Will the "Arabs" board the boat of change towards another pole that will rule the world for the next hundred years? This is the question/concern that occupies the minds of Arab thinkers these days, as they clearly see the preparation of this Chinese, Russian, Iranian boat, waiting for zero hour to set off in the waves of a sea that still seems to be heavy.

There is no doubt that all those concerned with thought, opinion and belief, more than others, want the Arab nation in its great Arab homeland to board that boat, and even to have a place in its leadership, so that it is sufficient for it to be humiliated, disintegrated, humiliated, and meek that lasted for more than a thousand years, since the Umayyad conflict Over the caliphate in Damascus, then the Abbasid conflict in Baghdad, then the kings of the sects in Andalusia, and the Mamluks in Egypt, then the Ottoman Sultanate that lasted for about five hundred years, then the white European colonialism that divided the spoils between Britain, France, Italy and Spain, and finally America, which laid its hand on the capabilities of This enormous homeland, once through direct colonialism, as in the invasion of Iraq twenty years ago, or indirectly, as in the Gulf, or infighting and self-warfare, as in Syria, Egypt, Libya, Lebanon, Sudan, and Yemen. And it came to an American writer to ask: Who planted our oil under their sands? That is, the oil is theirs and the sand is ours.

At the beginning of the third millennium, twenty-three years ago, some of these intellectuals and thinkers directed explicit calls not to allow the Arabs to enter the new millennium, neither with the left man nor with the right man, as long as they enter it with slippers and dishdasha, the cave mentality, and the Arab woman lacking in reason and religion. It was created only for childbearing and cooking, and belonging to the past much more than the present and the future, until it came to rule the living dead, the collector the university, the rich the poor, the male the female, and bequeathing power in perpetuity, until we had Mohammed III, Abdullah VI, Hassan II and Al Khalifa The ninth...etc. Within ten years of the beginning of the millennium, ISIS, al-Nusra, al-Qaeda, al-Zarqawi, al-Baghdadi, and the emir of the group exploded, beheadings, enslaving women, and jihad marriages in a way that shames humanity in its third, second, and first millenniums, and even before birth and history.

This Arab turn that we are witnessing these days, and which we certainly commend, towards self-reconciliation is not enough. We have never understood the real, scientific reasons for their differences, between Syria and Saudi Arabia, for example, or between Bahrain and Iran, or between Yemen and the Emirates, or even between Sunnis and Shiites. Except for the colonial policy of "divide and rule", until the matter came to the Palestinians, whose country is subject to settler and uprooting colonialism, to separate, differ and divide while they were still at the height of the task of liberating their homeland. Only a few years had passed since they entered the new millennium at that time.

The title of the article is inspired by the title of US President Richard Nixon's book "Victory Without War". After Israel's defeat in the 1973 war, the US president believed that military confrontation was a risk, and that superiority in armaments did not mean a guarantee of victory. He wrote his aforementioned book. His main idea was based on the question: How do we win without war? No price. One of the effective weapons, according to Nixon, is launching an intensive media campaign against the enemy, and the other weapon, which is no less important than the first, is possessing the forefront of science and technology and preventing that from the enemy, and the enemy in its concept is one who refuses to obey. By science, germ warfare is meant. On the other hand, the American writer Joseph Nye answered this question with soft power, which is no longer the monopoly of major powers only, but all countries and peoples possess this power and vary in its degrees. This question applies to Arab-Israeli relations, and is being raised today at the Palestinian-Israeli level. Was war as an option succeeded in resolving the conflict in favor of one of the two parties? In the Arab world, war has dominated relations, so we witnessed five wars that did not achieve their goal, as it is said that war is an extension of politics, and the 1973 war may be a translation of this saying that it ended with the signing of peace agreements between Egypt and Israel after Egypt succeeded in regaining its land in the Sinai that Israel occupied in the 1967 war And to open the door to peace treaties with more than one Arab country. The conviction in these treaties is that war is not the best option for any party to end the conflict. Neither Israel is able to defeat the Arab countries, nor the Arab countries are able to defeat Israel because of the alliance and the American commitment to the security and survival of Israel. Not to mention that these wars cost huge material and human losses, which explains the economic problems that the region is suffering from today. This is on the Arab side, and what about the Palestinian and Israeli sides? First: The Israeli force cannot be compared to the military force possessed by the Palestinian resistance factions. Second: The concept of war does not apply to the Palestinian-Israeli situation, in the sense that Israel, with the power it possesses, can destroy all the Palestinian lands, and on its part the resistance today, with its relatively advanced weapons, and by virtue of the geographical contiguity, can inflict great losses on Israel, meaning that we are facing a model and the option of demolishing the temple. over everyone's heads. Third: The military option on the Palestinian level requires budgets and large financial spending that is not available, and if it is available in a limited amount, it will be at the expense of spending and economic structure, which means high poverty and unemployment. One of the conditions for a successful war is to provide a strong economic and social structure capable of withstanding. Fourth: Geographical determinants, land unity, overlapping, and demographic overlaps turn war into a destructive option. What confirms these hypotheses is that Israel has launched four wars on Gaza, causing it great damage, increasing the rate of poverty and unemployment to more than fifty percent, and turning the Palestinian people in Gaza into an unproductive dependent people waiting for aid. Also, Israel, despite its great power that exceeds the capabilities of other countries, cannot take the option of war far.

The question is what is the alternative to war?... The answer is found in the book "The Art of War" by the Chinese strategist Sun Tzu, who wrote it 2,500 years ago. In the book, he sets time stages for defeating the opponent, and says: The best way to defeat the opponent is to nullify and corrupt all that he represents in terms of sayings, narratives, values, and ethics. And not to be left to live as he wants, and to give advice to pretend to be weak when you are strong, and to pretend to be strong when you are weak. And he gives advice to the Palestinian case, when he is comfortable, start by exhausting him, and do not let him be comfortable. For his part, the Soviet Yuri Bezinov, believes that the conflict goes through four stages, the first is the overthrow of morals, which is a stage that needs 15-20 years, and the second is destabilization and requires 2-5 years. What is meant here is to stoke ethnic and sectarian strife, then the stage of crisis, which may result in a civil war.

Far from this chronology and its application to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the lesson here is the general meaning of these stages that we see today in Israel and what it suffers from internal crises that threaten its survival and existence. The key to defeating Israel is from the inside and not from the outside. The outside unites Israel and the inside highlights the contradictions within it.

The Palestinians possess many elements of soft power and alternative options and approaches to war, the first of which is the demographic component and how to maintain its steadfastness and roots in its land. The second is the strength of historical and civilizational rights that affirm the Palestinian right. The third is the strength of international legitimacy and its activation. The fourth is the establishment of a consensual democratic political system. The fifth is the activation of the role of Arab and Islamic communities in many countries, especially America, which we see some of the harbingers of change and support for the Palestinian side, and we have an example of that. Representatives of Palestinian origins in the US Congress, the sixth is restoring the status of the Palestinian cause in the Arab world and internationally, and the seventh is employing Arab peace to end the occupation by giving Israel the choice between peace and war. The eighth is adopting the one-state option by exposing the racism of Israeli policies and the illusion of Israeli democracy. It remains that if the Palestinians possessed nuclear power, it would not achieve peace for them. Rather, building peace with the strength of previous approaches and options is sufficient to create pressure forces on Israel and make the occupation costly and its price is high through popular peaceful resistance. Finally, how do we make the power of peace defeat the peace of power.

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After the restoration of Iranian-Saudi diplomatic relations, confusion within Israel appears in the face of dwindling opportunities to promote normalization between Tel Aviv and Riyadh.

The Saudi-American relations deteriorated after the advent of the Democrats, as Saudi Arabia began to look at its security, military and economic interests in light of the regional and international changes, in addition to strengthening the vision of the dimensions of the threats around it, the first of which is the Iranian threat that was planted by the American and Israeli media.

Since the Saudi and Iranian agreement will achieve Saudi gains in regional files in the region, but will the agreement continue if changes occur in the region?

The Israeli position regarding the Saudi and Iranian agreement was not officially demonstrated by Netanyahu, as most of his statements were against the Iranian threat, without mentioning the repercussions of the Saudi and Iranian agreement on Israel.

However, the Israeli opposition was able to use the agreement in the framework of the political attack on Netanyahu, as Lapid indicated that the agreement represents a complete failure and a danger to Israeli foreign policy, and that this is considered the collapse of the regional defense wall that was built against Iran.

The opposition also pointed out that the agreement is a complete failure for Israel due to the internal division and Netanyahu's inability to solve his internal and security problems. The opposition considered that the division is one of the reasons for the Arab countries' tendency to strengthen their alliances within the new regional and international changes away from Israel.

This matter has repercussions for Israel, as it was concerned with promoting normalization and forming an Arab-American-Israeli army alliance against Iran, but the Saudi and Iranian agreement led to the retraction of this step, and instead of imposing a blockade on Iran by Israel and America, it has now become a blockade on Israel after the end of the hypothesis The Iranian "bogeyman" in the region.

The agreement will contribute to solving the problems of the region, the first of which is Yemen, then Syria, then Iraq. This is what Israel does not want, as it was concerned with keeping wars going on in the region to consolidate Israel's hegemony in the region.

The agreement changed all international calculations, as it constituted a shift in the geopolitical equation in the Middle East region and the reintegration of Iran after being economically besieged, which made the Iranian threat to Israel more present and focused.

Not only that, the Israeli concern is not only from Iran, but also from China, America's only competitor in the region, as China's success in crystallizing the Saudi and Iranian agreement means that it has a security and political impact in addition to the economic dimension, and the continuation of the agreement depends on the extent of the commitment of the two parties and the extent of China's ability Influencing the continuation of the agreement, specifically that America has now become clear that the deep state wants to bring back Trump, and this means that Saudi-American relations may return to normal, and the return of relations means re-introducing the idea of Saudi-Israeli normalization.

Trump's trial sessions sparked widespread controversy in political circles in American society in particular that Trump indicated that the court whose members are from the Democratic Party is politicized, which made Trump's Republican supporters began to mobilize financial and media support in favor of Trump until opinion polls (TG) came out and indicated Until Trump's popularity among Republicans and independents reached (56) percent, while the (YouGaf) poll showed that his popularity reached (52) percent, just as the US Constitution does not hinder an individual's candidacy for the presidency, even if he is accused of several files.

Trump’s return will restore different calculations from the current situation, so will the Saudi and Iranian agreement remain, or will Saudi Arabia seek to focus on its interests and use the policy of holding the stick from the middle to protect its security, geopolitical and economic interests? Specifically, Saudi Arabia has become fully aware that Israel is interested in aggravating the Arab-Israeli conflict, and America wants to manage the conflict, while China wants to end the conflict with a diplomatic solution.

The Lebanese Caretaker Interior Minister, Bassam Mawlawi, announced that he had thwarted the smuggling of about 10 million pills of Captagon from his country to Saudi Arabia via Senegal.

Mawlawi said on his Twitter account, "The Information Division of the Internal Security Forces thwarted the smuggling of about 10 million Captagon pills."

He stated that the smuggling was prepared through a shipment of rubber carbon from Lebanon to Senegal and from there to Saudi Arabia.

He added that the Information Division was able to identify members of the network and the warehouse of goods and drugs in Tripoli, the largest city in northern Lebanon.

The Lebanese authorities have intensified and tightened their efforts to thwart the operations of smuggling the drug Captagon to some Gulf countries after their escalation.

And in April of the year 2021, Saudi Arabia banned the entry of Lebanese vegetables and fruits into the Kingdom or transit through its lands after seizing large quantities of narcotic pills in a shipment of pomegranates coming from Lebanon.

Lyon club achieved its third successive victory in the French Football League , by defeating its host Toulouse 2-1 on Friday, in the opening of the thirty-first stage competitions.

Lyon opened the scoring from a penalty kick in the 34th minute, which Alexandre Lacazette successfully executed, before the landlords equalized through Moroccan international Zakaria Abu Khallal (37).

But a reverse goal by Logan Costa from Cape Verde (88), gave the guests the three points and raised them to sixth place in the standings with 50 points.

As for Toulouse, it remained in twelfth place with 38 points.

The stage will be completed on Saturday when the leaders, Paris Saint-Germain, will play as hosts to the club, Lens.

Lazio strengthened its rank in the Italian Football League by defeating its host Spezia 3-0 on Friday, as part of the opening of the 30th stage competitions.

The goals of the capital team were scored by Ciro Immobile (36 from a penalty kick), Brazilian Felipe Anderson in front of the goal after a wonderful collective exchange of the ball (52), and his substitute compatriot Marcos Antonio scored his first goal with the team from a counterattack (89).

In light of Napoli's distance from the lead on its way to the first title in the league since 1990, other clubs are competing for the other three seats that qualify for the Champions League, and Lazio appears in a favorable position to snatch one of them.

Coach Maurizio Sarri's team raised its score to 61 points, moving 8 points away from its neighbor and rival, Roma III, which separates it from Milan IV, an orphan point, and the same between the Rossoneri and its neighbor Inter V.

Rome will host Udinese at the Olympic Stadium on Sunday, while Milan will beat Bologna on Saturday and host Inter Monza on the same day.

Lazio kept its record unbeaten in the league for the eighth consecutive match in its quest to return to the Champions League for the first time since the 2020-2021 season.

As for Spezia, who ended the match with ten players after Welshman Ethan Ampadu was sent off in the 84th minute for a second warning, his score froze at 26 points in the seventeenth place, four points away from the first relegation centers.

In another match, Cremonese maintained its chances of staying among the seniors by defeating Empoli 1-0 at home, with the goal of Nigerian Cyril Desire, achieving its second successive victory and only the third in the league this season.

He raised his score to 19 points in the penultimate nineteenth place, while Empoli's balance was frozen at 32 in the fourteenth place.
Cremonese had achieved a surprise in the cup this season by eliminating Napoli and Rome, but it finds itself on the verge of exiting the semi-finals after losing at home in the first leg against Fiorentina 2-0 before the return match after nearly two weeks.

On Friday , the Turkish Foreign Ministry summoned Danish Ambassador Danny Annan for burning a copy of the Holy Quran and the Turkish flag during a public demonstration in the Danish capital, Copenhagen.

"It is unacceptable to allow these despicable attacks under the guise of freedom of expression," the ministry said in a statement, noting that the act was permitted despite Turkey's warnings.

Turkish media reported that an anti-Muslim group called (Patriots Go Live) burned a copy of the Holy Quran and the Turkish flag in front of the Turkish embassy in Copenhagen earlier today. Similar attacks took place in front of the embassy on March 24 and 31.

The ministry said that such actions are condemned by all Muslims in the world, and urged Denmark to prevent such provocations and take deterrent preventive measures.

The ministry informed the Danish envoy that Turkey will continue its efforts in multilateral forums to combat similar anti-Islamic attacks and hate crimes.

Sharjah, the defending champion, and Al Ain qualified for the final of the Emirates Football Cup , after the first tied with its host Ajman after extension 1-1 (regular time 0-1), and the second defeated Al Wasl 1-0 on Friday in the second leg of the semi-final.

In the first match, Sharjah benefited from its 2-1 victory to cross the Ajman hurdle, which opened the scoring at the end of the first half, headed by Moroccan Walid Azaro, following a cross from Tunisian Firas Belarabi (45).

The two teams resorted to two extra periods after exchanging victory back and forth, so Djanini Tavares from Cape Verde settled the situation in favor of Sharjah after scoring the equalizing goal, which was enough for his team to reach the final for the second time in a row (106).
Abdullah Saleh was expelled from Ajman at the end of the match (118).

In the second match, Al Ain opened the scoring through Brazilian Eric Menezes, after he benefited from a cross by Bandar Al Ahbabi, to hit Al Wasl goalkeeper Khaled Al Senani (24).

However, Al-Ain was then subjected to a strong blow after its goalkeeper Khaled Issa was sent off for pushing the ball out of the penalty area with his hand before it reached Al-Wasl striker Ali Saleh (29).

After the expulsion, control shifted to Al Wasl, who was close to equalizing twice, but Argentine Thomas Shanclay's header hit the post (36) and Chilean Felipe Guterres' crossbar (65).

The balance was equal after the expulsion of Algerian Al Wasl defender Jamal Balamri (86).

Al-Duhail failed to regain the top spot in the Qatari Football League after it fell to Al-Gharafa 2-0 on Friday in the nineteenth stage, which saw Al-Rayyan succumb to a disappointing draw with Al-Sailiya 2-2.

Al-Gharafa raised its score to 32 points, restoring fourth place and providing a great service to Al-Arabi, who alone led the standings table, a point behind the previous leader, Al-Duhail, whose score was frozen at 42 points.

Al-Duhail, led by Argentine coach Hernan Crespo, ignited the summit struggle, despite the preference for the postponed match against Al-Rayyan, scheduled for Tuesday, in which victory has become decisive in order to continue the search for the title, which it gave up in the past two editions in favor of rivals Al-Sadd.

Al-Gharafa, led by Portuguese coach Pedro Martins, presented the best performance in the current season, after he presented a high level and was a strong match for his opponent, waiting until the second half to score the first goal through Algerian Isaac Belfadil's shot, which goalkeeper Salah Zakaria was unable to deal with to enter the net (62).

Despite the great pressure exerted by Al-Duhail in search of a return, Al-Gharafa held out defensively without giving up counter-attacks, one of which resulted in a second goal through Moayad Hassan Fadli's shot that hit the goalkeeper and settled in the goal (90 + 6), securing the victory of his team and deepening the wounds of Al-Duhail, who was It was eliminated a few days before the quarter-finals of the Prince's Cup by falling to Al-Sailiya on penalties 5-4 after a 2-2 draw in normal time.

In a second match, Al-Rayyan lost the double priority against Al-Sailiya to lead to a disappointing 2-2 draw, raising its score to 17 points, advancing to ninth place temporarily, on goal difference from Al-Shamal, while Al-Sailiya raised its score to the tenth point and remained in last place.

Al-Rayyan started the match perfectly, scoring the first goal through Ivory Coast's Johan Boley, who received a cross from Moroccan Sofiane Boufal (5), before Abdel Aziz Hatem consolidated the lead with a second goal after a powerful shot from inside the area that hit the net (25).

Al-Sailiya rose up in stoppage time in the first half, with Senegalese Mohamed Diami reducing the difference, taking advantage of a rebound from the defense, which he fired powerfully into the goal (45 + 1), before the Swedish Carlos Strandberg scored the equalizing goal from a penalty kick that he earned himself and executed successfully (45 + 5).

Palestinian and Arab activists launched a popular campaign to call on the US government to stop paying “tax money” to the occupying state as financial and military aid, coinciding with the American Tax Day, which falls annually on the eighteenth of April, and to demand the use of this money. Funds in financing local development projects in the United States .

Activists have been seeking for several years to stop American aid to the occupying state, which is the first in the list of US foreign aid countries with $3.8 billion, because of its "organized terrorism" against the Palestinian people, and they believe that this aid contributes to an increase in Israeli aggressions against our people.

Activists are scheduled to organize a sit-in in front of the Israeli consulate in San Francisco, California, next Wednesday, to demand an end to the ongoing Israeli military violence against the Palestinians, funded by tax money.

At dawn on Saturday, the Israeli occupation forces tightened their military measures around the city of Jerusalem .

According to local sources, the forces impeded the movement of citizens by checking their identities and searching their boats, between the village of Mikhmas and Ramallah, northeast of Jerusalem.

Official data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Saturday showed that China 's housing market continued to stabilize, with housing prices generally increasing in major Chinese cities last month.

In March, 64 out of 70 large and medium-sized cities witnessed month-on-month increases in new housing prices, up from the 55 recorded in February; While 57 cities witnessed an increase in second-hand home prices, compared to 40 cities in the previous month, according to the data.

On Friday , the European Space Agency (ESA) launched an Ariane 5 rocket carrying the Jupiter Icy Satellite Explorer (JOS) from the European Space Station in French Guiana.

The European Space Agency stated that this successful launch marks the beginning of an ambitious journey to uncover the secrets of the ocean worlds on the three largest moons of Jupiter: Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, which contain quantities of water under their surfaces that are much larger than those in the Earth's oceans.

"These planet-sized moons provide exciting hints that conditions for life could exist other than what is here on our 'pale blue dot'," the European Space Agency said in a press release.

Over the next two and a half weeks, GOS will deploy its various antennas and instrument arms, including a 16-meter-long radar antenna, a 10.6-meter-long magnetometer, and various other instruments that will study the environment of Jupiter and the interior of the icy moons' surface, the agency said.

Explorer JOS will also monitor Jupiter's complex magnetic, radiological and plasma environment in depth and its interaction with the moons, thus studying the Jupiter system as a prototype for giant gaseous systems across the universe.

The Goose Explorer is designed for an eight-year voyage during which it will fly over Earth and Venus to go to Jupiter. It will make 35 flybys of the three large moons as it orbits Jupiter, before changing orbits to Ganymede, the agency reported.

SpaceX announced that it intends to conduct the first orbital test flight on Monday for its giant rocket, "Starship", with two full layers, after obtaining approval from the US Civil Aviation Regulatory Authority.

SpaceX has been working for years on manufacturing this 120-meter-long rocket, which will be used for trips to distant space, that is, to the moon and Mars.

The company is scheduled to launch the rocket from the "Starbase" space base in the far south of the US state of Texas.

And “SpaceX” stated on Friday that the two-and-a-half-hour missile take-off window opens at seven in the morning Monday local time (12 noon GMT), while alternative reserve dates were set during weekdays.

No test flight of the full-layered missile has yet been conducted, including the first, which bears the name "Super Heavy".

The flights conducted so far have been limited to the "Starship" vehicle, which is the second layer of the rocket, as it carried out suborbital test flights (up to a height of about ten kilometers), many of which ended in huge explosions.

The US space agency (NASA) has chosen the Starship vehicle to transport its astronauts to the moon during the "Artemis 3" mission, which is officially scheduled to be launched in 2025.

On Friday, the US Civil Aviation Authority granted Starship a license to fly, "valid for five years."

The "Super Heavy" and "Starship" missile layers are supposed to return to Earth in the future after its flights, allowing it to be fully reused, but they will not be recovered after this first test flight, but rather they are scheduled to crash into the ocean.

Elon Musk, through the strategy of producing an entire reusable rocket, aims to provide a low price, so that the cost of each vehicle flight is less than ten million dollars, as previously confirmed.

Last February, SpaceX passed an important stage in the development of its giant rocket by completing, at its base in Boca Chica, in the far south of Texas, a remarkable experiment on the ground of the thirty-three "Raptor" engines in the first layer of the rocket.

In all, 31 of the 33 engines managed to start for a few seconds, "the largest number of simultaneous rocket engine starts in history," according to SpaceX.

And the new giant "NASA" missile, the 98-meter "SLS", has become the most powerful missile in service in the world after its first flight as part of the "Artemis 1" mission to the moon, but "Starship" may take this designation from it next week.

Today, Saturday, the Prisoners' Club announced a campaign under the slogan "Our Freedom is a Duty" to support prisoners in the occupation prisons .

The club said in a statement, that this campaign comes as an extension of the message and the prisoners’ continuous questioning about their fate for how long?, It is also an extension of the message of the campaign to release the prisoner Walid Daqqa, who is facing a very serious health condition, through which we restore the issue of sick prisoners who face the crime of neglect Medical (slow killing), including the prisoner Asif Al-Rifai, who has cancer, which is considered one of the most dangerous cases today.

He pointed out that nearly 400 prisoners in the occupation prisons have been detained for more than 20 years, and most of them are activists of the Al-Aqsa Intifada.

And he indicated that the definition of “old prisoners” has expanded to include hundreds of prisoners, including (23) prisoners who have been detained continuously since before the signing of the Oslo agreement, headed by the prisoner Muhammad al-Tus, and besides them (11) prisoners from the liberators of the “Wafaa” deal. The re-arrested free people, who were detained before their liberation in the deal since before (Oslo), headed by Nael Al-Barghouti.

Today, Saturday, the occupation forces stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque .

According to local sources, those forces removed banners supporting the resistance and emphasizing the rights of the Palestinian people, which had been hung inside the mosque's courtyards.

A plane carrying Houthi prisoners left Saudi Arabia today, Saturday , heading to Sana'a, which is controlled by the rebels.

The process, which began on Friday and will continue until Sunday, is taking place in the midst of extensive diplomatic efforts that raised hopes for an end to the Yemeni conflict between the government, which is supported by a Saudi-led military coalition, and the Houthis, who are close to Iran.

"The first plane took off from Abha (southern Saudi Arabia) to Sana'a, with 120 former detainees on board," Jessica Mosan, media advisor for the International Committee of the Red Cross, told AFP.

This is the first of three flights scheduled for Saturday between Saudi Arabia and Yemen, as the second flight will carry 16 Saudi prisoners and three Sudanese prisoners from Sanaa to Riyadh, according to the Yemeni government, while the last flight will transport 117 Houthi prisoners from Abha to the Yemeni capital.

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

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

On the first day of the exchange, Friday, 318 prisoners were transported on four flights between Aden in the south, the seat of government, and the capital, by the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Among them are the former Minister of Defense, Major General Mahmoud Al-Subaihi, and Major General Nasser Mansour Hadi, the brother of former President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi, who later went to Riyadh, where his brother resides.

Before the departure of the Saturday flight, the prisoners were transported in at least three buses to the runway of Abha Airport, which had previously been attacked by Houthi drones, and wheelchairs were placed near the buses before the prisoners began to be transferred to the plane, according to an AFP photographer.

In addition to the flights between Saudi Arabia and Yemen, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will operate three other flights on Saturday between Mocha (western Yemen), which is under the control of government forces, and Sanaa, to transport 100 Houthi prisoners.

In Sana'a, red carpets were spread on the grounds of the runway, awaiting the reception of the Houthi prisoners, while dozens of elements wearing phosphorous vests stood on both sides of a long line near armed elements, with the Saudi and Sudanese prisoners passing between them at a later time on their way to the plane.

Analysts say that after eight years of coalition operations to overthrow the Houthis, the Saudis have realized that this goal will not be achieved and are looking forward to ending their military involvement in Yemen.

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who was 29 when he was defense minister and launched the military alliance, became the kingdom's de facto ruler in 2017 and has since been keen to protect the domestic reform agenda, "Saudi Vision 2030."

Last month, Saudi Arabia's exit strategy received support from a Chinese-brokered agreement to resume diplomatic relations with Iran, which could mean reshaping the political landscape of the Middle East, given the two countries' involvement in regional conflicts, including Yemen.

Likewise, Saudi Arabia is pressing for Syria's return to the Arab League after more than a decade of suspending its membership due to the regime's suppression of protest movements. On Friday, it hosted ministers and diplomats from the Gulf states and three Arab countries in Jeddah for talks on Syria, then issued a statement highlighting "the importance of an Arab leadership role" to end the crisis.

In Yemen, a Saudi delegation visited Sanaa last Sunday for talks centered on reviving the truce and laying the groundwork for a more sustainable ceasefire. The delegation, headed by Ambassador Mohammed al-Jaber, left Thursday evening with an agreement to hold further talks, according to Houthi and Yemeni government sources.

A Houthi official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said there had been "a preliminary agreement on a truce" that might be announced later, while the Houthis' chief negotiator, Mohammed Abdel Salam, described the talks as "serious and positive".

Riyadh is believed to have requested security guarantees from the Iranians, including stopping Houthi drone and missile attacks on Saudi territory.

However, even if the kingdom manages to negotiate a way out of the war, fighting could break out again between the various Yemeni factions within Yemen.

"Saudi Arabia is striving to reduce its military involvement in Yemen (...) and is seeking a lasting, long-term peace that allows it to focus on its economic priorities," Sanam Wakil, director of the Middle East and North Africa Program at Chatham House, told AFP.

"But despite this goal, it will be the mediator, investor and guarantor of the conflict in Yemen for a long time," she added.

The final statement of the ministerial consultative meeting of the countries of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf , the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan , the Arab Republic of Egypt , and the Republic of Iraq affirmed the centrality and priority of the Palestinian cause.

The final statement condemned the illegal Israeli practices that undermine the two-state solution and the chances of achieving a just and comprehensive peace based on the two-state solution, which embodies the independent and sovereign Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital on the borders of June 4, 1967 AD, and in accordance with the resolutions of international legitimacy and the Arab Peace Initiative.

It also condemned the Israeli attacks on the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque / Al-Qudsi Al-Sharif, and the violation of the sanctity of the holy places, and stressed the need to respect the historical and legal situation existing therein, and that the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque / Al-Quds Al-Sharif is a pure place of worship for Muslims, and that the Jordanian administration of the Jerusalem Endowments and Al-Aqsa Mosque Affairs It is the body empowered with exclusive jurisdiction to manage the affairs of the mosque and regulate access to it within the framework of the historical Hashemite Custodianship over the Islamic and Christian holy places in Jerusalem.

The final statement stated that the consultative meeting comes within the framework of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's keenness and interest in everything that would serve the issues of the Arab nation and promote the interests of its countries and peoples, at the invitation of Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom, and within the framework of consultation and endeavor to coordinate positions. And uniting efforts towards a number of issues of common concern.

The foreign ministers of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, Jordan, Egypt and Iraq participated in the meeting, which was held in Jeddah.

A child was killed and a boy was injured, on Saturday morning, as a result of a quarrel that occurred in the town of Rahat in the Negev , in the occupied interior .

According to the Hebrew website Ynet, the child Muhammad Salama Abu Hawash (14 years old) was killed during the fight, while a boy (17 years old) was seriously injured.

While it was announced that Shadi al-Najjar, a resident of Shefa Amr , died of his wounds after he was shot by unknown assailants in Haifa .

According to the Hebrew website, the number of victims of crimes inside the occupied territories rose to 49, including 3 since Friday morning.

"The Ramallah and Al-Bireh Police arrested a suspect in a murder," said the police spokesman, Colonel Louay Irzeigat , on Friday evening.

The suspect had participated in the murder of two civilians in the town of Jayyous, east of Qalqilya , last month.

Thousands of demonstrators in Iran and Arab countries celebrated Friday " Quds Day " in support of the Palestinian cause, amid the escalation of violence in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, Iranians have celebrated "Quds Day" every year on the last Friday of Ramadan, in solidarity with the Palestinians.

Marches were also organized on this occasion in a number of Arab countries and the Palestinian territories.

In Iran, rallies took place in Tehran and in many other cities such as Tabriz (northwest), Hamedan (west), Yazd (east), Bandar Abbas (south) and Abadan (southwest), according to state media.

Demonstrators chanted "Death to Israel and America", waving the flags of Palestine, Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah.

The demonstrators carried banners reading "The destruction of Israel is near" and "Palestine is the centerpiece of the unity of the Islamic world."

And in central Tehran, demonstrators burned the American and Israeli flags and pictures of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to AFP correspondents.

This year's "Quds Day" comes amid escalating acts of violence, bloody confrontations and attacks in the occupied Palestinian territories and Israel, and the firing of rockets from Gaza, Lebanon and Syria at the Hebrew state, which responded to the fire in kind.

"Today, the Palestinians are resolutely resisting the Israeli aggression against Gaza," Parliament Speaker Baqer Qalibaf said in a speech he delivered in Tehran on Friday.

In the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, where pro-Iranian parties share power, hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets to commemorate "Quds Day."

The demonstrators raised banners and pictures of the Iraqi Shiite cleric, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, and the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ali Khamenei, as well as Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy head of the popular crowd, who was killed along with the Iranian military commander, Qassem Soleimani, in a raid launched by an American drone in January 2020 on a road. Baghdad airport.

One of the banners raised by the demonstrators read, "God willing, the end of Israel will be in the coming years," and they chanted slogans, including "No, no, America," and "Yes, yes to Jerusalem, no, no to normalization" with Israel.

"It is not possible to reach a solution. Israel does not want security and safety in the region," Sayed al-Husseini, a local leader in the Badr Organization, one of the armed factions affiliated with the Popular Mobilization Forces, told AFP.

He added, "When these factions in Iraq come out in response to Imam Khomeini's call for Quds Day, we are all a sacrifice for Jerusalem."

In turn, the retired employee of the Ministry of Health, Ziyad Abdullah Hassan (65 years), said, "Quds Day is a call to all Muslims, in Arab countries or in the world, for unity, the elimination of the Zionist entity, and the guarantee of the return of the occupied land and its capital, Jerusalem."

In Burj al-Barajneh Palestinian refugee camp in the southern suburbs, Hezbollah's stronghold, fighters from Palestinian factions participated in a march for the occasion, during which they raised the Palestinian, Lebanese and Iranian flags and a picture of Khamenei and Khomeini.

In the Yarmouk camp for Palestinian refugees in the southern countryside of Damascus, hundreds participated in a military parade amid damaged or destroyed homes.

On the facade of one of the damaged buildings, pictures of the late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, his son, current President Bashar al-Assad, Khamenei, Qassem Soleimani, and a number of Palestinian leaders were raised.

The participants in the march raised several flags, especially the flags of Palestine, Hamas, Hezbollah, and other factions affiliated with Iran, and chanted, "O Jerusalem, we are coming."

Syrian, Palestinian and Iranian flags were raised on the damaged buildings that the fighters walked next to.

In Jerusalem, about 130,000 people, according to the Israeli police, and 250,000, according to the Jordanian endowment, which is responsible for Islamic institutions in the holy city, participated in Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque.

After the prayer, masked youths waved the flags of the Islamic movement Hamas, in addition to the flag of its military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, according to an AFP correspondent.

In Gaza, the head of the political bureau of Hamas in the Strip, Yahya Sinwar, praised Iran's support "logistically, financially, and with weapons for the Palestinian resistance," and urged Arab countries not to normalize their relations with Israel.

In a video message broadcast during a festival organized for the occasion in the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar, head of the Hamas movement in the Strip, on Friday evening, on the occasion of "International Jerusalem Day," praised Iran's support for the Palestinian factions, warning the Hebrew state against "tampering" with the issue of Al-Aqsa Mosque.

During the festival, a video message was broadcast to Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi, in which he said that the normalization of relations by Arab countries with Israel "represents a betrayal of the Palestinian people and a stab in the back of the resistance and Palestine."

For his part, the Secretary-General of the Lebanese Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, said on Friday in a speech for the occasion that the recent Iranian-Saudi agreement "will slow down the path of normalization" with Israel, to which several Arab countries opened up during the last period.

Today, Friday, 200,000 worshipers performed the Isha and Tarawih prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupied city of Jerusalem.

The Islamic Endowments Department in Jerusalem said, "200,000 worshipers performed the obligatory dinner and the Tarawih year in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, despite the strict measures and restrictions imposed by the Israeli occupation authorities on the entry of worshipers."

About a quarter of a million worshipers performed Friday afternoon prayers at the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The Red Crescent teams in Jerusalem provided first aid services to about 188 people during the fourth Friday prayer of the blessed month of Ramadan , in three field clinics established on the roof of the Dome of the Rock and the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque .

The crews transferred 16 sick cases to hospitals to complete their medical treatment.

It is noteworthy that the association deployed about 130 paramedics and volunteers in the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque and its surroundings in the town to provide first aid and humanitarian services to worshipers heading to pray at Al-Aqsa Mosque.

While there were small ambulances inside the alleys of the Old City, to facilitate the transfer of sick cases from inside the mosque to one of the ambulances that serve in the vicinity of the Old City, and works to transfer cases to the city's hospitals.

The head of the Commission for Prisoners and Ex-Detainees Affairs, Qadri Abu Bakr , called on the whole world to intervene urgently to end the arrest of the prisoner Walid Daqqa , who is in a very serious condition in the Israeli Barzlai Hospital.

In a statement, Abu Bakr condemned the shameful international silence towards Walid, who burned (37 years) from the flower of his youth and age behind bars and in the cells and detention centers of the Israeli occupation , where he is exposed at these moments to a real medical crime that may lead to the loss of his life at any moment.

He said: "Walid suffers from cancer that spreads to several parts of his body, and he also suffers from severe infections recently, as a result of which he underwent surgery two days ago, and his condition is still unstable, and he entered a disturbing coma, and doctors fear attempts to get him out of it."

Abu Bakr added, "Walid's wish must be fulfilled to live with his patient, struggling wife, Sana, and with his daughter, who was born despite the occupation, and is still waiting for her free father, to talk to her closely, away from the barbed wire, armored glass, and the phone through which visits are made." The prisoners and detainees, and the time has come for Walid, Sana and Milad to be together with his family and loved ones, and to touch fatherhood in the space of freedom.”

Abu Bakr called on the international system to break its silence, and to be faithful to its humanitarian principles, by taking immediate action to release Walid, and to allow him treatment in any place capable of saving him from the seriousness of his condition and illness.

US President Joe Biden announced Friday that he had ordered the intelligence services to "better secure" classified documents and information after a young soldier leaked a series of top-secret defense documents, especially related to the war in Ukraine, which caused great embarrassment to Washington.

"As we continue to determine the authenticity of these documents, I have directed the military and intelligence community to take measures to better secure sensitive information and limit its distribution," Biden said in a statement.

He added, "Our team for national security affairs is coordinating closely with our partners and allies," praising the "speed" with which the security and judicial agencies moved following the leak of confidential documents.

Yahya Sinwar, the leader of the "Hamas" movement in the Gaza Strip, warned, on Friday evening, the occupation against tampering with what he called the "nuclear bomb" represented by Al-Aqsa Mosque .

In his speech on the occasion of International Al-Quds Day, Al-Sinwar sent a message to the occupation, in which he said, "If you do well, you do good to yourselves, and if you do evil, then it is for them. If the promise of the Hereafter comes, they will make your faces worse, and they will enter the mosque as they entered it the first time, and they will utterly annihilate what they have conquered."

And he considered that the recent response of the resistance from the West Bank, Gaza and southern Lebanon was like a small electric shock, as he described it, adding: "But it delivered a message to the occupation that was not understood by all the mediators."

He pointed out that the resistance is alert to the hidden intentions of the occupation beyond Ramadan, and that it is for them an observatory, and it will do its duty to defend Jerusalem, Al-Aqsa and the Palestinian people.

He called on the leaders of Arab and Islamic countries to launch expressions of condemnation, calling for a strategic change in their paths, an end to normalization with the occupation, and the closure of its embassies.

And he sent a message to the Jews of the world, in which he said: "Raise your voices by rejecting the behavior of the Zionist government, boycotting it and forcing it to change its path, otherwise you will be the first to be burned by the fire of the religious war that they are igniting."

He considered what is happening against Al-Aqsa a religious war that will ignite the entire region, indicating that the resistance is watching what is happening and will move to defend it and the stationed men and women.

In his speech, Sinwar praised Iran's role in the region and its support for the resistance, indicating that his movement supports Syria's return to the Arab League.

Today, Friday, the Israeli police arrested 18 citizens from occupied Jerusalem .

According to the Hebrew website Ynet, 17 of the detainees were arrested upon their exit from Al-Aqsa Mosque and in the Old City, after they raised slogans "inciting terrorism" and the flags of Palestinian factions.

A young man was arrested from his home in Al-Tur under the pretext that he was planning to carry out an operation, and a pipe bomb was found in his home.

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement "Fatah" affirmed that it dealt with the teachers' demands with high national responsibility, and was keen to meet them through the government, due to its belief in the fairness of these demands and to ensure the success of the academic year.

The Secretary of the Central Committee of the "Fatah" movement , Jibril Rajoub , said that this positive and responsible stance taken by the Central Committee of the movement is based on its belief in the importance of the education sector and its impact on the future of our people.

Rajoub added: "The response to these demands took place after in-depth discussions and dialogues that took place with the Independent Commission for Human Rights, and some political and social forces, as the movement announced its position in support of these demands directly, through these parties or through the media."

He continued: "Despite these positive positions adopted by the movement, and called on the government to abide by them, it became clear to us and to everyone, beyond any room for doubt, that there are political agendas among some who took advantage of what happened and sought to achieve their goals that are far from the demands of the teachers."

Rajoub stressed that the "Fatah" movement will not allow the politicization of the educational process and its exploitation, because the price will be paid by our people, our cause, and the souls of our students.

He called on all teachers to return to work starting next Monday after all their demands were met, stressing that if some insisted on continuing to politicize this issue, Fatah would provide a safety net and a national incubator for the government to take measures to ensure the success of the school year and not Losing it, according to the provisions of the law and the contract signed between the employee and the government.

He pointed out that "Fatah" is ready to ensure that what happened during the last period is overcome, by providing support and assistance to all parties, in the event that the academic year begins immediately and without any delay.

After 12 years of diplomatic isolation and continuous war, Syria is close to returning to the Arab incubator through Saudi Arabia , which is organizing a regional meeting on Friday to discuss the return of Damascus to the League of Arab States.

In November 2011, the League of Arab States (18 members out of 22) suspended Syria's participation in its meetings after Damascus refused to end the violent crackdown on popular protests that began in March 2011.

At that time, Western countries and Turkey welcomed this step, while Russia, Iran, Iraq and Lebanon criticized it.

The Arab League imposed economic sanctions on Syria, including freezing commercial transactions with it and stopping flights to and from it.

These sanctions came after months of US and European economic measures against Syrian leaders and Syrian economic interests, as well as condemnations by the United Nations.

In February 2012, the Gulf Cooperation Council states (Bahrain, Kuwait, Sultanate of Oman, Saudi Arabia and the UAE) announced the withdrawal of their ambassadors from Syria.

In 2013, the Syrian opposition occupied Syria's seat during the Arab League summit.

On April 12, 2023, the Syrian Foreign Minister made a surprise visit to Saudi Arabia, the first since the beginning of the war in his country.

The meeting of nine Arab countries in Jeddah on Friday to discuss the Syrian issue falls within the framework of Riyadh's desire for calm with Tehran, which supports Damascus.

In March, Saudi Arabia and Iran reached an agreement on resuming relations. This came as Riyadh seeks to get out of the civil war in Yemen, in which Riyadh and Tehran participate, either directly or through mediation.

The earthquake that occurred on February 6, 2023, and devastated vast areas in Turkey and Syria, is another reason that allowed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to resume contacts with Arab countries that sent humanitarian aid to Damascus.

A Saudi aid plane landed in February in Aleppo, the country's second largest city, the first Saudi plane to reach Syria since the start of the war.

Likewise, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi called his Syrian counterpart, in a conversation that was the first between the two presidents in 12 years, although relations were not completely severed between Cairo and Damascus. At the end of February, the Egyptian foreign minister was sent to Damascus on a "humanitarian" visit.

After the earthquake, the Syrian president received the foreign minister of Jordan, a country that maintained frosty relations with Syria during the war.

And in October 2021, Jordan's King Abdullah II called the Syrian president.

Since the end of 2018, the UAE has reopened its embassy in Damascus. Assad also visited the UAE in March 2022, his first visit to an Arab country since the war.

During his meeting with Assad in March 2023, Emirati President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan considered that it was time for Damascus to return to the Arab incubator.

Meanwhile, the two countries held discussions about resuming their consular services.

On April 12, 2023, Syria and Tunisia announced their intention to resume diplomatic relations. Tunisia had appointed a consular representative in Damascus since 2015.

On the other hand, in February 2023, Al-Assad visited the Sultanate of Oman, for the first time in 12 years of war. The sultanate was the only Gulf country to maintain formal diplomatic relations with Syria.

At the end of December 2022, the Turkish and Syrian defense ministers met with their Russian counterparts in a trilateral meeting in Moscow.

This was the first official meeting of this level between Ankara and Damascus since the beginning of the war, which caused discontent among the Kurds in northern Syria and their ally Washington.

However, al-Assad considers that rapprochement with Turkey requires an "end of the Turkish occupation" of the Syrian lands.
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The head of the Higher Commission for the Follow-up of the Affairs of Detainees and Ex-Prisoners, Amin Shoman , confirmed that the flame of freedom to mark the start of the activities of the Palestinian Prisoner’s Day will be lit on Sunday evening (April 16), from the Baladna Center in the city of Al-Bireh.

Shoman told Al-Quds.com: "After the meeting held by the national and Islamic forces, it was agreed on a national program that begins on the sixteenth of this month, with a press conference to announce the program that sheds light on the issue of prisoners, and in the evening of the same day, a job will be ignited." Freedom in the Baladna Cultural Center in the city of Al-Bireh, marking the start of the activities of the Prisoner's Day, and many speeches will be given.

According to Shoman, the Prisoner's Day program will focus on the issue of prisoners, specifically the cancer-stricken prisoners Walid Daqqa and Asif al-Rifai. The program will also focus on the issue of prisoners whose bodies are kept in the occupation's refrigerators.

On the other hand, Shoman explained that the central activities on the day of the prisoner, on the seventeenth of this month, will start with marches in city centers at twelve o'clock in the afternoon, in all places of Palestinian presence, including the diaspora.

Shoman stressed that the Prisoner's Day comes this year in light of the oppression of the prisoners by the extreme right-wing occupation government, as they were going to enter into a confrontation, but they won before Ramadan, as well as in light of the imposition of racist laws on them and attempts to impose other laws.

Shoman called on the Palestinian people to stand by the captive movement inside the prisons of the occupation and to participate in the activities of the Prisoner's Day. He also called on the captive movement to maintain its unity in the Supreme Emergency Committee that represents everyone, as it is a safety valve for their unity, as well as the need for human rights institutions to stand by the prisoners. .