Kiev - (AFP) - Ukraine on Thursday reiterated its demand for Western allies to supply it with tanks and to "stop trembling in front of" Russian President Vladimir Putin , in light of the hesitation of some leaders who fear an escalation with Moscow.

On the other hand, the Kremlin warned Thursday that the delivery of long-range weapons to Ukraine by Western countries capable of targeting the depth of Russian territory would lead to a dangerous escalation in the armed conflict between Moscow and Kiev.

In the same context, the Ukrainian Ministers of Defense and Foreign Affairs, Olesky Reznikov and Dmytro Kuleba, issued in a joint statement, "an appeal to all partner countries that have previously provided military assistance or are studying this possibility, in which we call on them to greatly enhance their contribution."

In the statement, the two ministers mentioned 12 countries, including Turkey and Germany, that own Leopard tanks.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky criticized Germany's reluctance to supply Ukraine with heavy tanks of its own making.

"There are times when we should not hesitate or compare. As if someone says, 'I will give tanks if someone else does that'," Zelensky said via video link during a breakfast on the sidelines of the Davos Economic Forum in Switzerland.

During the visit of European Council President Charles Michel to Kiev on Thursday, Zelensky said, "The courage of our army and the impulsiveness of the Ukrainian people (...) in the face of thousands of tanks belonging to Russia are not enough."

Ukrainian presidential advisor Mykhailo Podolyak wrote on Twitter, "There are no taboos. From Washington to London, from Paris to Warsaw, they say one thing: Ukraine needs tanks. It is the key to ending the war. It's time to stop trembling in front of Putin and pass the last stage."

For his part, Michel stressed "the need to send tanks to Kiev."

The German Leopard tanks are among the modern heavy tanks of Western design that Kiev requires from its allies, and experts say that it will be decisive in the upcoming battles in eastern Ukraine.

The Ukrainian president was referring to media reports that Berlin would not give Ukraine heavy tanks unless the United States sent Abrams tanks.
However, Washington is not ready to provide Ukraine with these powerful combat tanks, as confirmed on Wednesday by a senior Pentagon official, justifying this refusal with issues related to maintenance and training, without ruling out a change in the US position in this regard in the future.

US Representative Gregory Mix indicated that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz hopes that the United States and Germany will send their tanks together to Ukraine. "It should be the United States and Germany (together), there is no doubt about that," he told AFP on Thursday.

On Friday, defense ministers and senior military officials of Western countries that provide military aid to Ukraine, as well as US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, will meet in Ramstein, Germany. This will be the third meeting of its kind.

On the other hand, Zelensky reiterated Thursday his intention to liberate all the territories that Russia controlled, including Crimea, which it annexed in 2014.

On Thursday, the British defense minister announced in Estonia that the UK would send Ukraine an additional 600 Brimstone missiles to help it counter the Russian invasion.

Sweden has decided to supply Ukraine with long-range, mobile and modern Archer guns that Kiev has been demanding for several months, Prime Minister Ulf Christerson announced.

Sweden, which since the start of the invasion of Ukraine has abandoned its doctrine of not delivering weapons to a country at war, will also send fifty CV-90 infantry fighting tanks, as well as portable anti-tank missiles, "NLo", according to what the government confirmed.

Denmark decided to give Ukraine 19 long-range French-made Caesar cannons, knowing that some of them had not yet been received by Copenhagen, according to what the government announced Thursday.

For its part, Russian forces, with the support of the armed Wagner Group, are redoubling their efforts to seize the city of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region, where bloody battles have been taking place for several months.

Russian forces made little progress on the ground, capturing much of the nearby town of Solidar.
In another context, Zelensky's statements in Davos come the day after a helicopter crash near Kiev killed Ukrainian Interior Minister Denis Monastyrsky and at least 13 other people.
In response to a question about whether the helicopter crash was an accident, Zelensky replied, "The investigation is underway. Several hypotheses are being studied, and I am not authorized to talk about any of them until the investigations are completed."

Kiev - (AFP) - Two Ukrainians were killed and nine others wounded Sunday, according to Kiev, despite Russian President Vladimir Putin's unilateral declaration of a ceasefire on the occasion of Orthodox Christmas.

On Sunday, the deputy head of the Ukrainian presidential administration, Kyrilo Tymoshenko, confirmed that one person was killed and eight others were wounded in the eastern Donetsk region during the past 24 hours as a result of the "Russian armed aggression."

Tymoshenko said that another person was killed in the northeastern Kharkiv region and another wounded in the southern Kherson region in the same period.
"Despite the so-called 'ceasefire' declared by the Russian occupiers, the enemy fired nine missiles, (carried out) three air strikes and launched 40 attacks from several missile launchers," the Ukrainian Defense Ministry said in a separate statement.

"Civilian infrastructure was particularly bombed," she added.

Putin had ordered a 36-hour ceasefire to allow Orthodox Christians to observe Christmas, which is celebrated on January 7 in Russia and Ukraine.

The unilateral ceasefire ended at 11:00 pm in Kiev (21:00 GMT) on Saturday.

Correspondents in Kiev and Agence France-Presse on the ground said there were no significant signs that the fighting had subsided on Saturday.

"After midnight, the enemy launched seven missile attacks on Kramatorsk and two on Kostyantinivka," Donetsk region governor Pavlo Kirilenko said.

On Saturday, the Russian Defense Ministry stressed that it respected the armistice, but confirmed that it had repelled a number of Ukrainian attacks and killed dozens of Ukrainian forces.

Ukraine rejected the truce, seeing it as a tactic by Russia to buy time and to regroup its forces and strengthen its defenses after a series of setbacks on the battlefield.

And the governor of the Luhansk region, Sergei Gaidai, announced that the Russians are redeploying forces from Bakhmut, the current center of fighting, to the city of Kremina.

"We expect an escalation in the fighting," he added, referring to the drop in temperatures.
"Our heavy equipment will finally be able to move forward faster," he said.

Moscow - (AFP) - The Kremlin announced on Saturday that Russian President Vladimir Putin had held talks with those responsible for the Russian military operation in Ukraine, which is targeting intensive Russian bombing of its territory.

The Kremlin said in a statement that "the president spent a full day on Friday at the headquarters of the forces participating in the special military operation" in Ukraine.

The head of the Russian state especially held a "meeting" there with the participation of Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov. He also held "separate meetings with the leaders" of the various branches of the Russian army involved in the operation, according to the same source.

"I would like to hear your proposals regarding our moves in the short and medium term," Putin said during the meeting, clips of which were broadcast on Russian television on Saturday.

The announcement comes as Ukraine was targeted Friday by new Russian missile strikes that caused power outages across the country, according to Ukrainian authorities.

Faced with a series of military setbacks this fall, Russia, which launched an offensive against Ukraine at the end of February, has since October chosen the tactic of massive strikes targeting Ukraine's power grids and transformers.

Washington - "Jerusalem" dot com - Saeed Erekat - A delegation representing the Palestinian and Arab-American community met with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken , on Friday, in the State Department building, before the US minister took off on a flight that would take him to the occupied Palestinian territories, Israel and Egypt, where the delegation discussed with him another The developments of the crisis situation in the Palestinian territories in light of the heightened tension and the high level of violence practiced by the Israeli occupation authorities against the Palestinian citizens under occupation.

According to a source who participated in the meeting, which was arranged some time ago, and before the recent wave of confrontations launched by the Israeli occupation forces against Palestinian citizens, and the discussion focused on the minister's agenda for his tour in the region, "which was exacerbated by the recent Israeli military raid in Jenin camp ( Thursday morning), which resulted in the killing of 10 Palestinian citizens, and the injury of more than 20 Palestinian citizens.”

The correspondent of Al-Quds.com learned that the discussions at the meeting were serious, frank and objective, and allowed the Arab-American participants to express their concerns about the goals of American policy and its statements regarding the situation in Palestine, specifically the events in Jenin and the mass displacement of Palestinians from the villages of Masafer Yatta in the West Bank. occupied.”

According to the source, the group expressed to Minister Blinken its opinion that "the United States bears the responsibility to act to curb Israel's aggressive behavior towards the Palestinian people who are under occupation, as decades of turning a blind eye to the United States have led to Israel's policies of settlement expansion, land confiscation, house demolitions, and a group of From other human rights violations to an Israeli sense of impunity and despair among the Palestinians, and whether the administration will fulfill its commitments to equal value for Israelis and Palestinians and their rights to security, prosperity and dignity, the group also stressed that Minister (Blinken) show firmness and determination to rein in the Israeli behavior that threatens the chances of peace in the future."

The group also called on the US Secretary of State to put pressure on the Israeli government to stop all of its illegal unilateral actions that endanger stability in the region. And stop pressuring the Palestinians only and support their legal procedures, including their demands for membership as a member of the United Nations.

The group also raised another central concern of the Palestinian and Arab American community regarding Israel's ongoing efforts to obtain visa waivers to enter the United States at a time when Israel continues to enforce laws that restrict Palestinian Americans' entry into the West Bank, limit their movement, and impose arbitrary conditions on them. (such as the COGAT law adopted by the occupation authorities last October), and the delegation asked the minister to reject these new regulations and to ensure that all Americans receive equal treatment before approving the visa waiver request, including at all entry points, including Gaza .

With regard to the goal highlighted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs behind the Minister's tour in the region, as it comes within the framework of encouraging Israel's integration in the region, the participants urged the Minister of Foreign Affairs to ensure the protection of the rights of the Palestinians in any regional integration (normalization) projects supported by the United States.

The delegation affirmed the Arab and Palestinian American community's condemnation of anti-Semitism and hate crimes against the Jewish people and other minorities in the United States and elsewhere. They also expressed their deep concern about efforts to expand the definition of anti-Semitism to include criticism of Israeli policies and behavior, and warned that this confusion is nothing more than an attempt to silence any Criticism of Israel and its repressive practices against the Palestinians.

And participated in the meeting with US Secretary of State Blinken and his aides for Middle East affairs, Barbara Leaf and Hadi Amr, on the part of the Arab American community, Hanna Hananiya, Khalil Jahshan, Zaha Hassan, George Salem, James Zogby, Ted Kattouf, Samia Bahour, Nada Al Hanouti, John Debit, and Diab Mustafa.

"This week I met with representatives of the American Jewish and Palestinian American communities to hear their important views ahead of my travels to Israel and the West Bank, and I value these useful discussions," Secretary Blinken said in a tweet on Twitter.

Moscow - (AFP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged on Tuesday that the situation is "very difficult" in the four regions of southern and eastern Ukraine that Moscow declared annexing without fully controlling them.

"The situation in the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, as well as in the Kherson and Zaporizhia regions, is very difficult," Putin said.

Putin was speaking in a video addressed to employees of the Foreign Security and Intelligence Service and the protection of senior officials, who annually celebrate their "professional holiday" in Russia on December 20.

Putin praised the performance of the Russian security services who work in the "new regions of Russia," stressing that "the people who live there are Russian citizens" who depend on the "protection" of these services.

The Russian president, who formerly worked in the KGB, called for "extreme concentration" by counterintelligence services.

"It is necessary to severely suppress the work of foreign intelligence services and effectively identify traitors, spies and saboteurs," he said.

In September, the Russian president announced the annexation of four Ukrainian regions (Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia and Kherson regions) that are partly controlled by the Russian army, after holding local "referendums" that were denounced by Kiev and the West.

But in November, Ukraine recaptured Kherson, the capital of the region of the same name, which was a major setback for Moscow after a several-week counteroffensive.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - Today, Tuesday, the Israeli occupation authorities expelled the member of the European Parliament, Anna Miranda , and prevented her from entering the occupied Palestinian territories, as part of an official visit by a delegation from the European Parliament.

In a tweet on her Twitter account, Miranda wrote: "I was expelled by Israel! After several hours of waiting, since 9 pm Israel has not allowed me to enter as a member of the delegation for relations with Palestine in the European Parliament. It is almost five in the morning and I set out on the first trip to Madrid."

Member of the European Parliament Grace O'Sullivan commented, in a tweet to her on Twitter: "My colleague Anna Miranda has not been allowed to enter Israel even though she is a member of the official delegation of the European Parliament, and we received a note last week approving our visit," and she said: "This is completely unacceptable. It came after our colleague in the European Parliament, Manu Pineda, was banned."

The delegation of members of the European Parliament, headed by Margaret Okin, member of the European Parliament for relations with Palestine, will visit the Palestinian territories from 21 to 23 February. The delegation will meet tomorrow, Wednesday, with officials of the Palestinian National Authority, including Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh.

Moscow (Ukraine) - (AFP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday threatened the West to "respond" to Ukraine's supply of advanced tanks, in a threat that comes amid speculation about a new Russian military escalation.

At a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over the German army in Stalingrad, Putin said, "Those who drag European countries, including Germany, into a new war against Russia and irresponsibly present this as a fait accompli, and those who expect Russia's defeat in The battlefield, they clearly don't understand that a contemporary war with Russia would be very different."

And the Russian president added, "We do not send our tanks to their borders, but we have something to respond to them with, and this matter will not be limited to the use of armored vehicles."

For his part, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia "will use all its capabilities" to respond to Western arms supplies to Ukraine.

Last fall, Putin made similar statements that were interpreted as a threat to use nuclear weapons.

"When new weapons from the 'collective West' appear, Russia will use all the capabilities it has to respond" to such arms supplies, Peskov said.

In his speech delivered Thursday in Volgograd, a city located in the southwest of the country that was formerly called Stalingrad, the Russian president considered that history repeats itself, likening the war that his forces are waging in Ukraine to that of the Soviet forces against the Nazi army.

"It's incredible, but true. We are again threatened by German Leopard tanks (...) Once again, Hitler's successors want to fight Russia on Ukrainian soil using 'Bandervotsy'," Putin said, as the supporters of Ukrainian ultra-nationalist Stepan Bandera ( 1909-1959) who collaborated with the Nazis during World War II.

Since his forces began invading Ukraine on February 24, Putin has been calling the authorities in Kiev "neo-Nazis" who are committing "genocide" against the Russian-speaking population in the east of the country.

After Berlin gave it the green light, several Western countries pledged to supply Ukraine with heavy German-made Leopard-2 tanks, and Germany itself committed to providing a number of these tanks to Kiev.

After long procrastination for fear of escalating the conflict, the West finally agreed to send modern tanks to Ukraine, such as the German Leopard-2, the American Abrams, and the British Challenger.

However, Kiev has not yet obtained any commitment to provide it with high-precision missiles with a range of more than 100 km, which it says its forces need to strike the rear lines of the Russian forces.

Many observers believe that both Kiev and Moscow are planning new offensives as winter ends and spring arrives.

Following a series of humiliating field setbacks in the fall, Russian forces massed hundreds of thousands of reservists and stepped up their ground offensives, particularly in eastern Ukraine.

On Thursday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky followed the example of his defense minister, Oleksiy Reznikov, by saying that Russia is preparing to launch a new major offensive, on February 24, the first anniversary of the start of the invasion.

Zelensky said during a joint press conference in Kiev with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, "Russia is mobilizing its forces, we all know that. It wants revenge not only on Ukraine, but also on free Europe."

On Wednesday, the Ukrainian Defense Minister warned that Moscow was preparing "very seriously (...) to try something by February 24."

In recent weeks, the Russian army has made some field gains around Bakhmut, the city in eastern Ukraine that Moscow has been trying to capture since the summer.

In Bakhmut, which turned into a ghost town, 75-year-old Natalya Shevchenko told AFP, "Forget about gas. If we had electricity, everything would be easier. We would have heating and the ability to cook."

"The worst is that there is no (phone) coverage. I cannot call my family," she added.

However, this old woman still resides in her house, despite the fact that the continuous bombing has forced her to live underground in the basement of her house "like a mole".

In Kiev, von der Leyen announced that the European Union intends to impose sanctions on Moscow on the first anniversary of the start of the invasion, stressing that Russia is losing 160 million euros per day due to setting a ceiling on the price of its oil.
The European official did not give any details about the upcoming sanctions.

For his part, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, in a television interview, accused the Europeans of seeking a "final solution to the Russian issue."

Lavrov said that von der Leyen "declared that the outcome of the war should be Russia's defeat (...) so that it would not recover for decades," asking, "Isn't this racism, Nazism, and an attempt to solve the Russian question?", likening it to "the final solution to the Jewish question." The Holocaust orchestrated by the Nazis.

For his part, British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said that he did not rule out supplying combat aircraft to Ukraine, but considered that this equipment is not a "magic wand" capable of quickly changing the course of the war.

In Vienna, parliamentarians from twenty countries expressed their desire to ban the participation of the Russian delegation in the meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to be held at the end of the month in the Austrian capital.

Gaza - "Jerusalem" dot com - The head of the government media office in Gaza, Salama Marouf, issued today, Thursday, an explanation regarding the poisoning of a child who ate from a "bag of chips" found inside it on decomposed remains.

Salama said, in a brief statement, that decomposed remains were found in the bag, and the necessary medical work was done with it and reassurance on its condition, and the matter is being followed up by the Ministries of Health and the Economy, and the appropriate measures will be taken after the completion of the verification process.

Moscow - (AFP) - The Russian authorities vowed to fix "mistakes" made in the context of President Vladimir Putin's declaration of mobilization, after summoning people to fight who were supposed to be exempt, sparking controversy.

With Putin announcing a "partial mobilization" of reservists Wednesday to head to Ukraine, he made it clear that only people with military experience or "relevant" skills would be called up.

However, summoning people who were over fighting age, sick, or exempt for other reasons sparked angry reactions on social media, embarrassing the authorities.

In the Volgograd region (southwest), a 63-year-old retired soldier with diabetes and head problems was summoned to a training center before he was allowed to leave.

In the same area, Alexander Valtin, 58, who is the director of a small rural school, was summoned, noting that he had not served in the army before. After his daughter posted a video on social media that was widely circulated, he was able to return home.

After an uncharacteristic acknowledgment that mistakes had been made, Valentina Matviyenko, the speaker of the upper house of the Russian parliament, blamed the regional authorities overseeing the mobilization.

In a statement on the Telegram website, it denounced "inappropriate summons that have sparked heated debate in society and on social media."

"Some seem to think that submitting a report quickly is more important than properly performing an important task for the state. These abuses are completely unacceptable," she added.

It ordered that "the partial mobilization be completed in full respect of the standards that have been announced, and without making a single mistake."

These failures constitute a new example of the organizational difficulties that Russia has been witnessing since the start of its invasion of Ukraine.

And the Ministry of Defense announced on Saturday the replacement of Deputy Defense Minister General of the Army Dmitry Bulgakov, General Mikhail Mizintsev (60 years), who until then headed the National Defense Control Center.

While the authorities confirm that summoning people who are supposed to be exempt are only isolated cases, their statements indicate a kind of anxiety in the face of the reaction of part of the angry population.

On Saturday, the head of the Kremlin's Human Rights Council, Valery Fadaev, called on Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu "to urgently solve the problems" so as not to "shake the people's trust."

And he talked about 70 heads of a large family who were summoned in the Russian region of Buryatti, western Siberia, in addition to nurses and midwives who do not have any military experience in the Sverdlovsk (Ural) region, "under pain of prosecution," in the event of refusal.

Fadaev also criticized those who "hand out summons at two in the morning, as if they consider us all (fugitives)". He warned that this method is frowned upon.

Faced with the situation, the governors of the regions near Moscow and in Leningrad (northwest) undertook to return people who were mistakenly summoned to their homes.

On Sunday, Leningrad Governor Alexander Drozdenko asked the heads of districts in his region "to personally take care of residents' complaints and every file."

Many students also confirmed that they had been summoned, knowing that the authorities had promised to exempt them.
On Saturday evening, Putin signed a decree exempting those pursuing professional disciplines in state universities and schools.
In addition, demonstrators against the invasion of Ukraine are also raising controversy, as they received summonses while they were in police custody, while the Kremlin confirmed that it did not see it as "illegal".

بقلم:د. اسعد عبد الرحمن
تؤكد الشواهد والوقائع أن الأسرى الفلسطينيين لم يكونوا في يوم من الأيام مجرد مقاتلين أو مقاومين بدون سلاح، بل لطالما كانوا مبادرين حولوا سجون الاحتلال إلى «أكاديمية» للتوعية السياسية الحقة المتمسكة بالأرض والمؤمنة بأن النضال ووحدته وحدهما كفيلان بتحقيق المراد. كما كانوا وما زالوا أصحاب دور كبير في العمل السياسي وكلمتهم مسموعة لربما أكثر من عدد من ما يسمى فصائل المقاومة كونهم رموز التضحية والعطاء يفتخر بهم الشعب الفلسطيني ويعتز بصمودهم وتمسكهم بعدالة قضيتهم. وهنا، يكفي الحركة الأسيرة أنها قد «تجاوزت» الفصائل خارج السجون ونجحت في طرح ميثاق الوحدة الوطنية في العام 2006 الذي سارعت قيادات الفصائل إلى تبنيه واعتماده ولو إلى حين!

هذه الأيام، ها نحن نرى كيف أن الشعب الفلسطيني بات يتابع وبشكل متواصل معاناة الأسرى الأبطال في سجون الاحتلال، ويقف معهم في معاركهم التي يدافعون فيها عن كرامة شعبهم ومقدساتهم، في ظل عناد إسرائيل المتواصل بتصعيد إجراءاتها القمعية المخالفة لكل المواثيق والأعراف الدولية، وخاصة اتفاقية جنيف الرابعة. بل إن نضالات الأسرى هي من تجبر الاحتلال في كثير من المرات على التراجع عن قراراته. فكثيرا ما دخل الأسرى الفلسطينيون في مواجهات مع السجان وخطوات تمرد وشروع في الإضرابات المفتوحة عن الطعام فرادى وجماعات، ونجحوا في فرض مطالبهم التي لن يكون آخرها ما حدث في الأسبوع المنصرم من إجبار للاحتلال على التراجع عن قراراته المتعلقة بالنقل التعسفي للأسرى المؤبدات بشكل دوري.

هم أصحاب البرامج النضالية المنظمة، التي تؤمن أيضا أن جبهة الإسناد الخارجية إن لم تكن أكثر أهمية فهي على الأقل توازي في أهميتها خطواتهم التصعيدية في وجه المحتل داخل قلاع الأسر. ولذلك، نراهم يصرون دائما على دعوة الشعب الفلسطيني للوقوف بجانب أبنائهم الأسرى سواء عبر الوقفات أمام المؤسسات الدولية، أو من خلال التوجه إلى نقاط التماس مع العدو والخروج في المسيرات والوقفات.

وبحسب نادي الأسير الفلسطيني، وبخلاف المعتقلين الإداريين، يواصل الاحتلال اعتقال نحو 4450 أسيرا، بينهم 32 أسيرة، و160 طفلا تقل أعمارهم عن 18 عاما، فيما الأسرى المرضى نحو (600) أسير يعانون من أمراض بدرجات مختلفة وهم بحاجة إلى متابعة ورعاية صحية حثيثة، منهم (23) أسيراً مصابون بالسرطان، وبأورام بدرجات متفاوتة، فيما عدد الأسرى الذين صدرت بحقهم أحكام بالسجن المؤبد (551) أسيراً، وأعلى حكم أسير من بينهم الأسير عبد الله البرغوثي ومدته (67) مؤبداً.

قضية الأسرى والمعتقلين الفلسطينيين في سجون الاحتلال معلم بارز من معالم القضية الفلسطينية، وعنوان رئيس في مسيرة كفاح الشعب الفلسطيني. من هنا، يشدد الاحتلال إجراءاته التعسفية بحقهم ويحرمهم من أبسط حقوقهم الإنسانية في محاولة لكسر إرادتهم. فالاحتلال يدرك أن الأسرى جاهزون لدفع كل ثمن من أجل كرامتهم وحقوقهم، ولذلك كثيرا ما يتراجع ويوقف قراراته الظالمة وإجراءاته التعسفية بحق الأسرى ويستجيب لمطالبهم، واّخرها انتصار الاسطورة خليل العواودة في «معركة الامعاء الخاوية» وعدول سلطات الاحتلال عن قرارتها الاخيرة بخصوص هضم حقوق الاسرى في معتقلاتهم.

نعم، الاحتلال لا يتراجع عن إجراءات عدوانية يتخذ قرارا بشأنها إلا عندما يرى صمود ووحدة الأسرى التي تتجسد في كل مرة داخل قلاع الأسر، فهو يعلم أن سلاح الإضراب أحد ابداعات الأسرى النضالية ضمن منظومة استراتيجية «عدم العنف» في مواجهة سلطات الاحتلال .

STANA (Kazakhstan) - (AFP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Russia is "doing everything right" in Ukraine, after nearly eight months of war on its neighbor, and despite a series of setbacks for the Russian army.
Putin spoke to journalists in Kazakhstan after participating in regional summits, at a time when Ukraine was celebrating the "Day of Defenders of the Country", which was an occasion for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to promise his people victory.

In response to a journalist's question about whether he feels any remorse, Putin said, "What is happening now is not comfortable, but (if Russia had not attacked Ukraine on February 24), we would have faced the same situation a little later, except that the conditions would have been worse for us." So, we are doing everything as it should be."

Likewise, Putin indicated that the massive strikes that hit vital Ukrainian infrastructure on Monday and Tuesday, as well as gardens and residential buildings, suffice for the time being. He pointed out that new intensive bombing of Ukrainian cities is not necessary "at the present time."

Russia launched this bombing campaign at the beginning of the week in response to the explosion that partially destroyed the Crimean Bridge.

The Russian president admitted for the first time that Moscow's partners in the former Soviet Union were "concerned" about the conflict in Ukraine.

For its part, Ukraine celebrated Friday the "Day of the Defenders of the Country", celebrating this army day for the first time since the beginning of the invasion.

"We thank (...) all those who fought for Ukraine in the past and all those who are fighting for it now, those who won then and those who will undoubtedly win now," Zelensky said in a video clip. He laid a wreath at a memorial to the dead in Kiev.

For his part, the commander of the Ukrainian army, Valery Zaluzhny, said, "Together towards victory."

Galina Golitsyna lost her two sons in the war: the eldest in 2014 and Denis on March 23 in Mariupol. The 61-year-old mother extends her hand and then her forehead while weeping, in the image of her youngest son, who died at the age of 32.

"Losing a son is the most horrible thing that can happen," she tells AFP, wiping tears from her eyes. "I lost my two children in the war itself. It's Remembrance Day for me."

Meanwhile, the Ukrainian authorities are showing their resolve, building on the success they have achieved on several fronts since the beginning of September.

Although Ukraine did not claim responsibility for the explosion in the Crimean Bridge, it is satisfied with the partial destruction of this bridge, which is a symbol of Russian ambitions and an essential infrastructure for supplying the forces occupying southern Ukraine and facing a Ukrainian counterattack.

The damage to it seems significant enough to prompt Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin to set July 1 as the deadline for the completion of maintenance work.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian forces have been advancing all week, village after village in the northern Kherson region, as the Russian army relies on the bridge for supplies.
On Thursday, the official appointed by Moscow, Vladimir Saldo, asked the Kremlin to help evacuate civilians, and the Russian government immediately promised that it would provide this assistance.

For his part, Kirill Strimosov, another pro-Russian official in this region, called on residents to "seize the opportunity to obtain humane residence and rest in Russia."

This comes as Russian forces maintain the initiative in part of the eastern front, as they have been trying to occupy Bakhmut since August.

By controlling this bombed-out city, Moscow hopes to pave the way towards two major cities in the Donetsk region, namely Kramatorsk and Sloviansk.

According to Andrei Marochko, representative of the separatist forces in the Luhansk region fighting in the region, "fighting is taking place in the area," and Ukrainian forces will have to retreat "towards the northwest and west of the city."

Elsewhere in Ukraine, the Russian military has experienced a series of setbacks since early September, giving up thousands of square kilometers.
These defeats prompted Putin at the end of September to order the mobilization of 300,000 reservists, in an attempt to reverse this trend.
On Friday, the Russian president confirmed that he did not plan new mobilization operations. He said that 222,000 people had been mobilized, of whom 16,000 were in "units participating in the battles."

A translation of "Jerusalem" dot com - The Hebrew newspaper Israel Hayom stated, on Friday, that the coalition agreement between the Religious Zionist Party and the Likud provides for the allocation of 8 billion shekels for the development of settlement roads in the West Bank .

According to the newspaper, this plan aims to facilitate the movement of settlers without barriers, and to reduce safe bypass areas that lead to serious traffic accidents.

And it indicated that the roads will be developed to have several lanes to facilitate the movement of settlers and their safe movement.

Moscow (AFP) - At least 15 people, including 11 children, were killed when a gunman opened fire at a school in the central Russian city of Izhevsk on Monday, with President Vladimir Putin denouncing an "inhuman terrorist attack".

"The president deeply regrets the deaths of adults and children in this school, where a terrorist attack took place," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

"After the crime, 15 people died, including 11 children and four adults, and there were 24 more injured, including 22 children and two adults," the Investigative Committee of Russia said in a statement Monday afternoon.

"The president wishes recovery to those injured in this inhumane attack," the Kremlin added.

Investigators reported that the suspect, who committed suicide, "was wearing a black shirt with Nazi symbols and a mask."

In a separate statement, they confirmed that the shooter was "a former schoolboy named Artyom Kazantsev, born in 1988." "We are conducting an investigation to see if he is a follower of neo-fascism and Nazi ideology," they added.

Investigators released a video showing the body of a man lying on the ground, with blood around his head, and wearing a black shirt with a red swastika on it.

The Russian Interior Ministry had previously reported six dead and 20 wounded.

"Police officers found the body of the shooter. According to our information, he committed suicide," the ministry said.

The shooting took place in the morning at School No. 88 in the city of Izhevsk, located west of the Ural mountain range separating European and Asian Russia.

This city still includes factories for Kalashnikov assault rifles.

The district governor, Alexander Brechalov, said the attacker "killed a security guard" before opening fire inside the school.

The school's website indicates that it has about a thousand students and 80 teachers.

"The evacuation operation has ended," Brechalov added in a video from outside the school, and "the entire area has been sealed off," explaining that the Russian National Guard, security services and "authorities responsible for the investigation" are at the site. Behind him, medical staff appeared to enter the building in a hurry, some of them carrying a stretcher.

The Ministry of Health confirmed the deployment of "14 ambulance teams" at the site, and a "group of doctors" is scheduled to go to Izhevsk soon to "help the victims."

An investigation was immediately opened on charges of "murder" and "illegal possession of weapons" and entrusted to the Russian Investigative Committee, the country's main investigative body.

The shooting took place on Monday amid tense atmospheres in several regions of Russia, against the background of military mobilization and the call-up of hundreds of thousands of reservists to fight in Ukraine.

A soldier supervising a recruitment center in the Russian army was also seriously injured on Monday, when a man opened fire at the center in Siberia.

The number of bloody shootings has been increasing in Russia, especially in schools, for a few years, after it was so rare that it raises the concern of President Vladimir Putin, who considered it an imported phenomenon from the United States and a negative effect of globalization, which prompted him to tighten the laws on carrying weapons.

And in April, a man shot dead two children and a teacher in a kindergarten before taking his own life, also in the Ulyanovsk region in central Russia.

The country's deadliest shooting occurred in October 2018, when a student killed 19 people at a high school in Kerch, in Russian-annexed Crimea, before taking his own life.

Izhevsk has a population of 650,000 and is the capital of the Udmurt Republic in the center of the country.

It was in this industrial city that was long closed to foreigners during the Communist era that Mikhail Kalashnikov developed the first AK-47 in 1947, and it has become world famous ever since.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - The administration of the Israeli prison, Nafha , closed the rooms of the prisoners of the Islamic Jihad Movement, and prevented them from going out to Al-Fura Square.

According to the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, the prisoners have given the prison administration until the hours of noon today, in case it does not back down from its escalation and reopen the rooms, promising a real explosion of conditions in the prison.

The authority indicated that this procedure took place yesterday in the Negev desert prison.

In the context, the Prisoners' Club stated that hundreds of prisoners in all prisons began today to leave the sections and sit in the prison yards, as part of the steps of rebellion and disobedience against the prison administration laws within the recently announced escalatory steps.

In the context, the Supreme Emergency Committee for Prisoners announced the start of dissolving the regulatory bodies of all organizations, starting next Sunday, which requires the prison administration to confront the prisoners as individuals.

Yesterday, the prisoners of the Fatah movement announced in an official statement that all their organizational bodies are considered non-existent by the morning of Sunday.

The Committee called on all the Palestinian people to intensify advocacy activities for them tomorrow, Friday, corresponding to August 26, based on what it called for in Statement No. (2) issued by it, by dedicating Friday sermons to talking about prisoners of freedom, and going out to points of contact with the occupier in all governorates. Motherland.

Translation by Al-Quds.com - The Hebrew newspapers, issued on Tuesday, focused on the issue of the "Al-Qassam Brigades", the military wing of the "Hamas" movement, publishing a video clip of the Israeli prisoner Avraham Mengistu , and this resonated in the security and political circles in Tel Aviv.

According to the Hebrew newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, “Hamas” did not choose the timing of publishing the clip by chance, but rather deliberately did so with the end of the ceremony for the exchange of the Chief of Staff of the Israeli army, especially after the outgoing Aviv Kochavi spoke, in his farewell interview, about the reasons that might lead to facilitation Possibility of returning prisoners and missing persons in Gaza.

The newspaper claimed, as promoted by Israeli officials, that the "Hamas" movement tried to engage in psychological warfare, and that it tried to influence the psyche of the Israeli public.

The newspaper recounted the statements published yesterday by Netanyahu's office and Mengistu's family about the video.

For his part, the reporter and military commentator for the Hebrew newspaper Maariv, Tal Lev Ram, said that the security establishment, at least until the end of a year or two, did not know whether Mengistu was alive or not, and that there were real signs of questioning about his life.

He pointed out that despite what was declared by the media, whether from Israel or Hamas, that there was a close agreement, the gap was large and there was no real maturity on the part of the two sides, and sometimes options were proposed such as making a deal related to Mengistu and Hisham Al-Sayed, and then discussing the issue. Soldiers, there were gaps and no real progress or convergence.

For his part, Amos Harel, correspondent and military commentator for the Hebrew newspaper Haaretz, wrote that Hamas tried to destabilize the negotiation channel through a psychological war it leads, while Israel tries not to submit to its dictates, pointing out that senior officials called on the Hebrew media to bear responsibility and not be drawn into that war.

In his analysis of the video, which was published yesterday, Harel said that Mengistu was taught to speak with a good suspicion by someone who used Google Hebrew translation in order to convey his message.

And he considered that the "Hamas" movement, through this video, deviated for the second time from a long-term principle that organizations that capture Israelis are trying to abide by, which is not to give free gifts without getting a price, and these are the messages that Hamas conveyed to Israel in the first years of negotiations during periods A truce agreement was reached.

Harel believes that Hamas may have taken this step after it reached the conclusion that Israel already knows that Mengistu and Al-Sayed are alive, while the two soldiers are corpses, and therefore there is no longer any point in using this pressure lever, and this He indicates that the movement’s room for maneuver is not very large, and it does not want to break the state of relative silence that has prevailed in the Strip since Operation “Guardian of the Walls / Sword of Jerusalem” in May 2021, with the exception of the short escalation with Islamic Jihad last August, in which Hamas avoided participating. In it, the movement considers this period important to rebuild its strength in light of the entry of 17,000 workers into Israel, which helps to revive the economy, and these are things that cannot be easily bargained over, even if with regard to the important goal of releasing prisoners, and that the preferred means of pressure It is for the organization to publish clips, not to launch rockets.

Tubas - "Jerusalem" dot com - Today, Monday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested a young man from the city of Tubas.

According to press sources, the occupation forces arrested the young man, Hassan Muhammad Tawfiq Abu Mohsen (23 years), while he was passing through the Hamra military checkpoint in the northern Jordan Valley.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Prisoners Affairs said today, Wednesday, that the Jerusalemite prisoner Ishaq Taher Salah Arafa (33 years) from Ras Al-Amoud neighborhood has entered his eleventh year in a row in the occupation prisons.

The commission stated that the occupation court had previously issued a life sentence against the prisoner, Arafa, after which he moved between several prisons before settling now in Shatta prison.

The Commission indicated that the Jerusalem identity card was withdrawn from the prisoner Arafa as a retaliatory and punitive method, noting that this is the 13th time that IDs have been withdrawn, which confirms the racist tendency of the occupation government and its political apparatus.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - Today, Tuesday, the military court in Ofer decided to release the child prisoner, Athal Al-Azza.

Lawyer Munther Abu Ahmed stated that the military court in Ofer decided to release al-Azza on bail, but the Public Prosecution will file an appeal against the release decision.

It is noteworthy that the occupation arrested the child Al-Azza (14 years) on the fifteenth of this month, after assaulting him by beating him while he was on his way to his grandmother’s house in Al-Azza camp in Bethlehem.

According to the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, there are 160 children detained in the Israeli occupation prisons.

قررت الحكومة الفرنسية، مساء الأحد، مقاطعة وزير المالية الإسرائيلي بتسلئيل سموتريتش خلال زيارته للبلاد الأسبوع المقبل.

وبحسب قناة ريشت كان العبرية، فإن هذا الإجراء جاء بعد خطوة مماثلة من الولايات المتحدة.

وكان سموتريتش وصل اليوم إلى واشنطن، حيث ستنظم احتجاجات من قبل اليهود في أميركا ضد زيارته.

ورفض صندوق النقد الدولي ومنظمة الغرف التجارية الأميركية، طلبًا قدمه لعقد اجتماع معه.

Prague - (AFP) - The Czech Foreign Minister announced Thursday that his country will not issue humanitarian visas to Russians fleeing their country to avoid the mobilization announced by President Vladimir Putin .

Many Russians seem to want to leave their country since Putin announced Wednesday that he would mobilize an additional 300,000 people to reinforce the forces that launched the invasion of Ukraine on February 24.

"I understand that the Russians are fleeing from Putin's increasingly desperate decisions," Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky said in a statement received by AFP.

"But those who flee their country because they do not want to fulfill an obligation imposed by their country do not meet the criteria for obtaining a humanitarian visa," said Lipavsky, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the European Union.

The Czech Republic has a different attitude towards the fleeing Russians compared to other countries in the European Union, especially Germany, which announced Thursday its readiness to receive them.

"Anyone who courageously opposes Putin and puts himself in great danger can apply for political asylum in Germany," German Interior Minister Nancy Weser said.

Czechia stopped issuing visas to Russians in the aftermath of the invasion, but later resumed issuing them on humanitarian grounds.

Quito - (AFP) - About 13.4 million Ecuadorians were invited Sunday to participate in local elections and a referendum that will decide, in particular, whether the country will agree to extradite drug traffickers to the United States .

"Ecuadoreans, exercise your right to vote for the security and well-being of Ecuador ," President Guillermo Laso said on Twitter shortly after casting his vote in Guayaquil (southwest).

Voters choose the mayors, municipal councilors and county governors who will take office in May for a four-year term.

The stakes are above all local, but it will inevitably constitute a test for the right-wing president who came to power in 2021 and whose popularity has reached record levels (80% according to the latest poll).

The Electoral Commission said at midday that polling was "taking place under normal conditions".

The vote comes in a worrying context of increasing criminal violence in the country over the drug trade.

On Saturday, a candidate for mayor of a coastal city was assassinated, two weeks after the assassination of a candidate in another coastal city.

In parallel with the elections, voters will answer eight questions as part of a referendum called by President Laso in November, on various topics related to security, politics and the environment.

Attention is focused on the issue of extraditing citizens for trial in other countries, a procedure that has been banned for eight decades.

As part of his fight against drug trafficking, President Laso calls for making it possible to extradite Ecuadorians to other countries if they have committed offenses related to international organized crime.

The main objective is to extradite the drug traffickers to the United States, where they are likely to face long prison sentences in harsh conditions and without the possibility of bribing prison guards.

This procedure has been used in neighboring Colombia since the 1990s, and has served as a deterrent against major drug traffickers in a country that is the world's leading producer of cocaine.

Ecuador has seen a sharp rise in drug-related violence and crime in recent years.

And the homicide rate nearly doubled between 2021 and 2022.

Prisons witness frequent bloody violence between rival gangs linked to dangerous Mexican cartels.

However, the left-wing opposition, which controls the majority of seats in parliament, called on voters to refuse to allow the extradition of Ecuadorians for trial in other countries.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Israeli occupation authorities released, this evening, Wednesday, the injured prisoner, Osaid Hamayel, through the Beit Sira checkpoint, west of Ramallah.

Immediately after reaching the checkpoint, Hamayel was taken by ambulance to the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah.

According to the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Prisoners Affairs, Hamayel was released on bail.

The occupation military court in "Ofer" decided to release Hamayel, and the other injured person, Nasim Shoman, from Khirbet Abu Falah, northeast of Ramallah, after paying a fine.

The authority indicated that the occupation forces had arrested Shoman and Hamayel on the eighth of this month, after they were shot at the entrance to the town of Turmusaya, north of Ramallah, and they were seriously wounded, and as a result they were transferred to an Israeli hospital.

She added that the detainees underwent surgeries, and the detainee Shoman's leg was amputated from the area below the knee, indicating that their health condition is gradually stabilizing.

Jerusalem - "Al Quds" dot com - Today, Wednesday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested a member of the "Fatah" movement in occupied Jerusalem, Yasser Darwish.

And local sources reported that the occupation forces arrested Darwish at the entrance to the town of Al-Isawiya, northeast of occupied Jerusalem.

The Israeli occupation authorities also removed the guard of Al-Aqsa Mosque , Mahmoud Abu Kharoub, from the mosque for a week, subject to renewal.

The occupation forces had detained Abu Kharoub since this morning, before deporting him from Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Nablus - "Jerusalem" dot com - Today, Monday, the former prisoner Ihab Zaid Al-Kilani, from Nablus, was martyred, a month after his release from the Israeli occupation prisons, as it was discovered that he had cancer after his release.

The Captive Club said in a brief statement that after discovering the disease with Al-Kilani after his release, the disease had reached its final stages.

The Captive Club held the occupation fully responsible for his death as a result of the crime of medical negligence (slow killing) to which he was subjected.

According to his brother, Ehab spent 4 months in the occupation prisons, then his detention was extended for another four months, but his poor condition prompted the prison administration to release him after two months of extending his detention.

Written by: Attorney Ali Abu Hilal *
In an unprecedented collective struggle, 30 administrative detainees continue their hunger strike for the tenth day in a row, as they embarked on an open hunger strike on Sunday, corresponding to 9/27/2022, in light of the occupation authorities' refusal to end their administrative detention and release the administrative detainees.
The prisoners, who are from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, confirmed in a statement to them, "In the context of our continuous struggle, we begin, with an open hunger strike, our demand for clean air, a sky without bars, space for freedom, and a family meeting at a table, while the demand of the occupation has stripped us of our reality." The social, our national and humanitarian role, and turning us into rubble, and between our demand and their demand, the occupation force decides through the abhorrent policy of administrative detention. We raise the sword, realizing what awaits us in terms of oppression, abuse, isolation, the confiscation of our clothes and pictures of our children, and we are put in cement cells devoid of everything except our bodies and our pain, continuous searches, periodic transfers, no cigarettes, no water bottles, and we can barely breathe. ". The prisoners said: "Waging this battle against the policy of administrative detention, which we hope will roll over with the joining of all administrative detainees, is an important link in the chain of struggle to end this heinous crime, what distinguishes it is that it is carried on the shoulders of a group of activists who have accepted to fight it to raise their voice against the injustice of the occupation." And on the way to ending this arbitrary policy is a renewal of our Palestinian revolutionary morals, which the forces of oppression were unable to neutralize or extract, for the will makes the impossible, and with the will of our people we will win. Prisoners, other prisoners from the Islamic Jihad Movement and other administrative prisoners may join the thirty prisoners in their battle against administrative detention.
The detainees who initiated the strike are: Nidal Abu Aker, Ihab Masoud, Asim Al-Kaabi, Ahmed Hajjaj, Thaer Taha, Rami Fadayel, Lotfi Salah, Salah Al-Hamouri, Ghassan Zawahra, Kanaan Kanaan, Ashraf Abu Aram, Ghassan Karaja, and Saleh Abu Alia. Awad Kanaan, Laith Kasabra, Saleh Al-Jaidi, Basil Mezher, Majd Al-Khawaja, Jihad Shriteh, Haitham Siaj Ramallah, Mustafa Al-Hasanat, Azmi Shreteh, Muhammad Abu Ghazi, Ahmed Al-Kharouf, Nasrallah Al-Barghouti, Muhammad Fuqaha, Tamer Al-Hajjouj, and Sinar Hamad , Raghad Shamrukh, and Zaid al-Qaddumi. These prisoners have suffered during the past years from the policy of administrative detention, and they are freed prisoners, and some of them have extended administrative detention against them more than once. From late 2011 until the end of this year The prisoners and detainees carried out more than 400 individual strikes, most of which were against administrative detention.
The number of administrative detainees in the occupation prisons has currently exceeded 780, including at least 6 minors and two female prisoners, and the largest number of them are in the Negev and Ofer prisons, and this percentage is the highest since the popular uprising in 2015.
From 2015 until this year, the occupation authorities issued more than 9,500 administrative detention orders, and since the beginning of the current year 2022, they issued about 1,365 administrative detention orders, and the highest percentage of administrative detention orders was issued last August, amounting to 272. It is noteworthy that more than 80% of the administrative detainees are former detainees who have been subjected to administrative detention many times, including the elderly, patients, and children.
It is noteworthy that 28 of the detainees currently on hunger strike were isolated in four rooms in "Ofer" prison, while the human rights detainee Salah Al-Hamouri was isolated in the cells of "Hadarim" prison, and the detainee, Ghassan Zawahra, in the cells of "Negev" prison. Prison administrations began threatening to impose more penalties on the hunger strikers, bearing in mind that in all cases of individual and group strikes, they automatically impose a series of penalties, including: depriving detainees of visits, stripping them of their belongings, isolating them in solitary confinement, and deliberately transferring them continuously, except for On the practice of methods aimed at psychological pressure and abuse
The administrative detainees who are on hunger strike announced, on the second day of their open hunger strike, their boycott of the Israeli occupation courts of various degrees, in the context of their struggle against the crime of administrative detention. Its historical role, represented in consolidating this policy, implements what is issued by the occupation intelligence service, the Shin Bet.
Today, the open hunger strike of administrative detainees enters its tenth day, and they are stronger, more solid, and determined to continue their strike, until their legitimate demands to end the policy of administrative detention and liberate them from prison are met, and with this unprecedented struggle, they launch an uprising against the crime of administrative detention. It is a detention without charge or trial, based on a secret file and secret evidence that neither the detainee nor his lawyer can see, and according to Israeli military orders, the administrative detention order can be renewed unlimited times, as an administrative detention order is issued for a maximum period of six months, subject to renewal. The mass strike of about 30 administrative detainees constitutes the largest hunger strike, and it is an important uprising for them, which necessitates the initiation of a popular and national campaign, and a broad international campaign to end the ongoing administrative detention operations, and to liberate the administrative detainees from the occupation prisons, and this is what the detainees are waiting for and looking forward to. Administrators.
* Lawyer and university lecturer in international law

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs reported that another health deterioration occurred in the condition of the wounded prisoner Noureddine Jarbou (27 years) from the Jenin camp, after it was revealed that he was infected with the Corona virus last night, as his temperature rose significantly. He lost consciousness and was taken to Kaplan Hospital.

The commission added in its report today that the prisoner, Jarbou, suffers from a sharp rise in temperature and intestinal problems, and he is now hypnotized under artificial respirators.

The head of the committee, Major General Qadri Abu Bakr, held the occupation fully responsible for the life of the wounded prisoner, Jarbou, who was arrested after being shot in the Jenin camp and being hit by several bullets, one of which lodged in the spine, causing him to be paralyzed.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - Today, Monday, Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh requested United Nations teams present in Palestine to deploy surveillance patrols on the roads and in the targeted areas, to monitor and document the actions of the army and settlers for the purpose of prosecuting them.

At the beginning of the weekly session of his government, Shtayyeh referred to the field executions and the escalation of terrorism by the occupation soldiers and settlers, the latest of which was the deliberate running over of the two brothers Muhammad and Muhannad Mutair.

He pointed out that the United Nations has more than 400 vehicles and a thousand employees, and they can be trained to monitor the actions of the army and settlers in preparation for their trial. like he said.

Shtayyeh touched on the statements of the Israeli Prime Minister-designate, Benjamin Netanyahu, and considered that they violate the right of the Palestinians to establish their independent state.

The Prime Minister said: We affirm that this right came with great sacrifices and was endorsed by international laws, and it will not be forfeited by a statement or decision by any Israeli official, and our people will not stop their struggle until they obtain their full rights.

In another context, Shtayyeh affirmed Palestine's support for Jordan, wishing it security and stability under the leadership of King Abdullah II and his government, adding: "We are united with them by the unity of blood, destiny, brotherhood, intermarriage and lineage, and we will remain the most keen on the stability and security of Jordan."

Shtayyeh condemned the deportation of Jerusalemite citizen Salah Al-Hamouri to France, considering that his case summarizes a number of continuous violations against Jerusalemites with the aim of emptying the city of its original inhabitants.

Jenin - "Jerusalem" dot com - Ali Samoudi - The occupation prison administration transferred the wounded prisoner, Noureddine Jarbou, to the hospital after his health condition deteriorated.

Al-Assir's family stated today that the Prison Service informed the senior leadership of Hamas about the deterioration of Jarbou's health, as he was transferred to an Israeli hospital without disclosing the name of the hospital.

The prisoner was transferred a few days ago to the Ramla prison clinic before completing his treatment, and his family blamed the occupation for his life, calling on human rights institutions to assume their responsibilities, play the role assigned to them, and save him.

For its part, the Captive Club said that Jerboa was imprisoned in "Ramla" and transferred to a "civilian" hospital again, after a new deterioration in his health condition.

According to the information available so far, he suffered from a sudden rise in temperature and intestinal problems, and as a result he was transferred, and he is now hypnotized under artificial respirators.

The occupation prison administration had recently transferred him from Rambam Hospital to al-Ramla prison, despite his difficult health condition and his urgent need to remain under medical observation, which falls within the crime of medical negligence (slow killing) that the prison administration carries out against sick prisoners.

It is noteworthy that a court session was held for him yesterday, and his detention was extended again, and his mother was able to see him through the video conference screen, and according to what his family confirmed, he was in an acceptable health condition and was able to communicate with her.

It is noteworthy that the occupation forces arrested Noureddine Jarbou from the Jenin camp, on the ninth of this month, after shooting him, which caused him several bullets, one of which lodged in the spine.

The wounded prisoner, Jarbou, was shot by the occupation during the recent incursions into the Jenin camp.

TEHRAN (Xinhua) - Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said in a telephone conversation with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (Sunday) that Iran is not seeking to acquire nuclear weapons.

The ministry's website quoted Amir Abdollahian as saying, "Nuclear weapons have no place in the doctrine of the Islamic Republic of Iran and are contrary to our policies and beliefs."

"The supreme leader's fatwa on the use of nuclear weapons is clear to all," he said, referring to the religious decree of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei that bans the possession and use of weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons.

He stressed the implementation of all aspects of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, adding that the establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle East should receive serious consideration, which Iran is ready to cooperate on.

Regarding the ongoing negotiations in Vienna on reviving the nuclear deal, he said that while Iran is serious about reaching a "strong and stable agreement," the outcome of the talks also depends on "Washington's willingness to reach an agreement," as well as "the necessary flexibility and realism in practice."

He also urged the IAEA to avoid politicizing the technical aspects of Iran's nuclear program in an effort to resolve outstanding issues regarding the implementation of IAEA safeguards in Iran.

Kiev - (AFP) - At least 23 people, including three children, were killed Thursday in raids on a city in central Ukraine, which President Volodymyr Zelensky described as a "flagrant act of terrorism".

The raids targeted an area hundreds of kilometers from the front lines, at a time when The Hague hosts a conference on crimes committed in Ukraine.

In a video intervention to the conference organized by the International Criminal Court, the European Commission and the Netherlands, Zelensky called for the establishment of a "special court" to investigate "the crimes of Russian aggression against Ukraine."

In Venice, photos released by the Ukrainian Emergency Service showed dozens of charred corpses and a ten-storey building destroyed by the explosion and ensuing fire.

The Ukrainian army indicated that "three missiles" targeted a parking lot and a commercial building in the city center that contains offices and small companies. Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yuriy Ignat said that submarines in the Black Sea fired these missiles.

After the raids, Zelensky said in his intervention before the Hague Conference, in which European justice and foreign ministers are participating, "Every day, Russia kills civilians and kills Ukrainian children, and fires missiles at civilian targets where there is nothing military. What is this if it is not an outright terrorist act?"

And the rescue teams announced, in a new toll, that 23 people were killed, confirming that the search for 39 people is continuing.

The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, condemned the "horrific" attack, calling for accountability for those responsible for such attacks that affect civilians.

The European Union also condemned in "the strongest terms" the Russian strikes on Venice, according to a statement.
- Raids in the south -
For several weeks, Russian strikes away from the front lines of the front were relatively rare. But the war is expanding and raging around areas such as the strategic port of Mykolaiv in the south, close to the Black Sea, which was, early Thursday morning, the target of a "massive missile strike", for the second day in a row.

"Two schools, transportation infrastructure and a hotel were damaged," the Ukrainian presidency said in its daily morning briefing.
Pictures published by the local authorities showed the remains of a building destroyed by the bombing, while municipality workers were cleaning up the debris left by the attack.

Several weeks ago, Kiev launched a counterattack to recapture Kherson, located 60 kilometers from Mykolaiv and the only regional capital that Moscow has seized since February 24. While the front line remains relatively stable, Ukraine is mounting increasingly powerful attacks using new American and European missile systems targeting weapons depots.

- 'A complete victory' -
The main battles remain concentrated in eastern Ukraine and in the Donbass, the industrial and mining basin that Moscow vowed to completely occupy.
The governor of the Luhansk region, Sergey Gaidai, indicated that "artillery and mortar attacks continue (and) the Russians are trying to storm Seversk and open the way towards Bakhmut," where a civilian was killed in a bombing on Wednesday night.
The Moscow-backed separatists confirm that they are close to achieving a new victory, days after they took control of several important cities.
The Russian news agency "Tass" quoted the separatist official, Daniel Bezunov, as saying, "Servsk is now under our practical control, which means that we can target the enemy in the entire region."
AFP was not able to independently confirm this information.
A little further north, in the Izyum region, a soldier present in the dozens of meters long maze of trenches dug by the Ukrainian army told AFP, to the sound of artillery, "We dig when it's calm, we hide when the shooting starts."
However, one of the officers confirmed that "the situation is under control," noting that the Russian army is no longer advancing in this area, and that the goal is "complete victory."
Meanwhile, the authorities appointed by Moscow in the Ukrainian region of Zaporizhia, which is partially occupied by the Russian army, announced on Thursday their desire to organize a referendum on its annexation by Russia at the beginning of autumn.
"I made a decision to hold a referendum at the beginning of autumn," said Yevgeny Paletsky, head of the civil and military administration set up in this Russian-controlled area.

- 'Grain debates' -
Russia and Ukraine on Wednesday, during a meeting of military experts in Istanbul, made progress on the thorny issue of preventing grain exports from Ukrainian ports.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that "already substantial progress" had been recorded, and he hoped to conclude a "formal agreement" soon. He spoke of "a glimmer of hope to alleviate human suffering and hunger in the world."
The agreement, which Guterres negotiated over a period of more than two months, aims to remove about 20 million tons of grain from Ukrainian silos across the Black Sea, mainly in Odessa, and to facilitate Russian exports of grain and fertilizer.
Ukraine is one of the world's major exporters of wheat and other grains. And the halt in exports heralds the continuation of the global rise in food prices, which threatens the risk of famine, especially in Africa.
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Thursday before the G20 meeting in Indonesia that the war in Ukraine is the "biggest challenge" to the global economy.
French President Emmanuel Macron also warned that the conflict in Ukraine "will continue" and that the French should be ready to dispense with Russian gas, which Moscow uses as a "weapon of war".
Andriy Yermak, director of the Ukrainian presidency, said that "the weapons supplied by the West are registered and sent to the front" but that a parliamentary oversight committee would make the process "as transparent as possible".