SPORT

Sat 08 Apr 2023 12:34 pm - Jerusalem Time

England Championship: Kompany returns Burnley to the Elite League

Burnley, supervised by former Belgian defender Vincent Kompany, promoted to the English Premier League in football, after beating Middlesbrough 2-1 on Friday.


After a series of 19 games without losing, Burnley moved away by 19 points from Luton III, who would not be able to catch up with him, six games before the end of the season.


Burnley had included Kompany, the four-time Premier League champion, as a player with Manchester City, in 2022, after he was relegated after six seasons in the Premier League.


The former center back expressed his surprise at this rapid rise, "We are still in the Easter period, there are seven matches, and here we are celebrating. We did not expect that."


With his relegation, he had to pay off a large part of his debts of $ 78 million and sell a number of his important players.


But the 36-year-old Kompany, the former coach of Anderlecht, has succeeded in making a good team of new faces, taking advantage of his connections in Belgium and with Manchester City to strengthen his squad.

PALESTINE

Sat 08 Apr 2023 12:24 pm - Jerusalem Time

The National Bureau: The Israeli Ministry of Settlement doubles the budget for fighting the Palestinian presence in Area C

The National Bureau for Defending Land and Resisting Settlements said that the Ministry of Settlement in the Israeli government is heading, through an action plan prepared by it, to double the budgets that will be transferred to settlement councils in the West Bank , to be used in monitoring and documenting Palestinian construction in Areas (C), and this was included in the general budget for 2008 2023 and 2024.


A budget of 40 million shekels will be allocated to local and regional settlement councils, compared to about 20 million that was allocated for that in the past, and the Ministry of Settlement is looking forward to doubling the budget that will be allocated to settlers to equip themselves with drones and patrols that monitor Palestinian construction in Area C, with the aim of fighting the Palestinian presence in them. .


The budgets that will be transferred to the settlements will be allocated to hiring employees for the patrol departments and purchasing drones, tablet computers, and vehicles. Large settlements will be able to finance the pensions of 4 full-time guards and four others part-time. The allocated budget can also be used to operate many volunteers within the so-called “project.” National Service” and holding conferences on preventing Palestinian construction and expansion in Area C, and establishing security infrastructure against the implementation of so-called “illegal activities on the ground” such as fencing and building paths and roads.


It is noteworthy that the Ministry of Settlement, headed by Tzachi Hanegbi, approved in 2020 a budget of 20 million shekels to monitor Palestinian construction in Area C. In recent years, so-called "land patrols" have been operating and active in West Bank settlements that monitor Palestinian construction and agriculture, and these patrols submit their reports. To the Civil Administration and the occupation authorities to issue demolition notices and stop work and construction for Palestinians.


The Civil Administration also operates a hotline calling on settlers to report Palestinian construction work, which is known in Israel as the “Campaign on Area C”, as part of a plan to empty Area C of Palestinians and annex it to Israeli sovereignty.


At the same time, the occupation authorities are promoting preliminary plans for about 6,500 settlement units in new or existing settlements in East Jerusalem, despite their repeated commitments to a temporary halt to construction in the settlements, as the Israeli Local Planning Committee in Jerusalem presented plans for the Wadi Al-Jouz Business Center (Silicon Valley), and the lower canal, and the "ramot".


The Local Planning Committee in Jerusalem recently held discussions on five settlement plans in French Hill / Mount Scopus (2), Givat Shaked, Pisgat Ze'ev, and Ramot, and objections to the Lower Canal plan were rejected.


The lower canal plan includes the construction of 1,465 housing units, which would lead to the expansion of territorial contiguity between "Har Homa" and "Givat Hamatos", which would lead to an increase in the settlement wedge between the southern end of East Jerusalem and the Bethlehem area in the West Bank.


As for the Wadi al-Jouz Business Center, despite the claim that it will increase job opportunities for Palestinians and boost the economy in East Jerusalem, there is acute concern that it will eventually lead to the eviction and demolition of about 200 Palestinian companies, and replace them with Israeli or international companies.


The Ramot North A and Ramot North B plan, which was discussed by the local planning committee, would expand the current Ramot settlement to the northeast towards Bir Nabala.


With regard to the French Hill / Mount Scopus, work is underway within the framework of developing two plans in the area and the buildings of the Hebrew University campus in Mount Scopus for a total of 1,539 housing units, in addition to an expansion in "Pisgat Ze'ev" by about 730 housing units east towards the separation wall and the Hizma area. This leads to the depletion of the few remaining land reserves in the region.


The local planning committee of the occupation municipality had rejected the objections submitted to the Wadi Al-Joz business center plan (Silicon Valley) and recommended approval of the plan, which will be built on the ruins of the industrial zone. The period for submitting objections to the plan ended on February 26, when 59 objections were submitted by By landowners and business owners in the area.


The Silicon Valley plan, launched by the Jerusalem Development Authority, is an 80-dunam business center in the urban center of East Jerusalem not far from the Old City, a bustling commercial area with shops, garages and other small businesses, all at risk of being demolished and replaced with high-rise corporate office buildings. High-tech, the plan also includes 194 housing units, which is a very small number that constitutes only 13% of the building area, and most, if not all, of the existing facilities will be evacuated, and the majority will not be eligible for any compensation, and local shop owners estimate that closing existing facilities It means that 2000 workers will lose their jobs.


The District Planning and Building Committee in Jerusalem also decided to deposit a plan to build 460 settlement units in the "Gilo" settlement, south of occupied East Jerusalem. The plan covers a total area of about eight dunums, and includes this number of settlement units in five residential buildings, which are two towers with a height of 35 meters. Three floors and three 10-story buildings, the lower floors house work areas, a clinic, and a commercial front.


Of the total housing units, about 92 units will be allocated for small apartments of up to 55 square metres. In addition, as part of the plan, 3.5 dunums will be allocated for public open spaces, about 3 dunums for the construction of a new primary school, and about 2,500 square meters for four daycare classrooms. And five kindergarten classrooms, and the construction of two new temples and the expansion of two existing ones.

New outposts
In the rest of the regions and governorates of the West Bank, the looting of Palestinian lands continues, sometimes by military orders, and at other times by settler thieves.


Settlers established a new settlement outpost in the southern area of the lands of the town of Qusra, south of Nablus, and brought mobile homes and tents. .


The settlers also established a new settlement outpost near the Al-Auja Spring community, north of the city of Jericho, and placed a portable dwelling and a water tank on a mountain overlooking the Al-Auja Spring Bedouin community, and made a way to it with the aim of seizing lands in the area.


It is noteworthy that the Al-Auja Spring community is one of the Bedouin communities that is subject to repeated violations by the occupation and its settlers with the aim of stealing water and controlling the land for the benefit of settlement projects.


The occupation authorities are not satisfied with deploying more forces, police and border guards along the West Bank from north to south and from east to west. The Israeli police chief called on settlers who have a weapon license to carry their weapons with them wherever they go during the days of the Jewish Passover holiday and to Coming armed to the Eid prayers in synagogues, and carrying weapons when they go out for a walk.


The police, the Israeli army, and the Shin Bet claim that they have received dozens of warnings about planning operations carried out by Palestinians inside Israel and in settlements in the occupied West Bank. The police say that they have reinforced their forces and border guards at the military checkpoints between Israel and the West Bank in order to prevent Palestinians from entering Israel.

Facilities for the killer of the Dawabsha family
In a move of racist significance, the Israeli occupation authorities decided to grant facilitation to the terrorist settler Amiram Ben-Uliel, who killed the Dawabsha family by burning down their house in the village of Duma, south of Nablus in 2015, who is serving a life sentence 3 times.


The decision to facilitate the facilities was taken by the Occupation Prisons Service and the Shin Bet on the pretext of the Jewish “Passover” holiday, which lasts until April 12, and the facilities include allowing him to leave isolation and spend the “Passover” period in the religious wing with other prisoners.


At the international level, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted two resolutions on the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination and the illegality of settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, during its meeting in its 52nd regular session, and 38 countries voted in favor of the decision on the illegality of settlements in the Palestinian territories, including occupied Jerusalem. While 5 countries abstained from voting, and 4 countries voted against it, 41 countries voted in favor of the resolution of the Palestinian people's right to self-determination, 3 countries abstained from voting, and 3 countries voted against the resolution.


The UN resolution came about two weeks after the Knesset approved the repeal of what is known as the "disengagement law" or the law of "separation" from the occupation settlements and camps in the Gaza Strip and four settlements in the West Bank, allowing settlers to return to 4 settlements in the northern West Bank that were evacuated in 2005.

ARAB AND WORLD

Sat 08 Apr 2023 11:40 am - Jerusalem Time

China begins military exercises in the Taiwan Strait

On Saturday, the Chinese army began a three-day military exercise in the Taiwan Strait , in an atmosphere of tension with the island, after its president, Tsai Ing-wen, met with Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, in the United States.


Chinese military spokesman Shi Yi said in a statement that the exercises constitute "a solemn warning against the collusion between the separatist forces seeking 'Taiwan independence' and outside forces, as well as their provocative activities."


The Chinese army explained that the maneuvers include "patrols".


And the maritime authorities in Fujian (east) said that live-fire exercises will be held on Monday in the Taiwan Strait near the coast of this province, which is located opposite the island.


Military analyst Song Zhongping warned that these "operational" exercises are aimed at proving that "if provocations intensify," the Chinese army is ready to "finally settle the Taiwan issue."


Taipei saw the maneuvers as threatening "stability and security" in the Asia-Pacific region.


On Saturday, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen condemned China's "authoritarian expansionism", stressing that the island "will continue to work with the United States and other countries (...) to defend the values of freedom and democracy."


The maneuvers come after President Tsai's visit this week to the United States, where she met McCarthy on Wednesday.
Beijing immediately vowed to take "firm and strong measures" in response.


China looks with displeasure at the rapprochement that has been going on for years between the Taiwanese authorities and the United States, which provides the island with important military support, despite the lack of official relations between them.


Beijing considers Taiwan, with a population of 23 million, to be an integral part of China's territory, which it has not yet been able to reunite with the rest of its territory since the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949.


The United States recognized the People's Republic of China in 1979 and is theoretically supposed to have no official contact with the Republic of China (Taiwan) under the "one China principle" that Beijing defends.


Since Thursday, China has intensified its military pressure on the island by sending warships and aircraft to the Taiwan Strait.
A few days ago, Beijing reinforced the presence of the coast guard in the strait to carry out exceptional patrols.


The exact location of the new exercises has not been determined, except for Monday's live-fire drills, which will be held around Pingtan, the closest point in China to Taiwan.


The narrowest part of the Taiwan Strait between the Chinese coast and the island is about 130 km wide.


On Saturday, the Taiwanese Ministry of Defense said, during its daily briefing, that it had detected eight warships and 42 Chinese fighters around the island. She explained that 29 of the aircraft crossed the middle line in the Taiwan Strait.


Agence France-Presse journalists in Pingtan on Friday monitored a military ship and at least two military helicopters crossing the Taiwan Strait.


However, it is not clear whether these moves represent an increase in the usual number of Chinese patrols in the area.
Last August, Beijing conducted unprecedented military maneuvers around Taiwan when the then-Democratic Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, visited the island.


But so far, the response to the meeting between Tsai and McCarthy has not been compared to the summer of 2022.


The military maneuvers come a day after French President Emmanuel Macron's state visit to China, where he raised the Taiwan issue with Chinese President Xi Jinping.


The Elysee said Friday that "the conversation was intense and frank" on this subject.


Xi Jinping told European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen Thursday during a meeting in Beijing that "anyone who thinks China will make concessions on Taiwan is delusional," in comments reported by the Chinese foreign ministry.

PALESTINE

Sat 08 Apr 2023 11:39 am - Jerusalem Time

The occupation forces tighten their military measures in Tubas

Today, Saturday, the Israeli occupation forces tightened their military measures in the vicinity of Tubas , at the Tayasir and Hamra checkpoints, for the second day in a row, and this came after the killing of two settlers by gunfire in the Jordan Valley yesterday.


The forces also stopped citizens' vehicles heading to the Jordan Valley, searched them and checked their identity cards, at intermittent intervals, and intensified their presence in several areas of the Jordan Valley since yesterday.


PALESTINE

Sat 08 Apr 2023 11:25 am - Jerusalem Time

A $10 million grant from the World Bank to improve the efficiency of the Palestinian health sector

The World Bank announced a $10 million grant to support the Palestinian Authority in its efforts to improve the quality, efficiency and resilience of public health service delivery.


Despite efforts to improve access to and quality of health care in the Palestinian territories, much work remains to be done to improve utilization of primary health care in the West Bank . As the World Bank says.


He adds: One of the biggest causes of disease burden in the Gaza Strip is access to reliable care for people with chronic diseases, especially cancer . The Strengthening Health System Efficiency and Resilience Project will help address these challenges.


Commenting on this, Stefan Emblad, Director and Resident Representative of the World Bank in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, said: “Although government spending on health constitutes 4% of GDP, exceeding the level of many peer countries, the Palestinian health care system is finding it difficult to Providing the necessary care for all citizens. The new project, funded by the World Bank, aims to help ensure the continuity of health care services, expand their coverage, and build their resilience.”


He continued, "The ongoing restrictions on freedom of movement and access, continued pressures on public finances, and the continuous escalation of violence have weakened the health system and its ability to provide high-quality health care services. The Ministry of Health also relies on the external medical referral system to provide specialized health services to patients." These referrals are due to the lack of services in public hospitals, which impose a huge burden on the public finances of the Palestinian Authority, which leads to a narrowing of spending space on other basic health services, and priority expenditures in other sectors.


The project will prioritize primary health care and strengthen hospitals in order to increase access to and efficiency of services, thus contributing to reducing the financial burden of referrals and ensuring that the population receives timely treatment. The project aims to provide prevention and treatment of priority non-communicable diseases, especially high blood pressure, diabetes and cancer, at the primary care level in areas with low levels of access to services. In parallel, the project will focus on strengthening the public hospital system by providing the necessary medical equipment for treatment. Cancer, cardiovascular, maternal and neonatal health care.


The project will also contribute to the establishment of radiotherapy services in the Gaza Strip, which is one of the main obstacles to treating cancer patients in the Strip.


This project is an extension of the World Bank's long-term operational and technical support to strengthen the Palestinian healthcare system. Emblad commented: “The financing needs of the Palestinian health sector remain significant.


The World Bank will work in close coordination with development partners to achieve integration and avoid overlapping efforts in order to improve the sustainability of financing the health sector by reducing spending on external medical referrals.

PALESTINE

Sat 08 Apr 2023 11:17 am - Jerusalem Time

A civilian was killed after being shot in Haifa

The citizen, Mahmoud Zakarneh (57 years), died at dawn today, Saturday, of critical injuries he sustained yesterday evening as a result of being shot in the occupied city of Haifa .


According to the Hebrew website Ynet, Zakarneh was hit by several gunshots, and later died as a result.


The website indicated that another 18-year-old was injured in the accident, which the Israeli police opened an investigation into.

PALESTINE

Sat 08 Apr 2023 11:05 am - Jerusalem Time

Updated || The "Islamic Cooperation" warns of the continuation of the serious occupation attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation warned of the consequences of the continued attacks of the Israeli occupation authorities, their officials, and settlers on the sanctity of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque , including provocations, continuous abuses, and serious daily assaults and incursions.


This came during the final statement issued by the extraordinary meeting of the open-ended executive committee of the organization, which was held at its general headquarters in Jeddah, today, Saturday, to discuss the continuation of the Israeli attacks on the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, at the invitation of the State of Palestine and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, in coordination and consultation with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.


In its statement, the organization considered that what is happening is a gross violation of international law, and an unprecedented tampering with the existing historical and legal situation, in an attempt to perpetuate the temporal and spatial division of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.


She affirmed that the Israeli occupation has no sovereignty over any part of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque / Al-Qudsi Al-Sharif, and that Muslim worshipers have the absolute right to pray freely and safely in and around it, at any time, without any hindrance or violence.


All the resolutions issued by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation related to the issue of Palestine and Jerusalem affirmed the central nature of the issue of Palestine, with Jerusalem and its sanctities at its heart, for the entire Islamic Ummah, and the eternal connection of Muslims all over the world to the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, the first of the two qiblahs and the third of the Two Holy Mosques.


It stressed the Arab and Islamic identity of occupied East Jerusalem, the capital of the State of Palestine, and refused to prejudice it in any way.


It condemned "in the strongest terms the dangerous escalation of the Israeli occupation forces and terrorist colonizers by repeatedly storming the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque / Al-Qudsi Al-Sharif, during the blessed month of Ramadan, which reached, on the night of the 14th of Ramadan, a brutal attack on worshipers and those who are secluded in its courtyards while performing their prayers and rituals, including women." and children, and led to the injury and arrest of hundreds of them, and damaged the Al-Qibli prayer hall, which is a provocation to the feelings of Muslims all over the world and an assault on the existing legal and historical situation and a serious violation of international law and relevant United Nations resolutions.


In its statement, the organization held Israel, the occupying Power, responsible for the consequences of these dangerous and provocative actions of the racist Israeli government, as it continues to seek, through systematic brutal attacks, deliberate provocation and repeated incitement, to inflame the situation and provoke a religious confrontation with unimaginable consequences.


It warned of the repercussions of this on international peace and security, calling on the international community, and specifically the Security Council, in its capacity as responsible for the maintenance of international peace and security, to shoulder its responsibilities and take urgent action to take the necessary measures to deter and stop the dangerous Israeli escalation and with it all other illegal and provocative measures and policies. It harms the occupied city of Jerusalem and the sanctity of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque / Al-Qudsi Al-Sharif, without selectivity or double standards.


It appreciated the positions of the countries that expressed their rejection and condemnation of the provocative and aggressive Israeli incursions into the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, calling on them to take practical steps, including imposing sanctions on the Israeli colonial regime, to stop these practices and all its illegal procedures and policies.


In this context, the Islamic Cooperation stressed the responsibility of the states parties to the Geneva Conventions to hold Israel, the illegal colonial occupying power, accountable for all its violations of international humanitarian law, whether by its government officials, military forces, or extremist colonialists.


And she saluted the Palestinian people who are steadfast in the city of Jerusalem, affirming her standing with them and supporting their heroic steadfastness in all possible ways, as well as the sovereignty of the Palestinian people over Jerusalem and all its holy places and the old town of Jerusalem and its walls, and that all measures taken or intended to be taken by the colonial occupation authorities Israeli actions intended to change the character and legal status of the city or its demographic composition are null and void and have no legal effect.


The historical Jordanian Hashemite Custodianship over the Islamic and Christian holy places in the city of Jerusalem, and its role in protecting these sanctities and preserving the existing legal and historical situation in them, confirmed that the Jerusalem Endowments and Affairs of the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque / Al-Qudsi Al-Sharif affiliated to the Jordanian Ministry of Endowments, Islamic Affairs and Holy Sites is the authority authorized to manage Al-Aqsa affairs.


And she stressed the importance of the role of the Jerusalem Committee headed by Moroccan King Mohammed VI in confronting the dangerous policies implemented by the Israeli occupation authorities in Jerusalem, to change the identity of the city and its legal status, as well as its demographic, cultural and historical composition, appreciating the role played by the Beit Mal Jerusalem Agency.


The organization called on member states, and its general secretariat, to take urgent action to confront these serious attacks, to activate the mechanisms stipulated in its relevant resolutions, to act at all levels, and to send urgent messages to the concerned international bodies, including the Security Council, reflecting the organization's positions in this regard.


And called for the provision of international protection for the Palestinian people and the occupied city of Jerusalem and its sanctities, specifically the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque / Al-Qudsi Al-Sharif, in the face of illegal attempts to change the current legal and historical situation.


She reaffirmed the importance of continuing coordination and cooperation among the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the League of Arab States, and the African Union in order to protect the occupied city of Jerusalem from the systematic Israeli policies and attacks.


The group of ambassadors of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation called for action and conveying the contents of this statement to the capitals of influential countries around the world.

The organization urged the Islamic Group in the relevant international organizations to take action and initiate the necessary consultations and measures to confront and stop the systematic Israeli attacks in the occupied city of Jerusalem.


At the end of her statement, she stressed her continued follow-up of all developments related to the city of Jerusalem, specifically the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque / Al-Haram Al-Sharif, and to take the appropriate steps in this regard, as stipulated in the decisions of the Islamic summits and the councils of foreign ministers.


ARAB AND WORLD

Sat 08 Apr 2023 10:53 am - Jerusalem Time

Washington confirms that it "stands by" Israel and considers the attacks "unacceptable"

On Saturday, Washington expressed its support for Israel's right to self-defense, following two separate bloody attacks in Tel Aviv and the West Bank, and the firing of missiles from Lebanon that prompted the Jewish state to launch raids.


A 36-year-old Italian tourist was trampled to death and seven others were injured Friday night in a car attack at the Tel Aviv waterfront.


Earlier Friday, two sisters from the settlement of Efrat, aged 16 and 20, were killed and their mother seriously injured in an attack in the West Bank.


"The targeting of innocent civilians, of any nationality, is unacceptable," State Department spokesman Vedant Patel said in a statement, adding, "The United States stands with the government and people of Israel."


With regard to the missiles launched from Lebanon, the United States expressed its support for Israel, without explicitly supporting the raids launched by the Jewish state on southern Lebanon in response to those missiles.


A second US State Department spokesperson said, "We urge de-escalation from all sides, and we recognize that Israel can exercise its natural right to self-defence."


"Using Lebanon as a launching pad for missile attacks against Israel endangers Lebanon and increases the possibility" of an expansion of the conflict, he added.

PALESTINE

Sat 08 Apr 2023 10:53 am - Jerusalem Time

The occupation arrests 4 citizens from Jerusalem and Bethlehem

Today, Saturday, the Israeli occupation forces launched a campaign of arrests against a number of citizens in Jerusalem and Bethlehem .


And local sources reported that the occupation forces arrested three young men during the storming of the town of Al-Ram, north of occupied Jerusalem , during clashes that erupted between the occupation and the young men.


While the young man, Wael Ahmed Diriyeh, from the town of Beit Fajjar, was arrested while crossing the Hamra military checkpoint.

PALESTINE

Sat 08 Apr 2023 10:48 am - Jerusalem Time

75 years since the martyrdom of Commander Abdul Qadir Al-Husseini

On the morning of this day, April 8, 1948, Commander Abdel Qader Musa Kazem Al-Husseini , one of the symbols of the Palestinian national movement, which confronted the British army and Zionist gangs in the twentieth century, was martyred.


Seventy-five years ago, Al-Husseini was martyred in the village of Al-Qastal in Jerusalem, in a battle between the fighters of the Palestinian "Holy Jihad" organization and a reinforced Zionist force led by Yitzhak Rabin.


Al-Husseini was accustomed to enduring the calamities that befell Palestine from an early age, when he lost his mother a year and a half after his birth in 1910.


Al-Husseini began his life between science and jihad, especially since he studied the Holy Qur’an, and joined several universities, including the American University in Cairo. He studied in the Department of Chemistry, and in the College of Arts and Sciences at the American University of Beirut, until he joined a course for reserve officers at the Military College.


He held several jobs in his life, including a secretary in the Palestinian Arab Party in Jerusalem, a land settlement commissioner, and a mathematics teacher at the military school in Al-Rashid Camp.


Abdul Qadir Al-Husseini is considered the first to start the Great Palestinian Revolution in 1936, when he opened fire on a British military barracks in the village of Beit Surik in Jerusalem Governorate, which led to the movement of the cells of the Palestinian revolution everywhere, and the resistance men joined them at that time from all sides. .

Sat 08 Apr 2023 10:41 am - Jerusalem Time

The discovery of a massive black hole whose flow in space causes the formation of trails of stars

A "massive" black hole is flowing through space at top speed, leaving behind a chain of stars 200,000 light-years away, according to an unprecedented discovery reported by the US space agency (NASA).


This black hole, whose mass exceeds twenty million times the size of the sun, flows through space and collides with the gas clouds that it encounters in front of it.


Due to the force of the hole's movement, the gas later turns into a chain of stars, which NASA's Hubble Space Telescope was able to observe.


"We think we see a rise behind the black hole where gas cools and can form stars," Yale University scientist Peter van Dokkum said in a statement. ".


The researchers believe that it is possible that the temperature of the gas rose due to the collision of the black hole with it, and then it cools down after the hole passed, which leads to the emergence of stars.


Van Dokkum pointed out that "the gas is affected by the supersonic effect of the black hole, which is moving at extreme speed."


Scientists believe that this hole, which is a celestial monster, comes from a huge group of three galaxies.


According to their theory, two galaxies may have merged about 50 million years ago, causing two supermassive black holes to orbit each other.


However, a third galaxy with its own black hole collided with this group, which led to the creation of an unstable and chaotic trio, which led to the expulsion of one of the black holes at a tremendous speed, as the hole observed by "Hubble" could travel the distance between the Earth and the Moon within 14 one minute.


The researchers who made this discovery stated that the black hole does not pose a threat to humanity, as what was discovered took place in space long ago, when the universe was half its current age.


As for the reason behind seeing this phenomenon now, it is due to the fact that the light took a long time to reach us.
Van Dokkum pointed out that this discovery happened by chance.


Through the use of the "Hubble" space telescope, the scientist noticed (...) "a small path of stars that is amazing, very bright and unusual," and said, "What we saw is not similar to any cosmic phenomenon that we have observed previously."


NASA stated that this hole, the likes of which had not been observed before, may not be the only one in the universe.


It is assumed that the new "Nancy Grace Roman" space telescope, scheduled to be launched during the current decade, will provide a broader view of space, and may discover more star trails that are an indication of the presence of one of these giant holes.

PALESTINE

Sat 08 Apr 2023 10:34 am - Jerusalem Time

A young man and dozens suffocated during clashes north of Hebron

Today, Saturday, a young man was injured by bullets and dozens suffocated during clashes with the occupation forces in Al-Arroub refugee camp , north of Hebron .


According to local sources, the occupation forces fired bullets, stun grenades, and gas bombs at the homes of citizens, during clashes that erupted at the entrance to the camp.

ARAB AND WORLD

Sat 08 Apr 2023 10:32 am - Jerusalem Time

North Korea announces a new test of a "march" nuclear submarine

North Korea announced Saturday that it had conducted a new test of a "unmanned" nuclear submarine , in the latest response to the US-South Korean maneuvers, using technology that still raises questions about Pyongyang's possession of it.


"The DPRK's National Defense Science Research Institute conducted a test of a strategic underwater weapon system between April 4 and 7," North Korea's official KCNA news agency reported. It added that the Hale-2 nuclear-powered submarine conducted "simulations under water, during which it covered a distance of 1,000 km."


North Korea announced on March 23 the first test of this submarine, which, it said, is capable of "causing a large-scale radioactive tsunami" through an underwater explosion.


The agency indicated that the weapon "detonated accurately underwater," pointing out that this test "proves the reliability of the strategic underwater weapon system and its lethal offensive ability."


This is the third test of this system announced by North Korea, after two previous tests, the first on March 23 and the second announced on the 28th of the month.


Russia also announced the development of a similar weapon, the nuclear-capable Poseidon torpedo, but experts believe that North Korea does not yet possess the high-tech technology required for this type of weapon.


But Choi Ji-il, a professor of military studies at Sangji University, told AFP that "even if the North somewhat exaggerated the level of success (the tests), it seems to show Pyongyang's confidence in this technology."


He warned that the North's assertions should not be "disregarded" under the pretext that it is exaggerated, stressing that it cannot be ruled out that Russia has transferred technology for this type of weapon to Pyongyang.


On April 5, Seoul and Washington conducted joint air exercises that included at least one US nuclear-capable B-52H bomber, according to the South Korean military.


After a year that saw a record number of weapons tests and growing nuclear threats from Pyongyang, Seoul and Washington strengthened their defense cooperation and held the largest joint military exercises in five years from March 13 to 23, 2023.


North Korea regards the maneuvers as rehearsals for an invasion of its territory and has repeatedly warned that it will take "crushing" measures in response.


The North confirmed in particular that on March 16 it tested an intercontinental ballistic missile.


North Korea last year declared itself an "irreversible" nuclear power, and Kim recently called for a "massive" increase in weapons production, including tactical nuclear ones.


Satellite images taken a month ago revealed a high level of activity at the main North Korean nuclear complex in Yongbyon, according to the US-based "38 North" organization.

Sat 08 Apr 2023 10:30 am - Jerusalem Time

An 11-year-old boy is suspected of being involved in the murder of a young girl in Germany

An 11-year-old boy is suspected of being involved in the murder of a ten-year-old girl inside a child and adolescent protection center in southern Germany , police said Friday.


On Tuesday, the body of the little girl was found inside her room in this institution located in the small town of Vunsiedel in Bavaria.


In a joint statement, local prosecutors and police said that evidence collected from the crime scene "indicates the involvement of an 11-year-old boy" residing in the same centre.


"Since the boy is below the age of criminal responsibility, he has been placed in a secure center as a precautionary measure," the statement added.


Public prosecutors and the police refused to give more details about the case, saying only that the boy had not yet been investigated and that they were coordinating their investigations with the local youth authorities.


Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Hermann praised the investigators for being able to identify the suspect "within a relatively short period of time," adding that "the important step now is to clarify the circumstances behind this tragedy."


The Children and Youth Welfare Center, which includes about 90 children and adolescents, expressed "great shock" at the girl's death.


On its website, the center states that it aims to support "youth who need help with education and their families".

ARAB AND WORLD

Sat 08 Apr 2023 10:25 am - Jerusalem Time

Taiwan Strait history of crises

Since communist China and Taiwan separated at the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949, the strait separating them has become a geopolitical point of tension.


The strait, which is only 130 km wide at its narrowest point, is a major international channel for shipping goods and everything that separates democratic, self-governing Taiwan from its giant authoritarian neighbour.


On Saturday, Beijing began a three-day military exercise in response to Taiwan President Tsai Ing- wen's visit to the United States, where she met US House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy in Los Angeles.


China described the exercises as a "severe warning" to "separatist forces" who want Taiwan independence in collusion with foreign powers.
Beijing reacted angrily to a visit by former Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi to the island, making mounting threats and announcing a series of military exercises in the waters around the island.


Analysts had said Tsai's meeting with McCarthy in the United States could anger Beijing and lead to a show of force.
Historians talk about three previous crises in the Taiwan Strait.


At the end of the Chinese Civil War, Mao Zedong's communist forces expelled the Chiang Kai-shek nationalists who had moved to Taiwan.


The two rivals settled on opposite sides of the strait, the People's Republic of China on the mainland and the Republic of China on Taiwan.
The first Straits Crisis erupted in August 1954 when the Nationalists sent thousands of soldiers to the small Taiwanese-ruled islands of Kinmen and Matsu, just a few kilometers from the mainland.


Communist China responded with artillery bombardment of the two islands and succeeded in capturing the Yijiangshan Islands, 400 km north of Taipei.


The spark was eventually extinguished, but it almost brought China and the United States to the brink of direct conflict.
Fighting broke out again in 1958 when Mao's forces massively bombed the islands of Kinmen and Matsu in a new effort to expel the Nationalist forces stationed there.


Fearing that the loss of the two islands would lead to the collapse of the Nationalists and thus Beijing's control of Taiwan, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered his forces to accompany their Taiwanese allies and provide them with supplies.


At one point, the United States briefly considered deploying nuclear weapons against China.


Beijing declared a cease-fire due to its inability to seize the islands and the failure of the bombing operations to subdue the Nationalists.


However, Mao's forces continued to bomb Kinmen intermittently until 1979 in a stalemate.
37 years after the second crisis, the third came.


In the intervening decades, both China and Taiwan have changed dramatically.


After Mao's death, China remained under the control of the Communist Party, but it embarked on a period of reform and opening up to the world.


For its part, Taiwan is beginning to shake off the authoritarian years of Chiang Kai-shek's rule and transition to a progressive democracy, while many embrace a distinctly Taiwanese rather than Chinese identity.


Tensions flared up again in 1995 when China began test-firing missiles in the waters surrounding Taiwan in protest of Taiwanese President Lee Tin Hui's visit to his university in the United States.


Beijing hated me especially because he was in favor of declaring Taiwan an independent state.


More missile tests were conducted a year later while Taiwan held its first direct presidential elections.
The steps backfired.


The United States sent two aircraft carrier groups to push China back, while Li won the election by a large margin.


A year later, Newt Gingrich became the first speaker of the US House of Representatives to visit Taiwan in an unprecedented move, and Pelosi followed suit 25 years later.


It took more than 25 years before the next Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, headed to Taiwan.


China responded by launching its largest-ever air and naval exercise, sending warships, missiles and fighter jets into the waters and skies around the island.


Taipei condemned the exercises and missile tests as preparation for an invasion.


Less than a year later, Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen arrived in Los Angeles to meet with McCarthy, kicking off another round of Chinese military exercises.

PALESTINE

Sat 08 Apr 2023 10:22 am - Jerusalem Time

Palestinian calls in the United States to participate in marches condemning the occupation

Palestinian institutions in the United States have called on members of the Palestinian, Arab and Islamic communities to participate in the marches that will be organized over the weekend, in various states of the United States, to condemn the continuous Israeli aggression against the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque , and the crimes and aggression against our people.


The demonstrations will be held in several major cities and regions (Chicago, Boston, Dallas), and the famous Times Square in New York City.

PALESTINE

Sat 08 Apr 2023 10:05 am - Jerusalem Time

"Handcuffs"... a chain that increases the pain and torment of the prisoners

The Israeli occupation authorities do not leave a means to torture Palestinians from the moment of their arrest, even inside prisons, as they masterfully torture them by shackling them or what is called "handcuffs", in horrible ways that put the detainee in a difficult situation that accompanies him with pain that may extend for months, and perhaps throughout his detention.


"Handcuffs" cinch increases the pain


The journey of the "handcuffs" begins with the prisoner from the beginning of his arrest, and it is the most severe, since these "handcuffs" are plastic that cause severe pain, as the detainee's hands are placed backwards and tied to them, and the pain increases if the detainee tries to extend them from his hands, so the result becomes the opposite and the handcuffs become more and more tied. And its cruelty increases, to hurt more, explained the liberated prisoner Louay Al-Mansi in an interview with Al-Quds.com.


Al-Mansi says: “These handcuffs cause tumors in the hands of the prisoner, and their pain may extend for months, and their effects remain because the blood recedes in the area of the hands, in addition to that they may leave pain in the back, since the hands are tied to the back and extend to the back area.


Not only when a prisoner is arrested, the handcuffs are attached to the prisoner, but rather the Israeli occupation uses iron handcuffs in all stages of detention, whether during interrogation or moving in the prisons, or between departments, and handcuffs are placed in the hands and sometimes in the hands and feet, as a means of torture and abuse of the prisoner, the released prisoner Louay Al-Mansi explains .


The head of the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Prisoners Affairs, Major General Qadri Abu Bakr , explains that these plastic handcuffs cause double pain if he tries to reduce the pain and expand them. Where they were documented with these handcuffs and feet.


For his part, the head of the Palestinian Prisoners Club, Qaddoura Fares , says, "Restricting the detainees with these plastic handcuffs left great health effects on them, and their hands and feet swelled, and may cause them serious health problems, as happened with the fighter Hussein Jaber in the late eighties of the last century, when it caused him The handcuffs are paralyzed,” pointing out that the method of attaching the handcuffs may be wrong, and perhaps the nature of the detainee’s standing and tying him in a wrong way leaves these negative health effects.


A means of abuse and torture


The Israeli occupation authorities have been using "handcuffs" against the prisoner since the beginning of his arrest to torture and abuse him, especially the plastic ones, because they cause severe pain on the prisoner and affect his health.


Abu Bakr commented to Al-Quds.com: “The occupation forces use these plastic handcuffs because they are the easiest to carry and the least expensive, but they leave negative health effects on the prisoner, as happened with the freed prisoner Major General Fouad Al-Shobaki, as he is still suffering from their effects on his hands.” After his release a month ago after 17 years of detention.


Abu Bakr points out that these handcuffs are usually used to tie things in construction and agriculture and to fix vehicle tires, and the occupation authorities masterfully use them as a means of oppression and torture against prisoners, as they leave a health and even psychological impact.


In turn, Fares says: "The aim of placing these handcuffs in the hands of the prisoners is to deliver a psychological message to the prisoner by controlling him, and it is a means of abuse and torture of the prisoners."


The Israeli occupation forces do not use handcuffs to restrain adult prisoners, but rather to restrain women and children, and do not discriminate in their treatment, as they abuse all of them without exception.


According to human rights institutions concerned with the affairs of prisoners, Palestinian children in occupation prisons are exposed to the continuous violations of the occupation against prisoners in general and child prisoners in particular, which take several forms that begin with the arrest process, and continue their journey of suffering after the arrest process, as the occupation uses them during interrogation. Harsh psychological and physical methods, and they are treated in a way that degrades their dignity and threatens them in order to obtain confessions, and they are placed in solitary cells with poor conditions in which it is difficult to live, then the occupation completes its series of violations during their serving sentences imposed on them.

PALESTINE

Sat 08 Apr 2023 4:59 am - Jerusalem Time

Israeli police confirm the identity of the perpetrator of the run-over attack in Tel Aviv

At dawn on Saturday, the Israeli police confirmed the identity of the perpetrator of the run-over attack in Tel Aviv , which killed an Italian tourist and injured 7 others.


According to the Israeli police, the perpetrator is Youssef Abu Jaber (45 years old), a father of five daughters, from Kafr Qassem , in the occupied territories.


Based on information from the Shin Bet, which raided the family's house, she indicated that he had no security file previously.


His family denied that he was the perpetrator of the operation and asked to see his body, until they confirmed his identity.


There was conflicting information at the beginning of the event about his identity, and it was believed that he was a Palestinian from the West Bank who used Abu Jaber's vehicle.


The attack came hours after price tag gangs burned vehicles and wrote racist slogans in Kafr Qassem.

PALESTINE

Sat 08 Apr 2023 4:30 am - Jerusalem Time

Two wounded by the occupation forces in Jenin

Last night, a fighter and a young man were wounded by bullets from the undercover special units during an ambush west of the town of Burqin , southwest of Jenin .


Eyewitnesses reported to Al-Quds.com that the special units infiltrated under the cover of darkness into the western entrance that connects Burqin with the village of Kivert, and hid among trees and houses, as the street is the corridor leading to the Dothan military checkpoint, which is constantly targeted by the resistance.


Witnesses stated that the special units attacked the vehicle of the wanted fighter, Abdullah Hassan Subuh (25 years), when it was passing through the area and fired at it, but he continued driving it until he reached the entrance to his town of Burqin, where the resistance managed to evacuate it and confronted the undercover units and forced them to withdraw from the site.


During the undercover shooting, another young man was wounded by a live bullet that hit the electric current.

PALESTINE

Fri 07 Apr 2023 11:11 pm - Jerusalem Time

The occupation tightens its siege on the town of Beita, south of Nablus

On Friday evening, the Israeli occupation forces closed several secondary roads in the town of Beita , south of Nablus .


According to local sources, the occupation bulldozers closed all the secondary roads leading to the town with earthen mounds, as they closed the Za'tara road, the Khalaf al-Hisba road, and the ferry road.


It is noteworthy that the occupation forces have closed the main entrance to the town with earth mounds for ten days.

PALESTINE

Fri 07 Apr 2023 10:38 pm - Jerusalem Time

140,000 worshipers perform dinner and Tarawih prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque

About 140,000 worshipers performed the Isha and Tarawih prayers in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque , this Friday evening, despite the strict military measures imposed by the Israeli occupation on the arrival of worshipers to the mosque, and at its gates.


After the Tarawih prayers, thousands demonstrated in the vicinity of Al-Aqsa Mosque, condemning the Israeli occupation forces' attacks on the mosque and its worshipers.


The participants raised the Palestinian flags and chanted slogans calling for the support of Al-Aqsa Mosque and its bonding.

PALESTINE

Fri 07 Apr 2023 10:13 pm - Jerusalem Time

Updated 1 || Martyrdom of the executor.. An Italian tourist was killed and 5 wounded in a run-over operation in Tel Aviv

An Italian tourist was killed and 5 other tourists were injured, Friday evening, in a run-over operation near the Tel Aviv beaches.


According to the Tel Aviv police, the perpetrator arrived with a vehicle that ran over a group of tourists off the city's Corniche square, injuring a number of them before his vehicle overturned, and he got out of it in an attempt to reach his weapon, but the police officers in the area neutralized him.


According to the Hebrew Channel 12, the perpetrator of the operation was directly killed by being shot several times.


It turned out later that the perpetrator was Youssef Abu Jaber, a resident of Kafr Qassem, in the occupied interior.







PALESTINE

Fri 07 Apr 2023 9:02 pm - Jerusalem Time

Qatari interference and disagreements in the Cabinet.. Israeli sources: The current round has ended

Israeli political sources confirmed, on Friday evening, that the current round of security escalation has ended after the bombing of Gaza and Lebanon , and the cessation of rocket fire from the Strip.


The Hebrew channel Reshet Kan quoted a political official as saying that this tour has ended, while the channel's military correspondent quoted a security official as saying that the state of alert continues on the northern border and the tour has not ended.


Avi Dichter , the Israeli Minister of Agriculture and former head of the Shin Bet, said that this round is behind us, and no one wants the escalation to continue, even "our enemies," as he told the Hebrew Channel 12.


According to the Hebrew channel Reshet Kan, a Qatari official assured her that his country has made great efforts to stop the escalation and is still working to establish calm.


According to the channel, yesterday's Cabinet meeting witnessed differences of opinion over the response to include Hezbollah, before it brought together ministers based on the army's recommendation that it be limited only to attacking Hamas targets.

PALESTINE

Fri 07 Apr 2023 8:56 pm - Jerusalem Time

Netanyahu vows to settle scores with the perpetrators of the Jericho operation

On Friday evening, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to reach the perpetrators of the shooting attack in Jericho this afternoon, and to settle scores with them.


The operation, which took place before noon, resulted in the death of two female settlers and the critical injury of a third.


Netanyahu said during a tour of the site of the operation: "We are in the midst of terrorist attacks, and our forces are working on all fronts and are ready to act everywhere.. Yesterday we struck Gaza and Lebanon and carried out attacks whose details cannot be disclosed, and we will continue our war against terrorism." according to his expression.

PALESTINE

Fri 07 Apr 2023 8:35 pm - Jerusalem Time

The occupation arrests a boy from Jericho

Today, Friday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested a boy from Jericho , at a military checkpoint.


According to local sources, the forces arrested the 17-year-old Muhammad Shehadeh Mahmoud Shehadeh, after they stopped him at a checkpoint they set up at the Carmelo intersection, east of Ramallah.

PALESTINE

Fri 07 Apr 2023 8:00 pm - Jerusalem Time

Israeli police arrest demonstrators and attack a protest stand in the occupied territories

Today, Friday, the Israeli police arrested several demonstrators, and assaulted vigils denouncing the aggression against the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, Gaza and Lebanon in several towns in the occupied interior .


The Arab towns witnessed several protests denouncing the Israeli occupation forces' storming of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, the attack on those who were in seclusion in the Al-Qibli prayer hall, and the arrest of hundreds.


In the town of Kabul, the Israeli police arrested two demonstrators, one of them a boy, for raising the Palestinian flag during the stand organized at the town's crossroads, in support of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and condemning the aggression against the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.


The Israeli police assaulted the participants and prevented them from raising the Palestinian flag, while the police arrested many young men in several Arab towns, including: Nazareth, Sakhnin, Kafr Manda, Baqa al-Gharbiya and Umm al-Fahm.

PALESTINE

Fri 07 Apr 2023 6:56 pm - Jerusalem Time

The Israeli army: downing a "drone" that infiltrated from Lebanon

On Friday, the Israeli army shot down a "drone" that tried to cross the border with Lebanon .


The Israeli army's statement did not specify the method of shooting down the plane, which is believed to have been shot down electronically, as happened in recent days.

PALESTINE

Fri 07 Apr 2023 6:29 pm - Jerusalem Time

Timeline: "Violence" in "Israel" and the occupied West Bank a year ago

The Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip and southern Lebanon , in response to rocket fire, are part of the repeated acts of violence between Israel and the Palestinians .


This escalation on the Israeli-Lebanese front is unprecedented since 2006 and comes after the Israeli police stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque, the first of the two qiblas and the third of the Two Holy Mosques, on April 5.


Violence erupted on March 22, 2022, when four people were killed in the city of Beersheba in the Negev desert (southern Israel) by a Bedouin teacher associated with the Islamic State.


On March 27, two policemen were killed in an attack claimed by the Islamic State in Hadera (north), and two days later, a Palestinian from the West Bank killed five passers-by on the outskirts of Tel Aviv. On April 7th, another attack left three people dead in central Tel Aviv.


In the wake of other attacks on Israeli territory, the Israeli army launched more than 2,000 raids in the West Bank in 2022, especially in Jenin and Nablus, which are strongholds of Palestinian armed factions in the northern West Bank occupied by Israel since 1967.


On May 11, the American-Palestinian journalist for the Qatari Al-Jazeera Arabic channel, Sherine Abu Aqleh, was killed during an Israeli operation.


On October 25, five Palestinians were killed in an Israeli attack targeting the Lions' Den armed group in Nablus.


On November 29, Israeli forces killed five Palestinians in the West Bank.


On August 5, the Israeli army launched an operation in Gaza that was portrayed as "preventive" against the Islamic Jihad movement, during which a number of its military leaders were killed.


A total of 49 Palestinians were killed during the three days of rocket and missile exchanges.


A new cycle of violence began on January 26, 2023, when ten Palestinians were killed in Jenin during an Israeli operation.


The next day, a Palestinian shot dead six Israelis and a Ukrainian near a synagogue in East Jerusalem, which Israel occupied and annexed in 1967, before being shot.


On 06 February, five Palestinian members of Hamas were killed in an Israeli military operation in Jericho.


On February 10, a ramming attack in East Jerusalem killed three Israelis, including two brothers, aged six and eight.


On February 22, 11 Palestinians were killed during an Israeli military incursion into the city of Nablus. This operation, the bloodiest carried out by the Israeli army in the West Bank since at least 2005, was followed at night by firing rockets from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, followed by Israeli air strikes.


On February 26, two Israeli settlers were killed near Nablus.


On the evening of that same day, hundreds of Israeli settlers entered Hawara, where they threw stones at Palestinian homes and set fire to buildings and cars.


Six Palestinians were killed on March 7 in Jenin, one of whom was the perpetrator of the attack on the two settlers.


On the first of April, the death toll in the almost daily clashes reached 104 since the beginning of 2023, they are 88 Palestinians, one Israeli Arab, 14 Israelis and one Ukrainian, according to figures compiled by Agence France-Presse based on official Israeli and Palestinian sources.


On the fifth of April, in the middle of Ramadan, violent clashes took place between the Israeli police and what it described as "rioters" holed up inside Al-Aqsa Mosque.


Two rockets were fired in the evening from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory, after a similar shooting the night before, to which Israel responded with strikes.


On the sixth of April, about thirty rockets were launched from Lebanon towards Israel.


Israel began responding in the evening with air strikes on the Gaza Strip. Before dawn the next day, the Israeli army also launched air strikes in southern Lebanon, confirming that it had hit three "infrastructure" of Hamas.


This is the first time that Israel has confirmed that it has attacked Lebanese territory since April 2022.


On 7 April, two Israeli women were killed and their mother seriously injured in an attack on their car in the West Bank.

PALESTINE

Fri 07 Apr 2023 6:13 pm - Jerusalem Time

Abu Marzouk discusses with the Russian envoy the Israeli aggression on Gaza and Lebanon

The head of the International Relations Office of Hamas , Musa Abu Marzouk , discussed today, Friday, with the Special Envoy of the Russian President Mikhail Bogdanov , the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip and Lebanon and the need to stop it immediately, and the continuous attacks against the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.


Abu Marzouk confirmed, during a telephone conversation with Bogdanov, that the Palestinian people adhere to their rights, and the "Hamas" movement will defend the Palestinian people by all available means.


Abu Marzouk also reviewed the crimes of the Israeli occupation against the Palestinians.


For his part, Bogdanov expressed his country's position in support of the rights of the Palestinian people, reviewing the efforts made by his country in this regard with the concerned parties.


Bogdanov stressed that the members of the Jerusalem Committee, the Organization of the Islamic Conference, and the League of Arab States have a special responsibility for what is happening.

PALESTINE

Fri 07 Apr 2023 5:31 pm - Jerusalem Time

The mother of the wounded prisoner, Bages Cade: We hope to rejoice in his freedom and his return to us on the next holiday

The tears of the sixty-year-old mother, Amna Al-Kayed, are pouring down abundantly on every iftar and suhoor table, due to her grief and her impact on the absence of her wounded captive son, Bajis Mahmoud Al-Kayed. Jenin, rejoicing in his freedom, and living the joy of every father in seeing and hugging his first child, whom the occupation prisons deprived him of.


And she says, "With his presence among us, Ramadan had a great flavor and joy. He took care of us and cared for his family, and was keen to create an atmosphere of joy and happiness and overwhelm us with love and tenderness. He decorated the house with Ramadan lights that were absent during the current year."


And she adds: "Since the first day of the holy month, we live painful and bitter moments. Our tears do not dry at the iftar tables, whenever we see his place empty, and we miss his beautiful smile, his kind words and his presence, which made Ramadan tasteless or flavorless."


And she continues: "We ask the Lord of the worlds to give us patience in facing these difficult moments, and we have nothing but steadfastness and supplication in these blessed days, for the immediate release of my son and all the female and male prisoners from the unjust occupation prisons."


Captive Bajis, the second in his family of 10 members, was born 28 years ago in the old city of Jenin, where he grew up, was raised and lived among its people who made sacrifices and all forms of struggle. According to his mother, Um Hussein, he learned in her schools until he finished middle school. Then he decided to take responsibility with his father to take care of our large family. He worked in several professions until he joined the ranks of the security services in the National Authority, and when he was arrested, he was still at work.


From the beginning of his life, Bajis enjoyed a spirit of struggle and patriotism. Despite his young age, when the second Al-Aqsa Intifada broke out, he participated in its activities and joined the ranks of the "Fatah" movement. His mother spoke proudly of his heroism in standing up to the occupation in the streets of Jenin, which he loved, so he named his daughter after her. .


She added: "As a whole, his generation revolted and rose up against the occupation, which shot him twice. The first time, he was hit by an Israeli bullet in the thigh of his right foot, and the second time, the brutal occupation bullet hit him in the left foot, which affected the nerve that was damaged, and he is still suffering from complications." injury to date.


At dawn on 8-12-2022, the occupation forces took Bages from his house, during a large military operation, led by the Special Units, which killed in cold blood three citizens in the center of Jenin, in an area close to Bages’ house, and according to witnesses, undercover forces in civilian clothes infiltrated the area They occupied the buildings and buildings, and the special units assassinated the martyr Sidqi Sadiq Zakarneh, and when the young Tariq al-Dumj tried to reach him to try to save him, he was hit by undercover bullets, so he fell near Zakarneh covered in blood, without the ambulances completing their reach to them.


During that, a group of Coptic workers from the area were passing by on their way to their place of work inside, and when the worker saw Atta Shalabi Zakarneh, Sidqi and Al-Dumj lying on the ground, he ran towards them to help them, so the undercover soldiers shot him, so he joined them, and later the three were martyred, even though they were They were not armed and wanted.


At this time, another unit of undercover soldiers, backed by dozens of occupation soldiers, surrounded Bagis' house, and his mother says: "We woke up to the sound of the explosion of the gate of our house, and I almost left my bed when dozens of soldiers stormed our house, which consisted of 3 floors. They detained us and isolated us, then they went up immediately. Baggs' house on the third floor.


She added, "They took him out of his bed, subjected him to field investigation during a search of our house, and destroyed its contents completely. They also confiscated two gold rings for his wife and three cell phones."


And she continues: "When they arrested him, I tried to embrace him, but they prevented us, tied him up and took him with them. I felt sad for my inability to protect my son and save him from their grip, and during their withdrawal they blew up and destroyed his private vehicle."


The mother, Um Hussein, recounts that the occupation took Bajis to the cellars for investigation in Al-Jalama prison, and for more than a month, they isolated him under torture, prevented the lawyer from visiting him, and there was no news of him, until the investigation period ended and they transferred him to Megiddo prison, and he was brought before the Salem Military Court 5 times, and what He is still suspended.


When Bages was arrested, he left his wife, who was pregnant in her last month, and his mother says: "He was experiencing feelings of joy waiting to have his first child, and when his wife went into labour, we were in a state of sadness and pain, and she went through harsh and difficult moments, when she gave birth to her child in his absence and cried, because he did not embrace her." And the ears teach it, but we fulfilled his will and wish, and named it Jenin, which he adored and loved so much.


She added, "I was very happy when I reached the prison gate to see him and check on him. I concealed my pain and what I had suffered during the journey of suffering at the checkpoints, to make him rejoice in the birth of a fetus."


And she continues: "The occupation did not allow the child to visit her father, but I brought her pictures with me, so he was very happy when he saw them and forgot the handcuffs, and the prisoners shared with him and congratulated him, and he tried to hide the truth of his painful feelings for not being able to see her and hug her."


And she adds: "It was an incomplete joy for Bagis, because of his arbitrary arrest, so he was patient and raised his spirits, but he was stronger than me, with his steadfastness and steadfastness, so I left prison, and my heart prays to the Lord of the Worlds to honor him with freedom and return to us and his child, and we all hope that he will be with us in the next Eid."