The Unified Teachers Movement announced, at midnight, the freezing of the strike, and all activities announced by it until the date of the tenth of next September, and the Secretary of the Central Committee of the "Fatah" movement, Jibril Rajoub, was given the opportunity to implement the amended initiative that was presented, which he considered non-implementation The first point of it relates to the democratization of the Teachers Union in a manner that guarantees freedom of candidacy and election, in contradiction to its generality.

The movement announced regular working hours in all schools, starting today, Wednesday, and the return of all teachers and students to them, and work according to the plan and tasks assigned to them.

And he indicated that he would take positions on any announcement by the ministry that might constitute retaliation against teachers, including assigning them to unfair compensation programs.

The statement thanked the parents, male and female students, and the social and public incubator for supporting the teachers, and the movement saluted the teachers for their standing and steadfastness in their rights.

The initiative on which the crisis was resolved stipulates that the remaining 10% of the bonus agreed upon in 2022, amounting to 15%, be entered into the 2023 budget, and implemented with a maximum right in the salary of the month of 1/2024, or in the event of a breakthrough in the financial crisis, and the formation of a democratic union for teachers that guarantees freedom Candidacy and election no later than the tenth of next September, ensuring that no male or female teacher will be subjected to any future penalties for their participation in the strike and events, and canceling all penalties and deductions previously issued.

The Council of Ministers welcomed the response of all teachers to the government's calls to return to school hours, to protect our children and save the school year, especially Prime Minister Dr. Muhammad Shtayyeh's call for male and female teachers during his inspection tour to a number of schools in Ramallah and Al-Bireh governorate yesterday morning, and his clear and frank dialogue with male and female teachers. And his emphasis on the importance of the regularity of the educational process in a way that preserves the right of our children to education, and in a way that preserves the rights and dignity of teachers.

This came in a statement issued by the Council tonight, in which it praised all the efforts made over the past weeks to end the crisis, especially by the Central Committee of the "Fatah" movement, represented by the Secretary of the Committee, Jibril Rajoub, the national factions, the secretaries of the regions in the governorates, civil society organizations, and councils. Parents; Who invited parents to accompany their sons and daughters to schools this morning, to ensure the regularity of the educational process.

The statement emphasized that the government responded to the teachers' demands, out of appreciation for their role in educating our children, and upholding the status of science and teachers.

The Council of Ministers saluted all teachers, especially those who did not stop doing their duty and performing their sacred mission.

The statement confirmed that the Prime Minister instructed the formation of a special committee to draw lessons from the strike. Which took a long time, because it took a political turn, not a demand one, after the government responded to all the rights and demands of teachers.

The statement indicated that the academic year will remain open until the end of the academic course, and students will be compensated for the educational losses they missed, according to the plan set by the Ministry of Education in this regard.

Thousands of Israelis demonstrated on Tuesday evening in Tel Aviv, coinciding with the start of the "celebrations of the 75th anniversary of the founding of Israel" (the Palestinian Nakba).

Israelis have been demonstrating weekly for four months against the judicial reform that Benjamin Netanyahu's government wants to implement, which critics consider anti-democratic.

The protesters raised Israeli flags and chanted the slogan "democracy" before a concert by popular singers, similar to what other cities in the country are witnessing, where platforms and open concerts were held in the streets.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for unity in a speech broadcast on a giant screen at the start of a ceremony in Jerusalem.

"Only with our unity can we achieve our goals... To be united is to realize that we have one people and one country and we do not have and will not have another land," he said.

The ceremony was held without incident, despite fears it would be disrupted by anti-judicial reform activists.

Meanwhile, supporters of reform plan to gather Thursday evening in front of the Knesset (parliament).

Since the reform project was announced in early January, tens of thousands of Israelis have demonstrated every week to denounce the text and the government that Netanyahu formed in December.

On March 27, the latter announced the “suspension” of the Islah Party to give “an opportunity for dialogue,” after the protests intensified, the start of a general strike, and the emergence of tensions within the ruling coalition.

For the government, the text aims, among other things, to rebalance the powers by strengthening the powers of Parliament at the expense of the Supreme Court, which it considers politicized.

Critics of the reform believe that it threatens to open the way for authoritarian deviations.

The Jordanian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Ayman Safadi, and the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philip Lazzarini, discussed today, Tuesday, efforts to provide the necessary financial support to bridge the financial deficit faced by the agency, to ensure its continuation in providing services to Palestinian refugees in accordance with its UN mandate.

Al-Safadi and Lazzarini stressed the need for the international community to take practical and urgent steps to provide the necessary financial support to the Agency, so that it continues to provide its vital services to the refugees.

Al-Safadi said that empowering the agency financially and ensuring its ability to implement its UN mandate is an absolute necessity to provide a decent life for refugees, and to invest in security and stability.

He stressed the centrality of the role played by the Agency in providing education, health services and relief aid to Palestinian refugees, and the need for it to continue its work in accordance with its UN mandate, until the refugee issue is resolved in a way that guarantees their right to return and compensation in accordance with international legitimacy decisions, and within the framework of a comprehensive solution to the Palestinian issue based on a solution. two states, addresses all final status issues.

Lazzarini appreciated the main role played by the Kingdom, which is the largest host and indirect supporter of Palestinian refugees, in mobilizing financial and political support for the Agency.

Amid warnings of the liquidation of the prisoner, Sheikh Khader Adnan (44 years), from the town of Arraba, south of Jenin, by turning back his demands and neglecting his hunger strike that has been going on for 80 days, the Israeli occupation prosecution demanded, according to the head of the Palestinian Prisoners Club, Qaddoura Fares, that Adnan be imprisoned for 4 years, After filing an indictment against him.

In an interview with Al-Quds.com, Fares asserted that the occupation fabricated an indictment against Adnan, on well-known charges, whether he made statements through the media or his participation in events, that matters are heading towards his liquidation by neglecting his strike and not responding to his demand for his freedom.

Fares revealed that the Israeli Occupation Prosecution demanded that Adnan be imprisoned for 5 years, to be reduced to 4 years now, stressing the need to intensify efforts to save Adnan's life, especially since Israel this time filed an indictment against him, not as the previous strikes against his administrative detention.

According to Fares, Israel believes that no prisoner has canceled an indictment through a strike. In previous times, Adnan's detention was canceled because he was administrative, which in the eyes of the world was arbitrary, but this time Israel filed an indictment against Adnan, and disclosed the charges against him. , and refused to release him on bail, which means that the occupation is moving towards liquidating him, bearing in mind that these charges were present at the time of his administrative detention, and they would have been secretly, without an indictment being filed.

For his part, the official of the legal department in the Commission for Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs, lawyer Jamil Saadeh, warned in an interview with Al-Quds.com about the seriousness of the health situation of prisoner Khader Adnan, especially in light of the continuation of his strike, the occupation’s management of his case, and the lack of negotiations about it, which is something Fear for his life doubles.

The Captive Club confirmed, in a press statement today, Tuesday, that the occupation's continued arrest of Sheikh Khader Adnan is a death sentence against him, 80 days after his open hunger strike, and his health reaching a very dangerous stage.

It is noteworthy that the prisoner Adnan has been detained since the fifth of last February, and he had declared his hunger strike since the moment of his arrest, and later the occupation authorities issued an indictment against him, in return, Sheikh Adnan rejected all of what was stated in the indictment.

The prisoner, Sheikh Khader Adnan, is married and the father of nine children, the youngest of his children is one and a half years old and the eldest is 14 years old. The prisoner Adnan is considered one of the most prominent prisoners who faced arrest, through the struggle with his empty stomachs, as he previously carried out five strikes against his administrative detention, and this is the sixth strike that took place. He carries it out over the course of his 12 years of detention, and this strike is the longest he has been involved in.

The Norwegian capital, Oslo, announced a ban on importing goods and services of companies that contribute directly or indirectly to the settlements, as they constitute a flagrant violation of international law.

The Palestinian National Committee to Boycott Israel, the broadest coalition in Palestinian society that leads the BDS movement, welcomed in a statement issued today, Tuesday, the Oslo Declaration, and saluted "Norwegian solidarity groups, unions and parties, who worked hard to reach this declaration."

She pointed out that the Oslo decision "followed the decision of the Mayor of Barcelona to freeze relations with the Israeli colonial and apartheid regime."

The municipal council of the Spanish city of Barcelona had approved a proposal submitted by left-wing parties and the city's mayor, Ada Colao, to cancel the twinning agreement with the municipality of Tel Aviv.

The Palestinian National Committee to Boycott Israel called on all cities around the world to join Oslo and Barcelona, and to sever their relations with the Israeli occupation, to stand in the face of global complicity with its crimes, and in support of the Palestinian struggle for freedom, justice and equality.

In June 2022, the Norwegian government declared that the “Israel” label of origin is only appropriate for products coming from territories under Israeli control prior to June 4, 1967.

Oslo stated that "foodstuffs coming from the territories occupied by Israel must be marked with the area from which the product comes and (indicating) that it is from an Israeli settlement, if that is its source."

The Norwegian government said the measure would apply to the occupied territories in the Golan Heights and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

Sudanese families spend miserable days saving money and fuel, and hours of driving in the dark night, passing dozens of checkpoints, in order to make the thousand-kilometer journey to the Egyptian border, to escape the horrors of war in Khartoum.

For 24 hours, the Sudanese youth Omar, who spoke to AFP under a false name, remained imprisoned between the walls of his house, while the sounds of bullets and explosions rocked the Sudanese capital, preparing everything for his departure with his family outside Khartoum.

Omar said the most dangerous stage they faced was leaving the neighborhood: "We passed 25 checkpoints to get to the bus station on the outskirts of Khartoum."

At the station, they had to wait for the passenger contract to complete on their 45-person bus. He explained that the ticket price was $115 per person.

But as hundreds of desperate families poured in to flee the fighting, the amount rose to about $400, the equivalent of a Sudanese civil servant's monthly salary.

Omar added that even after buying a ticket, "some buses may wait a whole day," while drivers scramble to find fuel, which has increased in price "eight times" in the 10 days since the fighting began.

On April 15, fighting broke out in Khartoum and a number of Sudanese states between the army led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces led by Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo, which has so far killed more than 420 people and wounded about four thousand.

Following a relative truce, Sudanese and foreigners in Khartoum began fleeing to safer places, and Arab and foreign countries began evacuating their citizens.

Medical student Noun Abdel Basset, 21, arrived in Cairo on Sunday, two days after she left Khartoum, "with ten of her relatives, between the ages of 4 and 70," she told AFP.

On their way out of the Sudanese capital, their bus was stopped, Abdel Basset said, "twice by the army and once by the Rapid Support Forces."

"We were worried that they (troops) would come up with their weapons or hurt anyone," she said, but she was relieved when they "just checked with the passengers and asked a few questions."

Passengers catch their breath as soon as they exit the capital and stay on the buses until reaching the Arqin border crossing with Egypt.

Abdelbaset added that there was not a single checkpoint during the 13 hours of driving. Likewise, there is no place for them to get food and water from. Only "a black road and nothing left or right".

Musab al-Hadi, a 22-year-old Sudanese student, is helping those fleeing the fighting plan their escape out of the capital and into the country.

"When we get a call from people trying to find safe passage to Egypt, the first thing we ask is if they have enough food and water" for the trip, he told AFP.
Even those who have already reached the Egyptian border, some of them had to wait hours at night for the crossing to open.

Under normal circumstances, only Sudanese women, children and men over the age of 50 are allowed to enter Egypt, where four million Sudanese live according to the United Nations, without a prior visa.

Those who are men under fifty must obtain an entry visa from the Egyptian Consulate in Wadi Halfa, in the far north of the country.

However, over the past few days, many Egyptian users of social media platforms have called on their country's authorities to allow Sudanese arrivals because of the war to enter without visas, using the hashtag "Egypt is your second home".

A local charitable organization has also published contact numbers for expatriates in emergency situations, especially those in need of infant formula or medical services.

Cameron Hudson of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington predicted a "mass exodus of civilians" once a permanent ceasefire takes effect, with "millions of people trying to cross borders" to safety.

Even after crossing the border, the road remains long to Cairo, as Aswan in the far south of Egypt is the closest major city and is located 300 km north of the crossing.

Instead of taking another bus for 20 hours to get to Cairo, Abdel Basset and her family preferred to take the train for only 14 hours, the goal being to finally be safe from the war.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Riyad Al-Maliki, said this evening, Tuesday, that the process of displacing and replacing the Palestinians by the Israeli occupation is still underway, with one goal that is pursued in broad daylight, which is annexation.

Al-Maliki stressed, during a speech during a session of the UN Security Council to follow up the situation in the Palestinian territories, that the time has come to end the Nakba, which has been prolonged and has become the longest period of denial of national, collective and individual rights in the world caused by the longest occupation in modern history.

He added: The entire system based on international law is based on two basic principles: the right of peoples to self-determination and the inadmissibility of seizing land by force, and there is no violation of these rules more than aggression and annexation.

He continued: If the United Nations Charter had been adhered to, and Security Council resolutions had been implemented, peace would have prevailed in Palestine a long time ago, not occupation and apartheid, and this is all we ask: adherence to the United Nations Charter and implementation of United Nations resolutions. like he said.

Minister Malki asked, "How many Israeli officials have been held accountable in any way for the crime of colonial settlement in our land, for forced displacement, indiscriminate attacks against civilians, and the demolition of homes and buildings that many of you funded? What consequences did they face?"

Al-Maliki said: "Palestinians are not killed by hundreds and thousands by mistake every year. The disregard for the lives of the Palestinians, and the will to subjugate and control them, is because Israel has instituted a shoot-to-kill policy."

In his speech, Al-Maliki touched on the daily violations committed by the Israeli occupation authorities and settler terrorism, saying: "The soldiers and settlers spread destruction in our streets and in our lives. No one is safe anywhere and at any time. Neither in our land, nor in our streets, nor in our mosques, nor in our churches." Nor in our schools, nor in our homes. There is no shame in declaring that one group, the group unlawfully present in our land, shall benefit from all privileges, while the other group, the lawful inhabitants of the land, shall still be deprived of their most basic rights."

He added: There is a simple principle that underlies all international law and international justice: Deterrence is the only way to prevent recurrence, and that the only issue worth discussing is how you can mount a collective response that will deter anyone from violating international law and ensure that everyone adheres to peace, in word and deed.

The Palestinian foreign minister said, as long as Israel reaps the fruits of its occupation, and we pay the price, annexation and apartheid are the only reality we have left.

During his speech, Al-Maliki called for the recognition of the State of Palestine, saying: "How can any country that supports the two-state solution and peace justify not recognizing the State of Palestine so far, without which there is no. The two-state solution? If there is no recognition of the State of Palestine now and it is under a vital threat, When will the international community do that?

He added, “Why does this council, which has been calling for a two-state solution for decades, not recommend the membership of the State of Palestine to the General Assembly? Is there a better way to embody international support for the two-state solution than for a state that has been unjustly denied membership since 1948 to become a member of the United Nations? Why? Israel, which violated the terms of its membership, namely Resolutions 181 and 194, and continues to violate the Charter, is entitled to membership, and we who respect the Charter of the United Nations are deprived of it?”

Minister Al-Maliki also demanded the protection of the Palestinian people from the crimes of the occupation, in implementation of the mandate of the Security Council to maintain international peace and security, and the issue of Palestine, an issue of international security and peace.

The Israeli delegate to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, left this evening, Tuesday, the session of the UN Security Council, to discuss the situation in Palestine, angry after refusing to postpone the session.

According to the Hebrew website Ynet, Erdan had demanded a few days ago to postpone the date of the session that was held this evening because it coincided with the commemoration of the Israeli dead, but Russia, in its capacity as the country responsible for the current session of the presidency of the Security Council, refused to do so.

And Israeli political sources said that Moscow refused this for political reasons because Tel Aviv stood by Kiev (Ukraine) in the United Nations.

In the context, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said during the session that it is not possible to turn a blind eye to the construction of settlements, the annexation of land, the destruction of homes and arbitrary arrests, adding that clashes related to the violation of the status of holy places in the city of Jerusalem have been observed.

Lavrov stressed the importance of getting rid of the root causes of the conflict, and that the most important thing is for all parties to reaffirm that the two-state solution is irreplaceable, as it is the one that meets the aspirations of the Palestinian people and their rights to enjoy a state with East Jerusalem as its capital, by returning to direct negotiations on all final issues to stop the violence. and radical.

He pointed out that the time has come for everyone who buries previous Security Council resolutions, including those related to Palestine and the Syrian Golan, to explain this before the General Assembly.

In his briefing, the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Winsland, reviewed the developments and field developments that the international institution had monitored during the past few weeks.

He mentioned that that period of relative calm witnessed the arrest of 17 Palestinians, including two children, while more than 100 Palestinians, including 4 women and 38 children, were injured at the hands of the Israeli forces, whether during demonstrations and confrontations or during arrest and search operations, in addition to recording 39 injuries among them. 3 women and 4 children during the settler attacks, which varied between attacks, shooting and stone throwing.

Wensland stressed the need to address the security, political, economic and institutional causes that lead to the conflict, and work to put an end to unilateral measures, provocation and incitement that lead to violence and prevent progress towards resolving the conflict and ending the occupation.

He also referred to the continuous incursions carried out by the occupation police and army forces into the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque during the blessed month of Ramadan, which included expulsions of worshipers and assaulting them by beating them with batons and rifle butts and firing bullets at them, stressing that these developments came on the eve of calls Provocation and incitement by Jewish extremists to perform sacrifice rituals in Al-Aqsa Mosque.

He noted that the occupation police prevented Orthodox Christian worshipers from reaching the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem, to celebrate the Holy Saturday that precedes the glorious Easter, while the Orthodox Patriarchate and other Christian leaders denounced the limitation of the number of visitors to the church, stressing that this is not justified. It violates the status quo.

He stated that many Palestinian victims occurred in Israeli operations in areas classified as "A" in the occupied West Bank, while the levels of violence attributed to settlers increased in the last period.

Wensland added: "We are concerned about the continuation of provocative actions during the past few weeks, especially the repeated storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and I call for respect for the status quo in the holy places, in accordance with the special role played by the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, adding that the Israeli security services should not use lethal force to protect lives." Especially children, who should not be subjected to violence in any way.

The United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process appealed to all parties to exercise maximum restraint and refrain from anything that would exacerbate the situation, stressing that he would work closely with the parties concerned to calm the situation and pave the way for a political solution.

He reaffirmed that settlements in all their forms are illegal under international law, and that they are an obstacle to peace, calling on all parties to avoid any unilateral measures and provocative actions that would fuel tensions.

He noted that the Israeli authorities announced the launch of bids for the construction of 940 housing units in settlements to be built on lands classified as "C", and 98 in East Jerusalem, last month, while ministers from the Israeli government and Knesset members joined 15,000 settlers in a march protected by the Israeli army to demand The government legalized the "Avitar" outpost, which is established on the lands of Jabal Sabih, south of Nablus.

And he indicated that the demolitions and seizure of Palestinian property in the West Bank and East Jerusalem remain a cause for concern, calling on the Israeli authorities to work to stop the displacement and displacement of Palestinians, and to approve structural plans that enable Palestinians to build legally to meet their development needs.

He added that the Palestinian Authority, in light of the deteriorating field conditions, continues to face institutional and financial difficulties that cannot be underestimated, and at the same time, the United Nations agencies, funds and programs that provide support to the Palestinian people are also facing a great scarcity in funding, especially the World Food Program. and UNRWA, affecting the delivery of basic services.

He added, "All parties must make redoubled efforts, and the international community must redouble efforts to strengthen Palestinian institutions, improve governance, and restore the financial recovery of the Palestinian Authority. These measures must be part of a broader political effort that addresses the full drivers of this conflict and provides the space and access required for the Palestinian economy to "We encourage the parties to improve their administrative and economic relations, and that the next meeting of the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee in Brussels constitutes an opportunity to take a strategic turn in this direction. Addressing immediate challenges would provide the required impetus for the return of the political horizon and some stability towards the two-state solution."

Wensland appealed to all parties, countries of the region and the international community to show leadership, return to engagement, work and collectively agree to achieve peace to end the occupation and resolve the conflict, pursuant to the provisions of international law and relevant United Nations resolutions, and previous agreements to embody the two states, which guarantee the establishment of an independent, democratic, contiguous, viable and sovereign Palestinian state, in The framework of the recognized borders on the territories occupied in 1967, with Jerusalem as its capital.

While the representative of the UAE, Minister of State Khalifa Shaheen Al-Marar, affirmed that Jerusalem has a special place that cannot be compromised, including respect for its existing historical and legal status, and respect for the Hashemite guardianship over the sanctities in it in word and deed.

He expressed his country's concern about the increasing incursions, demolitions and displacement of Palestinians, which exacerbate the situation, bringing the number of Palestinian victims during the first quarter of this year to more than the total number of victims of the entire past year, which is the bloodiest in nearly two decades.

He pointed out that the nature of the next stage raises the alarm if Israel continues to strengthen the power of the settlers, provide them with legal immunity, and employ them as another tool to seize more occupied Palestinian land, pointing to the presence of 700,000 settlers in 279 settlements that were illegally established on Palestinian land. occupied, including 147 settlement outposts, according to the United Nations.

Al-Marar stressed the urgent need to protect the two-state solution, the solution that represents the unanimous vision of the international community and the Security Council to end the conflict, and it is the solution that the UAE does not see an alternative to, calling on Israel to immediately stop all settlement activities and abide by its responsibilities, in accordance with international law, including international humanitarian law.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu hosted on Tuesday four-way talks aimed at normalizing relations between Ankara and Damascus after they were severed with the start of the conflict in Syria in 2011.

The Russian Defense Ministry said, "Practical steps were discussed in the field of strengthening security in the Syrian Arab Republic and normalizing Syrian-Turkish relations."

Moscow stressed the importance of confronting "the fight against all extremist groups in Syria."

Shoigu, who hosted his counterparts in Syria, Turkey and Iran, also held bilateral talks.
The Kremlin continues its efforts to normalize relations between Damascus and Ankara.

If successful, the Kremlin's mediation would give Russian President Vladimir Putin important diplomatic leverage in light of Moscow's isolation on the international stage due to its invasion of Ukraine.

In a statement about the quadripartite talks, the Turkish Ministry of Defense referred to the "constructive atmosphere" of the meeting, during which the parties discussed "the issue of intensifying efforts to return Syrian refugees to their lands."

The Turkish ministry added that all participants "reaffirmed their respect for Syria's territorial integrity."

In Damascus, the Ministry of Defense said in a statement published by Syrian media that "the quartet meeting of" defense ministers "discussed" the issue of the withdrawal of Turkish forces from Syrian territory.
A friendly relationship prevailed between the Turkish and Syrian presidents in the first decade of the third millennium, after years of tensions between their two countries.
However, the war in Syria, which left about 500,000 people dead and millions displaced, strained relations again between Damascus and Ankara, which supported factions opposed to President Bashar al-Assad.
Russia, with its direct military intervention since 2015, played the most prominent role in tipping the scales in favor of the Syrian regime forces, after it lost large areas during the first years of the war.

Today, Tuesday, Arab hackers managed to penetrate 15 Israeli websites, in light of the occupation state's celebrations of "commemorating war dead."

According to the Hebrew Maariv newspaper website, the hackers, who call themselves "Anonymous Sudan", were able to disable some websites of banks, telecommunications companies and others, but did not reach internal information or customers of those banks and companies.

An urgent summons message for Israeli soldiers to various military bases sparked a state of panic among the soldiers.

After hours of checking why the soldiers called their bases, canceled vacations, etc., the message was sent due to human error.

An Israeli army spokesman said an investigation had been opened into the incident.

The family of prisoner Fadi Khaled Abu Khalaf (20 years old) from the town of Asira al-Qibliya, south of Nablus, called for urgent intervention from official and human rights institutions to release their sick son, who has been administratively detained for five months.

His father, Khaled Abu Khalaf, expressed his deep concern about his health and his fear of a deterioration in his health in light of the renewal of his administrative detention, stressing that a real danger threatens his sick son due to the policy of medical negligence practiced by the prison administration.

The prisoner Abu Khalaf suffers from heart problems, and previously underwent three heart surgeries, and a battery was implanted to regulate the heartbeat, and he needs special medical care that is not available inside prisons.

He explained that his son was constantly visiting hospitals in the city of Nablus to monitor his health condition, but since his arrest he has not received the necessary medical follow-up, and only gets medicine.

Abu Khalaf was arrested after storming his family's house 5 months ago, and an administrative detention order was issued against him for a period of four months, and when it expired in late March; The occupation renewed his detention for four months, despite his health condition.

It is noteworthy that the occupation authorities arrested his brother, Samed Abu Khalaf (16 years), on the eve of Eid al-Fitr, after he was summoned for an interview, and his family does not have any information about him and the circumstances and place of his arrest.

His father held the Israeli occupation responsible for his son's life, and appealed to the concerned authorities and human rights institutions to intervene to secure his urgent release in order to avoid the deterioration of his health condition.

The leader of the Democratic minority in the US House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffreys, is leading a congressional delegation to visit Ghana and Israel, in his first visit to Congress as a Democratic leader, heading to Ghana and then Israel, where he and his delegation will participate in the 75th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba and the celebration of the anniversary of the founding of Israel.

Jeffreys, who is close to the most powerful Israel lobby organization in the United States, the American Israel Public Relations Committee-AIPAC, represents New York's 8th congressional district, which includes a majority of African Americans and the Caribbean.

Congressman Jefferies, who this year replaced Nancy Pelosi as the leader of the Democratic Party in the House of Representatives after the Democrats lost the majority in the House of Representatives, is widely considered a close friend of Israel, and one of the biggest supporters of the occupation authorities, as the Guardian newspaper pointed out last November. Following his selection as the leader of the Democrats, he said: "The prospect of Jeffreys leading the House Democrats was greeted happily by hardline pro-Israel groups who are increasingly concerned about growing opposition in Congress to Israel's treatment of the Palestinians."

According to the Open Secrets website, pro-Israel groups have donated nearly half a million dollars to the Jefferies 2022 campaign, second only to donations from the American Stock Exchange.

It is noteworthy that Jeffreys said in a rally in July 2014, during Israel's fierce war on the besieged Gaza Strip: "Israel should not be forced to apologize for its strength," echoing what Israel says that he knows from experience that "the only thing that is respected by the neighbors in a difficult neighborhood is strength." And in December 2016, Jefferies condemned the Obama administration for not vetoing a United Nations Security Council resolution on Israeli settlements.

Jeffreys is accompanied by Rep. Gregory Meeks, who sits on the Foreign Affairs Committee. Member of the Financial Services Committee, Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Member of the Appropriations Committee, Member of the Select Subcommittee on Arming the Federal Government, Representative Yvette D. Clark, member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, member of the Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Stacy Plaskett, MD, Select Subcommittee on Arming the Federal Government, member of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Rep. Nanette Barragán, Chair of the Hispanic Caucus, member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, Representative Josh Gottheimer, member of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, member of the Financial Services Committee; Representative Stephen Horsford, chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, is a member of the Financial Services Committee. member of the Armed Forces Committee; and Rep. Lizzie Fletcher - member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, and Rep. Joe Niguez, chair of the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee. Member of the Judiciary Committee, Member of the Rules Committee, Member of the Natural Resources Committee, Deputy Dean Phillips, Co-Chair, Committee on Democratic Policy and Communications, Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Member of the Small Business Committee, and Representative Sarah Jacobs, Representative of Caucus Leadership. Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, member of the Armed Forces Committee.

Sweden announced Tuesday that it will expel five Russian diplomats for "activities incompatible" with their diplomatic status.

The Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that "five officials of the Russian embassy in Sweden were asked to leave the country due to activities that do not comply with the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations."

The ministry did not specify the nature of these activities, but the announcement came on the eve of the broadcast of an episode of a documentary series on Russian espionage activities in Sweden by the public television channel SVT.

In response to a question in the framework of this series, the Swedish intelligence said that a third of Russian diplomats work de facto for one of the Russian intelligence services.

"They are employees whose mission is to collect information and influence a country in the desired direction," Daniel Stenling, head of the counterintelligence department, told SVT.

In mid-April, Norway announced the expulsion of 15 employees of the Russian Embassy in Oslo, on suspicion of espionage.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriate Affairs stated that the Jordanian ambassador to Tel Aviv, Ghassan Al-Majali, visited MP Imad Al-Adwan, who was arrested by the Israeli occupation authorities a few days ago, on the background of an alleged case of smuggling quantities of weapons and gold.

Al-Majali said in a statement: "The deputy Al-Adwan assured the ambassador that he is in good health, and that he is not subjected to any abusive practices, physically or psychologically. The deputy asked the ambassador to reassure his family that he is in good health."

He added, "The Jordanian ambassador spoke in detail with MP Al-Adwan about the circumstances of his arrest and the procedures for his investigation, and made sure that the circumstances of his detention respect his legal and human rights.

He pointed out that the visit comes in the context of the intensive efforts undertaken by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in coordination with the concerned authorities, to find out the merits of the case, and to ensure detention conditions and investigation procedures consistent with international laws and conventions that fully preserve the rights of the representative, and work to address the issue.

Today, Tuesday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested two children during the raid on Al-Auja village, north of Jericho.

According to local sources, these forces arrested the two children, Mustafa Ayman Mustafa Jarhoud and Hani Mahmoud Nujoom, both of whom are 17 years old.

In recent weeks, the town of Azzun bid farewell to two of its best sons, the boy Muhammad Salim (15 years old) and the young man Azzam Salim (20 years old), who were killed by the bullets of the occupation, with a difference of a few days, as the people confronted the repeated attempts of the occupation to storm the town.

It is certain for the people of the town that the danger still exists and that the occupation bullets will claim more lives, as the ambitions of the occupation and settlers in their town and their lands have not stopped since the occupation in 1967.

At a distance of 25 km to the west of Nablus, and 10 km to the east of Qalqilya, lies the town of Azzun, which over time was a safe haven, but today it is being devoured by the claws of occupation and settlement.

Azzun belongs administratively to the Qalqilya Governorate, while it was previously part of the Tulkarm district, while the days of Turkish rule followed the Salfit district, and before that, during the Mamluk era, it was the last village in the northern district of Jerusalem.

The strategic location of the town, which is inhabited by about 10,000 people, which links the governorates of Nablus, Qalqilya, and Tulkarem to each other, and is characterized by the fertility of its lands, remained the aspiration of the occupation and settlers. In recent years, settlements have devoured vast areas of its lands, which amount to about 27 thousand dunums, and it is now surrounded by settlements and the apartheid wall. And bypass streets and military watch towers that monitor every incoming and outgoing.

The mayor of Azzun, Ahmed Inaya, says that the people of his town were distinguished by their steadfastness and the defense of their lands throughout history. They participated in the revolutions that took place previously, such as the "Al-Buraq Revolution", the "36" revolution and the "39" revolution.

In the 1936 revolution, one of the townspeople, Faris al-Azouni, was leading a group resisting the British Mandate. He was captured by the British, but he managed to escape from Acre prison, until he was re-arrested in Syria and executed there in 1940.

Also, during the revolution of the "36", the martyr Fatima Ghazal died, and it is said that she is the first Palestinian martyr in that revolution, and her memory was immortalized by naming her name to the Azzun Girls School, "The School of the Martyr Fatima Ghazal."

Inaya added that the series of sacrifices continues. In recent weeks, two of the town's residents were martyred, and about a year ago there was another martyr, along with dozens of wounded and prisoners of the town's residents.

He pointed out that the occupation and settlers surround the town from every side, and they have turned the lives of its people into hell. For example, there is the street that the occupation calls "55" Street, and it is located at the entrance of Azzun, and it is always a scene of events and confrontations with the occupation forces and settlers, and there are also gates Al-Hodeidah, which the occupation uses to lock down the town and besiege the rest of its lands, noting that the occupation and settlements have taken control of about half of the town's lands.

He pointed out that the occupation greatly restricts farmers and landowners, as it prevents them from reaching their lands to plow, cultivate, reclaim, or pick their olives, and it also prevents agricultural tractors, "barrows" and bulldozers that people need to reclaim their lands, from walking through Street 55 and reaching Their lands near the street, and whoever wants to do so must obtain special permits in this regard.

Inaya confirmed that they aspire to do projects in the village, including the development of the water and electricity network, and the street networks. There is a project that worries the municipality, which is the sewage networks project, as it has not been implemented due to the lack of funding to work on it.

Damascus on Tuesday denounced the European Union's imposition of new economic sanctions on people and institutions associated with it, saying that this would impede the provision of humanitarian aid, according to the official Syrian News Agency (SANA).

And on Monday, the European Union imposed new economic sanctions on people and institutions linked to the Syrian authorities, against the background of drug smuggling, “oppression” of citizens, and cooperation with Moscow, the most prominent supporter of Damascus.

The European Union affirmed that the sanctions will not affect humanitarian aid to the Syrian people, after the devastating earthquake that struck Syria and neighboring Turkey on the sixth of last February.

A source in the Syrian Foreign Ministry said, according to SANA, that "the European Union repeats its lies when it claims that the sanctions imposed on Syria do not impede the provision of humanitarian aid or access to food and medical equipment."

And he considered that these sanctions "constitute a serious threat to the lives and livelihood of Syrians and negatively affect the country's economy."

The new European sanctions targeted two cousins of President Bashar al-Assad on charges of involvement in smuggling operations of the narcotic Captagon, of which Saudi Arabia is the largest market.

The European Union followed the example of the United States and Britain after imposing sanctions on Syrians, including Assad's cousins, on charges of smuggling Captagon.

European sanctions also affected Syrian officials on charges of violating human rights, and institutions on charges of sending Syrian raw materials to Russia.

Following the devastating earthquake, the European Union announced a temporary easing of the sanctions imposed on Syria in order to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid to the affected areas.

However, the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs considered in its statement that "the exceptions that the European Union boasts about have no effect at all, but rather are for media propaganda and concealing the truth of its policies towards Syria."

Among the dozens of paintings that were in the Sursock Museum of Fine Art in Beirut and were distorted by the city's port explosion on August 4, 2020, three are linked to personalities who "contributed to the renaissance of Lebanese cultural life." They returned on Tuesday to their place after a rescue operation at the French Pompidou Center.

The director of the Sursock Museum of Ancient and Contemporary Art, Karina El-Helou, told AFP that the three paintings that were hung on Tuesday were sent to Paris for restoration after the terrible explosion that damaged the neighborhoods near the port, and the museum is located in one of them, “because repairing them was difficult and complicated compared to other pieces of art.” affected.”

El-Helou added, "These paintings underwent months of work in the Department of Art Preservation at the Center Pompidou," one of the largest museums of modern and contemporary art in the world, to return to how they were.

With great care, Malik El Setif, who has been working in the museum for about nine years, took out the carefully packed paintings from their wooden boxes at the end of last week, while he was wearing gloves.

The first piece, drawn by the Dutchman Kees Van Dongen in the thirties of the twentieth century, represents the founder of the museum, Nicolas Sursock, sitting on a chair, and it was subjected to a deep horizontal tear near the eye. The painting will be installed where it was, in Nicolas Sursock's office on the second floor. "It was as if she was sick and had traveled to seek treatment," says Al-Stif.

Al-Helou recounts that Dongen, of Dutch origin, who was living in France, visited Beirut at that time and painted several portraits in the Lebanese capital for families from this region and clerics. And she stresses that "this painting has an important meaning in the museum's collection, as it confirms Lebanon's openness to the West and Beirut's pioneering role, as foreign artists used to visit it."

When the owner of Setif opened the second box, an oil painting by the Lebanese painter Paul Guiragossian entitled "Consolation" appeared in it, pulsating with tenderness and overshadowed by the white color. Al-Helou explains that Paul Guiragossian, one of the most prominent faces of Lebanese plastic art, was "affected by the war and distinguished by drawing the mother carrying her son."

El-Helou admired the restoration of the cracks in the third panel with fiery colors, and noticed the delicate work in weaving each thread of this personal drawing (portrait) dating back to 1967 by Sissi Tamazio Sursock, and representing the painter Odile Mazloum, who established an art gallery in Beirut, "and she was Since the sixties, he has been one of the most prominent cultural figures in Beirut.
The importance of the three paintings lies in the fact that they express "Beirut's cultural and artistic memory," according to El-Helou, who recalls that "Nicolas Sursock, Odile Mazloum, and Paul Guiragossian contributed to the renaissance of cultural life in Lebanon."

However, these paintings were not the only ones on which the Beirut explosion depicted the effects of the disaster. At the time of the explosion, which resulted in more than 200 dead and six thousand wounded, the Beirut Museum was holding two exhibitions, one of which included 26 impressionistic and expressive paintings by the pioneering Lebanese plastic artist George Daoud Corm (1896-1971), while the second collected more than 100 artworks by twenty-one plastic artists, from Among them are paintings in the museum's permanent collection.

The first and second floors, which housed the two galleries, were severely damaged. The walls cracked, the ornate wooden doors were shattered, and the high stained glass windows crumbled.

The fragments of glass and doors tore most of these paintings and the collapse of the suspended ceilings left white spots on them, while some of the paintings lost their colors.

In October 2020, the museum's curators finished removing the dust from more than 1,500 works of art that were safely preserved in underground layers, and consequently did not suffer any damage. In November, the dust was removed from the books and documents that adorned the museum's library.

The museum’s team specialized in restoration carried out the return of a large number of the sixty-six damaged pieces, including paintings and sculptures, to their previous state “in an elaborate manner, with the support of the French National Institute of Heritage,” according to El-Helou, and “his success in this task strengthened confidence in the role of the museum.” And he raised "the relief of the families of the late artists, whose paintings the museum owns."

Al-Helou stresses that the museum seeks to strengthen and develop this section, which is the most prominent in Lebanon in this field.

The museum is located in the Sursock neighborhood in Beirut, in a palace built by Nicolas Sursock, who was passionate about the arts, in 1912. In his will before his death in 1952, Sursock presented his palace to the Beirut Municipality to convert it into an art museum. It was opened for the first time in the year 1961.

Today, Tuesday, a citizen was killed and others were injured in a family quarrel in Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

According to police spokesman Ayman al-Batniji, the police took control of the place and arrested the perpetrators.

While the legal procedures are being completed in the case.

An atmosphere of sadness and pain prevailed in the house of the Jaradat family in the town of Silat al-Harithiya, west of Jenin, as they received the happy Eid al-Fitr, in the absence of their captive son Ahmed Rami Jaradat, and were denied his visit. The beginning of the holy month of Ramadan.

The forty-year-old mother, Hanan Jaradat, who suffers from a chronic respiratory disease in the lung, and lives on medication, resisted her tears while talking about her firstborn, who is still arrested. In front of her family, who is sad about the absence of everyone's beloved Ahmed.

And she adds: "The Lord of the Worlds knows my condition and my circumstances, and my heart bleeds for his separation. We missed him with agony and heartbreak at the tables of Ramadan, and after that came the feast, which was sad and painful. There was no feast in our family, and our feasts and joys are captive until his freedom."

And she continues: "In light of the occupation's refusal to release him, we have nothing left but to conjure up Ahmed's pictures, to decorate every nook and cranny in our house, as well as on the Ramadan table, and also in the days of the upcoming Eid, so that he will be with us and reunite us, because his spirit will not leave us despite the restrictions and imprisonment in which he became a prisoner." With Omri Ahmed.

22 years ago, Ahmed al-Nour was born in his hometown of Silat al-Harithiya, to be the firstborn of his family of 8 members, and his mother says: “His birth made us happy, and I still remember our celebrations and the distribution of sweets, because he was the firstborn who was distinguished by all good qualities, throughout his life and upbringing, he learned in the schools of our town Until he finished high school, then went to work in the construction field.

And she adds: "Despite his young age, he took responsibility to help support our family, because his father cannot work permanently and regularly, because he has been injured since the first intifada, and he did not receive any assistance from any party, although bullet fragments are still present in his lung to this day, knowing that he was arrested and spent 4 years in Israeli prisons, and he was released after the signing of the Oslo Accords.

The patient mother embraces pictures of her son, whom she describes as "the supporter, the hero, and the breadwinner for his family. He was dedicated to his work to provide us with a decent life, until the occupation arrested him and put him behind bars."

And she adds: "When Ahmed was with his father, at their place of work inside, the Israeli special units and an army force raided the site, surrounded them without explaining the reasons, and brutally beat my husband and son, then arrested them and transferred them to an unknown destination."

And she continues: "After hours, my husband was released, but Ahmed was transferred to the interrogation cells in Al-Jalama prison, and he was detained for two months amid isolation, torture, and the interruption of news of him and preventing his visits, which increased our anxiety and fear, because he does not belong to a party and does not practice any activity, and he lives his life for us only."

The sick mother waited for Ahmed to return to his home, and she is all confident, as she says, that his arrest is arbitrary and unjust, but the occupation made her life difficult, as she tells, by transferring him after the end of the investigation to Megiddo prison, and she says: “The occupation dissipated our joy with the advent of the month of Ramadan, by continuing his arrest, and amid preventing us from visiting him, The Salem Court extended his detention 6 times, without knowing the charges against him.

And she continues: "In every session, we live through nightmares of anxiety and tension because we do not know his fate. The court refuses to release him, and the occupation is still masterful in punishing us and taking revenge on us by preventing us from visiting him except during the sessions of the military court in Salem, without allowing us to speak to him."

In every conversation and council, the name and name of Ahmed is not missing, especially for his sister Rama, who is a year younger than him. Every day she stands in front of his pictures to call him and talk to him, and her mother says: “My daughter Rama has a close relationship with her brother, every moment and second, she agonizes over his separation, she did not dry up.” Her tears for losing him, as they are friends and his soul mate, and she considers him every beautiful thing in her life.

And she adds, "Often we get up from our sleep, looking for him, and when we find his bed empty, we embrace his belongings and clothes, and we pray to the Lord of the Worlds, that his absence will not be long, and that he will return to us soon."

Japanese startup ispace aims to become the first private company to land a robot on the moon.

The Hakuto-R lander is expected to start landing on the lunar surface at around 15:40 GMT if all goes according to plan.

The vehicle slows down about 100 kilometers above the lunar surface, then adjusts and corrects its altitude to perform a "soft landing" after about an hour.

However, the success of the mission is not guaranteed. In April 2019, the "Berecht" probe, which was manufactured by the Israeli company "SpaceIL", crashed on the surface of the moon.

iSpace has announced three alternative landing sites and could push the date of the operation to April 26 or May 1 or 3, depending on circumstances.

The spacecraft, which measures two by two and a half meters, entered the lunar orbit last month, after it was launched in December from the American base of Cape Canaveral, mounted on a SpaceX rocket.

Only the United States, Russia and China have so far been able to land robots on the surface of the moon, located 400,000 km from Earth.

Japan and the United States announced last year their intention to cooperate to send a Japanese astronaut to the moon by the end of the decade.

The robot carries several lunar vehicles, including a Japanese miniature model developed by the Japanese Space Agency in collaboration with toy maker Takara Tomy.

The Japanese spacecraft also carries another lunar vehicle, the Emirati lunar explorer "Rashid", which was designed and built by the United Arab Emirates. In the event that "Rashid" succeeds in landing, he will carry out the first Arab mission on the moon.

The "Hakuto" ("White Rabbit" in Japanese) project was one of five projects that reached the final stage of the international "Google Lunar Express" competition, for which no winner was announced, as no company was able to land a robot before the deadline (2018).

The Prisoners Club held the Occupation Prisons Administration fully responsible for the life and fate of the prisoner Amr Hamil (47 years old) from the town of Bardala / Tubas, after he suffered a stroke on April 20, while he was in (Raymond) prison.

In a statement, the club confirmed that the occupation prison administration carried out the crime of medical negligence (slow killing) against him by delaying his transfer to the hospital, despite the appearance of clear symptoms confirming that they were symptoms of a stroke, and after pressure from the prisoners on the prison administration, he was transferred to a hospital ( Soroka), 30 hours after the onset of symptoms.

He indicated that the main symptoms he suffered from were difficulty speaking, inability to move one of his hands and one of his legs, and vision problems. Later, after he was transferred to Soroka Hospital, he was transferred to the Ramleh Prison Clinic.

The Captive Club stated that the prisoner Hamil has been detained since 2006, along with a group of prisoners who were kidnapped from Jericho prison at the time, and he is sentenced to life imprisonment.

It is noteworthy that the captive Hamil is married and has a son and a son.

Three children were killed and two injured today (Tuesday) as a result of a landmine explosion planted by the US forces in the vicinity of the Qasrak area, north of the Syrian city of Hasakah, according to the official media.

And the Syrian News Agency (SANA), quoting civil sources, reported that "a landmine planted by the American occupation forces to fortify its base in the Qasrak area, 20 km east of Tal Tamr in the countryside of Hasakah, exploded with a group of children who were collecting basalt stones for construction in the area."

The sources pointed out that the explosion killed two girls directly, and the others were transferred to Tal Tamr Hospital, where a third child died later, as a result of severe injuries, indicating that two children are in critical condition.

The Syrian government considers the presence of US forces on its territory illegal, and demands their departure sooner or later.

Syria also accuses the United States of stealing Syrian oil and wheat from its lands and expelling it outside Syrian territory towards Iraq.

A 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit Tuesday off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, according to the US Geological Survey, forcing residents to resort to heights before a tsunami warning was raised.

The epicenter of the earthquake, which occurred at three o'clock local time (Monday at 20:00 GMT), was located near the coast of the Mentawi Islands, at a depth of 15.5 kilometers, according to the US agency.

No casualties or major damage were recorded.

"The tremor was so strong that we had difficulty standing up and getting out. We had difficulty getting out of the house and had to hold on to the walls," said Patrice Sanini, a resident of Siberut, the largest of the Mentawi islands.

"It is the strongest earthquake this year. I thought a tsunami would happen. Fortunately, no tsunami was recorded," he added.

The Indonesian Geophysics Agency issued a warning of a possible tsunami and kept it for about two hours, after initially announcing that the earthquake was more powerful.

Indonesia experiences regular seismic and volcanic activity due to its location on the "Ring of Fire" in the Pacific Ocean, where several tectonic layers collide.

The deadliest earthquake occurred in Indonesia on December 26, 2004 off the coast of Sumatra, killing more than 230,000 people in Sri Lanka, India and even Thailand.

It caused huge waves, some as high as 30 meters, on the coast of Banda Aceh in northern Sumatra. The magnitude of this earthquake was 9.1 degrees.

Today, Tuesday, Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh confirmed the regularity of the educational process in all 1,910 schools in the West Bank.

This came during his tour of the schools in Ramallah and Al-Bireh to check on the progress of the educational process.

Shtayyeh said: "There is not a single school that is idle, but rather some teachers are still not enrolled in their schools."

He reassured the parents that the high school exam will be held at the previously scheduled date, and that the academic year will be open until the full curriculum is completed.

Shtayyeh stressed that the government responded to all initiatives presented by civil society and factions, and a number of national figures, and what was reported by the Central Committee of the "Fatah" movement, but there are those who want to divert the teachers' demands from their union path.

He said, "The Council of Ministers asked the Ministry of Education to prepare everything necessary, within the framework of the law, to return the education process to its normal course."

The family of prisoner Majd Ahmed Amarneh (51 years old) from the town of Ya`bad in Jenin, known as Sheikh Izz al-Din Amarneh, confirmed that he has been on hunger strike for three days, rejecting his administrative detention.

The Captive Club stated that the occupation forces arrested Amarneh on February 21, 2022, and three administrative detention orders were issued against him, the first and second orders for a period of 6 months, while a third order was issued against him last March for a period of four months, and thus he has spent 14 years in the current detention. One month, bearing in mind that he is a former prisoner who spent about nine years, most of which were under administrative detention.

The club pointed out that Amarneh is blind and suffers from several health problems, and he needs care and treatment.

The prisoner has five sons and daughters. His male sons are detained in the occupation prisons alongside him, and they are Ahmed and Mujahid.

His son Ahmed is in administrative detention, while his son Mujahid is serving a 24-month prison sentence.

Today, Sheikh Amarneh and his two sons are in the Negev prison.

A bus carrying about 50 Filipinos who were caught in the middle of the clashes in Sudan has left the country's capital Khartoum for the northern border with Egypt, a spokeswoman for the Philippine Foreign Ministry said today (Tuesday).

"At 8 pm Manila time yesterday, the first batch (about 50 Filipinos) left Khartoum by land," spokeswoman Teresita Daza said.

From the border, Daza explained that the Filipinos will be transferred to the city of Aswan and then to the Egyptian capital, Cairo.

In turn, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Eduardo de Vega said in a radio interview today (Tuesday) that the Philippine embassy in Cairo will provide accommodation and plane tickets for Filipinos.

According to de Vega, there are about 700 Filipinos in Sudan according to the latest census. However, he noted that only about 300 Filipinos expressed their desire to leave Sudan.

He confirmed that the bus left Khartoum on its way to the border, adding that "traveling from Khartoum to the border takes about 20 hours. It's about 1,000 km."

In addition to the first batch of 50 Filipinos included in the evacuation process, de Vega indicated that at least 20 Filipinos were expelled from Sudan by their employers, indicating that the priority of the Philippines is to expel the Filipinos from Sudan with the validity of the ceasefire and return them to their homes.

Violent clashes broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces on April 15 in the capital, Khartoum, and elsewhere.

The Sudanese Ministry of Health said that the bloody clashes left more than 400 dead and about 4,000 wounded.

Today, Tuesday, the Israeli occupation authorities released the prisoner, Hassan Abu Mustafa (51 years), from Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, after a year and a half.

It is noteworthy that the editor, Abu Mustafa, was arrested by the occupation forces at the Beit Hanoun/Erez checkpoint while he was accompanying his wife for treatment.

At least 110 people were arrested Tuesday in Turkey in an operation that falls within the framework of "fighting terrorism" and targets the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a police source told AFP.

The operation, which came three weeks before crucial elections in Turkey, was carried out in 21 provinces, including the Kurdish-majority Diyarbakir in southeastern Turkey.

"The total number of arrests may reach 150," the Diyarbakir Bar Association said, including "twenty lawyers, five journalists, three theater actors and a politician."

The syndicate stated that the lawyers were prevented from communicating with their clients for 24 hours.

The non-governmental organization MLSA for the Defense of Freedoms stated that "the homes of many people, including journalists, lawyers and officials of non-governmental organizations, were searched in the early hours of the morning."

Presidential and legislative elections will be held on May 14 in Turkey, and will decide whether or not President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his party will remain in power.

The opposition is running in the elections as a united front of six parties that chose one candidate for the presidency, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, backed by the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).