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).

Today, Saturday, the Ministry of Education held an employment test for applicants for educational, vocational, and support jobs, numbering 45,800 applicants.

The Ministry of Education said in a statement that the test was organized in all directorates of education, including Jerusalem, and the participants were distributed to 270 halls with the participation of 8 thousand teachers, male and female, and administrators. Employment applications, sorted and audited by the Ministry and the General Personnel Council.

The Ministry confirmed that the results will be available during the next few days, especially after adopting procedures that would speed up this, including that the correction and entry processes for the answer sheets be electronically, which will allow proceeding with other steps, including holding interviews for those who passed the exams and preparing the employment record, considering that the success of Holding the exam crowns efforts that continued around the clock.

On Friday evening , the Paris Criminal Court sentenced a woman to thirty years in prison for killing her 36-year-old wife in 2019 on the grounds of sorcery.

Christy Dupin, 42, a former bus driver, said she acted under the "influence" of a Haitian voodoo priestess who gave her instructions to "undo the magic".

The Public Prosecutor considered that the instructions of the sorceress, with which Christie Dubin justified her crime, were nothing but a pretext to "end the life of the mother of her two children."

Silvia, a shop employee and mother of two, was killed on March 23, 2019 in the garage of the building in which she was staying in Paris, and her body was found in a forest on the outskirts of the French capital .

Sylvia had expressed her desire to separate from Christy Dubin in mid-2018, after four years of marriage, and started a new romantic relationship.

On February 13, 2019, she signed an agreement to adopt the twin children she gave birth to in 2013. But she had two months to back out.

On Friday morning, before the court convened for deliberation, Christie Dubin asked for "forgiveness from all family members," stressing that she "regrets what happened."

Sabrina Moreau, who was in a romantic relationship with Christie Dupin at the time of the crime, was also sentenced to 18 years in prison, and Evin Webster, a friend of her Haitian origin, to 25 years.

Sabrina Morrow was the only one who consistently admitted that the trio lured the victim into the building's garage "with the intent of killing her".

Saddam Hussein , 20 years after his regime was toppled, is still a beloved and popular leader in Jordan, and his images are even found on car stickers or cellphone covers.

And while the symbols and images associated with his period of rule have disappeared from public life in Iraq , pictures of the late president are still widespread in Jordan.

On March 20, 2003, US President George W. Bush announced the launch of an operation he called "Operation Iraqi Freedom", and the deployment of about 150,000 American and 40,000 British soldiers in Iraq, under the pretext of the presence of weapons of mass destruction that were never found.

Three weeks later, Saddam appeared on April 9, wandering in the Adhamiya district of Baghdad, surrounded by dozens of Iraqis cheering for him, hours before the announcement of the fall of Baghdad and his regime.

He went into hiding after that for eight months before being found by the US military, tried and then executed in December 2006.

Most Jordanians remember Saddam's pride for his nationalist positions and his resistance to Western intervention in the Middle East, and most importantly his support for the Palestinian cause, while most of them do not know the presidents of Iraq after him.

"Tens of thousands of Jordanians graduated from Iraqi universities in various fields during Saddam's era with free scholarships," prominent MP Khalil Attia told AFP.

He adds that Saddam "supported the uprising and used to pay the family of the Palestinian martyr 25,000 dollars and rebuild his house if the enemy (Israel) demolished it."

According to Attia, Saddam "gives 10,000 dollars to the prisoner and the wounded, and takes care of the treatment of the wounded in Jordan's hospitals." He also gave Jordan quantities of oil for free and others at preferential prices.

Therefore, he believes that it is natural for "Jordanians to adore him, not to forget him, and to raise pictures of him in loyalty to this heroic leader."

Tens of thousands of Palestinians and Jordanians studied in Iraqi universities for free, when education was advanced and well funded.

Salama al-Balawi, 67, who wore a red keffiyeh and carried various banknotes from that era, says, "Saddam was an honorable and honest Arab man whose positions were honorable."

The brown Jordanian, who used to work as a contractor and visited Baghdad in the eighties, added, "Despite the war with Iran, Iraq was a country of riches, but after Saddam, the corrupt plundered it."

Former Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi said last month in a television interview that "since 2003, the money that has been wasted exceeds 600 billion dollars."

He added that this money went to "the corrupt and parties in power ... and some of it was shared between political parties and influential people" and others were smuggled abroad.

Transparency International, which monitors corruption, ranks Iraq today among the 25 most corrupt countries in the world.

Shaher Abu Sharkh, 67, who sells mobile accessories in a small shop in central Amman, says, "Any Jordanian knows that Saddam Hussein is a brave, Arab and nationalist leader who defended Arab causes valiantly. We all love him."

"What happened was not the fall of Saddam's regime, but the fall of Iraq. Unfortunately, Iraq ended after Saddam and was systematically destroyed," he added, holding mobile covers bearing pictures of Saddam.

He believed that "most Iraqis now know the value of Saddam, and the prestige and dignity of Iraq during his reign."

As for the seventy-year-old Zuhair al-Amleh, who sells old books in the Hashemite Square in Amman, he says, "Iraq was a beacon of knowledge and a country of goodness and glory."

He added, "Unfortunately, it cannot return to what it was, because it lacks a leader. Those present now are sectarians and agents of Iran."

The American invasion launched the worst phases of violence in Iraq's history, starting with sectarian fighting, de-Baathification, and reprisals by Shiite militias who abused power, all the way to the dominance of the Islamic State.

In most cases, those involved in the violence from those militias were opponents of Saddam, belonging to conservative and Islamic parties. They had sought refuge for a long time in Iran, and some of them fought with it against their country in the eighties.

From 2003 to 2011, the date of the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq, more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians were killed, according to the "Iraq War Victims" organization. In contrast, the United States lost nearly 4,500 personnel in Iraq.

Although Iraq is an oil-rich country, a third of its 42 million people still live in poverty and high levels of unemployment.

Attia says, "The main reason for the Jordanians' love for Saddam is that he represented them as a hero and a savior leader, who had a project for the advancement of the Arab nation."

He added that "Saddam preserved the unity of Iraq, and made it a beacon of science, health and industry."

He is also "the only Arab leader who established a military manufacturing base from bullets to missiles, and bombed the Zionist entity (Israel) with 39 missiles made by Iraq."

After Washington announced the launch of Operation Desert Storm against Iraq in 1991, the latter responded by bombing Israeli cities with missiles.

Anas Al-Nahhas, 19, says while arranging a number of cell phone covers that bear different pictures of the late Iraqi president, "Saddam Hussein Saqr Al-Arab. If he were alive, many things would not have happened."

He refers to "the daring of the occupation (Israel) against our people in Palestine to terrible degrees, the fall of regimes, the war in Syria and Yemen, and the humiliation and humiliation that the Arabs are currently experiencing."

For his part, a former Iraqi diplomat who worked at the Iraqi embassy in Amman for many years told AFP, "The Arab people in general viewed President Saddam as the leader of the nation and the real and realistic outlet for what the sons of the Arab nation want."

He added, "The Arabs now wish that there would be one or more leaders who would raise the nation's voice and end the state of darkness, brokenness, decline, and submission."

Jamil Mezher , Deputy Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, called on Saturday for the formulation of a clear Palestinian strategy based on unity and popular and national participation from all segments of society, to confront the Israeli aggression and confront the plans of the occupation.

In a press conference, Mezher stressed the need to work quickly in order to build a true national unity that works to rebuild the PLO, to call for the convening of a Palestinian National Council in which all forces participate, and to implement the decisions of the national consensus to withdraw recognition of the occupation and break with Oslo and its security, political and economic obligations. Foremost among them is security coordination.

Mezher also called for the formation of a national leadership to manage the battle with the occupation, confront the aggression, deepen the occupation's crises and confuse its plans, praising the recent qualitative operations from Palestine and abroad, which he said revealed the fragility of the occupation's security system, and proved that the resistance is capable of defending its people and its sanctities.

He called on the resistance fighters and all resistance forces to escalate their actions against the occupation and the settlers, as that is the guarantor and effective option to defeat the occupation and force it to leave, calling for the continuation of the mass field engagement and confronting the settler militias through the formation of the People's Protection Committees to protect the people.

The Deputy Secretary-General of the Popular Front affirmed the Front's adherence to the option of resistance in all its forms, side by side with the resistance factions.

Work is underway to prepare three new feature films that take place in the world of “ Star Wars ”, the story of one of which takes place 15 years after the last trilogy, in which the British Daisy Ridley again embodies the character of Rey, according to what the “Lucasfilm” company announced during a conference in London on Friday.

And the head of the studio, which was acquired by “Disney” in 2012, Kathleen Kennedy, during the “Star Wars Celebration” conference, in which the directors of the three films participated, explained that her stories take place in different times.

The sequel “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” (2019) was assigned to Pakistani director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, who directed “Miss Marvel”.

Thus, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, who won two Academy Awards for two short documentaries dealing with violence against women, will become the first woman to direct one of the films in the famous series since George Lucas directed its first parts in 1977.

The director of “Wonder Woman 1984” Patty Jenkins was supposed to be the first woman to take part in “Star Wars”, but it seems that consideration has been diverted at the present time from her movie “Rogue Squadron”, which Disney announced in 2020 that it will be shown in 2023, on This was reported by the American magazine "Variety" last March.

Kathleen Kennedy indicated that James Mangold, who is already directing the fifth part of the famous "Indiana Jones" series, also produced by "Lucasfilm", will deal with the "Star Wars" movie, which was commissioned to direct the appearance of the Jedi warriors.

She added that Dave Filoni ("The Mandalorian") will direct a film about "a metaphor for the war between the remnants of the Empire" and "The New Republic".

The announcement of the three films was met with a warm welcome from about five thousand fans who attended the conference, who have been deprived since 2019 of their favorite story films.

“Disney” bought “Lucasfilm” and its series for four billion dollars in 2012 and immediately began producing a new trilogy and films derived from the “Star Wars” world, starting with “Solo” and “Rogue One”, before curbing its cinematic momentum.

The entertainment giant then focused more on TV series in an effort to boost its Disney+ streaming platform.

Although no new series was announced on Friday, fans saw the first scenes from the series "Ahsoka", which will be shown on the platform next August, and from the series "Skeleton Crew", starring Jude Law, who attended the conference in London, and from " The Oaklight" and from the second season of "Andor".

Last Friday, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce said that 36 Chinese and French companies signed 18 agreements to expand cooperation in areas including industrialization, green development, new energy and innovation, during a meeting between Chinese and French businessmen last Thursday.

The trade volume between China and France has increased from 60 billion US dollars to 80 billion US dollars over the past five years, said Yu Yuantang, an official with the Ministry of Commerce, in opening remarks to the meeting.

In 2022, China-European cooperation overcame many negative effects and made steady progress, Yu said, with bilateral trade hitting a new record high of 847.3 billion US dollars, while new investment from European companies in China increased by 70 percent to 12.1 billion dollars. American.

Representatives from companies such as Bank of China, BNP Paribas, China National Nuclear Power Corporation and Electricity de France discussed jointly addressing global challenges and enhancing cooperation, and made suggestions on deepening economic and trade relations between China and France.

The companies pledged to seize China's high-quality development opportunities, ensure the stability of industrial chains and supply chains, and expand cooperation in nuclear energy, finance, consumption and other areas.

The " teachers' movement " escalated its continuous protest steps for more than two months, and the movement announced last night, boycotting the " Tawjihi " general secondary exam, and emphasizing the continuation of the strike.

In a statement, the movement stressed the boycott of the "Tawjihi" exam, and its procedures for monitoring and correction, as well as boycotting all training courses, and office and administrative work issued by the Ministry of Education.

The movement decided to continue the strike and for all stages, including the “Tawjihi”, calling for a sit-in in front of the central education directorates in all governorates, tomorrow morning, Sunday, and documenting a solidarity stand in front of schools on the morning of Monday, with pictures to confirm the support of the teacher, Sahar Abu Zina, and to confirm To continue the protest activities until the demands of the teachers are met.

The "teachers' movement" spoke about its claims related to the financial part, explaining that the agreed-upon 15% bonus was partially implemented by paying 5% and not retroactively, and the 10% was postponed for an unknown period, which was rejected by the teachers and the movement.

Al-Hirak indicated that transferring the union bonus (15%) and adding it to the nature of work with its actual financial entitlement was not implemented, and the calculation of contract years for teachers appointed in the year (2016) has not yet been implemented despite the announcement of the agreement.

As for the unification of the risk allowance for male and female teachers in Jerusalem and its calculation on the salary slip with its financial entitlement, it was not implemented, according to the "movement", and the regularity of the salary, the scheduling of the late financial dues according to a known timetable, and the pledge not to prejudice the salary in the future was not implemented.

With regard to the provisions of the demands related to the administrative part and working conditions, the "movement" affirmed that the formation of a democratic representation for teachers (the democratization of the union and the start of the dismissal of the General Secretariat) was implemented only in a sham and vague manner, and (the professionalization of education) and the financial and administrative entitlements resulting from that were not implemented despite their approval. The three deferred financial demands until the democratization of the union have not been implemented because they are conditional on the implementation of their principle, which is democratization.

Al-Hirak indicated that no penalty imposed on teachers in this human rights round was canceled, starting with the teacher, Sahar Abu Zeina, all the way to what he called the “Hirak” massacre of salary confiscation that took place, in addition to the constant threats to teachers of arbitrary dismissal and transfer.

The movement accused the government of seeking to dismantle the strike in any way without fulfilling the teachers' demands, calling on parents not to send their children to schools and students not to go if they were asked to do so. Because the teachers did not fulfill their demands.

The Secretary of the Central Committee of the Fatah movement, Lieutenant General Jibril Rajoub, confirmed during a press conference the day before yesterday, Thursday, the government's commitment to the agreements it signed and to meeting all the teachers' demands, and that the Fatah movement in all its frameworks is the guarantor of this, including the government's disbursement of the 15% bonus for the nature of work, so that it is spent The 5% and 10% will be placed on the salary slip, and all legal, administrative and financial measures taken against striking teachers will be reviewed and cancelled. The professionalization of education will also be approved, and there will be procedures for there to be a general federation of teachers elected starting from the beginning of the next academic year according to the regulations of the popular organizations in the organization editing.

For his part, teacher Faisal Jadallah from the Nablus Education Directorate, and one of the observers of the agreement concluded with teachers last year, told Al-Quds, “Setting a time limit for disbursing the remaining 10%, as well as canceling all penalties and measures that were previously taken against male and female teachers because of their activity. Union, and ensuring that other similar penalties do not occur later, may be the way out for an honorable solution to this crisis.

Jadallah said: "For more than a month, we have all been searching for a state of balance that restores matters to normal, and we cooperate and engage in dialogue with all parties in a very positive way. We know that teachers' rights are based on two starting points: first, the institutions' initiative, which includes five points, and secondly, the prime minister's commitments in his speech." Last year, after he announced his approval of the initiative, he also pledged to include the cost of living, his talk of paying the full salary, and approving the teacher protection law.

And Jadallah continued, "Accordingly, a huge effort was launched in order to achieve this, and there was a response from all parties, including the Teachers Union, which approved the amendments that were recommended by the democratization committee, but unfortunately there was a complete denial of these rights before the current teachers' strike, which led to To hold the government and the union responsible for this crisis.

With regard to the speech of Rajoub, Jadallah affirmed that it carries a high positivity, especially since there is a commitment to last year's initiative, and the entry of the Central Committee of the Fatah movement has a positive return. Students.

In turn, Omar Assaf, a member of the mediation initiative that led to the signing of the agreement last year, told Al-Quds: “We expected Rajoub to take a step forward, but his speech did not bring anything new except for guarantees, so the teachers’ response was expected. We respect what the teachers decide. They are stakeholders, and we appeal to the initiative, but Rajoub's speech did not implement the initiative that was concluded last year."

And the "teachers' movement" spoke in a statement after the Rajoub conference, about what it called a "conspiracy" aimed at breaking the teacher in the most brutal and brutal way, through the repeated record that does not bring anything new and has been repeating itself for two months, and that its aim is for teachers to get bored and gradually break according to the government's vision.

The teachers are calling for the implementation of an agreement concluded, in May 2022, between the Palestinian government, the General Union of Palestinian Teachers and the "teachers' movement", sponsored by many institutions and personalities, and the strike stopped after that, but the protests and strikes have returned since February 5, 2023, to demand the implementation of those measures. The initiative.

The agreement included 5 items, namely: returning discounts to teachers, professionalizing education, issuing a teacher protection law, working to “democratize the union”, and depositing a 15% bonus for the nature of work on the salary slip, starting from the first month of the new year 2023.

The citizen , Atallah Ibrahim Abayat , was bruised, prior to his arrest by the occupation soldiers, today, Saturday, during an attack by a group of settlers on sheep shepherds in the village of Kisan , east of Bethlehem .

According to local sources, a group of settlers assaulted the shepherds, injuring Abayat, who was arrested by the occupation soldiers.

Today, Saturday, the Captive Club said that the Israeli occupation authorities continue to expand the crime of arbitrary administrative detention against the Palestinians, under the pretext of having a (secret file), as their number reached (1016) administrative detainees, including (6) Children and female captives, and this percentage is the highest since 2003.

The Captive Club stated in a statement that the number of administrative detention orders issued since the beginning of this year amounted to about (800), and the highest percentage of them were new administrative detention orders.

The administrative detainees are held in three central prisons: (Ofer, the Negev, and Megiddo), where the number of administrative detainees in (Negev) prison (442), (340) in (Ofer) prison, and (131) in (Megiddo) prison. The rest of the detainees are in other prisons, noting that these numbers are until the end of March.

The Captive Club added, in a statement, that the crime of administrative detention, which constitutes one of the most prominent and most serious crimes it carries out against the Palestinians, has increased significantly since last year, compared to the past few years. In January of last year, the number of administrative detainees was about (500), and at the end of last year their number exceeded (850).

The Captive Club indicated that the Israeli occupation authorities issued, over the past nine years, about 13,000 administrative detention orders, the highest percentage during the past year, compared to the past few years, when the number of orders reached (2409).

The Captive Club pointed out that 80% of the administrative detainees are former detainees who spent years in the occupation prisons, including under administrative detention.

The occupation authorities aim, through the crime of administrative detention, to undermine any effective state in Palestinian society, on several levels, and do not exclude any group from this, especially in light of the current escalation of the confrontation.

It is worth mentioning that the occupation authorities resort to administrative detention, against those against whom they cannot file an indictment, under the pretext of having a secret file, and as a (retaliatory) measure, based on the Emergency Law that it inherited from the British Mandate, and the occupation courts are complicit, through their decisions, in consolidating This crime by carrying out the orders of the occupation intelligence.

The Captive Club reviews the case of detainee Wael Abdel Hafez Awadat (51 years old) from Aqabat Jabr camp / Jericho, who was arrested on 3/27/2023 and an administrative detention order was issued against him, for a period of 6 months. The detainee Awadat is the father of the two martyrs, Ibrahim and Raafat Awadat, who were martyred on the sixth of February of this year, along with three other martyrs. Qasi is in Ofer detention center, and he is still arrested.

The Awadat family was subjected to a policy of collective punishment, and to repeated acts of abuse by breaking into their house, harassing them, and threatening them. On February 4, 2023, the occupation forces raided the family's house and demolished its facade.

The detainee, Awadat, had been arrested several times previously, since the nineties, as well as in 2006, and spent a total of two years, married and the father of six sons and daughters.

The Wall Street Journal has strongly denied the charge of "espionage" officially leveled by Russia against its journalist, Ivan Gershkovitch, who has been detained for a week.

And the government agency TASS reported, quoting an unidentified source in the security forces, that the Russian authorities had "accused" the "Wall Street Journal" correspondent who worked for Agence France-Presse in the past, of "espionage for his country."

The agency added that the journalist "categorically denied all the charges and said that his activities in Russia are journalistic."

The Wall Street Journal condemned the charges, saying they were "false".

"As we have said from the outset, these accusations are completely false and unjustified, and we continue to call for Evan's immediate release," the American Business Daily said in a statement.

The Russian news agency Interfax reported that Gershkovich's trial is taking place on the basis of Article 276 of the Russian Criminal Code, which provides for a 20-year prison sentence for this charge. This indictment paves the way for a trial, the date of which has not yet been announced.

The reporter was arrested last week by Russian security services while covering Yekaterinburg in the Ural Mountains. The authorities accused him, in particular, of collecting information on the Russian defense industry.

Similar to the Wall Street Journal, the US authorities, led by President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, called on the Kremlin to release the journalist.

However, Moscow confirmed to the new US ambassador to Russia, Lynn Tracy, on Thursday that exerting pressure in this file is "useless."

The Russian Foreign Ministry stated that "the noise around this issue ... in order to pressure the Russian authorities and the court that will decide the fate of Ivan Gershkovich is useless and meaningless."

The Wall Street Journal called last week in an editorial for "the expulsion of the Russian ambassador from the United States and the Russian journalists working there, at least."

Moscow's warnings did not prevent Democrat Chuck Schumer and Republican Mitch McConnell, the highest-ranking officials in the US Senate, from calling, in an unprecedented joint statement on Friday, for the release of the journalist.

The two parliamentarians condemned what they considered "arbitrary arrest" and demanded "the immediate release of this independent journalist, who is appreciated all over the world."

Official statistical data published by the Central Bank of Tunisia showed that Tunisia's external debt services increased by 23% over the past three months.

The value of these services, according to data from the Central Bank of Tunisia, amounted to 2.4 billion dinars ($784.313 million).

The Central Bank of Tunisia did not specify in its statements the total volume of Tunisia’s external debt, noting that the latest data in this regard was published by the Tunisian Ministry of Finance on March 16, in which it indicated that the volume of those debts amounted to 66.5 billion dinars ($21.732 billion) at the end of last December.

Multilateral cooperation such as the World Bank Group, the International Monetary Fund and other donor banks account for 60.3% of Tunisia's total foreign debt, followed by the other financial market by 21.3%, and bilateral cooperation by 18.4%.

In addition, the Central Bank of Tunisia revealed in its statement that Tunisia's foreign exchange reserves amounted today (Friday) to 22.1 billion dinars ($7.222 billion), which covers the country's imports for a period of 95 days.

On the other hand, the statistical data of the Central Bank of Tunisia showed that the revenues of the Tunisian tourism sector recorded during the past three months, an increase of 64% compared to the results recorded during the same period last year.

The value of these revenues, according to the data of the Central Bank of Tunisia, amounted to about one billion dinars (326.79 million dollars).

This rise reflects the beginning of the recovery of the Tunisian tourism sector after the crises it was exposed to during the years following the overthrow of the regime of the late former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali on January 14, 2011.

Before 2010, the Tunisian tourism sector contributed about 14% of the country's gross domestic product, and is a major source of foreign exchange in the country.

However, after 2010, he experienced a crisis described as the most difficult, as he was greatly affected by the political crisis in the country, as well as by the Corona virus pandemic.

The Tunisian authorities look forward to the "tourism development strategy for the horizon 2035", which was approved by the current government headed by Naglaa Boudin, to contribute to the revival of this sector again so that it can regain its role in the economic process.

The employment sector in the United States improved for the second month in a row, according to government data Friday.
And 236,000 jobs were created in March, compared to 311,000 jobs in February, a number close to experts' expectations.
The unemployment rate fell to 3.5 percent, according to a report by the Ministry of Labor.

This data comes days after other reports showed an increase in employment in the private sector and the services sector, while the manufacturing sector remained weak.

Average hourly earnings increased by 0.3% to $33.18, according to the data.

"Employment continued to increase in entertainment, hospitality, government, professional, business and healthcare services," the Labor Department said.

According to the report, the labor force participation rate continued to rise last month as well.

For his part, President Joe Biden said in a statement that the report "shows that we continue to face economic challenges from a position of strength," although he acknowledged that "there is more work to be done."

Labor market data is closely watched for its potential impact on the Federal Reserve's future interest rate decisions.
It is not clear if the latest numbers will be enough to lead to a pause in interest rate increases.

On Saturday morning, a citizen was injured as a result of being shot by one of his relatives after a fight between them in Deir Al-Balah, central Gaza Strip .

The condition of the injured person, who was transferred to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, was described as serious.

And the police in Gaza opened an investigation into the circumstances of the accident.

On Saturday, the Gaza Traffic Department announced the registration of 3 deaths and 25 injuries during 71 traffic accidents last week (from 1 to 7 April).

According to the statistics, among the injuries, there was a serious condition, 13 were in moderate condition, and 11 were in minor condition.

93 vehicles sustained material damage and damage, according to the statistics.

Napoli regained its balance and approached a new step towards the third title in its history and the first since 1990, with an unconvincing victory over its host Lecce 2-1 on Friday, in the opening of the twenty-ninth stage of the Italian Football Championship .

Giovanni Di Lorenzo (18) and Antonino Gallo (64 fouls against his team) scored the goals for Napoli, and Federico Di Francesco (52) scored the goal for Lecce.

The southern team returned to the winning streak after losing humiliatingly at home to its guest, Milan, last season's champion, by 4-0, achieving its 24th victory this season, so it moved away by 19 points temporarily in the lead against its direct pursuer, Lazio, who hosts Juventus on Saturday at the end of the stage.

And Napoli regained its balance at an appropriate time, specifically before its trip to Milan to face Milan in particular, next Wednesday, in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals.

"It was not easy to achieve this result after that defeat (against Milan) ... This result gives us some relief before the next matches," Napoli coach Luciano Spalletti told the streaming network "Dazon".

For his part, captain De Lorenzo said, "Against Milan, we were not in our day, but that does not change what we did. These are three important points, we continue our journey towards our dream."

Napoli played the second match in the absence of its top scorer and Nigerian international player, Victor Osimhen, due to a thigh injury.

"Osimhen wants to play every game, but these are situations that need a correct assessment," Spalletti said of his absence. "At the moment he needs to do some basic training because all he has done is run a little bit."

Lecce had the advantage at the start of the match and almost opened the scoring early through Moroccan midfielder Youssef Maleh with a shot from inside the area following a header by his colleague Federico Francesco. Goalkeeper Alex Merritt pushed it to a corner (8). The legislator is before him (9).

And Napoli succeeded in opening the scoring when South Korean international defender Kim Min-jae passed a cross from the right, which Di Lorenzo followed with his head from close range, and he placed it to the left of goalkeeper Vladimiro Falcone (18).

It is Di Lorenzo's second goal in the league this season.

Mexican international striker Hirving Losano almost added the second goal with a creeping shot from outside the area, which goalkeeper Falconi pushed into a corner (34).

And Lecce succeeded in equalizing at the beginning of the second half when Di Francesco took advantage of a rebound from the crossbar after a header by Gambian Assan Sisay from close range, so he prepared it for himself and hit it powerfully with his right from the same distance to the right of Merritt (52).

And Napoli regained its lead in the result, with a fatal mistake by goalkeeper Falconi, in catching a rebound from his defender, Gallo, after a cross by Portuguese Mario Roy from the left (65).

French defender Samuel Umtiti, on loan from Barcelona, Spain, almost equalized with a powerful shot from outside the area, which passed near the left post (73).

The North Macedonian, Elif Almas, missed the opportunity to deliver the final blow to the landowners when he received a ball on a platter of gold from De Lorenzo inside the area, which was blocked by goalkeeper Falconi (84).

And Milan, the defending champion, failed to take advantage of the land and public factors in order to confirm its great victory at its host, Naples, by falling into a goalless draw in front of its guest, Empoli.

Milan raised its tally to 52 points in third place and threatened to drop to fourth place if Roma (50 points) beat Turin on Saturday.

The situation of the second pole of Milan, Inter, was not better, as it fell into the trap of a draw in front of its host Salernitana 1-1.

Veteran Salernitana midfielder Antonio Candreva, 36, added to the tribulations of his former team, Inter, and prevented him from regaining the winning streak when he equalized (1-1) in his own net in the last minute.

Inter advanced with a goal to his German defender Robin Goossens (6), but Candreva, who defended the colors of Inter between 2016 and 2020, equalized with a deceptive cross pass (90).

Inter Milan continued bleeding points and failed for the fourth consecutive match in the league to win and sixth in various competitions after three consecutive defeats in the Calcio and two draws against its Portuguese hosts Porto, 0-0, in the second leg of the Champions League final, and Juventus 1-1 in the first leg of the semi-finals of the local cup competition. .

The disappointing tie will increase the pressure on coach Simone Inzaghi before the Lisbon trip to face Benfica, Portugal, on Tuesday, in the first leg of the quarter-finals of the prestigious continental competition.

Inter raised its tally to 51 points in fourth place and threatened to drop to sixth place if Rome and Atalanta (48 points) beat Bologna on Saturday.

Inter was the best party and could have scored more than one goal had it not been for the brilliance of the Mexican international goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa, who owes much to this tie.

"It's difficult to come and talk about the equalizer after all the chances we created. The serious problem is not scoring the second goal," Inzaghi said. "It's not a simple moment, but I have nothing to blame my players for."

And Inter scored first through Gouzens with a left-footed shot from inside the area, following a pass from Belgian international Romelu Lukaku (6).

Lukaku hit a powerful ball creeping from inside the area, which Ochoa blocked in two waves (23), then with difficulty pushed Argentine Joaquin Correa's header from close range, following a cross pass from Gouzens (32).

Salernitana's first dangerous opportunity was after a powerful, creeping shot by Mali's Lassana Coulibaly from outside the area, which was blocked by Cameroonian international Andre Onana (43).

Ochoa removed Lukaku's header from the goal (45 + 2).

Inter continued his advantage in the second half and denied the right post, Nicolo Barella, from reinforcement at the beginning of the second half, by returning his powerful shot from outside the area (49).

And Onana turned a cross from Candriva at a suitable time to a corner before it hit his own net (58).

The Armenian international, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, tried his luck with a shot from outside the area, which Ochoa sent to a corner (63), through which Lukaku almost strengthened the progress with a header from close range, hit the crossbar and prepared in front of the Dutchman Stefan de Vree, who followed it with his head, but Ochoa removed it from the goal line (65).

Senegalese international substitute Boulay Dia almost equalized with a shot from close range, following a cross by Candreva, but the ball bounced off the crossbar and was dispersed by the defense (72).

Ochoa continued his brilliance by brilliantly saving the Argentine international substitute, Lautaro Martinez (82).
Dia responded with a shot from close range in the hands of Onana (83).

Lukaku hit a powerful, creeping ball from inside the area, which was pushed away by Ochoa (86).

And Candreva did it in the last minute with a deceptive cross pass from the right, which was placed in the far right corner of goalkeeper Onana (90).

Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid on Saturday condemned the bombing, which was attributed to Turkish forces, and targeted Friday , Sulaymaniyah airport in Iraqi Kurdistan, where, according to Ankara, fighters from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) are holed up.

Rashid said in a statement, "Turkish military operations are repeated against the Kurdistan region, the latest of which was the bombing of the Sulaymaniyah civilian airport."

Rashid added, "While we condemn these blatant attacks on Iraq and its sovereignty, we affirm that there is no legal justification that authorizes the Turkish forces to continue their approach of terrorizing safe civilians under the pretext of the presence of opposing forces on Iraqi soil."

The bombing near Sulaymaniyah airport, the second city in the Kurdistan region in northern Iraq, comes in an atmosphere of tension with Turkey closing its airspace in early April to planes coming from and heading to this airport.

Ankara justified this measure by accusing the Turkish Kurdish fighters of the PKK of intensifying their activities in the sector and criticized the "infiltration" of the "terrorist" organization into the airport.

On Friday, the security services at the airport spoke briefly about an "explosion" near the surrounding wall, which caused a fire, but did not result in any casualties.

Turkey considers the Syrian Democratic Forces, whose main component is the People's Protection Units, an extension of the Kurdistan Workers' Party.
The coalition responded late on Friday evening to the "news claiming" that the Commander-in-Chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces, Mazloum Abdi, was targeted in Sulaymaniyah, stressing that these reports are "untrue."

Rashid called on the Turkish government to "take responsibility and offer an official apology for these actions, stop these attacks, and solve their internal problems by opening channels of dialogue with the concerned parties."

He stressed that "in the event of a recurrence of these attacks, there will be a firm stance to prevent their recurrence in the future."

Ankara regularly carries out ground and air operations against the Syrian Democratic Forces in Syria and against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Iraq.

In July 2022, artillery strikes attributed to Ankara targeted an entertainment area in Iraqi Kurdistan, killing nine civilians, including women and children. Türkiye denied any responsibility for the bombing and blamed the PKK.

Lens continued his awakening and tightened the screws on the leaders, Paris Saint-Germain, when he temporarily reduced the difference between them to three points by defeating his guest, Strasbourg, 2-1, on Friday, in the opening of the thirtieth stage of the French Football Championship .

Lens first scored through the Polish international midfielder Przemyslaw Frankowski, following a pass from Adrian Thomason (11).
Argentine defender Facundo Medina added the second goal in the 64th minute, before Kevin Gameiro narrowed the deficit in the 84th minute.

It is the fourth successive victory for Lens and the eighteenth this season, temporarily dissolving the second-place partnership with Marseille, who will be a guest at Lorient on Sunday at the end of the stage, raising its score to 63 points, compared to 60 for the southern team and 66 for the capital team, which is a guest on Nice on Saturday.

On the other hand, Strasbourg suffered its second loss in a row and its fourteenth this season, so its balance froze at 26 points in the sixteenth place.

Saturday will also play Angers, who are in last place, with Lille, fifth.

Sunday also meets Lyon with Rennes, Ajaccio with Auxerre, Montpellier with Toulouse, Reims with Brest, Troyes with Clermont-Ferrand, and Nantes with Monaco.

Sevilla, led by its new coach, Jose Luis Mendelibar, wasted a valuable victory at home to Celta Vigo and fell into a trap in stoppage time 2-2 on Friday in the opening of the twenty-eighth stage of the Spanish Football Championship .

Seville was on its way to achieving its second victory in succession, led by Mendilibar, against the backdrop of Argentine Jorge Sampaoli, who was dismissed from his post due to the disappointing results, when he advanced two goals to Moroccan international striker Youssef Al-Nusairi (43) and Argentine international defender Marcos Acuna (81), but Celta Vigo turned the table around by equalizing. Thanks to two goals by Miguel Rodrigues (90) and Portuguese Goncalo Paciencia (90 + 3).

Sevilla played with ten players since the 19th minute, after Senegalese midfielder Pap Guy was sent off for receiving a second warning after the first in the sixth minute, then Acuña was sent off in the fifth minute of stoppage time.

Celta Vigo was temporarily ninth with 36 points, one point ahead of its former partner Osasuna, who hosts Elche on Saturday, while Sevilla strengthened its position in thirteenth place with 32 points.

The stage will be completed on Saturday with Espanyol’s meetings with Athletic Bilbao, Real Sociedad with Getafe, and Real Madrid with Villarreal, provided that Sunday meets Valladolid with Real Mallorca, Real Betis with Cadiz, Almeria with Valencia, and Rayo Vallecano with Atletico Madrid.

The stage ends on Monday with the Catalan Derby between leaders Barcelona and Girona XI.

The struggle continues for the top spot in the Saudi Football League , when the leaders Al-Ittihad defeated Al-Wahda on Sunday, and Al-Nasr with its veteran Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo defeated Al-Fayhaa, within the twenty-third stage.

At the King Abdulaziz Sports City Stadium in Makkah Al-Mukarramah, Al-Ittihad defeated Al-Wahda, armed with a historical advantage and remarkable levels that enabled it to take the lead, a point behind Al-Nassr (53-52).

Al-Ittihad lost only one match this season, which was against Al-Hilal 0-1 on January 5th.

The “Brigadier” is counting on his Brazilian professionals Marcelo Grohe, Igor Coronado and Romarinho Da Silva, the Egyptians Ahmed Hegazy and Tariq Hamed, and the Moroccan striker Abdel Razzaq Hamdallah.

On the other hand, Al Wahda is in thirteenth place with 22 points.

And after five consecutive matches, during which he did not receive any losses (4 draws), Al-Wahda fell in front of the last Al-Batin with a clean double, to remain surrounded by the danger of relegation.

The unit relies on a group of professionals such as Moroccan goalkeeper Mounir Al-Mohammadi, his compatriot Faisal Fajr, Brazilian Anselmo de Morais and Costa Rican Oscar Duarte.

Al-Nasr seeks to overcome the obstacle of its host, Al-Fayhaa, when they meet on the same day, at Al-Majmaa Sports City Stadium.

Al-Nasr is historically superior to its tenth-placed guest, who did not know the path of victories in the last three matches.

In Al-Fayhaa, his Serbian goalkeeper Vladimir Stojkovic, Brazilian Paulinho and Nigerian Anthony Nwakaimi stand out.

After losing the lead against Al-Ittihad, Al-Nasr regained its balance and achieved two important victories at the expense of Abha and then Al-Adala.

Al-Nasr is missing its star Sami Al-Naji through injury, but he has distinguished names in all positions, led by Ronaldo (38 years), the best player in the world five times, and the Brazilian Anderson Talisca, the top scorer, who extended his contract until 2026, and his compatriot Luiz Gustavo and the Spaniard Alvaro Gonzalez.

Al-Hilal, the defending champion in the last three seasons, is looking to compensate for its disappointing loss against Al-Shabab 0-3 on Friday, when it hosts Al-Tai on Monday.

And a series of four victories for Al-Hilal stopped by losing to Al-Shabab for the first time since 2014, so it fell to fourth place with 45 points, logically losing chances to retain the title amid the successive victories of rivals Al-Ittihad and Al-Nasr.

On the other hand, Al-Taei wants to return to the path of victories, after a 2-2 draw with Al-Raed, to stop his score at 22 points in eighth place.
The third youth will be a heavy guest on the Gulf on Tuesday, ecstatic from its great victory over Al-Hilal by 3-0 at the summit of the twenty-second stage.

Al-Shabab regained third place after raising its score to 47 points, while Al-Khaleej clings to the last hope for survival, especially since the match will be held at its home stadium and among its fans.

In the rest of the matches, Al-Ahad will meet Al-Taawun with Al-Ettifaq and Abha with Al-Batin, and Al-Monday will play Al-Raed with Al-Fateh and Damak with Al-Adalah.