Belgian police have arrested an Iraqi immigrant suspected of belonging to an al-Qaeda cell that carried out deadly car bombings in Baghdad in 2009-2010, prosecutors said Friday.

The prosecution said in a statement that the man, identified by the initials OYT and born in 1979, was arrested on Wednesday when police raided a house in the eastern Belgian town of Hasselt, on the order of an anti-terrorism judge.

Al-Jumaa will appear before the court on charges related to “homicide with the intent of terrorism, participation in the activities of a terrorist group, war crimes and crimes against humanity” to determine whether he will remain in detention.

The statement said he was believed to be part of an al-Qaeda cell "partially responsible for several bombings in the Green Zone in Baghdad (Iraq) in 2009 and 2010, killing at least 376 people and wounding more than 2,300 others."

He added that among the targets of the car bombs were Iraqi government buildings.

Prosecutors said that the Iraqi man had been living in Belgium since 2015 as a refugee and the investigation began in 2020.

His arrest followed the arrest on March 28 of a 38-year-old Syrian man suspected of committing "war crimes" in Syria on behalf of the Islamic State group.
The young Syrian also obtained refugee status in Belgium.

On Saturday, Britain will organize a lavish coronation ceremony, the first in 70 years, with King Charles sitting on the throne in solemn Christian rituals and more than a thousand years of history.

The first coronation ceremony for a British monarch since 1937 is a religious confirmation of his accession to the throne, succeeding his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, who died in September 2022.

And a large part of the Anglican ceremonies that will be held in Westminster Abbey, during which his second wife Camilla will also be crowned queen, is inherited from the 74-year-old ancestors of the 74-year-old king.

But there will also be a clear break with tradition, with the participation of women bishops and leaders of minority religions, and a more diverse and representative guest list of British society.

The issue of the environment will also be present, including anointing the king with vegetable oil and recycled ceremonial clothes, reflecting the issues that Charles has carried the banner throughout his life, namely sustainability and biodiversity.

The organizer of the coronation ceremonies, the Duke of Norfolk Edward Fitzalan-Hood, holds the rank of Earl Marshal, described the event as a "proud moment" in British history.

"During the coronation ceremony, the king will take an oath before God and the nation to serve our country as head of state, uphold our laws and justice for all," he told reporters earlier this week.

The duke, whose family has been organizing official ceremonies since 1483, saw the ceremony as an opportunity to bring together Britain and the Commonwealth of Nations, which includes 56 countries, which Charles also heads.

But not everyone is in a celebratory mood. Republican opponents, demanding an elected head of state, hatched a plan to protest on coronation day with slogans that read "Not mine" (Nat May King).

The enthusiasm of younger people for the coronation ceremony and the monarchy in general appears lukewarm, according to opinion polls.

Outside the UK, Charles's position as heir to the throne is weakening in 14 of the Commonwealth countries. Jamaica may hold a referendum on severing ties with the crown next year at the earliest, according to the Caribbean country's legal and constitutional affairs minister, Marilyn Malahu Fort.

"Jamaica is in Jamaican hands," she told Sky News, adding, "It's time to say goodbye."

Australia is considering a constitutional amendment that would give the indigenous people, who were subjected to oppression in the past by the British crown, a greater institutional "voice" in the decision-making process, which would herald a rupture in the future.
Charles also faces calls for an apology for his ancestors' involvement in colonialism and the slave trade.

South Africa also called for the return of the world's largest diamond, mined during British rule and now one of the crown jewels to be used in religious ceremonies on Saturday.

Back in Britain, political leaders hope that the coronation ceremony will show Britain at its best, and work in some way to repair its international position, which was damaged by its exit from the European Union.

The French and German presidents and senior European Union leaders will be among the 2,300 invitees who will attend the ceremony, along with members of global royal families.

But the lavish display of jewels, tiaras and inlaid carriages is unnerving many Britons who are struggling with the high cost of living and widespread strikes to demand better wages.

"We don't live the same life. People are now struggling," Aidan Ewitt, 38, told AFP in north London.

"I only cook twice a week. I only eat sandwiches. Some people don't eat at all," she added.

Much of the 100 million Egyptian pound ($126 million) cost of the ceremony, funded largely by taxpayers, is likely to go to the massive security operation.

A Buckingham Palace spokesman said: "A national occasion like this, a state event like this, attracts huge global interest that more than makes up for the payout that comes with it."

Trade body UK Hospitality said the weekend ceremonies, which include a public holiday on Monday, could bring in £350m to the entertainment sector, including bars.

Every effort has been made for the greatest display of British pomp and pomp in decades, which goes beyond the Queen's official burial last September.

In all, seven thousand military personnel, from cavalry to marching bands, will take part in the meticulously rehearsed parade.
Charles and Camilla will transfer from Buckingham in the Diamond Jubilee carriage, and then return to the palace the same route on the older golden carriage, following the two-hour ceremony in the chapel.

In the palace, they will be greeted by members of the armed forces, and then they will follow ceremonial sorties from the balcony of the palace with other members of the royal family.

The Committee of Administrative Prisoners in the Israeli occupation prisons decided, on Friday, to go on an open hunger strike, which will begin in the coming days.

According to a committee statement published by the Prisoners' Information Office, this step aims to put pressure on the occupation to force it to deal with the demands of administrative prisoners, most notably, to set the ceiling for administrative detention, and to stop this mean massacre that crushed our lives, destroyed our dreams, and stole the flowers of our youth. As stated in the text of the statement.

And she considered that the collective hunger strike, with external support and the embrace of my factions, is an effective and accomplished weapon, noting that the decision was taken after various consultations that took place around the clock with outside prisons.

She called on the administrative prisoners who are able to register their names to participate in the strike, and to write their wills from now on.

It also called on the resistance and the Palestinian people to stand behind the captive movement of the administrative detainees.

On Friday morning, the Israeli army claimed that it had injured, at night, a Palestinian youth who tried with another to plant an explosive device at the security fence with the town of Beit Duqqu, near Jerusalem.

According to the Israeli Army Radio, the army did not clarify whether the young man was arrested or not.

No Palestinian sources confirmed the news.

Osasuna stands between Real Madrid and its quest to win the Spanish Cup in football for the first time since 2014, when they face Saturday in the final match at La Cartuja stadium in Seville.

And after the league title was logically decided in favor of Barcelona and satisfied with the competition for the “honorary” runner-up with its neighbor Atletico Madrid, Real will try hard not to come out empty-handed from its domestic season and win a title out of two possible since it continues to defend the Champions League title, as it engages in a grueling confrontation with Manchester City. English.

This is the first time that Real has reached the Cup final since its last nineteenth coronation in 2014 at the expense of Barcelona, and therefore the Italian coach Carlo Ancelotti will seek not to waste this golden opportunity.

Real will try to benefit from his experience with the final matches that led him to 61 major titles in terms of cups, including 14 in the Champions League, without counting his 35 titles in the Spanish League, in order to settle Saturday’s match against a team that had only reached this stage once. One in its history in 2005 when it lost the cup final to Real Betis on penalties.

Osasuna sporting director Braulio Vasquez stressed the huge difference between the two sides of Saturday's match, saying, "For Madrid, it is an additional final out of many (in its history, including 40 in the cup). But for us, it is the 'final'."

"There is excitement and tension. We will have fun, but we will also compete. What we will experience we will never forget, but we are not going there to have a beer on the (banks of) Gadalkivir."

Reaching the cup final for a team whose coffers include four titles in the second division and seven in the third, is a great reward for the Basque club, which has committed itself to continuity with its coach, Yaguba Arasati.

Osasuna did not abandon his coach despite the difficulties he went through, especially in the middle of the 2020-2021 season when he played 13 consecutive matches without winning the league, which made him threatened with relegation before he rose up and remained among the adults.

Osasuna reached the final in a dramatic way, at the expense of its Basque neighbor, Athletic Bilbao, by drawing with it in the second leg of the semi-final 1-1 in extra time, thanks to a goal by Pablo Ibanes, after winning the first leg at home 1-0.

After the dramatic qualification, Ibanes said, "I can't find the words at the moment. We were suffering like dogs the whole match."

Determination and fighting spirit will be Osasuna's weapons in the face of giants Real and its big stars, in addition to his fans, who will be present strongly in Seville in order to support the team, as happened in the last match in the league at Barcelona Stadium (zero-1) on Tuesday when Arasati played with a backup squad, and despite that His team remained tied with the Catalan giants until the 85th minute.

Osasuna showed his high spirit, not only for his steadfastness against Barcelona with a backup squad, but also because he played with ten players since the 27th minute, and this is "a lesson for what it means to us to be competitors," according to what the coach said in a warning message to Real.
But the high spirit and arrogance may not be enough in the face of an experienced team like Real, who reached the final by sweeping Barcelona 4-0 at the “Camp Nou” during the semi-final second leg.

Saturday's confrontation is also of moral importance to Ancelotti, because he will remain on the path of equaling the number of Frenchman Zinedine Zidane in terms of the number of titles as coach of the Royal Club (11).

The Italian currently owns 9 titles, and winning the Cup and the Champions League will put him at the same distance from the 1998 World Cup champion, who occupies second place on the historical list of honor behind Miguel Muñoz (14 titles during 15 years as coach of the team between 1960 and 1974).

The experienced Italian was confident ahead of the semi-final second leg against Barcelona "of winning at least one title out of the remaining two."

Ancelotti hopes that Saturday will be correct in his expectations, especially since retaining the Champions League title is not guaranteed in light of the difficult test that Real is facing against City and its Spanish coach, Josep Guardiola, who will visit the “Santiago Bernabeu” on Tuesday for the first leg before hosting the second leg a week later.

Ancelotti said, "If we are lucky and win the cup this season, this team will have won every possible title in a two-year period," adding, "There are teams that do not win this matter (all possible titles) during their entire history."

Real, coming from a 0-2 loss in the league against the other Basque team, Real Sociedad, is counting on its record against Osasuna, who has not tasted victory over the Madrid giants since January 30, 2011 (1-0 in the league).
After the end of the league match between Real and Osasuna on February 18, Ancelotti expected to face Pamplona again in the Cup final, and his expectations were correct.

Real won that match with two late goals, signed by Uruguayan Federico Valverde and Marco Asensio. Ancelotti appeared in television footage as he approached Arasati, telling him, "We will meet together in the final of the cup," which prompted his counterpart to laugh and show signs of surprise.

And since the final matches carry surprises, regardless of the differences between the teams, Ancelotti hopes that his team will not fall victim to one of the biggest surprises in the history of the Spanish Cup, which began in 1903, and which Barcelona holds its record (31) against Bilbao (23) and Real (19).

Napoli won the Italian Football League title for the third time in its history, drawing with its host Udinese 1-1 Thursday in Udine, at the end of the thirty-third stage of the Italian Football Championship.

Napoli owes its point, which was sufficient for winning the third title after 1987 and 1990, to its top scorer and Nigerian international Victor Osimhen, who scored the equalizer in the 53rd minute, after Udinese was the first to score through Slovenian Sandy Lovric in the 13th minute.

Napoli strengthened its position in the lead with 80 points, 16 points ahead of its direct chaser Lazio, five stages before the end of the season.

The owner and president of the club since 2004, Aurelio De Laurentiis, commented, saying after the match, "It is a coronation."

He added, addressing more than 50,000 spectators who were present at the Diego Maradona stadium in Naples to follow the match on giant screens, "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! It is an achievement that crowns a 33-year wait."

"You always told us you wanted to win, we won, we won together! And now, big party against Fiorentina," the 73-year-old film producer, who took over a bankrupt and relegated club in 2004, told broadcaster Dazon. In the thirty-fourth stage match.

Napoli achieved what it failed to do in the last stage, when it was unable to win the three points to clinch the title, after losing its direct chaser, Lazio, to Inter Milan 1-3.

And Napoli only needed a draw after Lazio beat its guest Sassuolo 2-0 on Wednesday in the opening stage.
The southern team, Napoli, led by coach Luciano Spalletti, ended a 33-year wait, specifically since his achievement with his late Argentine legend Diego Armando Maradona, and put an end to the northern teams’ dominance in the league title since that season.

Spalletti won the title on the land of the team he supervised twice, in 2001 and between 2002 and 2005.

“Seeing Napoli fans happy is enough to give you the sense of joy they feel,” Spalletti said, on the verge of tears. “These people will look back on this moment when life gets hard, they have every right to celebrate in this way. You feel more comfortable when you know you gave them something.” This moment of happiness."

At the age of 64, Spalletti became the oldest coach to be crowned Italian champion, breaking the record of Maurizio Sarri, who was crowned in 2020 with Juventus at the age of 61.

And the southern team deserved the title, as it has the best attack with 69 goals, and the best line of defense, as it conceded only 23 goals, and it also owns Calcio’s top scorer so far, Osimhen, who has 22 goals.

The first attempt in the match was for Napoli, following a header by captain Giovanni De Lorenzo from close range, following a cross pass by the North Macedonian Elif Elmas (5).

But Udinese succeeded in opening the scoring when Lovric received a ball inside the area from Destiny Oduji, so he prepared it for himself and hit it powerfully with his right into the far left corner of goalkeeper Alex Merritt (13).

Lovric almost added the second goal with a powerful shot from outside the area, which Merritt saved in two waves (31).

Osimhen responded with a header from close range, which passed near the left post, after a cross pass to Elmas (32).

Osimhen managed to equalize at the beginning of the second half when he took advantage of a rebound from goalkeeper Marco Silvestri after a powerful shot by Georgian international Khvicha Kvaratskhelia from outside the area, so he prepared in front of the Nigerian international, who followed it from close range into the goal (53).

It is Osimhen's 22nd goal this season, consolidating his position at the top of the scorers' list.

Brazilian defender Rodrigo Picao almost gave Udinese the lead again with a powerful shot from outside the area, which was saved by Merritt (60).

Silvestri saved his goal from a second goal for the southern team when he blocked a shot "on the fly" from inside the area by Polish international Piotr Jelinski from inside the area before the defense dispersed it (72).

In a second match, Empoli revived his hopes of staying by beating Bologna with three goals by Colombian John Lukomi (1 mistake in his own goal), Ivory Coast Jean-Daniel Akpa Akpro (20) and Niccolo Campiagi (68) against a goal by Riccardo Orsolini (88 from a penalty kick).

Empoli strengthened its position in fifteenth place, with 31 points, compared to 45 points for ninth Bologna.

Brighton achieved a fatal victory over its guest Manchester United, 1-0, Thursday, in a postponed match from the twenty-eighth stage of the English Football League, and continued its dream of one of the qualifying centers for the continental competitions next season.

And Brighton snatched the victory in the ninth minute of stoppage time from a penalty kick that he got in the last fifth minute of stoppage time after a handball on defender Luke Shaw inside the area, which was confirmed by resorting to the video assistant referee, and the Argentine international midfielder Alexis McAlister succeeded in it. .

Brighton took revenge on Manchester United, who knocked it out 11 days before the semi-finals of the FA Cup, with penalty kicks, and prevented the Red Devils from regaining fourth place from Newcastle.

United's balance froze at 63 points and fell to fourth place with a postponed match, two points behind Newcastle, who in turn has a postponed match, while Brighton rose to sixth place, which entitles its owner to compete in the Conference League competition, after raising its score to 55 points.

Brighton, who has two deferred matches, lags by four points behind Liverpool, the fifth-placed team that qualifies for the “Europa League” competition, and by eight points behind Manchester United, the fourth-placed finalist that qualifies for the Champions League competition.

And the Brazilian Anthony almost did it in the second minute, with a shot from the edge of the area next to the left post, after a pass from the Portuguese international captain Bruno Fernandes (2).

Brighton responded quickly when the Japanese Kaoru Mitoma took advantage of a wrong ball from Swedish international defender Victor Lindelof to his colleague Aaron Wan-Bissaka, so he penetrated into the area and hit it in the face of Spanish goalkeeper David De Gea (4).

Mituma almost hit the Red Devils net after a solo effort inside the area, ending it with a creeping shot from close range next to the left post (13), and a header by defender Adam Webster after a corner kick that McAllister (17).

Brazilian Casemiro rose to Luke Shaw's cross and followed it up with his head from close range a few centimeters above the crossbar (27).
Goalkeeper Jason Steely intervened brilliantly and pushed away a powerful ball to Marcus Rashford after being alone inside the area (28), then he pushed Anthony's shot from inside the area into a corner that did not bear fruit (29).

Steely continued his brilliance and brilliantly blocked the shot of Frenchman Anthony Martial (39).

Paraguayan Julio Enesco almost gave Brighton the lead with a shot in the far right corner of De Gea, but it passed near the post (45).

Steely continued his brilliance in the second half by blocking two shots by Fernandez (68) and Casemiro (74), which was answered by Sully March, who missed the only penalty kick in the two teams' match in the cup competition, with a wonderful individual effort that he finished with a 16-meter shot that hit the crossbar (86).

De Gea saved his own goal by blocking McAllister's shot (90), and another by Ecuadorian Moises Caicedo (90 + 5), before Brighton got a penalty kick with a handball on Shaw, and McAllister successfully scored the winning goal.

Seville led to the path of victories, deepening the wounds of its guest, Espanyol, seeking to avoid relegation, when it beat it 3-2 on Thursday in the thirty-third stage of the Spanish Football League.

At the “Ramon Sanchez Pisjuan” stadium, Sevilla was racing to score in the 22nd minute through Brian Gill with a left shot from inside the penalty area, before his Dutch-Moroccan colleague Karim Raqiq gifted the guests an equalizer by mistake (29).

Espanyol thought he had regained control when he took the lead in the 43rd minute with Javier Boadu's goal with a shot from outside the penalty area, which he placed in the right corner of Serbian goalkeeper Marko Dimitrovic.

But a penalty kick for Seville in the 69th minute was successfully translated by Argentine Lucas Ocampos. The Andalusian team equalized before killing the match in its last breath with Senegalese goal Bab Gueye (88).

Seville raised its score with this victory to 44 points in tenth place, while Espanyol remained in the penultimate nineteenth place with 31 points.

The victory came at an appropriate time for Seville, who is invited to face Juventus in the semi-finals of the European League competition “Europa League” next Thursday, while Espanyol’s task will be very difficult, as its next match will be the “Catalunya derby” on the night in which Barcelona will seek to win its first title since 2019, where he needs only two points.

In another match, Girona beat Real Mallorca 2-1 at home.

The goals of the hosts were Colombian Bernardo (45 + 2) and Argentine Valentin Castellanos (84), while Kosovar Vedat Murichi scored Mallorca's only goal (80 from a penalty kick).

Girona raised its tally to 47 points in seventh place, while Mallorca remained in twelfth place with 41 points.

In another match, Real Betis achieved an important victory over Athletic Bilbao with a clean goal scored by Brazilian Willian Jose (6).

With this victory, Betis raised its tally to 52 points in sixth place, while Bilbao remained eighth with 47 points.

Rayo Vallecano defeated Valladolid 2-1 to rise to ninth place with 46 points, while the loser remained in sixteenth place with 35 points.

The Palestinian political discourse is no longer appropriate at this stage in the region and the world. This discourse is outdated and outdated, and we have been listening to it for years, even decades. The same applies to the diplomatic discourse, which could not increase the support of the Palestinian right. On the contrary, the occupying state penetrated Many countries are alone and some of them have become supportive of the occupying state at the expense of our people and their just cause. Rather, it is the most just cause in modern history on all national, human and moral levels.

And every day, this discourse is repeated that condemns the occupying state and holds it responsible for the crimes and violations it commits against people, trees and stones in the occupied Palestinian territory in front of the entire world. Responsibility for what is happening in terms of Israeli crimes, meaning that many countries, especially the United States and Western colonialism, equate the victim with the executioner and use double standards.

Yesterday, when the occupation forces stormed the heart of Nablus, killing three young men and wounding dozens, killing a female citizen in Hawara in cold blood, we heard the same speech by many Palestinian leaders and officials from both directions, the authority and the factions supporting it, as well as by Hamas and other Palestinian opposition.

Our ears have fallen silent hearing and repeating these speeches and statements of denunciation and denunciation, which have become of no concern to the occupying state or to the entire world, and which have also become useless, and it seems that the Palestinian side behind this is merely to raise the blame or to record a position, and this, if it indicates anything, it indicates Weakness and humiliation of the Palestinian side, which encourages the occupying state, along with international silence, to continue its crimes, which have become daily and make humanity cry.

The developments in the situation in the region and the world require the Palestinian side to reconsider its political and diplomatic rhetoric, which is not in line with the new reality, which is outdated and does not benefit the cause with anything, except to record positions that have become no longer liberating the homeland. On the contrary, the occupation, its practices and its violations seek Through it, to resolve the conflict in his favor after he carried out and is still carrying out operations of annexation, expansion, Judaization, confiscation of more lands, establishment and expansion of settlements, and an increase in the number of settlers to reach one million settlers and more in the West Bank.

Likewise, after it tore apart the West Bank and turned it into cantons far from each other and surrounded by settlements and herds of settlers whom the occupation considers the first line of defense for the state that was established on the ruins of our people, who were and still are suffering the most from the crimes of the occupation.

Neither statements, nor denunciations, nor appeals to the international community to provide protection for our people from the encroachment of the occupation, and the complaint to this society, which is ruled by the United States of America and the colonial West, is working to liberate the homeland, and your skin did not scratch like your fingernail, and the Palestinian side must unite and confront these crimes because unity is the path to victory.

First of all, we have mercy on the martyr Khader Adnan, who asked for martyrdom and obtained it after he registered a testimony of pride for every Palestinian and not only for the Islamic Jihad movement, through his rejection of the policy of administrative detention and exposing the terrorist practices of the enemy in the occupation prisons, but what is going on in terms of fears of escalation and war between the Zionist entity and the Jihad movement The Islamist expresses the dangerous slide into which the Palestinian liberation movement, with all its factions, falls, which requires stopping and exposing its dangers.

It is well known that the almost daily killings and assassinations of Palestinians carried out by the enemy in and outside detention centers and throughout the country and outside the country come within the context of the policy and strategy of the occupying state and are not an act or achievement of this or that Zionist party, but often the response to them is not in The context of a national strategy, but rather a partisan or regional response, as if the battle is between the occupying state and the Fatah movement, or between it and the Jihad movement, or Hamas, or the Popular Front, etc., and sometimes the battle appears as if it is between the enemy state and the Gaza Strip, while the West Bank stands by and in the recent period things slide into confrontation and war in the West Bank. While Gaza stands on the sidelines, and even within the West Bank, it seems that the occupation on the one hand and the internal division on the other reinforces the fears that we wrote about and warned about in a previous article under the title (Beware of Fragmentation of the Resistance Squares), where the group (The Lions' Den) emerged in Nablus, as did the (Brigade Jenin) in the city of Jenin, and both groups announced themselves through the video media and in a showy manner, while the other cities remained semi-static, which led to the occupation army excluding both groups and the liquidation of the majority of its members.

When Israel assassinated the leader, Abu Ali Mustafa, in his office on August 27, 2001, the Popular Front responded by assassinating the Israeli Minister of Tourism, Rehavam Zeevi, and the operation led to the arrest of the leaders of the Popular Front in the West Bank, headed by Ahmed Saadat, by the Palestinian Authority, so that Israel would not assassinate them. Then they were arrested by Inside the prisons of the authority by the occupation army, and the consequent mutual accusations between the authority and the Popular Front, and the tension of relations that is still to this day.

After the division and Hamas' takeover of the Gaza Strip, things seemed as if the war was between Israel and the Gaza Strip. In light of the Palestinian Authority's commitment to the peace process, Israel launched several wars against the Strip, sometimes because of a revelation, sometimes for no reason, and at other times at the initiative of one of the factions in the Strip.

On December 27, 2008, Israel launched a war on Gaza, where it dropped nearly one million kilograms of explosives on the Strip, and more than (4,100) homes were completely demolished, and (17,000) partially. Operation “Cast Lead” led to the death of more than 1,436 Palestinians, including about 410 children, 104 women, and about 100 elderly people, and more than 5,400 others, half of them children, were wounded. The Israeli authorities admitted that 13 Israelis, including 10 soldiers, were killed and 300 others were injured.

On the fourteenth of November 2012, Israel assassinated the Qassami commander, Ahmed al-Ja’bari, and as a result, major confrontations or war broke out. The resistance called it the “Battle of the Siege Stones.” It lasted for eight days, in which all the Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip participated. During the days of the war, 155 missiles hit Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and other cities inside occupied Palestine, and in return, Israel responded, employing all its military power, causing destruction and destruction to the infrastructure and housing in the Strip, and 191 martyrs and about 1,400 were wounded in the war, while the Israelis suffered 5 dead and a number of wounded, and it ended The war is a truce under Egyptian and international auspices.

On July 7, 2014, Israel launched its third war on the Gaza Strip, calling it "Protective Edge", while the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) called it "The Consumed Storm".
Over the course of "51 days," the Gaza Strip was subjected to approximately 60,664 air, land and sea raids, killing 2,322 Palestinians and wounding about 11,000, according to statistics issued by the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
On the other hand, official Israeli data revealed that 68 of its soldiers and 4 civilians were killed, in addition to one foreign worker, and 2,522 Israelis were wounded (according to a statistic prepared by the Ministry of Works and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in cooperation with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). ), the number of completely demolished housing units amounted to 12 thousand units, while the number of partially demolished units reached 160 thousand units, of which 6600 units were unfit for habitation).

At the dawn of November 11, 2019, Israel targeted the leader of the Islamic Jihad, Bahaa Abu al-Atta, where he was martyred along with his wife. At the same time, an attempt was made to assassinate the leader of the Jihadi al-Ajouri in his house in Damascus, and his son was martyred. The presence of a joint operations room, and the air raids resulted in the death of 34 Palestinians and the wounding of more than 100 others.

In the year 2021, the battle of the "Jerusalem Sword" broke out, which Israel called "the guardian of the walls". In response to the settlers' seizure of the homes of Jerusalemites in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and the Israeli forces' storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Palestinian resistance launched more than 4,000 rockets at towns and cities in Israel, and the confrontation resulted in about 250 Palestinian martyrs and more than 5,000 wounded, and Israel bombed several residential towers, and Israel announced the destruction of about 100 kilometers of tunnels in Gaza. On the Israeli side, 12 Israelis were killed and about 330 others were injured, according to Israeli sources.

The cease-fire was achieved after mediation, movements and international pressure.

On August 5, 2022, Israel assassinated the commander of the northern region of the Al-Quds Brigades (the military arm of the Islamic Jihad movement) in Gaza, and the Islamic Jihad movement responded with an operation it called "United Squares", during which it fired hundreds of missiles at Israeli towns and cities, and said in a statement that it was an operation Joint with the National Resistance Brigades, the Mujahideen Brigades, and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades (the military wing of Fatah movement). The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip reported that the number of martyrs in this war reached 24, including 6 children, while 203 were wounded.

In all previous confrontations, there was no Palestinian strategy to respond, and the Palestinian losses far exceeded the losses of the occupation. Nevertheless, the parties were announcing victories and achievements. Will the response of the Islamic Jihad movement and the resistance factions be different this time and benefit from past experiences?

Since its inception in 1987 and its separation from the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamic Jihad Movement has proven that it is a Palestinian national movement that fights for freedom and independence and does not seek power or prestige. If it has Islamic orientations, this does not detract from its patriotism, as there is no conflict between patriotism and Islam, as the vast majority of Palestinians are Muslims. There is room for everyone in the country.

We hope that the Islamic Jihad’s response to the assassination of Khader Adnan, who was not the only one who was martyred in the occupation prisons and at the hands of the occupation army and its settlers throughout the land of Palestine, will be a rational national response by working on formulating a national strategy to deal with the Zionist strategy of war and aggression in the West Bank, Jerusalem and all. Palestine, within the framework of a comprehensive national strategy, and that its response is not limited to firing rockets from Gaza, as the results of the rocket war were devastating to the Gaza Strip without causing significant damage to the enemy, but rather the enemy used them to reinforce division. He drew attention to what was happening in the West Bank and Jerusalem.

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The organized and mobilized protests that the Likud Party held on April 27 in front of the Knesset were not a surprise. Although Benjamin Netanyahu did not participate in this major demonstration, it was held in order to support him and his policy in everything related to the constitutional reform that he intends to implement soon.

Yariv Levin, the extremist Minister of Justice, and his colleagues created a sweeping and suspicious attack on the Supreme Court of Justice, where extremist demonstrators from the right-wing camp trampled on pictures of Supreme Court judges, led by Esther Hayut, in order to express their absolute support for Netanyahu to make these constitutional changes.

It has become clear to the public that Netanyahu is on his way to carry out reforms aimed at controlling the judiciary so that it becomes an actual and real tool in his hands. The weekly protests run by the opposition and political, social, economic, security and military circles are against him. These protests are bothering Netanyahu, and he is feeling the political instability in his rule. Therefore, the counter-demonstration was by him to respond to these weekly protests.

All political analysts point out that Netanyahu is not actually going to find a constitutional settlement between him and his opponents that is managed by Israeli President Isaac Herzog, and he is dodging these negotiations until the twenty-ninth of May 2023 with the aim of completing the vote on the two-year bilateral budget, and he can also achieve in it the judicial reforms that He promised to appoint judges.

Thus, he establishes his control over the judicial, executive, and legislative powers. It is clear that large parts of the opposition will soon withdraw from the dialogue with him, which is mediated by the president, and who will form a strong internal opposition to him. This opposition will be represented by large parts of the middle class, the security and military forces, and a broad framework of civil society, which Israel will enter a vortex and a state of instability from which it is difficult to get out. Many circles have confirmed that his policy will lead to more international isolation, economic collapse, leakage of billions of dollars from Israel, and the failure to enter new investments into it.

The coming period in Israel will be characterized by political and security instability and widespread internal polarization. On the level of relations with the United States, there is a great stagnation in the relationship between Netanyahu and Biden and all of his political staff, represented by Foreign Minister Anthony Blinken, Jack Saliban, head of the National Security Council, and William Barnes, head of the CIA, and all of these are responsible. On the Israeli file in the American administration, and they had warned Netanyahu of this internal policy during their visit to Israel, and they expressed their resentment and strong rejection of what he is trying to do at the judicial level. It is difficult to predict that Netanyahu will make any upcoming visit to Washington, which could calm the thoughts of relations between them, nor We also see any visit by foreign Israeli officials, such as Foreign Minister Eli Cohen or the head of the Israeli National Security Council, to Washington, and there is an American veto of granting entry visas to other ministers in Israel to visit the United States.

A feeling of international isolation has begun to permeate within the Netanyahu government, as no international officials visit Israel, especially from European countries, and he and members of his government, therefore, do not make any mutual visits to foreign countries, just as his greatest wish to visit Abu Dhabi and Bahrain has not yet been fulfilled. Although he openly declares that he was the one responsible for the Abraham Accords.

There is a coldness in the relations between Israel and the countries of normalization, and international diplomatic sources in Israel told me that the ambassadors of the Emirates and Bahrain do not participate in the diplomatic ceremonies that are held in Tel Aviv, which indicates a certain apathy in the mutual relations between them.

As for Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, he is trying to give the impression that everything is fine in the field of Israeli foreign policy. He visited Turkmenistan and opened an Israeli embassy in Ashgabat, not far from the Iranian border. He also recently visited Madrid in Spain and met with officials there.

On the Iranian level, the Iranian Foreign Minister visited Maroun al-Ras on the Lebanese-Israeli border with escorts from Hezbollah and planted a tree there, five kilometers from the border with Israel. Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi will visit Damascus at the beginning of this month, which will pose a strategic challenge to Israel and the government. Netanyahu.

In the face of all this, many Israeli analysts agree that what strategically confronts the Netanyahu government in these circumstances is a future multi-pronged battle in which Israel could simultaneously confront Hezbollah, the Syrian front, Hamas by surprise, and a third intifada in the West Bank, all with Iranian support, according to him. These experts.

And if we talk at the same time about the American position against Netanyahu, so that we do not know exactly how the United States will face a crisis like this that may or may not arise.

Rondi Santos, the Republican candidate, had visited Jerusalem to gain support for the Jewish vote, but Netanyahu did not dare to receive him and support him publicly, despite his opposition to the Democratic Biden administration.

It has become certain that this path will be taken by the right-wing and fundamentalist-supported Netanyahu government over the next two years, as it will continue to gain widespread support from his allies on the extreme right, the settler Smotrich, Ben Gvir, and the religious fundamentalists, and at the same time the massive and weekly protests against him will continue.

It is also expected that he will not care about these calls and demonstrations, and after voting on the budget, he will listen to his allies and approve the reforms he promised to them, which will increase his international isolation and internal, regional and international political instability.

While it is quite clear that there will be no negotiations between Israel and Palestine as long as Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Mahmoud Abbas are in power. The level of zero trust between two neighboring leaders is at a low point and the amount of animosity that exists between the Israeli public and the Palestinian public leaves little room for negotiation, even if the leaders really wanted to negotiate, and they didn't.

Because of the correct perception of regional and world leaders, from the United States and the European Union to China and Russia, that there is no chance for any real negotiations between Israel and Palestine, the entire issue of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is off the international agenda. The United States will not lead a new peace process in the Middle East at any time in the foreseeable future, nor will any member state of the European Union. The regional partners, near and far, Egypt, Jordan, UAE, Bahrain and Morocco are also well aware that there is no opportunity for potential constructive engagement at this time to bring Israel and Palestine to the negotiating table.

They are all working overtime in the hope that a new outbreak of violence between Israel and Palestine will not lead to instability within their public and will allow continued security cooperation with Israel while maintaining public support for the Palestinian people, especially Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa.

But the time will come when neither Netanyahu nor Abbas, or both, will rule anymore. Whether they are viewed as good or bad leaders by their people, no leader should serve as long as they are in office. Israel, which considers itself a democracy, should easily understand the words Netanyahu himself said in the past that no leader should serve more than two terms in office. The Palestinian people demand democracy and demand elections, and with all due respect, Mahmoud Abbas is not the only Palestinian capable and deserving of the leadership of the Palestinian people. Eventually Palestine will have a new leader. So that day will come when there will be new leaders in the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem and in the Muqataa in Ramallah. Those who understand that at some point Israel and Palestine will have to return to the negotiating table must understand the need to prepare today for tomorrow. Despite the desire and actions of some ministers in the current government of Israel, there will be no second Nakba and hundreds of thousands of Palestinians will not leave their homes and become refugees outside of Palestine. Although some Palestinians would like Israel to suddenly disappear or the Jews to be pushed out to sea, this will not happen either. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict will not go away, and with the passage of time the prospects for an amicable solution will become more difficult. This is the reality that the next generation of Israeli and Palestinian leaders will have to confront.

When the time comes and new leaders are here, there may also be a time when international pressure gains strength and persuasion - the United States, the European Union or nearby Arab countries may use carrots and sticks to bring the two warring parties to the table. But even before that time comes, if it ever comes, I suggest that people who see themselves as potential future leaders in Israel and Palestine, and in the region, begin a process of calm discussions, back-channel mentoring, and developing the knowledge that will prove themselves to be such. Very useful in the future. Through these back channels, each side will learn what is necessary for their counterparts on the other side to receive in order to gradually change public opinion to be more conducive to returning to negotiations. A gradual trust-building process could be developed that could be in the form of public statements or actions that could enhance these people's chances of ascending to positions of power while at the same time rebuilding a sense of hope among the people that peace, an end to the occupation and an end to the conflict could one day become a reality. the days. I suggest that future Israeli leaders also consider ways to talk to some of the Palestinian leaders who may be sitting in Israeli prisons. Arab countries that have signed peace agreements with Israel can use their leverage with Israel and the Palestinians who can be best assisted in this process within the regional circle of peace.

I have run many secret back channels between Israelis and Palestinians over the past decades. People here on both sides say that it is impossible to keep these channels secret. If the participants are really interested in keeping the channel confidential, it is entirely possible to do so. I know this from personal experience. Covert back channels are the best way forward because they provide deniability. They can also be used to test ideas and proposals for how to move forward in the final negotiations. They also provide a good platform to help each other shape messages and actions that have the potential to influence the most positive public opinion regarding future peace possibilities. When it becomes clear on both sides that the public's general sense is that there are no partners for peace on the other side, it is important to start breaking through the walls of despair and begin to sow the seeds of hope.

Democracy is a complex concept in which an entity of free practices, relationships, and principles is organized, which can root in man the values of justice, equality, freedom of thought, and the values of criticism, dialogue, and respect for others. Hence, the person today is no longer just an individual in a subject, but rather a good citizen whose entity is determined by a number of broad and important rights that depend on him to obtain them in full, the most important of which is his right to education, and the right to equality in equal educational opportunities.

Democracy within this educational framework takes multiple means and means to reach the minds, hearts, and practices of individuals and groups to act freely to gain the desired benefits, and to refine their personalities and root their democratic practices through education. It is more appropriate to transfer its contents and practices to the children of their societies, and the basis for that is that democracy is a way of life based on important principles for man, including freedom, fraternity, justice and equality. These principles grow automatically in a positive direction if they are given opportunities to grow in a correct direction through various educational institutions, because Education strips individuals of the shackles of ignorance and introduces them to their abilities and capabilities, encourages them to adhere to their rights and carry out their duties, and helps them to be citizens with a high degree of awareness and culture, so that they can actively participate in the progress of their societies, and these principles and values can only be achieved through education in its various institutions. .

Through the foregoing, we cannot help but shed light on the close relationship between democracy and education to be the axis on which we rely. It is a dialectical and reciprocal relationship that depends on and is influenced by each other, and while true democracy does not open except in an educated society, education also does not take place and is not It develops and its opportunities and equality in education through it does not expand except in a democratic atmosphere, and this atmosphere cannot be achieved in the field of education except in the context of democratic social life, so democracy must be linked to all areas of life in general, and its connection to the field of education and education in particular to be more general. It is more comprehensive and accurate in order for this democracy to be achieved, because it cannot be achieved in any society unless education prevails in it, and opportunities spread among all its members, and the right to education is confirmed for all. The more education expands in a society, the greater its adherence to freedom and democracy.

In view of the current challenges and real problems that the educational process is facing, we emphasize that democratic education includes schools and educational institutions that are the focal point of it, which need equal opportunities that are based on providing individuals with access to various educational and educational institutions without discrimination between individuals on a social or social basis. Ethnic or religious on the one hand, and on the other hand, it includes democratic practice in the school and educational milieu, which is a system of educational interaction based on the coordination of relations between teachers and students, between students and students, and between teachers and educational administration, and the creation of democratic awareness that includes in the system of values that are rooted in awareness Students and their culture, in order to instill the values of tolerance, freedom, acceptance of the other, rejection of intolerance, rejection of discrimination, and respect for the rights of the other, to create an interactive, healthy and creative school atmosphere.

Hence, we will shed light on what educators have witnessed of John Dewey’s great influence on the philosophy of education and democracy and its systems, and how they see it as the basis for every reform achieved by education in this field because his views were comprehensive guidance rich in deep meanings in this regard, so John Dewey defined educational democracy as a personal way of life Therefore, it is not just an external thing that surrounds us, it is a set of attitudes and attitudes that form the personal characteristics of the individual, which determine his inclinations and goals in the field of his relations, and it follows from this perception the need to participate in expressing opinion and decision-making, and if we drop the implications of Dewey’s democracy on school and educational life, it would be An integral part of organizing life, affirming the value and dignity of the individual, and embodying the personality of humanity, which is based on the participation of the members of the educational body in all the management of its affairs in a democratic manner, and thus automatically eliminating the negative feeling of inequality for every member of the educational process, and this is what he emphasized Dewey, in his in-depth view of educational thought, and his focus on how society, including its educational institutions, deepens constructive criticism and sound dialogue in order to build an advanced and conscious society that contributes to modernity, with its productive energies, inventions, discoveries, and theoretical, technical, scientific and informational developments, and the achievement of lofty goals such as freedom and initiative Individualism and the rule of purposeful discussion. Access to this society, which was mentioned, is not easy as some might imagine. Rather, it requires serious and organized work that targets individuals, educating them on new concepts, and establishing the development that has occurred in lifestyles since the extension of science.

On the other hand, Dewey also succeeded in his attack on the traditional stereotypical education philosophy, and this is a form of democracy in the exercise of freedom. His writings made a strong call that broke the rule of the traditional method that prevailed in human history for long periods, to emphasize the role of the family, school and society, in developing the learner to live. A free, productive thinker. For Dewey, education is life in its present first, then it is concerned with its future. He contributed to advancing education to a path different from it, as he called for the importance of experience in education, criticized the indoctrination method, and denied the total dependence on the textbook and the teacher, and he also launched his attack on the educational system. The strict system based on complete obedience to the rigid administrative regulations, and directed to make the school an environment rich in experiences full of learners’ movement, in order to form an adult scientific mentality that can solve problems in a systematic manner, and among the rules that Dewey strives to establish is that the child is the sun of education and a focal point in the educational process , and that he will not learn optimally except through life experiences and other mental and social skills, as he stressed the importance of linking the school to society and called for democratic life and limiting education to benefit and interest, and that education should serve scientific purposes and realistic goals that benefit the free individual and the democratic society.

It is clear from the foregoing that Dewey's views carry with it a harsh criticism of the prevailing traditional education that depends on memorizing information by heart, preparing the learner for the future while ignoring the present and marginalizing the stage in which he lives, and the rule was that the teacher is the basis of the educational process, so Dewey came to turn the scales and convey Educational thought is a quantum leap towards the learner and his needs, and thus, according to Dewey, the school is a democratic environment that seeks to create a democratic citizen. Therefore, the teacher is present in it as a member of a group to help his students choose experiences that stimulate their motives, unleash their energies, show their abilities, and organize their responses to those stimuli and influences, and not to impose his authority and opinions on them. Or to make them accustomed to certain habits that he wants, and Dewey believes that the teacher, with his broader experience, greater knowledge, and mature wisdom, can help those who teach them how to understand the social life around them, and benefit from the knowledge and experiences they obtain in developing themselves, solving their problems, and advancing their societies, to contribute to In building society and its development, and he also emphasized taking into account individual differences in teaching and setting the curriculum that suits them, so Dewey focused on the importance of making the student the center of the educational process by making methods and curricula revolve around him instead of making him revolve around curricula and methods developed in isolation from him, and as he went He also pointed out that the contents of the curriculum are not as important as the way in which the teacher deals with these contents, and then he called on the teacher not to adhere to any of the methods, but to choose the appropriate method that suits his lesson, the level of his students, and their psychological conditions, and he also stressed the principle of the need to take into account the individual differences between Students and the need to take into account their natural inclinations and motives and their good investment in the educational process, and the duty of the teacher to organize and direct these tendencies and motives according to a plan drawn up to achieve desirable educational goals.

If we want to summarize Dewey's educational philosophy and doctrine to benefit from it, then the ideal education for him is the one that inculcates skills and does not accumulate information, and it is the one that touches the requirements of reality, and does not indulge in reverence for the past. A number of practical educational applications that can be benefited from from his ideas, so that education is based on the principle of the learner’s interaction with the surrounding environment and the society in which he lives, and therefore he needs to develop his intellectual and practical skills always in order to solve problems in a rational manner and scientific foundations, and based on this vision, science The theory applied in many schools and its many ramifications are not of importance in the educational curriculum as long as it does not serve the learner in the conduct of his life affairs, so it is necessary to take advantage of what Dewey did by transforming the process of human refinement from caring for abstract mental ideals to caring for tangible material results, under this philosophy Known as pragmatism and functionalism for him, scientific research to solve realistic problems is the most important tool in life to know the facts, to educate the individual, and to form a democratic society.

Because of the importance of what we have mentioned, the Arab educational systems should not refuse to learn about the thought and experiences of others in the field of education, such as the ideas of John Dewey, but it is very necessary before that to settle for them that education is the result of a specific society, and that it is not possible to borrow an educational thought that has found success in a society to apply it In Arab societies, this thought grew in a soil and environment different from that of the Arab-Islamic culture. We have to take advantage of this educational philosophy after adapting it to suit the Arab countries financially and morally and in a way that does not contradict our cultural and religious constants, which guarantees the achievement of development and progress for the Arab educational systems.

For the first time, opinion polls give Benny Gantz a significant advantage over Benjamin Netanyahu, if elections are held these days.

Benny Gantz, and when he was Minister of Defense in the Bennett-Lapid government, he opened a direct channel of communication with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and in his meeting that took place in his home in the village of “Ras al-Ain”, gifts were exchanged between the two men, and what Abbas got was a bottle of oil as a gesture of goodwill By the man, who commands the Israeli army deployed heavily throughout the West Bank, which is divided into three letters of the alphabet “A, B, C” with land, sea and air deployment in the so-called Gaza envelope, where the “defense” army wages wide wars at times, and limited retaliation All the while, with a permanent blockade.

On the scale of the bad and the least bad, Abbas’s preference for Gantz seems logical, when compared to Netanyahu and even Lapid and Bennett. However, Gantz’s winds did not come with what Abbas’s ship desired, so the man and the oil bottle were absent from the head of power and decision, so that Netanyahu would return again, not because of the strength of his supporters, followers and allies. Rather, due to the failure of Gantz and his allies to manage the recent election battle, the results of which are still fresh through a comfortable parliamentary majority, which even Netanyahu himself did not expect.

Benny Gantz aspires to be an extension of Yitzhak Rabin, despite the great differences in the historical and leadership characteristics and charisma between the two generals.

And all of this is in favor of Rabin, while what is in the interest of Gantz is that he is the only general competing with Netanyahu now.

It is known that the Israeli voter tends to the generals, and prefers to cast his vote in favor of any of them. Even Barak, whom the veteran thinker Uri Avnery described as a "peace criminal", benefited from the general's rhythm and image to win the prime minister by general and direct vote.

It is also in the interest of Gantz that he is the man most qualified for compromise in the internal Israeli game, and this is what happened with him even in his military and political life, when he was appointed chief of staff, although he was not the strongest candidate in the traditional hierarchy for the most important military position in the country.

His situation now, if he continues to rise, or maintains his superiority, qualifies him to be the most likely to lead a coalition that overthrows Netanyahu and assumes the presidency of the government with a comfortable parliamentary majority, in which he is supported directly and indirectly by Arab representatives who have the opportunity to be for the second time the helmsman’s egg at some point. After Netanyahu.

The most important and major question that concerns the Palestinians and many others at the American, European and international levels is whether Gantz’s supposed or potential coalition will open the door that Netanyahu closed, i.e. what has been termed as the “political horizon” demanded by the countries of the Arab moderation camp, and most of the countries of the world, or The shifting sands of the internal situation in Israel will swallow its relative moderation, just as it swallowed a bottle of oil, and what significance it carried at the time!

The answer to this question is indefinite, as long as we are far from the inevitability of general elections, and as long as Israel itself is experiencing deep and comprehensive interactions whose results are not accurately read, whether on the internal level or on the level of its relationship with the Palestinians.

The other part of the equation is, what can Gantz do if Abbas is absent from the Palestinian scene that overlaps in its entirety and details with the Israeli scene, and if the leadership of the democratic administration is renewed after the upcoming presidential elections or fails in favor of the Republican competitor, the owner of the deal of the century?

Realistic and practical questions with which the conclusions and indicators of early polls are not correct, except that the standard adopted towards the leaders of Israel, i.e. the worst and the least bad, makes Abbas continue to prefer Gantz and his gifts, provided that the second does not let himself down and bet on him!

The Hebrew newspaper Haaretz reported, on Friday, that the so-called Ministerial Committee for Israeli Legislative Affairs will discuss, in its meeting next week, the promotion of a draft law that would allow the Shin Bet to participate in investigations of serious crimes in the Arab sector.

According to the newspaper, the explanatory notes of the proposal emphasize that the need to expand the powers of the Shin Bet, which currently only allows it to deal with national issues, stems from the transformation of serious crime into a "scourge" on the "state", which is particularly evident among the Palestinians inside.

According to the bill, the Shin Bet would be able to assist the police in preventing and investigating serious criminal offenses.

The newspaper indicates that the Israeli police suffer from a lack of resources and accurate intelligence information to identify the perpetrators of these crimes, such as arms dealers and smugglers, while the Shin Bet has all the tools necessary to curb crime or reduce its scope.

The Hebrew newspaper Haaretz said, on Friday, that the Hamas movement chose to issue a statement on behalf of the Joint Chamber of Resistance in Gaza, to show its role in decision-making in the Strip, and to gain points in its favor as an organization still raising the banner of resistance. It was coordinated between the movement and the Islamic Jihad.

According to the newspaper, the estimates of Yahya Sinwar, leader of the Hamas movement in Gaza, and Muhammad al-Deif, leader of the movement's military wing, were correct and succeeded in assessing the situation that the Israeli response to the rocket fire would be limited and brief, and this is what happened, at a time when the Islamic Jihad Movement considered it obligated to respond. On the death of Adnan.

It indicated that the last round lasted 27 hours, and ended with an agreement mediated by the Egyptian intelligence, during which more than 100 rockets and mortar shells were fired, and 3 Israelis were actually wounded, and a Palestinian was killed in the Strip and 5 were wounded.

According to the newspaper, the current right-wing government led by Benjamin Netanyahu did not issue a statement, like all previous governments, to stop the tour, at a time when the Israelis followed the declaration of Hamas and jihad in Gaza, but implicitly this was confirmed by the Israeli army's announcement of a return to normal procedures.

During the presence of the current government in the opposition, it often attacked the Bennett-Lapid government, accusing it of weakness towards Hamas, and promised that the matter would be different for them, but after 4 months of their rule, a first round of rocket fire took place from Gaza, Lebanon and Syria, and the second from Gaza, and it remained Things are as they are without any change contrary to their promises, and the Israeli army attacked 16 Hamas targets, and Israel was keen to be calculated, and did not deviate from its previous policies, and therefore did not impose any restrictions on the entry of workers from Gaza, who bring 140 million shekels to the Strip every month, which is an issue It is considered an important element in the attempt to achieve relative stability in Gaza, and despite the fiery rhetoric of the right-wing government, it tries not to disturb Hamas, the main beneficiary of the current economic arrangements.

Haaretz said in an analytical report by its military correspondent, Amos Harel, that the impasse in Gaza is not new, and the current opposition is attacking the right-wing government, which is already showing confusion and impotence, noting that the previous government launched Operation Dawn against Islamic Jihad, and it was operationally successful, but it achieved goals. limited, and the evidence for this is that the Islamic Jihad movement returned to firing rockets again after less than a year.

And the Hebrew newspaper believes that the weakest link in the current government is the Jewish force led by Itamar Ben Gvir, who knows that the chances of him obtaining any political service for himself from the government coalition are slim, and that the attacks that occur, especially in the interior and Jerusalem, and the gap between his election promises and the actual failure to fulfill them. They cause him to weaken, and this is what may push him to withdraw from the coalition in the event that the attacks increase, which will increase his political losses, and this is what prompted him, after the escalation from Gaza, to make insulting statements to Netanyahu, who did not bother to invite him to the security consultations that took place during the escalation, along with Boycott the Knesset session and go with his party members to Sderot to support the Israelis there. However, this media presentation indicates that it is too early for Ben Gvir to resort to withdrawal and Netanyahu still needs him, and the public confrontation between them has served them to some extent.

And the newspaper adds: “But the troubles of Netanyahu and his partners do not end there. Added to the security deterioration with Gaza, the massive unrest caused by the judicial system plan, the increase in murders in the Arab sector, the exacerbation of the cost of living, and the constant sense of chaos that has surrounded the government since its inception. The unbridled behavior of coalition ministers and Knesset members who get involved in new incidents and extremist statements on a daily basis, contributes to these troubles."

According to Harel, the newspaper warns that the current government may resort to carrying out pre-emptive attacks against the Palestinians to escape from these problems that occurred in it, such as the assassination of a senior official in the Palestinian factions, which will not gain it broad consensus and support, but it may change the general agenda for a while.

Regarding the situation in the West Bank, the newspaper says that there has been a significant change in the transfer of operations from individual action to the responsibility of local cells affiliated with the military wings of Palestinian factions, noting that before the operations were carried out by Palestinian youths who did not belong to any faction, at a time when they were active. The Lions' Den in Nablus, and the Jenin Brigade in Jenin.

The newspaper believes that the common denominator between the attacks that are being carried out and the high murders among the Palestinians inside, is the availability of weapons in abundance, which can be obtained with great ease, which increases the number of attacks on the one hand, and murders on the other.

And it considered that the incident of arms smuggling by Jordanian MP Imad Al-Adwan is a glimpse of this reality, as it only expresses the tip of the iceberg in the face of the smuggling industry, of which hundreds of smuggling are thwarted, but the estimate is that the numbers of what is smuggled are much greater than what is seized. .

She pointed out that the proliferation of weapons in the West Bank increases the burden of the arrests that are carried out in the West Bank, pointing out that the situation may escalate in the West Bank because the account is still open after Adnan’s martyrdom, despite reaching a cease-fire agreement in the Strip, but Israel’s insistence on continuing to detain his body can That supports other backlashes. as you say.

Clarence Thomas, the most conservative judge on the US Supreme Court, found himself in the middle of a new controversy after the "Pro Publica" website revealed Thursday that a conservative billionaire covered the costs of private education for a member of his family.

Thomas faced a wave of criticism in April when Pro Publica revealed that he had accepted exorbitant gifts, including cruises on a huge yacht and a private jet, at the expense of the same businessman called Harlan Crowe, without declaring them.

In an article published Thursday, "Pro Publica" indicated that Thomas decided in 2008 to send his teenage nephew, whom he had been raising with his wife "like their son" since the age of six, to a private school that costs more than six thousand dollars a month.

But a Hidden Lake Academy bank statement dating back to July 2009 shows that the young man's tuition for that month was paid by Harlan Crowe's Crowe Holdings.

Christopher Grimwood, a former school official, told ProPublica that Crowe paid the tuition for the entire year. It is reported that he also paid his tuition fees at another private school.

According to the same website, Judge Thomas, who has occupied his seat on the Supreme Court since 1991, did not mention these payments in his annual financial statements.

Billionaire real estate mogul Harlan Crowe is one of the largest donors to the Republican Party in the United States.

AFP was unable to obtain immediate comment from Judge Thomas and Crewe Holdings.

Former Republican President George H. W. Bush nominated Clarence Thomas for a seat on the Supreme Court in 1991, and Congress confirmed the appointment despite allegations of sexual harassment brought against him by a former aide. The judge has always denied the charges.

Eight people were killed and 13 wounded Thursday evening in a shooting near the Serbian city of Mladenovac, about 60 km south of the capital, Belgrade, according to local media.

And the public channel "RTS" reported that the perpetrator fired from inside a moving vehicle using an automatic weapon before fleeing, adding that the police were searching for the suspect.

The police closed the road leading to two villages in the area where the shooting took place, according to an AFP photographer at the scene.
A number of policemen and ambulances were dispatched to the scene, while helicopters hovered over the site.

Serbian Interior Minister Bratislav Gasic described the incident as a "terrorist act".

N1 reported that people worried about their relatives had gathered outside the emergency medical center in Belgrade, where at least eight of the wounded were taken. The Minister of Health came to the center for a brief visit.

This comes in the wake of an unprecedented shooting in a school in Belgrade, during which a 13-year-old student killed eight of his friends and a security guard, in an incident that shocked the country.

On Wednesday evening, President Aleksandar Vucic spoke of "one of the most difficult days" in Serbia's contemporary history.

A new Israeli poll showed, on Friday morning, that the "National Camp" party, led by Benny Gantz, is still rising strongly, in contrast to the decline in the strength of the Likud party, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, in the event that elections are held these days.

According to the poll prepared by the Maariv newspaper and published in the morning, Gantz's party will reach 31 seats to be the largest party, followed by the Likud with 25, and the There is a Future party led by Yair Lapid with 17 seats, in clear decline for him.

The ultra-Orthodox Shas party remains at 10 seats, its ally United Torah Judaism at 8, and the Yisrael Beiteinu party led by Avigdor Lieberman at 6 seats, while the "Jewish Power" party led by Itamar Ben Gvir rises to 5 seats, and its ally the "Religious Zionism" party led by Bezalel Smotrich at the same. The number, while the Meretz party won 4 seats, and the Labor party did not exceed the threshold.

The Arab parties, the Tibi-Awda coalition, reach 5 seats, and the United List led by Mansour Abbas, at 4 seats.

According to the poll, the current government coalition will reach 53 seats, compared to 67 for the current opposition.

And 41% of the respondents believed that Gantz is more suitable for the premiership than Netanyahu, who received the support of 33%.

It was found that 62% of the Israelis are dissatisfied with their government's response to the rocket fire from Gaza, compared to 20% who are satisfied.

At dawn and Friday morning, the Israeli occupation forces launched a campaign of arrests among citizens in separate areas of the West Bank.

These forces arrested the young man, Osama Izz al-Din, and the freed prisoner, Jamal Munib al-Sayed, after storming their homes in the town of Kafr Rai, southwest of Jenin.

Meanwhile, the young man, Yazan Iyad Hanaysha, was arrested after storming his house on the outskirts of Qabatiya, south of Jenin.

The young man, Ahmad al-Amouri, from Jenin, who is the brother of the martyr Jamil, was arrested while he was passing through al-Hamra checkpoint in the northern Jordan Valley.

In Hebron, two young men, Ishaq Abu Hashhash and his son Majdi, were arrested after storming their house and destroying its contents in Al-Fawar camp, south of Hebron.

The occupation forces stormed the Kafr Aqab neighborhood, north of occupied Jerusalem, and clashes broke out, while a vehicle belonging to a citizen caught fire due to the fall of a gas bomb on it.

The Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization held a meeting this evening, Thursday, headed by President Mahmoud Abbas, at the presidential headquarters in Ramallah.

During the meeting, the Executive Committee discussed the criminal and aggressive escalation of the occupation government in continuation of its open war against our people, to commit today a heinous massacre in the city of Nablus by assassinating three fighters from our people and liquidating one of the girls in Hawara, in continuation of the field liquidations carried out by the occupation army and its settlers, bringing the number of martyrs Since the beginning of the year, one hundred and eight martyrs, in conjunction with the imposition of the siege on Palestinian cities and camps, its daily raids and daily arrests, and its massacre of house demolitions yesterday, as happened in the towns of Haris and Hajjah, and the suburb of peace in the town of Anata in the Jerusalem governorate.

The Executive Committee stressed the seriousness of what the occupation government is doing in an attempt to break the will of steadfastness and defiance among our heroic prisoners and detainees squatting in the occupation's cells, holding it responsible for the killing of the heroic captive martyr Khader Adnan, whose hunger strike continued for the eighty-seventh day, and the occupation's refusal to release him or treat him in light of the danger And his situation, recalling that the elevation of the heroic martyr Khader Adnan will not break the will and steadfastness of our people who continue their battle for freedom and independence and obtaining their rights of return, self-determination and the establishment of an independent and fully sovereign Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital. All human rights and international organizations and the parties of the international community called for the importance of providing international protection for our people and our heroic families, and in light of the seriousness of the situation of the sick, heroic prisoners, especially the prisoners Walid Daqqa and Asif Al-Rifai who suffer from cancer, and the occupation’s insistence on detaining the bodies of the martyrs in a cheap and unacceptable blackmail of our people.

The Executive Committee also affirmed that the occupation’s persistence in this criminal escalation, its continued intransigence, and its lack of commitment to stopping unilateral actions requires a serious stance from the international community by rejecting the aggressive occupation policies, imposing sanctions on it, and activating the mechanisms of its trial, especially before the International Criminal Court, whose work we see has slowed down with regard to the files referred to the court. And in light of the use of double standards and double standards, and in light of the American protection and support for the occupation, which proves that there is a green light to continue with these crimes, believing that he is protected from the consequences of being held accountable for these crimes.

The Executive Committee called on the international community to intervene immediately to protect our people and our national rights and to stop the arrests, financial discounts and repeated invasions.

And she stressed the importance of the wide participation of all our people in the events commemorating the Nakba and affirming the right of our people to return, especially in light of the threshold of this anniversary in the seventy-fifth year of the Nakba, and the United Nations in New York commemorating this memory for the first time in the presence of President Mahmoud Abbas, who will deliver an important speech on this occasion. And also the central activities in the northern and southern governorates and in all the refugee and diaspora camps, and the rejection and condemnation of all attempts to prejudice the unified activities within the framework and preparations of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the sole and legitimate representative of our people in all places of its presence, and the rejection of the so-called “return conference” in the town of Malmö, Sweden, which It perpetuates the Palestinian division, and attempts to suggest the creation of imaginary and unacceptable alternatives in light of the tampering with the Palestinian situation, away from what is required of national unity that ends the division and directs the main competition to the occupation away from all secondary contradictions, and intensifies all efforts to continue our struggle for the freedom and independence of our people.

Four civilians were wounded by rubber-coated metal bullets, and dozens suffocated, Thursday evening, during clashes with the Israeli occupation forces in Hawara town, south of Nablus.

The Director of Ambulance and Emergency at the Palestine Red Crescent Society in Nablus, Ahmed Jibril, said that the Society's staff dealt with 4 injuries from metal bullets, and 15 injuries from suffocation due to tear gas inhalation.

Jibril added that ambulance crews transported a child to the Ibn Sina emergency center in Hawara, as a result of suffocation, and a house was evacuated due to the density of toxic gas in the area.

This afternoon, the occupation forces executed Iman Odeh (26 years old) with a bullet in Al-Sadr area, near the Einabus roundabout, in the center of the town.

The masses of our people in Nablus governorate, this evening, Thursday, buried the body of the martyr Iman Ziyad Odeh, in the town of Hawara.

The funeral procession departed from Rafidia Hospital in the city of Nablus, to the town of Hawara, the birthplace of the martyr, where the last farewell look was given to her in her family's home, then the mourners performed prayers for her in the Ali bin Abi Talib mosque, before the burial took place in the town's cemetery.

Local sources indicated that the occupation forces prevented the funeral participants from passing through the main street in the center of the town, forcing them to take internal roads to reach the cemetery.

It is noteworthy that the occupation forces executed the martyr Odeh, with a bullet, in Al-Sadr area this afternoon, near the Einabous roundabout, in the center of the town of Hawara.

Martyr Odeh (26 years old), married, and mother of three children.

Today, Thursday, the Israeli occupation forces placed a number of concrete blocks at the western entrance to the village of Shufa, southeast of Tulkarm.

Citizens from the village told our correspondent that an occupation bulldozer placed cement blocks at the main western entrance of the village, to clamp down on the citizens and prevent them from moving, while an umbrella was erected for the occupation soldiers in the place.

Citizens are afraid of these measures, especially after the occupation forces closed yesterday this road and the eastern entrance to the village, and the road linking Shufa and Kafr al-Labad, with dirt mounds and rocks, and thus imposed collective punishment on it, in addition to its suffering from the settlers of the "Avni Hefetz" settlement, which is established on the lands of the village, and their continuous attacks on citizens’ property and lands.

Participants in a workshop organized by the Solidarity Center for Workers’ Rights Around the World – Palestine Branch, the General Federation of Palestinian Trade Unions, and the Journalists Syndicate recommended the need to strengthen cooperation between the media, labor and trade union sectors, in order to form a public opinion pressing for the application of minimum wages in various industrial and labor establishments.

The preparer of the plan for the minimum wage, Ibrahim Rabaya, presented during the workshop held in Al-Bireh today, Thursday, an overview of the course of the national strategic media plan to support the implementation of the minimum wage, which was launched by the Workers Union in cooperation with the Journalists Syndicate and the Solidarity Center 2023-2026.

He noted that the plan is based on major directions that ensure the involvement of all societal, official and sectoral sectors, with the aim of applying minimum wages in various establishments in Palestine, most of which are classified as small and operate away from official supervision.

Rabaya indicated that an opinion poll was carried out to obtain data regarding the labor situation in Palestine, noting that the questionnaire showed that 51% of working women earn less than the minimum wage, some of which do not exceed 300 shekels per month.

He pointed out that setting the minimum wage at 1,880 shekels, which came after an agreement between the three production parties, led to an increase in the number of workers who now earn less than the minimum wage.

For her part, the director of the Solidarity Center - Palestine Branch, Abla Masrouji, stressed the need for concerted efforts between civil society institutions, trade unions and the media, to form a pressing public opinion that pushes towards the implementation of the minimum wage law, and securing social protection for many groups of workers, as well as getting out of diagnosing the current reality. Towards developing solutions leading to the implementation of this law.

For his part, the representative of the General Federation of Palestinian Trade Unions Khaled Abdel-Hadi said, "Although the current minimum wage figure does not represent the aspirations of the labor movement, it does represent a limited achievement in light of the economic reality that Palestine is going through," noting that the federation has approved 56 agreements. With medium economic facilities, I pledged to implement it.

He pointed out that the agreement between the three production parties was not only related to the implementation of what was stated in the financial clause, but rather stresses the need to review the minimum wage, especially with the annual price hikes that Palestine and the world witness, indicating the need for the cost of living index to take into account a group of factors. The main commodities: such as food, transportation, health and education, and not according to the currently applied criterion, which includes a group of commodities that are considered luxuries in the life of the Palestinian individual.

For his part, the coordinator of the Economic Journalists Network, Ayham Abu Ghosh, said that the Journalists Syndicate and the network are ready to make any campaign aimed at implementing this law a success, pointing to the importance of providing a database for journalists that enables them to produce specialized media materials on this subject.

Abu Ghosh spoke about the importance of humanizing the figure, analyzing it, and its reflection on the reality of citizens, calling for the need to promote the values of accountability and accountability by media institutions.

Today, Thursday, the prisoner, Sheikh Ezz El-Din Amarneh, suspended his hunger strike, which lasted for 12 consecutive days, in rejection of his administrative detention, after an agreement stipulated his release next October.

It is noteworthy that the detainee, Amarneh, is a former detainee who spent most of his years in administrative detention, and his last arrest was in February of last year.

On Thursday, the Israeli Public Prosecutor filed an indictment against Fatima Shaheen, 33, from Bethlehem, on charges of carrying out a stabbing attack that lightly injured an Israeli soldier, at the Gush Etzion junction, two weeks ago.

According to the Hebrew website Ynet, Shaheen was accused of possessing a knife and planning to kill an Israeli.

A star located near the constellation of the Vulture witnessed a natural, inconsistent inflation due to its being old, which made it swallow the planet that was very close to it, according to what astronomers observed after observing for the first time a phenomenon of this kind.

They had previously monitored indicators of such an event and felt its consequences. What they were missing was "to catch the star at this very moment, when a planet experiences a similar fate," said Kechalay DN, a researcher at the Kavli Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and lead author of the study, which was published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

By the way, this is what awaits the Earth, but after about five billion years, when the sun approaches the end of its existence as a yellow dwarf and swells up to become a red giant. At best, its size and temperature would turn the Earth into a big molten rock. At worst, it will disappear completely.

It all started in May 2020 when Kechalai Dee observed with a special camera from the Caltech Observatory a star that began to shine a hundred times more than usual for about ten days, and it was located in the galaxy, about 12 thousand light years from Earth.

He expected to find what he was looking for, which is to observe a binary star system that includes two stars, one in orbit around the other. The larger star tears the envelope of the smaller one, and with each "bite" a light is emitted.

"It looked like a merger of stars," the astronomer said, during a presentation of the study in which the other authors of the "Harvard-Smithsonian" and "Caltech" American research institutes participated. But analyzing the light from the star will reveal clouds of particles that are too cold to come from stellar mergers.

In particular, the team found that the "sun-like" star released a thousand times less energy than it would have if it had merged with another star. This amount of energy detected is equal to that of a planet like Jupiter.

On a cosmic scale that is calculated in billions of years, its end was very fast. Especially since it was "very close to the star, as it orbited it in less than a day," according to what I said.

The monitoring process showed that the planet's cover was torn apart by the star's gravitational forces for a few months at most before being absorbed. It was this last stage that produced a luminous glow for about ten days.

Miguel Montargis, an astrophysicist at the Paris-BSL Observatory, explained that "the star swallows something much cooler than its surface, by thousands of degrees," that is, "as if it were an ice cube placed in a pot filled with water in the event of boiling, which is preferable not to do." due to heat exchange.

As part of this interaction, the star released large clouds of gas into interstellar space, which then cooled for several months into clouds of dust.

The digestion process went smoothly, according to the study's co-author, astrophysicist Morgan MacLeod of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He said that the scientists then saw "the star slowly contracting and returning to its previous size."

Astronomers believe that such an event may occur several times a year in our galaxy, which includes at least a hundred billion stars, and perhaps at least the same number of planets.

"It is possible that now that we have observed this event, we will be observing many more, and all these events will help us to have a better idea of the future of the solar system," Montargis said.

The Chinese-owned Swedish company Volvo announced Thursday that it will cut 1,300 administrative jobs in Sweden in an effort to cut costs, warning that it will take similar measures in its operations around the world.

The company's CEO, Jim Rowan, said in a statement that cost-cutting measures taken last year were "starting to bear fruit," but "it's clear we need to do more."

"The economic situation, rising raw material prices and increased competition are likely to remain a challenge for our industry for some time," he added.

The company explained that the abolition of administrative jobs represents about 6 percent of its employees in Sweden.

While Thursday's announcement concerned Sweden only, the company said it would "cut costs and increase efficiencies across its global operations in the coming months."

In late April, the company reported a drop in first-quarter profit, despite higher sales, and said it was "evaluating the need for more targeted cost-cutting measures."

On the other hand, the company, which aims to become 100% electric by 2030, said that one-fifth of the cars sold in the first quarter were electric.

The US State Department adhered to its declared position on the results of the investigation into the killing of the American-Palestinian journalist Sherine Abu Aqleh, who was assassinated by the Israeli occupation forces in Jenin on May 11, and remained silent about a new report submitted by the US security coordinator, General Michael Finzel in the past few days, about the circumstances. The killing of the Palestinian American journalist.

The Deputy Spokesperson for the US State Department, Vedant Patil, said his daily press conference at the US State Department building on May 3, 2023, which coincided with the Ministry's revival of "World Press Freedom" day, in response to a question by "Al Quds" dot com, regarding the developments of the US position in light of The report of US Gen. Wenzel, the US security coordinator for the Palestinian territories, and whether the department will publish the coordinator's report as requested by US Senator Chris Van Hollan: "Let me say a few things, first you've heard us say this before: We condemn the tragic murder of Sherine Abu Aqelah, and our hearts remain with Her family, as you know Secretary of State (Anthony) Blinken has had the opportunity to speak to her family before and continue to offer them our personal sympathy."

He added, "As you all know, Sherine was not only an American citizen, but also a reporter who commanded the respect of audiences all over the world, including many - almost, I suppose, in this room."

Patel added: "Regarding these reports, I've seen that, I don't have any further assessment to make, I haven't seen that report. My understanding is that the US security coordinator (General Wenzel) hasn't changed the same conclusion that was issued last summer that we issued when we issued a statement. On this matter, which is that IDF gunfire was most likely the cause - inadvertently, but again, I have no further updates or assessments to offer in this report."

When the Al-Quds correspondent followed up on whether the Biden administration would work to see the investigation of accountability for those responsible for her killing and for the serious injury of colleague Ali Al-Samoudi, Patel replied by saying: “As we noted - in our statement last summer (July 4, 2022) the results we reached, Which is consistent with the US Security Coordinator's report, is that this (killing) was unintentional and due to incredibly tragic circumstances, and so what we continue to raise with our Israeli partners and with others around the world is to ensure that we can do, to take the appropriate steps to ensure that When it comes to the rules of engagement, civilians, reporters and members of the media are just trying to do their job, not get hurt."

On the spokesman's emphasis in his response that the administration is focusing its dealings with the Israelis on this matter on "rules of engagement," Patel said, "We've been very clear and consistent on first, the condemnation of the tragic killing of Shireen, but also when the US report was released, and also the summer report In the past, where we have consistently talked about the need and the call for accountability in this case. And we continue to do so. However, as is consistent with the IDF's findings as well as the US Security Coordinator's findings, this (the killing) was not intentional. It was tragic - Because of very tragic circumstances."

Patel added, “One of the ways we are doing, is ensuring that when it comes to the rules of engagement, we work on these issues in coordination and in partnership with Israeli counterparts to ensure that civilians, journalists and media professionals are not harmed. These are all things we have said before consistently, and since the tragic death of Shireen, We have continued to pressure Israel to closely review its policies and practices on rules of engagement and to consider additional steps to mitigate the risk of harm to civilians and protect journalists."

It is noteworthy that the well-known broadcaster, Christian Amanpour, on the American network CNN, interviewed the Arab film director, Sharif Abdel Quddous, which was broadcast on Wednesday, about his documentary film, which will be broadcast the corresponding week, to coincide with the first anniversary of the assassination of Sherine, in which she showed that the killing of the occupation soldier To Sherine Abu Aqleh, the injury of colleague Ali Al-Samoudi was intentional and with the aim of "killing", as it was deliberately directed at the upper part of the body, while there was no shooting from Palestinian fighters, as claimed by the occupation authorities.

And the American Axios website had revealed that the US security coordinator for Israel and the Palestinian Authority recently sent to the US State Department a new report regarding the killing of Palestinian-American journalist Sherine Abu Aqleh, at the hands of the Israeli occupation forces, “according to a senior US official and a letter written by Senator Chris Van Hollen (Democrat from Washington) Maryland) and send it to Secretary of State Blinken."

Senator Van Hollen, in a letter to Blinken, called on the State Department to show lawmakers an unedited copy of the report submitted by Wenzel and his team.

Senator Van Hollen's office said the letter, which was shared with Axios, was sent to Blinken Monday night. In the letter, Van Hollen requested immediate congressional review of the summary report on the death of Shirin Abu Aqleh.