US President Joe Biden has issued a decree prohibiting all US government departments and agencies from using commercial malicious software, the White House announced Monday.

The US presidency said in a statement that this decree bans software that poses "significant risks" to the security of the United States, noting that several foreign governments use this software to "facilitate repression and violations of human rights."

Spyware is sophisticated monitoring tools that allow remote access to electronic devices, especially smartphones, without the knowledge of their users.

This software allows access to the activities and content of these devices, and to interfere in their operation.
The presidency indicated that “the spread of private spyware poses a specific and growing danger” to the United States, especially in terms of “the security of American employees and their families.”

A senior White House official said that the US administration has so far counted 50 stable employees in ten countries who have either been exposed or could have been targeted by this malicious spyware.

The White House indicated that "an increasing number of foreign governments around the world have used this technology for the purposes of repression," "intimidation," and surveillance of "political opponents" and "activists and journalists."

The presidential decree falls within the framework of the second edition of the "Summit for Democracy", a largely virtual event organized by the United States that opens on Tuesday and lasts for three days.

The commercial spyware file had emerged on the scene, especially after information was revealed about the Pegasus program, which was developed by the Israeli company "NSO Group".

In July 2021, an investigative investigation conducted by several media outlets revealed the existence of a list of names of more than 50,000 individuals suspected of being monitored via Pegasus.

This information sparked a series of scandals and sometimes prosecutions in several countries, especially the European Parliament's establishment of a special commission of inquiry.

In the US, the FBI revealed to the Guardian that it had obtained a "limited license" to "test" Pegasus.

The US Federal Police confirmed that it did not use this tool in investigations, and that it wanted before anything else to understand how this software works.

6 citizens were injured, and 4 others were arrested, Monday evening, during attacks by the Israeli occupation forces and settlers in Hawara , south of Nablus .

According to the Ministry of Health, 5 citizens who were beaten by the occupation forces and settlers arrived at Hawara emergency center, while one was hit in the head at Rafidia Hospital, all of whom are in stable condition.

The occupation forces arrested 4 citizens, including a citizen and his son.

A group of settlers also set fire to a winch and destroyed citizens' homes in the town.

The Israeli embassy in Washington , in an unusual precedent, announced the closure of its doors, Monday, in solidarity with other Israeli diplomatic missions around the world.

"Today (3/27), the Histadrut, the largest trade union in Israel, instructed all government employees to go on strike, including Israeli diplomatic missions around the world, and therefore the Embassy of Israel will be closed today," Elad Stromayer, a spokesman for the Israeli Embassy in Washington, wrote on Twitter. Until further notice, no consular services will be provided."

Israeli embassies and consulates around the world closed their doors on Monday as members of Israel's diplomatic corps joined other civil servants participating in a general strike aimed at forcing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to suspend his government's judicial reform.

And Israeli media sources reported that Netanyahu is expected to announce a halt to the judicial change that has plunged Israel into massive demonstrations for weeks, as proposed amendments sparked one of the largest protests ever in Israel's history in the last hours.

In the beginning, the demonstrations took place on a weekly basis to stop the project of the prime minister of the largest right-wing government in the history of Israel to amend the judicial system, until they became almost daily in recent days.

The demonstrations, which have been going on for nearly 3 months, intensified on Sunday night, coinciding with the dismissal of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his partner in the government coalition, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, from office.

The US administration expressed its dissatisfaction and concern over Gallant's dismissal, in a statement made by President Biden's National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, according to the newspaper.

On Monday noon, 6 civilians were wounded by live bullets, and another was arrested during the Israeli occupation forces’ raid on Aqabat Jaber camp in Jericho .

According to local sources, 4 civilians, including a child, were wounded by live bullets, and others were wounded by rubber-coated metal bullets, most of them in the lower areas.

Large forces surrounded a house on the outskirts of the camp, and arrested Wael Awaidat, amid armed clashes with the resistance fighters.

These forces demanded that Awadat surrender himself before storming the house and arresting him.

The detainee is the father of the two martyrs, Raafat and Ibrahim Awadat, who were liquidated months ago with members of a cell affiliated with the Aqabat Jaber Brigade.

On Monday afternoon, the Israeli occupation forces arrested the citizen, Wael Awaidat, after they surrounded his house in Aqabat Jaber camp, in the city of Jericho .

Large forces stormed the camp and surrounded the house on the outskirts of the camp, amid armed clashes with the resistance fighters.

These forces demanded that Awadat surrender himself before storming the house and arresting him.

The detainee is the father of the two martyrs, Raafat and Ibrahim Awadat, who were liquidated months ago with members of a cell affiliated with the Aqabat Jaber Brigade.

Russia confirmed on Monday that it would not change its plans to deploy "tactical" nuclear weapons in Belarus , despite the harsh Western criticism it had provoked.

"Of course, such reactions cannot have an impact on Russia's plans," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the press.

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Saturday that he had obtained Minsk's approval to deploy "tactical" nuclear weapons in the neighboring country, which has been led by his closest ally Alexander Lukashenko since 1994.

Putin said that preparations will begin next month for the deployment of these weapons.

The announcement sparked strong criticism from Westerners, and NATO denounced "dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric" on the part of Russia, while the European Union promised Minsk new sanctions if the plan was implemented.

Ukraine, for its part, called on Sunday for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council to address the "nuclear blackmail" it accused Russia of.

Belarus was not directly involved in the conflict in Ukraine, but it allowed Moscow to launch its offensive against Kiev from its territory last year, according to Ukrainian authorities.

Putin justified his decision on Saturday with London's intention to send depleted uranium munitions to Ukraine, according to recent statements by a British official.

Russian officials have repeatedly made veiled threats to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine in the event of a major escalation in the conflict.

Today, Monday, a human rights report warned of the serious repercussions for patients in the Gaza Strip as a result of the lack of medical equipment and basic medicines.

In its report, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights dealt with the deteriorating health conditions in the Gaza Strip, highlighting the suffering of patients in the Gaza Strip as a result of the weak health system and its inability to provide medicines and medical devices to government health facilities.

The report touched on the restrictions imposed by the Israeli authorities on the entry of medical equipment and devices, the most important of which are diagnostic medical devices used in the diagnosis and treatment of oncology patients, such as interventional radiology devices, ultrasounds, and oxygen stations. According to the report, the occupation authorities ban the entry of some spare parts needed to repair broken medical devices, which has serious repercussions on the lives of thousands of patients from the Gaza Strip.

The report also dealt with the impact of the continued Palestinian political division on the work of the health system, through the failure to allocate budgets and operational expenses necessary for the work of health facilities in the Gaza Strip, and the absence of plans aimed at correcting and developing the health system in Palestine, including the adoption of a drug policy that guarantees the availability of treatment for all citizens, and the purchase of Medical devices, equipment and spare parts to repair broken devices in Gaza Strip hospitals.

The report reviewed testimonies showing the suffering of patients in the Gaza Strip as a result of the lack of medical devices and medicines in emergency, operations and intensive care departments, orthopedics, primary health care, cancer and blood diseases, mental health and nerves, immunity, epidemics and genetic diseases, maternal and child health, kidneys and hemodialysis, eyes, Cardiac catheterization and open heart.

The report stresses the responsibility of Israel, as the occupying power, to provide the population of the Gaza Strip with medical supplies, and to import food, medical supplies, and others if the resources of the occupied territory are insufficient.

The report also stresses the legal responsibility of the Palestinian government agencies in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, which requires allocating sufficient financial resources to purchase medical devices and medicines necessary for the operation of government health facilities, and to preserve the health rights of citizens.

The report recommended that the international community should put pressure on Israel in order to force it to carry out its duties as an occupying power under international humanitarian law, as it has the primary responsibility for providing medical supplies to the population of the Gaza Strip, according to Articles 55 and 56 of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949.

The report called on the two departments of the Ministry of Health in Ramallah and Gaza to coordinate between them in order to provide all types of medicines and basic medical supplies, and work to double efforts and increase the financial expenditures allocated to the health sector, in order to purchase medicines and all medical equipment and devices necessary to localize health services in the hospitals of the Gaza Strip.

For the third day in a row, the Israeli occupation forces continue to tighten their procedures at the entrances and exits of Nablus and the main checkpoints of the governorate.

The occupation forces strengthened their presence on the main street in the center of Huwwara , and closed some secondary roads there.

The occupation forces set up an electronic gate at the entrance to the town of Beita, south of Nablus, and obstructed the movement of citizens in both directions.

The prisoners and ex-detainees' class='highlighted-tag'>The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs documented, in a report issued by her lawyer, Heba Ighbariya, today, Monday, the horrific testimony of the detainee Muhammad Radi al-Atrash (17 years) from the town of Sur Baher in Jerusalem, who was subjected to the most severe forms of torture. during the arrest and investigation process.

According to the commission’s report, the young man, al-Atrash, was arrested after a raid on his house at 4 am by the police and intelligence forces. They then took him to the al-Mascobiyyah interrogation office to keep him in the corridor until 7 am, kneeling on his knees and facing the wall. He was prevented from moving while his hands and feet were tied. When he tried to move, they were attacked He was beaten all over his body.

And she continued, at seven o'clock they brought him in for interrogation, and he interrogated him for 6 hours, and during the interrogation he did not confess to what the interrogator wanted, so the interrogator stopped the interrogation and put him in a side room with no cameras inside after he blindfolded him and someone entered him and beat him with a stick while threatening him and shouting at him to confess to what he was directing He has charges, and then they sent him back to complete the investigation.

She explained that the prisoner stayed in Al-Mascobiyeh prison for 20 days, during which he went down 6 more times to 4 rooms for interrogation, and every time he was entered into the room without cameras, and there he was subjected to arbitrary beatings with hands, feet, and sticks, and on one occasion they beat him hysterically, which led to bleeding from the blood vessels. his mouth and nose.

After 20 days in al-Mascobiyeh prison, he was transferred to al-Damoon prison in the youth section, where he is still there.

The Commission called on the international community and human rights institutions to assume their responsibilities and intervene urgently to provide protection for prisoners and detainees in accordance with all international treaties and laws agreed upon and stipulated.

Rising Hollywood star Jonathan Majors has been arrested in New York on charges of assaulting a woman, police said Sunday.

The police responded to an emergency call in Manhattan late on Saturday night, and from preliminary investigations, it was found that a family quarrel occurred between a thirty-three-year-old man and a thirty-year-old woman.

Police said in a statement sent to AFP that the victim told them she had been assaulted.

This woman, whose connection with the actor was not known, was taken to hospital with minor injuries to the head and neck, and her condition is "stable."

A spokeswoman for the actor, Carrie Gordon, said in a statement to the Los Angeles Times that Jonathan Megers "did nothing wrong."

"We look forward to his acquittal and the disclosure of the circumstances of the case," she added.

The judicial authorities did not respond to AFP's request for confirmation as to whether the actor was still detained.

Majors has appeared in several notable films recently, including "Creed 3", "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantum Mania" and "Magazine Dreams", which was screened at the Sundance Film Festival.

Britain's Conservative government announced Sunday that it plans to soon ban nitrogen oxide, known as " laughing gas ", which is increasingly popular.

"Anyone who has ever had the chance to walk in the parks of our big cities has seen these little silver cans," Housing and Communities Minister Michael Gove told Sky News on Sunday.

The minister added that users "not only vandalize public places, but also ingest a substance that can have a psychological and neurological effect and contribute to antisocial behavior."

"This is why we need to crack down on new manifestations of drug use, and these laughing gas canisters are a growing scourge," Gove said.

The government is seeking to make the sale of these containers only permitted for "appropriate purposes". Nitrogen oxide is used primarily by the medical community as an anesthetic, also in kitchen hoods.

In November, the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Addiction warned of an "alarming" increase in the recreational use of nitrogen oxide in certain regions of Europe.

This growing popularity, especially among young people, is mainly due to the easy availability and low price of this material. This gas is known for its short-term psychoactive effects, three to four minutes after inhalation.

In the Netherlands, the possession and sale of nitrogen oxide has been prohibited since 1 January.

Today, Monday, Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh said that the cabinet has done everything necessary towards teachers and their demands, expressing his hope that teachers will abide by their job duties and return to their schools.

At the beginning of the weekly government session, Shtayyeh affirmed that his government will stand up to its responsibilities in ensuring the right to education for our sons and daughters, with all the required procedures and measures in accordance with what is required by the supreme national interest of our Palestinian people and our students, as he said.

In another context, the Prime Minister stressed the need to stop the attacks of the occupation and its settlers on Al-Aqsa Mosque, calling on the sponsors of the agreements to oblige Israel to stop its attacks on the Palestinian people.

He indicated that the cabinet will discuss educational, security and political issues, infrastructure projects, laws and regulations related to licensing new gas stations, medical errors, and e-commerce indicators.

Today, Monday, the Israeli authorities closed the Al-Karama "Olimbi" crossing , which is the Palestinians' gateway to Jordan and the world.

This step came in light of the Israeli customs employees' strike in the context of protests against the Judicial Amendments Law, which restricts the powers of the judicial system in Israel.

The closure paralyzed the commercial movement between Palestine and Jordan, as well as the movement of travelers to and from the West Bank.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Monday made a cabinet reshuffle to inject vitality into his government during the upcoming electoral campaign months, to replace two ministers running for municipal elections at the end of May.

In a televised speech from the seat of government, the socialist leader announced the appointment of Hector Gomes Hernandez as the new Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism and Jose Manuel Miniones Conde as the new Minister of Health.

They will replace Reyes Maroto and Carolina Darias, respectively, candidates for the municipal elections in the capital, Madrid, where the left hopes to win the mayoralty of the city from the right, and in Las Palmas in the Canary Islands.

"In the final phase before the election, we will continue to fulfill the major objectives of the government's mandate," Sanchez said.

This amendment comes two months before the municipal and local elections on May 28, and nine months before the legislative elections scheduled for the end of the year.

Sanchez, who came to power in June 2018 after the parliament overthrew his conservative predecessor Mariano Rajoy, has been ruling since 2020 in coalition with the far-left Podemos party.

And many recent opinion polls show that the conservatives from the People's Party will win the legislative elections at the expense of the Socialist Party, but they will need the support of the far-right party to secure a majority and rule.

The Saudi and Iranian foreign ministers intend to meet before the end of Ramadan to implement a bilateral reconciliation agreement, the two countries announced on Monday.

The Saudi Foreign Minister , Prince Faisal bin Farhan, and the Iranian, Hussein Amir Abdollahian, held phone talks, the second between them in less than a week. And the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported, "During the call, a number of common issues were discussed in light of the agreement," which was signed in China.

Likewise, the two ministers agreed to "hold a bilateral meeting between them during the current month of Ramadan," according to the agency, which did not specify a time or place for the meeting.

For its part, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said that Abdullahian and his Saudi counterpart, Faisal bin Farhan, "discussed, in a phone call, the latest developments in the bilateral agreement and held a meeting between the two sides," according to the Iranian "IRNA" agency.

"In this phone conversation, the two sides discussed and exchanged views on holding a joint bilateral meeting in the blessed month of Ramadan," the ministry said in a statement issued on Sunday. "In the call, the Iranian and Saudi foreign ministers drew attention to the constructive course of relations between the two countries."

Iran and Saudi Arabia announced that within two months they would resume their diplomatic relations, which were severed since 2016, following negotiations hosted by China.

Relations were severed when Iranian protesters attacked Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran, after the kingdom executed opposition Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr.

The rapprochement between Iran and Saudi Arabia is supposed to allow them to reopen their embassies within two months and implement economic and security cooperation agreements signed more than twenty years ago.

On March 19, an Iranian official reported that President Ebrahim Raisi had accepted an invitation from King Salman to visit Saudi Arabia, information that Riyadh has not confirmed.

On the same day, Abdollahian told the press that the two countries had agreed to hold a meeting between their senior diplomats, and that three locations had been proposed for this purpose, none of which was specified.

Saudi officials announced that the upcoming meeting between the two ministers is the next step in the sudden rapprochement between the two countries.
Iran and Saudi Arabia are the two most prominent regional powers in the Gulf, and they are on opposite sides of most regional files. The step of rapprochement between them may involve major diplomatic regional changes.

Today, Monday, the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs said, quoting its lawyer, Fawaz Shaloudi, that a slight stability has occurred in the condition of the prisoner, Yaqoub Qadri , who is being held in Rimonim prison.

The prisoner, Qadri, told his lawyer: "The pains have greatly diminished, and the boils have also receded, but I still suffer from exhaustion, and I can only walk for ten minutes, then lie on the bed for several hours to rest. Abroad from all governmental and official agencies, public institutions, family, friends and people of my people abroad.”

According to the authority, Qadri went through difficult conditions more than a month ago, as a result of the schistosomiasis germ, which infected him on the left side of the back and chest, which led to the emergence of large, severely painful boils. Schistosomiasis is a rare disease that affects our country only in African countries.

It is worth noting that the occupation forces arrested Qadri on October 18, 2003, and he was sentenced to two life terms and 35 years in prison, and in May 2022 he was sentenced to an additional five years in prison, on the background of the operation to extract his freedom along with five of his fellow prisoners.

Today, Monday, the Palestinian Embassy in Italy completed the procedures for transferring the body of Uday Abdel- Fattah Aref Ahmed , a living martyr, to the Gaza Strip, in response to the desire of his relatives to bury him there.

The Ambassador of the State of Palestine to Italy , Abeer Odeh , said that since the boat sank on the Italian coast, we have been in constant contact with the Italian official authorities to follow up on the circumstances of the incident.

After matching the samples and identifying his identity, the news of the martyrdom of the young Uday Ahmed was confirmed through Italian official channels.

The blessed month of Ramadan is a religious and social occasion in which the Qataris undertake to preserve the social values and popular traditions associated with it as part of the Qatari identity, as the people of Qatar seek to revive these customs every year.

Experts in social sciences and heritage stressed, in exclusive statements to Qatar News Agency, the keenness of the people of Qatar to preserve the well-established folk traditions, which are part of the Qatari identity to be passed on from generation to generation, stressing that no matter how different the manifestations of the celebration of the holy month are, the values that Carried by the month of fasting, it remains a part of the identity of society, even if its manifestations and forms differ.

For her part, Dr. Fatima Ali Al-Kubaisi, Head of the Department of Social Sciences at Qatar University, told QNA: The Qatari society was ancient and is still full of many social values, the most important of which is cooperation, interdependence and compassion among people, stressing that the Qatari society He was keen on adhering to these values in the past, despite the difficulty of life at that time, in addition to his interest in strengthening strong social ties between family and neighbors, as the individual felt the other in need, and he panicked to him with help.

She added: Religious values were the most sovereign in the month of Ramadan, as people in Qatari society feel the spirituality of this month, and the manifestations of readiness were characterized by simplicity, given the nature of life during that period.

She stressed that there are still many values that Qataris preserve today, such as cooperation, compassion, and solidarity by searching for people in need of their help, visiting relatives to congratulate them on the holy month, and exchanging gifts and food, even if it has some exaggerated appearances due to the pattern of the current consumer society.

The Head of the Department of Social Sciences at Qatar University explained that the change and development of societies is a universal year, so that a society does not remain the same, and therefore social manifestations differ due to the high standard of living, and the contact with the many cultures that our country embraces also has an impact on the way of celebration, so we see the keenness to decorate the streets And homes, and the exchange of Ramadan gifts, noting the keenness of members of the Qatari society to help the poor in this month, noting that many are keen to pay their zakat in the holy month. She pointed to the Qatari society's interest in strengthening family, family, and even community cohesion, as they gather in the ghabka and are keen on the Garangao tradition, amidst the spiritual feelings and social solidarity that exist in the Qatari society, stressing that these values will remain rooted in society, even if the forms of expression differ.

popular heritage

Dr. Al-Kubaisi pointed out the necessity of strengthening the popular heritage among the new generations, through the family’s keenness to share with children these manifestations, reminding them of their importance and significance, and how they were and how they became, and emphasizing on them the need for compassion, cooperation and solidarity, in addition to focusing on the importance of this holy month in the life of all. Muslim, where parents should be keen to accompany their children with them in all manifestations of this holy month, such as praying, visiting relatives, and providing aid, so that children acquire these behaviors, and those values remain firmly established in society, calling for investing the spirit of the blessed month of Ramadan in strengthening the bonds between society by During family visits and heritage celebrations.

Preparing for Ramadan

For his part, Khalifa Al-Sayed Al-Maliki, a researcher in Qatari heritage, said in a similar statement to QNA: The month of Ramadan has a special place among Qataris in the past, and it has a special connection to values, customs and legacies. Qatari women prepare tortillas from which porridge is made, beat grain, and so on. Qatari customs have been associated with certain foods in this month, such as: harees, porridge, sago, luqaimat, and others. They are mostly cooking associated with the month of Ramadan.

Ramadan appearances

And he talked about some aspects that the people of Qatar still preserve within their popular heritage, such as “Ghabga”, which is a name for a feast eaten at midnight, and its aim is to gather people on one feast. Pointing out that the "Ghabga" in the past was not for strangers or those far from the people of the neighborhood, but with the change of society, it has taken new forms, and has become held in men's councils for friends and acquaintances, or in hotels and restaurants, and some companies and institutions also invite their employees As a way to enhance the rapprochement between colleagues and get to know each other more, stressing that the “Ghabga” is not devoid of the delicious traditional Qatari food.

He also referred to the Garangao, which is considered one of the prevailing Ramadan traditions that have been passed down to generations in the State of Qatar and the Gulf countries as well, and it is a celebration on the middle night of Ramadan, where families prepare sweets and nuts, and prepare to receive children who roam the streets of Al-Fareej (the neighborhood), knock on doors, and sing. Rhymes associated with this occasion.

The draw for the Under-20 World Cup in soccer scheduled for Friday in Indonesia has been canceled, officials said, days after the governor of Bali province called for Israel to be excluded from the tournament.

There is no official diplomatic relationship between the two countries, and support for the Palestinian cause in the largest Muslim-majority country has raised tensions over hosting Israel.

The draw for the tournament, which will be held between May 20 and June 11, 2023 in six cities with the participation of 24 teams, was scheduled for next Friday in Bali, but the International Federation (FIFA) canceled the event without giving reasons or setting a new date, according to what the Indonesian Football Association announced. Foot in Sunday statement.

Officials said a possible factor in the cancellation of the lottery was Bali Governor Ian Koster's call to exclude Israel over its policies toward the Palestinians, in a letter to the Ministry of Youth and Sports last month.

"The lottery has been cancelled. We can understand that because of the refusal by the ruler of Bali," said Indonesian federation member Arya Sinulega at a press conference in Jakarta on Sunday.

He continued, "Israel is participating, and the lottery cannot be held without all the participants."

The International Federation did not respond to a request for comment.

Israel is scheduled to participate after qualifying for the first time to the finals, while Jakarta pledged to protect its participation.

The organizers hoped that hosting Israel's matches on the Hindu-majority island of Bali would lead to solutions, but Koster's opposition cast more doubts.

About 100 conservative Muslim demonstrators marched in the capital, Jakarta, this month to protest Israel's participation.

Football officials in Jakarta fear losing the right to host the first major tournament, and isolating the country spherically by being subjected to sanctions from the International Federation if they fail to resolve the issue.

The country is hosting the tournament after one of the worst stadium disasters in football history, which led to the death of 135 people in a stampede in the city of Malang, east Java last October, including more than forty children.

Officials are trying to polish the game's reputation after being suspended by the International Federation in 2015 for a year, due to government interference in the game.

England and Portugal finished the first window of the qualifiers for the 2024 European Football Championship with full marks, by defeating Ukraine and Luxembourg, respectively, on Sunday, while defending champion Italy achieved its first victory at the expense of Malta.

At Wembley Stadium in London, England beat Ukraine 2-0 with goals from Harry Kane (37) and Bucayo Saka (40), while Italy dropped its host and neighbor Malta with the same result, in the second round of Group C competitions.

The "Three Lions" team raised its score to six points after an opening victory over Italy in Naples Thursday 2-1, against "Scudra Azzurra" and North Macedonia (3 points each), which beat Malta in the first round with the same result.

And with the absence of North Macedonia from this round, England secured the lead before the second window scheduled for next June.
For its part, Ukraine played its first match in the qualifiers after its absence from the first round, and more than a thousand tickets were awarded to Ukrainian refugees and British families who hosted them since the Russian invasion in 2022.

The match began with the presentation of golden shoes to striker and captain Harry Kane, who, during the victory over Italy, became the historic scorer for England, by scoring the 54th goal from a penalty kick, before adding the 55th on Sunday.

"I'm very happy," said manager Southgate. "We made a tough game look easy. We've broken a lot of barriers over a period of time. Building on Italy's result was important but there's still room for improvement."

England, who lost the final of the continental championship in 2021 against Italy, by penalty kicks at Wembley Stadium in particular, dominated the course of the match, and the pressure resulted in Kane’s opening goal, after he crossed it from the right side of Saka towards the second post, and he followed it into the net.

Saka doubled the lead for England, which is searching for its second major title only in its history after the 1966 World Cup at home, with a wonderful goal with a curled left-footed shot from outside the area that settled in the top right corner of goalkeeper Anatoly Tropin.

After being absent from the World Cup in Qatar for the second time in a row, Italy is looking forward to returning to the international arena.
And it achieved its first victory in the qualifiers, with goals from Matteo Retigi (15) and Matteo Pesina (27).

Coach Roberto Mancini played the match with a relatively auxiliary squad that was completely different from the one that started against England, leaving only three players, goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma, defender Giovanni De Lorenzo and Retigi, who scored against the "Three Lions".

Retigui scored his second goal in his second international match, with a header from a corner taken by Sandro Totnali.

Retigui, the Argentine-born who plays for Argentine Tigre, responded to Mancini's confidence in him after the coach said before the window in response to some criticism regarding the call-up of players: "For years it was said that you had to be born in Italy in order to represent the national team. But the world has changed." All teams now have players who are naturalized or come from other countries.

Italy doubled the score through a goal by Matteo Pesina, after a cross from Emerson Palmieri hit Sandro Tonali (27).

Veteran Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo (38 years) increased his tally of international goals and raised it to 122 in 198 matches, by scoring a brace during his country's crushing victory over Luxembourg, 6-0.

Ronaldo had also scored a brace against Liechtenstein in the first match, which ended with his country's 4-0 victory on Thursday, in a meeting in which he broke the record for the number of international matches, before reinforcing it on Sunday evening by raising it to 198 matches.

And the Portuguese national team, during the era of its new Spanish coach, Roberto Martinez, raised its score to 6 points from two matches in Group X, to put itself on the right track to reach the finals, especially since the draw dropped it in a group within its reach that also includes Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovakia and Iceland, knowing that the first and second qualify directly for the finals. .

Ronaldo opened the scoring for the 2016 European Champions after 9 minutes, taking advantage of a pass from Nuno Mendes.

And soon, the Chelsea striker, on loan, added Joao Felix II, after a quarter of an hour, with a header, after an elaborate pass from Bernardo Silva.

Portugal added two more goals in the first half through Silva (18), then Ronaldo with an assist from his former colleague in Manchester United, Bruno Fernandes (31). The goal is Ronaldo's eleventh against Luxembourg in 11 matches he has played against.

In the second half, substitute Ottavio added the fifth goal (77), then the other substitute, Rafael Leao, missed a penalty kick (85), before making up and ending the goal festival two minutes before the end of the match.

Denmark lost its lead by two goals against its Kazakh host, and fell 3-2 with three goals conceded in the last quarter of an hour in Group H.

Denmark, which reached the semi-finals of the continental championship in 2021, advanced with a double to young Italian striker Rasmus Venter Hollund in the first half (21 and 35).

But the hosts responded with a hat-trick in the second half, through Baktiar Zayonotdinov (73 from a penalty kick), Skhat Tajiberin (86) and Abat Ambetov (89).

Denmark started the qualifiers on Thursday with a victory at home against Finland (3-1), all of which were scored by Hollund as well, while Kazakhstan achieved its first victory after falling against its host Slovenia (2-1).

Slovenia topped the group with six points after its second victory Sunday at the expense of the modest San Marino team 2-0, while Finland won 1-0 at its host Northern Ireland, to make four teams equal with three points against San Marino empty balance.

After her visit to the prisoner , Yasmine Shaaban, who is held in Damon Prison, and who recently received the news of her father’s death with great shock and indescribable sadness, Hanan Al-Khatib , the lawyer for the Commission of Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs, conveyed a message from her about his death.

Shaaban said in her message: “On that day, I felt that my heart was being seized, so I spoke to him on the phone from prison. My father was everything in my life. My relationship with my father was very strong. I have poetry, it is my strength and my support, it is my safety, I am not able to imagine the world without him, he was supposed to visit me but the visit was postponed, he was counting the days for the visit, for the first time in my life I felt this pain, my heart broke, I lost the most precious thing, he took my heart with him, I always used to say that my father was by my side and I was strong in his presence. He always recommended to the female prisoners that we should be one hand and not personalize matters. He would write poetry for them and read it to them via radio or letters. I wished to see him, even in a dream, to hug him and tell him how much I miss him and his embrace. They prevented me from seeing him and saying goodbye, but This is the occupation that separates us from our loved ones... They deprived me of my father, but Palestine deserves it."

Shaaban (40 years old) was arrested after her house in the village of Rummana / Jenin was raided, and this is not her first arrest. She had previously spent 5 years in prison, and was subjected to harsh interrogation in the cells as well as being isolated. She is married and a mother of 4 children.

Dozens of members of the Palestinian community, and activists in the American arena, are struggling to force Marvel Studios, a subsidiary of the Walt Disney World, to change the character of a superhero in which an agent in the "Israeli Mossad" embodies the role of Sabra. A heroine who fights evil, which is the opposite of what this apparatus is doing in terms of crimes and assassinations against Palestinians.

Hundreds of e-mails were sent to the company’s headquarters urging it to reverse its decision to choose an Israeli actress named Shira Hass in one of the films scheduled to be released next year, within the “Captain America” series, as she embodies the character of a Mossad agent, which will contribute to whitewashing the crimes of the occupation government against the Palestinian people. At a time when human rights institutions and organizations around the world are focusing on the fact that Israel is practicing apartheid and crimes against humanity against the Palestinian people.

Activists are calling for changing the heroine's name, "Sabra," because this name evokes a crime that the world will not forget, when the Israeli army carried out the Sabra and Shatila massacre in 1982.

Source: Wafa Agency.

The Iraqi Parliament approved at dawn on Monday an amendment to the Parliamentary Elections Law , which constitutes a return to the law that was in force before the October 2019 demonstrations, angering the independent and small parties who believe that it serves the interests of the large parties.

The session, which was held during the night, witnessed chaos and many independent deputies were expelled from the hall after they expressed their opposition to the law, according to video clips filmed by the deputies.

And in a statement issued by the House of Representatives, the mother of the parliament said, in its "sixteenth session.... at dawn today, Monday, in the presence of 218 deputies, on the Law of the Third Amendment to the Parliament Elections Law, Provincial Councils, and Districts No. (12) of 2018."

The coordination framework has the majority in Parliament, and it is an alliance of Shiite parties, most of which are close to Iran and support the current Prime Minister, Muhammad Shia al-Sudani.

The law is considered a return to the 2018 law, which was rejected by the protest movement that took place in the country in the fall of 2019, when the protesters succeeded in achieving the demand of a new election law that allowed independent candidates to win, as independents managed in the 2021 elections to win about 70 seats out of 329.

Thus, the parliamentary and provincial elections expected in November will be held on the basis of the amended law, while in the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan, local parliamentary elections will be held on November 18 according to a different law.

The new amended election law makes each governorate one electoral district, i.e. 18 districts, canceling the 83 districts that were approved in the last elections.

Sajjad Jiyad, a political researcher at The Century Foundation, believes that adopting a single constituency "facilitates the possibility of party politicians winning seats," and, on the other hand, will "make it difficult for candidates of small and independent parties to compete at the governorate level."

Under the amended law, votes will be counted according to the proportional method known as "St. Lego", which opponents of the law believe serves the large parties as well.

And Sajjad Jiyad said in a tweet that counting the votes according to the proportional method "also serves the major parties and makes it possible for their candidates who did not get enough votes in the first place to win seats."

"Small parties will not have any hope of gaining representation in parliament" and that they will be "crushed" if the new law is implemented, MP Alaa al-Rikabi of the independent Imtiad bloc told AFP.

Representative Bahaa El-Din Al-Nouri of the Coordination Framework told AFP that his bloc supports the law because it "depends on the distribution of seats to any bloc according to its mass weight, which will ultimately lead to the formation of the government within the constitutional times," thus avoiding long negotiations, as happened in the aftermath of the 2021 elections.

Ammar Al-Khudairi , head of the National Bank of Saudi Arabia , who was the majority shareholder in Credit Suisse before the bailout plan earlier this month, resigned, according to a statement published on the Saudi Stock Exchange on Monday.

The statement stated that the Board of Directors of the National Bank "agreed to accept the resignation of" Ammar Al-Khudairi "due to special circumstances."

Settlers renew the storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque

Today, Monday, settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque, under heavy security from the Israeli occupation police.

The settlers performed Talmudic rituals at the doors and inside the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and made provocative tours.

The occupation police continued to impose restrictions on the entry of Palestinian worshipers to the mosque, and checked their personal identities, and detained some of them at its external gates.

Today, Monday, the Israeli occupation forces launched a campaign of arrests in separate parts of the West Bank .

The occupation forces arrested Laith Sharaya and Anas Saqr from Askar camp in Nablus, where the area witnessed armed clashes, and stormed the home of the martyr Abdel Fattah Kharousha, the perpetrator of the first shooting attack in the town of Hawara, which killed two settlers.

The young man, Shadi Khader Salahat, was arrested from the Al-Bathan area, north of Nablus.

Anas Salem Abu Fanar, from Yatta, south of Hebron, and Muhammad Harbi Hamamra, from Husan, west of Bethlehem, were arrested.

While Azmi Iyad Mansour was arrested from Bedouin, northwest of Jerusalem.

North Korea Monday fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan, the latest in a series of weapons tests in recent weeks, the South Korean military said.

The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said, "Our armed forces detected two short-range ballistic missiles launched from the Jonghwa area in North Hwanghae Province (south-central) at 07:47 (22:47 GMT) towards the East Sea," the Korean name for the Sea of Japan.

Each of the two missiles traveled about 370 kilometers, according to the same source, who added that the matter constitutes "a dangerous provocation that affects the peace and stability of the international community and the Korean peninsula."

"Our military has increased surveillance and vigilance in the face of new launches, while maintaining its full readiness thanks to the close cooperation between South Korea and the United States," she added.

For its part, the Japanese Ministry of Defense confirmed the launch of the two missiles. Japanese media quoted ministry officials as believing that the two missiles flew in an irregular trajectory before falling outside Japan's exclusive economic zone.
This comes at a time when Seoul and Washington are conducting joint amphibious landing exercises, and only days after they completed Thursday their largest joint military exercises in five years.

And the South Korean Ministry of Defense announced that the US aircraft carrier "Nimitz" arrived Tuesday in the coastal city of Busan in southern South Korea to enhance the joint defense deployment.

An official at the ministry said in a press statement that this naval exercise "aims to enhance extended deterrence by deploying US strategic capabilities in the face of North Korea's growing nuclear and ballistic threats."

North Korean state media said on Friday that the joint exercises between Seoul and Washington constitute preparation for the "occupation" of North Korea, which in turn requires "stronger deterrent means" to respond to, especially "a more advanced, diversified and more offensive nuclear attack capability."

The North Korean military conducted its own military exercises, including testing what it described as a "nuclear attack-capable submarine" and its second ICBM launch this year.

Analysts had expected that North Korea would use the exercises between Seoul and Washington as a pretext to conduct new missile launches or even a nuclear test.

And North Korea's official news agency reported on Friday that the exercises on the "submarine capable of launching a nuclear attack," which was personally supervised by leader Kim Jong Un, aimed at "warning the enemy of a real nuclear crisis."

She added that the mission of this weapon "is to infiltrate operational waters by stealth and cause a large-scale radioactive tsunami (...) to destroy the enemy's naval units and main ports of operations."

Also, the agency stated that Pyongyang launched Wednesday strategic cruise missiles "equipped with an experimental warhead that simulates a nuclear warhead."

Analysts questioned North Korea's allegations, but pointed out that it is no longer satisfied with stockpiling nuclear warheads , but is trying to improve and diversify the means of launch.

Seoul and Washington have stepped up security cooperation after a year of record number of weapons tests and growing nuclear threats from Pyongyang in 2022.

Also, North Korean military provocations have prompted Seoul and Tokyo to transcend their historical differences and try to enhance their defense cooperation.

Last year, North Korea declared its status as a nuclear power "irreversible". Kim recently called for a "massive" increase in weapons production, including tactical nuclear weapons.

In early March, he also ordered his army to intensify its military maneuvers, in preparation for a "real war."

Clashes broke out with the Israeli occupation forces , on Sunday evening, in the town of Al-Ram , north of occupied Jerusalem .

Local sources reported that the occupation soldiers fired tear gas canisters and stun grenades at the youths during the clashes that erupted at the town's junction, without any injuries reported.

The Ministry of Education and the Personnel Bureau announced, on Sunday evening, the completion of the process of recruiting new teachers in all governorates of the country, which would provide the educational process with qualified teaching staff as quickly as possible, as applications for candidacy for educational, professional and support positions have been received. The number of applications submitted is 48,476, of which 45,573 were accepted.

In a statement, the ministry confirmed that, in cooperation with the General Personnel Council, the recruitment exam for the year 2023 will be held on 4/8/2023.

Accepted applications were distributed to the Directorates of Education as follows: Jericho 1044 applications, Hebron 3768 applications, Bethlehem 2719 applications, Birzeit 1197 applications, South Hebron 3373 applications, South Nablus 2360 applications, Jenin 4401 applications, Ramallah 3571 applications, and Salfit 1834 applications. North Hebron 2727 applications, the suburbs of Jerusalem 1381 applications, Tubas 1493 applications, Tulkarem 3424 applications, Qabatiya 2609 applications, Qalqilya 2010 applications, Nablus 5182 applications, and Yatta 2480 applications.

The Ministry of Education stated that the new recruitment process comes as part of the Ministry's measures to end the current school year, in response to the calls of the Students' Parents Council, national bodies and institutions, and civil society to save the school year, which is at risk due to the continuing teachers' strike.

The Personnel Council stated that exceptional measures will be taken to speed up the recruitment process.

The Palestinian town of Hawara , south of the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank , seemed unusually like a ghost area , as it was devoid of traffic and pedestrians, while its shops and public facilities were completely closed.

This came after the Israeli army imposed, on Saturday night, a comprehensive closure on areas south of Nablus, closing roads leading to the city, towns, and villages to prevent the passage of Palestinian vehicles, according to Palestinian and Israeli sources.

The closure took place following a shooting attack by Palestinian gunmen in a speeding vehicle last night, which resulted in the injury of two Israeli soldiers in the town of Hawara, while the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, claimed responsibility for it.

The incident, which occurred on the third day of Ramadan, raised fears among the residents of Hawara that the settlers, who gathered near the town's main street, would carry out attacks on their homes and properties, as happened last month.

Mervat Dmaidi, 50, a mother of five from the town of Hawara, told Xinhua that the town's residents found themselves last night again, without any prior notice, stuck in their homes and waiting for their unknown fate.

The woman, who lived through difficult hours last night, recalled the settler attacks last month, adding that the Israeli army "prevented her and her family members from moving to another, safer place, in light of the presence of settlers on the outskirts of the town."

In late February, Hawara was subjected to about 300 violent attacks by settlers, which consisted of burning homes and vehicles and smashing windows, following the shooting of a Palestinian gunman at a car near the town, killing two Israeli brothers.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health and the Red Crescent Society announced at the time that Sameh Al-Aqtash (37 years old) was killed, and more than 300 others were injured by suffocation from tear gas and bruises as a result of the "assault of the army and settlers."

At the time, the Israeli police reported, in a statement, the arrest of 6 settlers suspected of involvement in riots, arson and destruction of property in Huwwara, noting that among the detainees were four adults and two minors who were released and two kept under administrative detention.

Mervat Dmaidi recalls past settler attacks, saying, "We were forced to stay inside our house even after he set it on fire. We didn't know if we would survive or not because the settlers were shouting and vowing to burn us."

"No one can live in such an unprecedented security situation amid the constant threats that surround us all the time because we don't know if we will survive or not the next day," Dmaidi adds, peeking out the window.

Last night, Israeli settlers attempted to carry out attacks on the northern outskirts of Hawara, but the town's popular resistance watch committees and the Israeli army forces thwarted these attempts, according to local sources and eyewitnesses.

The young man, Firas Dmaidi, told Xinhua that dozens of settlers gathered on the outskirts of the town, trying to carry out new attacks, but the young men and families prepared themselves to prevent any danger to their property.

Firas Dmaidi, 39, complains that Israel imposes "arbitrary and punitive" measures on residents, including closing shops and preventing them from practicing the daily routine of life in the town.

The town, which has an area of 990 dunams (a dunam is equivalent to a thousand square meters), and is inhabited by about 8,000 people, incurs daily losses due to the closure of about 500 shops along the main street of Huwwara, about $1.2 million, according to Tayel Huwari.

"Merchants and businessmen in Hawara wait for the month of Ramadan from year to year," said Tayel Hawari, a businessman who owns dozens of shops in the town, considering that "the illegal and unacceptable Israeli measures made us lose the season."

Hawwari accused Israeli officials of adopting "hate" speech against the Palestinians, noting that it is natural for the Israelis, including the army and settlers, to turn the vital town of Hawwara into a "ghost" area.

Earlier this month, the Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who is the leader of religious Zionism, called, according to what was published by the Hebrew public radio, to "erase" the Palestinian town of Hawara, south of Nablus, in the northern West Bank.

In the aftermath of last February's attack on Hawara, a delegation of heads of Western diplomatic missions in the West Bank and Jerusalem, members of the Israeli Arab Knesset (parliament), and the US Special Representative for Palestinian Affairs, Hadi Amr, visited the town and expressed their solidarity with its residents and demanded that the perpetrators be held accountable.

In this regard, Nabil Dmaidi, Mayor of Hawara, expressed his concern about the escalation of "attacks" by settlers who are taking advantage of field security incidents against Palestinians in the town and its surrounding areas.

Nabil Dmaidi told Xinhua that the settlers "will not hesitate to carry out their attacks against the Palestinians in an attempt to force them to leave their homes and properties under the protection of the Israeli army forces."

He added that the Palestinian people are facing a "right-wing" Israeli government whose officials adopt hate speech, killing and displacement against the Palestinians, and therefore, in return, we are working to call on foreign and international delegations to show solidarity with the town and its residents and to stand firm on their land.

The events come despite Palestinian and Israeli officials confirming, on March 19, after a meeting attended by American, Egyptian and Jordanian delegations in the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh, "their commitment to strengthening security, stability and peace for both Israelis and Palestinians, and they acknowledged the need to achieve calm on the ground and prevent further violence."

Tensions have escalated between Palestinians and Israelis in the West Bank, resulting in the killing of 90 Palestinians by Israeli bullets since the beginning of this year, compared to the killing of 15 people in Israel as a result of Palestinian attacks, according to official Palestinian and Israeli statistics.