غزة – “القدس” دوت كوم – اعتبرت دائرة القدس في حركة حماس، اليوم الخميس، ما يحدث في المدينة من اعتداءات على أحياء البستان والشيخ جراح وغيرها، ومحاولة تهجير سكانها وهدم المنازل والمحال، بمثابة محرقة تستهدف الهوية الفلسطينية.

وقالت حماس في بيان لها، إن الاحتلال يحاول تهويد المدينة لتحقيق عدة أهداف منها إكمال تنفيذ صفقة القرن وإعادة ترسيم حدود المدينة المقدسة بعد تهويدها والسيطرة الكاملة على الأحياء العربية فيها.

ودعت أهالي حي البستان ومختلف الأحياء المقدسية إلى الصمود والثبات في منازلهم ومواجهة ومقاومة هدم منازلهم. وطالبت المقاومة الفلسطينية والغرفة المشتركة بضرورة تفعيل معادلة “القدس غزة” وعدم السماح للمحتل أن يقدم على الاعتداء على القدس وأهلها، داعية المقدسيين وأهالي الداخل والضفة إلى مقاومة المحتلين وإحباط مخططاتهم بكل وسائل المقاومة المتاحة.

كما طالبت، حماس، السلطة الفلسطينية بممارسة دورها الوطني بالدفاع عن مواطنيها ومساكنهم، والوقوف ضد اعتداءات الاحتلال بإطلاق يد المقاومة الشعبية والعسكرية لكبح جماح المحتل.

ودعت حماس، العرب والمسلمين بأن يخرجوا عن صمتهم وأن يفعلوا دورهم وأداء الواجب المنوط بهم لنصرة القدس وأهلها، ودعم صمودهم وثباتهم في أرضهم. وطالبت كل أحرار العالم والمؤسسات الدولية، ومؤسسات حقوق الانسان ومحكمة الجنايات الدولية ومنظمة الأمم المتحدة ومؤسساتها الخاصة والبرلمانات العربية والإسلامية بالضغط على حكومة الاحتلال لوقف كافة أشكال العنصرية التي تنتهجها.

Gaza - exclusive to "Al-Quds" dot com - An informed Palestinian source said, this evening, Wednesday, that the efforts of the mediators to try to prevent any escalation from the Gaza Strip are still continuing, but they may remain stagnant without any progress in light of the Israeli occupation's refusal to submit to the conditions Palestinian resistance.

According to the source who spoke to Al-Quds.com, the Islamic Jihad Movement presented some conditions to the Egyptian side and other mediators, including allowing the family of Sheikh Bassam Al-Saadi, the leader of the movement, to check on him, and stopping the Israeli military operations in the West Bank, especially Jenin, which are mainly the cause of tension. The current security forces, in addition to the commitment to end the suffering of the hunger-striking prisoner Khalil Awawda, who faces death at any moment, with the continued refusal of the occupation to release him with the end of his current administrative detention, which was renewed for him a few days ago.

According to the source, the occupation has so far been procrastinating and has not given any clear answers, and it seems that it refuses to comply with these requests, or at least part of them, especially with regard to stopping its military operations in the West Bank, especially Jenin.

The source pointed out that the contacts of mediators, especially the Egyptian side, are continuing, pointing out that the Islamic Jihad Movement has expressed its desire not to escalate, while emphasizing its right to respond to the crimes of the occupation.

Palestinian sources confirmed this morning to Al-Quds.com that the efforts of the mediators have begun to bear fruit, and that they have begun to succeed in preventing a possible escalation that could explode at any moment.

The sources said at the time that intensive contacts took place since yesterday evening and throughout last night, between mediators from the Egyptian intelligence and Qatar, and even with the intervention of parties in the United Nations, in an attempt to prevent the Gaza Strip from being dragged into an intolerable escalation at the present time.

The sources indicated at the time that the Islamic Jihad Movement responded to the calls after ignoring a number of them from the moment of Saadi's arrest until Tuesday afternoon.

In this context, the occupation army continues to be on high alert along the borders of the Gaza Strip, fearing reprisals by the Islamic Jihad movement.

After a security assessment conducted this evening, the occupation army decided to continue the state of alert and continue to close the roads and streets near the border, and to prevent movement in them, which increased the complaints of the settlers who live in those areas, and they sharply criticized their army.

The occupation army set up fortified rooms, and placed barriers of containers and others to prevent any movement within the settlements adjacent to the borders of the Strip from being monitored.

And the Presidential Committee for Coordinating the Entry of Goods into Gaza announced that the occupation had informed it of its intention to continue closing the Kerem Shalom crossing, the only commercial crossing for the Gaza Strip, tomorrow, Thursday, which incurs heavy losses for merchants in Gaza, as it continues to be closed for the third day in a row.

This applies to the continued closure of the Beit Hanoun "Erez" checkpoint, which is designated for the movement of individuals, which means depriving more than 14,000 workers from entering the Green Line areas to work, in a clear policy of "collective punishment" against the people of the Strip.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Israeli occupation authorities extended, on Monday, the detention of the captive Aseel Al-Titi (23 years), from Balata camp in Nablus , until next Thursday.

According to the Captive Club, her mother, Khitam al-Titi, and her son (Islam's brother) Mahmoud, were released.

The occupation authorities had arrested the girl, Aseel Al-Titi, her mother, and her brother on October 2, 2022, during her visit to her brother, Sabaa Al-Titi, in "Raymond" prison.

BEIJING (Xinhua) -- The Shenzhou-15 astronauts aboard China's Tiangong orbital space station have completed their second spacewalk, according to the China Manned Space Agency.

In Junlong and Zhang Lu, along with Deng Qingming, who worked inside the station to support his two crewmates, collaborated to accomplish all assigned tasks. Fei Wuchang was then safely returned to the Wentian Laboratory Unit.

The three-man crew has been in orbit for the past three months since they entered the space station cluster on November 30, 2022.

They have completed several tasks, including two extra-vehicular activities, continuous maintenance of the inhabited environment, assembly and testing of science experiment rooms for Wentian and Mengtian laboratories, and deployment of the EV payload.

Ramallah - exclusive to Al-Quds.com - The Palestinian Bar Association confirmed today, Wednesday, that it is in the process of approving a decision to transfer to the register of non-practicing lawyers collectively, during a meeting that will be held at the end of this month, which paralyzes the justice sector.

This decision comes in conjunction with the continuation of union activities that reject the enforcement of decisions by laws amending procedural laws and the implementation law, as protest activities have been continuing for about ten days by the Bar Association.

The Secretary of the Bar Council, Daoud Darawi, told Al-Quds.com that the Bar Association decided to voluntarily move to the register of non-practicing lawyers, and we put the approval of this decision on the agenda of the Bar Council meeting on the thirty-first of this month, which means transferring Lawyers to refrain from practicing the legal profession, a step taken for the first time and precedent on the international and Arab levels.

Darawi stressed that this step comes as a form of civil disobedience against the recent unconstitutional decisions, and court sessions become without lawyers, and trials cannot take place, which constitutes a collapse and paralysis of the justice sector, and we hope that we will not reach this step, and that the decisions will be canceled by law. We cancel this meeting.

Darawi pointed out that a practicing lawyer who pays fees has the right to request a transfer to a non-practicing lawyer's record for any special circumstance, and he is prohibited from practicing the legal profession, but for the matter to be done collectively, this is a precedent and for the first time.

Today, Wednesday, the lawyers carried out a sit-in in front of the Ramallah First Instance and Reconciliation Court, as well as suspending the full working hours, today, and tomorrow, Thursday, as a continuation of the group of protest activities that began as of the third of this month, as part of activities according to Darawi, whose goal is for citizens to reach a fair trial. and the right of access to normal litigation.

Darawi pointed out that the Supreme Judicial Council closed the courts of the beginning and the reconciliation of Ramallah and Nablus and brought in security reinforcements, but the sit-in took place without any friction with the security, then the security withdrew after that.

On the other hand, Darawi stressed that while the protest activities of lawyers continue, the door to dialogue is still open and has not been closed.

Gaza - "Jerusalem" dot com - An Israeli military court sentenced the prisoner, Fadi Saleh Qadas, to 8 years in prison, from the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip.

According to the Prisoners' Information Office, the ruling includes deportation to Europe after serving the sentence.

The Israeli Public Prosecution filed an indictment last April against the prisoner, Qadas (an electrician), claiming that he was behind many attacks over a period of 15 years.

Nablus - "Al-Quds" dot com - Today, Sunday, the National Action Factions in the Nablus governorate condemned the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip for the third day in a row, which has resulted in the death of 31 martyrs, including 6 children and 4 women, and 265 injured, except for one. Extensive damage to homes and property.

This came during a stand in support of our people in the Gaza Strip at the Martyrs' Roundabout in the center of Nablus, at the invitation of the Factional Coordination Committee, and the official and popular events in the governorate.

Ghassan Douglas said in the factional coordination speech, "What the Gaza Strip is exposed to is targeting all Palestinians, which requires all of us to unite in order to confront this brutal occupation and its aggression on land and people."

He added, "National unity is a main demand, and ending the division is an urgent necessity, which has become only serving the occupation and its interests."

Douglas pointed out that the Palestinian leadership headed by President Mahmoud Abbas is leading the ranks in ending the suffering of our people in the Gaza Strip.

He called for more vigils and marches condemning this aggression, which left dozens of martyrs, hundreds of wounded, destroyed many homes, and displaced their people.

(AFP) - The International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA) announced Thursday the names of the nominees for the "Best" award for the year 2022, led by Argentine Paris Saint-Germain star Lionel Messi and his French colleague Kylian Mbappe, a few weeks after the match that brought them together in the Qatar World Cup final. foot.
The chances of the little "flea", who led the "Albiceleste" team to the world title for the first time since 1986 and the third in its history after a charming performance, seem high to win the prize, whose winner will be announced on February 27. He is also likely to add to his record an eighth Ballon d'Or awarded to the best player in the world.
On the other hand, Mbappe almost wrote his name in the history of round ball by becoming the second player to win the World Cup twice in a row after the late Brazilian legend Pele, after his hat-trick in the final, but he failed to avoid losing the “Roosters” team to Argentina by penalty kicks 2-4 after they tied 3. 3- In the original and additional times.
Also on the list were two players defending the colors of the French capital club, the Brazilian Neymar and the Moroccan Ashraf Hakimi.
Another French player, the Spanish Real Madrid star, Karim Benzema, was also chosen as the winner of the Golden Ball award for the best player in the world in its latest version, as well as the Polish Robert Lewandowski, Barcelona striker, who won the “Best” award from FIFA in the last two years.
The list also included three players from Manchester City, the Argentine Julian Alvares, the Belgian Kevin De Bruyne and the Norwegian Erling Haaland, in addition to the Croatian Real Madrid duo Luka Modric and the Brazilian Vinicius Junior, the Egyptian Liverpool star Mohamed Salah, the Bayern Munich striker, Senegalese Sadio Mane and the Borussia midfielder. Dortmund German Englishman Jude Bellingham.
Among the women, the presence of the star Alexia Potias appeared in the list of candidates for the award, despite her absence from the stadiums in the last six months due to injury.
The Barcelona and Spain player won the award last year and was also crowned with the Golden Ball award.
The list also included the English attacker Beth Meade, who ranked second in the Golden Ball award, and two players from the English team that won the European Cup at home, Leah Williamson and Kira Walsh.
Awards are also given to the best men's and women's coach, the best goalkeeper and the Puskas Award for the best goal of 2022.
A public and open vote will be held until February 3, after which it will determine who will qualify for the final stage in each category.
The winner is voted on by a jury made up of coaches and captains of national teams as well as journalists and fans.

Stockholm - (dpa) - The sharp decline in commercial transactions by Swedish real estate companies is the latest evidence of the demise of the sector's golden age, which saw rising real estate values and cheap financing.

The Bloomberg news agency quoted data collected by Pangea Roberti Partners that the volume of commercial transactions in the real estate sector in the largest economy in the Nordic countries fell by more than 60% last month, to reach 10 billion kroner (one billion dollars), after recording a record level. in 2021

Pangea's head of research, Mikael Soderlund, says the lower level of activity that began in March appears to continue into this month.

Soderlund said in an interview that while there were some big deals in the pipeline, "there is uncertainty now about what levels the prices should be in certain sectors".

The downturn could have a significant impact on the growth trajectory of Sweden's publicly traded real estate companies, which account for the largest weighting in the OMX Stockholm index, after industrial, banking and investment firms, and accounted for about half of total corporate bond sales in Sweden last year.

San Francisco, (AFP) - The Meta group (Facebook and Instagram) on Tuesday unveiled a new virtual reality helmet specifically designed for professional use, a year after changing its name and announcing its desire to build a parallel world of Metaverse.

The $1,500 Meta Quest Pro helmet features several advanced technologies aimed at improving users' sense of being with other people.

It is assumed that the new helmet allows not only the possibility of viewing virtual worlds, but also the actual surroundings of the user, thanks to high-resolution cameras installed on it and directed to where the user is looking.

The helmet includes cameras directed at the user, aiming to reflect his facial expressions on his avatar in the virtual world, during a meeting he holds with his colleagues, for example.

During the "Connect" electronic conference organized to address the company's developments in terms of technologies and services for virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality, the founder and president of "Meta" Mark Zuckerberg said, "If the user smiles or frowns (...) his avatar is supposed to be able to reflect this expression."

"The number of apps (available on Quest) generating more than $5 million in revenue has doubled since last year," said Andrew Bosworth, chief technology officer of the US group.

The company also announced new partnerships, most notably with Microsoft, with the aim of making its platforms in the world of Metaverse more widely used.

Governorates - "Jerusalem" dot com - A worker was injured, this Friday morning, as a result of the Israeli occupation forces shooting at him at one of the openings near the Tarqumiya crossing, west of Hebron .

According to local sources, the worker sustained moderate to minor injuries while trying to cross the security barrier to reach his workplace.

In the context of the Israeli attacks, settlers cut down dozens of olive trees in the plain of the village of Turmusaya, north of Ramallah .

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - 3 prisoners in the Israeli occupation prisons continue their open hunger strike to demand their release.

Khalil Awadeh strikes in refusal of his administrative detention, as the occupation refuses to this day to respond to his demand for his release, despite a decision to freeze his detention issued yesterday, Friday.

Awawdeh, 40, from the town of Ithna, Hebron district, entered his 161st day of strike. He had been on strike for 111 days, suspended his strike for only a week, and returned to the strike after the prison administration refused to find a solution to his case and renewed his administrative detention for a period of 4 months, which is the renewal. his second.

The two detained brothers, Ahmed and Adal Hussein Musa, from the town of Al-Khader / Bethlehem, have continued their hunger strike for 15 days, starting from the date of their arrest on August 7, 2022, in rejection of their administrative detention, as they are in the cells of “Ofer” prison. The occupation issued an order against Ahmed. Administrative detention for four months, and for Adal for a period of 3.

The Captive Club stated that the 44-year-old detainee, Ahmed, is a former prisoner, and in 2019 he carried out a hunger strike that lasted for 29 months, and ended with an agreement to release him. He is a patient who suffers from severe heart problems and has undergone several surgeries. Over the past years, he is married and the father of seven children.

Adal, 34, is a former prisoner who spent about seven years in the occupation prisons, including five years continuously. He is married and has two children.

Tripoli (dpa) - Libyan Prime Minister Abdel Hamid al-Dabaiba said on Monday that he would only hand over power to an elected government, effectively ruling out resignation in favor of a new transitional government.

Dabaiba added at a cabinet meeting in the capital, Tripoli: "We want this stage of ours to be the last of the transitional stages, and we will adhere to that, and if we go to elections, we will hand over power after that, because we want that."

Al-Dabaiba spoke about the demonstrations and protests that have swept many Libyan cities since last Friday, indicating that the people’s demand in them is to change the current faces, pointing out that there is no way to achieve this except for elections, commenting by saying: “The people must put their papers in the ballot boxes and choose Whoever wants, whether for parliament or the presidency."

Dabaiba affirmed the people's right to freedom and expression, explaining that this right is "guaranteed by law and cannot be argued about."

During the ninth meeting of the Council of Ministers at its headquarters in Tripoli yesterday, Monday, Dabaiba said: "I spoke with many Libyans, and encouraged them to go out and determine their fate. The people are the masters of the country, and we are at their service, and the people are demanding their rights that were robbed of them over the past ten years."

He added, "The first of these rights is self-determination in approving the constitution and political destiny, and we will stand with the people in that, and no individual, party or party can make the political decision by force against the decision-making people, just as it is not possible to argue about elections and democracy, and it is not possible allow any individual or group to benefit from the making of election laws.”

Washington - (AFP) - Tensions escalated further between Saudi Arabia and the United States on Thursday, as they exchanged criticism over oil production cuts and Riyadh's position on Moscow.

In a rare statement, the Saudis responded to the United States, which considered the reduction in black gold production as a "bias" towards Russia and the policies of its President Vladimir Putin.

And the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated in the statement that "the government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has seen the statements ... which included describing the decision as siding with the Kingdom in international conflicts and that it was a decision based on political motives against the United States of America."

Riyadh expressed its "total rejection" of the US accusations, stressing that the decisions of the "OPEC +" alliance depend primarily on a "pure economic perspective."

Last week, the "OPEC +" alliance, made up of the 13 members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and their ten allies, led by Russia, decided to cut production quotas by two million barrels per day, starting from November.

The decision came despite US President Joe Biden's warning that there would be "consequences" to the move, which could lead to higher oil prices and thus fill Russia's coffers from its oil revenues to finance its war in Ukraine.

For its part, Riyadh said that the United States "proposed" to postpone the decision of "OPEC +" for a month so that the price of gasoline does not rise and thus influence the American voters.

This means that the White House asked Riyadh to wait until after the midterm legislative elections in the United States, scheduled for November 8, which are crucial in determining the remainder of Joe Biden's presidential term.

Washington's response to the Saudi statement was exceptionally swift and strong.

The White House said Thursday that Saudi Arabia "could try to manipulate or divert attention, but the facts are clear."

"In recent weeks, the Saudis have made it clear to us privately and publicly that they intend to cut oil production, knowing that this will increase Russia's revenues and mitigate the impact of sanctions. They have gone in the wrong direction," said John Kirby, a spokesman for the US National Security Council.

"They could easily have waited for the next OPEC meeting to see how things develop," Kirby added.

And Kirby added, "Other OPEC countries told us, in private contacts, that they also oppose the Saudi decision, but they felt the need to support" Riyadh's strategy. He explained that Washington "will continue to monitor any indication of (Riyadh's) position in terms of responding to the Russian aggression against Ukraine."

Joe Biden pledged, after the “OPEC +” decision, to conduct a “reassessment” of the long-standing strategic relationship between the two countries, which is based on a simple principle: Saudi Arabia supplies the market with oil, and in return the United States guarantees its security, especially through huge arms deals with it.

The US President visited Saudi Arabia in July to confirm this principle, and thus the White House considered the "OPEC +" decision a diplomatic insult.

The decision of "OPEC +" proves that that visit - and the famous greeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman - is politically costly for the 79-year-old Democrat, after he promised during his campaign for the presidential elections to make Saudi Arabia a "pariah" due to the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Many Democratic members of Congress are calling for a freeze on massive arms sales to Saudi Arabia, but the White House has not yet determined what the "consequences" mentioned by Joe Biden will be.

Washington - (AFP) - The Venezuelan embassy in Washington announced the closure of its headquarters after the Venezuelan opposition dissolved the "interim government" of Juan Guaido, who has the support of its employees, on Friday.

Guaido declared himself "acting president" in January 2019 and received great international support. The matter led to the return of Venezuelan diplomats , accredited in the American capital and loyal to President Nicolas Maduro, to their country after the Organization of American States agreed to appoint an envoy from the opposition in their place.

Subsequently, supporters of Nicolás Maduro occupied the embassy building in April for several weeks, leading to intense confrontations with supporters of Juan Guaidó and protesters in the street, until the police cleared the building.

Guaidó failed to overthrow Maduro, and the international support he enjoyed gradually dwindled. At the end of December 2022, three main opposition parties in Venezuela supported the dissolution of the "interim government", despite their support for it when it was formed in January 2019.

In the wake of this decision, the embassy said in a statement that it "and all its representatives have officially ceased to exercise their duties" as of Thursday, expressing regret for depriving its citizens in the United States of consular services.

In a statement, the outgoing ambassador, Carlos Vecchio, expressed his regret for the "political, economic and moral error" committed by the opposition in dissolving Guaido's interim government, noting that Nicolas "Maduro is the only beneficiary of this decision."

Written by: Ibrahim Daibes

I do not hide that I cried and was very sad as I read this incident from Jenin.. The young Farouk Salama was preparing for his wedding and wedding ceremony, but his destiny was to be martyred by the occupation bullets after he and the family prepared all the needs of the wedding. They made wedding preparations in a small room. It stayed there and no one used it. Baskets of chocolate and other sweets were ready, and the groom's family was preparing to distribute them to the camp's residents. His wedding cards were also distributed to all the family and friends, and henna was printed on his hands. He says, "I also bought a set of gowns to give the wedding a tribal atmosphere."

Also, in detail, he had prepared special sacrifices and meals because the family was preparing to hold a big party, and before the final ceremony, henna was used.. There are many other details, but we have reached a point, grief and worry.. While he was slaughtering his wedding sacrifice, the occupation forces killed him inside a butcher shop in Jenin camp. Where he used to slaughter sacrifices for his wedding..!!

And his mother, may God be with her and helps her, started calling in a hoarse voice, “Don't be too long, Farouk..Your suit is ready. Don't be too long.

And a thousand curses on the occupation, and all patience and stamina to the mother in particular and the family and friends in general: and your story, Farouk, must reach the whole world..!!

A new division instead of uniting with the "Barta'a" occupation!!

We are suffering from fragmentation and division, and it was agreed in Algeria to restore national unity, and we saw leaders from various factions shaking hands and smiling in front of the television cameras.. The meeting ended and nothing happened. Rather, the division widened and we heard about the “People’s Congress” led by Omar Assaf, who was arrested by the authority, period. Perhaps a short and clear message was communicated to him, before his release.

As is clear and usual, the occupation did not stop, even for a moment, from practicing its expansionist ambitions, the last but not the least of which is Israel inventing fake graves to control the endowment lands in Jerusalem, and Qalqilya is a city besieged by settlements and bypass roads and suffocated by the apartheid wall and the settlers' orgy increases the suffering of Nablus and the siege that suffocates it as well. The settlements emit gases that cause global warming, which destroys agriculture. In Jenin, they continue to destroy homes and issue notices of demolition. To make things worse and darker, the results of the Israeli elections have returned the extreme right, led by Netanyahu, to power.

Damascus - (dpa) - Syrian sources reported that the American forces took out dozens of tanks loaded with Syrian oil, in addition to other vehicles carrying military equipment, from Syrian territory towards Iraqi territory through the crossings in rural Al-Hasakah.

Today, Thursday, the Syrian News Agency (SANA) quoted the sources as saying, "A convoy consisting of 35 vehicles, including 20 tanks loaded with stolen oil from the oil wells occupied by the American occupation forces on the island, in addition to a number of covered trucks and refrigerators, headed through the illegal Al-Walid crossing to the north of the country." Iraq".

The sources added, "Another convoy of the occupation, including 25 tanks loaded with Syrian oil stolen from the oil fields in Rumailan and Al-Shaddadi, headed to Iraqi territory through the illegal al-Mahmudiya crossing in the Yarubiyah countryside, in conjunction with the low flight of three helicopters belonging to the occupation forces."

According to the agency, "the American occupation forces transported a few days ago a convoy consisting of 55 tanks loaded with stolen Syrian oil in batches to Iraqi territory through the Mahmoudiya crossing in the Yarubiyah countryside, northeast of Hasakah."

TAIWAN, China (Xinhua) -- Early Thursday morning, China launched a new satellite for disaster reduction, emergency management and environmental monitoring, from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province.

A Long March-2C carrier rocket carrying the S-SAR01 satellite took off at 6:53 am (Beijing Time).

The satellite entered the predetermined orbit, and the Ministry of Emergency Management and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment will be the primary users of the said satellite.

The China National Space Corporation said that by obtaining S-band radar imaging data with a resolution of 5 meters, the satellite will support the purposes of disaster prevention, reduction, relief and environmental protection, and the satellite will also be used in the fields of natural resources, water conservancy, agriculture, forestry and earthquakes. and others.

The launch marked the 443rd mission of the Long March series of carrier rockets.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Civil Defense Authority warned citizens of wind speeds, which could reach 70 km/h tomorrow.

And the Civil Defense stressed, in a statement issued today, Monday, the need to install everything that is liable to fly over the roofs of buildings and balconies, and called on farmers to take precautions to protect greenhouses.

He also warned of the danger of torrential rains forming in some areas of the Jordan Valley as a result of the expected heavy rains tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, calling on drivers to drive safely and not risk crossing water and torrential pools.

Likewise, the Civil Defense called on citizens to safely use heating devices to avoid the outbreak of fires or suffocation from toxic gases resulting from them.

London - (dpa) - The exemption of British steel and aluminum products from additional US tariffs that were imposed under former President Donald Trump came into effect today, Wednesday.

The dispute between Britain and the United States was settled last March after the United States announced its intention to treat steel and aluminum imports from Britain with a system of tariff quotas instead of Section 232 of the British Trade Expansion Act, which imposed additional duties on these imports.

Under the new deal, British manufacturers will be allowed to export up to 500,000 tonnes of steel and 21,600 tonnes of aluminum to the US annually without being subject to the additional duties.

The British steel industry companies considered this exemption from fees a great victory, and it will provide new economic opportunities for companies across the supply chains of this sector, which includes 80,000 workers.

In return for the US concessions, Britain would allow an end to additional duties imposed on some US products such as wine, Levi's jeans and Harley-Davidson motorcycles.

"From today, British steel and aluminum exporters can return to exporting to our largest trading partner across the Atlantic," said Anne-Marie Trevelyan, Secretary of State for British International Trade.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - Today, Thursday, the Israeli occupation prisons administration transferred the official of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in the prisons branch , Ahed Abu Ghulamy, for investigation.

Raymond prison, in which Abu Ghulamy is held, witnessed a state of alert, following his transfer for investigation. As mentioned in a statement of the prisoners' committee in the popular.

It is noteworthy that Abu Ghulamy is considered one of the leaders of the captive national movement and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and he is the leader of the military wing of the front in the occupied West Bank, and responsible for the cell that carried out the assassination of the Israeli Minister of Tourism, "Rehavam Ze'evi" in occupied Jerusalem.

Abu Ghulamy was arrested with the Secretary-General of the Front, Ahmed Saadat, and a group of his companions, following the occupation's storming of Jericho prison in 2006.

On January 1, 2008, and after dozens of hearings, the Israeli military court in Jerusalem sentenced Abu Ghulamy to life imprisonment and an additional five years.

Doha - (AFP) - Argentine star Lionel Messi takes the first step of his last dance in the ranks of the "Albiceleste" team, when he faces his Saudi counterpart at Lusail Stadium, on Tuesday, in the third group competitions of the Qatar 2022 World Cup in football, which is witnessing a confrontation between Poland and Mexico. at stadium 974.

Messi, who won the Golden Ball seven times, said on the sixth of last October that the 2022 edition will be his last, and there is no doubt that he wants it to be the culmination of a triumphant march during which he won all possible titles in the ranks of Barcelona, Spain, and then Paris Saint-Germain, France, as he was crowned with his country. in the Copa America in 2021, to lead it to its first continental title since 1993.

Messi, 35, is participating in his fifth World Cup, and his most prominent result was his runner-up in the 2014 Brazil edition.

"We are very excited. We have a very good group and are very eager. But we are thinking of going step by step. We know that the World Cup groups are not easy," said Messi, who shines in the ranks of Paris Saint-Germain this season, in an interview with the South American Football Federation website.

Argentina is entering this tournament armed with a series of 36 matches without losing over the past three years. And if it is destined to beat Saudi Arabia , it will equal the record held by the Italian national team.

Coach Lionel Scaloni has a homogeneous and solid squad that, in addition to Messi, relies on veteran Angel Di Maria, Juventus winger and Inter striker Lautaro Martinez, in addition to the attacking duo Christian Romero from Tottenham, England, and Lisandro Martinez from Manchester United as well.

The last experience of the Argentine national team, the 1978 and 1986 champions, who settled for the final eight in Russia 2018 when it lost to France 3-4, was its crushing victory a few days ago against its UAE host, five clean.

On the other hand, the Saudi national team must play the match of its life if it wants to achieve a positive result against the South American giants.

The Saudi national team, which includes 12 players from Al Hilal, the Asian champion, has enjoyed technical stability since French coach Herve Renard took over his training in July 2019, when he succeeded in leading him to the finals for the sixth time in his history after leading a group that included Japan and Australia.

And the Saudi national team dreams of repeating the dream of qualifying for the final price round, as it did in its first participation, specifically in the World Cup in the United States in 1994, when its star Saeed Al-Owairan scored for him the historic and wonderful winning goal against Belgium, before losing Al-Akhdar against Sweden 1-3.

Renard has great experience in continental and international tournaments, after he led Zambia to its first title in the African Cup of Nations in 2012, and then succeeded in achieving the same achievement with Ivory Coast three years later, becoming the first coach to win this honor with two different teams in the continental championship. He led Morocco in the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

"To make great performances in a major tournament, you have to be very strong at the collective level," said Renard, who is counting on the likes of Salman Al-Faraj and Salem Al-Dosari, in an interview with AFP.

And about meeting Messi, he said, "It will be great! When you decide to become a coach, you want to face the best opponents."

And whether Saudi Arabia will play under pressure in the nearest World Cup in terms of distance, "No. We have been received by His Highness the Crown Prince (Prince Mohammed bin Salman). He blessed us for qualifying for the World Cup, stressing that there is no pressure imposed on the players and that we only have to show a beautiful image of "Saudi football. I see it as a smart move. It's perfect and realistic communication. But that doesn't mean that we will be complacent in our mission."

On the other hand, Saudi national team midfielder Hattan Bahbari considered that the key to achieving a positive result against Argentina at the start of Al-Akhdar's career is the group's solidarity and maximum efforts.

Bahbari, who participated in the 2018 World Cup in Russia in one of the training sessions for his country, said, "We have been drawn into a very difficult group, and we will face the ancient Argentine national team, which includes resonant names at the beginning of the journey."

The teams met four times, Argentina won twice and drew twice.

And at Stadium 974, the only one of the eight World Cup stadiums that will be completely dismantled, Poland and its veteran scorer Robert Lewandowski will face Mexico.

In his ninth participation, most notably in 1974 and 1982, Bello Chervoni (white and red) is counting on the new striker of Barcelona, Spain, and one of the creators of Bayern Munich's glories in the last decade.

The 34-year-old wants to make up for a disappointing start in 2018, when his team bottomed out in the group stage and failed to score a goal.

"Of course I am thinking about the last World Cup. I will do everything to realize the dream of scoring in the World Cup," said Leiva, the best scorer in Poland's history (76 in 134 international matches).

Coach Cheslav Mikhneevich expressed his desire to "keep the ball as long as possible, build quick sentences after possession and pass quickly to relieve the opponent's pressure," considering that organizing the midfield is "the main dilemma" for him.

Despite surviving in the first level of the European Nations League, Poland suffered three defeats, including a heavy one against Belgium 1-6.

As for Mexico, participating for the 17th time, most notably in 1970 and 1986 at home when it reached the quarter-finals, its Argentine coach Gerardo "Tata" Martino hopes that Wolverhampton striker Raul Jimenez will be able to participate.

The 31-year-old has not played with the El Tree since last August due to a thigh injury, after a stuttering start to the season with another knee injury.

Kiev - (AFP) - Wearing a khaki T-shirt, tired features, light beard and regular media appearances, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has become a symbol reflecting Ukrainians' determination to defeat Russia despite its huge military arsenal.

Weeks before the Russian invasion on February 24, his presidential term, which he began three years ago, was losing some momentum, as the former comedian was struggling to fulfill his electoral promises in a country plagued by poverty and corruption. It was easy for his opponents to say that the scale of responsibility he assumes is greater than a comic actor, and Western countries regret that the new Ukrainian president at the time seemed unable to implement the required reforms.

"Before the war, many people treated Ukraine as a failed state and Zelensky as a weak president," says political analyst Volodymyr Fesenko.

And when Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine at dawn on February 24, Moscow was convinced that its offensive would be short and that the weak Ukrainian authority would collapse.

All major Ukrainian cities were subjected to heavy bombardment, Kharkiv, Lviv, Dnipro and Odessa, and the Russian army marched towards the Ukrainian capital, Kiev.

"There were rumors that (the Ukrainian president) would flee," Fesenko recalled.

However, the reality was different. Zelensky attracted attention after he appeared in a video clip recorded in front of the buildings of the Presidential Administration in the center of Kiev, and his advisers surrounded him.

His eyes staring into the camera lens, he said, "We are all here, our military is here, the citizens, the community, we are all here, to defend our independence, our state."

More than ten months after the start of the war, exhaustion is evident on his face and his beard has grown, but every evening his determination is the same that he directs to his compatriots in videos posted on social media.

Meanwhile, Zelensky and his army inflicted surprising defeats on Putin's army: in April, the Kremlin retreated from entering Kiev, in September it lost control of the Kharkiv region, and then in November it lost Kherson, the capital of the region of the same name.

The Financial Times, which awarded Zelensky the title of Man of the Year, did not hesitate to compare him to former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who led the war against the Nazis.

In Russia, on the contrary, Zelensky is presented as the leader of a neo-Nazi genocidal clique or the leader of drug addicts, even Satan.

"The Russian Orthodox Church must officially announce that Zelensky personifies the arrival of the Antichrist," political analyst Arayik Stepanyan said on Russia 1 in November.

But Zelensky, 44, is also the leader of the media battle. He has previously appeared on the cover of the fashion magazine "Vogue" with his wife, Olena, as well as in the southern city of Kherson, which was recaptured by Ukrainian forces in November, singing the national anthem surrounded by soldiers.
These scenes contrast with those showing Putin operating isolated in the Kremlin.

Zelensky has also used his popularity and the suffering of Ukrainians to extract more weapons and more funding from his Western allies.

For this purpose, he always presents his country as a bulwark against Russian imperialism and as a defender of democratic values, as he did in June when he told Czech deputies that Moscow is targeting "a vast area from Warsaw to Sofia and from Prague to Tallinn."

And he takes a tough line on leaders who ask him to make concessions to Moscow, such as French President Emmanuel Macron.
He received in his office the leaders of Western countries who visited Kiev successively, as well as Hollywood stars.

Zelensky, who grew up in the industrial city of Kryvyi Rig in a predominantly Russian-speaking region, did not expect to play this role.

Before entering politics, he made a successful career as a comedian, in Ukraine as well as in Russia, where the same TV channels that insult him today would invite him to appear on their screens.

As of 2015, he plays an honest but naive history professor who accidentally becomes the president of Ukraine, in a hit series.
However, the fantasy became reality with his election in 2019 by Ukrainians fed up with a corrupt political class, including their billionaire president, Petro Poroshenko.

"Zelensky turned out to be a real patriot, fighter, president," says Volodymyr Fesenko.

With winter in Ukraine and Russian missiles destroying the country's energy facilities, Zelensky will have to maintain the resilience of his citizens, who face frost and darkness, and the resolve of his allies.
According to Fisenko, Zelensky must "preserve society's will to resist and ... to support the West," because "the feeling of war exhaustion is a real challenge."

Written by: Sri Al Qudwa*

And Jerusalem, with all its civilized, Arab and Islamic components, and its cultural and religious heritage, remains the eternal capital of the State of Palestine with its Islamic and Christian sanctities, and in accordance with the resolutions of international legitimacy and international law. The Israeli flag is a natural matter, and therefore the march of the flags will pass according to its natural course, as he put it, and that those sterile positions and Israeli statements about Jerusalem will not give legitimacy to the occupation of the city and the occupation will end, no matter how long it takes.

The international community, especially the US administration, must assume its responsibilities to stop the Israeli violations and stop dealing with the existing double standards, which the occupation benefits from in its continued evasion of the entitlements of the peace process and pushing the region towards more acts of chaos and rival conflicts, which reflect the extent of the ideological conflict within Israeli society, which is mainly based on violence. The hostility and practice of hatred against the Palestinian people, especially in Jerusalem and the occupied Palestinian territories, which contributes to the continuation of the policy of extremism and terrorism, which has become an essential part of the Israeli work system and the approach adopted by the extremist and racist occupation government.

The occupation government does not care about the decisions of international legitimacy and the endeavors and initiatives to establish peace and justice. In light of the practice of this policy and the continuation of the aggression against Al-Aqsa Mosque, targeting it with Israeli flags, and trying to impose policies of Judaization and theft of history, these positions cannot achieve security and stability in the region as long as the occupation government continues its war on the people. The Palestinian, his land and sanctities, dealing as a state above the law, rejecting the resolutions of international legitimacy and the foundations on which the peace process was based, and not abiding by them, and flouting all international resolutions in disregard and disregard for international law.

The occupation government must realize the facts it practices on the ground and that the only way to achieve stability and lasting peace passes through fulfilling the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, foremost of which is the establishment of an independent state with East Jerusalem as its capital, and that Jerusalem and its sanctities are not for sale and peace will not be at any price, and the Palestinian people stationed in Al-Aqsa Mosque and cannons On behalf of the Islamic and Christian sanctities in the city of Jerusalem, the capital of the eternal state, they will keep the covenant and the promise, as they confront with their bare chests the settlers who are trying to desecrate Al-Aqsa Mosque, and stand together to protect it from the Israeli occupation forces, believing in the inevitability of victory and ready to confront the usurper occupier, no matter the sacrifices.

No one can overlook the legendary steadfastness and resistance of the Palestinian people to the occupation, especially the Palestinian people in the city of Jerusalem, who show courage that is unparalleled in this time and defend the Holy City and its sanctities, embodying national unity and ensuring the integration of Palestinian performance in all places of presence, whether in the occupied interior or in places of diaspora. In order to thwart the occupation plans that target the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and the holy sites.

And those demonstrations that took place in various countries of the world to condemn the occupation and its racist aggression are only an affirmation that the Palestinian people face the occupation and its settlers with more patience and steadfastness in order to fight the battle to defend Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa and thwart all plans that target the Palestinian presence in Jerusalem, stressing that the fate of these plans is failure, as the previous ones And that the Palestinian people will be victorious and achieve their goals of liberation and the establishment of their independent state with Jerusalem as its capital.

* Ambassador of Arab media in Palestine
Editor-in-Chief of the Palestinian Al-Sabah newspaper

Tokyo - (AFP) - Japan is considering deploying more than 1,000 long-range cruise missiles to boost its ability to counter China's growing regional threats , local newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun reported Sunday.

Tokyo plans to develop anti-ship missiles to increase its range from 100 kilometers to about 1,000 kilometers, which would be enough to reach coastal areas of China and North Korea, according to the newspaper, citing unnamed sources.

It will also have to carry out modernization operations to enable the ships and aircraft currently owned by Japan to launch new missiles that can hit targets on land, according to the newspaper.

The "Yomiuri" that the missiles will be deployed in the Kyushu region and its environs and on the islands located in southwestern Japan near Taiwan.

AFP was not immediately able to obtain comment from Japanese officials.

The plan is part of Japan's attempt to reduce the missile capabilities gap with China and deal at the same time with North Korean threats, according to the newspaper.

It is noteworthy that the constitution of Japan after World War II does not officially recognize the army, while defense spending is limited to financing defense capabilities.

Recent geopolitical tension, including Russia's invasion of Ukraine and China's more hostile stance toward Taiwan, has led to calls within Japan to reconsider its defense programmes.

And Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida pledged to dramatically increase defense spending, knowing that it remained at about one percent of gross domestic product.

Local media reported that the Japanese Ministry of Defense will most likely request 5.5 trillion yen ($40.2 billion) for the next fiscal year, compared to the 5.18 trillion yen it asked for in the current fiscal year.

But it is expected that the ministry will also demand approval of a list of equipment whose price has not been specified, including the cost of developing long-range cruise missiles, according to the Asahai Shimbun newspaper.

Rome - (AFP) - Italian Torino announced Friday that its international striker Andrea Belotti, who has reached the end of his contract, will leave the club after a seven-year adventure.

"Dear Andrea, we have taken note of your decision to embark on a new experience. Our paths will separate from today," the Italian club wrote on its website, the day after the expiration of the "Gallo" (rooster) contract.

"We lived together seven seasons, a particularly strong bond in modern football, and we always share the same passion, joys, sufferings, emotions and disappointments," he added, in thanks to the 28-year-old captain.

Belotti arrived in Turin from Palermo in 2015, and scored 113 goals in 251 matches for him in various competitions.

The Italian international (44 games, 12 goals), who won the European Cup with his country, did not announce his future destination.

Jerusalem - "Al Quds" dot com - The Israeli occupation forces arrested, at dawn and today, Tuesday, 8 citizens from separate areas in Jerusalem and the West Bank.

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An Israeli force, two brothers, Walid, and Abd al-Rahman Salem al-Khatib, from the town of Hizma, northeast of occupied Jerusalem, after raiding several homes in the town.

Another force arrested 5 young men from the Jalazoun refugee camp in Ramallah at the Qalandia military checkpoint, while they were returning from Jerusalem.

The citizen, Hassan Abdel Salam Al-Awiwi (39 years old), was arrested while trying to travel through Al-Karama crossing.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - Representatives, ambassadors and consuls of the European Union visited today, Friday, the Ein Samia School , east of Ramallah, in protest against the decision of the Central Occupation Court in Jerusalem, issued last Wednesday, to demolish it immediately.

The representative of the European Union in Palestine, Sven Kun von Burgsdorff, said, "This is not the first visit in which we meet in protest against the occupation's decisions, and Israel, as an occupying power, must respect the right to education under international law and relevant international agreements, and guarantee the right of Palestinian children in Area C." ", Gaza, and the rest of the regions, to reach their schools easily."

He stressed that this demolition decision is a clear violation of all international obligations, and it is an illogical decision that is not considered a legal formulation, and it amounts to the crime of forced displacement.

In turn, the spokesman for the Ministry of Education, Sadiq Al-Khdour, considered that targeting the school is part of targeting the national identity and Palestinian education in all regions, calling for serious action and addressing the world with the need to support our children's right to education in light of this attack.

Al-Khdour said that the presence of the school enhances the existence of the population and provides the right to education, and students do not have to travel long distances with it, stressing that if the school is demolished, it will be rebuilt with all partners, and students will study in tents and in the open if this is not possible.

He added: We do not deal with these schools with the same standards compared to other schools. When we talk about a school with 7 students and 5 teachers, this confirms that we are concerned with providing the right to education and its implementation, and we do not study the feasibility in terms of economic and cost, but rather from the moral feasibility and value. Ethical, and commitment to what should be towards students in providing the right to education.

For his part, the director of the Jerusalem Center for Legal Aid, Issam Al-Arouri, said that the occupation court in Jerusalem canceled the precautionary order to stop the demolition of the school last Wednesday based on a change in the instructions of the building regulations in force in the occupied Palestinian territories, and in the context that Israel changed its narrative and began to deal with our lands as a land And that any construction in Area C is tantamount to an attack on the property of the occupying power, and since that time the school has not been protected and is under imminent danger of demolition.

Al-Arouri added that we are planning a legal process that begins next week with a request to exempt the school from the licensing application, stressing that the only thing that can save the school is to put urgent and imminent political pressure in the hope of giving us a period of several days for a new legal move that may save the school.

The citizen Muhammad Hussein Ka'anbeh said that the school and the area as a whole are constantly attacked by settlers and the occupation soldiers, and some time ago they confiscated the school's equipment, and all this comes in the context of the displacement of the population, but we will not leave the area.

It is noteworthy that the school was inaugurated in mid-January, in coordination between the Ministry of Education and the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, and with European funding through one of the international institutions operating in Palestine, with the efforts of volunteers, to serve the students of Ain Samia Al-Badawi community, as one of the resilience and challenge schools in the designated areas. (c).

The Ain Samia Bedouin community is located on the outskirts of the Jerusalem desert, to the northeast, where the Al-Amreen / Al-Ka'abneh Bedouin clan settled about 35 years ago, which includes about 300 citizens who experienced the bitterness of displacement and deportation many times before they settled in this place, where the occupation forces seized parts A large area of land in the community and the surrounding area for the benefit of the "Kawkab al-Sabah" settlement.

The residents of the community suffer from repeated attacks by settlers with the aim of seizing the rest of the land and expelling the citizens from it.

It is noteworthy that the hills surrounding the settlement witnessed the establishment of several outposts in the form of pastoral outposts, each consisting of a caravan and a herd of sheep or cows, with the aim of intimidating the citizens in the area and cleansing them ethnically using a mixture of terrorism and the official tools of the occupation, where the two sides constitute two sides of the same coin practicing forced displacement. which amounts to a war crime against the protected population under occupation.

Gaza - " Jerusalem " dot com - Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip organized, on Tuesday evening, a naval activity off the Zikim Israeli military site in the far northwest of the Strip.

The participants in the vigil raised the Palestinian flag, and slogans emphasizing the support and support of Gaza, Jerusalem and the West Bank , and the prisoners in the occupation prisons.

During a speech on behalf of the factions, Khader Habib, a leader in the Islamic Jihad, called on the international community and the United Nations to work in order to lift the injustice against the Palestinian people.

Habib emphasized the right of the Palestinian people to their land and sea, calling for the continuation of the resistance approach in order to achieve this.