Damascus - "Al Quds" dot com - Two Syrian soldiers were killed, after midnight, as a result of an Israeli bombardment targeting Damascus International Airport and its surroundings.

According to an official Syrian military source - as reported by the official Syrian news agency SANA - the Israeli army carried out an air aggression at dawn with bursts of missiles launched from the northeastern direction of Lake Kinneret, targeting Damascus International Airport and its surroundings.

The source pointed out that the bombing killed two soldiers and wounded others, pointing to material damage and the failure of Damascus International Airport.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Housing Bank in Palestine announced the results of the draw on the "monthly prizes" for the savings account prizes for the month of September, with a value of 100,000 shekels for one winner, which was won by Dawood Mahmoud Daoud Mahajneh from the Jenin branch, in addition to Weekly prizes of 10,000 shekels each were won in the first week by Rama Abdel Rahim Mahmoud Jouri for the benefit of Raafat Ghaleb Salim Jouri from the Nablus branch, in the second week by Nabil Jeries Suleiman Musleh from the Bethlehem branch, and in the third week by Nadia Rajeh Muhammad Khalaf for the benefit of Jad Shahlan Al-Asmar from Jenin branch.

The monthly savings account prize campaigns launched by the Housing Bank come in order to ensure continuous communication with its customers, who chose it to be their first and preferred bank and put their trust in it due to the comprehensive and distinguished banking services it provides to them.

These awards also express the extent of the bank’s appreciation for its saving customers, despite the difficult financial and health conditions and the economic slowdown globally and locally. New savings accounts at any of the bank's branches and give them great chances to win one or more of the many prizes offered by the bank to the holders of these accounts.

On this occasion, it is mentioned that the total cash prizes offered by the Housing Bank in Palestine for savings accounts for the year 2022 amount to 2,320,000 shekels for 56 winners, noting that the campaign is based on providing 100,000 shekels per month to one winner, and the value of the prize increases in the month of June to reach 250,000 shekels for one winner. One, then the prize will be doubled at the end of the year to one million shekels for one winner.

During the campaign, the bank will also present additional prizes of 30,000 shekels per week distributed to three winners of 10,000 shekels for each winner, in addition to distributing 50,000 shekels to ten winners in the month of June, at the rate of 5,000 shekels for each winner, and 50,000 shekels to ten winners in the month of December, at the rate of 5,000 shekels for each. winner.

During this campaign, which continues throughout the year, the Housing Bank will announce through various advertising means, its website and social media platforms the winners of its distinguished prizes.

The Housing Bank allows existing and new customers wishing to participate in this campaign to open savings accounts in any of the bank's branches spread across the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and allows customers who have existing accounts with the bank to transfer from their other accounts to their own savings account through the "ISKAN" mobile application. Mobile" or "Iskan Online".

Written by: Younis Al-Amouri

It is the city of sorrows, the mother of cities, and the gate of ascension towards the sky since it was, and it was obsessed with its history, and it had to gather in its folds the contradictions of man and the struggle of the poles of evil with the humanity of action for life. Humanity and quarantine through a scheme to erase its history and existence Al-Qahtani, as it has been an Adnan affiliation since it was.

In Jerusalem, and those in Jerusalem today get lost in a sea of questions about fate in light of the intensification of the Hebrew onslaught, and tents multiply on the margins of its hillocks, and the question remains unanswered about fate in light of wandering and loss. The apostate from the walls of the times of apostasy gets lost in the noise of speech….

Between condemnation and condemnation, denunciation and denunciation, and everyone competes with eloquent words to act out the threat, and everyone sings about his night, and the night of Jerusalem is black this time, and a child tries to roar in my old dialogues to practice his self-act in the sheen of wandering and confusion... As is the carnival of death, Al-Maqdisi dances sarcastically over scenes of rape Mother of cities….

And the cities of Canaan respond to the call as much as they can, the way of the masters of the tribes and the princes of determination, linkage and dissolution at the defining moment of issuing the decision issued by the Sublime Porte, in an attempt to thwart the huge noise around, which will inevitably be subject to detailed calculations and measures of profit and loss accounts between the princes of the current reality, as it is All things are subject to the logic of satisfaction and compromise between the players and the Joker, the game has become known and exposed.

In Jerusalem there is another story whose heroes are different and the action in it is different, and the master of the situation in it is heavily armed and in the fiercest forms of hatred against its Arabism, its people and its stone. With all expressions of affirmation and emphasis on the absolute right to the capital of Palestine.

Jerusalem is undoubtedly outside the context, and outside the action programmed by everyone who claims to sit on the throne of the national movement in all its aspects, and to preserve the Jerusalemite identity requires Jerusalemites to work with determination to remain Jerusalemites despite everything that would create impossible conditions for living, so what was The occupation authorities turned a blind eye to the cancerous growth of a neighborhood theoretically called Jerusalem in the form of cement forests that formed random enclaves out of control. It is absurd and random. Jerusalemites live in its dialogues, trying to live if that was possible. Shuafat, Anata and the neighborhood camps, and those names have become Ras Shehadeh and Ras Khamis and Kufr after the temporary safe haven, so that Al-Maqdisi will remain Al-Maqdisi, even for a while.

Jerusalem has speech, and the practice of speech has its origins and has its perceptions and starting points, and every word or point and even the cessation of permissible speech is literal and committed, serving those who want to cross to other places, or achieve a desire to prevail and become a vocal phenomenon and a contractor among the contractors of rhetorical festivals, and from He does not know, let him know that there are many who know where the shoulder is eaten from and how to eat it...

Killings, beatings, demolitions, and fear infiltrate against our will the streets of Jerusalem, which have become a hotbed of ghosts, arrests and raids on institutions that try to speak the language of antiquity, besieging homes and terrorizing the safe house in the Al-Bustan neighborhood next to the temples of God. And the loudspeaker and Beit Hanina... And arrests at dawn, and chasing those who pray at the demolition stones, and the temple has become empty of shepherds, and infidelity has become dominant in the public scene...

And the heavily armed has become the one who controls the state of love today in all places, and we no longer distinguish much between Judas in the streets of Jerusalem and that infiltrating the dreams of virgins in the house... Everything became permissible and there were no longer taboos, so after the scene became natural, the blood spilled is one, and the demolished house is also one. The state of displacement is the same, and betrayal has become a point of view, and it contains a lot of rhetoric. It is possible to resist the resister, and it is possible to meet the murderer. What is the difference then..??

Meeting and begging from the poor of the country to return to reason, practice dialogue and resolve differences, and there is no life for whom you call if you call alive, and madness has become an adjective adjacent to the practice of good governance, and intimidation and threat have become the act accompanying the masters of the new era who are now sitting in the capital of a million martyrs in an attempt by them as they claim to be They will reconcile, and reconciliation here is related to buying and selling trade....

And in Jerusalem, those in Jerusalem are trying to exercise their steadfastness on a land that is said to be holy and sanctified, and its sanctity has affected all other aspects, and there is no sanctity today for anything. The occupation, and the master of the resistance, proves that it is the most capable of establishing a truce and appeasement with the other through the equation of conflict, and it cannot accept to practice the art of truce with those who are supposed to be the partner in the homeland, if we accept the formula of the homeland and the citizen, the plurality of understanding, the eloquent speech, the practice of thought and freedom of expression….

Jerusalem was on a date, and every day it has many appointments with the agenda of the silent, soft, rolling aggression to impose a fait accompli, and the camera is the master of positions, the maker of paper heroes.

They came at night and screamed and unleashed dogs that knew the language of verbal speech and the practice of the same act, and they proceeded with the actual contracting process for the real demolition of a house that housed those who house beauties and men who could have been in the arms of those they love, and of a child who might be dreaming of a butterfly landing on the window of his room and flaunting its colors... and what was there Distinguished gentlemen, however, they expressed their deep regret and anger at the demolition of the house in the heart of Jerusalem, considering that the demolition and settlement operations in Jerusalem destroy peace, and may destroy the calm and truce that we are keen on with eyelashes, and constitute a violation of the settlement and peace-making conferences, and they called on the international community to pressure Israel to stop this Condemned provocative policies, which impede reaching any peaceful settlement agreement and may impede the extension of the armistice and calm, and God spares the believers the evil of fighting, and the demolition, gentlemen and honorable ones, continues in all parts of the city, and the sit-in tents have become normal in the Jerusalemite scene, one in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and the other in Silwan And the third is in Shuafat, and the fourth is in the Mount of Olives.

In these tents, the lovers of the house gather and sit in them to express their rejection of these policies... The sit-in may move to all the neighborhoods of Jerusalem, so that the scene becomes normal.... Victims know each other and act in broad daylight...

There is no doubt that Jerusalem, in my opinion, has a lot of words, and the word Jerusalem has become a necessity these days, and its saying cannot be correct without a loud cry that shakes the corners of the globe through the actions of the people of Jerusalem themselves... Do not count on the leaders of the regime and the regimes, as support will not come to you, as the roads are closed and only you will speak your name, and it will not be You have a platform other than your sit-in tents... and the bulldozers will not stop demolishing.... Declare your disobedience and begin to protect your sleeping quarters. Declare your revolution against the injustice of your relatives first…. Speak the words of Jerusalem, openly and clearly, and begin an act of disobedience that would stop the massacre of expulsion and transfer from Jerusalem, and let the year be a year of civil disobedience in Jerusalem and in all directions.

Edirne - (AFP) - On a summer day, five muezzins compete inside the old mosque, whose construction was completed in 1414, in the Turkish city of Edirne, to reach the finals of a competition for the best muezzin, in a country where the call to prayer sometimes takes on a political dimension.

One of the competitors, dressed in black and wearing a white turban, approaches the radio and slowly pronounces the takbeer while placing his hands on his ears while fixing his elbows to perform the prayer in the historic mosque.

The jury members take notes while sitting in front of the nominees. From the center of the mosque, Mufti Altin Bozkurt, who represents the highest religious authority in the region, announces after about an hour the name of the muezzin who performed the best.

The winner, Abdullah Omar Erdogan, 25, told AFP, "I started performing the call to prayer when I was ten years old, during summer lessons that were offered by the mosque," indicating that he paid attention to the health of his vocal cords by not exposure to cold, drinking lukewarm water, and avoiding some sleeping positions. .

And if he manages to win the next stage of the competition to be organized at the end of July, the young muezzin who wears an orthodontic device and enjoys a trimmed beard will participate in the awaited national competition on August 17, which dedicates the most beautiful voice of a muezzin among the hundreds who participated in the competitions. Across the country it has been launched since the beginning of June.

In April, two Turkish muezzins, one of whom was praying in the ancient city of Edirne, won the first and second places in a similar competition broadcast on television and organized in Saudi Arabia with the participation of muezzins from 80 countries.

In a video clip posted by the winner the day after the announcement of the results of the competition, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appears congratulating the winner, telling him, "May God protect you."

Since he came to power in 2003, initially as prime minister, some 15,000 new mosques have been built across Turkey, one of which is in Istanbul's famous Taksim Square, a symbol of secular Turkey and where unprecedented anti-government protests took place in 2013.

Erdogan, who also built the largest mosque in Turkey on the Chamliga hill in Istanbul, and converted the former Hagia Sophia church into a mosque in 2020, gave prayer a prominent political dimension.

On the night of July 16, 2016, in which an attempted coup against power took place, imams and muezzins from about 90,000 mosques in Turkey, through the minarets' loudspeakers, urged faithful Muslims to repel the putschists, in a move that followed an appearance by the Turkish president via the "FaceTime" application.

And the Mufti of Edirne says, "We realized that night the power of the call to prayer. Thanks to it, we called the people to take to the streets and saved the country" from the coup attempt.

Erdogan, who will seek re-election as president in June 2023, accuses his opponents of wanting to silence the mosques . He said on several occasions, "They will not be able to silence the call to prayer!", although this step did not appear in any of the political parties' programs.

In Turkey, which has an overwhelmingly Muslim population and a secular regime, the politicization of the call to prayer has made it irritating to some.

Erol Koemen, a postdoctoral student in folk musicology at the University of Chicago, points to "a widespread feeling among secularists that the volume of the call to prayer has increased since the coup attempt, as part of the current authority's attempts to change public spaces."

The researcher, who prepared a study on the role of the call to prayer in repelling the failed coup attempt in 2016, adds that these attempts "led to an increasing rejection of the call to prayer (among secular circles)."

Since 2017, the powerful Directorate of Religious Affairs has required mosques “not to exceed the level of eighty decibels” during the broadcast of the call to prayer, a number that some Turks consider too high, while others assert that mosques do not respect it.

And after the order directed by the Saudi government last year to mosques to reduce the size of the loudspeakers in them to a third of their maximum capacity, under the pretext of their impact on the health of children and the elderly, voices were raised in Turkey calling for their country to follow the example of the Kingdom.

Inside the old Edirne Mosque, Mufti Altyn Bozkurt expresses his dissatisfaction with the will of some to silence the mosques and stresses that "the call to prayer is a legal right!"

"Muslims should be able to hear the call to prayer, just as Christians can easily hear the sound of their church bells," he added.

(AFP) Four employees of Kazakhstan 's Ministry of Emergency Situations died Thursday in a helicopter crash, authorities said in the Central Asian country.

A spokesman for the Ministry of Emergency Situations told AFP that the crash of the "Mi8" helicopter, which dates back to the Soviet era, occurred not far from the village of Chapurino in the western (northwest) Kazakhstan region, ten kilometers from the Russian border.

The same source added, "There were six people in the helicopter, five of whom were crew members and a representative of Kaztransoil," which is an official oil transport company, pointing out that the four dead were employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

The Mi8 helicopter is usually used to transport passengers and equipment to isolated places or to remote, sparsely populated areas.

The accident occurred while the helicopter was flying over an oil pipeline, according to the source.

Kazakhstan is the first economy in Central Asia, with an area five times the size of France and rich in hydrocarbons.

Helicopter and small plane accidents are common in the countries of the former Soviet Union.

Jaffa - "Jerusalem" dot com - Today, Friday, our people in the city of Jaffa, within the 48 territories, organized a protest stand against the decision to displace 1,400 people from Palestinian families in the city.

The participants in the vigil, which was called for by the Palestinian political and civil forces in Jaffa, raised slogans denouncing the Israeli decision to "absentee property" to expel the Palestinian residents, stressing that uprooting and Judaization is nothing but a time bomb to evacuate the city from the Palestinians.

And I call on all our people within the 48 lands to show solidarity with them, and to participate in vigils, to confront displacement and deportation.

Our correspondent reported that the people of Jaffa organize a weekly stand to mobilize and win public opinion against the Israeli decision.

The demonstrators, who own homes threatened with eviction, expressed their fear of a recurrence of the 1948 catastrophe.

One of the house owners told "Wafa": "We will stay in our homes, and we will not submit to anyone, because they will fail to displace us."

Source: Wafa Agency

Siddiqabad ( Pakistan ) - (AFP) - The Pakistani authorities announced that a boat carrying 100 people from the same family who were heading to a wedding party sank in the Sindh River on Monday, killing at least 18 women, while dozens of people are still missing. the missing.

Authorities said the boat sank while it was transporting family members as part of a wedding procession from Machka to Kharoor, two villages in Sadiqabad district of Punjab province.

Rana Kashif Mahmood, a spokesman for the Sadiqabad district administration, said that the accident resulted in the drowning of 18 women who were "confirmed dead", while between 25 and 30 people survived after "rescued by residents living on the banks of the river or managed to reach the land by swimming."
He added that rescue teams are continuing to search for the missing.

For his part, policeman Mohamed Hammad told AFP that "the majority of the drowned are women," because "most of the men can swim."

He added, "The death toll is likely to rise."

Rural people in Pakistan often use boats for transportation, especially since they are cheaper than land transportation.
However, the nature of conservative society in Pakistan discourages women from learning to swim.

The crisis that hit Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), which was shut down by US authorities on Friday, caused panic across the banking sector, with markets questioning the consequences of the biggest bank failure in the US since the 2008 financial crisis.

The bank is no longer able to meet the huge withdrawals made by its customers for their money, and they are especially active in the field of technology, and its attempts to increase capital quickly did not succeed.

On Friday, the US authorities announced that they had closed the “Silicon Valley Bank”, which is close to the technology community, and that it suddenly found itself in a state of insolvency, and that it entrusted the management of deposits to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in the United States (FDIC).

On Friday, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called several regulators responsible for the financial sector to discuss the situation, stressing that she had "full confidence" in their ability to "take appropriate measures" and that the banking system was "strong and resilient."

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in the United States plans to reopen the bank's 17 branches, which are based in California and Massachusetts, on Monday, and allow customers to withdraw up to $ 250,000 in the short term, which is the amount that is usually guaranteed by the institution.

The Fed stated that the California Financial Protection and Innovation Authority (DFPI) officially took over the bank, citing "insufficient liquidity and insolvency."

At the end of 2022, the bank had assets of $209 billion and deposits of $175.4 billion.

Although little known to the public, Silicon Valley Bank was the 16th largest US bank by assets.
The closure of SVB not only represents the largest bank failure since the closure of Washington Mutual Savings Bank in 2008, but also the second largest retail bank failure in the United States.

In front of the bank's headquarters in Santa Clara on Friday, several customers stood asking how they could withdraw their money. A paper from the DFPI hung on the door stating that they could consider the two of them withdrawing the $250,000.

In the markets, the wave of panic began Thursday after SVB announced that it was seeking to raise capital quickly to cope with the massive withdrawals made by its clients of their funds, in addition to the loss of $ 1.8 billion from the sale of securities.

The announcement surprised investors and revived concerns about the strength of the banking sector as a whole, especially with the rapid rise in interest rates leading to a decline in the value of bonds in their portfolios.

The four largest US banks lost $52 billion on stock exchanges on Thursday, followed by Asian and then European banks.
In Paris, Societe Generale lost 4.49%, BNP Paribas 3.82% and Credit Agricole 2.48%. Elsewhere in Europe, Germany's Deutsche Bank lost 7.35%, Britain's Barclays 4.09% and Swiss UBS 4.53%.

On Wall Street, major banks rebounded on Friday after falling the previous day. Shares of JP Morgan Chase rose 2.3 percent in the middle of trading, while Bank of America and Citigroup approached balance.

On the other hand, local banks such as First Republic and Signature Bank witnessed more strikes, with their shares declining 23% each.

In a note, Christian Parisot of the Oriel BGC brokerage group confirmed that investors "also saw in the bank's difficulties the effect of an inversion of the interest rate curve", that is, when short-term rates are higher than long-term rates.
Banks usually borrow at short-term rates to offer loans at medium or long-term rates.

Another American group faces challenges. The parent company of Silvergate Bank, which operates in cryptocurrencies, announced Wednesday that the institution will be liquidated.

Stephen Innes, an analyst at the "SBI Management" group, said in a note that he wanted to be reassured that the possibility of a "capital or liquidity incident between major banks" is "minimal".

Since the financial crisis of 2008-2009 and the bankruptcy of the American "Lehman Brothers" bank, banks have to provide strong guarantees of the authority to control the national and European markets.

The European Banking Authority is subjecting fifty major banks on the continent to solvency tests.

The results of the last such test at the end of July 2021 revealed that financial institutions are able to withstand a serious economic crisis without serious damage.

For analysts at Morgan Stanley, the “funding pressures facing SVB+ are very special and should not be taken as the norm for other domestic banks”.

"We do not believe that the banking sector is facing a liquidity shortage," they added in a note.

Jerusalem - "Jerusalem" dot com - The General Secretariat of the National People's Congress of Jerusalem said that the Israeli siege targeting the residents of Shuafat camp and its neighbourhoods, "Anata, Dahiyat al-Salam, Ras Khamis and Ras Shehadeh", reflects the terrible racist ideological thought of the occupying state, which still sees the Palestinians after 74 years From the Nakba, as a human surplus that must be disposed of, using a false and misleading narration of the world that is complicit with it in the gradual liquidation of the Palestinian people or imposing forced immigration on them under the weight of the harshness of life, so that their choice becomes limited, "either life or death."

The General Secretariat added, in a statement issued yesterday, that when death becomes better than life for the Palestinians as a result of the presence of the military occupation that sheds blood daily, seizes the land and desecrates everything that is sacred, the latter will go to the first option, because life is when dignity and freedom are robbed of it. become untenable.

The General Secretariat confirmed that what is happening in Shuafat camp and targeting more than 130,000 people crowded into a very narrow geographical area of about two square kilometers, is a collective punishment for all societal groups and difficult humanitarian cases, especially the elderly, the sick and infants who need intensive care. What confirms the bloodiness of this occupation, which is devoid of everything that is human and does not understand anything but the language of blood and violence, and that what does not come by force comes with more force, stressing that the occupying state would be mistaken if it believed that the people of the camp would raise the white flag and accept the fait accompli.

The General Secretariat of the National People's Congress of Jerusalem affirmed that the people of Shuafat camp are not alone in the field, as all Jerusalemites stand by their side shoulder to shoulder in this unequal battle. His free will to express his rejection of arbitrariness, violence, persecution and injustice that targets the innocent, the sick, school students and the infirm elderly.

The General Secretariat said that the world is required to take immediate action to save tens of thousands of human lives threatened in the Shuafat camp, which has been under strict siege for several days, under the pretext of searching for the perpetrator of the shooting at the military checkpoint established at the northern entrance to the camp, which is completely illegal. As is the occupation, which has no legitimacy and no coexistence with it, just as "there is no peace or dialogue between the sword and the neck."

The General Secretariat considered that the direct reason for what happened in the Shuafat camp, Nablus, and other Palestinian governorates, is the occupation's persistence in attacking Palestinian blood and national dignity, which would explode the volcano of anger latent in the hearts of people who have been suffering at all levels for decades, despite the "deception." The peace "that Israel is talking about," so what kind of peace is this that allows the killing of children in cold blood, and gives Israel the right to detain more than five thousand Palestinians in its prisons, and in exchange for the blockade and starvation of the people of the Gaza Strip, while Jerusalem is violated daily and without any deterrence or respect for religion or sanctity At a time when a state was established for settlers deep in the West Bank, which confirms that the lie of establishing an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital has been exposed in public.

The General Secretariat concluded its statement by stressing that the Shuafat camp brings back to the Palestinian memory the state of siege that was imposed on all cities, villages and camps in the midst of the Al-Aqsa Intifada and before that at the height of the Great Intifada in 1987. However, on the other hand, there is a very advanced state of solidarity in the Palestinian street, whose message is to the world. She says: "There is no coexistence with the occupation, and our struggle is a legitimate right until we achieve our freedom and independence."

BANGKOK - (AFP) - Thai police have rescued a woman residing in the capital, Bangkok, who was stuck for three days in the bathroom of her home, by removing the door, the authorities announced Friday.

The 54-year-old woman survived by drinking tap water.

Police said the woman feared for her life so much that she wrote her will on the walls of the cramped bathroom using cosmetics.

The victim was trapped on Monday evening in the bathroom of her home, where she lives alone, and it is possible that a panic attack contributed to the broken doorknob.

On Thursday, her sister reported to the police station in Bangkok's Phra Khanong district that she had lost contact with her.

"Her sister could not contact her for three days, so she asked the police for help to go see (the victim) as the front doors were locked from the inside," Phra Khanong Police Captain Chanchai Sunsiang told AFP.

The police captain pointed out that the victim is in fairly good condition and did not have to go to the hospital for check-ups.

Paris - (AFP) - The French Ministry of Agriculture said Monday that since the start of the bird flu epidemic in November, 16 million domestic birds have been slaughtered in France, a record number.

However, the ministry indicated that "the peak of the epidemic at the end of March has been passed, and the speed of its spread has slowed down."

Since the first case was recorded in northern France at the end of November, more than 1,300 farms have been infected with the virus, especially in the Vendée, western France, and in the neighboring departments, where the authorities emptied farms by slaughtering large numbers of infected, but also uninfected birds as a precautionary measure. .

The crises associated with avian influenza remain generally confined to southwestern France, particularly to duck farms dedicated to the production of foie gras.
Last year, nearly 500 outbreaks were recorded on farms and 3.5 million birds, mostly ducks, were slaughtered.

Avian influenza is a seasonal disease transmitted by migratory birds from Asia. It usually appears in October in Europe and lasts until April.
But for the first time, wild birds brought the disease to farms this year as they migrated from countries in the south, leading to a second wave coming to an end.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - Today, Friday, the prisoner Zakaria Al-Zubaidi became a university graduate with a master's degree from Birzeit University , after he had participated in the Contemporary Arab Studies Program.

Al-Zubaidi applied on September 17, 2018, to register himself for the program, but he was arrested on February 28, 2019, and at that time he submitted his letter, which he called "The Hunter and the Dragon."

Al-Zubaidi's letter talks about persecution in the Palestinian experience from 1968-2018, and he finished the letter before his arrest, but he was unable to discuss it.

Today, Friday, Al-Zubaidi was announced as a new university graduate, during a ceremony at Birzeit University, where his family attended the ceremony, uploaded his photos, and obtained a graduation certificate.

Tomorrow, Saturday morning, a discussion of Zubaidi's master's thesis project will be held in the Nassib Aziz Shaheen Theater, which is the main theater of Birzeit University and its largest hall.

He did not announce the details of the discussion of the letter, and its method in light of the arrest of the prisoner Al-Zubaidi, but it is likely that it will be presented by the supervisors of the university professors and given to him officially with the continuation of his detention.

Al-Zubaidi, a resident of the Jenin camp. He is one of the fighters who have been persecuted for years by the occupation and escaped assassination several times. He is a member of the Revolutionary Council of the "Fatah" movement. His brother Taha was martyred during the invasion of Jenin camp in 2002, and his mother was martyred later in the same invasion. His brother Dawood recently joined the convoy of martyrs, and his brother "Yahya" was arrested for 17 years before he was released.

Al-Zubaidi is one of the heroes of the "Freedom Tunnel", through which 6 prisoners were deprived of their freedom from inside Gilboa prison in September 2021.

“Shabab Al-Amari” achieved a surprising victory over “Shabab Al-Dhahiriya” with a goal without a response, in the match that brought them together, on Saturday evening, at the Martyr Faisal Al-Husseini Stadium in the town of Al-Ram, north of occupied Jerusalem, at the end of the matches of the nineteenth week of the Professional Football League .

With this loss, Al-Dhaheriya's chances of competing for the title diminished, after its score froze at 39 points in fourth place, 7 points ahead of the top poles, "Jabal Al-Mukaber" and "Hilal Al-Quds", three rounds before the end of the league. On the other hand, “Al-Amari” raised its score to 14 points, in tenth place.

The winning goal came to Al-Amari in the first minute of calculated time, instead of lost from Omar in the first half, through Yahya Selim.

And at the Houari Boumediene Stadium in the town of Dora, south of Hebron, “Ahly Al-Khalil” imposed a tie on “Balata Center” 3-3, after it was late in the score 1-3.

Muhammad Al-Badawi opened the scoring for Al-Ahly in the sixth minute, and Adel Kamel Qaraan equalized the score for Balata in the 19th minute, and Abdel Rahman Weshah added the second goal for Balata in the 32nd minute, before Ahmed Al-Issawi scored the third goal in the 34th minute, to end the first half with Balata advancing by three goals against. Goal.

In the second half, Kamel Agrab scored for Al-Ahly in the 66th minute, and Ali Youssef Issa succeeded in equalizing from a penalty kick in the 79th minute.

The “Balata Center” raised its score to 32 points in fifth place, and “Al-Ahly Al-Khalil” raised its score to 14 points, dropping it to eleventh place, with a goal difference from “Al-Amari”.

And at Al-Khader Stadium, south of Bethlehem, “Taraji Wadi Al-Nuss” tied with “Tulkarem Cultural” with two goals for the same.

Al-Thaqafi advanced with a goal that Ashraf Noman scored by mistake against his team in the eighth minute, before Noman equalized in the 26th minute from a penalty kick, and Abdul Karim Abu Shanab restored the lead for Al-Thaqafi by scoring the second goal in the 47th minute. A penalty kick in the 72nd minute, and the match ended in a positive draw. The match witnessed the expulsion of the "Tulkarem Cultural" player, Alaa Badran, in the first minute of stoppage time.

"Tulkarem Cultural" raised its score to 24 points in sixth place, and "Taraji Wadi Al-Niss" raised its score to 23 points in seventh place.

Three rounds before the end of the league, the competition for the title was limited to "Jabal Al-Mukabber" and "Hilal Al-Quds", who share the lead with 46 points, with Al-Makbar having the advantage in direct confrontations, as it defeated Al-Hilal back and forth.

In the remaining rounds, "Jabal Al-Mukaber" will meet "Al-Bireh Foundation", "Tarji Wadi Al-Niss" and "Shabab Al-Am'ari", while "Hilal Al-Quds" will face each of "Shabab Al-Dhahiriya", "Tulkarem Thaqafi" and "Shabab Al-Samou'". .

The competition is also raging to escape from the relegation zone between “Al-Ahly Al-Khalil”, “Shabab Al-Amari” and “Shabab Al-Samou’” after it was confirmed that “Islamic Qalqilya” was relegated to the First Division.

The "Hilal Al-Quds" striker is unique in the top scorer ranking with 17 goals, seven goals ahead of his closest competitors, "Al-Samou" striker Laith Kharroub and "Shabab Al-Dhahiriya" striker Ali Adawi.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - A number of players from the Shabab Al-Khader and Islamic Bethlehem teams, born in 2007, and the audience, suffocated, as the occupation forces fired tear gas canisters towards Al-Khader Stadium , south of Bethlehem.

Local sources said that the occupation forces stormed the stadium, which is located in the vicinity of schools in the Old City, and fired gas bombs at the stands and the stadium floor during an age-group league match that brought together Al-Khader youth and Islamic Bethlehem, which led to the suffocation of a number of players and the audience.

It is noteworthy that this attack is not the first of its kind, but was repeated previously during matches and training for different teams.

Moscow - (AFP) - The Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday condemned the announcement by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) that the cultural heritage associated with Ukrainian borscht is in danger, and mocked this position, which was seen as a victory for Kiev at the height of its armed conflict with Moscow.

On Friday, UNESCO included the culture associated with Ukrainian borsch soup on its list of intangible cultural heritage at risk, in the context of the consequences of the war in Ukraine that threatens the "continuation" of the traditions surrounding this famous dish.

"The existence of this soup ... is not in danger in itself, but the human and living heritage associated with borscht is in direct danger due to the serious disruption of the population's ability to practice and transmit their intangible cultural heritage," said Pier Luigi Petrillo, Rapporteur of the Committee for the Evaluation of the Ukrainian File in the organization. armed conflict, in particular due to the forced displacement of communities.

It decided that "for all these factors, it is necessary to take urgent action to protect this element within the framework of the very urgent procedure."

Ukraine submitted a request in mid-April to have the culture of this soup included in the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Danger, arguing that the February 24 invasion of the country by Russia and the resulting months of bombing threatened the "viability" of this dish and all the traditions surrounding it. .

Ukraine's Minister of Culture Oleksandr Tkachenko welcomed UNESCO's declaration, saying that "victory is ours in the Porsche War". He wrote on his Telegram account that Ukraine "will win the Porsche war and this war," referring to the conflict with Russia.

He noted that Ukraine will share the recipe for this beetroot soup with all civilized countries, "and even with uncivilized countries too, so that they have at least something light, tasty and Ukrainian."

The Ukrainian initiative caused inconvenience in Russia, where this dish is also prepared, despite Kiev's objection that Moscow attribute the dish to it.

"If there is a need to explain to the world from the point of view of gastronomic dishes what modern nationalism is in Kiev's eyes, I would like to mention this fact: chickpeas and peppered rice are recognized as national dishes in several countries. But as I understand it," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote on Telegram. Ukrainianization seems to apply to everything. "What next? Will pigs be recognized as a national product of Ukraine?" she asked.

It is noteworthy that borscht is an old recipe for soup made from beetroot and meat, and is usually served with cream or garlic bread.

Kiel (dpa) - Hospitals in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein are facing an acute shortage of workers due to coronavirus infections among their staff, the head of a local hospital told the dpa news agency today, Monday.

The northernmost state in Germany hosted the Kiel Week, which has been described as one of the world's largest sailing regattas, in late June.

Patrik Raymond, managing director of the Schleswig-Holstein Hospital Association, said the numbers of patients across the state could be assessed as "attractive or catastrophic", noting that emergency rooms in particular were disproportionately overburdened.

Raymond stated that one of the main factors for the spread of Corona in the state was most likely the "Kale Week", which took place from 18 to 26 June.

Last week, the state's University Medical Center announced that it would temporarily close some wards with its 479 employees in quarantine, starting last Friday.

"The situation has of course worsened since then...we had a very stressful weekend," said center spokesman Oliver Griffe, adding that the center will seek compensation for lost income after having to postpone or suspend scheduled treatments.

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عميد أسرى حركة فتح - محافظة نابلس
في صراع مستمر منذ حوالي خمسة وسبعين عاماً ما بين ذاكرة إستعمارية كولونيالية صهيونية تفريغية إحلاليه استيطانية مارست التهويد التدريجي للزمان والمكان الفلسطيني عبر مشروعها العنصري الذي انطلق منذ مؤتمر بازل عام 1897 ووضع البرنامج الصهيوني المعروف ببرنامج (بازل) وأسس المنظمة الصهيونية العالمية لتنفيذ هذا المشروع الصهيوني والذي يركز على أن هدف الصهيونية هو إقامة وطن قومي لليهود في فلسطين ومروراً بوعد بلفور المشؤوم عام 1917 وقرار صك الانتداب على فلسطين الذي أعطى شرعية قانونية إضافية لوعد بلفور وصولاً إلى قرار التقسيم عام 1947 الذي قسم أرض فلسطين الصادر عن هيئة الأمم المتحدة والذي قسم أرضنا دون أي وجه حق ليثبت ميدانياً حقاً لا شرعياً لحركة إستعمارية استيطانية صهيونية فرضت لاحقاً بالقوة والعنف والمجازر والتطهير العرقي جزء من خطتها التهويدية لإقامة دولة إسرائيل على حساب الحق الفلسطيني الأصلاني إنسانياً وتاريخياً وجغرافياً.
ووقفت الذاكرة الأصلانية الفلسطينية رغم النتائج المأساوية لنكبة عام 1948 والتي تجسد التتويج السياسي العسكري الميداني لقرار التقسيم بكل بسالة ووعي و رسوخ أمام كل محاولات الهيمنة والشطب والالغاء والسيطرة والاقتلاع لأي مظهر فلسطيني.
وفي اليوم العالمي للتضامن مع الشعب الفلسطيني الذي وُضع رداً على قرار التقسيم بعد هذه السنوات الطوال النازفة دماً ومعاناة وشهداء ومنافي وشتات لا زالت الذاكرة الوطنية الفلسطينية تقاتل ببسالة على كل الجبهات رغم الانحياز العالمي للغة المصالح والتحالفات ومدرسة الاستعمار والهيمنة الكولونيالية ورفض رؤية الواقع الكارثي للشعب الفلسطيني وحجم التجاوزات الاستعمارية الإسرائيلية ضد وجود شعبنا وحقوقنا وهويتنا ومطالبنا العادلة.
ومع تكرار المشهد السنوي للتضامن مع الشعب الفلسطيني في موسمية المناشدات للآذان العالمية التي لا تسمع ولن تسمع صدى معاناتنا ونزيف دمنا وجراحنا ومأساتنا المتكررة بالمجازر والطرد والتهجير والعنف والإعدامات الميدانية وكأننا نعيش كشعب فلسطيني في كوكب آخر وعالم مختلف لا يخضع سوى لقانون الفاشية الاستعمارية الصهيونية يعتلي هذا المشهد أقمار عظماء كواكب طلابية تنير عتمة ليلنا وصمتنا وعجزنا وبياناتنا الهزيلة ترتفع إلى عنان الشمس يفظة تنيروجه وطننا فلسطين مكتوب عليها أقمار فلسطين جواد وظافر الريماوي ومحمد إخليل ويلحق بهم رائد غازي النعسان .
سلام إلى وطن عشقناه حد الشهادة ..سلام إلى أرضك يا فلسطين ها قد صدقنا الوعد وعهد الحضور الحاشد ويسطع النور وتزداد الأقمار علواً لكن صورة جواد وظافر الريماوي تستصرخ حركتنا الطلابية وشبيبتنا في الجامعات أن هبوا أن هبوا أن تحركوا لا تقفوا صامتين الجواد لا يكبوا ويصر أن يبقى فوق مساحات التشرذم والانقسام والظافر حامل لواء الظافر بيبرس يعيد لفعل الأخوة معنى البطولة والتضحية ومن قلعة المغير يأتي حجر الذين ما تركوا بيدر الثورة يوماً رائد غازي النعسان ليقدموا لكل التائهين في نفق الضعف والصمت واللاقرار الانبعاث والتوحد وإعادة التكوين والانطلاق والثورة.
فسياسة القتل والاعدام التي ستزداد وحشية وإتساعاً وتعبر عن مشروع يميني قومي ديني متطرف وتبدأ بأقمار عظماء مثل جواد وظافر الريماوي ومحمد إخليل ورائد غازي النعسان وفي يوم يشهد منذ خمسة وسبعين عاماً على عجز العالم وخذلانه لنا وعدم تضامنه الحقيقي مع قضيتنا وجرحنا ونزيف دمنا علينا أن نخرج من قبورنا وأكفان خطاباتنا التي لا تصل إلى أي آذان لنعانق بحرارة ووفاء وكفاح الصاعدون إلى درب الخلاص ونلفظ حزبيتنا المريضة وخيمنا العاجزة عن صد الهجوم باسم التنظيمات ولنعيد التألق بفعل ضوء الأقمار للحجر الفلسطيني والمظاهرة الفلسطينية والاشتباك الفلسطيني الوطني الموحد مع هذا التوجه العنصري الصهيوني تحت إطار عنوان شرعيتنا الفلسطيني الواحد الموحد الذي يجب أن يتحرك بعجلاتٍ جديدة لا تمس جوهره الكفاحي م. منظمة التحرير الفلسطينية.
صلاة الأقمار لم تنته بعد وقد سكنتم يا أقمارنا الأعزاء كل شريان من دمنا ونحن خلف ألف حصار وحصار لكننا لا نموت فنحن شعبٌ لا نموت لا نموت إلا واقفين وصاعدين نحو الشهادة ويا أخي ونصفي المتوهج دماً وحزناً و جرحاً هناك في النقب الصحراوي ظافر الكبير الريماوي لن يكون هذا آخر الرحيل لن تكون هذه آخر الأحزان ولن تكون هذه آخر نقطة دم ولن يكون هذا آخر الوداع لكن روح جواد وظافر الريماوي وكل الشهداء الأحرار ستصنع ميلاداً جديداً وبدايةً جديدة لمواجهةٍ جديدة وصعودٍ من جديد لأقمار لا يستسلمون.

Beirut - "Al Quds" dot com - Secretary General of the Islamic Jihad Movement, Ziyad al-Nakhala , met with Iranian Foreign Minister Hussein Abdallahian in the Lebanese capital, Beirut.

Al-Nakhala gave the Iranian minister an explanation of the latest developments in the Palestinian arena, stressing that resistance is the only option for the Palestinian people to achieve their rights and expel the occupiers. It also came from the Jihad movement.

While Allahian stressed that Tehran will continue its support for the Palestinian cause.

Bethlehem - "Jerusalem" dot com - On Sunday evening, a number of citizens suffocated during clashes with the Israeli occupation forces, west of Bethlehem.

According to local sources, the clashes broke out in the "Al-Matina" area at the eastern entrance to the village of Husan, during which the occupation forces fired rubber-coated metal bullets, stun grenades, and tear gas, which led to the suffocation of a number of citizens, who were treated in the field.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Ministry of Higher Education announced today, Tuesday, the start of receiving applications for registration and licensing of new university services offices and branches of existing offices, in order to provide the service to students wishing to study in institutes and institutions of higher education abroad.

In a statement, the Ministry called on those wishing to open new offices or branches to go to the General Administration for Scholarships and Student Services in the Ministry "Al-Masyoun", or the offices of higher education in the Nablus and Hebron governorates, to obtain the application and the required papers, provided that it is submitted to the General Administration supported by all documents on time. no later than Thursday 1/31/2023, noting that submitting the application does not mean acceptance and approval of the license.

And it warned all owners of closed offices and unlicensed persons and entities against engaging in any activity related to providing the service or obtaining admissions or study seats for students, explaining that it would have to refer the violators to the competent authorities to take the necessary legal measures against them.

The Ministry directed parents and students wishing to study abroad at their own expense to beware of dealing with unlicensed university services offices and people working in this field through illegal means, so that they are not exposed to fraud.

She pointed out that it is possible to view the list of offices approved by the Ministry through the link www.mohe.pna.ps/services/licensedoffices or contact the General Administration for Grants and Student Services through the number 02-2982603.

Tehran (AFP) - Iranian authorities arrested two film directors on Friday for "disturbing public order" for encouraging protests after a building collapse in the southwest of the country killed dozens in May, according to the Iranian news agency (IRNA).

The agency stated that award-winning director Muhammad Rasoulof and his colleague Mustafa al-Ahmad "encouraged the demonstrations and disturbed public order and public safety, while the city of Abadan was witnessing a terrible tragedy," after a building collapse on May 23, which killed 43 people.

The Metropole building, which was under construction in Abadan, one of the main cities in Khuzestan province in the southwest of the country, partially collapsed into a busy street.

The disaster, one of the deadliest in years in Iran, sparked a series of demonstrations across the country in solidarity with the families of the victims and against authorities accused of corruption and incompetence.

The demonstrators demanded the trial and punishment of the "incompetent officials" who caused the tragedy. During the protests, Iranian police used tear gas, fired warning shots and made a series of arrests.

A group of Iranian filmmakers led by Rasoulof published an open letter in late May calling on security forces to "lay down their arms" in the face of anger at "corruption, theft, incompetence, and oppression."

Muhammad Rasoulof, 50, won the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival in 2020 for his movie “The Devil Does Not Exist”, but he was unable to go to Germany after Tehran confiscated his passport following his previous feature film in 2017 entitled “An Honest Man”, which was shown in Cannes Film Festival and won a prize in the "What Look" category.

Yreka - (AFP) Firefighters in Northern California are working on Monday to put out a fire that is the largest in the state this year, killing two people as it spread and forcing thousands of residents to flee to escape the fires that destroyed their homes.

The McKinney fire came after it was ignited by strong winds and thunderstorms on dry areas in the state on Sunday, which extended over an area of more than 22,500 hectares in the Klamath National Forest in southern California near the city of Yreka, and has not yet been extinguished, according to the California Fire Department (Calfire).

About 850 firefighters are working Monday to put out the flames, according to the National Forest Fire Coordination Group.
California and other parts of the western United States have experienced massive wildfires in recent years due to drought and global warming.

This is the largest wildfire since the beginning of the year in California, which has already been ravaged by many fires this summer.
According to the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office, firefighters Sunday found two bodies inside a burnt-out vehicle in the parking lot of a home in the town of Klamath River -- in the path of the fire.

Speaking to ABC News, Jeremiah LaRue said firefighters believe the couple were caught in the rapidly expanding flames as they tried to escape.

California Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency on Saturday and said the fire had "destroyed homes" and "threaten critical infrastructure" following its outbreak on Friday.

Newsom said in a statement that the fire "was intensified and spread by flammable dry spaces, extreme drought, high temperatures, winds and thunderstorms."

More than 2,000 citizens were ordered to evacuate their homes, while about 200 others received warnings in this regard, according to California emergency services, most of them in Sisikyu County.

"Residents of the surrounding areas should be ready to leave if necessary. Please do not hesitate to evacuate your homes," the security services official in Sesikyo County tweeted.

Interstate 96 and McKinney Creed Road, southeast of the Klamath River, were closed to traffic, Calver said.

A resident of Yarka, Larry Castle, told the Sacramento Bee newspaper that he and his wife packed some belongings and their three dogs to leave the area and spend the night outside, because other fires in recent years had taught them that the situation could become "very dangerous."
The unprecedented fire broke out days after a fire is the largest in central California.

The Oak Fire near Yosemite National Park broke out in mid-July and spread rapidly, destroying 41 homes and forcing the evacuation of thousands of people.

California, which has been experiencing a severe drought, is still at risk of fires for months.

In recent years, the American West has experienced wildfires of exceptional size and intensity, with a marked lengthening of the fire season, a phenomenon scientists attribute to a warming climate.

Nablus - "Jerusalem" dot com - Ghassan Al-Katout / Al-Rawad Press and Media - Today, Wednesday, settlers closed the road between the governorates of Nablus and Jenin, and attacked vehicles.

Local sources reported that a number of settlers were present on the Nablus-Jenin road, opposite the evacuated "Homesh" settlement, and prevented vehicles from passing, causing severe traffic jams. They also attacked vehicles and threw stones at them.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh said today, Thursday, " Israel , which is going to its elections, deprives us of our right to hold our elections, including Jerusalem." He called for creating an international effort to end the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands, and to recognize the State of Palestine. to protect the two-state solution.

This came during his speech via video to the meeting of the Progressive Alliance, which was held in the German capital, Berlin .

Shtayyeh pointed out that the right-wing parties participating in the Israeli elections that will be held soon are becoming increasingly extremist and racist, and their electoral propaganda is motivated by Palestinian blood, daily incursions into Palestinian areas, arrests, and the confiscation of more lands in favor of settlement expansion.

Shtayyeh stressed the need for Israel to pay the price of its occupation of the Palestinian territories and make it costly, as this occupation reaps profits from its continued control of the areas called "C" and deprives us of benefiting from our natural resources there.

He called for the application of international law with regard to Palestine and respect for the Charter of the United Nations, pointing out that Israel, since its establishment, has not respected international resolutions and the Charter of the United Nations, especially Resolution 181 and Resolution 194, which were among the conditions for its admission to membership in the United Nations.

It is noteworthy that the Progressive Alliance was established in 2013 in Germany, and it is an international political organization consisting of democratic and progressive political parties and organizations, and includes 140 countries from all over the world.

Nablus - "Jerusalem" dot com - An Israeli special force arrested, this Friday evening, the young man, Muhammad Al-Doush, a resident of Nablus.

According to local sources, Al-Dush is a resident of the old Askar camp, and was arrested while he was on the road to Ariha.

WARSAW - (Xinhua) -- Polish President Andrzej Duda has welcomed the European Commission's approval of Poland's national recovery plan, but his country will have to wait for funding.

Speaking at a press conference with visiting European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki near Warsaw, Duda said the approval "has great importance for Poland to receive EU funding in the future," according to the Polish News Agency.

A row over the rule of law delayed the European Commission's approval of the national recovery plan, prompting the Polish government to comply with a European court's demand to liquidate a judicial disciplinary body.

Duda expressed his satisfaction that his amendments to the Supreme Court Act "led to agreement both in the Polish parliament and in the European Union."
The European Commission president on Wednesday formally confirmed the long-awaited approval by the EU executive of the national recovery plan, enabling the commission to conditionally release 23.9 billion euros (25.68 billion U.S. dollars) in grants and 11.5 billion euros in loans.
"The adoption of the plan is linked to Poland's clear commitment to the independence of the judiciary," von der Leyen said, noting that it is not the end of the road for the rule of law in Poland.
However, the Commission's approval must win the endorsement of the other 26 EU member states within four weeks before the funds are released.
"The first payment will only be possible when the new law comes into force and all other conditions are met," von der Leyen said.

Jerusalem ' class='highlighted-tag'>Hadith of Jerusalem

After a meeting with Prime Minister Dr. Muhammad Shtayyeh, during a joint press conference, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced the resumption of financial aid to the National Authority after a hiatus of about two years, and said that the European Union has been for many years the largest donor to the Palestinian people in order to support people and secure their needs and enable them to face the current conditions and strengthen economic opportunities.

European aid annually amounts to about 600 million euros, and Dear Line has announced the disbursement of immediate aid in the amount of 25 million euros to support food security.

This European decision is a very positive and important step in order to confirm the European position that supports us and understands our needs and conditions, after stopping providing this aid. Forder Line made a positive note when it offered condolences to Dr. Shtayyeh on the martyrdom of journalist Sherine Abu Aqelah and renewed the European Union's demand for a transparent and independent investigation into the case. The circumstances of her martyrdom.

Of course, he thanked Dr. He called on Europe to resume providing financial aid and called on it to put pressure on Israel to end the occupation and to hold elections in Jerusalem , which it occupies and annexed with all arrogance and in violation of international and humanitarian laws.

Our people are going through difficult economic conditions, and the occupation besieges us and steals all our resources and lands. If financial support is very important for strengthening national steadfastness and securing the most basic living needs, then political support is no less important if it is not our first demand, in order to end the occupation, establish an independent Palestinian state, and unite. The European has the political capabilities to put pressure on the occupation, and if it is today signing an agreement to import gas from Israel, which is the occupying state, then it should not consider that a justification for ignoring the reality or condoning the practices of the occupation and its efforts to eliminate all chances of peace and stability in the region, because peace in the region A great benefit to stability and development, not only for us and the Middle East, but for the whole world, with the European Union in the first place.

Written by: Abdel Razek Matani

In the recent period, the story of the "Silwan inscription" was raised, following the visit of Israeli President Herzog to Turkey and his meeting with Turkish President Erdogan, and a rumor spread about Turkey's intention to gift this inscription to the Israeli authorities, which calls it the "Hezekiah Inscription", but this matter was denied. By the Turkish authorities, who stated that these rumors were not true, and that this matter was not even raised for discussion within the Turkish corridors, despite the Israeli authorities’ request for the inscription over and over again.


We must first point out that we are not talking about just an inscription, but rather an inscription that is considered a cornerstone, the most important discovery, and the main reference in the Zionist narrative about Jerusalem . It is also considered an inscription dated for writing from the eighth century BC, according to the common date that was given to him by several Jewish theologians and researchers.

Rather, it has become considered a source and a reference mainly against which the inscriptions and writings that appeared after it are measured and dated according to it, in addition to that they relied on the history of the water channel (Silwan Canal) and weaved the narrative around it on this inscription, and therefore its value exceeds the abstract value of the inscription and represents an integrated narrative that the Israeli establishment seeks to enforce it in practice.

From this point of view and the fact that it is not just an inscription, but rather a cornerstone, as we mentioned, the claim of the Israeli institution to acquire it goes beyond being a mere claim for a stone or an abstract inscription, but rather includes efforts to endorse the Zionist-Biblical narrative about the history of Jerusalem , as according to them it is considered proof of the Jewish right to The Holy City, and therefore if it was handed over by the Turkish authorities to the Israeli establishment, this may be interpreted as an official endorsement by the Turkish sovereignty of the Zionist narrative and narrative about Jerusalem and their entitlement to it.

Through my knowledge of what is happening in the Holy City in terms of replacing history, and following up on the efforts of the Israeli institution not only to impose actual domination over the city, but also to extend domination over the memory of the place and depict its history in accordance with what serves its agenda, and my follow-up to studies issued in Hebrew by senior Israeli researchers and the large space that This issue took him into the media and the Jewish community, not only in the wake of the aforementioned visit, but also years ago. I decided to write this article.

In it, I review the narrative related to the inscription and the channel through the considered Hebrew sources, noting that there are many researchers in the world who have shed light on the many problems related to this inscription, and yet this narrative remains dominant in the Israeli arena, and perhaps its collapse means the collapse of a pillar of the historical narrative Which they weave around the holy city and thus collapse the whole narrative.

The Zionist-Biblical narrative about the inscription and the tunnel
Many modern Israeli sources and studies on the story of Silwan mention that prior to the possible siege of the city by the Assyrians led by Sennacherib in the eighth century BC, King Hezekiah dug an alternative channel (tunnel) to transport water through it from the spring of "Jihon" and prevent its exit from the external channels that supply Orchards outside the walls with water, directing it to the pool of Silwan (Umm al-Daraj), thus preventing the Assyrian soldiers from benefiting from the water during the siege of the city.

It is reported that the tunnel was discovered in 1838 by Edward Robinson during the Ottoman Empire's rule of Jerusalem - knowing that the tunnel was known to the people of Jerusalem and Silwan, but this date follows the exploration of the tunnel by Western explorers - and after 42 years (in 1880) the inscription was found inside the tunnel At the hands of a Jewish boy who was swimming in the Silwan Pool, this inscription was considered an inscription to immortalize the moment the two groups of diggers met in the middle of the tunnel after they worked in opposite directions due to lack of time. According to them, the inscription was engraved directly on the smooth wall of the tunnel, meters away from the entrance.

According to what is reported on the authority of Hermann Goethe (1891) of the German Society for the Study of Palestine, and the study of the inscription is attributed to him, he says that the inscription was pulled out in 1890 from the wall by peasants after a Palestinian dignitary (unknown) ordered them to do so, and the stone was broken into 6 or 7 pieces when attempt to steal it. After the original inscription was hidden, news reached the Ottoman Mutasarrif of Jerusalem , who ordered a search for it. After effort, its location was discovered, and an identical fake inscription was also found next to it.

As for the piece, which was defined as original, it was transferred to Istanbul and is still in the museum to this day. Adding that it is very unfortunate that such an ancient relic was destroyed in such a failed accident. The copies which I made in 1881 are now given great value because they only give a reliable and complete picture of the engraving before it was demolished.

Reproduction made by Hermann Goethe for an engraving (1881)
There are many studies that dealt with the subject of the inscription, but also presented to us the story of its discovery in different details, which would radically affect reading the inscription and understanding the purpose of its excavation, or giving it a date, which requires us to review it in a detailed study enriched with sources, which goes beyond the purpose of However, this article raises several obvious questions, the answers to which are still vague:

Who wrote the text, when was it written, and in what era?!
Shouldn't an inscription of this size be visible to the explorers who documented the tunnel and visited it repeatedly before discovering the tunnel and providing explanations and details about it, yet it was not found until after 42 years!

If we assume that the explanation that some researchers are trying to market is that the inscription came to commemorate the moment when the groups of diggers met:

Isn't it supposed to be engraved at the meeting place or to be placed at the entrance to the tunnel or at the exit and not a few meters away from the entrance? Was the meeting meters away from the entrance?!
Was there really a need to build the canal (the water tunnel), which required a great effort in light of the possible siege on the city, according to the Zionist narrative?!
Are there archaeological evidence confirming the presence of King Hezekiah in Jerusalem in the eighth century B.C., and was Jerusalem a Jewish city during that period (other than, of course, the Zionist-Biblical narrative)?!
To answer these questions we say:

First: The rock on which the inscription is inscribed is smooth and wide, but it is empty on the sides (according to the reproduction), meaning that the inscription and inscription are complete and undivided. However, there is no mention of the siege of the city in the inscription, and the date of excavation is not mentioned, or the name of the ruler who ordered the excavation of the canal. Also, the usual formula of praising the ruler or the king was not mentioned, as is the case with major projects.

Second: The text extracted from the inscription is by Hermann Goethe (1891), who is one of the founders of the German Society for the Study of Palestine, and he indicated with his testimony that we mentioned that the original inscription was destroyed, and that the text that reached us depends on his reproduction of the original inscription, which became the source for studying the text, which raises suspicion About the originality of the inscription or the fact that the inscription is original, since we receive it from a single source, who is considered one of the pioneers of the Orientalists and theologians who established the Zionist-Biblical narrative in Jerusalem and one of the first to link the inscription to the Biblical story, noting that there is nothing definitive or proof based on it, so this narrative is based on speculations They suspect orientalists such as Goethe and others who originally came to prove the biblical narrative and strengthen it through tangible effects, and whose impartiality is doubtful.


These speculations became the basis of the Zionist-Biblical narrative, but rather became a reference for "researchers" seeking to impose this narrative on the ground without argument or evidence, relying on the accumulation of assumptions and the actions of the vanguards of the Orientalists who did not research the history of Palestine and Jerusalem as much as they sought to impose their narrative and achieve it on The land of the holy city, thus undermining the history of the city.

Third: At the time of digging the tunnel, according to the biblical account (the eighth century BC), there was a central tunnel nearby adjacent to it that reached the eye (it is called the Bear Warren system), which is much older than it and continued to be used for many centuries, so what is the need for this tunnel when it was possible to suffice By closing the channels outside the walls and reaching the spring safely, or by digging reservoirs close to the spring to collect the surplus water and not by digging a tunnel of about 500 meters in light of the circumstance and the danger imminent in the city!

Fourth: The biblical story mentions the use of large groups of volunteers to dig the tunnel, and by examining the studies that reviewed the professional and technical side, it appears that the digging was carried out by a small, experienced group of experts and professionals, and that the matter was done with extreme precision, which contradicts the Zionist-Biblical narrative.

Fifth: It seems that this branch was built for the purpose of strengthening the city with water and making more use of the water reserves, meaning that it was not a major source of water, and came to serve the expansion of the town.

Sixth: Specialists think - based on the forms of the calligraphy - that the inscription was written in the original Canaanite language, and therefore the inscription, if it was original, is a Canaanite inscription that fits with the history of the city.

Seventh: If we exclude the subject of the inscription, then we are talking about a system and water channels known from the ancient periods and similar to those found in the Canaanite-Palestinian cities (kingdoms of cities), and therefore it is likely that the talk is about an original Canaanite channel. And if we take the abstract inscription, it talks about the works of dividing a canal and does not carry any political connotations.

Eighth: Such events of the campaigns and victories of kings are often immortalized in inscriptions and royal records. The campaign is attributed to the Assyrian king Sennacherib, but there is no mention of his siege of Jerusalem and the fight against the "Jewish state", neither in the inscriptions that perpetuate his campaigns against the country nor in any other place. There is documentation of his campaign against the neighboring city of Lachish!

In short, the inscription talks about a project to dig a tunnel that has nothing to do with the biblical king "Hezekiah" or other kings of the biblical narrative, and also the Zionist-biblical narrative about the city of Jerusalem is highly questionable and has no archaeological proof. It is not possible to ascertain the date of the excavation, or the reason for the excavation, but what is certain is that the canal was not excavated because of the siege of the city, or that it was one of the genius plans to supply the city with a source of water at the time of the siege. And it aims to take advantage of the city’s water and perhaps make it available more easily to the town’s residents. We are talking about an authentic Canaanite tunnel, like other tunnels and channels known in the ancient Canaanite-Palestinian cities that served the inhabitants of the “kingdoms of cities” and facilitated their access to water sources. As for the attempt to attribute it to King Hezekiah It is only a matter of interpreting the antiquities of Jerusalem and Palestine, and I hold the necks of texts and their interpretations to serve the Zionist-Biblical narrative.

In the end, the Silwan inscription is but one of many examples of the history of Jerusalem that we have lost; Despite his presence in a country with ancient Islamic origins, he - and unfortunately - was not examined and studied as it should be by Arab and Muslim researchers compared to Western and Jewish researchers. Old Jerusalem that many of us don't know.

Unfortunately, we have come to deal with this ancient history of the holiest cities through the policy of reaction and what the media reports, and we only care about it on the sidelines of the media highlighting it, while the Holy City is exposed to the most violent and largest Judaization campaign.

Perhaps when we want to research or explore the history of the city, we fall into the trap of "information" that we receive from the colonialist, orientalist, or theologian, to find ourselves falling short in researching and verifying the history of the city. Perhaps this is an occasion through which we emphasize the need for serious work and research for the sake of the Holy City, preserving its history and saving what is left of it. About "Al Jazeera Net"

Al-Bireh – “Jerusalem” dot com – The first national conference against apartheid kicked off today, Sunday, in the city of Al-Bireh, with the participation of members of the Executive Committee of the PLO, ambassadors, consuls, representatives of diplomatic missions, thinkers, activists, and researchers.

The conference, which was organized by the Anti-Apartheid Department of the PLO, in cooperation with the NGO Network, the Palestinian Human Rights Organization, the Boycott and Divestment Movement (BDS) and the Ministry of Justice, included three sessions on “Zionism and Apartheid” and “International Accountability.” International law, the prospects for confronting Israeli "apartheid" legally, and the "international campaign to isolate and punish Israel".

During his speech, the deputy head of the "Fatah" movement, Mahmoud Al-Aloul, stressed the need to confront Israeli crimes and the apartheid regime through popular resistance, intensify diplomatic efforts in the world, through various United Nations institutions, and follow the legal path in order to isolate the occupation and its racism in the world.

He said: "The new extreme right-wing government poses great risks, which was evident in the requirement for the new ministers to add powers to their ministries, such as the files of the Galilee and the Negev. Occupation and jumping over internal disputes.

He added, "We do not need a great effort to show the extent of the occupation's crimes, as it is proud of itself and defends its perpetrators, as it practices killing and destruction, settlement construction, attacks on holy places, and sponsors terrorist gangs such as hilltop youth, paying the price, and protecting extremist criminals who burn people." Such as the crime of burning the young martyr, Mahmoud Abu Khudair, and the Dawabsha family.

And he added: "The occupation practices the most heinous forms of persecution and terrorism against our people, disregarding all international laws and norms, which was evident in its disavowal of the crime of martyrdom of journalist Sherine Abu Aqleh, in addition to allocating roads for settlers that Palestinians are forbidden to use, steal our water, and sell us the little part." Among them, apart from the difficulty of describing what he is doing because of the detention of the bodies of the martyrs, this is an issue that cannot be understood at all.

Al-Aloul said: "There is no doubt that there are many things that the human mind cannot comprehend, with regard to the Israeli crimes against our people, such as the issue of prisoners who are staying between four walls, including sick prisoners such as: the prisoner Nasser Abu Hamid, Walid Daqqa, and Fouad Al-Shobaki, so how can For a person to imagine how the two prisoners, Karim Younes and Maher Younes, would spend 40 years in the occupation prisons.

He pointed out, "The occupation authorities focus in their system of apartheid within the lands of 1948 on the Zionist intellectual side, which claims that they are the chosen people, and the rest of the peoples are at their service.

In turn, the head of the Anti-Separation Department, Ramzi Rabah, stressed the importance of uniting the Palestinian house to confront the next extreme right-wing government, by ending the division, and building on the Algeria Declaration that leads to the restoration of national unity.

He added, "We are facing a very dangerous stage with the formation of a bloody government that places on top of its priorities the abortion of everything related to the right to self-determination, and the prevention of the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, because they consider it an existential threat to Israel, which means an intensification of settlements, and undermining any efforts to confront establishment of this state.

Rabah continued, "The next Israeli government also seeks to abort the right of return for the refugees, as they affect the Jewish demographic composition, and see that the solution is settlement, while dealing with the Palestinians within the 48 lands as second-class citizens, in addition to proceeding with the Judaization of lands and annexation, while These endeavors will only be achieved through repression and terror, not only through the army, but also by unleashing settler gangs.

Jordanian MP Khalil Attia: The Conference is an Opportunity to Unify Efforts to Confront Apartheid

For his part, Deputy Speaker of the Arab Parliament Khalil Attia said that the conference is an opportunity to unite efforts to confront the Israeli apartheid regime in all its forms.

He stressed that framing the anti-apartheid department in the PLO constitutes a strategy in the struggle, to expose the crimes of the Israeli occupation, and the first step towards ending it and establishing an independent Palestinian state.

Attia stressed that the position of the Jordanian Parliament is to do everything in its power to stand by the Palestinian right, expose the crimes of the occupation to the world, and support the steadfastness of the Palestinian people in their various places of residence.

Source: The official news agency "Wafa"

Jericho - Yesterday, Wadi Al-Qelt Equestrian Center in Jericho concluded its Ramadan tournament in the arenas of the center with a large participation of knights, and the results of the tournament were as follows...

80 cm category:

First place - Equestrian Omran Seifan - Wadi Al Qelt Center

Second place - Knight Ahmed Al-Jaafari - Wadi Al-Qelt Center

Third place - Equestrian Lamar Awad - The Holy Land

90 cm category:

First place - Knight Jihad Aramin - Al-Asayel Center

Second place - rider Zina Pharaoh - Wadi Al Qilt Center

Third place - the knight Areen Barhoum - Wadi Al Qelt Center

100 cm category:

First place - Equestrian Yasmine Al-Jamla - Al-Asayel Center

Second place - Knight Talal Abu Shusha - Al-Asayel Center

Third place - rider Reem Qawasmi - Al-Asayel Center

110 cm category:

First place - Equestrian Yasmine Al-Jamla - Al-Asayel Center

Second place - Knight Hani Abu Najma - The Holy Land

Third place - Knight Abdul Rahman Erekat - Wadi Al Qelt Center

At the end of the race, it was necessary to thank everyone who contributed to the organization and success of the wonderful tournament, represented by each of the participating clubs in this tournament, namely: Al-Asayel Equestrian Club - Coach Muhammad Awad, Coach Hussein Grove and Coach Ali Al-Jamla, Holy Land Club - Equestrian Coach Hani Abu Najma, And the arbitration team - the referee - Nader Erekat, the referee - "Muhammad Raed" Al-Bakri, the referee of the electronic clock - Sa'ed Abu Shusha, commissioner of the warm-up arena - Muhammad Nasser Erekat, the track designer - trainer Muhammad Roma and coach Abdul Rahman Erekat and the management of the Wadi Al-Qelt Equestrian Center represented by "Khaled" Humaidat, the coach "Abdul Rahman Erekat" and "Salem Al Salman" and the coaches of the Wadi Al Qelt Equestrian Center, the coach "Abdul Rahman Erekat" and the coach "Mohammed Roma".