The Ministry of Education confirmed, on Sunday evening, that the “ Tawjihi ” general secondary exam will be held as scheduled.

In a statement, the ministry indicated that the percentage of full-time teachers is 70%.

She indicated that the number of schools in which attendance is regular is 1884, of which 1017 are in full, and 867 in part.

A group of journalists and activists in the Gaza Strip accused, on Sunday evening, the Ministry of the Interior in the Strip of preventing the holding of a collective breakfast event, which was scheduled to be organized tomorrow in Al-Saraya Square in the center of Gaza City.

The organizers of the event stated that the ministry withdrew its approval, even though it had obtained prior approval.

The Gaza Ministry of Interior did not comment on this accusation.

On Sunday evening, the Israeli occupation forces arrested a young man while trying to infiltrate the Kiryat Arba settlement in Hebron .

According to the Hebrew Channel 14, the forces transferred the young man for interrogation.

On Sunday evening, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant threatened that his forces would continue their attacks on all fronts.

And Gallant confirmed, in a speech during a ceremony to commemorate the dead of his forces, that it had recently carried out a series of covert and overt operations, and would continue to do so, whether through attacks on or beyond the border, or far from it.

He pointed out that his forces will continue to work to prevent Iran from establishing itself on the northern front, and will continue to prevent it from delivering weapons to any of the fronts, including the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

A 39-year-old citizen was killed this evening, Sunday, as a result of a trampling accident he was involved in near the town of Haris, west of Salfit .

Colonel Louay Irzeigat, the media spokesman for the police, stated that a vehicle deviated from its track, as a result of a collision with another vehicle, and it ran over two citizens near the town of Haris, which led to the serious injury of one of them, who was subsequently transferred to Yasser Arafat Governmental Hospital in Salfit, where doctors announced His death was described as the injury of the other moderate.

Colonel Arziqat added that the driver was arrested, the Public Prosecution was informed, and an investigation into the accident was initiated by traffic police accident experts to find out his circumstances.

35 people were killed as a result of two attacks launched by militants of the Islamic State organization Sunday in Syria , according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The Observatory reported, in a new toll, that 31 people were killed while collecting truffles in central Syria as a result of an attack launched by gunmen affiliated with ISIS cells, and four shepherds were killed in the countryside of Deir Ezzor in a separate attack.

The Observatory reported in a previous toll today that at least 26 people were killed during the attack, and the official Syrian News Agency (SANA) reported in a similar toll, "26 citizens were killed in an attack carried out by the terrorist organization ISIS on the people while they were collecting truffles in the eastern countryside of Hama."

The Observatory spoke about the killing of "civilians and military personnel as a result of an armed attack on them while they were collecting truffles in the Duizen area, east of Hama, in the center of the country," explaining that 12 of the dead were fighters loyal to the regime.

SANA quoted a police source as saying that the militants of the organization "attacked a group of people who were collecting truffles in lands" in the eastern countryside of Hama.

In a separate incident, four shepherds were killed and two were kidnapped while grazing sheep in the countryside of Deir Ezzor, during an attack by gunmen, whom the Observatory believes are affiliated with cells of the Islamic State.

He added that the gunmen were "riding motorcycles with automatic weapons" and stole the entire flock of sheep.

During its control of large areas in Syria, starting in 2014, the Islamic State took control of several towns and villages in the eastern countryside of Hama, before it was expelled from it in 2017.

Since the start of the truffle collection season in February, the organization has repeatedly launched attacks targeting workers in the vast Syrian desert, punctuated by shootings and kidnappings.

The death toll as a result of the organization’s attacks in the Syrian Desert since the beginning of the year has reached more than 230 people, most of them civilians, according to the Observatory.

Despite the risks, residents of the areas bordering the Syrian Badia continue to collect truffles, whose season lasts until April and are sold at a high price, which explains the demand for collecting them in light of difficult economic conditions with a war that has been going on for more than 12 years.

The price of one kilogram generally ranges between five and $25 dollars, according to the quality and size of the fruits.

On March 24, 15 people were killed while collecting truffles as a result of an attack launched by the organization in central Syria, according to the Observatory. Also, in mid-February, 68 people were killed while collecting truffles as a result of an attack launched by the extremist organization in the eastern countryside of Homs.

On April 4, a prominent leader of the Islamic State, responsible for planning attacks in Europe, was killed in a strike launched by US forces in northwestern Syria, according to what was announced by the US Army's Central Command, Centcom.

The commander of the Central Command, Michael Korella, said in a statement that the US forces "launched a unilateral strike in northwestern Syria, which resulted in the death of Khaled Iyad Ahmed al-Jubouri, a prominent leader" in the organization.

Despite the strikes targeting its leaders, movements, and locations, the organization is still able to launch attacks and carry out sporadic attacks, especially in eastern and northeastern Syria, and in the vast Syrian desert.

Since 2011, Syria has been witnessing a bloody and complex conflict, which has caused the death of more than half a million people, massive destruction of infrastructure, and the displacement of more than half of the population inside and outside the country.

The Sudanese army announced its approval of a United Nations proposal to open safe paths for humanitarian cases for a period of three hours, starting from four o'clock this afternoon (Sunday) local time.

The Sudanese Army General Command said in a press statement, "The Sudanese Armed Forces agree to the United Nations' proposal to open safe paths for humanitarian cases, for a period of three hours, starting from four o'clock this afternoon."

She added, "provided that this does not negate her right to respond in the event of any transgressions by the rebel militia."

Since yesterday (Saturday), Sudan has been witnessing armed clashes between the Sudanese army and the (semi-regular) Rapid Support Forces.

The two sides exchanged accusations of causing the outbreak of clashes in the capital, Khartoum, and other separate areas in Sudan.

The disputes between the two military forces began last Wednesday in the Marawi region in northern Sudan, after the Rapid Support Forces moved military vehicles to a location near the military air base there, which the army considered an illegal move.

Deep differences have recently emerged between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces, especially with regard to integrating the Rapid Support Forces into the army stipulated in the framework agreement signed between the military and civilian components on the fifth of last December.

Today, Sunday, the US Ambassador , Rashad Hussein , and the Special Representative , Hadi Amr, met with the Director of the Jerusalem Endowment, Azzam Al-Khatib, in the occupied city of Jerusalem .

Developments during the month of Ramadan will be discussed and the United States' commitment to the historic status quo in Jerusalem will be confirmed.

They venture out for a few minutes to buy some of their needs, then return as quickly as possible, trying to avoid jumping in panic with the sound of each explosion... The people of Khartoum are trying to live under fire, without water or electricity, in light of the confrontations between the army and the Rapid Support Forces.

In the northern suburbs of Khartoum, as in other areas, no one closed an eyelid throughout the night from Tuesday to Wednesday because of the roar of planes, the sound of air strikes, the sounds of artillery, and the street battles with automatic rifles or heavy machine guns.

But this morning, in the last week of Ramadan, Farouk Ahmed was keen to open his bakery despite the very high temperatures, which were exacerbated by the power outage.

"We no longer have electricity and water is cut off, but we continue to work," Farouk Ahmed told AFP as he distributed the news to citizens hurrying to leave to avoid the dangers of being on the street.

Not far from the bakery, people were killed by stray bullets in the clashes that left 56 civilians dead and about 600 wounded, and which continued between the army and the Rapid Support Forces, which continued Sunday for the second day in Khartoum, amid a power struggle between the two generals who have been leading Sudan since the 2021 coup.

Not only bullets can be described as stray, but shells fell far from their potential targets in this heated battle between my allies yesterday, the army commander, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, and the leader of the Rapid Support Forces, Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo, known as "Hamidti", before the conflict between them escalated into an armed displacement. Saturday.

"A shell landed ten meters away from my house," Saad Ahmed said, still under the shock of the horror he experienced on Saturday evening.

He adds that "shooting and explosions do not stop" around his house because the bases of the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, which were formed during the war in the Darfur region, are located in the heart of residential neighborhoods.

On social media, hastily captured videos from apartment windows of armored personnel carriers, armed men, and street battles do not stop broadcasting.

As for Sana Ahmed (43 years old), she says she fears that the worst will happen Sunday in the capital, from which black columns of smoke rise.

Like everyone in North Khartoum, she has the impression that the situation has become more tense 24 hours after the first shot, for which both sides blame each other.

"Since yesterday we have been living in terror. My children are terrified by the sound of explosions, and the water and electricity cuts are making the situation worse," she told AFP.

Baker Farouk Hassan believes the worst is yet to come. As it is no longer possible to travel by car between Khartoum and its suburbs, the main bridges and axes are either closed by the army or cannot be used because they are the scene of battles.

On Saturday, trains coming from other provinces to Khartoum turned back before arriving in the capital, with reports of the outbreak of fighting.

Without transportation, food commodities will disappear in a country suffering from triple-digit inflation and poverty, which has reduced the ability of small traders to buy and store.

"My stock of flour will not suffice for more than 48 hours if food trucks cannot move," says Hassan.

Today, Sunday, the Journalist Support Committee stated that there are more than 19 journalists, who are languishing in inhumane and harsh health conditions and deprived of all their rights, including 10 journalists who are detained by actual sentences, and 4 journalists who are administratively detained and whose detention is renewed several times, except for the arrest of 5 journalists. others without trial.

In a statement, the committee warned, on the eve of the Palestinian Prisoner's Day , which falls on the seventeenth of April of each year, against the Israeli occupation's continued torture of journalist prisoners in prisons, the adoption of a policy of isolation against prisoners, and the denial of religious rituals, especially during the blessed month of Ramadan.

She said: "The occupation uses the most heinous methods of torture against the journalist prisoners, such as beatings, shabeh, and sleep deprivation, and uses them with the most heinous psychological and physical means that exhaust their health in order to extract confessions."

The committee emphasized that the Israeli occupation prison administration continues to disregard the lives of detained media professionals and refuses to release them after the end of their sentences, and follows a policy of medical negligence (slow killing) with patients, including the tools of abuse, most notably delaying treatment and diagnosing the disease.

Among them, the imprisoned writer and journalist Walid Daqqa, warned of his critical health condition, following his admission to the intensive care unit at Barzilai Hospital in the city of Ashkelon, after he underwent an operation two days ago, during which part of his right lung was removed.

The committee called on international and human rights institutions to intervene in order to stop the policy of arresting and detaining journalists in harsh conditions, and to provide them with protection while performing their journalistic duties, and to send an investigation committee to stand up to the escalating occupation crimes against them in the Palestinian territories, to ensure that they are not attacked.

It also demanded the need for international intervention to release the detained journalists and protect the media prisoners from the crimes of the occupation, especially the patients, with the escalation of serious cases inside prisons and deliberate medical neglect without follow-up or any health care.

The "Journalists' Support" called on the International Red Cross to intervene to find out the health status of (4) journalists and media workers who are isolated in solitary confinement cells, by decisions of the Israeli intelligence, and who are sentenced to actual sentences.

It strongly condemned the shameful international silence towards the captive playwright Walid Abu Daqqa, who spent (37 years) the flower of his youth and life behind bars and in the cells and detention centers of the Israeli occupation, where he is subjected to real medical negligence that may lead to the loss of his life at any moment.

The committee expressed its disapproval of the occupation's policy by following the method of extending the administrative detention of a number of journalists detained in the occupation prisons without charge, confirming the arrest of journalists under flimsy pretexts, and detaining others without charge for several years. According to her saying.

And she called on all journalists in the world to strengthen solidarity on the Palestinian Prisoner's Day with Palestinian journalists and various media outlets, which are subjected to grave and systematic violations by the Israeli occupation forces.

Tomorrow, Monday, President Mahmoud Abbas will travel to the Saudi capital, Riyadh, in response to an official invitation from Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz.

A Jordanian helicopter landed at noon today, Sunday, at the Muqata'a headquarters, to transport President Mahmoud Abbas to Amman, before heading to Saudi Arabia tomorrow.

President Abbas's visit coincides with a similar visit scheduled to be made by a delegation from the " Hamas " movement headed by Ismail Haniyeh , head of the movement's political bureau.

There were conflicting reports about whether the Hamas delegation's visit would be limited to its leadership performing Umrah, or that it would include holding meetings with official Saudi authorities.

According to well-informed sources who spoke to Al-Quds.com, the visit was being arranged since the Hajj season last year, but it was postponed due to various circumstances.

Randa Adnan, the wife of a leader in the Islamic Jihad Movement, Sheikh Khader Adnan , denied receiving any new news about the fate of her husband, who has been on hunger strike for 71 days to demand his freedom.

Adnan told Al-Quds that the occupation, which continues to isolate her husband in worshiping Al-Ramla and exerts pressure against him, did not allow the lawyer to visit him recently, despite the seriousness of his health condition, which led to no news of him.

She stated that she was waiting for her husband's lawyer, who went to visit him a short while ago in Ramla, to find out the truth about his health condition.

The Captive Club had warned of the death of the prisoner Adnan in light of his difficult health conditions.

Our national team finished in a fiery group for the 2023 Arab Beach Soccer Championship , whose draw was drawn today, Sunday, at the headquarters of the Arab Federation in the Saudi capital, Riyadh.

The Saudi Football Association will host the tournament’s activities in King Abdullah Sports City, Jeddah, from May 11 to May 20, with the participation of 12 Arab teams.

The results of the draw resulted in three groups, each group containing four teams, as follows:

Group A: Saudi Arabia, Mauritania, Morocco, Lebanon

The second group, Oman, Palestine, Sudan, Egypt

Group C: UAE, Libya, Kuwait, Comoros

G7 energy, climate and environment ministers on Sunday pledged to phase out fossil fuels and urged other countries to do the same, but they did not set any new deadlines for abandoning polluting energy sources such as coal.

This new goal, which was mentioned in a joint statement issued after a ministerial meeting of the Group of Seven countries, which has been held since Saturday in Sapporo (northern Japan), does not include fossil fuels attached to carbon dioxide collection and storage procedures.

The ministers of the seven countries only emphasized that this goal falls within the framework of their efforts to achieve carbon neutrality in energy by 2050 "at the latest".

The countries of the group pledged last year to abandon fossil fuels in the largest part of the electricity sector by 2035. They confirmed this goal on Sunday.

In an indication of its difficult negotiations, the group was unable to reach a specific date for abandoning coal in generating electricity, while Britain, supported by France, proposed a deadline that ends in 2030.

And the French Minister of Energy Transition, Agnes Pannier-Ronascher, confirmed that the formula for "phasing out" fossil fuels is "a strong step forward."

She added that it is "an important focal point for expanding this proposition" during the G20 meeting in India and the twenty-eighth climate conference (COP28) in Dubai at the end of this year.

But the French minister admitted that these upcoming global negotiations "will not be easy."

The club of major industrialized nations sought to show unity and will after the disturbing latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published in March.

The report said that the Earth's temperature will rise by 1.5 degrees from what it was in the pre-industrial era from 2030-2035 due to warming caused by human activity.

This jeopardizes the aim of the Paris Agreement signed in 2015 to limit temperature rises to this level, or at least below 2 degrees Celsius.

On Sunday, the Group of Seven confirmed its commitment to work with other developed countries to raise one hundred billion dollars annually for emerging countries against global warming, in a promise dating back to 2009 that was supposed to be implemented as of 2020.

A summit is scheduled for the end of June in Paris to improve access to climate finance for developing countries, a critical point for the success of COP28.

Due to the tense global geopolitical situation with the war in Ukraine since last year, and proposals made by Japan, which especially wanted the Group of Seven to agree to more investments in gas, environmental NGOs were afraid that the Sapporo meeting would lead to a decline in climate commitments. .

In tone similar to that adopted last year, the G7 acknowledged in its statement that investments in natural gas "may be appropriate" to help some countries avoid potential energy shortages linked to the war in Ukraine.

But she stressed at the same time the priority of the transition to "clean" energy and the need to reduce the demand for gas.

Another proposal made by Japan is to recognize ammonia and hydrogen as "clean" fuels for thermal power plants, but it was not welcomed. The Group of Seven stressed the need to develop these technologies from "low carbon and renewable" sources.

On the environment front, the environment and climate ministers of the Group of Seven set a goal to end any new plastic pollution in their countries by 2040.

"We are committed to eliminating plastic pollution, with the ambition of reducing any additional plastic pollution to zero by 2040," the ministers said in a statement issued Sunday after talks in northern Japan.

This is the first time that the G7 members have set a date of 2040.

At a press conference after the two-day talks in the Japanese city of Sapporo, German Environment Minister Steffi Lemke hailed the bloc's new pledge on plastic pollution, calling it an "ambitious goal".

After years of delays, the French-German-designed European pressurized nuclear reactor ( EPR ) began operating Sunday in Finland to cover 15 percent of the country's energy needs, according to the operator TVO group.

After two decades of construction, the Olkiluoto-3 reactor, one of the most powerful reactors in Europe, became operational at the end of December 2021 and reached its full production capacity of 1,600 megawatts for the first time on September 30.

Since it was brought online in March 2022, its operation has been delayed several times during the testing period. From Saturday to Sunday, the reactor, built by the French Areva group, entered service.

"The test was completed and regular power generation began today," the group said in a statement.

She added that with the production of the existing reactors 1 and 2 accounted for, "about 30 percent of Finland's electricity is now produced in Olkiluoto" in the country's southwest.

Construction of this new reactor began in 2005.

The aim of this model of the French development reactors was to re-launch nuclear energy in Europe after the Chernobyl catastrophe in 1986 and was presented as having greater power and better safety.

However, its development posed a technical dilemma, and not only in Finland.

In northwestern France, the construction of the Flamanville reactor in the north of the country was also delayed after it began in 2007. In contrast, two reactors were put into service in China.

The institutions of the prisoners and the national and Islamic forces announced that the central activity to commemorate the prisoner’s day will be at seven o’clock in the evening, with the lighting of the flame of freedom in honor of the prisoner Walid Daqqa , and all the sick prisoners to demand their freedom, and the liberation of the bodies of the martyrs held in the refrigerators of the occupation, including the martyred prisoners, in front of the central square Our cultural country in Al-Bireh.

A member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the coordinator of the national forces and factions, Wasel Abu Youssef, said, during a press conference held today, Sunday, at the headquarters of the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs in Al-Bireh, that our people are united behind the prisoners, who include the sick, the incoming prisoners, the administrators, the children, and the strikers. About food, and the sick, especially the cancer-stricken prisoner Walid Daqqa, who is subjected to medical neglect.

He added that our people commemorate the Prisoner's Day, stressing the circumvention around the issue of prisoners, and the revival of the activities of the Prisoner's Day in front of the headquarters of international organizations, calling for concerted efforts to activate the file in front of the whole world, until the prisoners are released.

Abu Yousef indicated that the occupation is holding the bodies of 12 prisoners who were martyred inside the occupation's cells, stressing that the leadership of the PLO emphasizes the advancement of the prisoners and everything related to them.

In turn, the head of the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Prisoners' Affairs, Qadri Abu Bakr, said that the beginning of this year was the worst phase the captive movement went through, under the new extremist Israeli government, but the prisoners were able to grab their rights and win.

He noted that the number of prisoners in the occupation prisons reached 4,900, including 1,000 administrative prisoners.

For his part, the head of the Prisoners' Club, Qaddoura Fares, said that the Prisoner's Day symbolizes the struggle of our Palestinian people, and our people salute this day in light of the increasing suffering of the prisoners.

And he indicated that racism is inherent in Israel, in all its governments, so the national forces are required to unite to support the prisoners and take practical steps.

For his part, the head of the Supreme Commission for the Follow-up of Families' Affairs, Amin Shoman, said, "We are witnessing the most extremist government in the history of the occupation, and this was evident in the measures taken against the prisoners."

He stressed that the issue of prisoners is one of the constants of national politics, and the illegal measures taken by the occupation and the piracy of the funds of martyrs and prisoners must be fought.

Shoman called for unity to participate in the revival of the activities of the Prisoner's Day in Palestine and the diaspora, and in all places where our people are.

The director of the Hurriyat Center, Helmi Al-Araj, and the head of the Supreme Authority for the Follow-up of Family Affairs, Amin Shoman Helmy Al-Araj, said that the prisoners, with their youth, are for the Palestinian cause, and have won all their heroic battles, and preserved their presence, and all our people must unite behind them and support them in all their measures.

He stressed that the battle of the prisoners did not stop, as it continues to liberate them, and the slogan of our unified people must be freedom for the prisoners, and that we fight for their freedom because they fought for us, as some of them have exceeded their four-decade sentence, except for the patients who are subjected to the policy of slow execution.

Al-Araj called for action by all means to protect the prisoners and liberate them, and to confirm our narrative that our prisoners of war are prisoners of war, and to confront the racist laws that are voted on in the Knesset against the prisoners.

The events tomorrow in the West Bank governorates will be as follows:

- Ramallah: 12:00 noon - at Al-Manara Square

- Bethlehem: 8:30 pm - in Bab Al-Zaqaq / downtown Bethlehem

- Hebron: 12:30 noon - in the center of Ibn Rushd Circle

- Jenin: 11:00 am - in Martyr Yasser Arafat Square / in front of Jenin Governorate

- Nablus: 8:00 pm - in front of Martyrs Square

- Tubas: 8:30 pm - in front of the Martyrs' Circle

- Jericho: 11:00 am - in front of the Red Cross office / Jericho

- Qalqilya: 12:30 noon - in front of Martyr Abu Ali Iyad Square

- Tulkarm: 8:30 pm - in front of Gamal Abdel Nasser Square / downtown Tulkarm

- Salfit: 10:30 a.m. - Bidya Higher School for Boys.

Today, Sunday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested a young man from the town of Ya`bad, southwest of Jenin .

According to local sources, the occupation forces arrested him while he was crossing the Rihan military checkpoint near the town of Barta'a.

Today, Sunday, the Major Criminal Commission in the Gaza Strip issued a life imprisonment sentence against the accused (M / P) for the amended charges and confiscation of the seized goods, which is the charge of unintentional killing and severe harm, in addition to using a firearm on an illegal occasion and other charges. .

The court issued its aforementioned ruling after hearing, studying, scrutinizing, and deliberating the evidence and defense evidence, within a period not exceeding several months.

Today, Sunday, settlers leveled the land of a farmer from the Al-Sweiti family, west of Hebron , while others stole a tent in Masafer Yatta .

According to local sources, the settlers stormed a piece of land in the town of Beit Awa, and leveled it in preparation for its seizure.

Other settlers seized a tent owned by Ali Hamamdeh in the Ma'in area of Masafer Yatta.

An Iraqi official announced on Sunday that at least two people were killed and two others were wounded in a drone strike attributed to Turkish forces, which targeted a mountainous area in the autonomous northern Iraqi Kurdistan region.

The bombing, which took place late on Saturday evening near the town of Penjwin, near the Iranian border, targeted a car carrying fighters from the Turkish Kurdish Kurdistan Workers Party, according to a local official who asked not to be named.

For decades, fighting has spread to northern Iraq between Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which Ankara and its Western allies classify as a "terrorist" organization, and the two sides establish military sites or rear bases in the Iraqi region.

For his part, Haval Abu Bakr, the governor of Sulaymaniyah, where Penguin is located, in a telephone conversation with the Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Region, Masrour Barzani, expressed his "concern" about the "attacks" targeting this region.

"According to preliminary investigations, two people were killed and two others were wounded as a result of these attacks," a statement reported on social media quoted the governor as saying, without revealing the identity of the victims or their possible affiliation with the PKK.

Abu Bakr expressed his hope that these attacks would end so that the area would remain safe, especially for farmers, according to the statement.

The local official stated that "the victims are members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party," which is frequently targeted in Iraq by air and ground operations by Turkish forces.

On April 7, drone strikes attributed to Turkey targeted a site near Sulaymaniyah International Airport, the second city in the Kurdistan region in northern Iraq, in conjunction with the presence of American soldiers and the commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

The Turkish Ministry of Defense denied any responsibility for the bombing.

Turkey considers the Syrian Democratic Forces, whose main component is the People's Protection Units, an extension of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), and describes it as "terrorist".

In July 2022, artillery strikes attributed to Ankara targeted an entertainment area in Iraqi Kurdistan, killing nine civilians, including women and children. Türkiye denied any responsibility for the bombing and blamed the PKK.

Today, Sunday, the Israeli occupation forces seized a vehicle near the Al-Jalama military checkpoint, northeast of Jenin .

According to local sources, the occupation forces confiscated a vehicle after breaking into a vehicle compound in Al-Jalama and transported it inside the checkpoint.

It is noteworthy that the occupation forces and their undercover units have recently intensified the seizure of citizens' vehicles, which they use in raids and arrests.

Today, the General Investigation Department was able to arrest a wanted person against whom a number of judicial warrants were issued in the city of Hebron .

The media spokesman for the police, Colonel Louay Arziqat, stated that this wanted man was a fugitive from justice two years ago, and 5 judicial warrants were confiscated against him, including detention orders amounting to 3 million shekels, a 5-year prison sentence in absentia on charges of forgery, and a subpoena from the Public Prosecutor on charges of shooting and possession. A firearm without a license.

Arziqat added that the wanted man was arrested by the General Investigation, after receiving information regarding his hiding in a house in Hebron.

Arziqat emphasized the reservation of the arrested person to duly complete the legal procedures against him.

A 34-year-old man from Bethlehem governorate died this morning, two weeks after he was transferred to Al-Yamamah Hospital for treatment, as a result of his injury as a result of a traffic accident that occurred in the city of Bethlehem.

Colonel Louay Arziqat, the media spokesman for the police, said that accident experts in the governorate police began an investigation into a traffic accident that occurred in Bethlehem about two weeks ago, which resulted in the aforementioned young man being seriously injured, as the doctors announced his death today.

Thousands of years old archaeological sites in Iraq are exposed to great damage due to factors resulting from climate change, such as sand storms and increased salinity, in a country that "suffers more than others and works less" to confront this phenomenon.

Iraqi archaeologist Aqeel al-Mansrawi speaks while standing on top of sand that almost completely covers one of the archaeological sites, and contemplates the antiquities around it dating back more than four thousand years, saying, "Umm al-Aqarib is in fact one of the most important Sumerian cities in southern Mesopotamia," referring to It "was enjoying a distinguished role during the third millennium BC."

Umm al-Aqrab, which brings together many temples, including the Sumerian god Sharaa, on a desert land of five square kilometers in southern Iraq, reached its peak in 2350 BC.

During their missions, archaeologists discovered canals, pottery pieces, discs, tablets... and vital pieces that tell the history of the Sumerians.

The site of Umm al-Aqrab today suffers from indirect effects caused by climate change, including the increasing sand storms in Iraq, in addition to the frequent looting of the site, as is the case with other sites that lack good protection.

More than ten sandstorms swept Iraq during the year 2022, according to a tally prepared by Agence France-Presse.

Al-Mansrawy points out that "moving sands began to creep, covering large parts of the" Umm al-Aqrab" site, in a phenomenon that has been going on for "ten years."

In order to show the stone that forms the facade of a temple, the archaeologist must first of all remove the sand.

According to him, "shifting sands, with large quantities creeping over this site, will probably cover, during the next ten years, 80 to 90% of these archaeological sites" in southern Iraq.

"(Future) archaeological missions will have to do more" to clean the land before excavations begin, he continues.

Jaafar Al-Jawthari, a professor of archeology at the University of Al-Qadisiyah, says that the winds are currently "full of larger quantities of dust" and "carry impurities from the earth, especially sand and silt, which leads to the erosion of ancient buildings."

He points out that the problem lies in drier winters and increasingly hot summers, with temperatures exceeding 50 degrees Celsius, which leads to "weakening and fragmenting the soil due to the lack of vegetation cover."

The other factor is salinity, which constitutes the second enemy of archaeological sites, and is due to the “very dry” environment, according to Mark Al-Taweel, a professor of Near Eastern Archeology at UCL University in London, saying when “water evaporates very quickly, it does not Only salt remains.

And the accumulation of large quantities of salts eats everything.

Iraq is one of the five most affected countries in the world by some tangible effects of climate change, foremost of which are long periods of drought, according to United Nations reports.

This disastrous phenomenon appears evident in Iraq's two legendary rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates, which are the main source of irrigation for the majority of this country's farmers, but today they have become streams of scarce water.

Although the issue is largely related to the lack of rain, the country's authorities condemn the construction of dams by its neighbors, Turkey and Iran, at the headwaters of the two rivers, because this step represents a major factor in limiting the flow of water, according to Baghdad.

Al-Jawthari says that Al-Iraqi has the "worst hydraulic management", dating back to the Sumerian and Akkadian eras and continuing to this day, in which farmers depend on irrigation by immersion, which consumes huge amounts of water and causes great losses.

Hence, the water shortage is gradually driving farmers and herders to migrate to the cities in order to survive.

As a result, "after farmers abandon their lands, the soil becomes more vulnerable to the winds," which carries sand and silt with it, according to Professor Aljawthuri.

The former President of the Republic of Iraq, Barham Salih, warned at the end of 2021 that "39 percent of Iraqi lands will be affected by desertification," a percentage that could increase.

Here, a solution must be sought to save Iraq's archaeological heritage, as this country suffers from rampant corruption in all its institutions, a third of its population lives in poverty and its archaeological sites are neglected, despite its enormous oil wealth.

The director of antiquities in Dhi Qar Governorate, where Umm al-Aqrab is located, Shamel Ibrahim, acknowledges that the archaeological sites are "more vulnerable to erosion and winds than others due to desertification, drought and climate change, especially during these years when Iraq faced water shortages, lack of rain and drought."

At the same time, he affirms that the Iraqi government is working to control the sandy areas that are blown by the wind, by afforestation of these areas and the establishment of a "green belt" represented by planting trees at a cost of five billion dinars (about 3 million and 800 thousand dollars).

Despite this, Al-Jawthari questions the effectiveness of these initiatives, because preserving vegetation "requires large amounts of water," adding, "We are the country that suffers the most and works the least" to face the effects of climate change.

A plane took off from Sanaa , transporting 42 prisoners from the government forces to the city of Marib, the last stronghold of power in northern Yemen , in conjunction with the departure of a plane from Marib carrying 48 Houthi prisoners on board towards the capital under the control of the rebels, on the third and final day of a major prisoner exchange between the two parties. The conflict in Yemen.

"The first flight from Marib and the first flight from Sana'a (today, Sunday) took off," Jessica Musan, media advisor to the International Committee of the Red Cross, told AFP.

She explained that "48 former detainees are on the flight from Marib to Sana'a, and 42 are on the flight from Sana'a to Marib."

According to the International Committee of the Red Cross, which is supervising the operation, three additional planes are scheduled to transfer other prisoners today, after 318 prisoners were exchanged on Friday, and about 350 Houthis, 16 Saudis and 3 Sudanese are fighting in the ranks of the Saudi-led coalition on Saturday.

In 2014, the conflict began when the Iran-backed Houthis took control of several areas in the country, including Sana'a. The following year, Saudi Arabia intervened at the head of the coalition, exacerbating the conflict that left hundreds of thousands dead and caused one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world.

During negotiations held in Berne last month, the Houthis and the government reached an agreement to exchange more than 880 prisoners. Under the agreement, the Houthis will release 181 prisoners, including Saudis and Sudanese, in exchange for 706 detainees held by government forces.

The broad exchange process comes in the midst of diplomatic efforts to consolidate a long-term truce in Yemen and put the bloody war in the impoverished country on the path to a solution, following the announcement last month of an agreement between Saudi Arabia and Iran, which support two different sides in this conflict.

The Saudi Crown Prince, Prime Minister, Chairman of the Council of Economic and Development Affairs, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Public Investment Fund , Prince Muhammad bin Salman , announced today, Sunday, the completion of the transfer of an additional 4 percent stake in the shares of the Saudi Arabian Oil Company “ Aramco ” from state ownership to a company Subsidiary to the Public Investment Fund, bringing the share controlled by the fund in the oil group to 8 percent.

The official Saudi News Agency, "SPA", quoted Prince bin Salman as saying that the transfer of ownership of part of the state's shares in the Saudi "Aramco" company comes as a continuation of the Kingdom's initiatives aimed at strengthening the national economy in the long term, diversifying its resources, and providing more investment opportunities, which contributes to In achieving the objectives of the Kingdom's Vision 2030.

He pointed out that the transfer process contributes to maximizing the assets of the Public Investment Fund and increasing its investment returns, which enhances the fund's strong financial position and its credit rating, stressing that the state remains the largest shareholder in Saudi Aramco, after the transfer process, with a rate of (90.18%) of the shares. The total shares of the company.

The Crown Prince concluded his statement that the Public Investment Fund is continuing to launch new sectors, build strategic economic partnerships, localize technologies and knowledge, in addition to creating more direct and indirect jobs in the local labor market.

Inside a century-old Malaysian workshop swarming with tires, a white-haired man in a T-shirt and shorts puts the finishing touches on the rickshaw he's manufacturing.

Chu Yu Chun is an experienced maker of this type of person-drawn cart and is considered the last of the practitioners of this endangered profession on the island of Penang, in the north of the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur. However, the 66-year-old intends to retire in a few years, although there is no one who will take over this business after him.

Pedal rickshaws are taxis that once traveled between Malaysia and many Asian countries.

Its popularity has declined with the gradual adoption of modern means of transportation and the development of the region.

"I intend to work until I reach the age of 70 and then I will retire," Zhu, 66, told AFP in his workshop, adding that "manufacturing rickshaws requires a lot of energy."

Due to the lack of demand to use them as a means of transportation, the last rickshaws ordered by Malaysians are manufactured with the aim of using them as decoration or for collectors.

Zhou Yuchun is the fourth generation of a family that has been manufacturing rickshaws for nearly a century. Zhou inherited this profession from his father at the end of the eighties of the twentieth century, after his father gave up this activity for health reasons.

While Cho knew how to install tires as a teenager, he had to learn the art of making alloy wheels for these vehicles, from scratch.

The steel structure of the rickshaw is made by bending and welding the parts, then the wooden seats and the rest of the parts like chains are added.

Chu asserts that if he works tirelessly, he can build a rickshaw in twenty days, but most of his rickshaws take about six weeks.

The man produces between three and four rickshaws annually, while selling each for 7,500 Malaysian ringgit ($1,700).

Asked how he feels after finishing the auto rickshaw, he says, "I'm not emotional, it's just work."

There are only 130 rickshaws left in Penang, of a different style than those in the southwestern state of Malacca, where these vehicles are very popular with tourists.

While rickshaw drivers in Malacca sit in front of the passengers, rickshaw drivers in Penang sit behind them.

None of the Chu people are interested in these old vehicles, which require heavy maintenance and are hard to find parts for.

Asked what plan he would choose after his retirement, Chu said with a smile: "Maybe I will visit my son or I will take a vacation."

The Palestinian Prisoners Club warned of the death of the prisoner, Khader Adnan (44 years), from Arraba / Jenin, who has been on hunger strike for 71 days, refusing to arrest him, which he started since the day of his arrest on the fifth of last February.

The Captive Club said that the prisoner Adnan has reached a very dangerous stage, and he is at risk of martyrdom at any moment, especially since the occupation authorities, and until today, refuse to deal with his demand.

The Captive Club confirmed that the prisoner Adnan refuses to take the supports, or any kind of treatment, as well as to conduct medical examinations.

According to the last visit that took place to the prisoner Adnan last weekend, the occupation prisons administration continues to detain him in the so-called (Ramla prison clinic) in a cell equipped with cameras, and the warders deliberately storm his cell repeatedly, noting that the prisoner Adnan, since his arrest and his initiation of the strike, has been under great pressure In addition to a number of systematic abuses, which he faced during his detention in the cells of (Al-Jalameh) detention center for about a month.

The Captive Club pointed out that until this moment he had not been transferred to a (civilian) hospital, where the prison administration has been deliberately planning for more than two years, and in light of our follow-up on a group of strikers’ cases; Delay in transferring the prisoner on hunger strike to the hospital, even after he reaches an advanced stage of danger, with the aim of causing him chronic diseases that are difficult to treat and confront later.

The Captive Club confirms that the case of Sheikh Adnan has reached a very complex stage, especially as we are talking about a new experience that he is going through, which is his strike against an indictment against him, as his previous strikes were mostly against his administrative detention, and therefore this strike takes on a double privacy, from Where is the ceiling requirement.

The Captive Club called on all competent authorities, and the national and international levels, including international human rights institutions, to intervene to save his life before it is too late, calling on the Palestinian people to support him and support him in his continuous struggle against the occupation.

It is worth mentioning that the prisoner Adnan is considered the most prominent of the prisoners who faced his repeated arrests by going on hunger strike.

Eight years ago, the Beitunia Hospice , based in the city of Beitunia, west of Ramallah , continued its efforts to provide assistance to those in need, until it expanded and became a social institution, providing services not only in the blessed month of Ramadan , but throughout the year. It seems remarkable, according to those in charge, that the hospice provided Since its establishment in 2015, and until this year, about a quarter of a million Ramadan breakfast meals.

The head of the Beitunia Hospice, Rebhi Doula, told Al-Quds.com: "In the month of Ramadan, the hospice provides 1,000 iftar meals, 800 of which are distributed in Beitunia alone, which means we reach 30,000 meals during the holy month," stressing that Since its inception, Tekia has provided about a quarter of a million breakfast meals.

A state stresses that "Beitunia Hospice" is keen to provide the best and finest types of food to the needy, and we consumed 2,000 chickens and 20 calves this year, and 15 volunteers supervise the preparation of food, from preparation to distribution of meals, and there is a cook dedicated to the hospice to cook food.

In 2015, the "Beitunia Hospice" obtained approval from the Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs, and an administrative body was formed for it, and a special bank account was opened, to transfer aid to it, and it was transformed from a hospice that provides meals in Ramadan to more than that, it has become an established social institution By itself, due to the services that the hospice has become to provide throughout the year, asserts a state.

Throughout the year, in addition to meals, the hospice provides partial university scholarships, aids for the sick, the provision of medicines, the provision of aid to those in need, as well as clothing for the feast, school fees and bags, and sometimes house maintenance, as well as receiving surpluses from people to give to those who need them, in addition to that the hospice during Corona period managed to provide 25 respirators to serve those who need them.

Daula points out that the hospice has a database on the needy, but there are 10% of those who are provided with variables, who are not registered in the database. The hospice also receives in-kind and material donations, "We faced difficulties in the beginning and overcame it, to become an institution with a variety of services for the needy," he says. nation.

A state stresses that "takaya" would reduce the gap between groups of society, enhance social solidarity among citizens, and spread a culture of tolerance among citizens.

The population of the city of Beitunia, west of Ramallah, is about 40,000 citizens. The city is located on an area of 25,000 dunams. However, the master plan for its municipality is only 5,000 dunams, as about 80 of its lands are classified as Area C.

Gunmen claiming to be journalists shot and killed a former member of India's parliament and his brother on live television as they were being handcuffed to hospital by police, authorities say.

Ateeq Ahmed, 61, who has been in prison since 2019 and was convicted of kidnapping, was answering journalists' questions late Saturday evening when he and his brother Ashraf were shot at close range, according to television footage.

"According to preliminary information, three people claiming to be journalists approached them and opened fire," said police official Prashant Kumar, noting that they were detained and are currently being interrogated.

Television footage shows the attackers chanting Hindu slogans after the attack, which took place in the northern city of Prayagraj.

The two dead were from the Muslim minority in India, but the police did not announce whether they were investigating sectarian motives behind the crime.

The brothers were involved in the underworld in India and the former deputy is reportedly facing more than 100 different cases.

They were taken to the hospital for medical examinations and were surrounded by policemen when the crime occurred.

Local media reported that one of the attackers was holding a TV camera and another was holding a microphone with a TV channel logo on it.

A few days earlier, the police in Uttar Pradesh state announced that they had shot Ahmed's 19-year-old son and his partner in an exchange of fire. Both of them are wanted in a murder case.

Before his death, Ahmed, who was facing charges of murder and assault, claimed in a petition he filed with the Supreme Court of India last month that his life was threatened by the police.

The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party governs the Indian state of 200 million people.