PALESTINE

Sun 16 Apr 2023 12:43 pm - Jerusalem Time

A young man died of his wounds in a fight in Hebron

Today, Sunday, the Palestinian police announced the death of a young man after he was injured in a fight that occurred in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron .


According to police spokesman Louay Irzeigat , the 19-year-old was seriously injured in the fight.

ARAB AND WORLD

Sun 16 Apr 2023 11:44 am - Jerusalem Time

16 dead and nine injured in a fire in Dubai

16 people were killed and nine others injured in a fire that broke out yesterday in a residential building in Dubai .


According to the Dubai Civil Defense Authority, the fire broke out on the fourth floor of a building in the popular Al Ras area located in the old part of the city, where a large number of workers live.


He explained that "the initial investigations showed that there were violations by the owner of the building, with regard to security and safety requirements, and the concerned authorities are continuing the investigation, to find out the circumstances of the accident."

PALESTINE

Sun 16 Apr 2023 11:42 am - Jerusalem Time

Makdisi's release on condition of house arrest and deportation from Al-Aqsa Mosque

Today, Sunday, the Israeli occupation authorities released Maqdisi on the condition of house arrest, banishment from the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, and a fine.


According to local sources, the occupation police released Mufid al-Abbasi (22 years old), on condition of house arrest for a period of four days, deportation from Al-Aqsa Mosque, and a fine of 2,000 shekels.

Sun 16 Apr 2023 11:25 am - Jerusalem Time

Opening of an international park of winding paths in northeastern China

A world-class park with winding paths is expected to open to the public in May in Shenyang , capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province.


Winding tracks are playgrounds or sports facilities for motorcyclists, skiers or scooter riders. Using their arms and legs, riders can steer their bikes, boards or scooters around tracks that have bumps, twists and turns.


Shenyang International Zigzag Park is located in Shihe Youguo Park in Shenyang Economic and Technological Development Zone, covering an area of 7,000 square meters of zigzags spread over an area of 18,000 square meters.


The winding path area is divided into a public area and a professional area and is surrounded by a service area with comprehensive infrastructure for visitors, including cafes, supermarkets, snack bar and car park.

PALESTINE

Sun 16 Apr 2023 11:19 am - Jerusalem Time

President Abbas will deliver an important speech at the United Nations next month

The Permanent Representative of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour , said today, Sunday, that "President Mahmoud Abbas will deliver an important speech during his participation in the commemoration of the Nakba at the United Nations next month."


Mansour added, "The United Nations will commemorate, for the first time, at its headquarters, the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, on the fifteenth of next May."


He stressed that this step has a political significance regarding the right to self-determination and the implementation of UN Resolution 194 on refugees.


Mansour said: "The United Nations realized and recognized this catastrophe that befell the Palestinian people and the need to revive it in the General Assembly, one of the largest halls of the United Nations."


He pointed out that an open ministerial session will be held in the Security Council on the 25th of this month, to be chaired by the President of the Security Council, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, and with the participation of Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki.


Mansour noted that the ministerial session will address all issues, including the attacks that took place on the Palestinian people, what happened in Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Holy Mosque and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and the attacks that took place on the West Bank.

OPINIONS

Sun 16 Apr 2023 11:18 am - Jerusalem Time

Occupation attacks and restrictions on Islamic and Christian holidays

ابراهيم ادعيبس

ابراهيم ادعيبس

Opinion Writer

Today, Christians celebrate the glorious Easter according to the eastern calendar, and our country, Palestine, is distinguished as the castle of religions and the cradle of the Christian religion in particular, and it has no equal in all parts of the world. In this context, it should be noted that the numbers of Christians are relatively few and are decreasing in general and constantly for many different reasons.


Today, Sunday, is the Eastern Easter holiday, and the occupation, as always, imposed restrictions on worshipers on this occasion, set up roadblocks and impeded the arrival of those who wish to pray, from reaching the various churches, the most important of which is the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Old Jerusalem.


The occupation had stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque and attacked the worshipers in its vastness, meaning that it does not establish any regard for the holy places and does not hesitate to practice its attacks in all forms and times. However, our people, Muslims and Christians, are steadfast and adhere to their rights, and no party, no matter how arrogant, will be able to eliminate them or their rights and future.

About education and teachers
It is indisputable that education is the largest and most important base for the development of peoples and the future, and we are a people, without exaggeration, one of the most scientifically and educationally developed Arab, Islamic and international peoples, and illiteracy is almost completely gone in our society.


These days we are facing an education crisis related to the teachers’ strike and the interruption of studies for various periods. The government has taken the initiative to seek solutions to this crisis by responding to the demands of the teachers as much as possible. The educational issue has been restored as much as possible and schools have opened their doors, and it is assumed that they will all return to regular hours on this day. Tomorrow is Monday.


Needless to say, the strike was almost a catastrophe, if not an actual catastrophe, because the cessation of thousands of teachers and thousands of male and female students from receiving their lessons means that we are entering a spiral of ignorance and the loss of the future.


Many have said that the strike in general is not the appropriate means, nor is it patriotic either, and it was possible to strike one class per day or one day per week instead of disrupting the entire study.


In any case, what is hoped and required is the continuation of studies without interruption or interruption, out of respect for these thousands of male and female students and the future that awaits us and them together.

The prisoners...they are the torch of freedom
Today, Sunday, the torch of freedom will be lit, marking the start of the Prisoner's Day activities. In fact, our people are full of prisoners, and many of them spent many years behind bars, including the prisoner leader Marwan Al-Barghouti, who entered his 22nd year in the occupation prisons, as well as the prisoner Ahmed Al-Sakani, the prisoner Shadi Abdel Samie Al-Kilani, and the prisoner Khader Adnan, who started an open hunger strike nearly seventy days.


When the flame of freedom is lit to mark the start of the activities of the Prisoner's Day, we remain less than what is obligatory, because the prisoners are truly the flame of freedom, and they have all the respect, appreciation, love, and hope that they will obtain their freedom.

OPINIONS

Sun 16 Apr 2023 11:17 am - Jerusalem Time

Arranging the Palestinian house has become necessary

حديث القدس

حديث القدس

Opinion Writer

The world around us is constantly changing, foremost of which is the Middle East region with its Arabs and Muslims, and even at the level of the racist and extreme right-wing Israeli entity. After the Middle East was a theater for the United States of America and Israel, they set it on fire in many Arab countries, and worked to divide the partition, as happened in Sudan, Syria, Libya and Iraq, which the occupying state exploited in the framework of its attempts to resolve the conflict in its favor, especially during the era of the former American president Trump and now with the advent of the more right-wing, extremist, racist and anti-our people Netanyahu government, but things at the current stage are different from the past.


There is a restoration of relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia, and its reflection on the situation or, let's say, the war in Yemen fueled by the United States, and the procedures for Syria's return to the League of Arab States on the basis of its territorial integrity, and the meetings between Syria and a number of Gulf countries, as well as the possibilities of Saudi-Turkish reconciliation, all of which are towards the Middle East. New not dominated by America and other European countries.


Likewise, American influence in the world, especially in the Middle East, is declining, and it is on the way to no longer being the one pole that controls the world. There is China, Russia, Brazil, and perhaps India, all of which work with others to make the world multipolar and based on peace, harmony, and common interests. And not on wars, destruction, and the exploitation of the wealth of the Third World, and in the foreground is our Arab homeland, where the oil wealth has a major role in the conduct of the Western economy.


And all these changes are in fact in favor of the Palestinian cause in particular and the peoples of the region in general. Reconciliations and getting out of American tutelage will certainly restore the Palestinian cause to its centrality in the Arab and Islamic world after it was dropped from the top of the list of priorities. But the important thing is that the Palestinian benefit from these developments and changes depends on the Palestinian leadership. All factions, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad, must work diligently to restore national unity, and agree on a unified program of action to face challenges and so that the unified Palestinian leadership has a position in these developments, which will reflect positively on all Palestinians.


And if the entire Middle East is in a context of change for the better and disengagement from America, why does this change not include the Palestinian leadership represented by the authority and the factions? The stage of change must include everyone, especially the Palestinian arena.


Even the occupying state, there are internal changes between Westerners and Easterners, which is currently expressing itself in demonstrations against changes in the judiciary. However, the internal conflict is deeper than that. In addition to being a struggle between two directions, this is also class, and this matter will deepen sooner or later.


Will the Palestinian leadership join the path of change and development, or will it remain in internal conflicts affecting the Palestinian cause?!


We hope that the internal Palestinian house will be rearranged as soon as possible, especially since this has become necessary to catch up with developments.

ECONOMY

Sun 16 Apr 2023 11:16 am - Jerusalem Time

Poland and Hungary ban grain imports from Ukraine to protect their domestic production

Poland and Hungary on Saturday announced a ban on importing grain and other agricultural products from Ukraine in order to protect their domestic production, according to officials from both countries.


Ukraine's grain exports to other countries have been through the European Union since the traditional export route through the Black Sea was closed due to the Russian invasion.


But due to logistical problems, the build-up of grain stocks in Poland led to lower prices in the domestic market, prompting farmers to demonstrate and forcing the resignation of the Polish Minister of Agriculture.


"Today (Saturday) the government decided to ban imports of grain into Poland, as well as dozens of other agricultural food products," said leader of Poland's ruling party, Jaroslav Kaczynski.


"Otherwise, this will lead to a serious crisis in Poland's agricultural sector," he added.


Kaczynski stressed in a speech to a meeting of his party, "Law and Justice," that Poland continues to support Ukraine. "We remain unchanged friends and allies of Ukraine," he said.


In a similar statement, Hungarian Minister of Agriculture Istvan Nagy announced on Facebook that his country had banned the import of agricultural products from Ukraine.


The two countries announced that the ban would last until June 30.


In Poland, the ban includes imports of cereals, sugar, meat, fruits, vegetables, milk, eggs and other foodstuffs.


A statement from the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture, carried by news agencies, said cereals, oilseeds and many other agricultural products would be banned.


But the Ukrainian Ministry of Agricultural Policy said Saturday, in response to the Polish ban, that it "regrets this decision."


The ministry said that "Polish farmers are facing a difficult situation, but we would like to point out that Ukrainian farmers are facing the most dangerous situation" because of the war.


The ministry suggested that the two countries reach an agreement in the coming days that satisfies both parties.


"We are open to any further measures that can lead to stabilization of the situation," Polish government spokesman Piotr Mueller told the Polish News Agency.


Budapest said in a statement that during the lockdown period "the government expects a permanent solution and the adoption of measures from the European Union."


She added that Hungary was "committed to representing the interests of the Hungarian agricultural community".


Last month, Poland and four other Central European countries asked for EU help to find a solution to the problem caused by low prices for Ukrainian grain.

OPINIONS

Sun 16 Apr 2023 11:14 am - Jerusalem Time

An Islamic Christian partnership for one people

حمادة فراعنة

حمادة فراعنة

Opinion Writer

After the introductions to the feast, which is Palestinian par excellence, from Palm Sunday, Good Friday, and Bright Saturday, we celebrate today with our other half, with our brothers, the pulse of our veins, the resurrection of Christ, the first martyr of Palestine, who departed from Jerusalem, accompanied by faith and sacrifice, Carrying his cross through the narrow alleys of Jerusalem, reaching its end in leaving cruelty and unjustly, as his people today, who affirm on the orphan Friday the extent of his bias, by a quarter of a million Muslims who prayed and celebrated their similar faith in Al-Aqsa Mosque, the first of the two qiblas, and the ascent and ascension of our master Muhammad.


Integration of faith, role, extension, and a high willingness to sacrifice in fulfillment so that Palestine remains, all of Palestine for its people as it was, and as it should be, in the face of the foreign invaders, and their colonial project.


The foreign Roman colonizer allied with the betrayal of Judas Iscariot, when he handed Christ over to his persecutors, who crucified him, and led him through the path of long sufferings, a reality and a cause to this day, where oppression, death, persecution, and attempts to Judaize, Islamize and cross by force at the expense of the indigenous people of the country.
They betrayed the Messiah, peace be upon him, and for that reason they and their ilk remained rejected by all parties to humanity who believe in the message of heaven, its loftiness, nobility, and greatness.


Despite the betrayal of some of them, we sympathize with the suffering of the Jews who were persecuted by tsarism, fascism and Nazism, as long as they are the bearers of a message, and a large part of them are the children of our Arab people in Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Morocco, and they lived as Arab citizens as Muslims and Christians, although we differ in the reasoning with them Or with some of them, but we as Arab Muslims do not accept injustice, as it is not permissible to hold everyone responsible because of the foolishness of some, and their crime of betraying the Lord Christ.


The demonstrations of the Israeli left against the occupation, against Zionism, against the deportation of Palestinians from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and elsewhere as housing sites for the original people of the country, meaningful demonstrations that express the extent of the justice of the Palestinian cause and its details, as well as express the sincerity of intentions for those who are liberated from Zionism, its tools and its colonial project to live And their willingness to coexist with the Palestinian people on the land of Palestine, with equality, justice, partnership and equality.


No matter how harsh the circumstances were, and the calamity and setback that befell Palestine and the displacement of half of them outside their homeland, yet the gradual transformations are moving towards fairness to them, as they are towards exposing and exposing the colony, its tools and tricks, and the falsity of its narrative.


Those who ran free buses from the people of the villages towards Jerusalem on Orphaned Friday, and those who donated to cover the costs from children, women, men, youth and the elderly, is a direct response to the credibility of the partnership between the people of Palestine and their awareness of the importance of participation and moving to Jerusalem in order to convey the message of alignment to the Holy City, its content and its place in conscience, reality and heritage And towards the future.

OPINIONS

Sun 16 Apr 2023 11:13 am - Jerusalem Time

Status Quo in Al-Aqsa Mosque

المحامي إبراهيم شعبان

المحامي إبراهيم شعبان

Opinion Writer

Israeli politicians of different orientations and ranks, right and left, rant about their persistent and continuous claim of conservatism and respect for the "status quo" in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque. This matter has become a cracked record to justify the Israeli settlement policy for the Israeli governmental and non-governmental violations of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.


This Latin term, Status Co, began to be used in the days of the Ottoman Empire, when it issued a firman in 1757, to decide the continuation of the status quo between the Christian denominations as a result of their differences in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem and the cradle in Bethlehem, then it was confirmed in the years 1852 and 1853 and the rest Respected to this day among the various Christian denominations. The days of the Israeli occupation were disturbed in the issue of the Copts and the Ethiopians, which took on a political rather than a legal character, at a time of hostility with the Arab Republic of Egypt and the full relations with Haile Selassie, Emperor of Abyssinia, and the intervention of the Israeli judiciary in it through the Israeli Supreme Court of Justice to advocate for the Abyssinian ally.


After that, the European countries recognized this firman through the Paris Conference, and the Treaty of Berlin in 1878 decided to adopt the "status quo" by deciding in Article 62 of it that no modifications can be made to the current situation on all holy places, so that it includes all Christian and Islamic holy places and considered the mosque The blessed Al-Aqsa is an Islamic sanctuary, and the Ottoman Empire has the right to manage and rebuild it. This commitment was inherited by the Islamic Endowments Department in Jerusalem.


Thus, the "status quo" has become part of customary international law, and it means "the current or existing matters in a region remain as they are and do not affect modification, change or cancellation", especially with regard to the social and / or political and / or religious and / or social situation and/or military. And all countries must respect and implement it. Indeed, the status quo has become stronger than all domestic laws and transcends them if a conflict occurs between the internal law and what is called the status quo or the existing one.


The status quo in the Holy Land "Palestine" remained the same after the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the British occupation of Palestine, claiming that Britain respected the status quo in the holy places and religious freedom, until bloody disputes took place between Jews and Muslims over Al-Buraq Wall, which is the western wall of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and forms part of it. It is inseparable from Al-Aqsa Mosque, because Al-Aqsa Mosque is 144 dunums, including the Dome of the Rock, the Bab al-Rahma chapel, terraces, louvres, sidewalks, surfaces, domes, doors, and others within this area. And he devotes himself to this understanding throughout this article.


As a result of that, and the arrival of the League of Nations committee and the presentation of its recommendations, after it had listened and examined the matter, it decided that the Al-Buraq Wall is a private Islamic property, and that only Muslims have full and undiminished real rights in it, and that the Jews’ prayer in front of it is a way of concession from Muslims to the Jews, and therefore it was forbidden for the Jews to blow the trumpet and set tables and curtains Wall cleaning or restoration. The British Mandate government adopted the League of Nations report through binding British mandate legislation in 1931. This British law has not been repealed to this day and the Israeli authorities have ignored its implementation.


After 1967, the Israeli forces occupied and annexed the city of Jerusalem, and despite their occupation of Al-Aqsa Mosque and various religious places, they claimed from the outset that they respect the status quo that existed before 1967.

This was aided by an Orthodox Jewish religious fatwa that prohibited Jews from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque building and courtyard. Rather, the Israeli authority - a speck of ashes in the eyes - issued a law to protect the holy places and authorized the Minister of Religious Affairs to define them, as he identified 135 religious sites, all of which are Jewish par excellence.


The United Nations resolutions came successively, whether from the United Nations General Assembly or the Security Council, confirming the concept of customary international law for the current situation that we referred to above. The General Assembly of the United Nations early issued its first resolution No. 2235 in 1967, in which it considered all Israeli measures in Jerusalem null and called on Israel to cancel them and refrain from taking any action that would change the legal status of the city of Jerusalem. As for the Security Council, it issued Resolution No. 252 in 1968, in which it considered all administrative, legislative, and actions that Israel had taken in Jerusalem null and void, and called on the international community to nullify them. Rolled confirmed decisions of the former.


In the beginning, the Islamic Endowments Department of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan implemented the status quo on Al-Aqsa Mosque (the mosque) and lowered the Israeli flag from the mast of the mosque despite their seizure of the Al-Tanzi school and Al-Buraq Wall, both of which constitute a flagrant violation of the rule of the status quo.


Despite this, the Endowment Department thankfully took charge of guarding the mosque, appointing its guards, financing them, paying their salaries, arranging the place, opening and closing it, and specifying the hours for that, and it undertook restoration and cleaning of it, especially after the fire of the Salah al-Din minbar in 1969. The Islamic Endowments modernized the electricity and water network, and even renovated the Marwani Mosque and many other mosques. One of the vital facilities of the mosque without permission from the occupying Israeli authority according to the principle or rule of the status quo. In fact, a sharp and heated debate was taking place between the endowments, the Israeli authority, and the Israeli Jerusalem municipality with its successive presidents, which were trying in various ways to show their power and control, which they called their alleged sovereignty, even in small matters.


However, the matter began to take another dangerous turn after the year 2000, particularly after the ill-fated visit of Ariel Sharon.


Various Israeli security forces began to intervene in the mosque, so they placed a police station inside the mosque, and police battalions were placed to monitor the internal situation in the mosque at all its doors, allowing whoever they wanted to enter and banning whom they wanted, and they monitor anything, whether from building materials or for restoration or other purposes, prohibition And a passport. Rather, police patrols were conducted inside the mosque, examining the inside and outside, prohibiting and allowing entry, preempting the identities of some, and summoning professors, endowment employees, students of science and religion, and guards, and forbidding them to enter the mosque, but rather expelling them from the mosque for days, weeks, and months, both male and female. And she continued those violations of the status quo, as she stormed the building and trampled on its carpets and floors with the carpets of its security men.


They persecuted the Muslims and beat the worshipers and the seclusion, causing harm to them, and wreaked havoc in the medical clinic, and smashed the ornate windows that are considered a religious artistic heritage. Is this not considered a flagrant breach of the status quo in the mosque, or do they think that we are so naive that we do not understand or distinguish the current situation from other actions? In fact, the actions of the Israeli security men are not only a breach of the status quo, but rather constitute crimes in the strict sense of international criminal law. If Karim Khan, the Prosecutor General of the International Criminal Court, was honest and faithful to the Rome Statute, he would open a criminal investigation into the attacks that took place in the mosque against worshipers, female chapels, and retreaters.


These aggressive actions indisputably violate the status quo and will only lead to more bloodshed and will not lead to the construction of a temple, nor to the division of the mosque, neither temporally nor spatially. Rather, the settlers' daily storming of the mosque, regardless of their number, prayers, movements, hymns, "epic prostrations" and dances, is a serious breach of the status quo according to the understanding of customary and written international law.


The current situation includes, among other things, religious freedom within the existing situation before the war, status quo ante bellum, and this includes the freedom of worshipers at all times of the day, morning and evening, according to the arrangements made by the Islamic endowments, and not within the electronic conditional doors. This includes the right of all Muslims of all races, races, languages and colors to enter the mosque and pray in it, the time they wish without restriction or condition, and no one has the right to stand in their way. The status quo paves the way for absolute freedom of worship and allows all Muslims to perform pilgrimages to the mosque and perform their prayers there, whether from the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, Jordan or other countries. It is the right of Muslims to carry their publications, books, and their needs in the courtyards of the mosque without censorship.


The current situation is also represented in excavations, maintenance and restoration, and this is something that the Israeli authorities have constantly violated and insist on violating in all occasions and circumstances. It is the right of the Islamic Waqf to conduct the excavations required by its work in places that are wanted or required by religious or archaeological need or necessity. In addition, Israeli excavations under the mosque are prohibited, not according to the rule of the status quo, but according to the Hague Convention of 1954, the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, and the Fourth Hague Convention of 1907. This was confirmed by UNESCO in its decision in 2016 and subsequent decisions.


In order to practically weaken the legal status of Muslims in the mosque, the Israeli occupying authority has banned any electrical and water renovations and any renovations after a long-term occupation that lasted five and a half decades, and the occupying authority continues to prohibit such vital measures for Muslims and worships them to pressure and constrain them even though these matters are necessary The current situation as drawn by jurists of customary international law. After more than five decades of Israeli occupation, the mosque needs a new suit of lighting, ventilation, lighting, water, heating, air conditioning, drains, tiles, agriculture, umbrellas, terraces, clinics, fire stations, toilets, water taps for ablution and vital facilities. All that was mentioned is an urgent need to implement the so-called status quo, and not what the Israeli politicians accept.


The true meaning of the status quo or status quo is what was prevalent before 1967 in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque in terms of the behavior of Muslims, regardless of their gender, race, language or color. Sponsorship of the Islamic Endowments Department in all the facilities of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, building or empty, roofed or not, in 144 dunums, and other than that, it is misleading and manipulation of words, for truth does not resist its authority and it is inevitably victorious over falsehood and tyranny!!!

OPINIONS

Sun 16 Apr 2023 11:12 am - Jerusalem Time

Our Ramadan,, and Ramadan Sheikh Khader Adnan

 وليد الهودلي

وليد الهودلي

Opinion Writer

When the blessed month of Ramadan came upon us, Sheikh Khader Adnan had forty-five days in a continuous battle in which he used only his empty intestines and his free will stemming from his deep belief in the truth and the credibility of his cause. And his beginning was with us, the fasting people, after forty-five days of abstaining from food day and night. I preceded it with difficulty, as if it were an eternity of time, all that was in the remains of his slender body knocking on the walls of a reservoir. Only his wife and children and a few people could hear these knocks.


And the rest of the people had their story with Ramadan, thinking about how fast the good Ramadan passed, when the weather was mild, the day was short and the night was long, with plenty of pleasures of food and drink. The title of this holy month is with its benefits, rewards and good deeds, and here the two images met:


If it is permissible for us to describe our patience as the beautiful patience in Ramadan, then how do we see the beauty of your patience, Khader Adnan, when you are on your seventieth day of the strike, with continuous constipation without suhoor or iftar?


And if the striving of our souls has reached a good amount thanks to Ramadan, how can we see your striving when all these barren deserts have been cut off from the long days?


And if the equation of the Qur’an is present in our souls in the month of the Qur’an, how about it and what did you do and how did it produce in your great self, how did the words of God the Most High move you in your heart: “That is because God is the protector of those who believe and that the unbelievers have no protector.” Have you seen God’s action in yourself and how it is The guardianship of the Lord is for His beloved ones among His servants, and you are waging the battlefield alone, and there is no helper, no agent, no guardian, no kind, and no guardian for you except your Lord. Sir, tell us about the conditions of your heart, tell us about the coldness of certainty, you are closer to God than all of us, closer because you are in the arena of confrontation in the trench closest to God's sworn enemies.


While we were at the breakfast tables, tell us, sir, what is on your mind, what do you say to yourself and what does your beautiful heart tell you?


We pray Taraweeh in congregation while you are in your prayer place alone. We suffer from satiety, and we hope that the imam does not prolong the prayer, while you are not strong enough to pray due to the pain of hunger and its overpowering the strength of the body. Will.


Our feast is the day Ramadan decides to leave after the end of its numbered days. Your feast, sir, is the day the sun of your freedom shines, the day you declare victory over the jailer, the day you win by breaking the head of arrogance, the day you break the will of the brutal occupier, on that day your intestines rejoice and the secrets of your wife and children rejoice, the day the occupier and everyone who coexists with His sayings, then the believers will rejoice with you in God's victory.


We ask God that your feast day be before our feast and that it be a dear victory for you, for he is with you and will not leave your deeds and he is your supporter in this fierce war, God willing.

OPINIONS

Sun 16 Apr 2023 11:11 am - Jerusalem Time

The world is changing around us

نهاد ابو غوش

نهاد ابو غوش

Opinion Writer

Only a few years ago, specifically during the tenure of the undeserved former US President Donald Trump, everything that happened in our local reality, our regional environment, and the world in general, was going against us: the United States, led by its eccentric president, imposed its hegemony over the entire world. The administration of this president - who is currently accused of committing criminal offenses - is blackmailing all Arab countries, withdrawing from the nuclear agreement with Iran, and then adopting the vision of the Israeli extreme right to solve the Middle East issue according to his deal with Netanyahu, and its conclusion is normalization with the Arab countries and erasing the national rights of the Palestinian people, and replacing them with illusions economic prosperity.


On the Arab and regional level, many Arab countries were eroding from within and deteriorating in their internal crises and civil wars, so we saw how states and cities that were throughout their history the centers of Arab-Islamic civilization collapse. We have seen how the Arab world is divided into conflicting axes, and Israel finds in this conflict that it has fabricated and fueled loopholes through which it can penetrate, thus presenting itself as an ally of some parties in the face of an artificial enemy. And how it worked to promote the building of a new regional order in which it would have a place of supremacy and leadership and present itself as a country that loves peace and regional cooperation.


Our internal Palestinian situation was not in a better condition with the blockage of prospects for resolving our national issue, and the decline in the status of this issue in light of the accelerating regional developments, the continued division and confusion, and the failure of all meetings and conferences to restore national unity.


Together, these conditions tempted Israel and encouraged it to persist in its aggression, and to do everything that would eliminate any realistic opportunity for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state. Indeed, the Israeli governments have come to consider the Palestinian issue as a mere terrorist and demographic problem for the Jewish state, and when embellishing this talk they formulated it with expressions that suggest that The issue is a security, economic and humanitarian problem, which has deceived many international and regional parties so that they have agreed to focus their efforts on mitigating the effects of the occupation and improving our living conditions under its yoke, and not on ending this occupation, the fundamental cause of all our problems and most of the region's crises.


We were, then, in a period of decline that lasted for years, in which interests overshadowed principles, the balance of power shifted, the Arab system broke apart, the forces of the populist right, fascist and neo-Nazi forces prevailed, and abhorrent racism turned from a rejected and condemned tendency into a major trend that came to power in a number of major countries. And the smallest, in the countries of the center (the capitalist West) and the periphery (the Third World) alike.


But what exceeds his limit turns against him, as Israel's arrogance and arrogance pushed it into the arms of the extreme fascist right, which has come to rely on massacres and holocausts as "legitimate" tools to achieve its greed, exaggerating its aggressive policies to the point where it no longer recognizes the existence of the Palestinian people, and has become convinced of its ability to resolve the conflict and ending it simply because it has military superiority. And because nature prevails, these fascist forces, hostile to all that is human, could not be other than what they are in the face of their own people. Whoever tolerates the life of others who are different from him nationally, religiously, or ethnically, and violates his rights, cannot be kind, tolerant, and democratic with them. Those who disagree with his opinion and political position with his people of religion and race, and thus fascism revealed its ugliest hidden, and entered Israel into an unprecedented crisis, revealing its raging internal contradictions, and brought it to the brink of civil war.


On the international level, there are manifestations of retreat on the part of the US administration towards Middle East issues. It is true that Israel is still the spoiled daughter of the United States and the closest ally in the eyes of successive administrations, but Washington is now focusing its efforts on other regions. It became clear that the war in Ukraine is not just a confrontation between Russia and the Zelensky regime, but rather an open confrontation between Russia and NATO with all its members and capabilities. The United States is no longer the world's policeman, nor is it the recognized leadership, nor is it the final command as it is the only militarily and economically dominant pole on the planet, and now we find close allies to the United States who refuse to submit to the line and the role that Washington draws for them, especially by contributing to its war efforts against Russia, and its endeavors To besiege China and its rising role. The Iranian-Saudi agreement and the imminent restoration of diplomatic relations between them is only evidence of the growing Chinese role in shaping the features of the world of tomorrow. This agreement, which constituted a severe blow to Israel, will undoubtedly have an impact on resolving and dismantling a number of intractable files and crises, including the war on Yemen and the Lebanese crisis. What we hope is that this agreement will create good climates that will reflect themselves positively on our internal conditions.


Among the extremely important developments are indicators of the imminent end of the Syrian crisis in a way that guarantees the preservation of Syria's unity and territorial integrity, its return to the Arab League (or, more correctly, the Arab League's return to it) and its restoration to its natural position as a central state in the region.


It is certain that the solution to the Arab crises surrounding us will contribute to restoring the consideration of the Palestinian cause as the central issue in the Middle East and the most important global issue. Arab support and sympathy for our cause, and proof that our people will not surrender and will not be content with digesting and transgressing their national rights, but this effect remains incomplete with the continuation of the Palestinian division and as long as integration is not achieved between all forms of political, diplomatic, legal, international, public and resistance struggle.


The global, regional and Israeli changes are very important and may be decisive, but we will definitely not benefit from them unless we rearrange our cards and our internal home on the basis of restoring national unity and reconsidering the components of the Palestinian political system from the entrance to the comprehensive elections.

OPINIONS

Sun 16 Apr 2023 11:07 am - Jerusalem Time

The Palestinian arena and the winds of reconciliation in the region

المحامي زياد أبو زياد

المحامي زياد أبو زياد

Opinion Writer

One of the repercussions of the Ukrainian war and the floundering of American foreign policy is the entry of the world into a phase of labor that will crystallize sooner or later in the form of new alliances and axes on the international arena, most notably the growing strong presence of China and the distancing of some traditional allies of the West from it and their shift towards a serious search for the location of their economic and security interests.


Among the repercussions of these international developments on the Arab arena is the tendency towards closing the pages of differences and conflicts and attempts to impose the will of some states on others, especially after the failure of those attempts in some arenas such as the Syrian arena.


Without going into that, it suffices to say that we are facing signs of internal Arab reconciliation, which paved the way for a breakthrough in the Saudi-Iranian relations, which was immediately reflected in the Yemeni and Syrian arenas, and which revived hopes that the warring parties in Yemen would find a way towards ending that war after exhausting this country, which is yesterday. The need for stability and devotion to development and construction after the devastation caused by the war to its economic and social structure. Likewise, concerted efforts led by Saudi Arabia to return Syria to the bosom of the Arab nation after ten years of alienation, during which the Syrian people experienced the worst scourge of war, during which Syria turned into an arena for proxy wars, and parts of its lands were cut off by the American and Turkish occupation and local militias, and its people were displaced to all parts of the globe.


It must be emphasized here that the recent developments and reconciliation movements, which we hope for success, have proven a number of facts, most notably the central role played by Saudi Arabia in the region, which cannot be ignored, and the second fact is the failure of all bets on overthrowing the Syrian regime and turning Syria into Libya or Sudan. Another, and the third fact, which is the depth of Iran's penetration into the region, its presence in some Arab countries, and the need to work with it and not against it, taking into account Arab national interests and prioritizing them over any other interests or considerations.


The past ten years were lean years that squandered the economic and military energies of most of the countries of the region and caused destruction, social rupture, and asylum to the peoples of some of them. Perhaps the current awakening and the winds of reconciliation blowing over our Arab world, in which Saudi Arabia has a positive role, will continue and bear fruit, God willing.


What can be said now, but with great caution, is that the Arab region stands at the gates of a new phase, if it continues, it will relieve a lot of suffering and woes for its people, preserve its resources and restore security, stability, and opportunities for development and construction unless the hidden, hostile hands succeed in tampering again and thwarting the spirit of reconciliation and reconciliation. that we feel and see.


The question that arises is: What prevents the contagion of reconciliation from spreading from the region of which we are a part to the Palestinian arena, which has been suffering from the scourge of fragmentation and division for more than fifteen years?


Since the June 2007 division, the Palestinian arena has witnessed an incursion of occupation and settlement, whether in the West Bank or Jerusalem, blatant attacks on Islamic and Christian sanctities, disregard for the lives, lives, property, and human rights of Palestinians, and systematically and continuously violating them without deterrence or hindrance. The Palestinian arena witnessed the collapse of institutions, confusion between the three authorities, and the transformation of government into a vehicle to achieve the narrow interests of some individuals and groups, and we became hostages, if not a tool in the hands of the occupation.


What do we need today and in the face of the winds of reconciliation and changing alliances and relations between the countries of the region and the world? to his moods and orders, whether it is one country or a group of countries.


There are those who believe that Israel and some countries in the region like the current Palestinian situation and do not want us to hold elections or reform our internal affairs, and take the scarecrow of Hamas as a reason to insist on keeping the Palestinian situation as it is. And I say that we have always adhered to the independent Palestinian national decision, which we raised a slogan strongly against attempts to control and interfere in the Palestinian affairs after the exit from Beirut. The slogan of the independent Palestinian national decision was the slogan of the session of the National Council that was held in Amman in 1984, so what prevents us from restoring the independent Palestinian national decision its effectiveness?


The time has come for us to rise again, to be part of the winds of reconciliation blowing across the region, to put division behind us, and to resort to electoral legitimacy and the rule of law.

OPINIONS

Sun 16 Apr 2023 11:06 am - Jerusalem Time

Khalil Al-Wazir meets Marwan Al-Barghouti and Walid Daqqa in Nafha Prison tomorrow

عيسى قراقع

عيسى قراقع

Opinion Writer

In Palestine, the past and the present meet, the unity of time merges with the unity of place, blood does not need time to bloom, and prison does not need an eloquent statement to liberate the will and listen to a voice that liberates the dawn from its steel clothes.


In the month of April of each year, and on the anniversary of the arrest of Marwan Al-Barghouti, the martyr Khalil Al-Wazir Abu Jihad meets the detained prisoners languishing in the prisons of the Zionist occupation. His heavenly blood leads him there. It is the custom of the martyrs. The title of the meeting this year: Let's continue the attack, as religious Zionism and the growing Israeli fascism have closed all doors, more stones and more hammers are needed, brigades and bullets are necessary, salt and gunpowder are necessary, there is a need for unity of collective consciousness to preserve what is left of life .


The martyr Khalil al-Wazir meets with the two captive leaders, Walid Daqqa and Marwan al-Barghouti, in Nafha desert prison. The surveillance cameras and maximum security were unable to detect the coming from the afterlife to the present life, as if the ghost of the martyrs confirms that the Palestinian impossible matches the burning reality. The teeth of the colonial bulldozers do not disturb these divisions that seek to turn all the Palestinian people into prisoners. The souls of the martyrs return from history and write it a thousand times on the pavement. To the extent that they deprive our bodies, kill them or chain them, they strengthen our spirit. It is not surprising that in the prison there is a free zone at the heights of the anthem.


The Zionist criminal Ben Gvir and his gang that sits on power in Israel are still chasing the three thunders: Abu Jihad, Marwan Barghouti and Walid Daqqa. This criminal visited Nafha prison to arrest those living and dead who gathered together. Make sure that the cells are narrow and miserable, and make sure that there is little water and air, and make sure that The grounds of the prison are reinforced with cement, so that the prisoners do not escape again, and it is confirmed that the sick will die soon after the diseases have spread in their bodies. A law has been approved not to provide treatment to sick prisoners, and it has been confirmed that those sentenced to life imprisonment will die in oblivion, and every newcomer will die according to the death penalty law.


The criminal Bin Ghafir made sure that Marwan Al-Barghouti is here in prison and not in Ramallah, and that Walid Daqqa suffers from cancer, and he no longer writes with blood on the bars of the windows to illuminate the sun with a ray of speech.


This criminal will wipe out the prisoners as he wanted to wipe out the village of Hawara. Why are they alive? How have they been able to withstand the feat in their cells and in the battles to defend their identity and their homeland all this time, acting as if they were free in their besieged and fenced castles, I see their shadows in Jerusalem and in every prayer, they stripped the prisoners of their symbolism, their status, and their legitimacy as prisoners of a national liberation movement, Ben Gvir gives decisive instructions They stripped them of everything, seized their money and closed their accounts, wasted their lives before their release, and if they went out, they would pursue them. There are no celebrations to receive them, no banners, flags, slogans, pictures, or songs. I do not want them to return to tomorrow. The prisoners have weapons that we do not have and do not know. The prisoners penetrate our Spartan state, which began to crack. The prisoners crossed the Green Line and reached the Negev and Lydda. The prisoners do not recognize the armistice agreements. He is Khalil al-Wazir Abu Jihad. The idea, the bomb and the moving spiritual energy. Abu Jihad is still here. Marwan al-Barghouti is still organizing cells and mastering injury. In the field and in the classroom, he is still producing the culture of resistance and freedom, and Walid Daqqa is still writing his texts to deny imprisonment, injustice and colonialism, he is still able to leave his body to give his life to everyone like a grain of wheat when it dies.


The Thunder Trio meets in Nafha Prison, Khalil Al-Wazir Abu Jihad, Marwan Al-Barghouti and Walid Daqqa. The occupation army surrounds Nafha Prison. There are shouts, uprisings and fierce stubborn resistance. In the prison is a unified national committee, and in the streets demonstrations are moving. Supernatural statements and instructions: The Palestinian cause is the liberation consciousness It is the act of resistance, and it is our right to do with our body parts what we want, throw them in the eyes of the killers, continue walking in the narrowest paths and the most turbulent seas. In the closed prison yards, this is our discourse, the prisoner is the message and he is the witness and the martyr, the torturer and the reporter of torture, the scene and the viewer. Walid Daqqa says: We resist the policy of grinding our minds and smelting us under iron chains and systems of monitoring and control. We will continue to flow in absolute time like an arrow towards Palestine.


The Israeli security reports are confused. The Thunder Trio still meets in Nafha Prison. The prisoners do not only want to liberate themselves, but also liberate the future, the largest prisoner in the world, as mentioned in the texts of Walid Daqqa. Marwan Al-Barghouti says, Challenging the clutches of colonialism on the basis of one people everywhere, one national liberation project, and one national institution. Marwan’s voice is still like a prophecy, and he says, “I am optimistic about the end of the occupation, and that the dawn of freedom will dawn in our holy country, no matter how great the sacrifices are and how severe the difficulties are. This is their voice.” In those stone boxes, Abu Jihad fills the floor with gunpowder. They are his children who are fortified with awareness, belonging and giving. He is the reference for the fighters against the executioner and tyranny.


Israeli security reports write: Marwan Barghouti was able to transform prisons into academies and universities, not only to obtain university degrees, but also as cultural resistance. Did the baby Milad, the daughter of Walid, come? He built a parallel time without barriers, prisons and military occupation. He writes to recover from the epidemic of the era, which is the occupation. He chooses a life of freedom, even in a place he never has, which is prison. Marwan and Walid establish and nurture a great dream, but rather establish a state for the dream.


The thunder trio, Khalil Al-Wazir Abu Jihad, Marwan Barghouti and Walid Daqqa, will meet in Nafha prison tomorrow. Let us continue the attack. The occupation is over. An impenetrable spiritual and material force. If reality stumbles, the decision will remain correct. Marwan Al-Barghouti, and it is the storm stirred by Abu Jihad, the first of bullets and the first of stones.

ARAB AND WORLD

Sun 16 Apr 2023 11:00 am - Jerusalem Time

Arab concern about security tensions in Sudan

Arab countries have expressed their deep concern about the security tensions that Sudan has witnessed, between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces.


And the leadership of the Rapid Support Forces announced earlier today that its forces had taken control of sovereign sites, including the Republican Palace and the Guest House, in addition to controlling the airports of Khartoum and Meroe.


The Rapid Support Command said in a statement today that "the following sites have been fully controlled, the Republican Palace and the Guest House, and the airports of Khartoum, Meroe and El-Obeid, and a number of sites in the states."


However, the Sudanese Army General Command denied, in an official statement, that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) control any of the sovereign sites.


The Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, expressed deep concern and annoyance about the current combat operations between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces in the capital, Khartoum, and other areas, expressing his shock and condemnation of the resort to arms and fighting between brothers in this way and during the holy month of Ramadan.


Aboul Gheit stressed in a statement, a copy of which was received by Xinhua News Agency, the responsibility of the warring parties to preserve the security and safety of Sudanese civilians in the fighting areas and in the whole country, and the need to stop escalation and stop bloodshed immediately, adding that the General Secretariat is ready to intervene with the parties. to achieve that.


The Egyptian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on its official page on the social networking site ((Facebook)), "The Arab Republic of Egypt is following with great concern the developments of the situation in Sudan following the ongoing clashes there, and calls on all Sudanese parties to exercise maximum restraint in order to protect the lives and capabilities of the brotherly Sudanese people, and to uphold for the higher interests of the country.
The Egyptian military spokesman, Colonel Gharib Hafez, confirmed, in a statement, that the Egyptian armed forces are closely following the current events inside the Sudanese territory, pointing out that within the framework of the presence of joint Egyptian forces to conduct training with their counterparts in Sudan, coordination is underway with the concerned authorities in Sudan to ensure the security of the Egyptian forces. Stressing that the Egyptian armed forces call for preserving the security and safety of the Egyptian forces.


In a statement, the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs called on the military component and all political leaders in Sudan to prevail over the language of dialogue, restraint and wisdom, and unify ranks in a way that contributes to completing the consensus that has been achieved between the conflicting parties.


It expressed the Kingdom's concern over the state of escalation and military clashes between the army and the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan.


For its part, the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriate Affairs expressed its deep concern about the developments taking place in the Republic of Sudan, calling on all parties to exercise restraint, stop the fighting immediately, return to dialogue and calm, and adhere to the political framework agreement in a way that establishes a new phase that meets the aspirations and aspirations of the brotherly Sudanese people. It contributes to enhancing security and political and economic stability in Sudan.
The ministry said that it is following through the operations center in the ministry and in coordination with the Jordanian embassy in Khartoum, the conditions of Jordanian citizens residing in Sudan, in light of the ongoing security developments.


Tunisia also called on the Sudanese parties to exercise restraint and to pursue dialogue to defuse the crisis, in the context of its comment on the developments that Sudan is experiencing due to the outbreak of armed clashes between the army and the Rapid Support Forces.


The Tunisian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement distributed this evening that Tunisia "is following with concern the developments of the current events in Sudan and expresses its deep concern about the outcome of the security situation and its impact on the political process in this country."


She added that Tunisia "calls on all Sudanese parties to reduce escalation, restrain the highest levels of restraint, judge the voice of reason, and adopt dialogue as a way to defuse the crisis in order to preserve Sudan's stability and preserve the capabilities of its people."


In the same context, Algeria called, in a statement issued by the Presidency of the Republic, on all Sudanese parties to stop the fighting and to give priority to the language of dialogue, following the outbreak of clashes between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces.


The statement said that Algeria, the current president of the League of Arab States Council at the summit level, is following with great concern the developments in the brotherly Republic of Sudan, after the serious clashes and confrontations with heavy weapons that took place in the capital, Khartoum, between the army forces and the Rapid Support Forces, and the resulting loss of life and property.


The statement added that, based on the brotherly relations and historical ties that unite the two countries and peoples, Algeria calls on all Sudanese parties to stop the fighting and to give priority to the language of dialogue to overcome differences, no matter how complex they are.


The statement called for upholding the supreme interest of Sudan, as Sudan is in dire need of concerted efforts by its people to end the current crisis and achieve the legitimate aspirations of the Sudanese people to restore their security and stability and build a democratic and modern state.


In the context of the negative effects of the events, EgyptAir announced the suspension of its flights to Khartoum for a period of three days, and said in a statement, a copy of which Xinhua received, that in light of the information we received about disturbances in the security situation in Sudan, Accordingly, ((EgyptAir)) announces the temporary suspension of its flights to and from Khartoum Airport, starting today, Saturday, for a period of 72 hours, until we are informed of developments in the situation in Sudan.


Saudi Airlines also announced the suspension of all flights to and from Sudan until further notice, as reported by the ((Al-Arabiya)) satellite news channel, and the decision came after announcing that one of its planes had an accident at Khartoum Airport before leaving Riyadh.


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, as stipulated in the framework agreement signed between the military and civilian components on the fifth of last December.

Sun 16 Apr 2023 10:56 am - Jerusalem Time

Germany shuts down its last three nuclear power plants

Germany on Saturday shut down its three remaining nuclear power plants as part of a long-planned transition to renewable energy.


The closure of Emsland, Neckarwestheim 2 and Essar stations came just before midnight.


"The end of an era," energy company RWE said in a statement, confirming that the three reactors had been taken off the grid.


Critics assert that the technology is unsafe and unsustainable, citing the disasters at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima.


However, advocates of atomic energy say fossil fuels must be phased out first amid global efforts to tackle climate change, pointing out that nuclear power generates far fewer greenhouse gas emissions and can be a safe source of energy when managed properly.


The exit plan was accelerated by former chancellor Angela Merkel in 2011 after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan.

ARAB AND WORLD

Sun 16 Apr 2023 10:46 am - Jerusalem Time

The United States and NATO send weapons to Ukraine for their own interests

Mick Wallace , MEP , said that at a time when China presented the world with a peace plan for the Ukraine crisis, " the US and NATO did not want the war to stop" for their own interests.


"It was good to see China put forward a peace plan," the Irish member of the European Parliament told Xinhua during his stay in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, the last leg of his nine-day visit to China.


Wallace, who also visited Beijing, Xi'an and Chengdu on his first trip to China, said he had the chance to understand more about the country and its people.


"The vast majority of the world votes for peace, and China finds itself on the same side as most of the world. This is incredibly important," he said.


"The United States and NATO did not want the war to stop. They prevented peace... All NATO countries and the Americans are fully arming the Ukrainians," Wallace said.


And he added, "This helps the continuation of the war," stressing that the war only suits the interests of the military-industrial complex, the United States and NATO.


He stated that some from Europe "have the arrogance to come here and lecture the Chinese on what they should and should not do, when we are actually facilitating the war by pouring weapons into it."


And Wallace added that "there is a tendency that Europe may undermine its position with China at its own expense," describing it as "a very foolish act."


"The Americans want to stop China's advance and they want Europe's support in doing so...the Americans are looking to drive a wedge between Europe and China," the European legislator said.


"If (European countries) are going to make decisions that suit the American empire more than suit the people of Europe, that would be very sad. But that is what is happening at the moment," he added.


Wallace said that Europe can have a "very healthy relationship with China" and "should not talk about the clash with China," noting that "we must have a relationship that improves the lives of Europeans and Chinese."

ARAB AND WORLD

Sun 16 Apr 2023 10:44 am - Jerusalem Time

Netanyahu and Smotrich in response to Moody's rating: Israel's economy is "strong and solid"

A joint statement issued by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich today (Saturday) said that Israel's economy is stable and solid.


This came in response to Moody's decision to lower its outlook for Israel's credit rating from positive to stable.


"Moody's rating agency analysts correctly recognize the strength of the Israeli economy in all indicators, sound economic leadership and the responsibility we have in prudent management of public spending and in promoting growth-promoting reforms," the statement said.


"We are issuing a responsible, growth-oriented and infrastructure budget and maintaining budget frameworks in order to combat inflation and the cost of living, and promote a dramatic settlement law that will allow the acceleration of national infrastructure projects, remove barriers in housing and imports, reduce regulation and bureaucracy, and enhance competition in the market," the statement added. Capital and the banking industry.


The statement indicated that the "concern" raised by Moody's analysts about the public debate and its impact on Israel's political and economic stability is normal for those who do not know the strength of Israeli society.


The statement stressed that the State of Israel is "a strong democracy and as a result the citizens of Israel maintain a lively discourse on issues that are contentious within Israeli society and that are signs of the strength of Israeli democracy."


He pointed out that political differences lead to protest and can create temporary uncertainty, which are risks that are taken into account and hedged in the economic assessments of the State of Israel.


A plan for judicial legislation pushed by the far-right government headed by Netanyahu sparked widespread controversy and led to large-scale demonstrations during the past months, before Netanyahu succumbed to popular pressure in late March and froze the legislation to give an opportunity for negotiations with the opposition.


"There will be no harm to Israeli democracy and the Israeli economy, and we will continue to lead a responsible economic, security and social policy and do everything for a stable, growing and prosperous Israeli economy," the statement said.


Moody's decision sparked criticism in Israel, where the head of the opposition, Yair Lapid, said that the rating agency's announcement is evidence that "the coup of the regime threatens the livelihood of every Israeli citizen."


"Lies and attempts to blame others will not work. The facts are clear: the government under my leadership handed them a strong and prosperous economy, and under Netanyahu and Smotrich everything collapses," he added in a statement.


For his part, Yisrael Beitenu party chairman and former Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman said in a statement that Moody's announcement is "an economic earthquake that will have an immediate impact and will affect all citizens of the country."

ARAB AND WORLD

Sun 16 Apr 2023 10:26 am - Jerusalem Time

Iran successfully tests the latest anti-tank guided missile

Iran's Revolutionary Guards have successfully tested the latest Sadid 365 anti-tank guided missile, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported.


The agency quoted Ali Kohistani, head of the Jihad Organization for Research and Self-Sufficiency of the Ground Forces of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, as saying that the "Sadeed 365" anti-tank missile has a range of 8 kilometers and is capable of destroying various armored military vehicles.


He stressed that the missile is capable of hitting targets with great accuracy.


He explained that the missile will be provided in the next stage of development with folding wings and a fire control system, and it will be installed on armored personnel carriers of the ground forces of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.

PALESTINE

Sun 16 Apr 2023 10:24 am - Jerusalem Time

Occupation forces launch a campaign of arrests in the West Bank

Today, Sunday, the Israeli occupation forces launched a campaign of arrests in separate areas of the West Bank.


According to local sources, the occupation forces arrested the two young men, Yazid Bilal Anaya (19 years old), and Walid Inaya, after they raided and searched his family's house in the town of Azzun, east of Qalqilya .


In Bethlehem , a number of young men were arrested: Daoud Abdel Hadi Shousha, Adam Issam Hamamreh, Abd Adel Shousha, Hikmat Ahmed Hamamreh, the boy Ayoub Hamamreh, the boy Bashar Essam Hamamreh, all from Husan town, while Mahmoud Salem Al Sabah was arrested from the town of Taqu'.


In Hebron , the occupation forces arrested Badie Adnan Al-Salameen from Al-Samou’ town, south of the city.

Sun 16 Apr 2023 10:15 am - Jerusalem Time

Kenya sends its first observational satellite into space

Kenya on Saturday marked a new milestone in space exploration by launching its first satellite, called " Teva-1 ", into space after three failed attempts linked to bad weather.


The monitoring satellite, developed by nine Kenyan engineers, was launched aboard a SpaceX "Falcon-9" full-thrust rocket from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in the United States.


The Kenya Space Agency described the launch of "Taifa-1" as a historic milestone, amid efforts to harness space science to address current environmental challenges such as the climate crisis. And "taifa" is a Swahili word that means "nation" in English.


Alois Weir, an aeronautical engineer and deputy director of navigation and positioning at the Kenya Space Agency, said the satellite would capture and transmit images that would help respond to climate shocks as it orbited in space.


In addition, the Teva-1 satellite, which was assembled with the help of the Bulgarian space company Endurosat at a cost of 50 million shillings (about 372,000 U.S. dollars) over two years, will also enhance forest monitoring and urbanization, the agency said. Kenyan space.


The Kenya Space Agency noted that the satellite will also collect agricultural data, monitor forest fires and assist local efforts to combat food insecurity while enhancing disaster management.


The launch, after three failed attempts last week linked to unfavorable upper wind conditions, according to the Kenya Space Agency, is expected to reinvigorate space exploration efforts in Africa.


According to local media reports, Egypt was the first African country to send a satellite into space in 1998, while in 2018 Kenya launched the first experimental nanosatellite from the International Space Station.


By 2022, at least 13 African countries will have manufactured 48 satellites, according to Space Africa, a Nigeria-based organization that tracks the progress of space programs on the continent.


The Foundation stated that so far, more than 50 African satellites have been launched until November 2022, although none of them were launched from the continent’s lands, indicating that in January, the Djibouti government signed an agreement with a Hong Kong-based company to build a commercial spaceport at a cost of one billion dollars. American, as it is expected to take 5 years to complete its completion.

ECONOMY

Sun 16 Apr 2023 10:07 am - Jerusalem Time

The New Development Bank renews its commitment to sustainable development

Amid growing global economic uncertainty, the New Development Bank intends, under new leadership, to continue unleashing its potential to support emerging economies and developing countries, and to renew its commitment to sustainable development.


The Shanghai-based bank, founded by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) in 2015, aims to mobilize resources for infrastructure and sustainable development projects in BRICS and other emerging economies.


On Thursday, Dilma Rousseff, a well-known Brazilian politician and economist, assumed the post of president of this multilateral institution. The former President of Brazil is expected to build on the achievements of her predecessors and write a new chapter for South-South cooperation and global sustainable development.


Rousseff said in an interview with Xinhua that investing in infrastructure development, addressing social inequality, reducing climate change and achieving sustainable development goals will be priorities during her tenure, while emphasizing the importance of the local currency in the financing process.


The NDB President stated that the bank can contribute to combating climate change and achieving the sustainable development goals, for example, by investing in alternative energy sources.


The bank's overall strategy for 2022-2026, approved by the Board of Governors last year, aims to save $30 billion over the next five years. During this period, the Bank will expand its operations with the private sector, double its development impact and direct 40 percent of its approvals to climate change mitigation and adaptation.


"As a former president of Brazil, I know the importance of multilateral banks working to support developing countries, especially the New Development Bank, in addressing their economic, social and environmental needs," Rousseff said during her inauguration ceremony in Shanghai on Thursday.


Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who attended Rousseff's inauguration during a state visit to China, expressed confidence in the bank's promising future under the new leadership.


Lula said that the bank has the characteristics that enable it to become one of the largest banks in the countries of the South, and has great potential in terms of improving the situation of developing countries.


The Bank, with a history of more than seven years, has evolved from a start-up organization into a major development solutions provider, with its project portfolio including investments in areas such as clean energy, urban mobility, water, sanitation, transportation, and social and digital infrastructure.


In July 2016, about a year after it began operations, the bank launched its first bond issue -- a green bond denominated in the Chinese currency renminbi, or yuan, for 3 billion yuan ($449 million). It was sold on the interbank bond market in China.


Hailing this issuance and describing it as a landmark for the Multilateral Development Bank, former NDB President K. in. Kamath It (issue) may help promote sustainable development and will support greater use of clean and renewable energy to reduce carbon emissions.


Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said at a daily press conference in late March that the bank has so far approved 99 loan projects with a total value of more than $34 billion, which provides strong support for infrastructure construction and sustainable development for emerging markets and developing countries. .


Home to more than 40 percent of the world's population and accounting for nearly a quarter of the global economy, BRICS countries strive for openness, inclusiveness and win-win cooperation, as evidenced by their efforts to expand the family of the New Development Bank.


In 2021, the Bank began expanding its membership and agreed to accept Bangladesh, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Uruguay as its new members, adding more than 280 million people who can benefit from the Bank's mission and strengthen the Bank's global reach.


For his part, Egyptian economics professor Fakhri al-Fiqi, who is also the head of a parliamentary committee concerned, confirmed that the bank is expected to become a "global financing platform", especially for developing and emerging economies, which means that the door is open for emerging economies to join it and contribute to raising its capital.


"The New Development Bank is the product of a partnership between BRICS countries with the aim of creating a world with less poverty, less inequality and greater sustainability," and it is very different from traditional banks dominated by developed countries, Lula noted.


"Developing countries have always had a dream of finding their own investment and financing tools. The New Development Bank has made such a dream come true, because it really knows what developing countries need and the areas they need to invest in," he said.

PALESTINE

Sun 16 Apr 2023 6:35 am - Jerusalem Time

Haaretz: Israel still faces the risk of a confrontation erupting on several fronts

The Hebrew newspaper Haaretz said, on Sunday, that despite the relative calm in the past few days, Israel still faces the risk of confrontation erupting on several fronts.


According to the newspaper, Israel is trying to end the month of Ramadan without incidents that might lead to a new escalation, noting that it is trying to avoid more mistakes in Al-Aqsa Mosque , which could set fire to Jerusalem, the West Bank and other fronts.


Ghali indicated that these attempts by Israel come after its police violently stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which ignited the situation on several fronts 10 days ago.


She pointed out that despite the various intelligence alerts and high alert, last Friday passed quietly and there were no attempts to launch missiles or any drones as was the security assessment, pointing to the electronic attack against Israeli websites without causing any real damage.


SPORT

Sun 16 Apr 2023 6:21 am - Jerusalem Time

Spain Championship: Real returns to the winning streak before his London trip

Real Madrid, the defending champion, returned to the winning streak before his London trip, Tuesday, to face Chelsea in the second leg of the Champions League final, by defeating its Andalusian host, Cadiz, 2-0, on Saturday, in the twenty-ninth stage of the Spanish Football League .


And in light of Barcelona’s tweeting in the lead and its march towards winning the title for the first time since 2019, by moving away by 10 points from its rival before its Sunday match with its host Getafe, Real is wrestling with its neighbor Atletico for the runner-up, and it moved away from the latter by five points temporarily after making up for its fall in the last stage against Villarreal. at home 2-3.


Italian coach Carlo Ancelotti's team prepared well for its match on Tuesday at Stamford Bridge, where it will try to build on its victory in the first leg in Madrid, with the double of Frenchman Karim Benzema and Marco Asisno, in order to reach the semi-finals and continue the campaign to defend its continental title.


In the absence of Brazilian Vinicius Junior and German Toni Kroos due to two minor injuries and Croatian Luka Modric sitting on the bench, Real dominated his match with Cadiz, who had not defeated the Royal Club in the league among its fans since 1991 (1-0), and threatened its host’s goal on more than one occasion, the first of which Through Asensio, who collided with the brilliance of goalkeeper David Khel (16), who returned and shone in the face of Benzema (18).


Then the pace slowed down until the 35th minute, when Benzema's luck ran out after his shot bounced off the crossbar, then the royal club's chances rolled in and goalkeeper Khel, who prevented Ancelotti's men from entering the halftime break while they were ahead, shone.


The situation did not change in the second half until Al-Faraj came from Nacho, who liberated the Royal Club thanks to a shot he fired from outside the area into the net after a pass from Frenchman Aurelien Chouamini (74), before Asensio secured the three points with a second goal a few seconds later with a shot from inside the area after a pass. From Uruguayan Federico Valverde (76).


Valladolid braked its host, Villarreal, who is fighting for a qualifying position in the Champions League, by dropping it in its stronghold 2-1 with a Moroccan double.


The “Yellow Submarine” team entered the meeting with its guest, who is struggling to get away from the relegation zone, on the back of three consecutive victories, including two at the expense of Real Sociedad IV 2-0 and Real Madrid, and without defeat for six consecutive stages.


However, Valladolid surprised him from the start of the match when he opened the scoring in the second minute with a goal by Moroccan Salim Amlah, who was also behind the goal of advancing with two clean goals by passing the ball to his compatriot Jawad Al-Yamiq after a counterattack (34).


Coach Quique Setien's team waited until the 74th minute to return to the atmosphere of the match with a goal for French substitute Etienne Capouet, but after that he was unable to reach the net of his guest. Rather, the latter was the closest to scoring on more than one occasion, but he collided with the brilliance of veteran goalkeeper Pepe Reina in a match completed by Valladolid. Without his Uruguayan coach, Paolo Pizzolano, after he was fired for protesting against the hosts' goal.


Villarreal player Dani Parejo said, "The result does not reflect what happened in the ninety minutes. I think Villarreal was better than Valladolid in all respects. We leave the field feeling sad and disappointed with the result, but we feel that football was not fair to us."


And with the tenth defeat of the season, Villarreal’s balance froze at 47 points, 4 points behind Real Sociedad, who failed to consolidate its fourth-last position to qualify for the Champions League by losing the Basque derby with its host and neighbor Athletic Bilbao with two clean goals scored by the Ghanaian-Spaniard Iñaki Williams (33 and 70), raising the score His team rose to 43 points in seventh place, while Valladolid’s balance became 32 in the fourteenth place temporarily, 5 points behind the relegation zone.


Real Betis was the biggest beneficiary of the fall of Villarreal and Real Sociedad, as it snatched fifth place from the first and became three points away from the second after returning to the path of victories that it deviated from in the past two stages, by defeating its guest Espanyol with three goals from Yossi Perez (27) and Juan Miranda. (34) and the Portuguese William Carvalho (69), against a goal by Mexican Cesar Montes (49), which was not enough to spare the Catalan guest his sixth defeat in a row, so his score froze at 27 points in the ninth place.

SPORT

Sun 16 Apr 2023 6:19 am - Jerusalem Time

England Championship: City puts pressure on Arsenal, and the loss of Newcastle and Tottenham opens the door for United

Manchester City stressed the pressure on leaders Arsenal by outright defeating Leicester City 3-1 on Saturday in the 31st stage of the English Football League , while the loss of Newcastle III and Tottenham V opened the door for Manchester United to enhance its chances of participating in the Champions League next season. The account of one of them, with the first outright fall in front of its host Aston Zero-3 and the second at home against Bournemouth, who is struggling to survive 2-3.


City raised its tally to 70 points, compared to 73 for Arsenal, who are visiting neighbors West Ham on Sunday.


On the other hand, Newcastle's balance was frozen at 56 points in third place, which could be relinquished in the event of a draw or victory for Manchester United against its host Nottingham Forest on Sunday. As for Tottenham, it remained fifth with 53 points, but it played two matches more than Newcastle and Manchester United, noting that it will face Newcastle in the next stage.


In light of the struggle between City and Arsenal for the league title, other teams are competing for the last two qualified seats to the main continental competition.


At the Etihad Stadium, the appointment of a new coach for Leicester, Dean Smith, did not achieve any moral boost, because City is at a ruthless level at the present time, especially after the remarkable victory over Bayern Munich with three clean goals in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals.
Four minutes after the start of the match, defender John Stones opened the scoring for City with a "on the fly" shot that hit the top corner of the net.


Then the referee awarded a penalty kick to City after a handball inside the area, which was successfully directed by the giant Norwegian striker, Erling Haaland (13).


And soon Haaland added the third when he received a front ball from Belgian playmaker Kevin De Bruyne, and he walked with it a few meters before hitting it into the net (25).


Haaland, with his 32nd goal, equaled the record for the number of goals scored in one season, which includes 38 games, to share it with Egyptian Mohamed Salah, Liverpool striker, in the 2017-2018 season. As for the absolute record in the Premier League, it is 34 goals scored by Andy Cole and Alan Shearer, but when the league included 42 matches.


Haaland also raised his tally this season to 47 goals in various competitions.


The City coach decided to rest Haaland between halftime for the return match against Bayern, scheduled for next Wednesday, and hired Argentine striker Julian Alvarez.
In general, the guests remained in control in the second half, at a time when Guardiola brought out his best players in succession, before Leicester scored an honorary goal by Nigerian Kelechi Iheanacho, former City striker (75).


Guardiola said, "At the end of the match, things were not easy for us, and the reason for that was the many changes we made."


He added, "After we advanced 3-0, I decided to rest Haaland, because he played the full 90 minutes against Bayern, and it was very difficult."
And at Villa Park, Aston Villa put an end to a series of five consecutive victories for Newcastle when it dropped its guest 3-0.
Spanish Villa coach Unai Emery commented on the result of his team and the possibility of snatching a ticket to the Champions League, noting that it is 6 points behind the last qualifiers to the main continental competition, saying, "We are candidates for a complex in the European League, but occupying one of the first four places is very difficult."


Newcastle has not competed in the Champions League since the 2002-2003 season and aspires to return to the competition after the Saudi takeover in October 2021 and the arrival of coach Eddie Howe at the end of the same year.


This is only the second time this season in the league that Newcastle - the best defense in the league - has conceded three goals after a 3-3 draw with Manchester City last August.
For his part, Villa, led by Emery, achieved its fifth successive victory in the league for the first time since 1998.


Villa succeeded in advancing early after a cross hit Ollie Watkins on the right side towards the second post, he passed it header to Jacob Ramsey, followed by his left from close range (11).


Watkins continued his brilliance, and after he had a goal ruled out for offside after returning to the video assistant referee “VAR” (62), he added the second goal for his team after a ball from Spaniard Alex Moreno reached him in front of the goal, he turned around himself and entered the net (64).
He scored his second personal goal, and his 14th in the league this season, after a wonderful collective game from Villa, after which the ball reached Ramsey inside the area, followed by a back pass to Watkins, who hit it to the left of Bob (83).


In north London, Bournemouth achieved a heavy-caliber surprise by dropping Tottenham at home 3-2, to make it difficult for him to participate in the Champions League.


Spurs advanced through South Korean striker Heung-min Son, following a pass from Croatian Ivan Pericic (14).
But Uruguayan Matias Fina equalized for the South Coast team in the 38th minute.
Bournemouth returned to the lead through striker Dominic Solanke (51).


Tottenham waited until the 88th minute for Dutch winger Arnaud Danjuma to equalize with a creeping shot.


Amid the offensive tide of Tottenham to get the three match points, Bournemouth managed to take advantage of a quick counterattack, with Burkina Faso's Dango Ouattara scoring the winning goal in the fifth minute of stoppage time.


Chelsea continued its bad performances despite the appointment of a new coach, Frank Lampard, who lost his first three matches with his former team, and the last was Saturday at home to Brighton 1-2.


Lampard had lost his first match against Wolverhampton 0-1 in the league, then Real Madrid in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals 0-2.


Lampard made several changes to his squad, but things did not improve despite his team's lead by Connor Gallagher (13), but Brighton responded with two through Danny Welbeck (42) and Paraguayan Jose Cesar Enciso (69).

SPORT

Sun 16 Apr 2023 6:17 am - Jerusalem Time

French Championship: Saint-Germain is steadily moving towards the title

Paris Saint-Germain, the leaders, took an important step towards winning its eleventh title and breaking the record, by outright defeating its runner-up Lens, 3-1, on Saturday, in the thirty-first stage of the French Football Championship .


Saint-Germain raised its score to 72 points, compared to 63 for Lens, who may lose the runner-up to Marseille, who is two points behind and meets Troyes on Sunday.


And in the event that the capital team is destined to be crowned, it will have the only record in the number of titles (11), which it currently shares with Saint-Etienne, with ten titles for each of them.


Lens, who did not lose any of his last seven matches (5 wins and two draws), started the match pressing on his host and almost opened the scoring through Ghanaian Salis Abdel Samad, who fired the ball towards the goal, but Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma parried his attempt brilliantly after two minutes.


Then Saint-Germain entered the rhythm of the match, and then the turning point was when Abdel Samad was sent off for committing a mistake against Moroccan right-back Ashraf Hakimi (19).


Saint-Germain took advantage of the numerical shortage in the ranks of his opponent to open the scoring through Kylian Mbappe after exchanging the ball with the Portuguese midfielder Vitinha, before he hit it with the help of the post (31).


The goal is the twentieth for Mbappe this season, to lead the scorers' ranking, by a goal difference from Lille Canadian striker Jonathan David.
Saint-Germain decided the outcome of the match when Vitenia added the second goal with a shot from 25 meters, scoring his first goal this season (37), before Argentine Lionel Messi added the third after a heel pass from Mbappe (40).


In the second half, Lens narrowed the gap through Polish Przemyslaw Frankowski from a penalty kick, following a handball from Spaniard Fabian Royce inside the area (60).


Rennes maintained its hope of participating at the European level next season, by outright defeating Reims 3-0.
Rennes temporarily rose to fifth place, raising its tally to 53 points, one point ahead of Lille sixth, and two points ahead of Lyon seventh.
Rennes competed strongly for the first places in the first division of the league, but its level declined after the resumption of activity after the end of the World Cup in Qatar, to fall back to the middle of the standings.


Rennes supporters raised banners calling on the players to make double efforts to get out of the cycle of mediocre results in recent months, including one, "Winning is necessary in order to maintain hope," and another that reads, "We have been patient for three months without any improvement, something must be done."


Rennes untied his knot against Rennes, which constitutes an intractable knot for him, because he failed to beat his opponent only once in nine matches before today since 2018, in exchange for six defeats and two draws as well.


Rennes took advantage of the absence of influential midfielders in the ranks of Reims, who are suspended Jens Cagost and Azur Matosiwa, to open the scoring for him with a creeping shot by Belgian Jeremy Doku, following a mistake by Alexis Phillips (9).


Doku, who suffered from frequent injuries this season and was only participating for the fifth time, soon added the second goal after a pass from Arno Kalimwindo (19).


The only chance in the first half for Reims was a shot by Marshall Munetsi, but former international goalkeeper Steve Mandanda saved it brilliantly (41).


Rennes' advantage continued, and a free kick was blocked by Benjamin Borrego (67).


Amine Gweri decided the final result in favor of Rennes with a "Loeb" shot in the 68th minute.

SPORT

Sun 16 Apr 2023 6:14 am - Jerusalem Time

Italian Championship: Napoli and Milan are preparing for the new date between them, with two disappointing draws

Leaders Napoli and Milan, the defending champions, are preparing for their expected position on Tuesday in the second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals, with two disappointing draws on Saturday against Hellas Verona, 0-0, and Bologna, 1-1, respectively, in the thirtieth stage of the Italian Football League .


Napoli played the meeting with shaky spirits after losing in the middle of the week at Milan 0-1 in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals, to fall for the second time against the Lombardy team within a few days after the humiliating loss in front of him at his stadium, “Diego Armando Maradona” by 4-0 in the stage before last. .


Despite this stumbling in a match during which he regained the services of his Nigerian top scorer Victor Osmihan, it does not seem that anyone is able to stand in the way of Napoli achieving the dream of winning the title for the first time since 1990, as it is 14 points ahead of Lazio II, eight stages before the end of the season.


Coach Luciano Spalletti started the match against a team that had not won any away matches this season and had won only once in the past seven stages with a modified squad in order to rest its stars in preparation for Wednesday.


And Spalletti kept the Georgian Khvicha Kvaratskhelia on the bench, which witnessed the return of Osimhen after recovering from an injury during his participation with his country in the international match window at the end of last month, which kept him out of the last three matches, two of them against Milan when the southern team lost 4-0 on the second of this month in League and then Tuesday in the Champions League.


Spalletti confirmed that Osimhen, who entered in the last quarter of an hour, will start Tuesday, saying, "He will start, yes. Osimhen has this physical strength and speed... He can protect the ball, use his head or change his speed. He has multiple alternatives. He is now a hero for these fans." So there is always a wave of enthusiasm about him."


Matteo Politano and Mexican Hrving Losano and Jacomo Raspadori were unable to invest the field advantage of the southern team, so the first half ended in a goalless draw with the most dangerous chances for Verona through Kevin Lasagna, who threatened Alex Merritt's goal more than once with his long shots.


In the second half, Spalletti found himself forced to push Kfaratskhelia and Poland's Piotr Zielinski instead of Losano and Germany's Diego Dime (64) in search of deciphering Verona's defensive code, but without success, to then pay Osimhen instead of Raspadori (73).
The Nigerian was close to giving his team the goal of progress, but luck hindered him after his missile hit the crossbar (83), before Verona got the chance to decide in stoppage time from the Belgian Cyril Ngong alone, but he toppled the ball by the right post, although he was alone in the face of Merrill. (90+1).


In the end, the southern team faltered for the third time in the last four matches (losing the League and the Champions League against Milan, and Saturday’s draw with Verona, in exchange for a 2-1 victory over Lecce), and settled for the third draw of the season against a team struggling to survive, as it ranks eighteenth by three points. Points from the safety zone.


In turn, Milan was mentally and technically preoccupied with facing Napoli on Tuesday, so he paid the price and threatened to give up the final fourth place that qualifies for the main continental competition by stumbling again, this time in front of its host Bologna 1-1.


It was difficult for coach Stefano Pioli to play the Bologna match with a starting line-up in light of the difficulty of the task awaiting his team on Tuesday, so he started with a backup line-up that missed all the ten field players who faced the southern team in the middle of the week, and French goalkeeper Mike Manian was the only player from the starting line-up.


In the end, Milan contented itself with a second draw in a row and an orphan victory from the last six matches in “Serie A”, but luck helped him and he remained in the last fourth place qualifying for the Champions League thanks to the service of Monza, who is owned by his former president Silvio Berlusconi, as the newcomer won the League of Lights. Over Lombard's neighbor Inter 1-0 in "San Siro".


Only 33 seconds passed until Milan found itself behind with a goal scored by Nicolas Sansone after a cross from Austrian Stefan Bosch, but the Lombard team equalized just before the end of the first half through Tomazo Bubiga (40).


In an interview with the "Dazon" network, Pioli bemoaned the bad start of his team, saying, "We should not have started in this way. To concede at such an early age is unacceptable for a team of our level."


"After that, we took over the initiative. We played well and didn't allow Bologna to play their usual style but we didn't make the most of the chances we had."
Despite the entry of players such as the Portuguese Rafael Liao, the Spaniard Ibrahim Dias and the Brazilian Junior Messias, Milan was unable to reach the net of its guest, who kept his unbeaten record for the fifth consecutive stage, raising his score to 44 points in eighth place.


After five consecutive stages without any victory, the Inter fans believed that the victory in the Portuguese stronghold of Benfica 2-0 in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals would give his team the necessary moral push to return to the right track and overtake its guest Montsa, but coach Simone Inzaghi’s team suffered its eleventh defeat. With a goal scored by the owner of the land with a header by Luca Caldirola after a corner kick (78), the "Nerazzori" suffered its third defeat at home this season.

SPORT

Sun 16 Apr 2023 6:12 am - Jerusalem Time

German Championship: Disappointed Bayern clings to the lead with great service from the fighter Stuttgart

Bayern Munich kept its lead in the German Football League standings, despite its disappointing 1-1 draw with its guest Hoffenheim, a few days after its humiliating fall in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals, thanks to a great service from the Stuttgart fighter, who returned from afar and imposed a 3-3 draw on his guest. Borussia Dortmund, despite the numerical shortage in its ranks.


Bayern entered the match on the back of its humiliating defeat in the middle of the week at Manchester City, England, by 3-0 in the first leg of the quarter-finals of the European Champions League, which makes it threatened to bid farewell to the continental championship, after it had also previously been knocked out of the quarter-finals of the cup competition by Freiburg, with a loss at home 1 -2 in his second test, led by his new coach, Thomas Tuchel.


Bayern lost, 4 matches after the dismissal of its former coach, Julian Nagelsmann, and the appointment of Tuchel, its bet on achieving the treble, as it is no longer within its reach except the “Bundesliga” title, unless it achieves a miracle return from afar on Wednesday when it hosts City at the “Allianz Arena” in the second leg.


It seems that Bayern's journey towards retaining the league title will not be easy at all, but it succeeded on Saturday, at least, in surviving against Dortmund, the loser against its Bavarian rivals 2-4 in the first match for the latter led by the former coach of the yellow and black team, Tuchel, benefiting from the fighting spirit of Stuttgart, who compensated for his backwardness. With two clean goals, then with a goal in stoppage time, to impose a draw on its guest Dortmund 3-3, despite the numerical shortage in its ranks since the 39th minute.


Bayern remained in this tie, which Tuchel added to his disappointing start with the Bavarian giants, two points ahead of Dortmund, six stages before the end of the season.
Tuchel lamented, saying, "I thought we would play with great anger (after the loss against City), but this did not happen. We need a different spirit and quickly."


Bayern played the meeting in the absence of Senegalese striker Sadio Mane, who was suspended by the club after hitting teammate Leroy Sane and bleeding from his lip after losing to City.
Bayern finished the first half, ahead of a team, with a single goal scored by Frenchman Benjamin Pavard in the 17th minute, after a corner kick, after which the ball reached his compatriot Kingsley Coman, who tested his luck with a shot, but failed, and the ball reached Pavard, who followed it between the legs of goalkeeper Oliver Baumann.


The Bavarian club got wholesale opportunities to consolidate its lead in the second half, but did not invest it, to pay the price in the 71st minute, when Croatian Andrei Kramaric executed a wonderful free kick against Swiss goalkeeper Jan Sommer.


Pavar believed that he gave Bayern the lead again with his second personal goal in the match and the fifth this season, after he pounced on the ball following a header pass from Dutchman Matthijs de Ligt following a cross from Portuguese Joao Cancelo, but the referee canceled it for offside after resorting to “VAR” (73) .


In Stuttgart, it seemed that Dortmund would fully benefit from Bayern's draw with Hoffenheim coming to Munich on the back of three consecutive victories in its longest streak since August, thanks to its new American coach of Italian roots, Pellegrino "Rino" Matarazzo, by advancing with two goals from Ivory Coast, Sebastian Haller, after a cross. From the Dutchman Dolin Mallen (26), who scored the same second goal after a corner kick (33), against a team fighting to avoid relegation.


Dortmund's chances of returning from Stuttgart increased with the nineteenth victory of the season, when the latter was forced to complete the match with ten players after the Greek Konstantinos Mavropanos was sent off for receiving a second warning in the 39th minute.


But Frenchman Tanguy Coulibaly restored hope to the owner of the land by reducing the difference a few minutes after entering with a shot from outside the area (77), and then the return was completed when Joshua Vagnoman managed to equalize in the 84th minute after a corner kick.
Dortmund believed that he had decided the match when the American substitute, Giovanni Reina, who entered in the 82nd minute, succeeded in scoring the goal of progress 3-2, but the other Congolese substitute, Silas Katumba Mvumba, saved a point for the owner of the land after a cross from Vagnoman, raising his team’s balance to 24 points in the sixteenth place. Which qualifies its owner to play the supplement with the third of the second degree.


Dortmund coach Edin Terzic commented on this disappointing tie, saying that he was “unable to find words,” adding, “We thought we saw the stupidest thing this season after our late loss against Bremen at home (3-2, with three goals for the guests in the last seconds during the third stage in August). August).


It seems that Leipzig put behind him the bad stage that began with his humiliating loss against Manchester City 0-7 in the second leg of the Champions League final price, before he followed it with two falls in the local league, by achieving his third successive victory, the first of which was against Dortmund 2-0 in the quarter-finals of the cup, and came At the expense of its guest, Augsburg, with three goals for Slovenian Kevin Campbell (10) and Timo Werner (32 and 35), compared to two goals for Arne Meyer (5) and Swiss Robin Vargas (82).


Leipzig raised its score to 51 points, temporarily in third place, on goal difference, against Union Berlin, who plays Sunday with its guest Bochum.


French top scorer Randall Kolo Mwani, with his thirteenth goal of the season, saved his team, Eintracht Frankfurt, from the ninth defeat, by equalizing 1-1 against guest Borussia Mönchengladbach in the 83rd minute, after the latter advanced since the 13th minute through Jonas Hoffmann.

PALESTINE

Sun 16 Apr 2023 5:59 am - Jerusalem Time

After criticism of his movement.. Abu Marzouk: We are not part of any political or military axis

Moussa Abu Marzouk , a member of the Hamas political bureau, said last night that his movement is not part of any political or military axis, regardless of its name and address.


This came in a tweet that Abu Marzouk posted on his Twitter account, after the sharp criticism directed at his movement and its leaders, including Yahya Sinwar , the leader of Hamas in Gaza, after he praised Iran in his speech last Friday, as well as the regime of Bashar al-Assad .


Syrian dissidents, activists, and influential personalities from Turkey, Syria, and some Arab and Islamic countries sharply criticized Hamas for the statements of its leaders and their praise of Khomeini and Bashar al-Assad.


Abu Marzouk said in his tweet: "We are an Islamic resistance movement, and we seek relations with all living forces in the region and the world, and we have no enmity with any component, except for the Zionist enemy."


Abu Marzouk, who is responsible for the international relations office in the political bureau of Hamas, added: "We thank everyone who stands with us as an assistant and a helper, and there is no relationship with any party at the expense of another party."

PALESTINE

Sun 16 Apr 2023 5:54 am - Jerusalem Time

A young man slaughters his sister in the Negev

A 26-year-old woman was killed last night by her brother in the occupied Negev .


According to the Hebrew website Ynet, the young woman, from Kseifa, was beheaded with a blunt object.


He pointed out that the Israeli police arrested her brother.