Paris Saint-Germain regained its six-point lead over its direct rival, Lens, which it will meet next week, by defeating its host, Nice, with two clean goals, on Saturday, in the thirtieth stage of the French Football Championship .

And Saint-Germain raised its score to 69 points, compared to 63 for Lens, who won Strasbourg 2-1 on Friday, in the opening stage.

Nice entered the match unbeaten in its last 14 matches in various competitions (8 wins and 6 draws), which is the second best series in its history after the first between August and November 1984. Nor has it lost in the last 10 matches it played at home. In the league (5 wins and 5 draws).

Paris Saint-Germain defender Marquinhos played his 400th match with his team, becoming the third most represented player in his ranks in various competitions after Jean-Marc Bellorget (435) and Italian Marco Verratti (409).
On the other hand, Christophe Galtier, coach of the capital team, was facing his former team.

Galtier is facing great pressure on the head of the technical staff of Saint-Germain, especially after his exit from the Champions League, with his team losing back and forth in the final price against Bayern Munich, and the level of his team has declined in recent weeks after losing two consecutive matches at home to Rennes and Lyon in the last two stages.

And after the Portuguese Danilo hit the post with a header (22), Argentine Lionel Messi, who was booed by Saint-Germain supporters in the last two matches, succeeded in scoring, taking advantage of a cross pass from the Portuguese Nuno Mendes (26).
Messi raised his tally to 14 goals in the league this season, with 13 assists as well.

Nice responded with shy attempts in general, before Italian Saint-Germain goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma brilliantly saved a cunning header from Terim Movie in the last minute of the first half.

Nice pressed at the beginning of the second half, and Brazilian defender Dante almost equalized, but his ball hit the crossbar and then the post before Marquinhos distracted the danger (51).

Saint-Germain succeeded in settling the score in his favor when Messi raised a corner kick that was hit by veteran Spanish defender Sergio Ramos above everyone else and headed it into the net (76).

Angers, bottom of the standings, scored their first victory since last September, after beating Lille 1-0.

Angers raised its score to 14 points, but it is still strongly threatened with relegation to the second division, because it lags behind the last survivor of Auxerre, by 12 points, eight stages before the end of the league.
As for the fifth night, it missed the opportunity to tighten the pressure, even temporarily, on the fourth Monaco, which meets Nantes on Sunday, as it remained behind the Principality team by 5 points.

The last victory of Angers dates back to September 18, 2022, when it defeated Nice in the last home, to end a series of 21 matches without any victory.

Lille was the best party for most of the match and had possession of the ball by 67 percent, but without effectiveness, as it collided with an organized defensive bloc, behind which was the brilliant goalkeeper Paul Bernardoni, who saved more than one dangerous attempt for the northern team, specifically in front of Angel Gomez (5, 34 and 55), and also starred in the defense off his goal when he turned away a powerful ball from Canadian Jonathan David (70).
Bosnian substitute Halid Sabanović scored the match's only goal in the 84th minute.

Lazio strengthened its second position by defeating Juventus 2-1 in the twenty-ninth stage of the Italian Football Championship , which saw Rome rise to third place by beating its host Turin 1-0 on Saturday, taking advantage of the fall of Milan and its neighbor Inter in the trap of a tie with Empoli and Salernitana respectively 24 years ago. hour.

Lazio raised its tally to 58 points, 16 points behind Napoli, who are heading towards being crowned champions and ahead of their neighbor Roma by 5 points.

In turn, Roma is one point ahead of Milan and two points ahead of Inter, who scored one point in the last four matches.
At the Olympic Stadium in Rome, Juventus played the match in the absence of its coach, Massimiliano Allegri, who was ill.

Serbian international midfielder Sergey Milinkovic-Savic opened the scoring for Lazio (38), but French Juventus midfielder Adrien Rabiot equalized four minutes later, raising his tally to 10 goals in various competitions this season.

The last word was for Lazio, for whom Mattia Zakania scored the winning goal (53).

Juventus threw all its weight in the last quarter of an hour, but to no avail.
In Turin, and once again, Argentine striker Paulo Dybala saved his team, Roma, by scoring the only goal of the match from a penalty kick in the eighth minute in Turin's goal.

Dybala raised his tally to 11 goals this season, knowing that he moved to him early on, coming with a free deal from Juventus.

On the other hand, Atalanta stumbled, losing 2-0 to Bologna on Saturday, after two wins over Empoli and Cremonese.

The loss against Bologna is the ninth this season for Atalanta, to freeze its balance at 48 points in sixth place, and it is threatening not to participate in the Conference League competition if it continues to waste points.
Atalanta could have snatched fourth place from Inter by goal difference, had he emerged victorious this evening.

Unlike Atalanta, Bologna dreams of entering continental competitions for the first time in its history, as it occupies eighth place with 43 points, 5 points behind its host this evening, 9 stages before the end.

Bologna has not participated in continental competitions since reaching the third round of the Federation Cup (currently the Europa League) in 1999.
Bologna waited for the second half to score the two goals of the match through Nicola Sansone (49) and Riccardo Orsolini (86).

Bologna, which is supervised by the Italian-Brazilian coach Thiago Motta, is two points ahead of the ninth Fiorentina, whose series of consecutive victories ended at 9 after a 1-1 draw against its guest, Spezia.

Fiorentina advanced with a reverse goal from Polish defender Przemyslaw Wisniewski in his team’s goal (25), and French striker Mbala equalized for Spezia (32).

In the bottom struggle, Cremonese achieved only its second victory this season, at the expense of its host, Sampdoria, 3-2.
Cremonese snatched the three points in a dramatic match with two late goals from Georgian Luka Luchoshvili (85) and substitute defender Leonardo Cernicola (90 + 5).

Sampdoria maintained a 2-1 lead 5 minutes before normal time, after Algerian international Mehdi Leiris scored for him (15) and Dutch substitute Sam Lammers (66), while Cremonese narrowed the difference through Paolo Ghilioni (35), before collapsing and conceding two fatal goals. .
Cremonese left the bottom after raising its tally to 16 points, one point ahead of bottom club Sampdoria.

Bayern Munich maintained the lead and a two-point difference against its rivals and direct chaser Borussia Dortmund, by defeating its host Freiburg 1-0 in a revenge match, while the second snatched a difficult victory against its guest Union Berlin 2-1 on Saturday, in the 27th stage of the German Football League .

Bayern took revenge on Freiburg, who had knocked it out of the quarter-finals of the local cup competition by beating it 2-1 on Tuesday, while Borussia Dortmund returned to the winning streak after meeting Bayern's fate in the cup by losing to defending champion Leipzig 0-2, and giving up the lead to Bayern in particular by losing to him. 2-4 in the last stage.

Bayern, who achieved its seventeenth victory this season, raised its score to 58 points, two points ahead of Dortmund, who inflicted the sixth loss on Union Berlin III, with 51 points. Freiburg's balance froze at 47 points, dropping it to fifth place, a point behind Leipzig IV, who won 1-0 at Hertha Berlin.

The Bavaria giants, in their third match with their new coach Thomas Tuchel, who replaced Julian Nagelsmann, who was finally dismissed from his duties, have not tasted defeat since March 19 in the league (losing to Bayer Leverkusen 1-2).

Bayern prepared in the best way for its expected continental confrontation, after three days, in the English home of Manchester City, in the first leg of the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

Bayern's squad missed French defender Daewoo Upamecano due to suspension, goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, Frenchman Lucas Hernandez and Cameroonian Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting for injury, and Tuchel pushed Senegalese strikers Sadio Mane and Serge Gnabry up front.

Bayern, who dominated the course of the first half but collided with an organized defense, missed two chances to open the scoring through Gnabry (9) and Mane (18), while Swiss goalkeeper Jan Sommer blocked a powerful shot from Freiburg's Japanese midfielder Ritsu Doan (44).
At the beginning of the second half, Bayern needed the efforts of its Dutch defender Matthijs de Ligt, who followed up with a powerful shot with his left foot, a ball from 25 meters from Jamal Musiala, into the net of Dutch goalkeeper Mark Flicken (51).

De Ligt said, "We had several chances and we should have translated them better, but fortunately we did not concede any goals."

Dortmund returned to victories after two successive losses in various competitions at the expense of the injured Union Berlin, which in turn was eliminated from the quarter-finals of the local cup, losing to Eintracht Frankfurt 0-2.

Onion Berlin also suffered its first loss since its 0-3 fall in Munich on February 26. Since then, he has achieved two draws (against Cologne and Wolfsburg) and two victories (against Frankfurt and Stuttgart), including 3 matches that did not concede, before losing this evening.
Dortmund coach Edin Terzic made 3 changes to his squad, which lost to Leipzig in the cup, so the ailing Marius Wolf was absent, and Marco Reus and the Turkish Salih Ozkan sat on the bench to include Englishman Jude Bellingham, Karim Adeyemi and Ivorian Sebastian Haller.

"It was a very important match for us," Terzic told Sky Sports after his team's victory. "It was close, but we deserved to win. In the end, all matches are close against Union Berlin, so we feel relieved that we managed to win."

Dortmund opened the scoring after a pass from Portuguese Rafael Guerrero, followed by Dutchman Doniel Mallen with his right foot, past Danish goalkeeper Fredrik Ronov (28), in his fourth goal, including 3 in the last three stages, in the league this season.
Haller almost increased his team's yield, but goalkeeper Ronov successfully blocked the two heads of the Ivory Coast striker (36 and 43).

Berlin equalized from a long ball that reached Kevin Burns, passed it to the Dutchman Sheraldo Becker, who returned it to him to enter the area and hit the floor in the goal (61).
And Bernes raised the number of his goals to 7 in the “Bundesliga” this season.

The young attacking substitute, Yousufa Mukoko (18 years), gifted the three points to Dortmund by scoring the second goal 5 minutes after he entered the field instead of Haller, taking advantage of a joint game with the other substitute, Royce, to bypass the goalkeeper inside the area and shoot into the empty goal (79).

Moukoko revealed after the match that coach Terzic told him, "When he intervened, he decided the fate of the match."

"I could smell it, it was the attacker's instinct," he added.
Leipzig, who played the match without his French striker Christopher Nkunku, climbed to fourth place by defeating Hertha Berlin 1-0, scored by Amadou Hydara (39).

Coach Marco Rose's men achieved their 14th victory this season, raised their score to 48 points and regained fourth place from Freiburg, but they are 10 points behind leaders Bayern 7 stages before the end.

In its race for a European seat, Bayer Leverkusen took sixth place from its guest, Eintracht Frankfurt, by beating it 3-1.
Leverkusen raised its tally to 43 points, compared to 41 for Frankfurt.

Cologne achieved its first victory since February by defeating Augsburg 3-1.

Scored for Tunisian international winner Ilyes Skhiri (7), Eric Martel and Linton Maina. And for the Swiss loser, Ruben Vargas (29).
Mainz drew 2-2 with Werder Bremen.

The Palestinian Judo Federation announced that Palestine will be present and actively participating in the Asian Championship for Applicants scheduled to be held in the State of Kuwait on April 27, "immediately after the Eid al-Fitr holiday", with an official delegation represented by three players, a coach, and the president of the federation, Jihad Oweida, who will attend the Asian General Assembly meeting.

Oweida told Pal Sport that the tournament will be held in Kuwait with the participation of a large number of Asian countries, including the State of Palestine, which will participate with three players, two of whom have been camped in the sister Republic of Algeria for a month and a half, and they are the two Palestinians, Nader Mashah and Moayad Dhouib, who will leave Algeria for Kuwait directly to participate in the tournament. The Asian Championship, which precedes the World Championship, will be joined by the player from the Palestinian diaspora from Syria, Fares Badawi, and the able coach, Raed Dhouib.

Aweidah said that the AFC will hold a general assembly meeting on the sidelines of the tournament, and the AFC elections will be held, indicating that he intends to nominate himself for an administrative position in the AFC.

In a related context, Jihad Aweda thanked the Algerian Federation and its president, Yassine Cellini, for what they provided to the Palestinian side through the intensive and long training camp for the players Mesha and Dhouib, which started since the beginning of last March and is still continuing in Algiers.

The photojournalist, Abdul Rahman Hassan, was wounded by the occupation bullets, just before midnight, while he was covering the clashes that broke out in the town of Al-Khader, south of Bethlehem .

The journalist, Hassan, reported that while he was covering the settlers' attack on the citizens' homes in the "Um Rukba" area, south of the town, and the ensuing clashes between the citizens and the Israeli occupation forces, he was lightly wounded by a rubber-coated metal bullet in the foot.

The Human Rights and Democracy Media Center “SHAMS” monitored the targeting of (102) facilities owned by Palestinians by the Israeli occupation forces, whether by demolition, confiscation or distribution of notifications with the intention to target these facilities in the future, during the month of March, in the West Bank and Jerusalem occupied .

The demolitions affected (29) facilities, including a facility for a woman, where the occupation forces demolished two houses (two apartments) in the Umm Tuba area in the village of Sur Baher, including a house belonging to a woman from the Abu Tair family, under the pretext of not having a permit.

Concerning the notifications, the occupation forces notified (70) establishments of demolition or suspension of work, which are houses, tents, residential and agricultural rooms, residential barracks, livestock pens, graves, a mosque, and a garden, including a facility for a woman. The occupation municipality handed over Fatima Salem A decision was made to demolish a room in her house, which is threatened with eviction, in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem, under the pretext of building without a permit. In the airport area, east of Jericho, the occupation forces confiscated (3) mobile wooden houses (caravans) owned by a citizen from the city of Jerusalem.

And the facilities that were demolished last month: (12) residential buildings, (2) residential rooms, (4) barracks, (6) agricultural rooms, (3) commercial facilities, (1) livestock barns and barracks, and (1) commercial facilities. ).

The notified establishments: (15) house dwellings, (5) tent dwellings, (1) residential rooms, (16) barracks, (11) agricultural rooms, (5) commercial establishments, (5) cattle sheds and barracks. (2) agricultural facilities, (7) graves, a religious facility, a school, and a garden. As for the facilities that were confiscated, they numbered (3) caravans.

The peak of the demolition targets was in the Jerusalem and Bethlehem governorates (8) facilities in each of them.

The peak of targeting by notifications was in the Salfit governorate (26) facilities, then in the governorate of Jericho and the Jordan Valley (15) facilities, while the facilities that were confiscated were in the governorate of Jericho and the Jordan Valley.

The number of people affected by the occupation measures during the month of March was at least (91) people, including (36) children and (14) women, according to the available information.

As part of the occupation policy that it uses to demolish homes as a collective punitive measure against the perpetrators of operations against it as a means of deterring any act of resistance to the occupation, during the month of March, the occupation forces were notified of the demolition of a house in Nablus governorate.

The young man (Anwar, N), aged (27 years), died on Saturday evening, from serious injuries he sustained as a result of a gunfire following a family dispute in the Al-Shouka area in Rafah Governorate, south of the Gaza Strip .

According to the Ministry of Interior in Gaza, the perpetrator was arrested and the weapon used in the incident was confiscated, and legal procedures are being completed in the case.

At dawn on Sunday, the Israeli army bombed targets in Damascus and other areas in the Syrian Golan and its surroundings, using artillery, drones, and warplanes.

Several explosions were heard in the vicinity of the Syrian capital, Damascus, as a result of the Israeli raids, which also targeted the areas of As-Suwayda, Daraa, Quneitra, and others.

According to Syrian sources, the Israeli raids focused on the operations center of the 90th Brigade in Quneitra, the site of "Tal al-Kharf" east of the town of Nahta, and the headquarters of the 52nd Brigade in the eastern countryside of Daraa, which are sites belonging to the Syrian regular army, without mentioning the targets that were bombed in the vicinity of Damascus.

According to the official Syrian agency, SANA, the air defenses intercepted the Israeli missiles.

According to an Israeli military spokesman, his forces bombed several targets, including locations where rockets were launched, towards settlements adjacent to the security fence with the Syrian border.

And he indicated that his forces attacked several targets in Syria, including a military site of the Fourth Division, and radar and artillery sites of the Syrian army, holding the Syrian regime responsible for firing rockets towards the Golan Heights.

The settlements of the occupied Syrian Golan were subjected to rocket fire in two stages, the first of which was yesterday evening, after one of the 3 rockets crossed the border, and at dawn at about 2:40 in the morning, and it was monitored that 3 other rockets were launched, one of which was intercepted by the Iron Dome system. Another fell in an open area.

The council of the so-called Golan Settlements Council decided to open the shelters and asked the settlers to stay near the protected areas.

A Jordanian military source confirmed, on Saturday evening, that one of the missiles launched from Syria towards the occupied Golan fell in the Wadi Aqraba area of the Bani Kinana Brigade in Irbid, inside Jordanian territory .

The source told Ammon that there were no injuries from the missile.

Eyewitnesses confirmed hearing an explosion in the northern city of Irbid, near the border with Syria.

Jordanian citizens said that the sound of the explosion was loud, confirming that a shell had landed in the area.

The Israeli army said that it detected 3 rockets launched from Syria, and that one of them crossed the fence and landed in an open area in the Golan Heights.

Today, Saturday, the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriate Affairs warned of the catastrophic consequences of Israel's continued violation of the historical and legal status quo in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque / Al- Quds Al-Sharif, and its violations of the sanctity of the holy places and the right of Muslims to perform their religious rituals in this holy month.

The official spokesman for the ministry, Ambassador Sinan Al-Majali, warned that "the police forces' violation of the sanctity of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque / Al-Qudsi Al-Sharif and attacking worshipers again in an attempt to empty it of worshipers, in preparation for major incursions into the mosque, will push the situation towards more tension and violence that will pay the price." everyone".

He said, "The Israeli government bears responsibility for the escalation in Jerusalem and in all the occupied Palestinian territories, and for the deterioration that will worsen if it does not stop its incursions into the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque / Al-Qudsi Al-Sharif and its terrorization of worshipers in these blessed days."

He added, "The Jerusalem Endowment Administration and the Affairs of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque is the only entity authorized to manage the affairs of the sanctuary and is able to guarantee its security if Israel stops its attacks on Al-Aqsa, lifts the restrictions it imposes on it and its staff, and respects the historical and legal status quo in the holy sites and the worshipers' right to worship."

He stressed that "the Israeli attacks on the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque / Al-Qudsi Al-Sharif and the worshipers are the ones that spark violence and increase tension," considering that "Israel's cessation of its violations of the Haram, international law, and the right of Palestinians to perform their religious duties will prevent further tension."

This Saturday evening, settlers closed the road linking the cities of Qalqilya and Nablus , after they gathered at the intersection of Kafr Laqif village, east of Qalqilya.

And local sources reported that dozens of settlers gathered on the main street between Qalqilya and Nablus at the intersection of the village of Kafr Laqif, and raised the flag of the occupying state and chanted racist slogans, under the protection of the Israeli occupation army.

Eleven migrants died after their rickety boat sank off the coast of southern Morocco , local media reported Saturday.

The tragedy occurred off the White Beach near Guelmim in the south of the kingdom.

Among the victims were "8 bodies of Moroccans (one female and seven males) who hail from the Guelmim region, in addition to 3 bodies of immigrants from sub-Saharan countries belonging to a couple and an infant under two years of age," according to the "Youm 24" news website.

The site added that a migrant who was on the boat was rescued.
It was not possible to obtain immediate confirmation from the Moroccan authorities regarding the sinking of the boat.

For its part, the electronic newspaper "Hespress" said that "an in-depth investigation has been opened into the circumstances and circumstances of the catastrophe and the identification of those involved in the illegal immigration process."

Morocco is located in the northwestern tip of Africa, and it is a transit country for many migrants, especially from sub-Saharan countries, who seek to reach Europe from its Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts.

According to a report by the Spanish NGO Caminando Fronteras in December, more than 11,200 migrants have died or gone missing since 2018 while trying to reach Spain from Morocco, an average of six per day.

The organization reported that the road between the northwest coast of Africa and the Canary Islands alone witnessed the deaths of 7,692 migrants.

Since late 2019, the number of migrants trying to cross the Atlantic towards Spain's Canary Islands has increased, with coast guard patrols in the Mediterranean intensifying.

However, irregular immigration declined in Spain by more than 25% in 2022, with a noticeable decrease, especially in the number of arrivals by sea, according to what the Spanish Ministry of the Interior announced in January.

The "largest decrease" in the number of irregular arrivals concerns the Canary Islands: 15,682 compared to 22,316 in 2021 (-29.7%).

The ministry explained the decline by increasing its cooperation with countries of origin and transit and strengthening "combating mafias involved in human trafficking." Cooperation was strengthened at the end of last year by turning the page on the diplomatic dispute between Spain and Morocco over the Western Sahara issue.

A missile launched from Syrian territory fell, this evening, Saturday, in an open area in the occupied Syrian Golan .

According to an Israeli military spokesman, 3 rockets were launched from Syrian territory, and only one of them crossed the fence.

He pointed out that Iron Dome was not activated in accordance with the established objection policy.

Four citizens were injured, this Saturday evening, during an attack by settlers on citizens' vehicles at the northern entrance to the city of Al-Bireh.

And security sources reported that four citizens were injured and bruised, and other vehicles were damaged, in an attack by settlers on their vehicles at the northern entrance to the city of Al-Bireh.

The sources added that another group of settlers gathered at the Ein Ayoub roundabout near the village of Ras Karkar, west of Ramallah.

In the context, the occupation forces set up military checkpoints at the entrance to the village of Turmusaya, north of Ramallah, and at the eastern entrance to the village of al-Taybeh, in the northeast of the governorate, and at the Nabi Saleh gate in the northwest of the governorate, and checked citizens' identities and searched their vehicles.

Aed Azzam Salim (20 years old) was killed on Saturday evening, after he was shot by the occupation forces in Qalqilya .

According to the Ministry of Health, the martyr Salim was hit with live bullets in the abdomen and chest, in Azzun town , Qalqilya district.

Clashes broke out in the town, as a result of which young Salim was injured.

On Saturday evening, settlers attacked citizens' homes and vehicles, and worshipers in the Al-Salam Mosque in the town of Deir Ballut , west of Salfit .

Local sources reported that a group of settlers attacked their vehicles at the entrance to the village, and threw stones at the worshipers inside the mosque.

On Saturday evening, demonstrations against the government of Benjamin Netanyahu and its plan to weaken the judiciary and undermine the " Supreme Court " were renewed for the fourteenth week in a row.

Tens of thousands participated in the central demonstration on "Kaplan" Street in the center of Tel Aviv, as thousands demonstrated at the Horev intersection in Haifa, and in front of the residence of the Israeli president in Jerusalem. Demonstrations also took place in Kiryat Shmona and Kfar Saba. While the demonstrations were canceled in several areas, including Beersheba, Raanana, and the Karkur junction in Hadera and Netanya, due to the Jewish Passover holiday.

The demonstrators carried flares and banners with slogans written in Hebrew, English and Arabic, including: "Palestinian lives matter," "A people occupying another people cannot be free," "It's time to bring down the dictator," "The government of shame," and "Discrimination does not stop." At the green line.” The Israeli police closed several streets and crossroads in Tel Aviv before the main demonstration, and arrested four young men who assaulted demonstrators near Bisan.

The Netanyahu government seeks to make radical amendments to the legal and judicial systems, to almost completely eliminate the Supreme Court's authority for judicial review, and to give the government an automatic majority in the judges' selection committee, which a wide segment of Israelis sees as "targeting democracy and undermining the judicial system."

Although Netanyahu announced the suspension of voting on the amendments in the Israeli "Knesset", under the weight of the escalating protests in the Israeli street, the organizers of the protest demonstrations saw in this announcement an attempt by the government to contain the protests, and demanded the cancellation of the plan to completely weaken the judiciary.

Today, Saturday evening, the Israeli occupation forces arrested three young men from the town of Al-Tur, east of occupied Jerusalem .

And local sources reported that the occupation forces arrested Issam, Muhammad and Saleh Khwais from the town of Al-Tur, east of occupied Jerusalem, during clashes that broke out between young men and the occupation forces, who fired rubber bullets and sound bombs at the citizens in the town.

The Hebrew newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth , reported, this evening, Saturday, April 08, 2023, that the Israeli police will prevent Jews from entering the Temple Mount during the last ten days of Ramadan.

According to the Hebrew newspaper, this decision comes to prevent the security escalation in the last 10 days of Ramadan.

In the same context, the Israeli security establishment estimates that tonight, clashes may occur at Al -Aqsa , which could lead to another wave of escalation.

The level of security alert has increased, in anticipation of attacks all over Israel, according to the Hebrew media.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant announced, this evening, Saturday, April 08, 2023, the extension of the closure on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip crossings, and the cancellation of Ramadan facilities, due to the security escalation.

According to the Israeli Army Radio, Galant instructed the military occupation forces to assist the police inside.

The Israeli army radio had previously published following the security escalation: "In the Israeli security system, they are studying the extension of the closure imposed on the West Bank and the Gaza crossings."

She added, "The closure imposed on Easter eve is supposed to end at midnight, but recent operations have made them consider extending the closure beyond Easter."

In another context, the Israeli security establishment estimates that tonight, clashes may occur at Al-Aqsa, which could lead to another wave of escalation.

The level of security alert has been raised, in anticipation of attacks throughout Israel. According to Hillel Biton Rosen

In turn, the Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, ordered an increase in the number of Israeli police inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque, to empty it of the religious believers in order to make room for the storming of it tomorrow morning by settlers.

The Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Saturday that a diplomatic delegation had arrived in Tehran to discuss mechanisms for reopening the Kingdom's representations in the Islamic Republic, two days after the foreign ministers of the two most important regional powers in the Gulf met in Beijing.

It is the first official visit by Saudi officials to Iran since the sudden announcement on March 10 of a Chinese-sponsored agreement to resume diplomatic relations severed between Riyadh and Tehran seven years ago.

The Saudi Press Agency (SPA), quoting the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs, reported that the visit comes "in implementation of the joint tripartite agreement of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Islamic Republic of Iran and the People's Republic of China."

She explained that "the Saudi technical team, headed by Nasser bin Awad Al-Ghanoum, met with the Chief of Protocol at the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Honardost , at the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the capital, Tehran."

While the Saudi ministry did not specify the duration of the visit, it indicated that the Iranian official, "Honardost, expressed his country's readiness and readiness to provide all facilities and support to facilitate the mission of the Saudi team."

On March 10, Tehran and Riyadh announced the agreement after a seven-year estrangement, following the attack on Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran over the execution of Saudi cleric Nimr al-Nimr.

In a joint statement, Riyadh and Tehran stressed, in a joint statement, following a meeting between the Saudi Foreign Ministers, Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, and the Iranian Foreign Minister, Hussein Amir Abdollahian, Thursday in Beijing, "the importance of following up and implementing the Beijing Agreement, which strengthened mutual trust and expanded the scope of cooperation, and contributed to achieving security, stability and prosperity in the region." ".

It is expected that the next step in the path of restoring relations between the two countries will be the visit of Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi to Riyadh after receiving an invitation from Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz, as confirmed by Iranian officials, an invitation that Saudi Arabia has not yet confirmed.
Iran and Saudi Arabia, two regional rivals, have fought regional disputes by proxy, most notably the war in Yemen.

The two countries held a number of rounds of dialogue in Baghdad and the Sultanate of Oman before reaching an agreement in Beijing, which was negotiated over a period of five days between the Secretary of the Iranian Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, and his Saudi counterpart, Massad bin Muhammad Al-Aiban.

The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission said that the occupation authorities approved 6 master plans a few days ago for the purposes of expanding a group of settlements in the West Bank , which included the construction of two new settlement neighborhoods.

In a statement issued by the ministry, Moayed Shaaban, the head of the commission, this evening, Saturday, stated that the number of settlement units amounts to 543 settlement units, and the approvals target a total of 1,188 dunums of land on which these settlements were planted.

He pointed out that the approved master plans for the settlements targeted the Ramallah and Nablus governorates, by approving a master plan aimed at building a new settlement neighborhood belonging to the "Rahalim" settlement, with 212 settlement units on an area of 572 dunums, while the second plan targeted the lands of Jericho Governorate from During the approval of two master plans for a major expansion of the "Mevo Yericho" settlement, with the aim of building a new neighborhood for the settlement with 181 new units on an area estimated at 533 dunums of land, noting that this settlement was converted from an outpost into a settlement two years ago, to be greatly expanded these days.

Shaaban added that there is another plan for the expansion of the "Ward Yericho" settlement, which is located on the lands of Aqabat Jabr and Nabi Musa in the Jericho Governorate, by 5 settlement units on an area of two dunums, stressing that the approvals that are taking place in the settlements of the Jericho Governorate and the Jordan Valley are inseparable from the large schemes aimed at controlling completely. Completely on the lands of the eastern foothills and the Jordan Valley.

A master plan was also approved with the aim of conducting an expansion within the "Tana Amrim" settlement, located on the lands of Khirbet Zanuta in the Hebron Governorate, with 68 settlement units on an area estimated at 26 dunums, while the recent plans targeted the lands of Masha villages in the Salfit governorate for the benefit of the "Etz Ephraim" settlement. To build 5 settlement units on an area of two dunums, and the lands of Arab al-Ta’amra in Bethlehem governorate for the benefit of the “Nokdim” settlement, to build 32 housing units on an area of 9 dunums.

Shaaban continued: The occupying state not only evades its obligations to the countries of the world to stop settlement, but also transgresses and violates all international norms and laws that criminalized settlement, and makes this kind of permanent changes to the occupied land as the occupying power supported by international silence and double standards that are being applied in the world.

He pointed out that the occupying state is continuing with its colonial settlement plans to fragment the land and isolate the Palestinians in small population ghettos besieged by large settlement blocs linked by settlement roads of a racist nature, whose function, in addition to controlling and appropriating the land, is to expel the Palestinians and destabilize their existence and their lives.

Swiss Finance Minister Karin Keller-Sutter said in an interview published Saturday that the Swiss economy would likely have collapsed had Credit Suisse declared bankruptcy.

Keller-Sutter told Le Tan newspaper that the government acted in the best interests of the country by quickly arranging the takeover of Swiss bank UBS by its rival, the second largest bank in Switzerland .

Amid fears of a global banking crisis last month, investor confidence in Credit Suisse collapsed on March 15, and the government then orchestrated a takeover before the markets reopened on March 20.

About 109 billion Swiss francs ($120 billion) were allocated to the bank between government guarantees and liquidity provided by the Swiss Central Bank.

"Given the circumstances, we've done everything we can to reduce the burden on the state and taxpayers," Keller-Sutter said.

"Without the firm intervention of the authorities, Credit Suisse would have declared bankruptcy, which would have probably led to the collapse of the Swiss economy," she added.

Credit Suisse, like UBS, was among the 30 banks in the world rated important to the international banking system.

But the bank has suffered in recent years a series of scandals, and after the collapse of three US regional banks in March, it seemed like the weakest link in the chain.

Talks to take over the bank were hastily held at the Finance Ministry in Bern, and the $3.25 billion deal was announced on March 19 evening. "The bank was going to declare bankruptcy on Monday, March 20, and why? Because of a culture that apparently created false incentives over the years, because of the many scandals," the finance minister said.

In response to a question about whether any of the executives will be brought to justice, she said, "It is difficult and complicated."

She added that the government's priority is to complete the acquisition. UBS said Wednesday that it should complete the process in the coming months.

The Minister of Finance considered that it is too early to talk about the future structure of UBS, which will become a huge bank.

Keller-Sutter argued that the government should analyze what happened, and then amend the system around banks deemed too big to fail. "But there are limits. We must not forget that ... trust cannot be regulated," she added.

Dozens suffocated, this evening, Saturday, during clashes between civilians and the Israeli occupation forces in Al-Shalala Street , in the center of Hebron , in the south of the West Bank.

Local sources stated that clashes broke out between the citizens and the occupation forces on Al-Shalala Street in the center of Hebron, who fired live and rubber-coated metal bullets, stun grenades and toxic gas at the citizens, causing dozens of suffocation. They were treated in the field.

Since the morning hours, the occupation authorities have continued to close roads in many areas of the Jordan Valley .

Aref Daraghmeh, a human rights activist, reported that occupation bulldozers roamed many areas of the Jordan Valley, closing the openings and roads along the main street called "Line 90", and placing cement blocks and iron gates on some of them.

It is noteworthy that the occupation authorities are tightening, for the second day in a row, their military measures in the vicinity of Tubas , especially at the Tayaseer and Hamra checkpoints, by stopping and searching citizens' vehicles and checking the identity cards of passers-by.

The occupation authorities continue to completely close the two aforementioned checkpoints, intermittently, since yesterday.

An Omani delegation has begun a visit to Sanaa to hold talks with the Houthis as part of mediation aimed at reaching a new truce in Yemen and reviving the peace process after the Saudi-Iranian rapprochement, Yemeni official sources told AFP on Saturday.

United Nations officials and experts on Yemeni affairs believe that the agreement of Tehran and Riyadh, which support conflicting parties in Yemen mired in war, to resume diplomatic relations, may push for a political solution in the poorest country of the Arabian Peninsula.

Official sources at Sana'a International Airport, which is under the control of the Houthis, said, "An Omani delegation, accompanied by Mohammed Abdul Salam, the official spokesman for the Houthis, arrived in Sana'a to hold talks with the Houthi leadership" about a new truce "and the peace process."

Abdul Salam, who resides in Amman, confirmed in a tweet on Twitter that he and the brotherly Omani delegation had arrived in the capital, Sana'a.

The war in Yemen since 2014 has killed hundreds of thousands directly and indirectly, with most of the population relying on aid to survive.

Since 2014, Saudi Arabia has led a military coalition that supports the internationally recognized Yemeni government, while Iran supports the Houthi rebels who took control of the capital in 2014.

The announcement last month of a rapprochement agreement between Saudi Arabia and Iran, the two most important regional powers in the Gulf that are on opposite sides of most Middle East files, revived the optimism that began last year to reach a truce.

The United Nations envoy to Yemen, Hans Grundberg, warned Sunday that the war-torn country faces a "critical time" and called for a permanent end to the conflict, exactly a year after a truce brought the fighting to a halt.

The Swedish diplomat considered that the truce that was reached on April 2, 2022, mediated by the United Nations, is a "moment of hope," noting that it is largely in place, despite the end of its effects in October.

According to Yemeni government sources, members of the Yemeni Presidency Council recently "agreed" to a Saudi vision regarding resolving the Yemeni crisis, after Saudi-Houthi talks under Omani sponsorship that lasted for two months in Muscat.

The Saudi perception, according to the sources, is based on agreeing to a truce for a period of six months in a first phase to build confidence, then a period of negotiation for three months on managing the transitional phase, which will last for two years, during which a final solution will be negotiated between all parties.

The first phase includes confidence-building measures, the most important of which is paying the salaries of government employees in all areas, including the Houthi-controlled areas, and opening closed roads and the airport.
Saudi officials did not respond to an AFP request for comment.

On Wednesday, the US special envoy to Yemen, Timothy Lenderking, urged the Iranians "to really show that they are bringing about a positive shift in the conflict, then there will be no more arms smuggling to the Houthis in violation of UN Security Council resolutions."

The envoy had visited the Sultanate of Oman in recent weeks.

Iran welcomed the invitation, considering Lenderking's remarks "satisfactory."

A number of farmers sustained bruises and bruises, and settlers slaughtered 10 sheep today, Saturday, during an attack they carried out on Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron .

And local sources reported that the settlers of "Mitzpe Yair" and "Sons of Jacob Dalia", who were forcibly established on the lands of the citizens east of the town of Yatta, south of Hebron, assaulted the citizens and slaughtered 10 heads of sheep under the protection of the occupation army.

The coordinator of the Popular Committees to Resist the Wall and Settlements in South Hebron , Ratib al-Jabour , stated that a number of settlers from the aforementioned settlements beat cattle herders and unarmed farmers from the families of Abd Rabbo, Abu Aram and al-Najjar, which caused a fistfight, injuring a number of farmers.

Al-Jabour appealed to the human rights and international bodies to intervene to put an end to the practices of the settlers , who are trying to force citizens to leave their homes and lands with the aim of stealing them in favor of expanding the settlements.

Hundreds of people, including the leader of Russia's Wagner military group , took part in the funeral of a famous military blogger who strongly supported the attack on Ukraine and who was recently killed in a cafe explosion in St. Petersburg, on Saturday.

Hundreds headed to Troyekurovskoye cemetery in the west of the capital to pay their respects in front of Maxim Fomin's coffin, before his burial, according to AFP correspondents at the scene.

A large number of police officers were deployed at the site. They searched those entering the cemetery, and a large number of them wore clothes with the letter Z or V printed on them, indicating their support for the attack in Ukraine.

Last Sunday, Fomin, better known as Vladlen Tatarsky, was killed in an explosion in a St. Petersburg café owned by the head of the Wagner Military Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin.

Moscow has accused Kiev of having arranged, in collusion with supporters of the imprisoned Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, the attack. Ukraine, for its part, suggested that the attack was the result of "internal terrorism" caused by rivalries within the Russian regime.

"Vladlen Tatarsky will remain with us, and his voice will continue to resonate," Prigozhin was quoted as saying by the Russian news agency RIA Novosti on Saturday from the cemetery.

Vladlen Tatassky, 40, was well known in military circles in Russia , with more than half a million subscribers to his Telegram channel. His popularity on Telegram increased, especially since he published, since the start of the Russian attack on Ukraine, video clips analyzing the field situation and giving advice to soldiers.

"I had a lot of common friends with the deceased," said Alexei Sobolev, 45, who attended the funeral on Saturday and identified himself as a volunteer fighting since 2014 with pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.

Fomin, who was born in Ukraine's Donbass region, fought on the side of pro-Moscow separatist forces in eastern Ukraine at the start of the war in 2014.

Sobolev added, "We fighters from the first wave are no longer numerous," stressing that a "war of annihilation" is targeting Russia, but the Russian army is in the process of "reconfiguring itself."

The Israeli occupation continues, for the third day in a row, to close the main entrance to the town of Qusra, south of Nablus , with earthen and rock mounds.

According to local sources, the continuation of the closure created suffering for the residents of the surrounding houses, who number more than 300 citizens, and incurred material losses, and created a crisis that impedes access to the city.

Today, Saturday, the Captive Club stated that the prisoner, Walid Daqqa , is still being held in Barzilai Hospital.

According to the club, the prisoner, Daqqa, is still suffering from a serious health condition and is in the hospital under strict security guard, despite the passage of 15 days since his transfer to the hospital.

It is noteworthy that Daqqa recently completed his 37th year in the occupation prisons, and entered his 38th year, and he is facing a serious health condition as a result of his suffering from a rare cancer that affects the bone marrow known as (myelofibrosis).