The leader of the Democratic minority in the US House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffreys, is leading a congressional delegation to visit Ghana and Israel, in his first visit to Congress as a Democratic leader, heading to Ghana and then Israel, where he and his delegation will participate in the 75th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba and the celebration of the anniversary of the founding of Israel.

Jeffreys, who is close to the most powerful Israel lobby organization in the United States, the American Israel Public Relations Committee-AIPAC, represents New York's 8th congressional district, which includes a majority of African Americans and the Caribbean.

Congressman Jefferies, who this year replaced Nancy Pelosi as the leader of the Democratic Party in the House of Representatives after the Democrats lost the majority in the House of Representatives, is widely considered a close friend of Israel, and one of the biggest supporters of the occupation authorities, as the Guardian newspaper pointed out last November. Following his selection as the leader of the Democrats, he said: "The prospect of Jeffreys leading the House Democrats was greeted happily by hardline pro-Israel groups who are increasingly concerned about growing opposition in Congress to Israel's treatment of the Palestinians."

According to the Open Secrets website, pro-Israel groups have donated nearly half a million dollars to the Jefferies 2022 campaign, second only to donations from the American Stock Exchange.

It is noteworthy that Jeffreys said in a rally in July 2014, during Israel's fierce war on the besieged Gaza Strip: "Israel should not be forced to apologize for its strength," echoing what Israel says that he knows from experience that "the only thing that is respected by the neighbors in a difficult neighborhood is strength." And in December 2016, Jefferies condemned the Obama administration for not vetoing a United Nations Security Council resolution on Israeli settlements.

Jeffreys is accompanied by Rep. Gregory Meeks, who sits on the Foreign Affairs Committee. Member of the Financial Services Committee, Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Member of the Appropriations Committee, Member of the Select Subcommittee on Arming the Federal Government, Representative Yvette D. Clark, member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, member of the Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Stacy Plaskett, MD, Select Subcommittee on Arming the Federal Government, member of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Rep. Nanette Barragán, Chair of the Hispanic Caucus, member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, Representative Josh Gottheimer, member of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, member of the Financial Services Committee; Representative Stephen Horsford, chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, is a member of the Financial Services Committee. member of the Armed Forces Committee; and Rep. Lizzie Fletcher - member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, and Rep. Joe Niguez, chair of the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee. Member of the Judiciary Committee, Member of the Rules Committee, Member of the Natural Resources Committee, Deputy Dean Phillips, Co-Chair, Committee on Democratic Policy and Communications, Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Member of the Small Business Committee, and Representative Sarah Jacobs, Representative of Caucus Leadership. Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, member of the Armed Forces Committee.

Sweden announced Tuesday that it will expel five Russian diplomats for "activities incompatible" with their diplomatic status.

The Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that "five officials of the Russian embassy in Sweden were asked to leave the country due to activities that do not comply with the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations."

The ministry did not specify the nature of these activities, but the announcement came on the eve of the broadcast of an episode of a documentary series on Russian espionage activities in Sweden by the public television channel SVT.

In response to a question in the framework of this series, the Swedish intelligence said that a third of Russian diplomats work de facto for one of the Russian intelligence services.

"They are employees whose mission is to collect information and influence a country in the desired direction," Daniel Stenling, head of the counterintelligence department, told SVT.

In mid-April, Norway announced the expulsion of 15 employees of the Russian Embassy in Oslo, on suspicion of espionage.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriate Affairs stated that the Jordanian ambassador to Tel Aviv, Ghassan Al-Majali, visited MP Imad Al-Adwan, who was arrested by the Israeli occupation authorities a few days ago, on the background of an alleged case of smuggling quantities of weapons and gold.

Al-Majali said in a statement: "The deputy Al-Adwan assured the ambassador that he is in good health, and that he is not subjected to any abusive practices, physically or psychologically. The deputy asked the ambassador to reassure his family that he is in good health."

He added, "The Jordanian ambassador spoke in detail with MP Al-Adwan about the circumstances of his arrest and the procedures for his investigation, and made sure that the circumstances of his detention respect his legal and human rights.

He pointed out that the visit comes in the context of the intensive efforts undertaken by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in coordination with the concerned authorities, to find out the merits of the case, and to ensure detention conditions and investigation procedures consistent with international laws and conventions that fully preserve the rights of the representative, and work to address the issue.

Today, Tuesday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested two children during the raid on Al-Auja village, north of Jericho.

According to local sources, these forces arrested the two children, Mustafa Ayman Mustafa Jarhoud and Hani Mahmoud Nujoom, both of whom are 17 years old.

In recent weeks, the town of Azzun bid farewell to two of its best sons, the boy Muhammad Salim (15 years old) and the young man Azzam Salim (20 years old), who were killed by the bullets of the occupation, with a difference of a few days, as the people confronted the repeated attempts of the occupation to storm the town.

It is certain for the people of the town that the danger still exists and that the occupation bullets will claim more lives, as the ambitions of the occupation and settlers in their town and their lands have not stopped since the occupation in 1967.

At a distance of 25 km to the west of Nablus, and 10 km to the east of Qalqilya, lies the town of Azzun, which over time was a safe haven, but today it is being devoured by the claws of occupation and settlement.

Azzun belongs administratively to the Qalqilya Governorate, while it was previously part of the Tulkarm district, while the days of Turkish rule followed the Salfit district, and before that, during the Mamluk era, it was the last village in the northern district of Jerusalem.

The strategic location of the town, which is inhabited by about 10,000 people, which links the governorates of Nablus, Qalqilya, and Tulkarem to each other, and is characterized by the fertility of its lands, remained the aspiration of the occupation and settlers. In recent years, settlements have devoured vast areas of its lands, which amount to about 27 thousand dunums, and it is now surrounded by settlements and the apartheid wall. And bypass streets and military watch towers that monitor every incoming and outgoing.

The mayor of Azzun, Ahmed Inaya, says that the people of his town were distinguished by their steadfastness and the defense of their lands throughout history. They participated in the revolutions that took place previously, such as the "Al-Buraq Revolution", the "36" revolution and the "39" revolution.

In the 1936 revolution, one of the townspeople, Faris al-Azouni, was leading a group resisting the British Mandate. He was captured by the British, but he managed to escape from Acre prison, until he was re-arrested in Syria and executed there in 1940.

Also, during the revolution of the "36", the martyr Fatima Ghazal died, and it is said that she is the first Palestinian martyr in that revolution, and her memory was immortalized by naming her name to the Azzun Girls School, "The School of the Martyr Fatima Ghazal."

Inaya added that the series of sacrifices continues. In recent weeks, two of the town's residents were martyred, and about a year ago there was another martyr, along with dozens of wounded and prisoners of the town's residents.

He pointed out that the occupation and settlers surround the town from every side, and they have turned the lives of its people into hell. For example, there is the street that the occupation calls "55" Street, and it is located at the entrance of Azzun, and it is always a scene of events and confrontations with the occupation forces and settlers, and there are also gates Al-Hodeidah, which the occupation uses to lock down the town and besiege the rest of its lands, noting that the occupation and settlements have taken control of about half of the town's lands.

He pointed out that the occupation greatly restricts farmers and landowners, as it prevents them from reaching their lands to plow, cultivate, reclaim, or pick their olives, and it also prevents agricultural tractors, "barrows" and bulldozers that people need to reclaim their lands, from walking through Street 55 and reaching Their lands near the street, and whoever wants to do so must obtain special permits in this regard.

Inaya confirmed that they aspire to do projects in the village, including the development of the water and electricity network, and the street networks. There is a project that worries the municipality, which is the sewage networks project, as it has not been implemented due to the lack of funding to work on it.

Damascus on Tuesday denounced the European Union's imposition of new economic sanctions on people and institutions associated with it, saying that this would impede the provision of humanitarian aid, according to the official Syrian News Agency (SANA).

And on Monday, the European Union imposed new economic sanctions on people and institutions linked to the Syrian authorities, against the background of drug smuggling, “oppression” of citizens, and cooperation with Moscow, the most prominent supporter of Damascus.

The European Union affirmed that the sanctions will not affect humanitarian aid to the Syrian people, after the devastating earthquake that struck Syria and neighboring Turkey on the sixth of last February.

A source in the Syrian Foreign Ministry said, according to SANA, that "the European Union repeats its lies when it claims that the sanctions imposed on Syria do not impede the provision of humanitarian aid or access to food and medical equipment."

And he considered that these sanctions "constitute a serious threat to the lives and livelihood of Syrians and negatively affect the country's economy."

The new European sanctions targeted two cousins of President Bashar al-Assad on charges of involvement in smuggling operations of the narcotic Captagon, of which Saudi Arabia is the largest market.

The European Union followed the example of the United States and Britain after imposing sanctions on Syrians, including Assad's cousins, on charges of smuggling Captagon.

European sanctions also affected Syrian officials on charges of violating human rights, and institutions on charges of sending Syrian raw materials to Russia.

Following the devastating earthquake, the European Union announced a temporary easing of the sanctions imposed on Syria in order to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid to the affected areas.

However, the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs considered in its statement that "the exceptions that the European Union boasts about have no effect at all, but rather are for media propaganda and concealing the truth of its policies towards Syria."

Among the dozens of paintings that were in the Sursock Museum of Fine Art in Beirut and were distorted by the city's port explosion on August 4, 2020, three are linked to personalities who "contributed to the renaissance of Lebanese cultural life." They returned on Tuesday to their place after a rescue operation at the French Pompidou Center.

The director of the Sursock Museum of Ancient and Contemporary Art, Karina El-Helou, told AFP that the three paintings that were hung on Tuesday were sent to Paris for restoration after the terrible explosion that damaged the neighborhoods near the port, and the museum is located in one of them, “because repairing them was difficult and complicated compared to other pieces of art.” affected.”

El-Helou added, "These paintings underwent months of work in the Department of Art Preservation at the Center Pompidou," one of the largest museums of modern and contemporary art in the world, to return to how they were.

With great care, Malik El Setif, who has been working in the museum for about nine years, took out the carefully packed paintings from their wooden boxes at the end of last week, while he was wearing gloves.

The first piece, drawn by the Dutchman Kees Van Dongen in the thirties of the twentieth century, represents the founder of the museum, Nicolas Sursock, sitting on a chair, and it was subjected to a deep horizontal tear near the eye. The painting will be installed where it was, in Nicolas Sursock's office on the second floor. "It was as if she was sick and had traveled to seek treatment," says Al-Stif.

Al-Helou recounts that Dongen, of Dutch origin, who was living in France, visited Beirut at that time and painted several portraits in the Lebanese capital for families from this region and clerics. And she stresses that "this painting has an important meaning in the museum's collection, as it confirms Lebanon's openness to the West and Beirut's pioneering role, as foreign artists used to visit it."

When the owner of Setif opened the second box, an oil painting by the Lebanese painter Paul Guiragossian entitled "Consolation" appeared in it, pulsating with tenderness and overshadowed by the white color. Al-Helou explains that Paul Guiragossian, one of the most prominent faces of Lebanese plastic art, was "affected by the war and distinguished by drawing the mother carrying her son."

El-Helou admired the restoration of the cracks in the third panel with fiery colors, and noticed the delicate work in weaving each thread of this personal drawing (portrait) dating back to 1967 by Sissi Tamazio Sursock, and representing the painter Odile Mazloum, who established an art gallery in Beirut, "and she was Since the sixties, he has been one of the most prominent cultural figures in Beirut.
The importance of the three paintings lies in the fact that they express "Beirut's cultural and artistic memory," according to El-Helou, who recalls that "Nicolas Sursock, Odile Mazloum, and Paul Guiragossian contributed to the renaissance of cultural life in Lebanon."

However, these paintings were not the only ones on which the Beirut explosion depicted the effects of the disaster. At the time of the explosion, which resulted in more than 200 dead and six thousand wounded, the Beirut Museum was holding two exhibitions, one of which included 26 impressionistic and expressive paintings by the pioneering Lebanese plastic artist George Daoud Corm (1896-1971), while the second collected more than 100 artworks by twenty-one plastic artists, from Among them are paintings in the museum's permanent collection.

The first and second floors, which housed the two galleries, were severely damaged. The walls cracked, the ornate wooden doors were shattered, and the high stained glass windows crumbled.

The fragments of glass and doors tore most of these paintings and the collapse of the suspended ceilings left white spots on them, while some of the paintings lost their colors.

In October 2020, the museum's curators finished removing the dust from more than 1,500 works of art that were safely preserved in underground layers, and consequently did not suffer any damage. In November, the dust was removed from the books and documents that adorned the museum's library.

The museum’s team specialized in restoration carried out the return of a large number of the sixty-six damaged pieces, including paintings and sculptures, to their previous state “in an elaborate manner, with the support of the French National Institute of Heritage,” according to El-Helou, and “his success in this task strengthened confidence in the role of the museum.” And he raised "the relief of the families of the late artists, whose paintings the museum owns."

Al-Helou stresses that the museum seeks to strengthen and develop this section, which is the most prominent in Lebanon in this field.

The museum is located in the Sursock neighborhood in Beirut, in a palace built by Nicolas Sursock, who was passionate about the arts, in 1912. In his will before his death in 1952, Sursock presented his palace to the Beirut Municipality to convert it into an art museum. It was opened for the first time in the year 1961.

Today, Tuesday, a citizen was killed and others were injured in a family quarrel in Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

According to police spokesman Ayman al-Batniji, the police took control of the place and arrested the perpetrators.

While the legal procedures are being completed in the case.

An atmosphere of sadness and pain prevailed in the house of the Jaradat family in the town of Silat al-Harithiya, west of Jenin, as they received the happy Eid al-Fitr, in the absence of their captive son Ahmed Rami Jaradat, and were denied his visit. The beginning of the holy month of Ramadan.

The forty-year-old mother, Hanan Jaradat, who suffers from a chronic respiratory disease in the lung, and lives on medication, resisted her tears while talking about her firstborn, who is still arrested. In front of her family, who is sad about the absence of everyone's beloved Ahmed.

And she adds: "The Lord of the Worlds knows my condition and my circumstances, and my heart bleeds for his separation. We missed him with agony and heartbreak at the tables of Ramadan, and after that came the feast, which was sad and painful. There was no feast in our family, and our feasts and joys are captive until his freedom."

And she continues: "In light of the occupation's refusal to release him, we have nothing left but to conjure up Ahmed's pictures, to decorate every nook and cranny in our house, as well as on the Ramadan table, and also in the days of the upcoming Eid, so that he will be with us and reunite us, because his spirit will not leave us despite the restrictions and imprisonment in which he became a prisoner." With Omri Ahmed.

22 years ago, Ahmed al-Nour was born in his hometown of Silat al-Harithiya, to be the firstborn of his family of 8 members, and his mother says: “His birth made us happy, and I still remember our celebrations and the distribution of sweets, because he was the firstborn who was distinguished by all good qualities, throughout his life and upbringing, he learned in the schools of our town Until he finished high school, then went to work in the construction field.

And she adds: "Despite his young age, he took responsibility to help support our family, because his father cannot work permanently and regularly, because he has been injured since the first intifada, and he did not receive any assistance from any party, although bullet fragments are still present in his lung to this day, knowing that he was arrested and spent 4 years in Israeli prisons, and he was released after the signing of the Oslo Accords.

The patient mother embraces pictures of her son, whom she describes as "the supporter, the hero, and the breadwinner for his family. He was dedicated to his work to provide us with a decent life, until the occupation arrested him and put him behind bars."

And she adds: "When Ahmed was with his father, at their place of work inside, the Israeli special units and an army force raided the site, surrounded them without explaining the reasons, and brutally beat my husband and son, then arrested them and transferred them to an unknown destination."

And she continues: "After hours, my husband was released, but Ahmed was transferred to the interrogation cells in Al-Jalama prison, and he was detained for two months amid isolation, torture, and the interruption of news of him and preventing his visits, which increased our anxiety and fear, because he does not belong to a party and does not practice any activity, and he lives his life for us only."

The sick mother waited for Ahmed to return to his home, and she is all confident, as she says, that his arrest is arbitrary and unjust, but the occupation made her life difficult, as she tells, by transferring him after the end of the investigation to Megiddo prison, and she says: “The occupation dissipated our joy with the advent of the month of Ramadan, by continuing his arrest, and amid preventing us from visiting him, The Salem Court extended his detention 6 times, without knowing the charges against him.

And she continues: "In every session, we live through nightmares of anxiety and tension because we do not know his fate. The court refuses to release him, and the occupation is still masterful in punishing us and taking revenge on us by preventing us from visiting him except during the sessions of the military court in Salem, without allowing us to speak to him."

In every conversation and council, the name and name of Ahmed is not missing, especially for his sister Rama, who is a year younger than him. Every day she stands in front of his pictures to call him and talk to him, and her mother says: “My daughter Rama has a close relationship with her brother, every moment and second, she agonizes over his separation, she did not dry up.” Her tears for losing him, as they are friends and his soul mate, and she considers him every beautiful thing in her life.

And she adds, "Often we get up from our sleep, looking for him, and when we find his bed empty, we embrace his belongings and clothes, and we pray to the Lord of the Worlds, that his absence will not be long, and that he will return to us soon."

Japanese startup ispace aims to become the first private company to land a robot on the moon.

The Hakuto-R lander is expected to start landing on the lunar surface at around 15:40 GMT if all goes according to plan.

The vehicle slows down about 100 kilometers above the lunar surface, then adjusts and corrects its altitude to perform a "soft landing" after about an hour.

However, the success of the mission is not guaranteed. In April 2019, the "Berecht" probe, which was manufactured by the Israeli company "SpaceIL", crashed on the surface of the moon.

iSpace has announced three alternative landing sites and could push the date of the operation to April 26 or May 1 or 3, depending on circumstances.

The spacecraft, which measures two by two and a half meters, entered the lunar orbit last month, after it was launched in December from the American base of Cape Canaveral, mounted on a SpaceX rocket.

Only the United States, Russia and China have so far been able to land robots on the surface of the moon, located 400,000 km from Earth.

Japan and the United States announced last year their intention to cooperate to send a Japanese astronaut to the moon by the end of the decade.

The robot carries several lunar vehicles, including a Japanese miniature model developed by the Japanese Space Agency in collaboration with toy maker Takara Tomy.

The Japanese spacecraft also carries another lunar vehicle, the Emirati lunar explorer "Rashid", which was designed and built by the United Arab Emirates. In the event that "Rashid" succeeds in landing, he will carry out the first Arab mission on the moon.

The "Hakuto" ("White Rabbit" in Japanese) project was one of five projects that reached the final stage of the international "Google Lunar Express" competition, for which no winner was announced, as no company was able to land a robot before the deadline (2018).

The Prisoners Club held the Occupation Prisons Administration fully responsible for the life and fate of the prisoner Amr Hamil (47 years old) from the town of Bardala / Tubas, after he suffered a stroke on April 20, while he was in (Raymond) prison.

In a statement, the club confirmed that the occupation prison administration carried out the crime of medical negligence (slow killing) against him by delaying his transfer to the hospital, despite the appearance of clear symptoms confirming that they were symptoms of a stroke, and after pressure from the prisoners on the prison administration, he was transferred to a hospital ( Soroka), 30 hours after the onset of symptoms.

He indicated that the main symptoms he suffered from were difficulty speaking, inability to move one of his hands and one of his legs, and vision problems. Later, after he was transferred to Soroka Hospital, he was transferred to the Ramleh Prison Clinic.

The Captive Club stated that the prisoner Hamil has been detained since 2006, along with a group of prisoners who were kidnapped from Jericho prison at the time, and he is sentenced to life imprisonment.

It is noteworthy that the captive Hamil is married and has a son and a son.

Three children were killed and two injured today (Tuesday) as a result of a landmine explosion planted by the US forces in the vicinity of the Qasrak area, north of the Syrian city of Hasakah, according to the official media.

And the Syrian News Agency (SANA), quoting civil sources, reported that "a landmine planted by the American occupation forces to fortify its base in the Qasrak area, 20 km east of Tal Tamr in the countryside of Hasakah, exploded with a group of children who were collecting basalt stones for construction in the area."

The sources pointed out that the explosion killed two girls directly, and the others were transferred to Tal Tamr Hospital, where a third child died later, as a result of severe injuries, indicating that two children are in critical condition.

The Syrian government considers the presence of US forces on its territory illegal, and demands their departure sooner or later.

Syria also accuses the United States of stealing Syrian oil and wheat from its lands and expelling it outside Syrian territory towards Iraq.

A 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit Tuesday off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, according to the US Geological Survey, forcing residents to resort to heights before a tsunami warning was raised.

The epicenter of the earthquake, which occurred at three o'clock local time (Monday at 20:00 GMT), was located near the coast of the Mentawi Islands, at a depth of 15.5 kilometers, according to the US agency.

No casualties or major damage were recorded.

"The tremor was so strong that we had difficulty standing up and getting out. We had difficulty getting out of the house and had to hold on to the walls," said Patrice Sanini, a resident of Siberut, the largest of the Mentawi islands.

"It is the strongest earthquake this year. I thought a tsunami would happen. Fortunately, no tsunami was recorded," he added.

The Indonesian Geophysics Agency issued a warning of a possible tsunami and kept it for about two hours, after initially announcing that the earthquake was more powerful.

Indonesia experiences regular seismic and volcanic activity due to its location on the "Ring of Fire" in the Pacific Ocean, where several tectonic layers collide.

The deadliest earthquake occurred in Indonesia on December 26, 2004 off the coast of Sumatra, killing more than 230,000 people in Sri Lanka, India and even Thailand.

It caused huge waves, some as high as 30 meters, on the coast of Banda Aceh in northern Sumatra. The magnitude of this earthquake was 9.1 degrees.

Today, Tuesday, Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh confirmed the regularity of the educational process in all 1,910 schools in the West Bank.

This came during his tour of the schools in Ramallah and Al-Bireh to check on the progress of the educational process.

Shtayyeh said: "There is not a single school that is idle, but rather some teachers are still not enrolled in their schools."

He reassured the parents that the high school exam will be held at the previously scheduled date, and that the academic year will be open until the full curriculum is completed.

Shtayyeh stressed that the government responded to all initiatives presented by civil society and factions, and a number of national figures, and what was reported by the Central Committee of the "Fatah" movement, but there are those who want to divert the teachers' demands from their union path.

He said, "The Council of Ministers asked the Ministry of Education to prepare everything necessary, within the framework of the law, to return the education process to its normal course."

The family of prisoner Majd Ahmed Amarneh (51 years old) from the town of Ya`bad in Jenin, known as Sheikh Izz al-Din Amarneh, confirmed that he has been on hunger strike for three days, rejecting his administrative detention.

The Captive Club stated that the occupation forces arrested Amarneh on February 21, 2022, and three administrative detention orders were issued against him, the first and second orders for a period of 6 months, while a third order was issued against him last March for a period of four months, and thus he has spent 14 years in the current detention. One month, bearing in mind that he is a former prisoner who spent about nine years, most of which were under administrative detention.

The club pointed out that Amarneh is blind and suffers from several health problems, and he needs care and treatment.

The prisoner has five sons and daughters. His male sons are detained in the occupation prisons alongside him, and they are Ahmed and Mujahid.

His son Ahmed is in administrative detention, while his son Mujahid is serving a 24-month prison sentence.

Today, Sheikh Amarneh and his two sons are in the Negev prison.

A bus carrying about 50 Filipinos who were caught in the middle of the clashes in Sudan has left the country's capital Khartoum for the northern border with Egypt, a spokeswoman for the Philippine Foreign Ministry said today (Tuesday).

"At 8 pm Manila time yesterday, the first batch (about 50 Filipinos) left Khartoum by land," spokeswoman Teresita Daza said.

From the border, Daza explained that the Filipinos will be transferred to the city of Aswan and then to the Egyptian capital, Cairo.

In turn, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Eduardo de Vega said in a radio interview today (Tuesday) that the Philippine embassy in Cairo will provide accommodation and plane tickets for Filipinos.

According to de Vega, there are about 700 Filipinos in Sudan according to the latest census. However, he noted that only about 300 Filipinos expressed their desire to leave Sudan.

He confirmed that the bus left Khartoum on its way to the border, adding that "traveling from Khartoum to the border takes about 20 hours. It's about 1,000 km."

In addition to the first batch of 50 Filipinos included in the evacuation process, de Vega indicated that at least 20 Filipinos were expelled from Sudan by their employers, indicating that the priority of the Philippines is to expel the Filipinos from Sudan with the validity of the ceasefire and return them to their homes.

Violent clashes broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces on April 15 in the capital, Khartoum, and elsewhere.

The Sudanese Ministry of Health said that the bloody clashes left more than 400 dead and about 4,000 wounded.

Today, Tuesday, the Israeli occupation authorities released the prisoner, Hassan Abu Mustafa (51 years), from Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, after a year and a half.

It is noteworthy that the editor, Abu Mustafa, was arrested by the occupation forces at the Beit Hanoun/Erez checkpoint while he was accompanying his wife for treatment.

At least 110 people were arrested Tuesday in Turkey in an operation that falls within the framework of "fighting terrorism" and targets the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a police source told AFP.

The operation, which came three weeks before crucial elections in Turkey, was carried out in 21 provinces, including the Kurdish-majority Diyarbakir in southeastern Turkey.

"The total number of arrests may reach 150," the Diyarbakir Bar Association said, including "twenty lawyers, five journalists, three theater actors and a politician."

The syndicate stated that the lawyers were prevented from communicating with their clients for 24 hours.

The non-governmental organization MLSA for the Defense of Freedoms stated that "the homes of many people, including journalists, lawyers and officials of non-governmental organizations, were searched in the early hours of the morning."

Presidential and legislative elections will be held on May 14 in Turkey, and will decide whether or not President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his party will remain in power.

The opposition is running in the elections as a united front of six parties that chose one candidate for the presidency, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, backed by the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).

Today, Tuesday, the Prisoners' Club said, "The occupation's continued detention of the prisoner, Khader Adnan, is a death sentence against him, 80 days after his open hunger strike, and when he reached a very dangerous health stage."

And the club confirmed in a statement that, despite the state of his health, the occupation refuses to this day to respond to his demand to end his detention, and also refuses to allow his family to visit him, and refuses to transfer him permanently to a (civilian) hospital, and every time he is transferred to The hospital sent him back under the pretext that he refused to take the supports and to conduct medical examinations.

During a visit that the lawyer made to him yesterday in (Ramla) prison, the visit was interrupted after he lost consciousness, without knowing what happened to him later, as the prison administration informed the lawyer that they would transfer him to the hospital.

It is noteworthy that a court session was held the day before yesterday for the prisoner, Sheikh Adnan, and he attended it via video conference, during which he lost consciousness several times, and suffered severe convulsions, and the court also refused his lawyer's request to release him.

Official data showed that the exemption from tax on the purchase of new energy vehicles in China increased by 36 percent year on year in the first quarter of 2023, as part of the country's continuous efforts to boost consumption of such vehicles and drive green development.

Data from the National Taxation Authority revealed that tax exemptions worth 21.24 billion yuan (about 3.09 billion U.S. dollars) were provided from January to March 2023.

China has implemented a policy of exemption from tax on the purchase of new energy vehicles since 2014, to support the development of this sector, as it was announced in September 2022 that this preferential tax policy would be extended until the end of this year.

Those tax incentives partly contributed to the rapid growth of China's NEV sector over the years, as retail sales of NEVs jumped 22.4 percent year on year to 1.31 million units, according to industry data.

Today, Tuesday, the Syndicate of Dentists, Pharmacists, and Medical Imaging Technicians and Specialists announced a comprehensive strike, starting today.

The dentists and sonographers unions confirmed in separate statements that the comprehensive strike will start from today until Thursday, while the Pharmacists Syndicate confirmed that the strike will start from today until another statement is issued by the union.

The Dentists Syndicate called for preparations for a sit-in in front of the Council of Ministers next week, with a date set for the end of this week.

She also called on everyone to assume their responsibilities and implement the agreement publicly and through a meeting with the President of the Dentists Syndicate, representatives of the Syndicate, the Prime Minister, the Minister of Health and the concerned authorities, similar to the rest of the syndicates.

While the Pharmacists Syndicate stressed the need for pharmacists to commit to dispensing chemical drugs to oncology patients without resolving them.

The union strike comes in light of the continued intransigence of the Palestinian government and its insistence on not respecting its pledges and commitments, and what has been reached and announced.

The UAE's "Hope" space probe, which entered the orbit of Mars two years ago, was able to observe the small moon of the red planet "Deimos" with great accuracy, shedding light on the origin of this strange moon.

The “Hope” probe, which constitutes the first interplanetary mission for an Arab country, was able to fly less than 110 kilometers from “Deimos”, which is an irregular rocky body whose size does not exceed 12 kilometers and is similar in shape to a bean, while it represents one of the two moons of Mars along with the largest moon. Phobos size.

This is the first time since the Viking mission in 1977 that a spacecraft has succeeded in flying closely over the moon, which has not been observed much, as indicated by officials of the Emirates Mars Exploration Mission, during a meeting of the European Geophysics Union in Vienna.

During its flight over "Deimos" on a mission launched last January, the "Hope" space probe succeeded in observing the moon with great accuracy, thanks to the EXI camera, which provides high-resolution color images in multiple wavelengths.

These images revealed the "dark side" of the small moon, which orbits at a distance of 23,000 km from Mars, which has not been studied after its formation.

"We are not sure of the origin of Phobos and Deimos," said Hessa Al Matroushi, the scientific official of the "Emirates Mars Exploration Mission," in a statement.

And she added, "One of the old theories indicates that the two moons were asteroids coming from the asteroid belt that were observed in the orbit of the Red Planet."

However, the accurate observations provided by the "Hope" probe suggest that the two moons are of planetary origin. Christopher Edwards, the scientist responsible for one of the probe's tools, stated that "Deimos" has, like "Phobos", "infrared-related properties close to the basaltic rocks of Mars more than to the basalt rocks of the meteorite that fell near Tagish Lake" in Canada.

And the UAE Prime Minister and rulers of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, published, through his Twitter account, a picture of the moon "Deimos", and wrote: "The probe showed that the moon was part of Mars and separated from it millions of years ago."

The "Hope" space probe will continue to fly over "Deimos" throughout 2023 to collect more data, as indicated by the UAE Space Agency, which decided to extend the Mars mission for an additional year.

In February 2021, the Emirati probe entered the orbit of Mars, becoming the first Arab country to do so.
The Gulf state plans to send an unmanned robot to the moon by 2024.

It seemed certain that violence had become a phenomenon in the Arab community in the country, rather it had become one of the distinctive and dangerous phenomena in it.

It is noted that it has increased dramatically since the beginning of 2000 and immediately after the suppression of the uprising of the Palestinian people at home and in the West Bank, when despair seeped into the hearts of Arab youth, and they began to live in a vicious circle without finding any looming solutions to their life problems. Young people did not set their sights on any political, economic or social goals.

It seems that the lack of Arab political leadership or the weakness of this leadership is one of the factors that brought society into this vicious circle, which began to permeate and develop rapidly in a capitalist society that sanctifies money and economic freedom, which began to seem difficult and out of reach for these young people.

At the same time, Israeli society developed widely towards capitalism and absolute economic freedom and took a course towards globalization and integration into the global economy.

Large segments of Israeli society enjoyed this economic recovery, and an economic middle class in Jewish society began to take shape, while in this same period of time large segments of Arab society retreated and were no longer part of the general economic community, to be on the poverty line. While the percentage of the Arab population in the country reached 22%, their percentage lying on the poverty line reached about 50%. We can add the fierce economic policy of persecution pursued by successive Israeli governments towards Arab citizens, including with regard to restricting housing, building and licensing spaces in Arab villages and cities, as an important factor in tightening the neck of poverty on the necks of Arab society.

At the same time that the governments of Israel began the process of distributing the population of the Jews from the center to the suburbs and the outskirts of the Galilee, the Triangle and the Negev, they began to thrust the Arab population into ghettos in these villages and cities, and used an iron fist related to preventing the expansion of these areas and used a strict demolition policy such as the Kamenetz Law, where it is considered This is the only law of its kind in the world in which Arab homes are demolished under the pretext of not obtaining a permit.

This policy of restriction had the greatest impact, which led to the spread and spread of poverty and the escape of tens of thousands of Arab youth towards an unknown economic and life future that lacked any professional or scientific frameworks for these youth, in addition to the demographic increase in the Arab population to reach 2.2 million out of 9 Millions of people, which is the population of Israel. And at a time when many young people did not find the correct economic professional life path, the slide towards violence and violent internal strife accelerated, which has killed annually since 2010 about 1,500 people, or more than 120 deaths per year.

And after the signs of a new globalization appeared in the Arab society, represented by a rapid decline in the authority of the father and the head of the family, new phenomena of violence increased, such as family and tribal conflicts, which appeared evident in every village and city and left new victims incurred by this society, which was once a conservative society par excellence.
The shape of the Arab village and city and the lack of a strong local authority or municipality controlling local cultural, educational and economic matters were also among the factors hindering keeping pace with development and drawing up plans related to building the new Arab man. The Arab masses made a mistake when they continued to elect incompetent people over decades, so that they had a decisive role in delaying the Arab society, because they do not have the foundations and means to walk with the pace of modern societies. Despite this, our society continues to put them on the front lines.

In the face of these structural and fundamental changes in a country that looks down on the Arab citizen, especially in the field of media, state institutions, and the police, the National Law that was enacted several years ago clearly recognized that Arab citizens are second-class citizens and could be third-class or more, and in this article I will not I focus on the policy of discrimination, but rather on its consequences, with regard to the escalation of violence in Arab society. In early April 2023, Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir leaked a secret conversation with Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai, in which they talked about violence in the Arab sector. Among what the commissioner said is that the nature of Arabs is violence and killing, and we cannot do much to prevent that; As for Bin Ghfir, his goal is clear, which is to gain governmental and public support in order to establish an armed national guard that roams the country north and south and mainly targets Arabs. As for the commissioner-general, his goals are different. He does not do anything to curb crime in the Arab sector, but rather can help fuel it. In an interview in mid-April 23, Shabtai said that the police are primarily interested in policing the Jewish community in the first place, and then preserving the widespread protests throughout the country; That is, violence in the Arab sector is not one of its priorities. If, for example, a double murder occurred in the Triangle or the Negev, the police would come after some time to record its report on this incident, but they do not care and do not make an effort to investigate and solve the mystery of the crime because it affects the spending of budgets in other places in the center. The Jew, so that the Arab community remains languishing and suffering from the escalation of this scourge.

Another aspect that researchers deal with in the issue of increasing violence in the Arab sector is a comparative analysis. America, for example, pursued in the early sixties a harsh policy towards the black American community when it flooded them with weapons, which increased the killings there, and this continued until the early eighties when the black community raised its hands completely in front of the white American regime. Towards the Arab minority, with everything related to the increase in violence and its victims, and the impasse to stop it. .

But the certain inevitable result is that Israel, through the increase of this violence in the Arab milieu, has achieved complete inferiority towards the Arabs in Israeli society, so that the Hebrew news bulletins start with killings in the Negev, the Galilee and the Triangle, and there are Israeli journalists appointed for this purpose and follow up the numbers of dead and the places of violence, but they do not They do anything to stop this scourge, as the Arab public wakes up daily to injuries and killings between criminal gangs and victims who are killed by mistake as well.

In the face of the exacerbation of this phenomenon, we do not see any local Arab movement to confront it rigorously by the heads of local councils, municipalities and Arab representatives regardless of their party affiliations, and civil society associations who must work on finding clear-cut strategies and seek the help of researchers and experts in crime and society, and work in a comparative research manner. With phenomena that occurred in other places in the world, they also have to meet and come up with quick results to confront this phenomenon at the local, governmental and global levels.

Since the occurrence of the Nakba in 1948, the Palestinian camps have remained one of the greatest real witnesses to the suffering of the Palestinian people, living witnesses to the Zionist crimes against them, and one of the greatest symbols of Palestinian suffering. At the same time, it emerged as one of the biggest signs of Palestinian patience, steadfastness, and giving, and the insistence that asylum is temporary, pending return to Palestine. However, these camps, especially in the diaspora, have become vulnerable to calamities. The Palestinian refugees paid a heavy bill as a result of Western hypocrisy that devoted all the conditions for a decent life to Ukrainian refugees. Poverty and hunger are two different things between this and that Palestinian refugee who languishes in refugee camps in Lebanon that do not have the minimum living conditions. There is no infrastructure, no government interest, they have no civil and economic rights, they have no freedom of movement and travel, and they are deprived of health and medical care.

The situation is not much different for the Palestinian refugees in Syria, for they have another tragedy, how can they not? They are the ones who fled one war only to find another war whose profound repercussions were reflected on them in killing, displacement, arrest and displacement.

To be a Palestinian is not a requirement to be a refugee outside your homeland. It is sufficient for you to be inside Gaza to feel that you are confined inside your motherland in a narrow strip between the sea and the territories occupied in 1948, where you face war and continuous siege, the impact of division, lack of job opportunities, not to mention the poor health conditions of the Palestinian camps. Where the situation is getting worse day by day as a result of the increasing population density, in addition to the diminishing services provided by the official authorities that do not care about the deteriorating conditions of the refugees inside the Strip, while the refugees in the West Bank camps suffer from the raids of the occupation forces, which continue to storm the Palestinian camps and launch daily arrest campaigns in the areas In different governorates of the West Bank, especially in the camps, where these arrests come to break the ember of the Palestinian refugee youth in the resistance, and this is in light of their insistence on struggle against the occupation in all its forms.

Of these camps, there are 58 camps officially registered with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Refugees, distributed among 19 camps in the West Bank, eight camps in the Gaza Strip, ten camps in Jordan, nine in Syria, and 12 camps in Lebanon, in addition to the camps not recognized by UNRWA in these areas, including them as well. What has been destroyed or relocated or closed.

While the number of Palestinian refugees registered with UNRWA is currently about five million and 400 thousand refugees, these are not all Palestinian refugees; Many Palestinians refused to register with UNRWA to dispense with its services, just as many Palestinians did not register themselves for residing outside the UNRWA areas of work, which are confined to the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.

At the beginning of the asylum, many Palestinians in the camps refused to convert the tents they live in into buildings, but the prolonged suffering imposed itself on their reality, and they were forced to gradually adapt to their conditions. of constant daily suffering.

Despite the replacement of the tent with mud houses, and then cement, the camp has preserved its name in the collective consciousness of the Palestinians, as a kind of desire to be an emergency place for temporary residence. The Palestinian suffering, at the same time, emerged as one of the features of patience, steadfastness, giving, and the Palestinian struggle. From the heart of the camp, revolutionary movements emerged, and the children of the refugees were soldiers for struggle and resistance. The camp was and still is a motive for liberating the land and achieving return.

The refugee camps were and still are the body that haunts the governments of Israel, so it sought to draw up plans and projects to end the existence of the camps and liquidate them in an attempt to dissolve the refugees in the local environment and end the role of the UNRWA, David Ben-Gurion, the Israeli Prime Minister stated in March 1957, while Israel was preparing To withdraw from the Gaza Strip, that the Gaza Strip will remain a source of problems unless the refugees settle elsewhere.

It also came in Sharon's autobiography, saying: (I believe that it is time to solve the Palestinian refugee problem, and I am ready to do so, and it will be in our interest to a large extent to eliminate it once and for all, and in my opinion such a matter is possible), as that was the basis of Sharon's plan And get rid of the Palestinian refugee camps completely.

Attempts to target the UNRWA by reducing services and changing the pattern of distributing social relief are nothing but a desperate attempt to liquidate them, because Israel believes that by improving the conditions of the camps and canceling the role of the UNRWA, the Palestinian refugees will not be required to return, and the place in which they reside will be imposed on them as a place of permanent residence, because the return of the Palestinian refugees to Their homes and land are not in the interest of Israel in terms of its fear of the demographic dimension on the state of the entity and its constant endeavor to establish a pure Jewish state in occupied Palestine, provided that it is devoid of any presence of the Arab element.

As for the key, which we must not forget, the key is one of the most important symbols by which Palestinians express their adherence to the right to return to the lands occupied in 1948. The symbolism of this key is no longer limited to refugees only, but has become a collective culture in the Palestinian consciousness and among non-refugees in the West Bank. And Gaza and in the diaspora

The key took other forms, and turned into an essential element in the stories and poems of asylum, and in plastic art, and became competing with the keffiyeh in denoting Palestinian identity, and some designed the largest key to show the extent of interest in it

Many of the refugees from the West Bank camps and others still keep the keys to their homes that they brought with them in the year of the Nakba, while those who met their term delivered it, rather they inherited it from parents to their children and grandchildren. We say that fathers die and children do not forget.

In order for the US policy to turn to balance, justice and objectivity, it must look at Palestine as it looks at Ukraine, and deal with Palestine as it deals with Ukraine.

Washington considers the Russian invasion of Ukraine an aggression and occupation, which it condemns, and is working against it diplomatically, politically, financially, securityly, and militarily.

Therefore, Washington must stand with Palestine against the colony, and against its occupation and oppression of the Palestinian people:

First: In order for it to be truly a balanced state that looks with respect at the right to self-determination for the Palestinians, and rejects the oppression, occupation and colonialism befalling the Palestinian people.

Second: Because Palestine, as a people and a state, with the approval of the United Nations and its resolutions, is exposed to occupation, colonialism, confiscation, and racial discrimination, and its people are subjected to its three components: 1- The Palestinians of the 48 areas, through discrimination and racism, 2- The Palestinians of the 67 areas, by occupation, oppression, military rule, and daily killing, 3- The Palestinians of asylum And homelessness and exile by denying the right to return to their homes and their possessions from which they were expelled.

Third: Because the colony is an expansionist colonial project, its practices denounce all United Nations resolutions and institutions, and it also refuses to implement all United Nations resolutions, and not to acquiesce in withdrawal. Its practices are also denounced by international institutions of importance and competence: 1- Israeli B'Tselem, 2- American Human Rights Watch, 3 - British Amnitsy, describing its behavior and dealing with the Palestinian people as apartheid.

In order for the United States to gain respect and balance, it must treat Palestine as it treats Ukraine, and treat the colony as it treats Russia, and impose sanctions on the colony as it imposes them on Russia. For the Syrians, and for southern Lebanon, not to be isolated in the United Nations when it stands with the colony and votes in favor of it with several few countries that do not exceed ten countries at best, when the Palestinian issue is presented to the United Nations institutions, and the cruelty and abuse the Palestinian people are subjected to at the hands of The colony and its tools are from the occupation army, its apparatus, and its settlers.

Washington's statements and stances towards Ukraine are provocative, the latest of which was what US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said about their support for Ukraine, while it stands with the colony in contradiction with humanitarian and moral standards because it stands with the most cruel, unjust and most obvious occupation in decades, and in this way it deals with double standards and inverted standards that make it lose its moral standing As a major foundation of the United Nations.

After the ten-hour battle that took place on the fifth of this month, in which missiles were launched from various directions, from southern Lebanon, Syria and the Gaza Strip, which came within the framework and context of the response by the Jerusalem axis to what the entity state had done in terms of targeting Al-Aqsa Mosque, whether by suppression. The brutality of the stationed and those who are in seclusion in the mosque or the insistence on continuing the incursions into it in the last ten days of the blessed month of Ramadan by extremist groups, and the efforts of those groups from what is known as the trustees of the temple and to return to the temple and all the groups branching from it, women for the sake of the temple and students for the sake of the temple, to introduce what It is known about the animal offerings of Easter to the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque and their slaughter therein, and their blood is scattered on the Dome of the Rock Mosque, the place where the so-called Third Temple will be built in its place. Known to revive the moral structure.

The response from the Jerusalem axis is with "unity of fire" and activating the fields of the axis arenas, and improving the paths of coordination between them to reach the equation "Tampering with Al-Aqsa is equivalent to a regional war", she said clearly by breaking the prestige of the entity state, which was broken more than once, and that battle proved that the prime minister of The Netanyahu entity, whose deep predicament is part of the entity's state crisis, was bridled and deterred, regardless of the factors and reasons for restraint and deterrence, whether internal political crisis, external pressures, or military security linked to the entity's security services.

Netanyahu, who has always bragged about the power of deterring the entity, and the harsh response to any act of resistance, we found that he tried to escape and avoid a response that would open the gates of hell for him and implicate him in a war on several fronts, and therefore the response was lackluster and limited, whether to the missiles launched from Lebanon or Syria Or the Gaza Strip, and it was a restricted and framed response, and instead of a response in which Netanyahu would restore deterrence, and prevent his options and responses from being restricted in the future, we found that the entity's deterrence was further eroded.

The state of the entity, due to the steadfastness of the stationed and those in retreat in Al-Aqsa, and the intervention by the Jerusalem axis through messages of fire and the unity of response, found itself compelled to take a decision for the first time, not through the prime minister of the entity and his police minister, but rather this decision needed the approval of the security and military institutions, to prevent groups Extremists prevented their incursions into Al-Aqsa during the last ten days of Ramadan, which angered Al-Fashi bin Ghafir, who rejected this decision, saying that it would increase escalation and weaken the entity’s police control over the situation in Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Netanyahu's internal political and personal crises and the pressures exerted on him internally by the opposition and his allies of Jewish fascism and externally, those crises that were sparked by what is known as legislative and judicial amendments, through which Netanyahu wanted to fortify himself, by controlling the judicial system, and weakening what is known as the authority of the Court of Justice The Supreme Court, by liberating the Knesset and the government from judicial oversight, but the widespread societal protests led by the opposition against that policy led by Netanyahu and his Minister of Justice "Yariv Levin", and which have been going on for sixteen weeks, despite Netanyahu's freezing of the decision to amend legislation, these protests, in which hundreds of thousands of people participated The Israelis were not confined to a specific group or sector, but included political forces, labor unions, the financial and banking sectors, professional unions, and what was known as the forces of resistance to dictatorship, and to extend to the security and military institutions, and to throw protests with their shadows and repercussions on the entity’s army, its readiness and readiness, and the atrophy of economic growth and the decline of the economy. And also on the credit rating of the entity's economy, the flight of capital and investment companies, and the increase in expelling immigration from the entity's country abroad.

Netanyahu is fully aware that the crises in his entity are deeper and more comprehensive than the issue of amending judicial legislation, which may push him to take military action to get out of this impasse. Gaza is likely to be the arena for this military escalation...but this escalation and aggression against the Gaza Strip are the same. By carrying out assassinations or waging a limited war, will Netanyahu get out of his crisis and prevent other fronts from joining the confrontation, especially since the Israeli Minister of Defense, Yoav Galant, stated clearly on Thursday 4/14/2023 the "end of the era of limited confrontations", and refers to " The necessity of preparing for war in all sectors at the same time, and Galant explained, according to the Israeli media, that the occupation army must prepare for a "multiple arena war, in which a real security threat is possible in all sectors, and at the same time."

He added, "This is the end of the era of limited confrontations," saying that "work has been, for years, assuming the possibility of limited confrontations, but this phenomenon is disappearing. Today, there is a prominent phenomenon, which is the merging of arenas.

Will Netanyahu be able to restore the deterrence force and unify the internal front of the entity state behind him to escape the issue of legislative amendments...or will the entity find itself facing more erosion of the deterrence force and that Gaza swallows Netanyahu and loses his political and personal future..?? … Questions that will be answered by developments with the end of the month of Ramadan and the end of the holidays of the entity state, the Holocaust, the “independence” day, the Nakba of our people, and the memory of what is known as the “unification” of Jerusalem, the completion of the occupation of the eastern part of it.

Apple Tech has developed two Daisy robots, one in Austin, Texas and the other in Breda, the Netherlands, that can each recycle up to 200 smartphones per hour.

The robot can recover various components of its machines in order to recycle them.

It is updated regularly and is now able to recognize 23 different Apple product models.

The robot consists of articulated arms, each intended for a step in disassembling the smartphone. Everything is done on a small disassembly line inside a safe, glass-covered area, we got to see Daisy at work in Breda Holland.

Every smartphone goes through a very meticulous procedure. It starts with selecting the model (from iPhone 5 to 12), followed by detaching the screen from the rest of the components.

The device is then unlocked, and Daisy can remove its battery. This process is difficult; Because the iPhone battery is held in place by strong glue. To get rid of this, cold air must be blown over it for a few seconds.

The battery can then be restored without damage, after that, the various device screws are removed in order to separate and restore each component. These then fall onto a conveyor belt that leads to the exit, where a human operator sorts all this waste into large custom bins, and this is how every 18 seconds an entire iPhone is disassembled.

The result is a series of large boxes; Screens, batteries, front and rear cameras, connectors, etc. are collected separately.

It will then be sent to various partners around the world, in order to be recycled and put back on the market.

Ukraine's military expenditures increased by 640 percent in 2022 to about 44 billion US dollars, the Ukrainian state news agency Ukrinform reported on Monday.

The report said, quoting a report issued by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), that this rise in military spending, mainly caused by the Ukrainian crisis, is the highest in one year compared to military spending for any other country, according to the institute's data.

He added that defense spending last year accounted for 34 percent of Ukraine's GDP, compared to 3.2 percent in 2021.

Ukraine was the third largest importer of weapons in the world after Qatar and India last year, according to the aforementioned institute.

On Tuesday, civil trial procedures begin in the lawsuit filed by American E. Jane Carroll against former President Donald Trump, accusing him of raping her during the nineties of the last century.

On Tuesday, the jury selection process is scheduled to begin to consider the case in which the 79-year-old journalist says that the former Republican president assaulted her in a store in New York City, and defamed her when she revealed the incident years later.

Trump denies the charges against him in a case that is only one of a series of legal procedures he faces that may hinder his candidacy for the 2024 US elections and his quest for a second term in the White House, where he spent four years between 2017 and 2021.

The start of the new trial procedures comes after Trump appeared in court in early April in criminal cases related to paying money to a former porn star to buy her silence before the 2016 presidential elections, which he won at the expense of his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.

Trump became the first former or sitting US president to be charged with a criminal offense, and he also pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Carroll, a former journalist and opinion writer for Elle magazine, says that Trump raped her in the dressing room of a luxury clothing store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan in the mid-nineties, noting that this assault occurred after the wealthy American asked for her opinion on shopping.

Carroll revealed this for the first time in excerpts from her book published by New York Magazine in 2019.

Trump responded at the time, saying that he had never met her and that she was a "total lie".

The journalist sued Trump for defamation for the first time in 2019, but was unable to include the rape charge because the statutory statute of limitations had expired.

However, a new law that became effective in New York as of November gives rape victims the right to sue even if decades have passed since they were sexually assaulted.

It gives them one year, after its issuance, to do so.

Carroll's lawyers filed a complaint accusing Trump of beating her "when he raped her and forcibly grabbed her."

The complaint also includes a charge of defamation over a post by Trump on social media platforms, in which he deemed her "insane."

The complaint sought unspecified damages for psychological harm, pain and suffering, insult to dignity, and reputational damage.

Trump is not expected to testify, as Carroll's lawyers confirmed that they do not intend to request to hear him in the trial, which is expected to extend from one to two weeks.

Among the most prominent cases haunting the forty-fifth president of the United States are the accusations leveled against him of exerting pressure on officials of the electoral process in the state of Georgia in 2020, and an investigation regarding his handling of the White House archives.

Kyrylo Budanov, head of Ukraine's Military Intelligence Agency, said that Kiev is in talks with Moscow about the exchange of all prisoners of war on both sides, local media reported on Monday.

In an interview with RBC-Ukraine, Budanov said that the two countries are "in principle close" to an agreement that envisages the release of all prisoners of war on both sides.

He pointed out that Russia has released more than 2,220 Ukrainian prisoners since the start of the prisoner exchange process.

According to the Ukrainian authorities, Ukraine and Russia have conducted more than 40 prisoner exchanges since the first exchange took place between them in March 2022.