها كانت على رأس عملها في إدارة المعركة من قبل حماس والجهاد.
أما الصفعة الثالثة لمجمل المشروع الاستعماري العنصري الإسرائيلي من فلسطينيي مناطق الاحتلال الأولى عام 1948، أبناء الجليل والمثلث والنقب والمدن المختلطة.
انتفضت المدن الفلسطينية الثمانية في مناطق 48: الناصرة، طمرة، سخنين، أم الفحم، كفر قاسم، راهط، دعماً وتأييداً لشعبهم في القدس، ورفضاً لسياسات المستعمرة الاحتلالية العنصرية، ولكن المفاجأة المذهلة أتت من فلسطينيي المدن المختلطة الخمسة: حيفا وعكا ويافا واللد والرملة ذات الأغلبية الإسرائيلية والأقلية الفلسطينية من سكانها، فقد سجلت مشاركتها الأولى في العمل الفلسطيني وفي النشاط المقاوم وفي الشراكة مع مختلف مكونات الشعب الفلسطيني في انتفاضة القدس، ودللت على فشل المشروع الاستعماري برمته استراتيجياً، من خلال عجزه على ترويض الفلسطينيين في مناطق 48 وبالذات لدى المدن المختلطة والعمل على تكييفهم مع الهوية الإسرائيلية، وتبديل أولوياتهم، وكانت النتيجة على عكس ذلك، فقد استفز قانون يهودية الدولة، والممارسات العنصرية، والتمييز الفاقع ضدهم، دفعتهم نحو الهوية الفلسطينية والقومية العربية وأنهم جزء من شعبهم الفلسطيني مهما تقادم الزمن، ومهما تمادى مشروع المستعمرة في التفوق أو النفوذ أو التوسع.
ثلاث لطمات سياسية وجهها شعب فلسطين في منطقتي الاحتلال الأولى عام 1948 والثانية عام 1967، سيكون لها ما بعدها من تداعيات ومواقف وإنجازات فلسطينية تراكمية متعددة المحطات وصولاً نحو زوال الاحتلال وهزيمته واندحاره.

Liverpool won the English Football Community Shield title, by defeating Manchester City 3-1 on Saturday evening, at the “King Power Stadium”.

Trent Alexander-Arnold (21), Mohamed Salah (83 penalty kicks) and Darwin Nunez (90 + 4) scored Liverpool's goals, compared to a goal scored by Julian Alvarez (70).

Liverpool started the match without any of its new players, as coach Jurgen Klopp relied on the same players he relied on last season, and Egyptian international Mohamed Salah led the team's attack alongside Roberto Firmino and Luis Diaz.

On the other hand, the Manchester City coach involved his new Norwegian striker, Erling Haaland, to play alongside Riyad Mahrez and Jack Grealish in the front line.

Liverpool started the match attacking, as captain Jordan Henderson passed a through ball to the Colombian Diaz on the right side, but City defender Robin Diaz stopped the latter's attempt in the third minute.

Salah almost opened the scoring in the fourth minute, when he skillfully overtook Joao Cancelo, before hitting the side netting from the outside.

Manchester City responded in the eighth minute, when Kevin De Bruyne picked up a rebound and hit it with his left hand, before it rebounded from Dutch defender Virgil van Dyck.

Alexander Arnold lifted a distinctive ball from the right, and Liverpool left-back Andy Robertson met it with his head, which did not find the way to the goal in the 14th minute.

Liverpool finally opened the scoring in the 21st minute, when the ball reached Salah, who turned it back to Arnold, so what was the last thing but to fire a court shot, which bounced off the far post and entered the goal.

Liverpool came close to scoring the second goal in the 26th minute, when Diaz's pass reached Firmino, who shot despite the harassment of City back Kyle Walker next to the goal.

Haaland was about to leave his first official match with City, when he got a pass from Bernardo Silva, and forcefully got rid of Robertson, before goalkeeper Adrian blocked his attempt in the 34th minute.

The remaining minutes of the first half passed, without real chances from both sides, until the last minute, when Adrian controlled Rodri's shot, City midfielder.

Adrian intervened again in the 47th minute, and saved a dangerous opportunity for Mahrez, who received a cunning pass from Rodri and hit a ball that hit the ground with his left hand, before the Spanish goalkeeper brilliantly removed it.

Guardiola realized that his team's attack needed to be strengthened on the wings, so he took out Grealish and Mahrez and involved Julian Alvarez and Phil Foden in their place.

Liverpool responded by involving Darwin Nunez in place of Firmino, and the Uruguayan striker almost scored a goal in the 64th minute, had it not been for the ingenuity of goalkeeper Ederson, who saved himself.

City finally managed to equalize in the 70th minute, when Foden received a pass from De Bruyne, and his attempt rebounded from goalkeeper Adrian, so that the ball would pass in front of Alvarez, who had no difficulty in depositing it, and the referee needed video technology in order to verify the validity of the goal.


But Liverpool returned to the air quickly, when the referee awarded him, with the help of video technology, a penalty kick, following a handball on Robin Diaz, and Salah executed the kick successfully in the 83rd minute.

Four minutes later, substitute James Milner lifted a ball from the right, which Nunez met with a header that settled next to the far post.

But Nunez managed to compensate in the fourth minute of stoppage time, when Salah lifted a ball from the right, Robertson met it with his head, hitting the Uruguayan striker with a close header in the net.

Halland hit Liverpool's crossbar in the seventh minute of stoppage time, after he followed a ball that was saved by goalkeeper Adrian.

Jenin - "Jerusalem" dot com - Ali Samoudi - Throughout her life, the forty-year-old mother, Hana Hisham, will not forget the moments of pain and excruciating shock that she experienced when she received the news of her firstborn's injury and the most beloved people to her heart, Muhammad Hisham Youssef Abu Naasa, on the morning of last Wednesday, which she considers to be black days. her age.

The grieving mother often shed tears for the martyrs who fell during the Israeli aggression on the camp recently, until she joined their mothers, and collapsed in grief when she saw Muhammad a martyr shot by the occupation, which deprived her of the pleasure of her liver, and turned her grandson Adam and Taleen into orphans.

On that day, Muhammad left his home early for his regular place of work in the municipality of Jenin, then returned, carried on his shoulders, to be the fourth martyr of Jenin, and the witness victim to the non-stop crimes of the occupation.

Before speaking to "Al Quds" dot com, Umm Muhammad long hugged Adam, 4 years old, and Taleen, 2 and a half years old. They are now the most beloved to her heart, because they are "from the scent of Muhammad... He only left me with his wife and two children, and may God give us all patience... What is the fault of my grandchildren so that they may live?" orphans, and the beginning of their life towards the graves. as you say.

She added, "My son was not armed and did not participate in the confrontations. He was returning from work to his home, and he did not pose any threat to the security of the occupation.. So why did they kill him in cold blood?!".

The refugee, Hana, remembers the moments of that morning when she, like the rest of the residents of Jenin camp, woke up to the sound of bullets and explosions, the sound of patrols and the roar of planes. Then came the difficult moments, when the symbolic marches of the first two martyrs began in the streets of the camp, where the mother, Abu Naisa, stood at the gate of her house at the main entrance. The camp follows the marches and funerals, crying heartbreak over them, but even in the worst nightmares of her life, she did not expect to see her firstborn and the beloved of her heart like them after less than an hour.

The mother says: "When the march passed in front of our house, I was crying and saying: May God give patience to the hearts of their mothers; suddenly my phone rang repeatedly and everyone was asking me what is in your house," indicating that his son Muhammad left his job from the municipality headquarters, after the start of the occupation operation, However, he was unable to reach the camp due to the spread of the occupation and the intensity of the shooting.

In those moments, Muhammad was wounded by the bullets of the occupation, and upon his transfer to the hospital, he announced his death, so feelings of resentment and anger against the occupation increased, and soon activists on the communication networks published the last phrase written by the martyr on his Facebook page on the morning of his martyrdom, in which he wrote: “In Every morning I say, O Lord, honor me, if it is not because I deserve it, because you are generous.” His cousin Nidal said, “The Lord of the Worlds answered him and answered the call, and honored him with martyrdom.”

In the meantime, before announcing his martyrdom in the mosques of the city, and within a few minutes, the mother, Umm Muhammad, received several calls with conflicting information, to live feelings of terror as she searched for the truth, while her fiftieth husband, Hisham, who works in the occupied interior, was continuing his work normally, and he says : "I heard the news of the raid, so I sent Muhammad a voice message to check on him, and he answered the same, so he informed me that he was at his friend's house, and he could not enter the camp, so I asked him to stay, and not to return before making sure that the occupation forces had left.. Minutes later, the calls on my phone did not stop, and I knew that My son was martyred, so I quickly returned to Jenin, trying all the way to contact his phone, which was answered by saying that it was switched off.”

Abu Naasa explains, quoting eyewitnesses, that with the continuation of the Israeli operation, Muhammad left Jenin and headed to the camp from Haifa Street leading to the Al-Zahraa neighborhood after he heard of the occupation’s withdrawal, but he saw several patrols on the way, so he went to nearby shops located in the area, and hid like the rest of the citizens because of the occupation. He was shot in the head even though he was hiding. After he was taken to the hospital, he was killed instantly.

At that time, the mother, "Hanaa", was still living a terrible spiral in light of the conflicting news, so she unleashed her feet as she ran towards the hospital to search for her beloved among the wounded and in the departments, and she says: "I felt that my soul suffocated while hearing many stories about the fate of my son." So I ran without thinking except to reach him and check on him, and before I could rejoice when I did not find him among the martyrs, my heart collapsed when I saw him as a martyr in the other room.

Hana and her family rebelled against the pain and pain, and hugged her daughter-in-law and two children when the body of her son was brought for his funeral, and insisted on saying goodbye to him with ululation, and she says in her simple language: “I bid him farewell with thanks to God, and I said to him, praise be to God that you are a hero, greet the Messenger, peace be upon him .. My Lord is pleased with you, and accepts you .. I am proud and sad, and I feel that I am in the midst of a dream waiting for someone to wake me up, but congratulations to Muhammad, the martyrdom, as he wished for it from a long time ago, and he obtained it because he deserved it.

As for the father, who was preoccupied with alleviating the pain of his family, he said: "The Lord of the Two Years is the one who chooses the martyrs, and I am very proud of my son, and we have not and will not be afraid of the threats of the occupation, so if the dear departed, there is no regret for the cheap."

Martyr Abu Naasa is considered the first child of his family consisting of 5 members, as he grew up and learned in Jenin camp schools until he finished high school, then joined Al-Quds Open University, and graduated two years ago with a Bachelor’s degree in Education. He is the closest of my sons to me. I am social and people share their joys and occasions.”

She added: "He relied on himself throughout his life, and he was self-taught, working and studying, and he got married because he relied on his work. He used to apply for education every year, but he was not lucky with a job, and a while ago he became a worker in the municipality of Jenin until his death, and he always talked about dreams and a beautiful future for his two children." But the Lord of the Worlds chose him as a martyr.”

Gaza-Mohammed Hajjaj/ The Palestinian national bodybuilding team players won seven colored medals in the "Mr. Universal" international championship, which is currently being held in Lebanon, in which 350 players from 17 different countries participate.

The veteran Palestinian champion, Suhail Al-Asaad, won two gold medals, and first place in the "Classic" category and "Classic Physique" in the Masters category.

The champion, Haitham Al-Barbar, also grabbed the "Physics" gold for men, and won the silver for the junior category. He also got the international professional card. And the third place was "Overall".

The champion, Ahmed Al-Siqly, won the silver medal in the "Classic" category for men.

The champion, Moataz Abdel Bari, won the bronze “classic” and the fifth place, the classic “Physical Masters”, and the champion Khaled Atout won the fourth place in his category, and the two champions: Ahmed Al-Alami and Mustafa Awida ranked fifth, each in reviewing the competitions of his category.

The Palestinian Federation, represented by its champions, its board of directors, referees and coaches, dedicated this great victory and honorable achievement to the souls of the martyrs of the recent brutal aggression against the homeland. The Board of Directors also extended all thanks and appreciation to the supervisors for sponsoring and supporting this mission, which achieved honorable results.

On Monday evening, in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, the draw for the King Salman Cup for Clubs 2023 was drawn.

The Palestinian football representative will play Shabab Al-Khalil Club in the first round of the tournament, in a balanced match against the Omani club Al-Nahda.

The draw was attended by the President of the Arab Football Association, Prince Abdulaziz bin Turki Al-Faisal, members of the Federation Council, heads and representatives of Arab federations and clubs, with the participation of former Arab stars Majid Abdullah, Hammoud Sultan, Khaled Badra, Essam Al-Hadary, Imad Al-Hosani, Muhammad Nour and Zuhair Bakhit, with the participation of the Chairman of the Organizing Committee Abdullah. Al-Junaibi, and the Assistant Secretary-General of the Arab Union, Mubarak Al-Dhafyan.

The results of the first round draw are as follows:

Saudi Youth and the Iraqi Air Force

Tunisian Sfaxien and Qatari Qatar

The Lebanese Tower and the Emirati Unity

The Omani renaissance and the Palestinian youth of Hebron

Bahraini Muharraq and Omani Seeb

Mauritanian Nawadibu and the Jordanian youth of Jordan

The Royal Moroccan Army and the Libyan Union

- Sudanese Mars and Syrian Tishreen

The Sudanese Crescent and the Bahraini Manama

Vanguards of the Egyptian army and the Libyan people of Tripoli

- Fahmane Al-Yamani and the Tunisian Monastir Union

- Kuwaiti Kuwait and the Algerian youth of Saoura

The draw for the second round (groups) was as follows:

Group A: Tunisian Esperance, Saudi Al Ittihad, Q3, Iraqi Police.

Group B: Qatari Al Sadd, Moroccan Wydad, Q4, Saudi Al Hilal.

Group C: Egyptian Zamalek, Q5, Saudi Al-Nasr, Q2

Group D: Algerian Belouizdad Youth, Moroccan Raja, Q1, Q6

Al-Faisal chaired the 76th meeting of the Federation Council, this evening in Riyadh, in the presence of the members of the Council, during which the technical, administrative and financial report of the Secretary-General was approved, and the King Salman Cup preparations for clubs were reviewed, in addition to reviewing and approving the Arab Federation’s agenda and competitions for the year 2023, and setting the date for the next general assembly. for the union

Bethlehem - "Jerusalem" dot com - Najeeb Farraj - The young man, Aysar Essam Al-Hasanat, a resident of the Dheisheh refugee camp, ranked first in the Tawjihi in the scientific branch of the Bethlehem governorate, with a score of 99.4%, which was an expected result, according to his father, Essam, who explained that The sign was not surprising, and since he was young, he was distinguished for his superiority, and he was characterized by calmness, accuracy, and follow-up of what was going on around him.

other talents

Acer is also distinguished by the fact that he used to practice other identities, as he did not attend himself in the closed academic framework, as he knew the music in the “choir” group of the Creativity Foundation in Dheisheh camp, and he was also a member of the basketball team of the same institution, and he used to train in the team even when he was In the last academic year, he was able to organize the time to practice whatever he wanted without this interest or anything else affecting his educational career and his efforts during the Tawjihi.

native village

The roots of the young Aysar go back to the depopulated village of Deir Al-Dhabban, which is located between Hebron and Ramleh. There is no doubt that living in a refugee camp, as his father says, constitutes a challenge to prove existence and that the camp residents are capable of reaping achievements in all fields, just like the rest of our people who suffer greatly as a result. Repeated occupation attacks.

And he adds, “Aysir is one of the camp’s young men who are affected by the Nakba and who have other interests that reflect attitudes about what is going on around us. He adheres to the right of return and knows very well about his village, which he may be from its fourth generation. Being diligent in his studies also made him educated and informed about the events around him.” From the womb of suffering springs achievement and hope.

Studying medicine is the goal

Acer says that he intends to study human medicine as he has been a hobby since he was young, and he may have acquired this hobby and is looking forward to achieving it from the atmosphere of the foster family, as his father works in the field of medical radiology and his mother works in the field of nursing, and he will also continue his hobby in art and sports, all of which do not contradict each other.

He said that the feeling of this day is an indescribable feeling, and I hope that all students will find, strive and tire because this day deserves to be tired throughout the year, thanking his family and teachers at Bethlehem Secondary School for Boys who helped us reach these happy moments.

And about the possibility of a place to study, his father says that there is no specific place, whether here or abroad, or anywhere that would be available for this study, but it will certainly aim to serve our people.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Israeli occupation authorities released, this evening, Thursday, the administrative detainee, the cancer patient, Abdul Basit Maatan, from the town of Burqa in Ramallah.

The Captive Club stated that Maatan was released after he spent 6 months under administrative detention, indicating that during this period he faced the crime of medical negligence, which worsened his health condition.

It is noteworthy that Maatan was a former prisoner who spent a total of about 9 years.

Jerusalem - "Al Quds" dot com - A young man was killed, Monday morning, by gunfire at him by unknown assailants in Al-Eizariya , east of occupied Jerusalem.

And press sources reported that the dead young man was Abdulaziz Ghaith, and he was on a date with his engagement party today.

The police spokesman, Colonel Louay Arziqat, said that the police have started investigation and investigation procedures into the incident.

Jerusalem - "Al-Quds" dot com - Dozens of settlers stormed today, Wednesday, the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque , under the strict protection of the occupation police.

The settlers made provocative tours inside the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and performed Talmudic rituals.

Settler groups storm Al-Aqsa on a daily basis, except for Friday and Saturday.

Beirut, (AFP) - On Tuesday, a Turkish warplane targeted a Syrian army post in a border village in northern Syria , killing 11 people, it is not known whether they all belonged to the regime forces, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said, "It is not known whether all the dead were from the regime forces or from the Kurdish fighters who control the area," noting that the shelling came amid violent clashes that erupted at night between Turkish forces and Kurdish fighters west of the border city of Kobani.

Berlin - (AFP) - Germany called on Friday for the establishment at European airports of a "monitoring system" for possible new variants of Covid-19, which may be dangerous in the face of the high number of infections in China, and refused at this stage to impose negative examinations on those coming from this. Country.

At a time when many countries, including the United States, will impose negative results for the Covid-19 examinations on all arrivals from China, German Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach does not see the point of this at this stage.

"All the variants detected so far are already known," he told the press in Berlin.

On the other hand, the Social Democratic minister expressed his support for monitoring systems at European airports that allow for rapid detection of dangerous new variants. He stressed that "directed surveillance, for example, of some aircraft may play a useful role" in this direction.

And he considered that "it is important for Europe to act here in a coordinated manner," adding that he would speak with his French counterpart on Friday in this regard.

Beijing's sudden abandonment of its "zero Covid" policy this month, which is supposed to perpetuate the resumption of Chinese travel abroad, came at a time when the country was facing the largest epidemic wave in the world.

Several countries, including Italy, Spain, Japan, South Korea, Israel and the United States, decided to impose negative examinations on all travelers coming from China.

And the European Center for Disease Control and Prevention considered that a measure of this kind would be “unjustified” in the European Union. He said that he does not believe that the high number of infections in China will affect the epidemiological situation in the bloc, "given the higher population immunity within the countries of the European Union and the European Economic Area, in addition to the fact that variants currently circulating in China have previously appeared and subsequently changed."

Gaza - "Jerusalem" dot com - " Hamas " movement condemned, this evening, Friday, the occupation government, which it described as "fascist", imposing what it called "punitive measures" against our people and the Palestinian Authority , especially the theft of more of our people's allocated funds. For the families of martyrs and prisoners, and forbidding Palestinians from building on their land.

In a statement, Hamas considered this a crime and an encroachment against our natural rights, and an attempt to influence the UN decision to prosecute him before the International Court of Justice. As stated in the text of its statement.

Hamas called on the Palestinian Authority not to succumb to these threats and blackmail, to move forward in pursuing the occupation before international courts, and to strengthen the internal national front to confront the arrogance of the occupation and its fascist government, which persists in violating the rights of our people to their land and sanctities. According to her statement.

DHAKA - (Xinhua) - Bangladesh has been declared free of the dangerous pesticide Dichlorodiphenyl Trichloroethane, commonly known as DDT.

Bangladesh's Minister of Environment, Forestry and Climate Change, Muhammad Shahabuddin, announced this at a press conference on Sunday.

The press conference came after Bangladesh removed 500 tons of DDT from a medical sub-depot in Chattogram, about 242 km southeast of the capital, Dhaka, in December last year.
According to the organization

According to the World Health Organization, DDT is a persistent organic pollutant, a chemical that can have significant negative effects on both human health and the environment.

Bangladesh imported 500 metric tons (500,000 kg) of the pesticide in 1985 to control malaria-carrying mosquitoes. Upon arrival, she was placed in a government compound in the Agrabad district of Chattogram.

Over the years, many boxes and bags have fallen apart, leaving exposed piles of white DDT.

In 1991, Bangladesh imposed a ban on DDT, but the huge shipment remained.

Under a project titled "Reducing the Risks of Pesticides in Bangladesh", the toxic substance was completely exported to France for incineration, according to the ministry.

Paris - (AFP) - A few patients have benefited from the extraordinary opportunity of being cured of the HIV virus that causes AIDS , but these cases are too isolated to allow the development of treatments that would lead to a cure. Complete elimination of the virus.

"I never imagined that I would live long enough to be cured of HIV," said one of these patients, who was declared cured on Wednesday, ahead of the International AIDS Conference in Montreal.

This patient, who published a statement about his condition from inside a hospital in California where he was being treated without revealing his identity, is the fourth or fifth person to be cured of HIV, according to different censuses.

Therefore, these cases are very rare. These people must be distinguished from the millions of patients infected with AIDS but who can live to an average life expectancy thanks to the existence of effective treatments.

These treatments, called antiretrovirals, prevent HIV from multiplying in the body, but they do not eliminate it completely. However, in the few cases that have proven treatment, it is possible to talk about the disappearance of the virus.

The first of these healings dates back to 2008, to a person said to be from Berlin. The penultimate patient, who was declared cured a few months ago, was treated in New York.

But these patients all have a very specific joint condition. They were suffering from blood cancers and benefited from a stem cell transplant that rejuvenated their immune systems.

The patients who recovered were lucky, as the donors had in their cases a rare mutation in a gene called CCR5 that makes the immune system resistant to the main strains of the "HIV" virus.

In the most recent recovery reported so far, the patient from California underwent a bone marrow transplant in 2019. Two years later, he stopped taking antiretroviral drugs, as the HIV in his body became undetectable.

This case is very interesting because the 66-year-old man, who has been infected with HIV for more than thirty years, is the oldest patient to be declared cured. This shows that stem cell transplantation therapy can benefit relatively elderly people.

But this observation remains largely theoretical because it is unreasonable to generalize such treatment to patients with some types of cancer.

"For most people living with HIV, this is not an option," said infectious disease specialist Jana Decter, who treated this patient and will present his case at the Montreal conference, pending independent review of this scientific work and its publication in a scientific journal.

It is known that stem cell transplantation, which is done mostly through the bone marrow, is a heavy course with significant side effects.

"The first effect of a bone marrow transplant is to temporarily destroy the immune system," researcher Stephen Dix, an HIV specialist who was not involved in the work, told AFP.

He added that such a risk is "unthinkable for anyone who does not suffer from cancer."

Dix, who will present in Montreal important advances in the way HIV-infected cells are identified, said the California patient, like his predecessors, provides interesting clues for one day finding a treatment that would allow for a full recovery.

He pointed out that such a treatment could be based on the "CRISPR" technology, which is a method of genetic manipulation that is one of the great scientific achievements in recent years.
The idea is to directly modify the CCR5 genes of infected patients to make the body resistant to HIV.
"Theoretically, this is possible," he concluded, "but for now, this is science fiction."

Cairo, (AFP) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has appointed prominent banker Hassan Abdullah as acting governor of the Central Bank, succeeding Tarek Amer, who was appointed as an advisor to the president.

Egyptian presidential spokesman, Bassam Rady, announced in a brief statement on Thursday that Sisi had issued a "republican decision appointing Hassan Abdullah as acting governor of the Central Bank."

Rady added that Sisi met Abdullah and assured him of "the need to develop monetary policies to keep pace with global economic changes, and work to provide various sources of foreign currency resources."

Al-Sisi had announced, before Wednesday, Amer’s apology for continuing in his position, which was scheduled to end in his second term next year.

Amer assumed his position as Governor of the Central Bank of Egypt in October 2015, for a period of four years.

Until the issuance of his appointment decision, Abdullah held the position of president of the United Media Services Company, which controls a large stake in this field, whether in television, radio, or newspapers, leading to the production of drama and cinema.

Prior to that, Abdullah held the position of CEO of the Arab African African Bank in Egypt, and was previously appointed as a member of the Board of Directors of the Central Bank of Egypt , according to the website of the state-run Akhbar Al-Youm newspaper.

It is expected that the Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank will hold a meeting on Thursday to consider interest rates in light of the critical time the country is going through with regard to financial policies to try to control the rate of price rise on the one hand, after the annual inflation rate almost reached 15%, and try to provide Foreign exchange, on the other hand, as Egypt seeks to get out of the tunnel of the consequences of the Russian-Ukrainian war.

Under Amer, the local currency witnessed two waves of flotation against the US dollar in 2016 and last March, bringing the Egyptian pound to its lowest level in more than 5 years, as the price of the dollar recorded 19.10 pounds, according to Central Bank data.

Egypt is currently negotiating with the International Monetary Fund for a new loan to mitigate the repercussions of the war in Ukraine on the economy of the country, where the poverty rate reaches about 30% of the total population, which exceeds 103 million people.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - 4 prisoners in the Israeli occupation prisons continue their open hunger strike to demand their release.

Khalil Awadeh beats him in refusal of his administrative detention, as the occupation refuses to this day to respond to his demand.

Awawdeh (40 years), from the town of Ithna, Hebron district, entered his 157th day of strike, as he had been on strike for 111 days. his second.

The Captive Club confirmed in a statement that the prisoner Awadeh is facing death, in light of difficult health conditions that worsen with the passage of time.

Meanwhile, Sheikh Youssef Al-Baz (64 years old) continues his hunger strike for the seventh day in a row to protest his continued detention. He is still in Soroka Hospital, due to the deterioration of his health a few days ago.

Sheikh Al-Baz had escalated his strike by abstaining from water.

It is noteworthy that the occupation and its intelligence kept him in detention, despite a previous court decision to release him, and he began a hunger strike.

It is noteworthy that Sheikh Al-Baz is from the territories occupied in 1948. He is married and the father of six children. He is the imam of the Lod Grand Mosque, and the occupation had arrested him on April 30.

The two detained brothers, Ahmed and Adal Hussein Musa, from the town of Al-Khader / Bethlehem, have continued their hunger strike for 11 days, starting from the date of their arrest on August 7, 2022, in rejection of their administrative detention, as they are in the cells of “Ofer” prison. The occupation issued an order against Ahmed. Administrative detention for four months, and for Adal for a period of 3.

The Captive Club stated that the 44-year-old detainee, Ahmed, is a former prisoner, and in 2019 he carried out a hunger strike that lasted for 29 months, and ended with an agreement to release him. He is a patient who suffers from severe heart problems and has undergone several surgeries. Over the past years, he is married and the father of seven children.

Adal, 34, is a former prisoner who spent about seven years in the occupation prisons, including five years continuously. He is married and has two children.

DOHA - (Xinhua) - Qatar , today (Wednesday), reinstated the compulsory wearing of masks in closed public places, after it had canceled it last May, in conjunction with the high rate of daily infections with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) during the past weeks.

And the Qatari Council of Ministers decided, in its regular meeting today, to amend its previous decision to cancel the compulsory masks issued on May 18, to make it obligatory for citizens, residents and visitors to wear masks in closed public places, starting tomorrow (Thursday).

The Ministry of Public Health of the State of Qatar stated, in a statement on its website, that with the issuance of this decision, wearing masks has become compulsory for all individuals aged six years and over in closed public places, while only children under the age of six are excluded.

The statement indicated that the decision includes health care facilities, work sites, public transportation, mosques, gyms, shopping centers, stores, cinemas and any other closed public places.

He pointed out that this comes in light of the significant increase in the number of cases of Covid-19 infection in the past few weeks.

He stated that the fourth dose of the vaccine is currently available for people aged 50 years and over and patients who suffer from chronic diseases that increase the risk of severe complications from Covid-19 infection, regardless of the age groups of these patients.

And he indicated that the fourth dose is given to those who are most susceptible to infection, four months after they received the third dose of the vaccine or were exposed to infection.

In turn, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry announced the re-imposition of some restrictions within the framework of preventive measures to limit the spread of Covid-19, by making it compulsory to wear face masks for customers and workers when entering the sites of commercial activities and throughout their presence there, such as restaurants, cafes, popular markets, wholesale markets, beauty salons, exhibitions, conferences, events and entertainment centers. and health clubs.

With the increase in the number of infections, the Ministry of Public Health announced today the daily death toll from COVID-19, for the first time since last May, as it was satisfied with only announcing a weekly death toll on its website and accounts on social media.

During the past 24 hours, 698 confirmed cases of the disease were recorded, including 637 people within the community and 61 cases among returning travelers, with active cases reaching 5087 cases and 18 acute cases admitted to hospital, including one in intensive care, according to the ministry's website./ End the news/

Tehran - (AFP) - The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday condemned the absence of European "rationality" after the continental bloc and the United Kingdom imposed new sanctions on the Islamic Republic over the protests.

Since September 16, protests have erupted in Iran following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, three days after she was arrested by the morality police for not adhering to the strict dress code in the Islamic Republic.

Dozens of people, including members of the security forces, died on the sidelines of the protests, during which slogans were raised against the authorities, and officials considered a large part of them "riots." The judiciary charged more than 2,000 detainees in connection with the movements.

Several Western countries expressed their support for the protests, and imposed sanctions on officials and entities in Iran in response to what they consider the authorities' suppression of the movements.

On Monday, the European Union announced new sanctions against 29 Iranian officials, including Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi, and three entities, including the official English-language Press TV.

On Tuesday, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani condemned the new measures, considering them "a baseless, illegal and completely unacceptable measure."

He added, "It seems that the addiction to sanctions has isolated the rationality and seriousness of the European parties," stressing that these countries "are narrowing the scope of their interactions (with Iran) by adopting this wrong position."

With the new sanctions, the European Union's actions against the background of the protests in Iran now include 126 people and 11 entities.
On October 17, the continental bloc announced a series of restrictive steps that included the Iranian morality police and a number of officials, including Minister of Communications and Technology Issa Zarepour.

Kanaani stressed that Tehran "will take reciprocal and effective measures with wisdom and strength and based on national interests against such useless and constructive practices, and reserves the right to respond" to European and British sanctions.

The Islamic Republic has previously included, according to the principle of reciprocity, entities and individuals in the countries that have been imposed on it, on its black list of sanctions. The Iranian measures included banning the issuance of entry visas, banning travel, and freezing any assets and property in Iran.

Governorates - "Al-Quds" dot com - The Israeli occupation forces launched, at dawn and Monday morning, a campaign of arrests and large-scale raids in separate areas of the West Bank .

According to the prisoners’ affairs institutions, those forces arrested more than 42 citizens, in a wide campaign that affected dozens of citizens’ homes and subjected their residents to a field investigation, after storming separate camps, villages, towns, and neighborhoods in the West Bank.

Two young men were wounded by the occupation forces' bullets during clashes that erupted in Khallet al-Amud, east of Nablus, which also witnessed armed clashes.

The arrests were concentrated more in Hebron Governorate, in the south of the West Bank, and more than 25 citizens were arrested there.

The editor, Sheikh Muhammad Abu Arqoub, the editor Youssef Nassar, the editor Munther Zuna, the editor Ahmed Abu Sundus, the editor Imad Jadallah, Khader Al-Hroub, from the town of Dura, south of Hebron, the editor Sheikh Jamal Abu Al-Jadayel from Al-Samou’, the editor Issa Al-Amor, the editor Muhammad Al-Amor, and the editor Atef Rabaa, and Sheikh Khalil Rabei, Bader Idais from Yatta.

The editor Marwan Abu Fara, the editor Majdi Abu Fara, and the editor Khaled Ghuneimat, from Surif, north of Hebron, and the editor Rizq Al-Halayqa, the editor Ahmed Al-Halayqa, and Sheikh Ahmed Al-Abaida from the sheikhs were also arrested.

The editor Ibrahim Al-Sweiti, the editor Mahmoud Yasser Al-Masalmeh, the editor Mahmoud Issa Al-Masala from Beit Awwa, the editor Sheikh Badr Abu Iyas, the editor Muhammad Abu Awad, the editor Ahmed Abu Mariya, the editor Abdullah Abu Mariya from Beit Ummar, the editor Jihad Shalaldah, and the editor Raafat Shalaldah were arrested. And the editor, Islam Kawazbeh, and the editor, Muhammad Shalaleh, Zawadi Shalaldah, Hammam Shalaldah from Sa’ir.

In Nablus, Muhammad al-Banna, Basem al-Aghbar, and Mamoun Hanani were arrested.

In Bethlehem, the editor, Nidal Abu Aker, and Bassel Daamsa, from Dheisheh refugee camp, were arrested.

In Qalqilya, Sameh Samha, Laith Salim, and Alaa Fahim were arrested from the town of Jayyous.

In Ramallah, Thaer Al-Safi from Jalazoun camp, Hassoun Abu Salama from Jenin, and Muhammad Al-Hindi from Jerusalem were arrested.

TEHRAN, (Xinhua) -- Iran on Tuesday expressed strong condemnation of the new sanctions imposed by the European Union and Britain, vowing to take retaliatory measures.

In a statement posted on the Iranian Foreign Ministry's website, ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said Iran reserves the right to take retaliatory measures against such "failed policies" and will soon announce the new sanctions list against "violators of human rights and supporters of terrorism" in the European Union and Britain.

On Monday, the European Union imposed sanctions on more than 30 Iranian officials and organizations, including units of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, in connection with the response of these units to protests that erupted in the country recently. Britain and the United States imposed new sanctions on Iran on the same day.

The spokesman said that the step taken by the European Union and Britain indicates that they have failed to properly understand the Iranian reality, adding that the sanctions imposed by the European Union and Britain on members of the Iranian Parliament as well as judicial, military, police and cultural officials are signs of their "oppression, frustration and anger" because of their "utter failure". Recently in sowing unrest in the country despite their efforts and exorbitant costs.

He pointed out that "the sanctions will not affect the determination of the Iranian nation and its desire to confront foreign interference and conspiracies."

Protests erupted in Iran after the death of Mahsa Amini, 22, in a Tehran hospital on September 16, 2022, a few days after she collapsed in a police station.

Iran accuses the United States and some other Western countries of "inciting riots and supporting terrorists" in the country.

Written by: Dr. Dalal Saeb Erekat

The existing occupation is implementing a systematic settlement project. Settlement is a crime and is the source of human rights violations in Palestine. Settler violence is constantly increasing and causing danger to the lives of Palestinians. Rather, settler terrorism is systematically harvesting young martyrs under the protection of the occupation soldiers. Condemnations have become vulgar and useless, and from here we will present today a resolution Security Council 2334, which was adopted on December 23, 2016. The resolution is important because it condemns settlement activity and calls for stopping it in the occupied Palestinian territory. Where 14 members of the Security Council voted in favor of the resolution, while the United States alone abstained from voting and did not use the veto. This was considered a diplomatic success before Obama left the White House. The following is the text of the decision due to the importance of the details and the need to build on the provisions of the decision:

The Security Council, Recalling its relevant resolutions, including resolutions 242 (1967), 338 (1973), 446 (1979), 452 (1979), 465 (1980), 476 (1980), 478 (1980), 1397, (2002), 1515 (2003), and 1850 (2008), guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and reaffirming, inter alia, the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by force.

Reaffirming the applicability of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of August 12, 1949, to the Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem, and other Arab territories occupied since 1967, recalling the advisory opinion issued on July 9, 2004 by the Court of Justice, Justice International.

Reaffirming that all Israeli settlement activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, are illegal under international law and constitute a major obstacle to achieving peace on the basis of the two-State solution, and expressing grave concern that continued Israeli settlement activities endanger The feasibility of a two-state solution based on the 1967 borders.

Condemning all other measures aimed at changing the demographic composition, character and status of the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, including, inter alia, the construction and expansion of settlements, the transfer of Israeli settlers, the confiscation and de facto annexation of land, the demolition of homes and the forcible transfer of civilians Palestinians, in violation of international humanitarian law and relevant resolutions.

Recalling the commitment under the Quartet Road Map, endorsed by its resolution 1515 (2003), to Israel freezing all settlement activity, including “natural growth,” and dismantling all outposts established since March 2001, and condemning all acts of violence against civilians, , including acts of terrorism, as well as all acts of provocation, incitement and destruction. Reaffirming his vision of a region where two democratic states, Israel and Palestine, live side by side in peace within secure and recognized borders, Taking note of the Quartet’s statement of July 1, 2016, and emphasizing its recommendations as well as its recent statements, in which the Quartet expressed, among other things, its strong opposition to continued settlement activities, stresses that the status quo is unsustainable, and that there is an urgent need for significant steps, In line with the transitional phase stipulated in previous agreements, to achieve stability in the situation and reverse the negative trends on the ground, which lead to the steady erosion of the two-state solution and the consolidation of the reality of one state, and in order to advance the two-state solution on the ground and create the appropriate conditions for the success of the final status negotiations.

Taking note also of the relevant reports of the Secretary-General, and emphasizing the urgent need to achieve, without delay, an end to the Israeli occupation that began in 1967 and a just, comprehensive and lasting peace on the basis of relevant United Nations resolutions and the Madrid terms of reference, including the principle of land for exchange Peace, the Arab Peace Initiative and the Quartet Road Map:

1- Reaffirms that the Israeli settlements established in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, are illegal under international law and constitute a major obstacle to the achievement of the two-state solution and a just, lasting and comprehensive peace;

2- Reiterates its demand that Israel, the occupying Power, immediately and completely stop all settlement activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, including East Jerusalem, and fully respect all its legal obligations in this regard. 3- Confirms that it will not recognize any changes to the pre-1967 borders, including with regard to Jerusalem, except as agreed upon by the two parties.

4- Stresses that stopping all Israeli settlement activities is necessary to save the two-state solution, and calls for proven steps to be taken to reverse negative trends on the ground that endanger the two-state solution.

5- Affirms that all countries should not provide any assistance to Israel that is specifically used in settlement activities.

6- Calls for the prevention of all acts of violence against civilians, including acts of terrorism, as well as all acts of provocation, incitement and destruction, and calls for the accountability of all those responsible for the commission of all these illegal practices.

7- Calls on both parties to act on the basis of international law, including international humanitarian law, and their previous agreements and commitments, to remain calm and restrained, and to refrain from provocative actions, incitement and inflammatory rhetoric, with the aim of inter alia de-escalating the situation on the ground and rebuilding confidence Demonstrate, through policies and actions, sincere commitment to the two-state solution, and create the necessary conditions for the consolidation of peace.

8. Calls on all parties to continue, in the interest of promoting peace and security, to make collective efforts to launch credible negotiations on all final status issues in the Middle East peace process in accordance with the agreed terms of reference and within the timeframe set by the Quartet in its statement of September 21 2010.

9- Urges in this regard to intensify and accelerate international and regional diplomatic efforts aimed at achieving, without delay, an end to the Israeli occupation that began in 1967 and a just, lasting and comprehensive peace in the Middle East on the basis of the relevant United Nations resolutions, the Madrid terms of reference, including the principle of Land for peace, the Arab peace initiative and the road map, and points out in this regard the importance of the ongoing efforts to advance the Arab peace initiative, France's initiative to hold an international peace conference, the recent efforts of the Quartet, as well as the efforts of the Russian Federation and Egypt.

10- It affirms its determination to support the two parties during the negotiations and in the implementation of the agreement.

11- Reaffirms its determination to examine practical ways and means to ensure the full implementation of all its relevant decisions. 12- Requests the Secretary-General to submit a report to the Security Council every 3 months on the implementation of the provisions of the current resolution.

Yes, there are more than 100 Security Council resolutions and more than 800 General Assembly resolutions to protect Palestinian rights. The United Nations Human Rights Council has always called on member states to stop all commercial and economic activities in the settlements. He stressed that export and various commercial operations constitute a major source of income for the settlements and their expansion, and that the establishment of commercial relations by organizations and countries is prohibited by the state parties and negatively affects the humanitarian conditions in Palestine.

The occupation’s violations in their entirety, from settlement to displacement to land confiscation to field executions and deliberate killing of families, are all crimes that are committed deliberately, repeatedly and systematically with the aim of stripping the Palestinians of their most basic human and political rights. The international system must be called upon to review this decision and hold the occupying power accountable for its crimes. repetitive and systematic. Resolution 2334 is inclusive of rights, except for the right of refugees to return and compensation under Resolution 194. The Palestinians must confront settler terrorism in all ways that guarantee the right of peoples to defend themselves diplomatically, by building on Resolution 2334 and creating momentum to demand the Secretary-General and member states to implement the provisions of this resolution and fully implement it. The Palestinians should not accept more condemnations, denunciations, and verbal rejections that do not stop the crimes of the occupation, but rather provide cover for them through international silence and non-implementation of such decisions.

Dalal Erekat: Professor of Diplomacy and Strategic Planning, Faculty of Graduate Studies, Arab American University.