Today, Sunday, an American student delegation consisting of 30 students learned about the settlement reality during its visit to Bethlehem Governorate.

Hassan Brijeh, director of the Office of the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission in Bethlehem, said that the delegation toured many sites, including the apartheid wall, which devoured large areas of the governorate's land and completely isolated it from its twin city, Jerusalem.

Breguet indicated that the wall, which the occupation began to erect in 2002, will have a major role in reshaping the Bethlehem governorate geographically, as it extends according to Israeli plans in the West Bank for a length of 771 km, of which 82 km are in Bethlehem governorate, i.e. (11 km). % of the general plan in the governorate.

He added, "The wall will eventually devour more than 176 square kilometers of the governorate's area, or 27% of it, and it will be isolated behind the wall, so that the governorate will lose 45% of its total area."

Explanations were also given to the delegation about settlement and its impact on Bethlehem, which was one of the first areas in the West Bank to be subject to continuous confiscation of its lands, which have shrunk significantly, and the governorate was besieged in the context of a settlement strip that surrounded it from all sides.

He pointed out that the number of settlements in the governorate exceeds 24, in addition to the outposts, which number at least 14, which quickly turn into settlements after their legalization, as happened with the "Sidi Boaz" outpost, which was legalized by the Israeli cabinet about two weeks ago, in addition to the settlements. The three that have become suburbs of Jerusalem have been established on the lands of the governorate, which are "Gilo, Har Homa, and Giv'at Haimovets", and the number of settlers in the settlements of Bethlehem exceeded 170,000, or 20% of the settlers in the West Bank.

Jordan - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Jordanian Royal Court announced, in a statement on Wednesday, the engagement of Crown Prince Hussein bin Abdullah to the young Saudi woman, Rajwa bint Khalid bin Musaed Al Saif.

According to the statement, Prince Hussein, 28, got engaged to Miss Ragwa Khaled bin Musaed Al Saif, 28, in Saudi Arabia, in the presence of Jordan's King Abdullah II and his wife, Queen Rania.

He added, "Al-Fatihah was read in the home of Miss Rajawa's father, in Riyadh, in the presence of Their Royal Highnesses Prince Hassan bin Talal (the former crown prince and uncle of the king), Prince Hashim bin Abdullah II, Prince Ali bin Al-Hussein (the king's brother), and Prince Hashem bin Al-Hussein." (King's brother).

Prince Hussein was born in Amman on June 28, 1994. He is the eldest of the children of King Abdullah and Queen Rania. He has a brother, Prince Hashem, and two sisters, Princess Iman and Princess Salma.

He finished high school at King's Academy in Jordan in 2012, and studied international history at Georgetown University in the United States before receiving, like his father and late grandfather, King Hussein, military lessons at Royal Sandhurst in Britain, from which he graduated in 2017.

Prince Hussein has been the crown prince of Jordan since 2009.

His fiancée was born in Riyadh and is a descendant of the sheikhs of Sudair in Najd. She has two brothers, Faisal and Nayef, and one sister, Dana. She received her high school education in Saudi Arabia and completed her higher education at the School of Architecture at Syracuse University in New York.

Gaza - Ahmed Al-Masharawi:
The Friends Sports Club, in cooperation with the Palestinian Table Tennis Federation, honored the champions of the last season 2021-2022, who were crowned with the titles of the "Friends" championships for the game, where 40 male and female players of different ages and levels competed in 8 decisive rounds. The year was amid strong excitement and close levels, in the presence of legal personalities, sports, a large crowd of fans, celebrated families, game lovers, and the club’s visitors located on the Mediterranean coast off Gaza City.

Categories champions

The champion player Wassim Muhammad Skaik was crowned with the championship cup and the gold medal by achieving first place in category A, while the champion player Abd al-Rahman Khalil Ward was crowned with the category B cup and the gold medal for his category. Shurrab won the D category cup and the gold medal, and the champion player Youssef Anis Al Bayouk won the E category cup and the gold medal.

As for the girls category, the champion player, Lamia Assem Shurrab, won the title and the championship cup, and won the gold.

At the closing ceremony, which began with a welcoming speech to the audience, many words were delivered praising the champions crowned with titles in this distinctive popular game, stressing that their coronation came after great efforts and strong preparations by the champions in the midst of strong competitions, and that it was cumulative as a result of the strenuous efforts of the champion players. And their coaches and their families, who celebrated these wonderful moments, while he was on the podium surrounded by gold and cups.

Show Taekwondo

The taekwondo show team continues its preparations for the foreign championships on the beach in Gaza City despite the cold weather. Bassel Abu Shamala, one of the taekwondo coaches, said that the players are training by merging traditional taekwondo movements with gymnastics and acrobatics. We aspire to international participation despite the blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip and the lack of equipment. and financing. The player Mohammed Al-Sakka mentioned that the players are armed with enthusiasm and strength to appear strong in the international arenas by raising the Palestinian flag, despite the suffocating siege and closing the crossings, while the player Abdullah Al-Farra stated that the players hope to be among the world champions in the sport of taekwondo, and to raise the name of our country, as well as increase Experience and gaining it through participation with major Arab, continental and international stars.

next round

This, and the Competitions Committee in the Basketball Association will hold a meeting this week, to set the dates for the next two matches in the semi-finals and the stadium that will host them. Khadamat Al-Bureij neighborhood will meet Khadamat Jabalia, and the Stars Academy will meet its counterpart Shabab Al-Maghazi. The Referees Committee will hold another meeting to determine the two arbitration staff to manage them. Khadamat Al-Bureij Club and Al-Nujoom Academy completed the finalists’ contract for the golden square, the semi-finals of the Sector Championship for the junior basketball category, under 16 years old, by defeating both the YMCA and Rafah Services in the fourth-last round competitions in the second group.

The Football Association considers hooliganism

This, and the Football Association will hold a session today, Sunday, in the presence of representatives of the Officers Committee and the Referees Committee, which submitted its report and the report of the match evaluator, in order to consider the riots that occurred in the Palestinian Al-Ahly and Beach Services match on Friday at the summit of the nineteenth round of the First Division. And fireworks and firecrackers were thrown in the direction of the beach players from the Al-Ahly fans’ stand after scoring the winning goal and the match for the beach, which led to the injury of four beach players, as the federation is scheduled to take decisive decisions to prevent the recurrence of such games that pose a threat to the players’ lives.

It is noteworthy that the Football Association decided to complete the Premier League matches in the remaining five rounds that will start today, Sunday, without an audience, which may prompt the federation to treat the fans of first-class clubs with the same scale, which was confirmed by the proposals submitted by the federation’s advisors, as happened after the youth meeting. Rafah and Al-Shujaia Union, as well as imposing financial and administrative penalties against violators.

The police is considering installing cameras attached to it

On the other hand, Rami Mahani, director of stadium security in the Gaza Strip at the police, said that the latter is studying many solutions to reduce chaos and rioting in stadiums, with the aim of continuity of matches and the fans’ enjoyment of watching league and cup matches, foremost of which is the installation of fixed cameras belonging to the stadium police in stadiums. all.

He stated that among the proposals presented was to work according to the legal requirements, to criminalize the throwing of firecrackers with deterrent penalties that amount to imprisonment and ban entry to stadiums for anyone who incites riots, follow up on social networking sites, and support the federation in taking appropriate penalties against fans who create problems, as well as players and administrators. Mahani called on the clubs and fans' associations to hold awareness lectures for the fans with ideal encouragement away from insulting and cursing, stressing that what is happening in our stadiums does not reflect the civilization of our people and clean encouragement.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - Director General of Customs and Excise Louay Hanash said that for the first time in the State of Palestine, a value-added tax law is being drafted in response to national economic aspirations, in a way that achieves justice in tax collection, and it is in its final stages of implementation on the ground.

Hanash added, in an interview with Voice of Palestine Radio, today, Thursday, that the value-added tax amounted to 16%, which is the highest limit, and this law allows freedom for the national economy and control over some necessary commodities for citizens, and that the tax is not unified in the sense of liberation from the unified customs cover imposed by the Paris Agreement.

He explained that there are sectors that are completely exempted and others that are subject to a zero rate, such as tourism, the agricultural, plant and educational sectors, to encourage growth and prosperity, provided that the real estate, free professions, electronic trade and others sectors are regulated.

Istanbul - "Jerusalem" dot com - Hamas considered today, Monday, the campaign of arrests carried out by the Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank, at dawn, which particularly targeted activists, leaders and cadres of the movement, as a desperate attempt that will not succeed in obscuring their role in struggle or extinguishing the flame of the movement. The continuous popular against the crimes of the occupation.

Musa Dudin, a member of the Hamas political bureau, said in a press statement that the occupation’s threat to re-arrest a number of those released if they engage in work with Hamas expresses the bankruptcy and helplessness of the occupation in confronting our people’s heroism and confronting its escalating terror against the land and sanctities. like he said.

He added: Our people will continue the path of steadfastness, struggle, and uprising in the face of the occupation, and will pay the price for its crimes, until our legitimate rights are completely taken away, and liberation and return are achieved.

Rabat - "Jerusalem" dot com - Dr. Mohamed Salem Cherkaoui, Director in charge of running the Bayt Mal Al-Quds Al-Sharif Agency , affiliated to the Al-Quds Committee, headed by His Majesty King Mohammed VI, and based in Rabat, affirmed that Jerusalem "was, is and will remain a civilized center for humanity that brings together followers of monotheistic religions." ".

This came during Cherkaoui's speech today at the table of the MAP forum on the subject of "Bayt Mal Al-Quds Al-Sharif Agency: 25 years of giving in the service of Jerusalem and the Jerusalemites", in the presence of the Ambassador of the State of Palestine in Rabat, Jamal Al-Shobaki, and a number of representatives of Moroccan bodies supporting the Palestinian people.

Cherkaoui praised the initiative of the MAP to provide the opportunity for Bayt Mal Al-Quds Al-Sharif to shed light on the outcome of its achievements in Jerusalem in the past 25 years, coinciding with the commemoration of the silver anniversary of this institution.

On this occasion, he said, "We pledge our trust to His Majesty King Mohammed VI, Chairman of the Al-Quds Committee, who supervises the work of the agency that was established in 1998 at the initiative of the late King Hassan II, may God rest his soul, to preserve the great religious landmark and support the residents of Al-Quds Al-Sharif in their steadfastness. ".

Al-Sharqawi explained that the disruption of the natural, economic, demographic and environmental balance of the Holy City reflects a miscalculation that complicates the living situation of the Palestinians, and undermines the chances of a decent life for their generations, which creates a state of rejection, which pushes young people, sometimes, to take risks. Therefore, international reports have unanimously agreed. However, the proposed plans to besiege the city and harass its Arab residents and make them a minority within their city do not help at all to correct the existing situation on the basis of the least losses. Rather, they impose a reality that is difficult for the city’s Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims, to accept.

Al-Sharqawi touched on the Agency's experience and its field presence in Jerusalem, and said: We spared no effort to communicate with bodies and institutions, on all available occasions, and through the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, to request support that enables the Agency to implement its programmed projects in Jerusalem.

Al-Sharqawi explained that the agency was able, during the period between 2000 and 2022, to implement 200 large projects, some of which were launched in 2008 and are still continuing today, and dozens of medium and small projects, benefiting all groups of Jerusalemite society, and distributed to all neighborhoods of Jerusalem. Completed a total of 64 million dollars.

He pointed out that despite the limited funding, the agency was able to maintain a regular annual pace of completion with a budget that varies between $3.5 million to $5 million in some years, in light of what he described as "difficult working conditions, imposed by the city's peculiarity, and the nature of its political and social terrain." complex".

He added that the contributions of countries stopped in 2011, since the Agency has not received any contribution from any country since then, so that the Kingdom of Morocco remains the sole financier of this institution with 100 percent in the category of state donations, and about 70 percent in the category of donations from institutions and individuals. .

Kiev ( Ukraine ) (AFP) - The European Union is discussing tougher sanctions against Moscow on Monday for its invasion of Ukraine, as President Volodymyr Zelensky sacked the chief prosecutor and head of the security services over suspicions of several cases of treason committed by local officials on behalf of the Russians.

Arriving at the Brussels meeting, the EU foreign policy chief declared that resuming grain exports from Ukraine was a "matter of life and death" and there was "hope" for a deal this week to open the port of Odessa.

Borrell said that "the lives of (...) tens of thousands of people depend on this agreement," which is being negotiated between Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and the United Nations and aims to remove about 20 million tons of grain stuck in Ukrainian silos due to the attack launched by Moscow, through the Black Sea.

The European Union intends to continue its pressure on Moscow by imposing new sanctions on the one hand and providing financial and military support to Ukraine on the other, according to Borrell.

It is scheduled that the foreign ministers of the European Union countries will consider two proposals by the European Commission to prevent the purchase of gold from Russia in order to align European sanctions with those imposed by its partners in the Group of Seven, and to include new Russian personalities on the union’s blacklist.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba warned his European counterparts during Monday's meeting against any attempt to ease their sanctions on Russia or submit to the demands of Russian President Vladimir Putin. "Undoing (the sanctions) or yielding to his demands will not work. It never worked. It is a trap," he said.

The successive measures adopted by the Union so far isolated Russia and hit it economically, but did not make it back down or stop its attack on Ukraine that began on February 24.

And the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, during a visit to Azerbaijan, announced an agreement with this former Soviet republic located in the Caucasus, to double the European Union's imports of Azerbaijani gas "within a few years."

At a time when Russia continues its bombing of many Ukrainian cities, President Zelensky announced on Sunday evening that he had taken "a decision to relieve the Prosecutor (Irina Venediktova) and the head of the security services (Ivan Bakanov)" from their duties.

He pointed out that the Ukrainian authorities are currently investigating more than 650 suspected cases of treason committed by local officials, including 60 cases in areas occupied by Russian forces and those loyal to Moscow.

Zelensky added that "the large number of crimes against the foundations of national security, and the links established between Ukrainian law enforcement officials and the Russian special services" is something that "raises very serious questions," stressing that "every question will be answered."

Venediktova, in particular, led the investigation into alleged atrocities committed at the beginning of the invasion of Russian forces in the city of Bucha, a suburb northwest of Kiev, which in the eyes of the West became a symbol of Russian "war crimes" in Ukraine.

On the ground, six people were killed, Monday, in Russian bombing of the city of Toritsk, located in the Donbass region in eastern Ukraine, according to what the Ukrainian Emergency Service announced on Facebook.

"Rescue workers recovered five bodies. Three people were also removed from the rubble, one of whom died in hospital," a statement said.

And Russia announced on Saturday that it had officially ended a measure it took eight days ago to "stop operations" of its army, and resumed bombing with greater intensity in the Donbass region, which constitutes full control over the main goal of Moscow in the short term.

In the south, the city of Mykolaiv was subjected to "heavy missile attacks on the night of Sunday to Monday," according to what the region's governor, Vitaly Kim, said via Telegram, without mentioning any casualties at the present time.

Putin had warned in early July that Moscow had "not yet started serious matters" in Ukraine.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu went to the army command center, where he met officers participating in the attack on Ukraine, according to what the Russian Defense Ministry announced, without giving further details.

The ministry said the minister "gave directions to make destruction a priority, through the use of high-precision weapons, artillery and long-range missiles."

In Russia, Russian journalist Marina Ovsyanikova, who became a well-known face after she stormed a live television broadcast to denounce the war in Ukraine, said on Monday that she was released hours after her arrest in Moscow.

"I'm home," she wrote on Facebook. All is well. I realize now that it is better to leave the house with a passport and a suitcase."

Her lawyer, Dmitry Zakhvatov, said his client had been arrested on suspicion of "defaming" the army while speaking to a Moscow court she had gone to last week in support of dissident Ilya Iashin, imprisoned for criticizing Russia's offensive in Ukraine.

Her brief arrest came just days after Ovsyannikova demonstrated alone near the Kremlin, waving a placard criticizing military intervention in Ukraine and President Vladimir Putin.

On July 24, the war on Ukraine enters its sixth month, and there is still no comprehensive toll on the civilian casualties of the conflict.

Kiev (Ukraine) (AFP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Washington Tuesday of seeking to prolong the war in Ukraine, as explosions rocked a Russian military facility in Moscow-controlled Crimea.

Simultaneously, the first United Nations grain ship left Ukraine for Africa: the first shipment of food aid since Kiev signed an agreement in July with Russia, mediated by Turkey and supervised by the United Nations, providing for the resumption of Ukrainian grain exports after it was halted due to the war between the two countries. the two countries.

The war that broke out on February 24 led to the imposition of harsh Western sanctions on Russia and unprecedented financial and military aid to Ukraine, and this caused tensions, especially between Washington and Moscow.

Putin generally criticized the United States for seeking to "destabilize and create chaos in the region and the world" through US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan.

"The situation in Ukraine shows that the United States is trying to prolong this conflict. They act in the same way, raising the possibility of conflicts in Asia, Africa and Latin America," Putin said in televised remarks.

He considered the visit "a blatant expression of disrespect for the sovereignty of other countries and (Washington's) international obligations."

The accusation comes as a fire broke out in an arms depot in the Djankoy region of Crimea, which

Moscow annexed it in 2014.

The fire broke out around 6:15 am local time (3:15 GMT) in a temporary storage of military equipment near the town of Myskoye in the Djankoy region, causing an explosion of ammunition, according to a statement by the Ministry of Defense carried by Russian news agencies.

Two civilians were wounded, according to Crimean governor Sergei Aksyonov, who visited the site of the fire. An evacuation of residents took place in a nearby village.

And the ministry confirmed in a statement carried by Russian news agencies that the explosion was "the result of an act of sabotage" without holding any party responsible.

It revealed that "damages were caused to a number of civilian facilities, including power lines, an electric generation station, and a railway, as well as a number of residential buildings."

In response to this explosion, the head of the Ukrainian Presidential Administration, Andreich Ermak, welcomed on the Telegram application "the disarmament process completed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine," which, according to him, will continue "until the complete liberation of Ukrainian lands."

This incident comes a week after the explosion of munitions used in military aviation in a warehouse located on the land of the military airport in Saki in western Crimea, killing one person and injuring others.

While Russia described what happened as an accident, experts say that satellite images as well as ground video recordings suggest that it was a Ukrainian attack.

Since the invasion of Ukraine, Crimea has played a major role in Russia's strategy. The offensive into southern Ukraine, which allowed Moscow to seize large swathes of territory in the first weeks of the war, began.

Russian planes also take off almost daily from Crimea to strike targets in areas under Kiev's control; Many areas of this peninsula are within range of Ukrainian guns and drones.

Despite the conflict, Crimea remains a favorite destination for many Russians who spend their summer vacations on its beaches.

The Russian-controlled Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine has been a source of intense tension for several days. The facility, the largest in Europe, was targeted with several strikes, which Moscow and Kiev are exchanging accusations of standing behind.

The fear of a nuclear catastrophe prevailed, which prompted the UN Security Council to hold a meeting last Thursday. However, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu tried on Tuesday to reassure Russia regarding Russia's intentions in the nuclear field.

Shoigu emphasized that "the primary goal of Russia's nuclear weapons is to deter any nuclear attack."

French President Emmanuel Macron discussed by phone, on Tuesday, with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, the situation at the Zaporizhia station. The phone call took place “in the morning” and lasted “an hour and twenty minutes,” according to what the French presidency announced, which is scheduled to reveal at a later time the content of the conversation.

As conflict disrupted Ukrainian grain exports for months, exacerbating food insecurity in many developing countries, the first United Nations ship loaded with grain set off for Africa on Tuesday.

The Ukrainian Ministry of Infrastructure announced that the ship left the port of Pivdenye in southern Ukraine, carrying "23,000 tons of wheat" to Ethiopia.

The World Food Program confirms that 345 million people, a record number, in 82 countries today face food insecurity, while starvation threatens about 50 million people in 45 countries if they do not receive humanitarian aid.

The first commercial ship left on August 1, and 16 ships have departed from Ukraine since the agreement entered into force, according to a count by the Ukrainian authorities, but no United Nations humanitarian ship has yet left the port.

"I hope that other ships chartered under the World Food Program will arrive at our ports, and I hope that there will soon be two or three additional ships," Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said Sunday at the port of Pivdenye.

Gaza - "Jerusalem" dot com - Ahmed Al-Masharawi - The Competitions Committee of the Palestinian Basketball Association in the Gaza Strip announced the start dates for the Golden Square matches - the playoffs, what is known as the elimination rounds of the Premier League Championship, sponsored by Jawwal.

The committee decided to kick off the first matches next Friday, July 29, in the first-leg, with Khadamat Al-Bureij and its neighbor, Shabab Al-Bureij, at the hall of the late behind the wheel at 8:00 pm.

The committee decided to hold the second meeting, which will bring together Al-Maghazi services and Rafah services, next Saturday, July 30, at the Martyr Saad Sail Hall, as a home playground for Al-Maghazi services.

The second meeting between the two neighbors, Al-Burij Al-Khadamat and Al-Shabab, will be in the return leg, on the second Tuesday of August, at the Hall of the late Behind the Wheel.

UNITED NATIONS - (Xinhua) -- The intergovernmental conference to draft the first-ever treaty on marine biodiversity opened its fifth and likely final session at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Monday.

The new treaty aims to codify international law on territorial waters, sea lanes and marine resources, while defining the legal framework for all activities in the oceans and seas.

"It is my hope that we can make real progress in these two weeks, with the goal of finalizing the agreement as soon as possible," said Intergovernmental Conference Chair Rina Lee, calling on delegates to prepare to work hard while delving into the technical and legal details.

The fifth session, which will run until August 26, is expected to be the last in a series that has begun since 2018 to draft an international legally binding instrument under the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity beyond areas of national jurisdiction.

Li said the negotiations aimed to address marine genetic resources, including issues related to benefit-sharing, and measures such as area-based management tools, environmental impact assessment, capacity-building, and transfer of marine technology.

She added that delegates were asked to submit text proposals for the fifth session, noting that a workbook containing all the materials was released in early August.

In its resolution 72/249 of 24 December 2017, the General Assembly decided to convene an intergovernmental conference to elaborate on the text of an international legally binding instrument on the conservation and use of marine biological diversity.

By: Gershon Baskin

Here's the situation: Israel and Palestine are stuck in a political impasse. The current Israeli government and any potential Israeli government in the coming years do not have a political mandate or political will to negotiate any kind of agreement with the Palestinian people.

This most important issue facing Israel is not on the political agenda of any political party that will lead the next government. The Palestinian side faces a divided political house between the West Bank and Gaza where the two governments do not have much legitimacy from their own streets. The Palestinians are united only by their overwhelming desire to hold elections. Israel is stuck in a political stagnation due to its inability to form a stable government with a long political life, and therefore; It faces repeated elections with a fundamentally unchanged constituency. Those of us on both sides, in Israel and Palestine, who believe we must go back to the table to figure out how to move forward toward resolving this conflict, have no political leaders to turn to and few constructive ideas about how to do so and end the impasse.

The vast majority of the younger generation on both sides see no hope for peace, and therefore; They are either completely detached, have no desire to contact the other party, are preoccupied with their careers, or tend to adopt extremist ideas.

I saw a recent poll by a leading Israeli pollster that found that less than a third of Israelis believe there is a need to end the occupation of the Palestinian people. Does this mean that two thirds of Israelis believe that Israel can continue to rule over millions of Palestinians and that is a good thing? Do these millions of Israelis believe that there is no price to pay for the continued denial of the rights of the Palestinian people to enjoy the same rights as the Israeli people? The number of Palestinians who believe in the necessity of reaching a political agreement with Israel is declining.

The vast majority of Palestinians, especially the younger generation, no longer believe in the two-state solution. The reality they see all around them is increasing Israeli land grabs and settlement expansion. Two weeks ago, I traveled all over the southern West Bank and saw dozens of new outposts on hilltops across the region. In the northern West Bank there are more. They all know, as every Israeli knows, that not long ago those few caravans on the tops of the hills would become homes to be called new neighborhoods from the existing settlements kilometers away. The few caravans are already connected to the electricity grid and soon all the infrastructure needed for normal life will be available. At the same time, Palestinians are trapped in small areas in towns and villages with no possibility of expansion while 62% of the West Bank, designated by the defunct 1995 Oslo Accords as Area C, has been placed under full Israeli control. Every Palestinian in the West Bank feels suffocated by Israeli settlements and the military government. Palestinian homes are demolished by Israel almost every day. Every night, Israel arrests dozens of Palestinian youth. Occupation surrounds their lives and there is no escape for them. They see their government as nothing more than a subcontractor of the Israeli regime. It should come as no surprise that Palestinian public opinion polls show an increase in support for the armed struggle against Israel.

This mostly comes from the younger generation who did not live through the terrible era of the Second Intifada. A former Israeli prime minister asked me this week if a third intifada was possible. Of course, not only that, there is a fair chance that if that happens we will face Nakba-type measures to expel entire communities of Palestinians from their homes because there is growing support among right-wingers in Israel for doing so. Israel is already doing this in the Yatta path in the south and in small communities in the Jordan Valley and there is complete silence in Israel and around the world.

What can we do? We who still believe that we must find a way to live together on this earth. First, do we all need to work on our part to gain more power within our political systems. In Israel, we are working to launch a joint Arab-Jewish Equity Party, which even if we do not succeed in the next elections, we will begin to challenge the discourse in Israel, and eventually carve out a place in Israeli political culture where the equality of all citizens is a foregone conclusion rather than a point of contention. In Palestine, there must be elections for a president and parliament and there must be agreement among all parties that the will of the people will be fulfilled and that the separation between the West Bank and Gaza will finally come to an end. The political forces that reject the course of violence in Palestine must unite, gain strength, and become strategic in how they present themselves to the public.

Israelis and Palestinians who believe in a shared future must immediately begin their campaign for the release of Marwan Barghouti from prison after twenty years in prison, and Barghouti remains the only Palestinian capable of winning any election against any other candidate. Barghouti is also the one who believes that ending the occupation and resolving the conflict must happen, preferably through negotiations and cooperation. When there are Palestinian elections, Barghouti will run, and he will win. If he is in Israeli prison, there will be an international campaign for his release. The prospect of a democratically elected Palestinian president in an Israeli jail is not far off. That is why I wrote several months ago to the head of the Israeli Shin Bet and encouraged him, as its new chief, to engage Barghouti in a political dialogue while he was in prison, just as they did in South Africa with Nelson Mandela. But as I have been told with people who have the right to visit Barghouti in prison, no one on the Israeli side has engaged him in any kind of political conversation.

I have lost all hope that the international community will come to our rescue. As long as the United States and most of Western Europe still talk about two states but recognize only one of the two states, it is of no use to us politically or even worse. Maintaining the two-state slogan while doing nothing to achieve it only served to increase the unviability of the two-state solution. So, we are stuck here, by ourselves, the Israelis and the Palestinians, who both have no intention of going anywhere else. This is our situation.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Embassy of the State of Palestine to Germany reported the death of the Palestinian student, Amir Mahmoud Abdel-Karim Odeh (Saadat), from Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement that the student, Saadat, died by drowning while he was in a German city.

The embassy confirmed that it is communicating with his brother, who was with him, and his family, to follow up with them regarding the transfer of his body.

London, (AFP) - Unemployment rates in Britain are still close to their lowest levels in 50 years, but the value of wages is falling at a record pace, with inflation reaching the highest level in decades, official data showed Tuesday.

The National Statistics Office said in a statement that the unemployment rate was 3.8 percent in the three months ending in June.

That rate was unchanged from the three months ending in May.

ONS's director of economic statistics, Darren Morgan, said that while recent data suggested the number of vacancies remained "historically very high, it has fallen for the first time since the summer of 2020" when the UK briefly emerged from pandemic-related lockdown measures. Covid.

Excluding bonuses, he added, real wages "are still falling faster than at any time since record breaking records began in 2001".

This comes as inflation in the UK rose to a 40-year high of 9.4 percent amid higher energy and food prices.

The Bank of England expects inflation to peak at just over 13 percent in Britain this year, tipping its economy into recession.

The National Statistics Office will publish the latest inflation figures on Wednesday.

Ramallah - "Al Quds" dot com - The Presidency condemned the Israeli aggression against our people in the Gaza Strip , and calls for an immediate end to it, and holds the occupation forces responsible for this dangerous escalation.

The Presidency called on the international community to compel Israel to stop this aggression against our people everywhere, particularly in Gaza, and to provide them with international protection.

It is noteworthy that this aggression has so far claimed the lives of 8 martyrs and more than 40 injuries.

Washington (AFP) - A network participating in the US "Mega Millions" lottery won Friday night a jackpot of more than $ 1.33 billion, in one of the largest cash rewards in lottery history, organizers announced Saturday.

And the lottery game account in the state of Illinois in the middle of the eastern country wrote, in a tweet on Twitter, "Mega Millions players, check your tickets! We have a winner (...) in Illinois. Stay tuned for more details!"

"We can't wait to find out the winner and hope to congratulate him soon!" said Pat McDonald, CEO of Mega Millions, in a statement.

The grand prize was initially estimated at $1.28 billion, but "the final value was higher than that estimated," based on actual sales, Mega Millions said.

Lucky in Friday's draw will get 1.337 billion if he agrees to pay the installments over 30 years.

But if he wants to receive his prize in one go, he will get “only” $ 780 million, an amount that will be deducted in part for taxes, according to the estimates of those in charge of “Mega Millions”.

The value of the grand prize for this lottery continued to increase steadily for more than three months, and the dreams of the participants in the game grew with it, while no one succeeded in guessing the correct six numbers in the last 29 draws that preceded Friday's draw.
The chances of winning this tempting amount did not exceed one in 303 million. For comparison, the probability of being struck by lightning is one in a million, according to data from US health authorities.
The largest prize in lottery history was $1.586 billion. It was won in January 2016 in the other major US lottery, the Powerball, but the money was divided among three winners.

Bethlehem - "Jerusalem" dot com - Najeeb Farraj - The Israeli occupation forces arrested, this evening, Wednesday, two young men, Awni Ahmed Awni Taqatqa (20 years old) and Saddam Amjad Nassar Taqatqa (21 years old), from the town of Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem.

And local sources reported that the occupation forces arrested the two young men after summoning them to the intelligence headquarters in the headquarters of the military government in the "Gush Etzion" settlement area.

Nablus – “Jerusalem” dot com – Imad Saadeh – Two young men were killed in the old town of Nablus, at dawn today, Sunday, while 10 injured people, one of whom was in a serious condition, were transferred to the city’s hospitals, during violent armed clashes between resistance fighters and the Israeli occupation forces that stormed the Al-Yasmina neighborhood. Inside the town and besieging a house in order to arrest wanted resistance fighters.

According to medical sources, the two martyrs are Abboud Sobh (29 years old) and Muhammad Al-Azizi (22 years old) from Nablus.

According to eyewitnesses, members of the Israeli special units infiltrated the Yasmina neighborhood, then large forces of the occupation army followed them, immediately besieging a building in the neighborhood, and violent armed clashes broke out inside the neighborhood that lasted for about 4 hours.

The Fatah movement's organizational areas in Nablus announced, via loudspeakers, a comprehensive strike in Nablus today, Sunday, to mourn the souls of the two martyrs, Subuh and Azizi.

According to the Hebrew website Ynet, the forces of Yamam and Givati carried out the operation against a group of fugitives in Nablus.

According to the site, the Israeli army used LAW and Matador missiles in the process of targeting the building in which the young men were.

He pointed out that the clashes, from inside and outside the building itself, lasted for 3 hours, and that after this long period of clashes, the Israeli army forces managed to enter the building and found weapons, ammunition and explosive devices.

Gaza - "Jerusalem" dot com - Hamas considered today, Wednesday, the occupation's approval of new settlement plans in occupied Jerusalem, as a deepening Judaization of the land and targeting the identity, and that it is a desperate attempt that will not succeed in obliterating the features of the Holy City and changing the facts of history.

Muhammad Hamadeh, a Hamas spokesman for the city of Jerusalem, expressed his movement’s rejection of these plans, saying: “This Zionist crime will be confronted with the unity of our people and their struggle by all means. Occupied Jerusalem". According to him.

Hamada called on the Palestinian people for more patience and steadfastness in the face of the occupation's violations and its Judaization plans, in defense of our land and our national rights until liberation and return. like he said.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates said, today, Tuesday, that as soon as it was announced that the occupation soldier had been killed near the city of Tulkarm, the Israeli security and military authorities rushed to accuse the Palestinians in a preemptive and intentional manner that reflects the Israeli establishment's view of the Palestinian citizen as an accused in all Conditions must be pursued and punished.

The ministry indicated, in a statement, that after more forces were called in and many roadblocks were set up and mobilized in search of the perpetrators, it became clear to the leaders of the occupation army that the Israeli soldier was killed by what they called "friendly fire". With immediate field investigations, with the intervention of senior Israeli military officials, they were able, within a few hours, to complete their serious and effective investigations, proving that his colleague was the one who shot him.

She said: This picture reminds us of the hundreds of field executions that the occupation army and its members committed against unarmed Palestinian civilians without posing any danger to the occupation soldiers or settlers. None of these ongoing crimes received such Israeli attention or such quick and serious investigations.

And she added: Rather, the occupying state and its military, security and judicial institutions tried to bury the details and circumstances of their crimes against Palestinian citizens without any investigations, and in some cases that had resonance and interaction at the local, regional and international media level, the military establishment carried out some investigations not with the aim of revealing the Israeli murderers and war criminals. And whoever stands behind them, but with the aim of procrastination and blurring the truth or recording it against an unknown person and absolving the occupation army of any responsibility towards it, and sometimes arresting the perpetrator and bringing some charges against him, and if he is tried, the sentence will be lenient and he will soon be released for this or that reason.

And she continued: Also, this racist colonial image always reminds us of the crime of execution of the martyr Sherine Abu Aqelah, who, despite the unprecedented global interest that accompanied her, the occupying state at all levels continues to refuse to conduct any investigations, manipulate words and expressions, and try to politicize the issue or accuse the Palestinians. Falsely and slander, on the way to obliterating it, forgetting it, and completely burying it, in an official Israeli effort to deal with the life of the Palestinian citizen in the worst forms of hatred, hatred, and racism.

And she continued: On the other hand, we remember the victims of the aggressive Israeli war crimes against our people in the Gaza Strip, including the victims of the recent aggression, including women, children, the elderly, and other unarmed Palestinian civilians, despite many Israeli press investigations that prove the involvement of the occupation army in killing the five children in The Fallujah cemetery, east of Jabalia, was attacked by missiles from warplanes, and despite the confession of a number of Israeli officials to this crime, the occupying state, with its official institutions, is trying to evade responsibility for this crime and other crimes in the Gaza Strip, and has not taken any measures against those who committed it, nor has it disclosed them. It did not arrest or prosecute them. The same applies to the crime of executing the young man, Al-Shaham, in the town of Kafr Aqab, inside his house, in a full-fledged crime committed by the occupation forces and his police in a deliberate and intentional manner, and with clear instructions from the military, security and political leaders of the occupation.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs held the Israeli government fully and directly responsible for the crimes of its field executions, and it is following up these crimes officially and documented with the International Criminal Court, asking it to break its silence and take the necessary legal measures imposed by the court’s regulations and the founding Rome Statute towards Israeli criminals and murderers.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Ministry of Health confirmed today, Sunday, that no cases of monkeypox have been recorded in Palestine.

Tariq Hawash, Director of Jericho Health, said in a radio interview that so far no injuries have been recorded, although some injuries have been recorded on the Israeli side.

And he indicated that if the virus spreads, the spread will not be wide because the symptoms of this disease are clear.

ISTANBUL (AFP) - Turkish, Russian and Ukrainian experts on Wednesday inspected the ship carrying the first shipment of grain exported by Ukraine since the Russian invasion on April 24, before the "Razoni" continued its way from Turkey towards Lebanon .

The "Razoni" search took about an hour and a half, according to AFP correspondents. Then the ship continued on its way, passing the northern entrance to the Bosphorus in the early afternoon.

This measure marked the end of a "trial phase" of the mechanisms for implementing the international agreement concluded in July in Istanbul to contain the global food crisis, according to the Joint Coordination Center secretariat.

The Secretariat revealed that "the inspection team was able to communicate with the ship's crew and inquire about the approved route in the open humanitarian sea corridor in the Black Sea," noting that "it is assumed that millions of tons of wheat, corn and other grains will continue to be exported from three Ukrainian ports."

The cargo ship "Razoni", flying the flag of Sierra Leone, appeared at the northern shores of Istanbul on the Black Sea on Tuesday, the day after it left the Ukrainian port of Odessa, heading to Tripoli in Lebanon, carrying 26,000 tons of corn.

A team of about 20 experts and UN delegates in orange life jackets and helmets was led by Turkish Admiral Ozkan Altunbulak, head of the Joint Coordination Center that oversees exports, and retired US Navy Admiral Fred Kenney.

The ship was searched at the request of Russia, which wants to ascertain the nature of the cargo.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said that another 16 ships loaded with grain were "waiting for their turn" to leave the main Black Sea port of Odessa, which before the war secured 60 percent of port activity in the country.

The agreement signed by Russia and Ukraine on July 22, mediated by Turkey and under the auspices of the United Nations, allows for the resumption of shipments to global markets of Ukrainian grain, which have been suspended since the Russian invasion.

The document specifically provides for the establishment of safe corridors to allow commercial ships to sail in the Black Sea and export between twenty and 25 million tons of grain.

"Let's hope that all parties will implement the agreements and that the mechanisms will work effectively," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

A similar agreement was signed guaranteeing Russia at the same time the export of its agricultural products and fertilizers, despite Western sanctions.

The two agreements are supposed to help alleviate the global food crisis caused by high food prices in some of the world's poorest countries.

On the ground, the Russian army bombed the city of Chuguyev in northeastern Ukraine, killing one person and wounding two, according to what was announced on "Facebook" by Sergey Polvinov, an official in the Kharkiv region police. He clarified that the person who was killed and one of the two injured were "Russian citizens".

Kharkiv, the second largest city in Ukraine and close to the Russian border, was hit by two strikes on Tuesday night, launched from Russian territory, according to local authorities.

And the Russian army confirmed in a statement on Wednesday that "high-precision missiles" had destroyed in the Lviv region (west), "a foreign weapons and ammunition depot that was delivered to the Kiev regime from Poland."

According to preliminary information, they are two S-300 missiles launched from the Russian border region of Belgorod. One fell to the ground, while another hit a civilian facility without causing any casualties, according to what was revealed by the region's governor, Aleg Sinigubov, on "Telegram".

And last June, Moscow confirmed the destruction of an arms depot handed over to NATO in western Ukraine, an area rarely hit by Russian strikes.

And the southern city of Mykolaiv was bombed again at night, according to what the region's governor, Vitaly Kim, revealed via "Telegram", noting that a pharmacy and a large store were destroyed, and a horse riding school was damaged.

The mayor, Oleksandr Senkevich, reported on the Telegram application that "strong explosions" were heard around 5 am.

And in the Donbass basin, in eastern Ukraine, the governor of the Donetsk region, which is at the heart of the fighting, reported on Wednesday that four civilians had been killed in the last 24 hours.

But Ukraine, which is currently leading a counter-attack in the south, announced on Tuesday that it had recaptured more than 53 towns in the Kherson region, the first major city that fell under the control of the Russian army on March 3.

Artillery is a crucial factor in the conflict in Ukraine. The Russian and Ukrainian armies, which need large quantities of various types of missiles, are waging a war of attrition at the level of ammunition.

The United States, the major supporter of Ukraine, announced that it would send new weapons to Kiev worth $550 million, bringing its military assistance to more than eight billion dollars. This aid will include ammunition for HIMARS missile platforms and 75,000 155 mm shells.

On Wednesday, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz accused Russia of being responsible for obstructing the delivery of a turbine currently in Germany, without which the Nord Stream gas pipeline cannot operate normally, Moscow says.

Westerners accuse Moscow of using gas as a political weapon in response to the sanctions imposed after the attack on Ukraine.

Nablus - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Israeli occupation forces arrested, at dawn and this morning, Friday, 3 citizens from Nablus, after storming their homes.

According to local sources, the occupation forces arrested the two brothers, Imad and Moataz Mansour, after storming their family home in the village of Kafr Qalil, south of Nablus.

Those forces stormed the clinic of Dr. Amer Mansour, the detainees' brother, in the same village, and destroyed its contents.

While the young man, Alaa Hamayel, was arrested after storming his family’s house in the town of Bita, south of the governorate.

Ramallah – “Jerusalem” dot com – The Prisoner’s Club said, on Monday, that the occupation prison administration has transferred, since January 8, 220 prisoners from several prisons, including Hadarim, Megiddo, and Rimon, as follows. Next: (80) from Hadarim prison, (70) from (Megiddo) prison, and (70) from Rimon prison.

The Prisoner's Club stated in a press statement that the administration of "Raymond" prison transferred yesterday and today (70) prisoners to (Jilboa) prison, from all organizations, and it is expected that another series of transfers will be carried out during the next stage, and it may last up to a month. March of this year.

This transfer comes in the light of large-scale transfers announced by the occupation prison administration, which may affect 2,000 prisoners. The transferred prisoners will be distributed mainly to the new sections in (Nafha), (Ofer) and (Gilboa) prisons.

It is noteworthy that the Occupation Prisons Administration pursues transfers for several purposes, the most important of which is to strike any “stability” situation that the prisoner tries to create inside the prison, and through which it tries to impose more control and oversight on the prisoners.

Noting that the transfer operations escalated significantly within a plan, after the heroic operation "Tunnel of Freedom", and the prison administration tried to impose a new equation on the prisoners through periodic transfers, in the context of compromising the organizational situation, but the prisoners faced this through a series of battles that continued. From September 2021 until last year.

Tangiers (Morocco) - (AFP) - The Moroccan judiciary decided on Wednesday to prosecute a new defendant in the case targeting French businessman Jacques Petit and a number of his aides on charges of sexual harassment, based on a complaint from six young women, according to the plaintiffs' lawyer.

Lawyer Aisha Klaa told AFP that the investigating judge who is looking into this case decided to prevent the new suspect, a French citizen residing in Morocco, from traveling, withdrawing his passport and subjecting him to judicial control.

The latter is added to two other French men and six Moroccans who are under investigation on charges ranging from "human trafficking" to "sexual harassment" and "verbal and moral violence".

Six of them are being pursued while they are in a state of preventive detention, and they were officials of the branch of the "Asso 2000" group in Tangiers in the north of the kingdom, which was run by Potei.

This case was opened after former employees of this company filed a complaint against Bottier and a number of his assistants, on charges of sexual harassment.

On Wednesday, the investigative judge in the Criminal Chamber of the Tangiers Court of Appeal heard in detail all the nine suspects, according to Kalaa.

It is expected that he will continue to investigate them and hold confrontations with civil rights claims on October 6th.

The incidents took place between 2018 and April 2022 in the Moroccan branch of the French group.

This case was opened while charges of human trafficking and rape of minors were brought against Petit, a 75-year-old wealthy businessman, and five other people on May 21 in Paris after a preliminary investigation in mid-March.

He is also wanted for criminal conspiracy to kidnap people, as well as possession of child pornography.

Another powerful storm hit California on Saturday night, forcing thousands to flee their homes, killing at least two people and rupturing a dam in coastal Monterey County.

"We were hoping to avoid this situation, but the worst case scenario happened with the Pajaro River flooding and the dam cracking around midnight," Monterey County official Luis Aliu said Saturday via Twitter.

Residents confirmed to AFP that local fire officials told them in the middle of the night to evacuate their homes.

"The noise of the sirens woke us up," said Musa, who has lived in the area for about 20 years and preferred to give his first name only.

He added that officials came later and knocked on his door several times, but he decided to wait until five o'clock in the morning before leaving with his wife, as the flood waters rose in the vicinity of the house.

The National Weather Service said the area remains under a flood warning on Saturday afternoon.

Pictures posted on Twitter showed guards rescuing residents trapped in their cars due to rising water.

At least one road was damaged in Santa Cruz County, north of Monterrey.

Residents of several towns, mostly in the north, were ordered to evacuate.

A series of unusually severe storms has been hitting California for weeks.

In Pajaro, the Fire Department and National Guard on Saturday used drones to survey flooded areas and search for people stranded in their homes, AFP correspondents reported.

For his part, US President Joe Biden approved Friday's declaration of emergency in California, paving the way for accelerating federal assistance to the state.

Governor Gavin Newsom said California is "using every tool available to protect residents from the severe and deadly storms that batter our state."

Storms in January killed 20 people.

Amman - "Jerusalem" dot com - Arab countries condemned today, Sunday, the settlers' storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque, under the protection of the Israeli occupation forces.

The Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriate Affairs condemned the continued Israeli violations in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and Al-Qudsi Al-Sharif, the latest of which was allowing extremists and a member of the Knesset to storm the mosque and violate its sanctity under the protection of the occupation police, warning of the consequences of the continuation of these violations, and calling for their immediate cessation.

The official spokesman for the ministry, Ambassador Haitham Abu al-Foul, said that the storming of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and the provocative practices against it are a condemned and unacceptable aggression, and a flagrant violation of international law and the existing historical and legal situation in Jerusalem and its sanctities, stressing that the continuous violations and attacks on the sanctities represent a dangerous trend, and an absurd and irresponsible act. It exacerbates tension and pushes the situation into a continuous cycle of violence.

And he stressed that the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and Al-Haram Al-Sharif, with its entire area of 144 dunums, is a pure place of worship for Muslims, and that the Jordanian Department of the Jerusalem Endowments and the Affairs of the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque is the legal authority with exclusive jurisdiction to manage the affairs of the Holy Mosque and regulate entry to it.

The official spokesman for the ministry held the Israeli authorities responsible for the escalation that is taking place today, calling on Israel, as the occupying power, to immediately stop all attacks and violations against the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, and to respect its sanctity, stressing the need to stop all measures aimed at changing the historical and legal status quo, and to respect the authority of Administration of Jerusalem Endowments and the Affairs of the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jordan.

The State of Qatar also condemned the storming of dozens of settlers into the courtyards of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, under the protection of the occupation forces.

In a press statement, the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs stressed that these provocative practices are part of continuous attempts to change the historical and legal status of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and to advance the temporal division of the mosque, and warned that these provocations coincide with the new Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip that will lead to a dangerous escalation and waves of violence. violence.

It called on the international community to assume its legal and moral responsibilities towards Jerusalem and its sanctities, and to deter the occupation's attempts to turn the conflict into a religious war.

The Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs reaffirmed Qatar's firm position on the justice of the Palestinian cause, the legitimate rights of the brotherly Palestinian people, and the establishment of its independent state on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital.

For its part, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia condemned the storming of the courtyards of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque by settlers, in a serious violation of international law and the historical and legal status quo in Jerusalem and its sanctities.

The Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed, in a press statement, that the continuous violations and attacks on sanctities exacerbate tension and push the situation into a continuous cycle of violence.

It stressed its call on the international community to assume its responsibilities to end the escalation of the Israeli occupation, to provide the necessary protection for civilians, and to make all efforts to end this protracted conflict.

The Arab Parliament also condemned the storming of hundreds of settlers, under the protection of the occupying power (Israel), into the courtyards of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and the violation of its sanctity, in commemoration of the so-called "memorial of the destruction of the Temple", which is a clear violation of international law and the historical and legal status of the city of Jerusalem and its sanctities.

The Arab Parliament warned that the coincidence of these provocations by settlers and the occupation forces with the current Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip will lead to a dangerous escalation and waves of violence, endangering peace and security in the region and the world.

The Arab Parliament called on the international community to assume its legal and moral responsibilities towards Jerusalem and its Islamic and Christian sanctities, to deter the occupation’s attempts to turn the conflict into a religious war, and to immediately stop all attacks and violations against Al-Aqsa Mosque, stressing the need to stop all measures aimed at changing the legal and historical status of the city of Jerusalem and its sanctities.

Toronto - "Jerusalem" dot com - A campaign launched in Canada called on Canadian President Trudeau to boycott the Israeli far-right government led by Benjamin Netanyahu .

The campaign, launched today and signed by more than 1,000 Canadian citizens, indicates that the Netanyahu government is the most extreme right-wing government in the history of Israel, and its extremist members pose a real and immediate threat to the safety and security of the Palestinians.

The signatories expressed their displeasure and anger at the Canadian president's congratulations to Netanyahu, saying: "We were outraged to see the Canadian government congratulating Israel's new far-right regime, without any mention of its extremism or its disturbing plans to illegally annex the occupied West Bank."

Source: "Wafa"

Governorates - "Jerusalem" dot com - Today, Monday, an Israeli military bulldozer demolished a tent for selling seedlings and agricultural supplies in the town of Tuqu', southeast of Bethlehem .

According to local sources, the Israeli bulldozer demolished the tent in the "Khirbet al-Deir" area on the main street, while the occupation forces seized iron corners on which the tent, which belonged to the citizen Salim Hamdan Suleiman, was fixed.

It is noteworthy that this is the second time that the occupation demolishes the tent of citizen Suleiman.

The Israeli occupation authorities also forced a Jerusalemite to demolish his under-construction house in the town of Al-Isawiya, east of occupied Jerusalem .

According to local sources, the occupation forced Al-Maqdisi Thaer Obeid to demolish his house, which has an area of about 100 square meters, under the pretext of building without a permit.

In the context, the Israeli occupation forces notified the demolition of greenhouses in several villages in the Jenin governorate, giving the homeowners until the twenty-eighth of this month to submit an objection, or to remove the greenhouses, which are close to the separation wall, at a distance of 200 meters.

بقلم:جيمس زغبي

في عام 2020، نُشر كتاب بعنوان «أصوات عربية: ماذا تقول لنا وما أهميته». واستناداً على استطلاعات الرأي التي أجريناها خلال العقد الأول من هذا القرن الجديد، كان «أصوات عربية» محاولة لعرض الأساطير التي شكلت الخطاب الغربي حول العالم العربي، وفهم سبب ترسخ هذه الأساطير في الأذهان، وما الذي يمكن فعله لتبديدها.
وفي فصول منفصلة، عرض «أصوات عربية» عدداً من هذه الأساطير - مثل، «العرب أكثر عنفاً ويميلون إلى التطرف»، و«العرب يكرهون الغرب»، وغيرها- ثم أوضح مدى خطأ كل واحدة منها واختلافها عن واقع العالم العربي الحقيقي، بناءً على استطلاعاتنا المكثفة للرأي العام العربي. واختتمت الكتاب بتقديم دروس عملية تستطيع بها الحكومات والشركات والمعلمين وعامة الناس اتخاذ تدابير تصحيحية والعمل على تعزيز فهم أفضل. ما وجدناه أن التصورات الغربية للعالم العربي تتشكل في كثير من الأحيان من خلال صور نمطية سلبية وقصص لتسويغ الآراء المتحيزة.
ونتيجة لذلك، حدث غالباً سوء فهم لهوية العرب وقيمهم وتطلعاتهم. وغالباً يتحدث صناع القرار والمحللون السياسيون على السواء عن العرب وإلى العرب، لكنهم نادراً ما يفكرون في الانصات إلى العرب من أجل فهم حياتهم بشكل كامل واحتياجاتهم وآمالهم للمستقبل. وكانت إحدى نتائج ذلك التبسيط المخل لمنطقة معقدة حدوث كوارث سياسية مكلفة.
وإدراكاً لهذه الإخفاقات ونتيجة الوقوع في عراقيل ميول شكلتها تصورات سلبية، تنادي بعض الأصوات في الغرب الآن بالخروج من المنطقة. وبعد أكثر من عقد من الزمان، لم تستمر الأساطير فحسب، بل استمرت معها، وبسببها، سياسات على غير هدى وتحيزات كثيراً ما تشوه تعامل الغرب مع هذه المنطقة الحرجة من العالم. ولهذا السبب، كان من دواعي سروري أن يكلف «معهد توني بلير للتغيير العالمي» شركتي لاستطلاعات الرأي «زغبي للخدمات البحثية» بإجراء استطلاعات حديثة للرأي في سبع دول عربية.
وإدراكاً من المعهد أن العالم العربي يقع في نقطة محورية لثلاث قارات وهي منطقة استثمرت فيها الدول الغربية كثيراً، وأن هذه المنطقة ما زالت تتمتع بإمكانات بشرية هائلة، أشار المعهد إلى اعتقاده بأن تصحيح المسار خيار أفضل من الانسحاب. والسير إلى الأمام، كما يقترح المعهد، يتمثل في استبدال الأساطير والمفاهيم الخاطئة بفهم حقيقي. وفيما يتعلق بنا، يفتح الاقتراع نافذة تتيح سماع الأصوات العربية.
وأنا أطلق على هذا «العلم المحترم» لأننا نسجل آراء كل مشارك. وحين نحلل النتائج، تظهر صورة يمكن أن تساعدنا في تبديد الصور النمطية وتصحيح المفاهيم الخاطئة. وإذا انتبهنا لما يقوله لنا الناس، فيمكننا صياغة سياساتنا بشكل أفضل للاستجابة، وتلبية احتياجاتهم الحقيقية، وليس تلك التي افترضنا وجودها.
وما تعلمناه من استطلاعات الرأي لعام 2022 هو أن الغالبية العظمى من العرب في جميع أنحاء المنطقة يدعمون المساواة في الحقوق للمرأة في التوظيف وفي مكان العمل. كما يفضلون تزويد الشباب بالمهارات التكنولوجية حتى يتمكنوا من المنافسة بشكل أفضل في اقتصاد المستقبل. كما أنهم إما متدينون إلى حد ما أو علمانيون.
ويعتقدون أنه حين تحكم الحركات الدينية، فإنها تجعل الدول أضعف. ويعتقدون أيضاً أن الدين كما يُدرس في بلادهم يحتاج إلى تحديث. ونظراً إلى أن هذا كان عمل حياتنا، يسعدنا أن أتاح لنا المعهد الفرصة لإجراء مسح جديد لاستكشاف القضايا الحرجة التي تواجه العالم العربي اليوم. وأخذ استطلاع الرأي على عاتقه التأمل بعمق في ميول العرب ووضع قائمة أولويات تتطلع للأمام تستجيب للتطلعات العربية.
وهنا توصية أخيرة لواضعي السياسات والمحللين السياسيين: تحققوا من تحيزاتكم قبل الدخول وانصتوا إلى ما يخبرنا به العرب عما يريدونه. فكما دأبت والدتي على أن تقول لي: «إذا أردت أن يسمعك الآخرون، فعليك الإنصات لهم أولاً». وبفضل معهد توني بلير، تتحدث أصوات العرب إليكم. فاستمعوا لها وأنصتوا.

Kiev ( Ukraine ) (AFP) - Ukraine's state nuclear energy corporation Energoatom said Tuesday in a statement that it had suffered an "unprecedented" Russian cyberattack on its website, and that its operations had not been affected.

"On August 16, 2022, the most powerful cyberattack since the beginning of the Russian invasion took place against the official Energoatom website," she wrote on Telegram.

It added that the site "was attacked from Russian territory."

Energoatom said the Russian "people's cyber army" group used more than seven million bots to attack the website over a three-hour period.

Around noon, a channel on Instagram in Russian called "People's Cyber Army" called on its followers to attack the website of the Ukrainian Nuclear Energy Corporation.

But by Tuesday evening, it had announced a "change" of the scheme, redirecting supporters to a new target, the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, and its website had slowed down.

The cyber attack comes at a time of heightened tensions around the Zaporizhia nuclear plant in southern Ukraine, which Russian forces occupied in March shortly after the start of the invasion.

Since the end of July, multiple bombings have targeted the site, and the two sides have exchanged accusations about it. Fears of a nuclear catastrophe were also raised.

Before the Russian invasion, Ukraine relied on four nuclear plants to secure about 50 percent of its electricity needs.

Ukraine witnessed the worst nuclear accident in the world in 1986, when the fourth reactor exploded at the Chernobyl plant, which led to a massive radioactive leak.