Washington - "Al-Quds" dot com - Saeed Erekat - The US administration, in its statements and official statements, attaches special importance in its comments on the Russian-Ukrainian war since the beginning of this month to the " Iranian marches ", which the US administration claims that Russia uses extensively to destroy Ukrainian infrastructure and kill Ukrainian civilians. .

On the "Iranian marches," US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said, "Today the United States joined the United Kingdom and France in raising the issue of Iran's transfer of drones to Russia at a meeting of the UN Security Council, where members of the Council received expert briefings from the United Nations Secretariat on Reports of the transfer of these dangerous weapons... We have expressed our deep concern about Russia's acquisition of these drones from Iran in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 2231."

"The United States began warning in July that Iran was planning to transfer drones to Russia for use in Russia's brutal war against Ukraine, and we now have ample evidence of these drones being used to strike Ukrainian civilians and critical civilian infrastructure," the statement adds.

"As Iran continues to lie and deny supplying weapons to Russia for use in Ukraine, we are committed to working with allies and partners to prevent dangerous weapons transfers to Russia. We will not hesitate to use our sanctions and other appropriate tools on all those involved in these transfers, and we will also continue to Increase unprecedented security assistance to Ukraine, including air defense capabilities, so that Ukraine can defend itself from these weapons.

And American media showed that it was rubble of destroyed marches on television, which they claimed were Iranian-made, noting that they did not show any signs confirming that their origin was Iranian.

For his part, Deputy Spokesman for the US State Department, Vedant Patel, confirmed in his press conference on Wednesday that these drones, in response to a question put to him by Al-Quds correspondent on Tuesday, are Iranian-made, and that Russia uses them because they are available in abundance and because they are cheap to manufacture.

The spokesman says that these weapons would give a major boost to the "faltering" Russian war machine in Ukraine, "but Iran's clerical rulers are facing increasing international pressure over their military alliance with Moscow."

Iran denied that it is providing Russia with drones, as Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said Thursday, "The allegation that Iranian missiles were sent to Russia for use against Ukraine is baseless."

In a tweet on Twitter, Abdollahian said that he had received a phone call from European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, and "I reminded him of our clear policy of opposing the war and its escalation in Ukraine."

He stressed that "the allegation that Iranian missiles were sent to Russia to be used against Ukraine is baseless," noting that "we have defense cooperation with Russia, but certainly sending weapons and drones against Ukraine is not within our policies."

Iran has worked to develop a huge domestic arms industry in the face of international sanctions and embargoes that prevented it from importing weapons, including drones and missiles, which it considers vital elements in its protection system from its archenemy, Israel, as well as from the United States, which has forces deployed in several bases in Region.

Although Western military analysts say that Iran sometimes exaggerates its capabilities, drones have become an essential element in Iran's monitoring of the safety of its borders, especially the Gulf waters around the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world's oil supplies pass.

In the past few years, Iran and the regional powers it supports have increasingly relied on drones in Yemen, Syria, and Iraq, where they have extended their influence through proxy groups for the benefit of Iran.

Saudi Arabia and the United States said they believed Iran was behind a drone and missile attack on important Saudi oil facilities in 2019, which Tehran denies.

The Islamic Republic says its drones are the most powerful in the region. In addition to surveillance missions, it can be used in attacks, either by dropping munitions or by so-called "kamikaze" suicide planes that hit their target before exploding. Iran designed its suicide planes to travel long distances so that they could strike the Israeli city of Tel Aviv.

Iran says its ballistic missiles, with a range of up to 2,000 km, are an important deterrent and response force against the United States, Israel and other potential regional targets. It denies it is seeking to acquire nuclear weapons.

Its missile program, which has already produced about 1,000 short and medium-range ballistic missiles, is one of the largest of its kind in the Middle East.

The Arms Control Association says that the list of Iranian short and medium-range ballistic missiles includes Shahab-1, with an estimated range of 300 km, Zulfiqar (700 km), Shahab-3 (800-1000 km) and Imad-1, which is under development and has a range (up to 2,000 km). kilometers), and the Sejjil, which is also under development and has a range of (1,500-2,500 kilometers). Iran also has cruise missiles such as the KH-55, which is an air-launched missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead (up to three thousand kilometers), in addition to an advanced missile. Anti-ship is capable of carrying a warhead weighing 1000 kg.

Written by: Bakr Abu Bakr

Benjamin Netanyahu's extremist and terrorist ideas stem from Jabotinsky's thought and his "revisionist" Zionism.

Under his leadership, the philosophy of the "Beitar" terrorist organization has become to live by the sword! The main current in Israel, after the founding Zionist-labour movement (the Weizmann, Ben-Gurion, and Golda Meir movement) extinguished, and the left and the center melted.

In his book “A Place Among the Nations” (the Arabic version was published by Al-Dar Al-Ahlia in 1997 AD), Netanyahu wrote, showing clear racism and contempt, that “Israel” should show the maximum level of force towards the Arabs (the same words as Jabotinsky), and that the Palestinians can live in the country "Foreigners" only under the rule of the Israelis.

Previously, "Netanyahu" deceiving history said that Jerusalem was the capital of "Israel" 3000 years ago! And President Trump followed him to shout the same myth in 2017 AD, so the religious and open-minded Jews of America, headed by the American Rabbi Jacob Shapiro (his YouTube video) shouted to him that [No] Kabirah was not the capital of the Jews, this is completely untrue. As historically proven by the Jewish historians and archaeologists themselves, including the Israeli writer, thinker and journalist "Boaz Evron", who proved that Jerusalem was never, nor at any time, "the capital of the Jewish people." We add that the Jews were not originally a people at any time (see Shlomo Sand in his profound book: The Invention of the Jewish People).

Yitzhak Shapira, Ben Gvir, and Smotrich:
What is the difference between the old and new extremist thought of Netanyahu, and the opportunist right-wing thought of his close return to power, from the thought of the Zionist rabbi and mufti "Isaac Shapira" who resides in our lands in the West Bank near the stricken city of Nablus with his likes and his terrorist students, who issued a fatwa in his hateful and extremist racist book "The King's Law" that year 2009, explicitly by exterminating all Arabs and even their children without exception, killing and abusing them, on the grounds that they are non-Jews! And because they are not part of the racist "God's chosen people" myth. The crematorium of the Dawabsha family was in 2015 near Nablus in implementation of the fatwa, and before that the crematorium of the child Muhammad Hussein Abu Khudair in Jerusalem.

Such extremism is what we find later in the words and even the actions of Zionist extremists today, such as Bezalel Smotrich, from the far-right “religious Zionism” party, who said, speaking at a session of the Knesset plenary in 2021: “David Ben-Gurion, the first prime minister of Israel, He should have 'finished the job' and expelled all the Arabs from the country when it was founded."

And the likes of the Iraqi extremist extremist terrorist "Ben Ghafir" who constantly takes up his weapon and defames the innocent, and resides as a colonizer in our land in Kiryat Arba (the village of the four) in Hebron (his extremist terrorist party called Religious Zionism won 14 seats recently) and who demanded the expulsion of the original citizens, i.e. the Palestinian Arabs From Palestine without apologizing for what he said, despite his own admission of it and his camouflaged saying that he had changed!

Netanyahu confirms the fascist origin:

We return to the head of extremism, Netanyahu. On July 15, 2015, he delivered a speech at the memorial to Ze'ev Vladimir Jabotinsky in Jerusalem, in which he spoke warmly and passionately about his fascist teacher and teacher, Jabotinsky, who "lay the foundations for the history of our fighting youth over 100 years," according to him.

Referring to the philosophy of "moral" power, he added: "Jabotinsky illuminates our path, and it is he who taught us that the time has come for us to show the world the rifle and the Jewish spear."

The Zionist right and the religious right do not differ in their fascism, racism, and exclusion from each other in terms of type. Rather, in intensity, form, declaration, and implication, what indicates harsh years to come, in which the Palestinian will find nothing but firm faith, bond, steadfastness, and unity as a veil from the fire.

BRUSSELS - (AFP) - The giant Swiss factory "Barry Calpo" in Belgium for chocolate products, which ranks the largest in the world, resumed production on Monday after a six-week hiatus due to contamination with salmonella bacteria, the group announced.

And company spokesman Cornel Warlop told AFP that three out of 24 production lines have been restarted in Ouise (northwest of Brussels), adding that disinfection operations are continuing in the other lines.

"In the coming weeks, we will be able to operate more production lines to return to the normal level of production. However, we remain cautious because this process is unprecedented, as the cleaning and disinfection process takes a long time," he said in a statement.

The presence of the bacteria was discovered at the end of June at the company's Belgian factory in the Weiss region.
As a result, the group immediately stopped production at its factory, reported the matter to the health authorities, and contacted all of its customers.

Quality experts have identified lecithin as a source of contamination.

The Swiss group provides chocolate products to giant companies in the food industry such as Hershey Mondelez, Nestlé and Unilever, as well as to biscuit factories, artisans and confectioners.

The preparations can be used to manufacture chocolate bars as well as beverages, biscuits and flavorings in ice cream or bakery products. Therefore, products go through several stages before reaching consumers.

The monitoring of salmonella in this factory comes a few weeks after the discovery of contamination with this bacteria in products of the "Kinder" company inside a factory belonging to the Italian Ferrero group in Arlon, western Belgium.

Bari Calpo, headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, is the world's leading manufacturer of cocoa and chocolate. It had an annual turnover of 7.2 billion Swiss francs for the 2020/2021 fiscal year (ending August 31) with a net profit of 384.5 million Swiss francs. Its sales amounted to 2.2 million tons.

Geneva (AFP) - A shortage of cholera vaccines has prompted the World Health Organization to reduce the two recommended doses to one dose due to increased demand resulting from the emergence of several foci of the disease in the world, the organization announced Wednesday.

"This change in strategy will allow doses to be provided to more than one country at a time when there is an unprecedented rise in the number of foci in the world," wrote the organization, which participates in the international coordination group in charge of distributing vaccines on an emergency basis.

Since January this year, 29 countries have reported cases of cholera, including Haiti, Malawi and Syria, which is facing an outbreak of the disease.

It is an exceptional situation, as the Health Organization stated that "during the past five years, less than twenty countries recorded an average increase in cases."

The organization estimates that cholera hotspots are "increasing in number and becoming more widespread and dangerous" because of floods and droughts, but also because of population movements or other factors that limit access to clean water and increase the risk of an epidemic spread.

Cholera is usually transmitted through contaminated food or water and causes diarrhea and vomiting.

A safe drinking water supply and sanitation facilities are essential to prevent its spread.

The World Health Organization considers that the "single-dose strategy has been shown to be effective" while acknowledging that there is a lack of precise duration of protection with the single-dose regimen and that protection appears to be weaker in children.

"With the two-dose regimen, when the second dose is given six months after the first dose, immunity to the disease lasts three years," the WHO said.

But she believes that "the benefit of giving a dose is always greater than taking no dose."

And the organization adds that "although the temporary cessation of the two-dose strategy leads to a decrease in immunity and a shortening of its duration, this decision will allow vaccinating a larger number of people and ensuring short-term protection for them, if the global cholera situation continues to deteriorate."

Stocks of cholera vaccines are very limited at the moment. Of the 36 million doses that are supposed to be produced in 2022, 24 million were sent for preventive (17%) and interactive campaigns (83%), and the International Coordination Group approved an additional eight million doses for the second round of emergency vaccination in four countries, as announced by the World Health Organization in a statement .

"Since vaccine manufacturers are currently producing at their maximum capacity, there is no short-term solution to increase production," she added.

One reason for the vaccine shortage is the decision by the Indian vaccine maker, the French subsidiary of Sanofi, to halt production by the end of the year, but it is not the only reason.

Doctors Without Borders, a participant in the international coordination group, says the reasons for the lack of vaccines are multiple.

"This last option is the way to avoid the impossible choice between sending doses to one country instead of another," Dr. Daniela Garoni, the NGO's international medical coordinator, said in a statement.

"One-dose vaccination will provide shorter protection, but it is the fair and equitable way to protect as many people as possible while we face simultaneous cholera epidemics," she added.

However, she stressed, "This solution is temporary, and the current supply shortage is a source of serious concern for any short- and medium-term response needed for new cholera epidemics to emerge this year."

بقلم: حمدي فراج

من أهم نتائج العدوان الإسرائيلي الأخير الذي اطلقت عليه إسرائيل اسم “حارس الأسوار” اسرائيليا، و”سيف القدس” فلسطينيا ، انها رسخت في عقول وقلوب الناس في العالم أجمع ، حقيقة ان دولة اسرائيل هي الاكثر قتلا للاطفال، فقد قتلت خلال اسبوع تقريبا ما يزيد على ستين طفلا، بمعدل عشرة اطفال تقريبا كل طلعة شمس، تقتلهم قصفا و ردما بدون ان يرف جفنها ، ناهيك عن عشرات الالاف منهم الذين زرعتهم رعبا و فزعا لمدة قد تطول خوفا من هذا الموت الاسرائيلي .
التدمير ، هو ثاني اهم استخلاصات الحملة، تدمير الابراج والمنازل والمدارس والشوارع والمصانع والمؤسسات، كأن اسرائيل تقول انا آلهة الدمار والتدمير في المنطقة ، بل وفي العالم ، لا قيمة لترسانتي بدون مثل هذا التدمير ، حتى لو كانت مكاتب صحافة ، مسجد ، مستشفى ، مدرسة .
أما “محمد ضيف” الذي فشلت محاولتان اضافيتان للمحاولات الست السابقة على صيده ، فقد نجا ، بل تحول الى رمز فلسطيني عربي وربما اممي جديد بعد فراغ الساحة من رمزية عرفات وحبش ، ولو كنت اسرائيليا لسألتهم : لماذا لم تعثروا على أسرانا المختطفين لدى حماس؟ ولماذا لم تحرروهم بدلا من البحث عن الضيف او غيره؟
وحدّت الحملة الشعب الفلسطيني الذي كان منقسما ومتشرذما ومختلفا ، وكاد قبل الحملة ان يصطدم بحائط سد سوداوي احباطي ، وحّدته ليس فقط من رفح الى جنين ، بل اللد وكفر كنا ، وقرى لم يسمع بها احد من قبل بمن فيهم موسى ابو مرزوق على شاشة الميادين ، هذا التوحد تعمد بدم شهيدين من ام الفحم واللد ونحو ثلاثين شهيدا من الضفة ومئتين من غزة ، ولو طالت الحملة اكثر لرأينا تعمدا بدماء عربية دشنها اللبناني محمد طحان .
لقد أحدثت الحملة التفافا شعبيا عارما حول المقاومة ومحورها ، وعلّمت معنى ان تكون الوحدة وطنية، بمعنى لا وطنية بدون بندقية ، ثم يلتف الشعب حولها ، تنصره وينصرها . وستحمل الايام القادمة بدون شك تعزيزا لهذا المحور ، سيتعمق ويتمدد ليطول حدودا وكيانات اخرى .
على الطرف الاخر من المعادلة، سحبت الحملة البساط بعيدا من تحت خط الاعتدال والتسالم والتفاوض. رفعت شعبية حماس والجهاد ونقلتهما من فصائل دينية الى فصائل شعبية وجماهيرية عربية وربما عالمية، ووجّهت صفعة قوية لمعسكر ابراهام ، حتى ان وزير خارجية الامارات لوح بذلك. واظن ان نتنياهو لن يزور الامارات من الان حتى مماته سياسيا وبيولوجيا .
اعتقال اكثر من ألف “اسرائيلي” لكل واحد منهم اسرة وعشيرة ، اصدقاء ومعارف ، جيران وزملاء عمل ، تيوبيين وفيس بوكيين ، سجون ومحاكم وزيارات وصليب احمر … الخ .
القدس كعاصمة موحدة وابدية ويهودية والهيكل والمبكى ووعد الرب وشعب الله المختار ، سقطت الى الابد.
بداية فصم في العلاقة مع امريكا قد تزيد الفرز بين الجمهوريين والديمقراطيين ، لن تسمح ان يأتي فريدمان آخر -” السفير الامريكي الاسبق”- يهدم بيده جدار منزل فلسطيني في سلوان فيمنحه لمستوطن مثله.
ما يزيد على ثلاثمائة مليون دولار خسائر يوميا، و الطريق امام عودة حماس لدمشق يبدو انها قد عبّدت.

Jerusalem - "Quds" dot com - More than 50 Palestinian and Jewish-Israeli physicians, active in the Physicians for Human Rights Association, signed an open letter calling on the Israeli government to immediately release the hunger-striking prisoner Khalil Awadeh , and to stop using the policy of administrative detention.

In their letter, the doctors express their deep concern for Awadeh's safety, and Israel's frequent use of administrative detention, a method that forces people to go on prolonged hunger strikes as a last resort in the face of this pervasive tool.

Meanwhile, 16 Israeli human rights organizations issued a joint call for Israel to immediately release Awadeh, and stop its extensive use of administrative detention.

The letter issued by the associations stated that Awadeh is one of 671 Palestinians administratively detained by Israel, without trial, and in violation of international law, adding: Awadeh's life is in imminent and immediate danger, and his continued administrative detention for political reasons constitutes a serious violation of human rights.

The associations declared that the only way to save Awadeh's life was to immediately release him from administrative detention.

In this context, the Military Court of Appeal recently rejected the appeal filed by Al-Awawdeh against his administrative detention, and approved the continuation of his administrative detention, despite the opinion of specialized doctors who stated that Al-Awawdeh's life is in imminent danger.

In the coming days, Awadeh is expected to appeal the decision through his lawyer, Ahlam Haddad, to the Supreme Court.

It is noteworthy that Khalil Awadeh has been admitted since the end of last week to Assaf Harofeh Hospital, and Dr. Lina Qasim Hassan, a volunteer family physician at Physicians for Human Rights, who holds the position of director of its administrative body, visited Awadeh, and wrote in her assessment that his condition is serious and that his life is in definite danger. Awadeh’s weight is 42 kilograms, and he suffers from massive nystagmus (twitching of the pupils of the eyes). ), and he faces problems in looking and talking, and it seems that he faces difficulties in perceiving time and place, and he suffered an injury in his cognitive ability, and it is not known to what extent, and if it is possible to recover from it.

Although Hassan's assessment was transferred to the Military Court of Appeal for consideration, the judge ignored the assessment and approved the continuation of the administrative detention.

Commenting on the rejection of Awadeh's appeal, Anat Litvin, director of the Prisoners Department at the Physicians for Human Rights, said: "The judge continues to insist that there is no definite danger to Awadeh's life, while ignoring the opinions of three expert doctors from the Physicians for Human Rights, and 55 additional medical professionals who signed a letter calling for his release due to his health condition, and he ignored the point of view of the prison service’s health facility, which is a doctor and a state employee no less than a judge. Khalil Awadeh, and they, in this way, ignore his right to life.”

Qalqilya - "Jerusalem" dot com - The young man Aref Abdel Nasser Lahlouh (22 years) was killed, Wednesday, by an Israeli military force, claiming that he attempted to carry out a stabbing attack at a military junction near the Kedumim settlement in Qalqilya.

According to local sources, the young man, Lahlouh, is a resident of the Jenin camp .

An Israeli military spokesman claimed that the Palestinian youth got out of a vehicle and tried to stab one of the soldiers, but he was neutralized.

Damascus - (AFP) - A delegation from the Hamas movement arrived in Syria on Wednesday, according to an official in a Palestinian faction, told Agence France-Presse, on a visit that is the first since it severed its relations with Damascus more than ten years ago, following the outbreak of conflict in the country.

Hamas was considered one of the closest Palestinian allies of President Bashar al-Assad. And it made Damascus its headquarters abroad for years, before it criticized the authorities’ suppression of the protests that swept the country starting in mid-March 2011, and the relationship between the two parties was severed.

"The Hamas delegation arrived in Damascus for a two-day visit," the Secretary-General of the Popular Struggle Front, Khaled Abdel Majeed, told AFP. The visit included meetings with Palestinian faction leaders and Syrian officials, led by Assad.

The Hamas delegation, headed by the head of the Arab and Islamic Relations Bureau, Khalil al-Hayyah, will meet al-Assad on Wednesday noon, as part of a delegation that includes representatives of the Palestinian factions. Their representatives will hold a press conference after the meeting.

The Hamas delegation arrived in Beirut on Tuesday night, coming from Algeria, where the Palestinian factions signed a reconciliation agreement on Thursday, under which they commit to holding legislative and presidential elections within a year.

Hamas' visit to Damascus comes after its leadership announced last month its desire to resume relations with Damascus, in light of the "accelerating regional and international developments surrounding our cause and our nation," which analysts considered a sign of a number of Arab countries normalizing their relations with Israel.

Following the outbreak of the conflict in Syria, relations gradually soured between the two parties until the movement's leaders, headed by the former head of its political bureau abroad, Khaled Meshaal, left Damascus in February 2012. The movement closed all its offices and stopped its activities there.

For years, Syrian officials considered Hamas's departure a "severe blow" to the relationship with Syria, and some of them described it as "treason."

The visit to Damascus, according to what an official in the movement told AFP earlier, was preceded by meetings with Syrian officials, mediated by the Lebanese Hezbollah and its Iranian backer.

The movement maintained a good relationship with Hezbollah. Despite his disagreement with her over her position on Damascus, he has always considered it part of the "axis of resistance," which also includes Damascus, Tehran, and Iraqi factions.
A leader in the movement told AFP earlier that Hamas is going to open an office in Damascus, but it is "too early to talk" about returning the movement's headquarters to Damascus, as was the case previously.
In 2017, Hamas announced its disengagement from the Muslim Brotherhood, which has been banned in Syria since the 1980s and is one of the most prominent components of the Syrian opposition following the outbreak of the conflict.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Supreme Planning Council, in its session held today, Thursday, at the Ministry of Local Government in Al-Bireh, approved the new route of Wadi Al-Nar Street , which will pass through the lands of the towns: Al-Sawahra Al-Sharqiya, Dar Salah, and Al-Shawamrah.

The Chairman of the Council, the Minister of Local Government, Majlis Al-Saleh, stressed the importance of the project and its great advantages, pointing out that the new path is more streamlined to facilitate traffic and make it more secure, because there are no steep slopes like the ones currently in place, in addition to saving a lot of effort and time.

The Council also decided, during the session, to put several projects into effect, which are "organizational amendment" projects in each of: Jericho, Ramallah, Turmos Aya, Al-Mazra'a Al-Gharbiyya, Dura Al-Qara', Asira Al-Shamaliya, Nablus, Beit Iba, Tubas, and Birzeit, in addition to Approval of "detailed structural" projects for the purpose of housing in: Ignissia, Talouza, Cyrenaica, and Salfit, as well as a "detailed structural" project to organize the use into housing in Hajjah, street planning in Kour, and structural planning for industrial organization in Safarin.

The Council approved the organizational expansions in the towns of Anin and Awarta, in addition to its approval of the expansion of the industrial zone on the lands of Deir Sharaf, Beit Lid, and Ramin, and the re-deposit of the structural plan of Anin for the objections.

In the same context, the Council approved requests for facilitation and appeal requests in the communities of: Al-Bireh, Jourat Al-Shamaa, Ariha, Anin, Talluza, Tubas, Marah Rabah, Surda, Beit Jala, and Beit Iba, while it decided to form sub-committees to re-study the requests of: Beit Gala, Beit Sahour, and Ramin.

The council also instructed the secretariat to re-study a request for facilities for an additional building permit in Aboud, and instruct the local committee to study a draft regulatory amendment to organize street paths and re-division in Beitunia.

The Council rejected an organizational amendment project to change the use and organize streets in Ramallah, and a street expansion project in Nablus, while it postponed a request for expansion in Al-Dhahiriya, as well as a request to resume facilities in Aboud.

Beirut - (AFP) - The Lebanese judiciary issued, on Wednesday, a decision to reserve the property of two defendants in the Beirut port explosion case, based on a lawsuit filed by the Beirut Bar Association on behalf of the families of the victims, according to a judicial source told Agence France-Presse.

The source said, "The head of the Beirut Implementation Department, Judge Najah Itani, issued a decision to seize the property of MPs Ali Hassan Khalil and Ghazi Zuaiter at a value of 100 billion pounds."

The issuance of the decision came within the framework of a lawsuit filed by the Prosecutor’s Office at the Beirut Bar Association before the Civil Court of First Instance in Beirut to hold the two deputies, who previously held the positions of Minister of Finance (Khalil) and Minister of Public Works and Transport (Zuaiter), accountable for their “abusive use of the rights of defense and prosecution, through They filed lawsuits that impede the progress of the investigation, and demanded compensation for this arbitrariness in the amount of one hundred billion pounds,” according to the same source.

In the aftermath of the port explosion , the Prosecution Office of the Beirut Bar Association took over the prosecution of the state by filing claims on behalf of nearly 1,400 families of the victims and those affected by the explosion.

And the two deputies belonging to the Amal movement, which is led by Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, have submitted several lawsuits against them, along with other officials, to stop the judicial investigator, Judge Tariq al-Bitar, from investigating the explosion that killed more than two hundred people on August 4, 2020, and injured. More than 6,500 others were wounded, causing massive destruction to the port and a number of the capital's neighborhoods.

The investigation raises a political division, with major forces, most notably Hezbollah, objecting to Al-Bitar's work, accusing him of "politicizing" the file.

The investigation into the explosion as a result of the lawsuits against Al-Bitar has been suspended since the end of December, which fuels the anger of the victims' families and human rights organizations. And they renewed, coinciding with Lebanon's commemoration Thursday of the second anniversary of the explosion, calling on the United Nations to send an independent fact-finding mission, in the face of the stumbling of the local investigation.

According to the authorities, the explosion resulted from the storage of large quantities of ammonium nitrate inside the port without precautionary measures, following the outbreak of a fire, the causes of which are unknown. It turned out later that officials at several levels were aware of the dangers of storing the substance and did not move a finger.

RAMALLAH - (Xinhua) - Palestinian officials in Bethlehem announced today, Saturday, the start of preparations for this year's Christmas celebrations, with a message entitled "The spirit of Christmas brings us together," amid a complaint about the occupation measures in the city.

It is scheduled to light the Christmas tree, which was erected in the middle of the Church of the Nativity square in Bethlehem, with a height of more than 15 meters, and includes dozens of decorated light ropes and various forms of drawings, next Saturday, with the participation of Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh and other officials.

Hanna Hanania, Mayor of Bethlehem, said during a press conference held at the municipality headquarters to mark the start of the activities for this year that Christmas is a new beginning filled with joy, hope and hope for a better tomorrow, stressing that Bethlehem, the cradle of Christ and the Holy Land, is in dire need of peace based on justice, love of people and living freely. And dignity.

Hanania added that Christmas is passing and the city of the Nativity is still "besieged by the separation wall that Israel is building, 2 km away from the Church of the Nativity, which restricts freedom, impedes movement, and affects all aspects of life."

He added that the Israeli measures make the reality more painful in Bethlehem, but "our hope is always alive with the Christmas star and its sparkling message, and it makes us look to the future with hope and optimism and for a better life that guarantees us to live in freedom, dignity and independence, like the rest of the peoples of the world."

Hanania called on the faithful and peace-loving peoples of the world to visit Bethlehem and make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, in order to achieve support for the Palestinian presence on this land and to strengthen the steadfastness of the Palestinian people to continue as they have always been witnesses to the birth of Christ.

It is expected that the number of participants in the Christmas tree lighting ceremony will reach tens of thousands, including diplomats and consuls in the State of Palestine and European personalities represented by cities that are sister to it, in addition to artistic teams from Malta, South Africa and France, according to the municipality.

For his part, the Governor of Bethlehem in the Palestinian Authority, Kamel Hamid, said in a speech on behalf of President Mahmoud Abbas during the conference that Christmas is "a national day that has been celebrated by the Palestinian people for decades."

Hamid added that Christmas is a global message that renews its importance and historical role and bears the suffering of the Palestinian people as a result of the Israeli occupation, calling for support for the Palestinians' right to self-determination and the establishment of their independent state on the 1967 borders.

More than 3.5 million tourists visited the Palestinian territories in 2019, most of them to Bethlehem, before the city was closed following the discovery of the first cases of coronavirus in March 2020, according to official statistics.

According to a joint report by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics and the Ministry of Tourism, the losses of the inbound tourism sector to the Palestinian Territories during the year 2020 amounted to about $1.021 billion, after its spending decreased by 68 percent compared to 2019 due to Corona.

In the context, Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Rola Maayah said during the conference that the celebration of Christmas this year will be different from the past two years due to Corona disease and the accompanying halt to tourism.

Maayah stated that the current year witnessed a remarkable increase in the number of tourists, which reached 600,000 visitors after the Corona crisis, noting that expectations for the month of December will reach more than 100,000 tourists, with 80% of hotel occupancy.

There are 70 hotels with 4,700 hotel rooms in Bethlehem, while more than 33,000 Palestinian workers are active in the field of tourism in the West Bank governorates, the largest percentage of whom are concentrated in Bethlehem, according to official Palestinian statistics.

Christmas celebrations are usually accompanied by the deployment of Palestinian security forces and the closure of main streets in Bethlehem to facilitate the movement of tourists and pilgrims from various countries and to protect the religious figures present.

Brigadier General Thabet al-Saadi, Director General of Bethlehem Police, confirmed during the conference the police's readiness to maintain security and safety, noting that about 700 officers, 46 vehicles and 17 bicycles will participate in securing the Christmas celebrations, along with other elements from the various security services.

In addition, the convoy of the Custos of the Holy Land, Father Francesco Patton, arrived today in Bethlehem, coming from the city of Jerusalem, marking the start of the Christmas celebrations and the feast of St. Catherine the Pastoral, which falls on Sunday.

An official reception for the Custodian of the Holy Land took place at the court of the Church of the Nativity, with the participation of Palestinian officials and a number of Christian clergy, and scout teams played, while Patton later presided over a private prayer in the Church of "St. Katrina".

Ramzi Khoury, head of the Higher Presidential Committee for Church Affairs in Palestine, told reporters that the message of Christmas and the Palestinian people is "to arm themselves with hope towards achieving national goals by ending the Israeli occupation and establishing a Palestinian state."

In turn, Patton, Custodian of the Holy Land, assured reporters upon his arrival that the Christmas message is always "a message of peace to all peoples of the world," expressing his hope that peace and stability will prevail in the Palestinian territories.

The city of Bethlehem is considered a destination for Christians of the world because it includes the Church of the Nativity, which was built by Constantine the Great in the year 330 AD over a cave or cave in which Jesus was born.

It is believed that the Church of the Nativity is the oldest churches in the world, and there is another basement nearby. It is believed that St. Jerome, who was commissioned by Pope Damasus, Bishop of Rome in the year 383 AD, to translate the Bible from Aramaic and Hebrew into Latin, has spent thirty years of his life translating the Bible.

Governorates - "Jerusalem" dot com - Today, Monday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested 5 citizens from separate areas in the West Bank and Jerusalem.

According to press sources, the occupation forces arrested the young man, after searching his vehicle at a military checkpoint in Tulkarm.

She added that the occupation forces arrested the student Abdul Rahman Abdul Qadir Murar (17 years old), from Tariq Bin Ziyad School in the southern region of Hebron.

In Al-Bireh, the occupation soldiers ambushed a number of young men in the Jabal Al-Taweel area in Al-Bireh, fired live bullets at them, and arrested two of them, whose identities are not known yet.

A picture taken by a mobile phone showed that the occupation soldiers took a detainee towards the "Psagot" settlement, which is established on the lands of Al-Bireh.

The Israeli occupation forces also arrested a woman from the occupied city of Jerusalem , after she left the Chain Gate near Al-Aqsa Mosque, and her identity was not known.

ISLAMABAD, (Xinhua) -- At least 13 people were killed and five others injured when a truck fell on top of a passenger bus in Rahim Yar Khan city of east Pakistan 's Punjab province, rescue workers told local media.

Reports stated that a passenger bus fell into a ditch on Fayroza Central Road and got stuck in it. The accident occurred when a truck loaded with sacks of sugar fell on top of the bus.

Rescue officials said the rescue operation then began with the help of 10 emergency vehicles as well as cranes belonging to the district administration, adding that rescue work was hampered by heavy rains.

Rescue officials said the initial death toll of five had risen to 13 as rescue teams began removing bodies from the bus.

They added that the injured were taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.
Traffic accidents occur frequently in Pakistan, mainly due to poorly maintained vehicles, rickety roads and neglect of road safety measures.

Nablus - "Jerusalem" dot com - The "Lions' Den" group announced, at dawn Thursday, that it opened fire towards Israeli forces in more than one area around Nablus.

In a statement, it stated that its members targeted an infantry force in the vicinity of the Gerzim military point, causing injuries, and another force was fired at the vicinity of Military Checkpoint 17, and shots were fired at the occupation soldiers near the town of Deir Sharaf.

The statement said: "This is before the dawn, but after sunrise, the den has another saying, God willing.. The blood of Uday al-Tamimi and the martyrs of Palestine has become fuel for a volcano that only God will extinguish." according to the text of its statement.

نيويورك- (شينخوا) للولايات المتحدة سجل مشين عندما يتعلق الأمر بصحة الأمهات خلال فترة الحمل والولادة والنفاس، ويظهر تقرير جديد صادر عن منظمة الصحة العالمية أن الوضع يزداد سوءا، وفقا لما ذكرته صحيفة ((واشنطن بوست)) في تقرير لها صدر في وقت مبكر من هذا الأسبوع.

يقول تقرير الصحيفة إنه على مدى العقدين الماضيين، حققت الكثير من دول العالم تقدما مطردا في تقليل عدد الوفيات أثناء الولادة أو بعدها بفترة وجيزة، لكن الولايات المتحدة اتجهت في الاتجاه الخاطئ.

وفقا لمنظمة الصحة العالمية، تحسنت صحة الأمهات خلال فترة الحمل والولادة والنفاس في معظم البلدان بين عامي 2000 و2015، على الرغم من أن التقدم بدأ في الاستقرار، وانعكس في بعض الأماكن بين عامي 2015 و2020. كانت الولايات المتحدة من بين 23 دولة فقط شهدت زيادة متوسط معدل وفيات الأمهات في فترة الحمل والولادة والنفاس، خلال هذين العقدين.

Paris (AFP) - Manchester United star and Portugal national football team captain Cristiano Ronaldo announced Monday the death of one of his newborn twins, in a post on Twitter.

“It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our child (the boy),” the Portuguese star said in a joint post with his Argentine-born girlfriend, Spanish model Georgina Rodrigues, describing this moment as “the worst pain any parent can feel” and asking for privacy at this difficult time.

"Only the birth of our little girl gives us the strength to live this moment with a little hope and happiness," added the couple, who announced at the end of last year that they were expecting twins.

The 37-year-old five-time Golden Ball winner is the father of four children, including three before meeting Georgina Rodriguez, of unknown mothers.

Hebron - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Israeli occupation forces arrested, at dawn today, Sunday, 4 citizens from Hebron, after a campaign of raids in the governorate.

According to local sources, the forces arrested Ziyad al-Ja'bari from the suburb of the Hebron municipality, Fouad al-Dagamin, and Fadl al-Rawashdeh from al-Samou' town.

The released prisoner, Maan Abu Jhaisha, was arrested from the town of Ithna, west of Hebron.

The occupation forces raided a large group of citizens' homes during their campaign in Hebron, including the homes of released prisoners, and searched and tampered with their contents.

In the context, Abdullah Sweilem (41 years old) was attacked by a group of settlers in the Khashm al-Daraj area in Masafer Yatta , south of Hebron, which resulted in bruises and fractures. He was subsequently taken to the hospital for treatment.

Jakarta - (dpa) - The Indonesian police said today, Friday, that at least 12 women have died as a result of the collapse of the ventilation shaft of a gold star where they were working in the province of North Sumatra, Indonesia.

Local police chief Raza Akbar said the women were working at an unlicensed mine in Mandiling Natal province on Thursday when they were buried by a mudslide.

He added that local people dug through the mud to find the bodies of the victims.

Notably, fatal accidents are common at illegal mining sites in Indonesia.

RIYADH (Xinhua) - The Saudi Ministry of Investment announced (Monday) the signing of 49 investment deals worth $925 million in the second quarter of 2022.

The ministry revealed that the new deals included various sectors such as the advanced industries sector, the construction and building sectors, real estate activities, information and communication technology, tourism, entertainment, and sports, according to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA).

She explained that the new investments are expected to create about 2,000 new job opportunities, which reflects the success of the national investment strategy in attracting more investment flows to the Kingdom.

The deals included a $133.3 million agreement between the Saudi Ports Authority and DB World UAE; To establish a modern logistics area in Jeddah Islamic Port, and an investment deal worth $37 million, led by MasterCard in the Saudi e-commerce company, HyperPay, to expand the digital payment system in the Kingdom.

The Minister of Investment, Eng. Khaled Al-Falih, referred to the impact of government plans on investment deals and figures, noting that the national investment strategy is an incentive as a result of increasing the private sector’s contribution to the GDP by 65% and increasing foreign direct investment to 5.7% of the GDP.

Al-Falih revealed that the cooperation between the National Investment Strategy and the National Tourism Strategy will witness a strong and attractive development in the tourism product.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Ministry of National Economy announced today, Wednesday, the registration of a patent for oral care and antibacterial products.

The patent belongs to the Italian inventor Lorenzo Emiliano Boiucci. It is a specialized oral care product such as mouthwash, periodontal gel or toothpaste, which contains chlorhexidine and sodium deoxyribonucleic acid.

And Director of the Patents and Industrial Designs Department at the Ministry, Hassan Ansawi, stated that the invented product provides an effective antibacterial effect against gingivitis, bacterial spot, and periodontitis with healing and anti-inflammatory activity.

The invention also counteracts oxidative stress, to reduce the appearance and progression of irritation of the oral mucosa, and promotes its own trophism.

The number of patents officially registered with the Ministry rises to 192 patents in various fields, including: health, agriculture, environment and information technology.

On May 26, the World Intellectual Property Organization celebrated World Intellectual Property Day, under the slogan "Intellectual Property and Youth Innovation for a Better Future," to highlight the role that intellectual property plays in encouraging innovation and creativity.

Gaza - "Al Quds" dot com - Hamas Movement and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine condemned, on Sunday evening, the new Israeli aggression against Syria .

Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem said in a press statement, "The terrorist Zionist occupation is expanding its aggression against our people and our nation. After its crimes in the Gaza Strip, its deliberate killing of civilians, assassinations in the West Bank, and the raids on Al-Aqsa Mosque, it is committing today a new aggression through the barbaric bombing of lands." sister Syria. according to his expression.

He added, "This continuous and extended Zionist terrorism in the entire region must be confronted with a unified position of all the forces of the nation in the region, to prevent it from continuing its rebellion, and to put an end to its aggression against our nation." according to his expression.

For its part, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine expressed its support and standing by Syria and its army in the face of aggression.

The Front said in a statement: "This criminal aggression reaffirms that the Zionist entity is acting above the law and accountability, and confirms that it is the central enemy of the Arab nation, which constitutes a serious threat to its security and interests." according to the text of its statement.

And she added, "Syria Arabism will remain a thorn in the side of the Zionist enemy and its allies, and we are all confident in the ability of the Syrian Arab Republic to stand firm and achieve victory in its battle against the repeated Zionist aggressions on its lands," according to its statement.

London - (AFP) British Prime Minister Liz Terrace , whose popularity has fallen more than ever, faces MPs for the first time since the humiliating reversal of her economic programme, which is a test for this conservative official who wants to keep her job at all costs.

This is only her third session of her weekly questioning before Parliament but it is about her political continuity, in these oral responses that she feels less comfortable with than her predecessor Boris Johnson.

Terrace's authority declined a lot after it was rejected by public opinion and criticized from within the majority after only six weeks in power.
After unfunded tax cuts, it is the prospect of a below-inflationary pension revision that is sparking outrage and making headlines in the British press.

With inflation accelerating to 10.1 percent in September, the highest level in 40 years, "a revolt is being prepared among the Tories," according to the Daily Telegraph. For its part, the "Times" newspaper also touched on this "rebellion", considering at the time that such an unpopular decision is unlikely.

New Finance Minister Jeremy Hunt was keen on reassuring Wednesday morning, saying, "This government prioritizes the most vulnerable groups with achieving economic stability and the direction towards long-term growth that everyone desires," commenting on inflation reaching a new peak.

In an effort to calm the economic and political storm, the 47-year-old prime minister has had to almost completely reverse the deep tax cuts she promised during the campaign this summer, and Hunt has warned that public spending must be spared.

Markets seemed reassured, and the International Monetary Fund welcomed a return to “fiscal discipline” at a time when recession looms. But many fear a return to austerity, as happened during the 2008 financial crisis, which led to drastic cuts in public budgets and high unemployment rates.

The impeachment session in Parliament at 11:00 GMT will be the first in which Liz Terrace has spoken since her interview with the BBC on Monday evening, in which she expressed her "regret" for her "mistakes" while at the same time expressing her determination to stay in power. Authority.

But is there still time to hope to fix the situation? An opinion poll conducted by YouGov showed that out of ten Britons has a favorable opinion of Terrace, and one in five among conservative base voters. Fifty-five percent of the party members considered that Liz Terrace should resign, while only 38% expressed their desire for her to remain in her post.

The crisis dates back to the presentation of the "mini-budget" at the end of September by its then Finance Minister Kwasi Kwarting, which includes large tax cuts and strong support for energy bills, which raised fears of a decline in public accounts.

The pound sterling fell to its lowest levels and long-term government borrowing rates rose. The Bank of England was forced to intervene to prevent the situation from deteriorating into a financial crisis.

Jeremy Hunt, who was hastily appointed Friday as chancellor of the exchequer, reversed almost all of the tax cuts made by his predecessor, giving the impression that power was now in his hands, not the head of government.

Silent Terrace attended the presentation of this humiliating retraction in Parliament presented by Hunt. She appointed another minister, Penny Mordaunt, to represent her in order to explain the move to the opposition.

Two years before the next parliamentary elections, the Labor opposition is leading the Conservatives in opinion polls.

Five deputies from the Trass party urged the prime minister to leave. Because of the lack of a clear successor figure, the Conservatives seem reluctant to go through a new and long appointment process as they seek to agree on a name, but they are not close to achieving that.

"I really don't think starting a new campaign to get rid of another prime minister will convince the British that we think of them and not ourselves, nor will it convince the markets to remain calm," British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly told Sky News on Wednesday morning.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - Today, Friday, the Israeli occupation authorities killed the Jerusalemite prisoner, Yasmine Jaber, after the end of her thirty-month sentence.

The Palestinian Prisoners Club said that the prisoner, Jaber, was arrested on the 4th of August 2020, and the occupation court issued a 30-month prison sentence against her, noting that she was subjected to a harsh investigation for a period of 44 days.

NICOSIA (AFP) - Flash protests in small groups, pictures projected onto the walls of apartment blocks, fountains whose waters are dyed red: Iranian youth, with whatever means they have at their disposal, have adopted various tactics to keep the flames of the demonstrations protesting the death of Mahsa Amini alive.

The protest movement has proven resilient for more than a month since its eruption, despite a crackdown by security forces that has claimed the lives of at least 122 people.

The protests erupted in response to the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was arrested by Tehran's morality police on the grounds of not adhering to the Islamic Republic's strict dress code.

Women led the movement and even took off their headscarves, set them on fire and marched chanting "Women, Life, Freedom" and "Death to the Dictator", movements and slogans that were repeated around the world.

Despite the restrictions on the internet and the blocking of access to popular applications such as Instagram and WhatsApp, the young people still managed to produce videos depicting their protests.

Video footage, in what looks like a game of chase, showed drivers honking their horns in support of the demonstrators and blocking roads with cars to slow the security forces down.

Street traffic was also obstructed by tipping over and setting rubbish bins on fire, and in some cases overturned police cars.

Security forces responded by riding motorcycles to pass and were seen removing license plates to later identify and arrest the drivers.

Police on motorbikes have also been seen firing shotguns, tear gas or even paintballs at protesters to track them down.

- 'Great courage' -

The youths, in turn, resorted to masking, switching their phones to "airplane mode" to avoid being located, and carrying extra clothes to replace the paint-stained ones.

In a video clip circulating on social media, protesters are seen removing a surveillance camera over a road in the city of Sanandaj in Kurdistan Province, Mahsa Amini's hometown.

Others are seen in other footage organizing more small, snappy rallies away from the city squares that are usually used for political rallies.

“It takes a lot of courage to take to the streets when the security forces know everyone,” Shadi Sadr, the London-based director of the Justice for Iran Association, wrote on Twitter. “The uprising continues but we are seeing fewer videos due to the strict restrictions on the internet.”

Pictures of women cutting their hair during the protests spread as an expression of grief that has turned into a symbol of resistance drawn from Persian folklore.

Those who were afraid to take to the streets resorted to other, more discreet ways of participating. Two weeks ago, a form of protest emerged, in which the waters of fountains in Tehran turned blood-red after being dyed red by artists to reflect the deadly oppression.

In a similar vein, art students at a university in Tehran filmed a video showing their hands raised in the air and covered in red paint. On the same day, activists from the Adalah Ali group hacked a live news broadcast of state television and superimposed an image of a target and flames over the image of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Pictures circulating on the Internet this week showed an effigy of a cleric hanging from a bridge in Tehran.
In a video taken at night, Amini's face was projected onto the wall of a residential tower in Tehran's Ekbatan neighborhood, as protesters chanted from windows or rooftops.

- Unstable balance -

Schoolgirls even moved with their backs to the camera and removed their headscarves before raising their middle fingers at pictures of Khamenei in the classroom.

Independent researcher Mark Peroz said his analysis of visual evidence on social media showed that the peak of the protests was on September 21 and that participation decreased during the current month.

But he told AFP that while the protests "have peaks and troughs, there is still a level of sustainability that we did not see in previous periods of protest" such as the 2019 demonstrations that erupted due to a sudden rise in fuel prices.

Henri Rommy, an Iran specialist at The Washington Institute, said he expected the protests to continue for some time. "The better their ability to organize and coordinate, the greater the chance of expanding their support base and posing a clear challenge to the regime in the short term," he told AFP.

"But the state security apparatus excels precisely at disrupting this kind of organized dissent, thanks to an elaborate toolkit of violence, arrests, internet disruption, and intimidation," he added. Hence, "at the moment, the state and the protesters are in a state of precarious equilibrium, with which it cannot Neither of them was able to overcome the challenge posed by the other, which indicates that the protest movement and the current violence may continue for a long time.

Paris - (AFP) - French star Kylian Mbappe said that he will never digest his country's loss in the Qatar 2022 World Cup final in football against Argentina on penalties, despite scoring a hat-trick for the blue team.

Mbappe said Wednesday, after scoring the winning goal for his team, Paris Saint-Germain, in the fatal time against Strasbourg (2-1) in the 16th stage of the French League, “I think I will never digest it..As I said to my colleagues, there is no reason for the club to pay the reason for the failure of the national team. There are two cases.” Two different."

The Qatar World Cup top scorer admitted that he spent "two difficult hours" after losing a penalty shootout against Argentina on December 18 at Lusail Stadium, where he scored a hat-trick, including two penalty kicks. Germain.

From the penalty spot, he also scored on Wednesday, but this time it was the winning goal for the Qatari-owned league leaders.

"It's good to reconnect with the victories, to connect with the club, the fans, the colleagues," he added from the mixed interview area.

The quick return of the twenty-four-year-old was surprising to Saint-Germain's exercises after the historic final of the World Cup. "We spoke before the final, and I told coach (Christophe Galtier) that I would return, regardless of the result, because I was in good shape and I wanted to continue playing. Two difficult matches await us."

And about the ridicule he was subjected to by some Argentine players after the World Cup final, especially goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez, the 2018 World Cup champion with France said, “The celebrations are not my problem. Leo (Messi) to keep scoring and winning games."

"I discussed with (Messi) after the match and congratulated him. It was the goal of an entire life for him, and for me as well, but I failed, so you must always maintain a good image," he confirmed.

Gaza - Ahmed Al-Masharawi - Khadamat Al-Shatea Club achieved a big victory over its rival Al-Jalaa, 4-0 at Al-Yarmouk Municipal Stadium, in the first-class matches in the ninth round of the football season 2022-2023, and all the goals were scored in the second half of the match. Abdullah Abu Hassanein in the 63rd minute, Anas Abu Setih in the 65th minute, Muhammad Barakat in the 68th minute, and Mahmoud Al-Ardah in the 75th minute. Al-Jalaa remained firm until the 63rd minute, before collapsing in 12 minutes. Thus, Al-Shati raised its score to 15 points in fifth place, and Al-Jalaa remained bottom with only two points in the 12th, last place.

And in the first division league in the same ninth round, the Islamic Complex lost to its host, Al-Nuseirat, with a score of 0-1, at the Martyr Muhammad Stadium, scored by Muhammad Abu Toha in the 72nd minute. Al-Ahly raised its score to 13 points in sixth place, and the balance of the complex remained at 6 points in the Tenth place.

Second degree

And in the second division in the ninth week, for the Central and South branch, Deir Al-Balah services defeated Al-Qadisiyah, 2-0 at Al-Nuseirat Municipal Stadium, scored by Ibrahim Abu Daghim – a double in the 10th minute, 82nd minute. Al-Khadamat raised its score to 12 points in fourth place, equal with Shabab Ma’an, while Al-Istiqlal remained with 4 points in the eighth-penultimate place. In the second division, in the ninth week, for the same branch, Rabat and Qadisiyah tied, with a score of 1-1 at the Rafah Municipal Stadium. Abu Sharaf in the 90th minute.

Thus, Al-Rabat raised its tally to 7 points in the seventh place, and Al-Qadisiyah to two points in the ninth, last place.

United Nations (United States) - (AFP) - The UN Security Council decided to extend the mission of the United Nations peace mission in Mali for a year without French air support, as in the past, which may prompt European countries to leave this international force, which consists of about 15 thousand soldiers and police.

It is a "risk," said a diplomat, who asked not to be named, hinting at the survival of Germany and Britain in this operation, which was launched in 2013 and is now the mission that has suffered the largest number of casualties among peacekeepers.

On Wednesday evening, the Security Council adopted a resolution drafted by France to extend the mission's mission until June 30, 2023, by 13 votes out of 15, with Russia and China abstaining.

Moscow made it clear that it had abstained from the vote due to "interfering formulas" in the text on human rights with financial sovereignty.

The resolution provides for maintaining the current workforce - 13,289 soldiers and 1,920 policemen - and calls on peacekeepers to support the implementation of the peace agreement signed in 2015, a political transition, the return of state authority in the center of the country and the protection of civilians and human rights.

The text requires the UN Secretary-General to submit a report by January in order to adapt the mission's format and study the evolution of its relations with the ruling military group.

And Bamako confirmed in early June that it was out of the question to allow Paris, while the French army was withdrawing from Mali, to continue operating on its territory with its aircraft stationed in Chad. Mali refuses to leave the foreign forces through the door, only to return through the window, as Malian Foreign Minister Abdallah Diop said in the Security Council at the time.

The finance minister told media on Monday that any French air support for the peacekeeping force was a "red line". After announcing this position, Paris crossed out every phrase related to maintaining French air support from the first text.

In a confidential report presented to the Security Council, United Nations experts in charge of sanctions against the jihadist organizations of Al Qaeda and the Islamic State warned of their development in the Sahel region after the French withdrawal from Mali.

In this document obtained by Agence France-Presse, they said that "the ongoing military reconfiguration in the region may harm efforts to combat terrorism."

The resolution adopted by the Council includes only a small reference in its introduction to the controversial presence of mercenaries from the private Russian Wagner Company, which Bamako denies, stressing that it only accepts assistance from those who are "trained" under an old bilateral agreement with Moscow.
In its resolution, the UN Security Council condemns "the use of mercenaries and violations of international humanitarian law and human rights violations they commit," without mentioning the name of the force as Washington and London want, according to a diplomatic source.

The decision maintains the mandate to protect human rights, which the financial authorities, with the support of Moscow and Beijing, sought to reduce.

In the text, he wrote, peacekeepers must "monitor, document, carry out fact-finding missions, assist in the investigation and provide public and quarterly reports to the Security Council on violations of international humanitarian law and violations and abuses of human rights."

On Monday, Abdallah Diop expressed his regret over the "excessive focus on human rights with a very heavy machinery" accompanied by "a large number of reports."

In recent months, NGOs have accused the Malian forces and their Russian backers, including Wagner mercenaries, of committing atrocities.

Diplomats said that the United Nations mission, which is obligated to open investigations in the event of allegations, has witnessed a decrease in its freedom of movement significantly since the beginning of the year.

After the vote, the French ambassador to the United Nations, Nicolas de Rivière, stated, "The freedom of movement of the United Nations mission must be guaranteed," stressing that "violations of human rights and international humanitarian law must stop."

It is assumed that a United Nations report will be published soon on the massacre of hundreds of civilians at the hands of Malian soldiers with the help of foreign fighters between 27 and 31 March in Mora (center) - where the UN mission was denied entry.

Seoul, (AFP) - South Korean President Yun Sok Yul announced Monday that he would offer a large aid package to Pyongyang in exchange for its denuclearization, an offer North Korea has long rejected.

Seoul's proposal comes days after Pyongyang threatened to "eliminate" the South Korean authorities against the background of the recent outbreak of the Corona virus in the North, and less than a month after leader Kim Jong Un declared that his country was "ready to mobilize" its nuclear capabilities in any war with the United States and the South. .

South Korean President Yoon, who has previously described denuclearization as "essential" to achieving lasting peace on the peninsula, detailed Monday a large-scale aid plan that includes food and energy as well as help to modernize infrastructure such as ports, airports and hospitals.

"The bold initiative I envisage will greatly improve North Korea's economy and the livelihood of its people in stages if the North stops developing its nuclear program and embarks on an honest and steady process of denuclearization," Yoon said in a speech marking the anniversary of liberation from Japanese colonial rule in 1945. .

Analysts in the region say the chances of Pyongyang accepting a similar offer - first floated during Yoon's inauguration speech - are slim, because North Korea, which invests a large portion of its gross domestic product in its weapons program, has long made clear it will not enter into a deal. like this.

Washington and Seoul have repeatedly warned in recent months that North Korea is preparing for another nuclear test, which will be the seventh in its history.

Kim Jong Un's regime conducted a record number of weapons tests this year, including an intercontinental ballistic missile, for the first time since 2017.

Doha - Information Department of the Federation - Lieutenant General Jibril Rajoub , President of the Palestinian Football Association, met yesterday, Saturday, in the Qatari capital, Doha, with Mr. Du Zusi, Vice President of the Chinese Football Association, on the sidelines of the 2022 World Cup.

The two sides stressed the importance of the historical relationship between the two countries and the two federations.

Mr. de Zusi asked the Rajoub team to support him as a candidate for the Asian Football Confederation, for the FIFA Executive Office elections. In turn, Rajoub affirmed his support for China for many sporting and national reasons.

Warsaw - (AFP) - Poland has prevented Israeli school groups from hiring armed guards to accompany them during visits to the country, including to former Nazi concentration camps.

"We are ready to receive Israeli flights in Poland if they are not accompanied by armed security guards," the Polish News Agency (PAB) quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Lukasz Jasina as saying on Tuesday.

Jasina's comments came after Israeli Ambassador Yaakov Levin announced last week that visits to Israeli schools had been banned "due to decisions taken by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs".

It concerns visits organized by the Israeli Ministry of Education for secondary school pupils, which have been suspended since June.

Jasina said, in an interview with a local radio station in Lublin, eastern Poland, that the visits of Israeli students to France and Germany were not accompanied by armed guards, adding that this could leave the impression that they faced a greater danger in Poland than in those countries.

Relations between Poland and Israel have witnessed several disagreements in the past few years, the latest of which was against the background of a new Polish law that was considered to block the claims of Jewish families whose property was confiscated after World War II.