The Israeli occupation authorities issued new tenders for the construction of about 1,248 settlement units in Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Hebron, and areas in the northern West Bank.

According to the published tenders, these new settlement units will be distributed among the settlements of: "Beitar Illit", "Efrat", "Kiryat Arba", "Ma'ale Ephraim" and "Karnei Shomron", in addition to 89 units in the "Gilo" settlement located west of the city. Occupied Jerusalem.

The occupation authorities continue the policy of settlement expansion despite repeated Arab and international calls to stop settlement projects in the Palestinian territories, as the extremist Israeli government led by Benjamin Netanyahu is moving forward with plans for settlement expansion since its formation in late December.

The Anti-Narcotics Department of the Jerusalem Suburbs Governorate police seized, at dawn today, Monday, approximately 5 kg of a substance suspected of being narcotic hashish inside the house of one of its dealers in the town of Al-Ram, north of occupied Jerusalem.

Police spokesman, Colonel Louay Arziqat, said that information arrived at the Anti-Narcotics Branch stating that there are large quantities of drugs inside the house of one of its dealers, and they are ready for promotion and use. Hashish, and the hybrid cannabis substance, approached 5 kg, and the dealer was arrested, thus saving new victims from abuse and addiction.

He confirmed the reservation of the person and the seized items until the completion of the procedures, and the referral of the file to the Public Prosecution.

Gaza - "Jerusalem" dot com - Statistics issued by the General Directorate of Civil Status at the Ministry of Interior - Civil Section showed that the Gaza Strip recorded, during the month of February, 3,986 newborns, and 307 deaths.

The statistics showed that the number of male births is estimated at 2,092, with an estimated rate of 52.48%, while the estimated percentage of female births was 47.51%, with 1,894 births.

She pointed out that the civil status offices in the Gaza Interior Directorate have registered 1,455 newborns, while the Khan Yunis interior offices registered 767 newborns. During the month, the northern interior offices registered 734 births, and the civil status offices in the middle interior recorded 537 births, while the civil status offices in the Rafah Interior Directorate registered 493 newborns.

Regarding death statistics, the Civil Status reported that its offices in the governorates of the Gaza Strip recorded 307 deaths during this period, as male deaths were estimated at 180 deaths, with an estimated rate of 58.63%, compared to 127 female deaths, with an estimated rate of 41.36%.

Arsenal continued its pressure on leaders Manchester City and revived its hopes of winning its first title since 2004 when it returned with a valuable victory from its host, Newcastle, with a clean double, Sunday, at St. James Park, in front of 50,267 spectators, in the thirty-fifth stage of the England Football Championship.

Norwegian captain Martin Odegaard (14) and Swiss defender Fabian Schar (71 fouls in his team's own goal) scored the two goals.
Arsenal strengthened its ranks with its second successive victory, and its 25th this season, with 81 points, bringing the difference back to one point between it and leaders Manchester City, who beat Leeds United 2-1 on Saturday.

City has a postponed match against Brighton, which will take place on May 24.

On the other hand, Newcastle suffered only its fifth loss this season and the second at home after the first against Liverpool 0-2 also on February 18, so its score froze at 65 points in third place.

Manchester United failed to take advantage of Arsenal's gift and snatch third place from Newcastle, losing to West Ham 1-0 due to a fatal mistake by Spanish goalkeeper David de Gea.

The loss of Newcastle and United, whose score was frozen at 63 points, ignited the struggle over the last two cards that qualified for the Champions League, as the chances of Liverpool V (62 points) and Brighton VII (55 points with three games less) strengthened in their competition for it, even if the “Reds” played more than one match. The Magpies and the Red Devils.

Arsenal returned the debt to Newcastle with the same result that defeated him last year at the same stadium in the penultimate 37th stage, which cost him absence from the Champions League competition this season.

"It's a big step for a young team like ours to come here and do the things we've done. It shows we've come a long way," Odegaard said.

He added, "After losing points against Manchester City, winning against Chelsea and then coming here and winning shows our mentality. We have to continue, fight and fight until the end. It's football, anything can happen and we need to be ready."

His Spanish coach, Mikel Arteta, said, "It is a well-deserved victory. It was a great match, and our team enjoyed high quality and we did everything we could to achieve the result." Newcastle coach Eddie Howe said, "I think it is a disappointment because we did not achieve the desired result, nor did we do the best." Our levels and we have to think about what's next."

Newcastle started the match with strong pressure and almost did it from the first opportunity when Jacob Murphy received a ball from the Swedish international Alexander Isaacs, so he prepared it for himself inside the area and hit it hard with his left, which bounced off the right post (1).

Isaac hit a powerful ball, which defender Ben White pushed into a corner (3).

Odegaard quelled the outburst of the landowners when he succeeded in opening the scoring, contrary to the course of the game, after receiving a ball from the Italian international, Jorginho, outside the area.

Arsenal almost added the second goal through Brazilian Gabriel Martinelli when he received a ball inside the area, so he singled out goalkeeper Bob and hit it at the latter’s foot, so he prepared in front of Odegaard, who hit it hard with his left from a difficult angle, which the goalkeeper pushed to a corner that did not bear fruit (20).

Bukayo Saka received a wonderful ball from the Swiss Granit Chaka, so he set off quickly and hit it powerfully from the edge of the area, Bob pushed it away (23).

Goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale saved Arsenal from the equalizer by blocking a powerful shot by Joe Willock from inside the area (27).
And Ramsdale continued his brilliance by deflecting a cross at an appropriate time in front of Callum Wilson, before Kievor dispersed it (29).

Martinelli missed an opportunity for reinforcement when he received a ball from Odegaard inside the area, which he hit with his left, far from the far left post (41).

Bob continued his brilliance and saved his goal from a second goal when he blocked a shot from close range to Odegaard in the sixth minute of stoppage time for the first half.

And the left post denied Isaac an equaliser, when he returned his header from close range, following a cross by Murphy (49).

Ramsdale shone in clearing the giant's header from close range, following a corner kick, before the defense dispersed it (50).

Martinelli responded with a shot from inside the area, which bounced off the crossbar outside the field (52).

The other Brazilian, Gabriel Jesús, hit a powerful ball from inside the area, which Bob sent to a corner (70).

Arsenal dealt the final blow to Newcastle when Martinelli received a ball from Jesus in the middle of the field, so he went off and penetrated into the area from the left side and passed it crossly, which hit the foot of defender Shar and turned into his team's goal (71).
And Newcastle continued his pressure in search of at least reducing the difference, but to no avail.

Manchester United continued to bleed points after losing 0-1 to Brighton on Thursday, and suffered its second consecutive and ninth defeat this season, while West Ham largely ensured its survival after moving seven points away from the eighteenth Nottingham Forest, the last places leading to the second division.

And West Ham achieved its first victory in its last four matches at home, and its Scottish coach, David Moyes, succeeded in breaking the jinx that required him against his former team, United, who supervised his training in 2013, when he beat him for the first time in 11 games (two draws and eight defeats).

Algerian international striker Said Benrahma scored the winning goal with a weak creeping shot from outside the area, which De Gea missed, although it was within reach (27).

The Brazilian left post denied Anthony an equalizer by returning his powerful shot from outside the area (32).

De Gea saved his goal from a second goal by blocking a powerful shot by the Czech international giant Tomas Sochik (50).

The Dutchman, Vout Fijkhorst, tried his luck with a powerful shot from outside the area, which was blocked by Polish goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski in two waves (56).

Brazilian Lucas Paqueta responded with a similar shot away from the three sticks (60), then the latter passed a cross from inside the area, which Sochik hit "on the fly" next to the left post (63).

Paqueta almost hit the net with a powerful shot from inside the area, which passed near the right post (66).

Ten Hag tried to activate his offensive line by involving the trio of Gaydon Sancho, the Frenchman Anthony Martial and the Austrian Marcel Sabitzer in the place of Anthony Wijkhorst and the Danish Christian Eriksen, but to no avail.

Fabianski continued his brilliance by deflecting a shot by Marcus Rashford from close range (77), and Martial penetrated into the area and hit a powerful ball, which Fabianski pushed into a corner (90 + 1).

Statistics issued by the General Directorate of Civil Status at the Ministry of the Interior - Civil Section showed that the Gaza Strip recorded 3,404 new births during April of this year, in addition to 262 deaths.

The statistics showed that the number of male births is estimated at 1,740, with an estimated rate of 51.12%, while the estimated percentage of female births was 48.88%, at 1,664 births. She indicated that the civil status offices in the Gaza Interior Directorate had registered 1,233 newborns; The two interior offices of Khan Yunis registered 661 births.

During the month, the northern interior offices registered 613 births, and the civil status offices in the middle interior recorded 469 births, while the civil status offices in the Rafah Interior Directorate registered 428 newborns.

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Concerning the death statistics, the Civil Status reported that its offices in the governorates of the Gaza Strip recorded 262 deaths during this month, as male deaths were estimated at 145 deaths, at an estimated rate of 55.34%, compared to 117 deaths among females, at an estimated rate of 44.65%.

Al-Safa Islamic Bank announced the delivery of the monthly cash prize to the winner, Muhammad Abdel-Amir Ahmed Shehab, from the city of Al-Bireh, as part of the savings account campaign for this year, which included special prizes for the month of Ramadan and holidays. The value of the monthly prize for the month of April was 125,000 shekels, and it is special for Eid al-Fitr.

On this occasion, the winner expressed his great joy with this award, describing it, saying: "This award is a real joy for me, and I never expected to win it." He added that his confidence in the bank and its distinctive and unique services made him consider this win as evidence that the bank seeks to change the lives of its customers, whether by encouraging them to save, which in itself helps them for their future, or by offering prizes of high value that can improve their situation for the better.

It is noteworthy that, on the occasion of the holy month of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, the bank presented special prizes, especially for the status and spirituality of these occasions. In addition to the Eid Al-Fitr cash prize, the bank presented 20 Umrah trips to 20 winners within a daily draw campaign for the savings account during the month of Ramadan, through which the winners were able to enjoy a paid Umrah trip that they could perform during the month of Ramadan or at any other time during the year.

The savings account campaign is considered one of the most important campaigns that the bank launches annually, out of its keenness to appreciate its customers and encourage them to increase their savings. During the current year, the bank encouraged all members of society to open savings accounts at the bank, to enter the daily, weekly and monthly cash campaign prize draws, in addition to a prize of one million shekels at the end of the campaign. It should be noted that any person who has a minimum savings of $200 in the bank can enter the draws for all cash prizes during the campaign period.

Today, Monday morning, the Israeli oppression forces stormed several sections of "Ramon" prison.

According to the Prisoners' Club, these forces stormed the rooms in which the prisoners of the "Popular Front" were staying, and started searches.

While the Prisoners Authority said: "The forces of repression transferred Ahmed Saadat "Abu Ghassan", Ahed Ghulamah "Abu Qais", and Walid Hanatsheh "Abu Mays" for interrogation and isolation.

An Arab woman in her twenties was killed at dawn today, Monday, as a result of a shooting crime that took place in the occupied city of Haifa.

The Hebrew media said that the young victim of the crime, Hanan Abu Khait (24 years old), who is a mother of a child (5 years old), who was shot while she was inside her vehicle near her house, where 3 masked men shot her from a very close range.

With the murder in Haifa, the death toll in the Arab community has risen since the beginning of this year until now, to 65, including 5 women who were killed in various violent crimes.

On Monday morning and dawn, the Israeli occupation forces launched a campaign of arrests among citizens in separate areas of the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem.

According to local sources, those forces arrested in Bethlehem both Ahmed Nasser Asakereh (23 years old) from the village of Asakereh, Munir Muhammad Taamreh (35 years old) from the village of Al-Arouj in the east, Salah Musa Sabah (26 years old), and Fadi Adel Atallah (25 years old). 26 years old), Ahmed Saeed Sabah (26 years old), Hamza Awad Atallah (26 years old), and Ibrahim Wajih Sabah (26 years old), all from the eastern village of Harmala, after raiding and searching the homes of their families.

Meanwhile, the secretary of the "Fatah" movement in Aida camp, Marwan Fararjeh, in his thirties, and Ahmed Jamal Hassan (37 years), from Al-Saff Street in the center of Bethlehem, were arrested after their homes were raided, searched and their contents were tampered with.

In Ramallah, the occupation forces arrested the young man, Abd al-Rahman Qatash, after raiding his house, while they arrested the editor, Muhammad Ahmad al-Barghouti, after storming the village of Deir Abu Mishaal, west of Ramallah, where he was released from its prisons only ten days after a fourteen-year detention. .

They also arrested the two young men, Ahmed Al-Tirawi and Alaa Saeed Nakhla, after storming their homes in Al-Jalazoun camp, north of Ramallah.

According to eyewitnesses, the places of the raid witnessed limited confrontations with the occupation forces, who also deployed on the outskirts of the villages of Jifna, Deir Ibzi and Kafr Nima, north of Ramallah.

In Jenin, the occupation forces arrested the released prisoner, Osaid Ibrahim Abu Bakr from Ya`bad, and Ammar Abdul Hakim Khallouf from Burqin, after raiding the homes of their families, amid confrontations with the people.

The occupation forces also arrested the citizen, Muhannad Tawfiq Abu Bakr, from the town of Ya`bad, south of Jenin, while he was passing through the Barta'a military checkpoint.

In Jerusalem, the occupation forces arrested the child Muhammad Yasser Darwish (12 years old) after they raided and searched his house.

In Nablus, the occupation forces arrested Abdul Rahman Abu Hijleh (23 years old), after they raided and searched his family's house in the Al-Makhfiyya area.

In Hebron, the occupation forces arrested Bader Ziyad Abu Halil after searching his house and tampering with its contents in the town of Dura.

In Qalqilya, the occupation forces arrested the young man, Karam Shahwan, after raiding his house in the village of Habla.

The teachers' movement said, on Sunday evening, that "protest measures will be taken if the government does not pay the deductions from the striking teachers tomorrow."

And the movement added in a statement, "It will issue a statement in the event that the government does not disburse it, equal to the work rate with the salary disbursement rate, taking into account not closing the school year, boycotting the School program, and limiting education to classroom sessions only, and we may boycott high school exams."

He stressed that he will wait until tomorrow to declare our innocence from Jibril Rajoub’s initiative and the Central Committee if the discounts are not paid, indicating that he will cancel the deadline of 9/10/2023 and the activities will turn into not opening the new academic year unless all legitimate demands are immediately fulfilled. according to the text of the statement.

The teachers’ movement indicated that compensation is the right of the student, but it must be at the disposal of the teacher without external interference, as the working hours and compensation based on the teacher’s planning end with the end of the working hours on 6/5/2023. According to the text of his statement.

Today, Sunday, the Israeli occupation forces lifted the siege imposed on Jericho and the Jordan Valley, after 16 days of tightening the checkpoints at its entrances.

Local sources confirmed to Al-Quds.com that the Palestinian liaison had been informed of the lifting of the siege, but the barriers, iron gates and cubes erected by the occupation forces are still present. However, the measures and the presence of the occupation army are no longer in place.

The siege on Jericho, which is the fourth since the beginning of this year, and its days lasted for about a month, comes after shooting operations targeting Israelis, followed by a series of incursions into Jericho, especially the Aqabat Jaber camp, south of Jericho, which led to the death of nine from the camp. The occupation forces are still holding the bodies of seven. who are they.

These incursions also resulted in dozens of injuries, and the number of detainees since the beginning of this year has reached about 100 detainees, forty of whom are from Aqabat Jabr camp.

For about a month, the Israeli occupation forces have continued to close the military checkpoint established at the entrance to the village of Beit Sira, west of Ramallah, in front of vehicles, preventing them from accessing Street 443, which leads to Jerusalem and the interior, amidst restrictions that are the first of their kind in 13 years, which means tightening the screws on the people. While officials warn that these measures are a prelude to the implementation of settlement occupation plans in the region.

The occupation forces had closed Road (443) and prevented the residents from accessing it, about a year after the second intifada, and after suffering, a complaint was filed before the Israeli Supreme Court of Justice, which ruled in 2010 that the residents should find alternatives. Military checkpoints have been established at the entrances of seven villages and towns that benefit from the road, located west of Ramallah, namely: "Safa, Beit Sira, Beit Liqia, Beit Ur al-Fauqa, Beit Ur al-Tahta, Kharbatha al-Misbah, and al-Tira," according to what the Mayor of Beit Liqia, Areej Asi, confirmed. In an interview with "Al Quds" dot com.

Assi added, "Road (443) was the official road for the villages west of Ramallah, and the people of Ramallah and Al-Bireh governorate benefit from it, especially merchants, to reach the interior and Jerusalem. If the road took 10 minutes, it took an hour or more, and then the protests reached international organizations, and after that, under pressure, a complaint was filed before the Israeli Supreme Court of Justice, and it was decided to find alternatives for the people, but the occupation forces set up military checkpoints at the entrances to towns and villages, which created new suffering. .

Assi indicated that the people, a month ago, were surprised by the closure of the barrier established at the entrance of Beit Sira, in front of vehicles, allowing those who have permits to cross on foot to reach Road 443, which forced vehicles to pave other roads and pass through other checkpoints, such as the Qalandia checkpoint, which It means an increase in distance and time, and when it was inquired about the existence of this decision, the occupation forces claimed that it was because there were no cars passing, although the claim is inaccurate.

Asi warned that the closure of the checkpoint would be a prelude to settlement occupation plans, which the occupation intends to implement in the area.

For his part, the head of the Beit Sira village council, Karim Al-Hajj, told Al-Quds.com: "What the occupation forces claim that there is no movement at the Beit Sira checkpoint is incorrect. We have contacted the Palestinian liaison, as it was informed by the Israeli side that it is not Closed! But in reality it is closed.

Al-Hajj points out that the occupation, after the decision of the Supreme Court of Occupation in 2010, placed barriers at the entrances to the seven villages and towns, and these barriers became open from five in the morning until 10 at night.

Al-Hajj stresses that this street is vital and main for reviving the western villages in Ramallah, which number about 40 thousand people. Collective punishments for the people and inflicting additional suffering on them.

Today, Sunday, the Council of the League of Arab States called on the international community and international human rights bodies to put pressure on Israel, the occupying power, to immediately release all prisoners and detainees, especially old prisoners, patients, children, the elderly, administrative detainees, and the bodies of martyrs.

The Council held Israel, the occupying power, fully responsible for the death of prisoner Khader Adnan, who spent 87 days on hunger strike, during which the Israeli occupation prison authorities deliberately practiced fatal medical negligence towards him, refusing to take any fair trial for him and ignoring his legitimate request for freedom.

The Arab League Council, at the level of Arab foreign ministers in its extraordinary session, expressed in a statement, following the special session held today, Sunday, regarding the developments of the Palestinian cause and the continuous Israeli violations against the Palestinian people, headed by Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, and in the presence of the Secretary-General of the Arab League, Ahmed Abu. Al-Gheit expressed his full solidarity with the Palestinian people on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, and saluted generations of Palestinian refugees who have been displaced from their homes by Israeli force, terrorism and oppression since the Nakba in 1948, affirming their inalienable right to return and compensation.

He appreciated the commemoration of this painful memory all over the world, including in the United Nations General Assembly and in many capitals and international and regional organizations.

It also called on the international community to exert the necessary pressure on Israel, the occupying power, to end its occupation of the land of the State of Palestine on the lines of June 4, 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital, and to stop its aggression against the Palestinian people and all its illegal policies and practices, including annexation, colonial settlement, and separation. racism, targeting civilians, forced displacement, arbitrary arrest, appropriation of property, demolition of homes and infrastructure, and violation of sanctities, calling for international protection for the Palestinian people.

The Council condemned the widespread Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people, including the recent campaigns of siege and the brutal Israeli aggression against Jerusalem, Nablus, the Gaza Strip, Jenin, Jericho, Tulkarem and the rest of the Palestinian cities, villages and camps, including the practice of killing, terrorism and incitement, which claimed the lives of dozens of martyrs, wounded and detainees. And the demolition of homes, facilities and infrastructure, expressing its solidarity with the families of the martyrs and victims of the brutal Israeli aggression.

He also affirmed the centrality of the Palestinian cause to the entire Arab nation, and support for the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, foremost of which is their right to self-determination, return and compensation for Palestinian refugees, and their right to embody the establishment of an independent and sovereign State of Palestine on the lines of June 4, 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital.

And he stressed the need to protect the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque / Al-Qudsi Al-Sharif in its entire area of 144,000 square meters, as it is a pure place of worship for Muslims only according to international law and resolutions of international legitimacy, and to reject and condemn all violations committed by Israel, the occupying power, of Islamic and Christian holy places, Especially the attempts aimed at changing the existing historical and legal situation in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, dividing it temporally and spatially, undermining the freedom of Muslims’ prayer in it and distancing them from it, and undermining its foundations through excavations beneath it, including the Israeli aggression in the blessed month of Ramadan against defenseless worshipers and the deliberate destruction of furniture and contents in the mosque. Al-Aqsa Mosque, as well as the recent attacks on the Bab Al-Rahma prayer hall, in frantic attempts to control and divide Al-Aqsa Mosque.

He emphasized the sovereignty of the State of Palestine over the city of Jerusalem and its sanctities, and the importance of 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 status therein, and that the Jordanian administration of the Jerusalem Endowments and the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque is the only entity authorized to manage All affairs of Al-Aqsa Mosque / Al-Qudsi Al-Sharif.

The delegation of the State of Palestine was headed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Riyad Al-Malki, and included: the delegate of the State of Palestine to the Arab League, Ambassador Muhannad Al-Aklouk, the Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs for Arab Affairs, Ambassador Fayez Abu Al-Rub, Senior Adviser Tamer Al-Tayeb, Senior Adviser Rizk Al-Za’anin, and Adviser Jumana Al-Ghoul, all from the Palestinian delegation. at university.

Today, Sunday, the Israeli Supreme Court rejected the petition to evacuate the village of Al-Khan Al-Ahmar, which is built on the lands of the village of Abu Dis, on the road leading to Jericho, east of occupied Jerusalem.

The court rejected the petition's demand for the government to immediately demolish Khan al-Ahmar and displace its residents.

She said, "The demolition of Al-Khan Al-Ahmar will be carried out in accordance with the government's decision and vision, based on security and political considerations."

The petition, which calls on the government to implement the decision to demolish the Palestinian village and displace its residents, was submitted by the far-right "Regavim" organization, which works to promote the settlement project and accelerate the demolition of Palestinian buildings in Area C.

Today, Sunday evening, the Director General of Measurement, Evaluation and Examination at the Ministry of Education, Muhammad Awwad, died, and 3 others were injured, as a result of a traffic accident near the village of Al-Sawiya, south of Nablus.

The media spokesman for the police, Colonel Louay Arziqat, said that the accident occurred near the intersection of the village of As-Sawiya, and resulted from the collision of a private vehicle with a truck coming from the opposite direction, which resulted in the injury of four citizens who were transferred to Nablus and Salfit hospitals, and doctors announced the death of one of them from his serious injury. .

He pointed out that traffic experts began investigation procedures to find out the circumstances of the accident, and that the Public Prosecution Office was informed to complete the legal procedures.

Today, Sunday, thousands of citizens mourned the body of the deceased Sharif Hassan Wereidat (22 years old) in the town of Al-Dhahiriya, south of Hebron.

The funeral procession started with a military funeral, after his family gave a farewell look and prayed for him, before he was buried in the family cemetery in his hometown, Al-Dhahiriya.

The occupation forces executed the martyr Wereidat on the 9th of last February, in Ain Delbeh, near Al-Fawar refugee camp, south of Hebron.

Today, Sunday, large Palestinian masses mourned the body of the deceased Diyar Al-Omari (19 years old), in the village of Sandala, inside the occupied territories.

The funeral procession started from the martyr's house in the village of Marj Ibn Amer, and his body was buried in the village cemetery.

The funeral participants raised Palestinian flags and cheered in victory for the martyr and his family.

The village of Sandala witnessed a general and comprehensive strike, in protest against the murder of the young man Diyar Omari (20 years old) by a Jewish youth, after a fist fight between them near the village, yesterday evening, Saturday.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Riyad Al-Maliki, demanded a position from the Arab League and the Security Council towards the Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people.

This came in a statement to reporters, on the sidelines of the meeting of Arab foreign ministers in its extraordinary session, at the headquarters of the General Secretariat of the Arab League in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, today, Sunday, to discuss the latest developments in the Palestinian cause and the continuous Israeli violations against the Palestinian people.

Al-Maliki said: "There are two main issues, the first before the League Council, which is summarized in the fact that since the advent of the new, extremist, fascist Israeli government to rule in Israel, it is committing massacres on a daily basis against the Palestinian people, as not a day passes except that there are martyrs, and houses are demolished. Not a day goes by without land grabs and siege on Palestinian cities, as is the case in Jericho, Nablus, Jenin, and the Palestinian camps.

He continued: "The second issue is related to the fifteenth of this month, which coincides with the 75th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, which is a tragedy not only for the Palestinian people, but a tragedy for all mankind and humanity, and that for the first time in history the United Nations commemorates this memory at the headquarters of the General Assembly in New York, Where President Mahmoud Abbas will participate, to remind the world of the injustice that has befallen the Palestinian people, and to hold the international community responsible for this tragedy."

Al-Maliki said: "The prisoners and detainees are also an ongoing issue that must be remembered, especially what happened recently regarding the captive martyr Khader Adnan, and the violations that took place with him inside the occupation prisons, in addition to the daily systematic Israeli crimes that need to provide international protection for the defenseless Palestinian people, and that Punitive measures are being taken against the occupying state, the apartheid state, which continues to commit crimes and massacres against the Palestinian people.

He explained that the Council will adopt a draft statement in the emergency special session on the Palestinian issue today, as there is a basic item on prisoners and detainees, especially on the martyr Khader Adnan, in addition to Israeli violations and daily crimes, which will establish for subsequent steps by the Arab League and then international organizations, especially that There is Resolution No. 908 of the Security Council that talks about international protection and the demilitarization of settlers.

He added, "The Secretary-General of the United Nations was asked to submit proposals on providing mechanisms for international protection for the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territories during the past week, when I visited New York."

With regard to the occupation state's detention of the bodies of the martyrs, Minister Al-Maliki said: "This is contrary to international laws and norms and international humanitarian law, and there are graves of numbers where many of these were buried in unknown graves, and numbers were placed without any names on their graves, instead of being given They deserve the merit they deserve by honoring them from their families and bidding them farewell.

The Council of the League of Arab States decided in its emergency meeting today (Sunday) in Cairo at the ministerial level to resume the participation of delegations of the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic in the meetings of the Council of the League of Arab States, and all organizations and agencies affiliated with the League, as of today.

In Resolution No. 8914 on Syria issued by its meeting today, the Council reaffirmed the renewal of commitment to preserving Syria's sovereignty, territorial integrity, stability and territorial integrity, based on the Arab League Charter and its principles.

And he stressed the importance of continuing and intensifying Arab efforts aimed at helping Syria get out of its crisis, based on the desire to end the suffering of the Syrian people that has extended over the past years, and in line with the common Arab interest and the fraternal relations that unite all Arab peoples, including the Syrian people and their interests. A historical contribution to Arab civilization and culture.

The Council welcomed the Arab statements issued by the Jeddah and Amman meetings on Syria, and the keenness to launch an Arab leadership role in the efforts to resolve the Syrian crisis, addressing all the consequences of the humanitarian, security and political crisis on Syria and its people, and addressing the repercussions of this crisis on neighboring countries, the region and the world, especially the burden of asylum and the threat of terrorism.

He also welcomed Syria's willingness to cooperate with the Arab countries to implement the outputs of the relevant Arab statements, and the need to implement the commitments and consensus reached at the Amman meeting, as well as the adoption of the necessary mechanisms to activate the Arab role.

In its statement, the Arab Ministerial Council stressed the need to take practical and effective steps to gradually resolve the crisis, according to the principle of step by step and in line with Security Council Resolution No. 2254, starting with continuing steps that allow the delivery of humanitarian aid to all those in need in Syria, including in accordance with the mechanisms adopted in relevant Security Council resolutions.

And he decided to form a ministerial liaison committee consisting of Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt and the Secretary-General to follow up on the implementation of the Amman Declaration, and to continue direct dialogue with the Syrian government to reach a comprehensive solution to the Syrian crisis that addresses all its consequences according to the methodology (step by step), and in accordance with the Security Council resolution. No. 2254. The committee submits periodic reports to the University Council at the ministerial level.

The Council of the League of Arab States also decided, in its ministerial meeting, to resume the participation of delegations of the government of the Syrian Arab Republic in the meetings of the Council of the League of Arab States and all its affiliated organizations and agencies, as of today, May 7, 2023.

In the same context, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry announced earlier today the approval of Arab foreign ministers for Syria's return to its seat in the Arab League.

Ahmed Al-Sahhaf, spokesman for the ministry, told the official Iraqi News Agency (INA) that the meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo agreed on Syria's return to its seat in the Arab League.

He added that the diplomacy of dialogue and Arab integration endeavors adopted by Iraq had a real effort to return Syria to the Arab League.

Al-Sahhaf renewed Iraq's position on the Syrian issue and the importance of its return to its seat in the Arab League, which contributes to enhancing its security and stability.

It is noteworthy that the Arab foreign ministers had decided on November 12, 2011 to freeze Syria's membership in the meetings of the Council of the League of Arab States and all its affiliated organizations and agencies, as of November 16 of the same year.

The decision to freeze was issued at the time with the approval of 18 countries, with the objection of Lebanon and Yemen, the abstention of Iraq and the absence of Syria.

The meetings of the extraordinary sessions of the Council of the League of Arab States began earlier today in Cairo at the level of foreign ministers to discuss developments in the situation in Syria, Sudan and Palestine.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, head of the current session of the Council, confirmed in his speech at the opening session that all stages of the Syrian crisis have proven that there is no military solution to it, and that there is no winner or loser in this conflict.

He pointed to Egypt's warnings over the past years and since the beginning of the crisis about the repercussions of the armed conflict in Syria and the attempt at a military settlement, stressing that the only way to a settlement is a political solution with exclusive Syrian ownership without external dictates.

Shoukry affirmed that Syria's accession to the final statement of the Amman meeting is a positive development and an important step in terms of proving good intentions, implementing commitments, and strengthening Arab-Arab cooperation to resolve the Syrian crisis.

After the speech, Shoukry requested, in his capacity as head of the current session of the Council of the League of Arab States, to hold an official closed session to discuss the issues on the agenda for the meetings.

The Council of the League of Arab States, at the level of foreign ministers, will hold three extraordinary and extraordinary sessions today at the headquarters of the General Secretariat of the League of Arab States in Cairo, regarding developments in the situation in Sudan and follow-up on the Syrian situation and developments in the Palestinian cause.

The Council of the League of Arab States at the level of permanent delegates held a preparatory meeting yesterday (Saturday), chaired by Egypt, at the headquarters of the General Secretariat of the Arab League.

Today, Sunday, the Embassy of the State of Palestine to the Arab Republic of Egypt reported the arrival of the third batch of buses carrying Palestinian students and citizens coming from Sudan to Cairo International Airport in the Arab Republic of Egypt.

The Palestinian ambassador to Egypt, Diab Al-Louh, confirmed that they were evacuated from Jeddah Airport to Cairo International Airport on their way to the Gaza Strip.

Today, Sunday, the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs said, “The Israeli occupation authorities returned the prisoner Walid Daqqa from the Israeli Barzilai Hospital to the clinic in Ramla prison.”

The prisoner, Daqqa, suffers from cancer that spreads to several parts of his body, and he is currently in the "Israeli Barzlai" hospital. He also recently suffered from severe infections, as a result of which he underwent surgery on 4/12/2023.

The deterioration of the prisoner Daqqa’s health condition came to the crime of medical negligence that he was subjected to and still is in recent years.

The Applied Research Institute "ARIJ" said, "Israel targets more than 6,900 dunums initially to implement its agenda aimed at imposing its control and sovereignty over occupied Jerusalem."

According to the ARIJ report, the so-called land settlement is one of Israel's most important tricks to Judaize East Jerusalem. The Israeli judiciary had issued an announcement about the start of land settlement with new names and numbers for basins in different neighborhoods in East Jerusalem.

The report notes that the issue of land administration remains one of the most complex issues that Palestinians have had to deal with in the occupied territories, and the lack of official data related to land use and registration often causes confusion, especially since the Israeli occupation stopped all procedures related to land registration and inheritance since His disruption of the Earth in the year 1967.

It is worth mentioning here that the historical context of land registration in Palestine took place and was included in different classifications according to the successive administrations that passed through the land.

During the Ottoman era in Palestine, the process of land registration known as Tabu began in 1858 to establish land ownership rights for owners. During the years of the British Mandate over Palestine (1920-1948), the Land Settlement Decree entered into force in 1928 to confirm the ownership rights of the land owners.

Despite this, both the Ottomans and the British failed in their endeavors, as the agricultural community of peasants, who constituted the majority of land owners, rejected the British registration method, which overthrew the traditional system of collective ownership of land, and also because of the high taxes imposed by the Ottomans on registered cultivated land. During the period of Jordanian administration since 1948, which lasted until 1967, less than 30% of the lands of the West Bank were registered.

Additional land surveys were completed, including in East Jerusalem, but not officially registered due to the 1967 war.

With Israel's occupation of the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) in 1967, the occupying power of Israel did not recognize the traditional communal ownership system that existed on the land, particularly in the southern rural areas of the West Bank.

Moreover, Israel used policies, laws and regulations to enable its dominance over privately owned Palestinian lands, which was a first step towards issuing the Israeli military order of 1967 to stop any form of land registration in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

Including East Jerusalem, under the pretext of protecting the property rights of absentees.

2017 is a turning point
In his report, Areej stressed that after the Trump administration recognized Jerusalem as the unified capital of Israel and took the long-awaited Israeli step to open the US embassy in Jerusalem, the Israeli occupation municipality in Jerusalem began a plan to settle real estate rights in Jerusalem.

The undeclared goal of the Israeli settlement plan is to deny Palestinians in the diaspora or even in the West Bank their right to inherit their property in occupied Jerusalem, which paves the way for the occupation to seize that property under the pretext that their ownership has not been properly documented according to the procedures, and therefore, the reactivation of the law Absentees' property requires the official appropriation of Palestinian property.

In any case, in the event of a settlement (imposed on the Palestinians) between the conflicting parties, it is likely that the Palestinian Jerusalemites will be subject to an Israeli law that requires them to pay exorbitant taxes retroactively in order to register only their real property and not the land on which it stands.

Based on the foregoing, on March 19, 2018, the Israeli Minister of Justice at the time, Ayelet Shaked, announced her intention to initiate procedures for settling real estate rights and purchasing lands in various locations in occupied East Jerusalem, with the aim of strengthening Israel’s sovereignty over Jerusalem and forcing Palestinians in the city to pay taxes.

An amount of 100 million shekels has been allocated for the next five years to examine about 17,000 land purchases and real estate transactions that the Jewish National Fund (Kern Kimmitt) claims acquired by purchase before the Nakba of 1948. It seeks in its claims to rely on the discriminatory law of 1970 (legal and administrative). which enables Jews only and exclusively to claim property they lost in pre-1948 East Jerusalem, while denying Palestinians the same right to do so.

Obviously, through the Jewish National Fund, the law will complete the registration procedures for 88% of the transactions that have not been completed at that time. To this end, the occupation government approved in May 2018 the allocation of a budget of five hundred and sixty million dollars to strengthen Israel's control and sovereignty over occupied Jerusalem for the next five years. Including budget allocations to cover procedural expenses for the settlement of real estate rights.

The JNF's efforts to follow up the transactions are aimed at affecting 530 sites (360 real estate and 170 plots of land) in various locations in East Jerusalem after the 1967 war. The JNF approved Ayelet Shaked's endeavors related to land registration in East Jerusalem, for the benefit of Jews in all All over Jerusalem, where there are 2,050 deals under discussion, including real estate and lands, on an area of approximately 2,500 dunams, which has been administered under special guardianship since 1967.

This is in addition to those lands that were cut off from the West Bank, from Ramallah (north of Jerusalem), Bethlehem, Beit Jala and Beit Sahour in the southern side of Jerusalem, which Israel illegally annexed to the illegally drawn borders of East Jerusalem in violation of international law. Security Council resolutions and unilaterally in the aftermath of the 1967 war.

It is worth mentioning here that many of these lands that were placed under guardianship have present owners, and that many of the properties have been inhabited by Palestinians for decades, including for periods before the 1967 occupation, for example Sheikh Jarrah. The Palestinian population is still struggling with their lives and money to maintain their right and presence in the targeted properties and real estate in the Israeli courts for decades, as they are still under constant threat of eviction at the request and urgency of the Jewish National Fund, which is becoming closer to the truth with the existence of a settlement government par excellence, targeting All that is Palestinian, both human and stone.

Extremist government and fertile environment
Accordingly, the Palestinian Jerusalemites should not deal with the Israeli procedures related to land registration in Jerusalem or anywhere else for that matter. What Israel is trying to do in Jerusalem goes beyond the mere land registration process, but rather aims to legitimize the process of forced annexation on the land, starting with the declaration of a united Jerusalem. To what is to come, the Declaration of Greater Jerusalem, by conferring Palestinian legitimacy through dragging into illegal registration procedures that ignore the legitimate rights of more than 300,000 indigenous Palestinians living in the city.

What Israel is doing in the occupied Palestinian territories, especially in East Jerusalem, is nothing but a flagrant violation of international law and the resolutions of the United Nations and the Security Council, and falls under the name of a war crime against humanity.

Based on the foregoing, the report confirms that Israel violates Article 17/2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination of 1965, Article 46 of the Hague Convention of 1907 for the preservation of private property, the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 and all Forms of human rights, resolutions of international legitimacy and Security Council Resolution No. 198 of 1971, which stipulates that the military seizure of lands of others is illegal and violates international law, as well as Security Council Resolution No. 2334 of 2016.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi stressed the importance of working to resume negotiations between the Palestinian and Israeli sides, with the aim of a just and comprehensive settlement of the Palestinian issue in accordance with the constants of international references.

This came during his meeting, today, Sunday, in Cairo, with the Chairman of the Permanent Committee on Intelligence Affairs in the US House of Representatives, Mike Turner, and a large delegation of committee members from the Republican and Democratic parties, in the presence of the head of Egyptian General Intelligence, Minister Abbas Kamel.

The official spokesman for the Egyptian presidency, Counselor Ahmed Fahmy, said, "President Sisi referred, during the meeting, to the relentless Egyptian efforts, which are taking place in parallel, to stabilize the truce between the Palestinian and Israeli sides, in addition to the initiatives to rebuild Gaza."

He stressed that a just and comprehensive peace would open up new and broad horizons in the region, in the interest of development and prosperity for all peoples.

Islam Abu Tohme wanders around the markets in Gaza City in search of scraps of cardboard to recycle in the manufacture of toys and sell them later, seeking a source of livelihood to help her support her poor family.

Like a number of Gaza residents, she is looking for new inexpensive ideas to compensate for the lack of job opportunities and generate income.

Job opportunities in the Gaza Strip, which has been besieged by Israel by land, sea and air for a decade and a half, appear to be very scarce, and by the end of 2021 the unemployment rate reached 45 percent, according to the International Monetary Fund.

Abu Tohme, 39, studied English literature, but that did not open a door for her to find a job. She is married and a mother of five children, while her husband is sick and unemployed, and he shares with her the craft of making toys from cardboard.

In her small house in Al Shati refugee camp, where there is no water, electricity or kitchen utensils, Abu Tohme says, "Anything we dream of owning, we make it ourselves out of cardboard (paperboard). We don't have a house, so we make a house out of cardboard. I made a villa because I dream of owning it."

"My husband thought of making an old plane and convertible cars similar to those that celebrities ride in order to get out of his depression," she added.

Her husband, Muhammad Abu Tohme, 34, says, "In the beginning, I made the first wardrobe for children. Cardboard is a beautiful material that you can do anything from." Then he made a set of lanterns to decorate his house and others to sell in the month of Ramadan, explaining that "some works need a whole day, such as Residential building by adding lighting.

On a sidewalk at the corner of the commercial street in the center of the upscale Al-Remal neighborhood in western Gaza City, Islam sits selling her handicrafts to passers-by for a measly sum of five or ten shekels ($1.40 to $2.80) per piece.

But even if she sold all her goods, she wouldn't make a profit of more than 450 shekels ($120), which is the amount she needs to pay her monthly house rent.

In Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, the couple, Alaa and Salama Badwan, turned the roof of their house overlooking the seashore into a nursery for growing aloe vera, from which they extracted the gel and stored it for use in making natural soap and selling it in the local market.

Alaa Badwan aspires to expand her project to reach the markets of the West Bank and Arab countries, and for the "natural aloe vera soap in Gaza to become a registered brand like the Nabulsi soap," which is made in the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank from olive oil.

And she adds, "I do not add any colors or perfumes, and if I need a color, I use natural materials such as orange peel."

As for her husband, Salama, 40, he says, "We are the first in the sector," explaining at the same time that the financial return he reaps is insufficient and does not cover production costs.

Alaa points to the "increasing demand" of citizens to buy natural soap, which she sells through accounts on "Facebook" and "Instagram".

After losing hope of finding a job in the Gaza Strip, Amani Shaath, who holds a bachelor's degree in accounting, moved to Turkey, where she worked for four years in a number of restaurants before returning to her homeland to help her family.

The 25-year-old girl, who lives in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, established a hamburger stand on the sidewalk of the Corniche in Gaza City, and called it "Salat Burger".

Shaath chose the Corniche as a point for her work, since the sea is the only outlet for the residents of the Strip.

In addition to the hamburger, of which a sandwich sells for 15 shekels (about $4), Shaath prepares five types of fast food in the kiosk.

"On the first day I opened the kiosk, people began to come and look in astonishment," she says. "I was stunned and afraid of the failure of the project."

But she added, "People began to come to try the burger, and I was surprised by their reactions, and gradually they began to encourage me, especially since I am a girl."

According to the Central Bureau of Statistics in the Gaza Strip, the number of unemployed persons over 15 years of age reached about 239 thousand people in the Gaza Strip.

The Ministry of Labor in Gaza says that the percentage increased by May 1, 2022, to 74 percent.

The province of Alberta in western Canada declared a state of emergency on Saturday, after about 100 forest fires broke out there, which led to the departure of about 25,000 residents from their homes, in an "unprecedented" situation, according to the provincial prime minister.

The authorities have asked thousands of other residents to prepare to leave at any time. A total of 110 fires were recorded, fanned by strong winds, a third of which are out of control.

"We have declared a state of emergency in the province to preserve the safety, health and safety of Albertans," Alberta Premier Danielle Smith told a news conference.

Smith explained that this Canadian province, which is one of the largest oil producers in the world, "had a very hot and dry spring, and with many small forests, it only takes a few sparks to start really scary fires."

All of these factors combined, she added, "led to an unprecedented situation that our province faces today."

It reported that about 122 thousand hectares of land were burned and 20 towns were evacuated.

Smith said the state of emergency gives the county government "more powers to respond to extreme situations," including mobilizing additional capacity and releasing emergency funds.

A map released by the federal government says that election-period Alberta, a large swath of neighboring Saskatchewan, and much of the Northwest Territories are at risk of fires.

Among the towns that were evacuated, "Drayton Valley," with a population of seven thousand people, located in Alberta, about 140 kilometers west of Edmonton.

In Fox Lake, in northern Alberta, a major fire destroyed 20 homes, one store and a police station. Residents were evacuated by boat and helicopter.

In one of the branches of the National Higher Institute of Music near Beirut, the classrooms look deserted, and dust covers the keys of abandoned musical instruments after the economic crisis in Lebanon hindered even music education.

And while the outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic forced the closure of schools and institutes around the world for several months, the ordeal of music teachers contracting with the institute did not end with limiting the spread of the pandemic, as it was exacerbated by an economic crisis with which their wages decreased and their inability to provide their most basic needs and sometimes the cost of transportation.

"A person does not feel comfortable when he reaches the age of 65 and is still living at the expense of his family. It is funny," says Tawfiq Kerbaj, who has been teaching at the institute since the late 1980s and has been giving lessons via the Internet for many months.

"I have family support and I can still move on, but I don't think everyone has that," he told AFP.

After he was receiving a wage that enabled him to provide for his needs and ensure a decent standard of living, this teacher found himself on the impact of a collapse that the World Bank ranked among the worst in the world, receiving a wage of nearly seventy dollars.

Although what he earns is not enough to pay the generator bill, with the electricity provided by the state institution going out for long hours, this did not prevent him from continuing to teach his students via the Internet, in defiance of the bad communication service in the country.

He explains that teaching music for him is not a job, but "something you do because you love him and you cannot live without him," while a number of his colleagues submitted their resignations.

The National Higher Institute of Music or Conservatoire, which is an official institution, is a prestigious cultural edifice for music education in the country. It attracts thousands of students in 17 branches distributed in several regions.

In an effort to support music teachers and their ability to continue, teachers and students have started organizing a series of musical evenings that provide a platform for musicians and shed light on the dire reality.

"I am here today to stand with my colleagues who are unhappy with the way we are being treated," the initiative's organizer, soprano Ghada Ghanem, told AFP on the sidelines of a concert, speaking of colleagues who changed their places of residence or sold their cars to be able to withstand the deteriorating living situation.

The proceeds from the concerts are invested in organizing additional similar concerts or distributed to the participants, according to Ghanem, who was a student at the Conservatory during the years of the civil war (1975-1990).

Before participating in the initiative's second concert, entitled "We Want to Go astray," she added, "Let us deal with our problems with our talents," because "depression will attack us if we sit and do nothing."

On the same evening, Matthew Atta (ten years old) met for the first time with his guitar teacher, although he had been taking lessons with him via the Internet for two years.

"We really hope that things will improve," and his mother, Rita Jabbour, tells AFP that homework will resume, especially since her son suffers from hearing problems that make it more complicated to follow his online lessons.

Other students do not hide their frustration with the long period of online learning and the interruption from attending the institute.

Software engineer Aline Shalfarjian, 33, who studies the oud and vocals, says she has "lost motivation".

She explains that the Conservatory has always been "my second home", but "today we feel left out".


Like public sector employees, teachers contracted to the Conservatoire have gone on strike several times to demand an adjustment to their hourly wages. The matter went so far as to terminate the retirement of Eddie Dorléans, head of the teaching staff association at the institute, after he organized several protests.

The soprano conservatory president and composer, Hiba al-Kawas, the first woman to head the institute in Lebanon, links the slow response to teachers' demands and the political stalemate in Lebanon, due to the presidential vacancy and the consequent paralysis in the work of the executive and legislative branches.

She says that since assuming her duties during the past year, she has made unremitting efforts to improve the situation, and was able, despite obstacles, to secure an increase in the hourly allowance and the transportation allowance, to be applied soon with retroactive effect.

The hourly allowance is scheduled to rise from thirty thousand pounds per hour (about 0.5 dollars) to 300 thousand pounds, which means, according to al-Qawas, "we will start urban education, and I hope that this will constitute a new era."

"It's the first step," she explains.

Kerbaj is optimistic about the proposed wage increase, which is supposed to be hundreds of dollars.

"I will be able to pay for fuel and electricity and provide some food," he says.

American researcher Ben Gurtzl said in an interview with Agence France-Presse conducted on the sidelines of the "Web Summit" in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, that artificial intelligence may be a substitute for "80 percent of jobs" in the coming years, but he considered it "a good thing." .

The Brazilian-born researcher caused a stir this week at the Web Summit with his presentation of the robotic nurse, Grace, designed to take care of the elderly in their care homes.

Gurtzl is credited with what is known as "artificial general intelligence" (AIG), a key technology with human cognitive capabilities that can be developed "within a few years".

He is also behind SingularityNET, a platform dedicated to the decentralized and open development of AI.

Here is the transcript of the interview conducted with him by AFP:
Question: What is missing to develop an artificial intelligence system with human cognitive capabilities?
Answer: If we really want machines with the same intelligence as humans, and able to respond quickly to the unexpected, then these machines should be able to do much more than what they are programmed to do.

We haven't gotten that far yet. But there are reasons to believe that this is possible, not after decades, but only after years."

Question: What do you think of the controversy surrounding GPT Chat? Do you think it is necessary to freeze research for six months, as some people claim?

Answer: “I do not think that a six-month hiatus is required, because this artificial intelligence is not dangerous (...). It has no ability to think complex, multi-step, as scientists do, nor to invent new things outside of the data it receives.

He cannot make plans for how to deal with new situations, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

There are those who call for stopping research because this type of system contributes to misinformation. But does this mean that it is necessary to block the Internet? (...) I think we should live in a free society, and just as the internet shouldn't be banned, this (+chat gpt+) shouldn't be banned either."

Question: Should we consider artificial intelligence solutions in the place of some jobs as a danger?

A: “I think that time will outpace 80 percent of the jobs that humans take on under the new chat-type GPT systems that are expected to be introduced, but I don't see a danger in that, but rather a good thing. It's a good thing. People will find better things to do.” With (...) it is possible to automate almost all administrative tasks.”

“The problem will be in the transitional phase, when AI starts to make time overtake jobs in succession (…) I don’t know how we are going to solve the social problems that result from that.”

Question: What contributions can robots make to society today, and what can they do in the future with AI?

A: “She can do a lot of good things, like the robotic nurse Grace. In the United States, many elderly people feel lonely in nursing homes, as receiving food, medical care, and being able to watch television is not enough to provide them with what they need socially and emotionally .

But adopting humanoid robots in these centers to answer their questions, listen to their stories, and help them contact their children or make online purchases contributes to improving their lives.”

“In this case, there are no job cuts, as there are not enough applicants for nursing jobs. Education can also be an important area for humanoid robots, as well as housework.

Question: How can artificial intelligence be organized so that it has a positive impact on people?

- A: "Governance has to be participatory, involving the population, in some way, and that's technically feasible. The problem is that the companies that fund most of the research in AI don't care about the public interest. What they want is to make as much financial profit as possible for their shareholders." .

The Vietnamese authorities announced that a record temperature of 44.1 degrees Celsius was recorded on Saturday at the meteorological station in the north of the country.

The National Hydrometeorological Center stated that this temperature was recorded by its station in Thanh Hoa Province (central north).

This temperature exceeds the previous national record of 43.4 degrees Celsius recorded on April 20, 2019 in Hong Khe District, Ha Tin Province (center).

"This is a worrying record in the context of climate change and global warming," climate science expert Nguyen Ngoc Huy told AFP in the capital, Hanoi.

The climate of Vietnam varies from north to south, but the whole country is currently experiencing the hottest months.
South Asia experienced a heatwave for most of April.

"I think this rise will be repeated (...) and confirm that the extreme climate models look correct," Nguyen Ngoc Huy said.

Scientists have demonstrated that global warming exacerbates extreme weather conditions.

Fighting continued in the Sudanese capital on Sunday, in anticipation of the outcome of a Saudi-American initiative agreed upon by the two conflicting parties in the country on a new truce.

The Americans and the Saudis announced that the belligerents were negotiating a truce in Saudi Arabia, but they did not talk about the start of these talks or their content.

On the other hand, the army, led by Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the Rapid Support Forces, led by Lieutenant General Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo, did not provide any information about discussions between their envoys.

An international tripartite mechanism consisting of the United Nations, the African Union and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) welcomed the initiative in a statement.

And she expressed her hope that "the technical talks between the representatives of the two parties in Jeddah will result in understandings that lead to a comprehensive ceasefire," stressing that this "allows the provision of urgent humanitarian assistance to civilians, whose protection must remain an issue of paramount importance."

Also, Arab foreign ministers are scheduled to discuss the Sudanese file on Sunday, while signs of division appear on it.

Since the outbreak of confrontations on April 15, the capital, Khartoum, has been in a state of chaos, resulting from battles between the army and the Rapid Support Forces.

The Al-Sahafa area, south of Khartoum, witnessed clashes between the two sides on Sunday, as an eyewitness told AFP.

The fierce battles that have been going on for 22 days have resulted in 700 deaths and 5,000 wounded, according to data from the Armed Conflict and Events website (ACLED), in addition to the displacement of 335,000 people and 115,000 refugees to neighboring countries.

It also forced a large number of citizens to stay in their homes, as they suffer from water and electricity cuts, and food and money shortages.

Hopes appear high in the talks in Jeddah after all attempts to calm down between the two parties to the conflict failed in recent weeks. Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan welcomed in a tweet on Twitter Saturday, "the presence of representatives of the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces in the city of Jeddah, for dialogue on the situation." in their home country."

"We hope that this dialogue will lead to an end to the conflict, the launch of the political process, and the return of security and stability to the Republic of Sudan," he added.

"For this ceasefire to be different from previous truces, it will be necessary to define practical details and put in place monitoring and sanctions mechanisms," Alli Verje, a researcher at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, told AFP.

He stressed the need for a "geographical and practical framework for a cease-fire," which would include, in particular, "the cessation of air strikes or the withdrawal of fighters from civilian infrastructure such as hospitals."

On Friday night, Washington and Riyadh announced "the start of preliminary talks" in Jeddah between the two parties to the conflict, and urged them to "seriously engage" in them to reach a "ceasefire and end the conflict."

The army confirmed that the discussion would deal with the truce that was reached and renewed more than once, but without being committed to it, while the commander of the Rapid Support Forces thanked Saudi Arabia for "hosting these talks."

These talks come after a series of Arab and African regional initiatives, especially by the eastern countries of the continent through IGAD, which did not bear fruit.

And with the continuation of the fighting, the United Nations warned Friday that 19 million people could suffer from hunger and malnutrition in the coming months.

Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesman for the Secretary-General of the Organization, Farhan Haq, said on Friday that the World Food Program expects that "the number of people suffering from severe food insecurity in Sudan will increase between two and 2.5 million people."

According to the program's report in early 2023, 16.8 million of the total population, estimated at 45 million, were suffering from acute food insecurity.

The United Nations warned that the most affected Sudanese states will be West Darfur, Kordofan, Blue Nile, Red Sea and North Darfur states.

The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold a meeting on May 11th to discuss the "impact" of the confrontations in Sudan "on human rights".

Experts believe that the war may drag on with the inability of either side to resolve the matter on the ground.

The Sudanese are still living sheltered in the sweltering heat for fear of stray bullets, and they are currently deprived of telephone communications to a large extent, as MTN, the telephone operator, announced the suspension of its services because it is no longer able to supply fuel to its generators.

In the border region of Darfur with Chad, civilians took up arms to take part in battles between the army, support forces and rebel tribes, according to the United Nations.

The Norwegian Refugee Council said about 200 people were killed there, according to the Norwegian Council.

Dozens of homes were also burned and thousands of people were displaced in the region, which had previously witnessed a bloody war that began in 2003, killing 300,000 people and displacing 2.5 million.

In the city of Port Sudan (east) on the Red Sea, the United Nations and non-governmental organizations are trying to negotiate the delivery of aid to Khartoum and Darfur, where hospitals and humanitarian aid stores have been bombed or looted.

The European Union has said that Israel must stop all demolitions and evictions, which will only increase the suffering of Palestinians and escalate an already tense environment.

In a press statement, today, Sunday, the European Union expressed its shock at the Israeli occupation authorities' demolition of the "Jib al-Dib" school funded by the European Union, which serves 60 children.

He stressed that the demolitions are illegal under international law, and that children's right to education must be respected.

This morning, the occupation authorities demolished the "Al-Tahaddi 5" mixed basic school in the "Jub Al-Dhib" area in Beit Ta'mar, east of Bethlehem.

It is noteworthy that the occupation forces have demolished 11 schools since 2016.