Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research announced today, Thursday, the start of submitting applications for students who benefited from the President's scholarship for outstanding students in the general secondary exam for the year 2022.

The scholarship includes the top ten students in Palestine in the scientific and literary branches, the top three students in the industrial and commercial branches, and the first in each of the other professional branches, within the first category, while the second category includes within the scholarship; The first in each directorate in the scientific and literary branches.

The Ministry invited all students whose names were announced on its website www.mohe.pna.ps to view the grant instructions, with the need to commit to submitting the required documents no later than 10/27/2022.

At Al-Hussein bin Ali Stadium in the city of Hebron, Al-Sawahra youth took the lead, following its great victory over its host Beit Al-Mur with three clean goals, and the meeting came for the ninth round of the first division league “Partial Professionalism”. Al-Obaidiya, while Beit Ummar’s balance was frozen at 16 points, in third place.

Al-Sawahra owes this victory to the player Ahmed Hammad, who opened the scoring in the tenth promotion, so that his colleague Zuhair Shaaban returned and added the second goal 23, and Omar Shabana widened the difference by scoring the third goal.

Ahli Qalqilya - Shabab Al-Carmel

And at the Martyr Jamal Ghanem Stadium in the city of Tulkarm, the Al-Ahly Qalqilya team healed the wounds of its guest, Shabab Al-Carmel, after defeating it 4/2, so that Al-Ahly raised its score by 8 points in the ninth place, while Al-Carmel continued to bottom of the standings with one point.

Al-Ahly waited for 30 minutes to open the scoring through Saher Jaber, and after one minute, Nidal Atout added the second goal,

In the second half, Ahmed Taha widened the difference by scoring the third goal 57, and Al-Karmel narrowed the difference in the 62nd minute through Muhammad Hrebat. Al-Ahly Mohamed Shawahneh meeting with the fourth goal.

Beirut - "Quds" dot com - Ismail Haniyeh , head of the political bureau of the "Hamas" movement, and Ziyad al-Nakhala , Secretary General of the "Islamic Jihad" movement, received two phone calls from Ali Velayati, advisor to the Supreme Leader of the Iranian Revolution for international affairs.

According to a statement by Haniyeh's office, during the contact between him and Velayati, many political and field developments related to the Palestinian issue took place, including the "Aqaba" summit, which the Iranian official considered as evidence of the occupation's dilemma from which it is trying to get out with such meetings that will not affect the Palestinian people. And his resistance. As he was quoted.

For his part, Haniyeh said: "We are facing a new phase of confrontation with the Zionist occupation, and resistance today is a spirit that prevails among the Palestinian youth, who form the advanced trench of the nation in defending Jerusalem and the sanctities in Palestine," indicating that his movement is following the summit and is aware that the escalating intifada is in The West Bank constituted a crisis and a dilemma for the occupation, unable to confront it.

Haniyeh considered the deployment of the resistance brigades in the West Bank to make the US administration rush to put pressure on the parties in order to save the occupation from its predicament, pointing out that the general Palestinian position is the rejection of this meeting and this summit, and stressed that the authority does not express the will and conscience of the Palestinian people through this participation, and said "The resistance will not be affected by the results of this summit and will continue to work, move and stand firm, and we are well aware that the enemy is facing a strategic dilemma from which such meetings will not save them."

In a related context, the head of the "Hamas" movement stressed the strengthening of the relationship with the nation with all its forces, especially the axis of resistance, praising the support provided by the Islamic Republic to the Palestinian cause and the resistance in Palestine.

For his part, he assured Nakhalah, in a separate call, of the Palestinian people's determination to continue resisting the occupation.

Al-Nakhala said: "The courage of the fighters in the field and the Palestinian people rallying around them is the biggest proof that our people will not be broken, will not back down, and will continue to resist until the liberation of Jerusalem and Palestine," stressing the resistance's position that rejects what is happening in the Aqaba Conference.

Jenin – “Jerusalem” dot com – The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs in Jenin governorate reported that the so-called “Salem” and “Al-Jalama” courts extended the detention of prisoners from the governorate for various periods.

The authority stated that the arrested prisoners are:

Faraj Omar Shehab (5 days), Muhammad Mazen Jabareen (6 days), Raja Ayed Waked (8 days), Ahmed Maher Freihat (8 days), Issam Khaled Alawneh (8 days), Uday Freihat (8 days), Wissam Abu Zaid (6 days), and Youssef Atatreh (8 days), who was shot in the foot and was lying in Afula Hospital as he was infected with the Corona virus, and Ghassan Atrash (72 hours) to transfer him to administrative detention.

The occupation authorities released the two prisoners, Muhammad Ali Jamahna and Muhammad Yusef Taher.

Qalqilya - "Jerusalem" dot com - Mustafa Sabri - Occupation soldiers deployed, at noon on Sunday, in the vicinity of the town of Azzun, east of Qalqilya, claiming to throw stones at settler vehicles passing through the area.

Eyewitnesses said that the occupation soldiers deployed in agricultural lands and carried out searches after throwing stones at settler vehicles, as they claim.

In addition, the occupation soldiers opened fire on workers and citizens south of Qalqilya in the area of the apartheid wall known as the Abu Al-Adass area, and opened fire on citizens and workers to prevent them from entering agricultural lands, and the sounds of bullets were heard in the place, and the occupation forces were intensively present.

The occupation forces had closed the openings of the wall and set up tents for the soldiers near them to prevent entry to the lands, as well as denying workers access to their places of work.

Tokyo - (AFP) - The famous "Call of Duty" game will become available on "Nintendo" devices in the event of a Microsoft acquisition of the company that publishes the game, an official in the American company announced Wednesday.

Microsoft, which produces Xbox video game consoles, announced in January its acquisition of the American company Activision Blizzard for a record amount of $ 69 billion, but this project is still under the watch of the authorities in charge of regulating competition in the United States. United and Europe.

Regulators fear that the acquisition could allow Microsoft to stop making Activision Blizzard games, including "Word of Warcraft" and "Candy Crush," available on competitors' platforms.

"Microsoft wants to provide more games to a larger segment of people, whatever way they choose to play," said Phil Spencer, head of the games department at the American giant, in a tweet on Twitter.

He added, "Microsoft is committed to providing + Call of Duty + to + Nintendo + for ten years after its acquisition of + Activision Blizzard King +," noting that copies of the new "Call of Duty" will also remain available through the "Steam" platform for video games on Computers.

Serkan Tutu of Mantan Games, an analytics company in Tokyo, said in an interview with Agence France-Presse that this announcement "is clearly a publicity stunt due to its timing."

The Federal Trade Commission should consider Thursday the acquisition of Activision Blizzard, according to several outlets. As for the European Commission, it launched an investigation in early November dealing with this deal, while the competition authorities in the United Kingdom announced in September that they had initiated a comprehensive investigation.

Toto pointed out that the video game player "Switch" from "Nintendo", which has sold more than 110 million copies since its launch in the market in March 2017, "is not new," adding, "If + Activision + really wants to allow + Call of Duty+ on a Nintendo platform would have done that three or four years ago."

And Phil Spencer said in an interview with “Bloomberg” on Wednesday that a similar agreement to the one that was concluded with “Nintendo” was proposed to “Sony”, the maker of the “PlayStation” device, which strongly opposed the Microsoft- Activision deal from the beginning. According to Spencer, the Japanese group would have refused the offer.

Geneva - (AFP) - A senior official in the World Health Organization announced Friday that the time has come for a realistic review of the Covid epidemic, after recording one million deaths from the disease this year.

Maria van Kerkhove, head of the WHO's COVID-19 technical team, said the toll was "heartbreaking" because tests, treatments, vaccines and public health measures are all in place to control the virus.

"Since we are in the third year of the outbreak of the epidemic (...) it is even more tragic that we have the tools that can actually prevent these deaths," she added, in a direct dialogue via the social media channels of the World Health Organization.

"Many of us have become numb to numbers," she noted.

"We need a realistic review. We really need to assess where we are now. We shouldn't be in a situation where 14,000 to 15,000 people die every week."

Maria Van Kerkhove stressed that the epidemic is not over yet, but that it can be brought to an end while people continue to live their daily lives.

"We just need to do some extra thinking on that, to be a little bit more careful," she said, adding, "A lot of people talk about living with Covid, but we have to live with it responsibly."

And she warned, "One million deaths this year is not coexistence with Covid, and that we have 15,000 deaths per week is not coexistence with Covid responsibly."

According to the latest statistics of the Health Organization, Covid-19 has claimed 6.45 million lives worldwide since the first infections appeared at the end of 2019 in Wuhan, China.

Last week, more than 5.3 million new infections were reported to the United Nations agency.

"These are huge numbers, and this is an underestimate," Maria Van Kerkhove said, given that home tests are not included in the data.

"We see this virus spreading intensively around the world," she added, expressing her regret that this virus does not leave us.

(AFP) - Brentford achieved a heavy-caliber surprise by returning victorious from defending champion Manchester City 2-1 at the opening of the sixteenth stage of the England Football Championship , so Arsenal took advantage of the gift by defeating Wolverhampton 2-0 and moving away 5 points in the lead. .
Arsenal owes its victory to the Norwegian international midfielder Martin Odegaard, who scored both goals in the 55th minute when he received a cross from close range by Portuguese substitute Fabio Vieira, who followed it into the empty goal and 87 rebounds from Portuguese goalkeeper Jose Sa.
Arsenal, who lost the efforts of its Swiss international midfielder Granit Xhaka due to his injury in the 16th minute, when Vieira entered his place, raised its tally to 37 points, compared to 34 for City in the last stage before stopping due to the World Cup in Qatar.
Arsenal took advantage of City's fall at the hands of Brentford, who achieved its second major result this season after inflicting a severe loss at home to Manchester United 4-0 in the second stage.
The star of the meeting was Brentford's top scorer Evan Toney, who was not chosen by England coach Gareth Southgate in the official squad to participate in the World Cup in Qatar, despite his remarkable brilliance this season, by scoring the two goals of the match.
City entered the meeting with a perfect record at home this season, domestically, after winning its seven matches since the beginning of the current season, but Brentford put an end to this series. It was also his first fall at home since last February.
The loss is the second for City in the league this season and the first since its fall to Liverpool 0-1 on October 16 in the 11th stage, after which it achieved victory over Brighton 3-1, Leicester City 1-0 and Fulham 2-1 in the league, as it knocked Chelsea out of The third round of the League Cup competition by defeating it 2-0 on Wednesday.
Manchester City's Norwegian striker, Erling Haaland, returned to the starting line-up after his absence from the last match against Chelsea in the League Cup (2-0) in the middle of the week, and Phil Foden and Portugal's Bernardo Silva helped him on the sides.
The meeting was the third between the two teams, and Brentford achieved its first victory after two losses.
Brentford started the match strongly and was a stubborn match for the hosts and succeeded in opening the scoring by its top scorer Tony, who invested a cross ball that he followed with his head into the net, despite the intervention of Spanish international defender Aymeric Laporte.
City found it difficult to penetrate Brentford's organized defense and only hit the goal in the 39th minute by Foden, but Spanish goalkeeper David Raya parried his effort brilliantly.
However, Raya stood helpless when Foden fired a powerful ball with his left "on the fly" that hit his net (45 + 1).
Manchester City pressed at the beginning of the second half, but did not succeed in threatening Brentford's goal, which was just around the corner from advancing again had it not been for Laporte's intervention at the right moment to deflect a cross that almost reached Tony lurking in front of the goal (65).
City threw his weight at the end of the match, and his Spanish coach, Pep Guardiola, involved his young Argentine striker, Julian Alvarez, in an attempt to settle the score, but Brentford took advantage of a quick counterattack, during which Josh Dasilva passed a perfect cross, which Tony followed from close range into the net ((90 + 8) amid shock inside the Etihad Stadium .
Tony raised his tally to 9 goals in the league this season.
"The better team won," Guardiola said. "Usually, we manage to press and recover the ball, but the opponent knew how to make long passes forward that we couldn't intercept. We also faced some good defenders."
For his part, Brentford's Danish coach Thomas Frank praised his players and said, "Amazing performance. Speaking to some people from the club, this is probably the biggest result ever, against one of the richest clubs in the world, and we have one of the lowest budgets in the league."
And Newcastle continued its impressive results in recent times and achieved its fifth successive victory when it deepened the wounds of its guest, Chelsea, by defeating it with a single goal scored by Joe Willock with a wonderful shot from the edge of the area (67).
And Newcastle strengthened its position in third place with 30 points, while Chelsea, who failed to win in its last five matches in the league, suffered a third loss in a row and fourth in various competitions after leaving empty-handed from the League Cup competition by falling to Manchester City 0-2 Wednesday in the third round.
And Tottenham regained its balance, making up for its fall at home to Liverpool in the last stage, when it snatched a difficult victory from its guest Leeds United 4-3 in an exciting match during which it fell behind three times.
The London team found itself lagging early, specifically in the tenth minute, through Dutchman Chrisencio Summerville, and international Harry Kane equalized after 15 minutes (25), but Spaniard Rodrigo re-advanced the guests two minutes before the end of the first half.
Defender Ben Davis succeeded in equalizing at the beginning of the second half (51), and Rodrigo scored his second and third personal goal for Leeds United in the 76th minute), before Uruguayan international Rodrigo Bentancur turned the tables on the guests and scored a double in two minutes (81 and 83), giving victory to coach Antonio's men. Conte.
Tottenham strengthened its position in fourth place with 29 points.
Liverpool continued its revival with its second successive victory and sixth this season when it beat its guest Southampton 3-1.
Liverpool first scored through its Brazilian striker Roberto Firmino, specifically in the sixth minute, with a backhand kick, following a side free kick that Scottish full-back Andrew Robertson set out for, but his joy only lasted three minutes, as the guests equalized through the other Scot, Che Adams, with a header from close range. Side free kick (9).
Uruguayan international striker Darwin Nunes imposed himself as a star of the match by scoring a double for Liverpool, as he gave him the lead again when he took advantage of a cross from Harvey Elliott, followed by his left “on the fly” from close range to the left of the goalkeeper (21), then dealt the fatal blow to the guests by scoring his second and third personal goal for his team. When he took advantage of a cross pass to Robertson inside the area, he followed it with his right to the right of the goalkeeper (42).
It is Nunes' fifth goal in the league this season.
Liverpool rose to sixth place temporarily, with 22 points, with a match postponed, by one point, against Brighton, which hosts Aston Villa on Sunday, and Chelsea.
Nottingham Forest finished last by defeating Crystal Palace with a single goal scored by Morgan Gibbs-White (54).
Palace Ivory Coast striker Wilfried Zaha missed a penalty kick in the 41st minute.
Bournemouth honored its guest, Everton, with a clean triple, which was scored by Marcus Tavernier (18), Welshman Kiefer Moore (25) and Jaydon Anthony (69).
West Ham United suffered its third loss in a row when it fell to Leicester City with two clean goals scored by James Madison (8) and Harvey Barnes (78).
Belgian Youri Tielemans missed a penalty kick for Leicester in the 42nd minute.

Rome, (AFP) - The center-left Italian Democratic Party announced Saturday that it had reached an agreement with the left and the Greens over legislative elections to be held in September, and the right-wing bloc allied with the nationalist right appears to be the most likely to win.

This agreement with the "Green Europe" and "Italian Left" parties was "necessary", according to the Secretary General of the Democratic Party, Enrico Letta.

Letta was speaking at a joint press conference with the leader of the "Italian Left" Nicola Fratoianni and co-speaker of the "Green Europe" party Angelo Bonelli.

Mr. Fratoianni emphasized that "differences should not be an obstacle to rapprochement," stressing that "a new phase begins" in order to "prevent the extreme right" from coming to power.

The Democratic Party was able to obtain the support of the small centrist group "Labor" led by Carlo Calenda, with the aim of confronting the conservative bloc consisting of the "Forward Italy " parties led by Silvio Berlusconi, the "League" led by Matteo Salvini and the "Brothers of Italy" led by Giorgia Meloni. .

The left has been under pressure since the collapse of Prime Minister Mario Draghi's National Unity coalition last month. Draghi launched the election campaign, which was quickly dominated by the right.

The legislative elections will be held on the twenty-fifth of September, while Italy, which is heavily indebted, is witnessing high inflation and concerns about energy supplies due to the war in Ukraine.

Brussels - (AFP) - European Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders announced Saturday that some 17 billion euros of assets of Russian oligarchs and entities in the European Union have been frozen in seven member states, following sanctions imposed on Russia in response to the war in Ukraine.

"So far, the assets of 90 people have been frozen, amounting to more than 17 billion euros in seven member states, including 2.2 billion in Germany," he said in an interview with media affiliated with the German "Fonke" group.

At the beginning of July, Reynders estimated the value of frozen assets in the European Union at €13.8 billion, mainly in five countries, owned by oligarchs or members of the Russian elite sanctioned by the 27 countries.

"If it is criminal funds confiscated by the European Union, it can be transferred to the compensation fund of Ukraine," the commissioner also said in the interview published on Saturday.

Ukrainian officials demand that the frozen assets be used to rebuild their country after the war. But Reynders warned that "the amount is completely insufficient to fund reconstruction".

Western sanctions have also led to the "freezing of 300 billion euros" of foreign exchange reserves of the Russian Central Bank in the world, an amount that can be used as "collateral", according to the Commissioner's estimate.

"Ukraine also wants to use this money for reconstruction," said Didier Reynders.

"From my point of view, it is possible to at least keep the 300 billion euros as collateral so that Russia will automatically participate in the reconstruction of Ukraine," he added.

In total, since the invasion of Crimea in 2014, the assets of 1,236 people have been frozen, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, members of the State Duma and oligarchs such as Roman Abramovich, Mikhail Friedman or Peter Aven, and 115 entities, and they have also been banned from entering the European Union.

Gaza - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Gaza Traffic Department announced, on Sunday, that it had recorded two deaths and 48 injuries during 69 traffic accidents last week (from 1 to 7 October).

According to the statistics, of the injuries, 2 are in serious condition, 20 are in moderate condition, and 26 are in minor condition.

63 vehicles, including 5 motorcycles, sustained material damage, according to the statistics.

PARIS - (Xinhua) A leak has been discovered in the primary circuit of reactor No. 1 of France's Seifou nuclear power plant, the French electricity company has confirmed.

The leak could delay the restart of the reactor, which is supposed to take place on January 8 in order to help France deal with the energy crisis this winter.

According to the French electricity company, hydraulic testing on the reactor that began on November 2 when the leak was discovered was halted.

The company stated that "the pressure reduction in the primary circuit is not related to a breach in the piping or welding. Rather, it comes from the failure of a specific part used to perform the hydraulic test."

However, no radioactivity has been measured outside the facilities, the company confirmed.

Jerusalem - "Jerusalem" dot com - Hundreds of settlers stormed, on Tuesday morning, the Al-Aqsa Mosque , in the form of successive groups, amid calls to intensify the incursions during the coming hours and days on the occasion of the so-called "Jewish Throne Day".

According to the Islamic Waqf, more than 1,030 settlers and 30 members of the occupation intelligence service participated in the raids.

Previously, large forces of the occupation police stormed the courtyards of the mosque to secure the settlers' incursions.

Dozens of stationed men and women gathered inside Al-Aqsa, where they shouted takbeers, amid attempts to confuse the settlers’ incursions.

The occupation forces deployed heavily inside the Old City since the early hours of dawn, in preparation for securing the settlers' incursions, and assaulted the citizens who tried to reach Al-Aqsa.

In recent days, various factions, forces, and activists have issued calls to gather in Al-Aqsa and Rabat within it, coinciding with calls for settlers to participate strongly in the incursions.

(AFP) - The International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA) announced on Tuesday that it will distribute 209 million US dollars to clubs that will release their players in order to participate in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

And the international body said in a statement that each club will benefit from “about 10 thousand US dollars for every day that one of its players stays with its national team in the 2022 World Cup, including the days of official preparations, and every club for which the participating player played in the last two previous years will benefit.” for the 2022 World Cup, which will be held from November 20 to December 18.

This initiative has already seen 416 clubs from 63 member associations benefit from the same amount after the 2018 World Cup in Russia, according to FIFA.

The International Federation established this system before the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, after an agreement with the European Clubs Association, whose teams include most of the players participating in international competitions.

Salfit - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Israeli occupation authorities released, on Sunday evening, the prisoner Muhammad Abdel Halim Shuaib (40 years) from the city of Qalqilya.

The occupation released prisoner Shuaib from Megiddo prison, after the end of his 20-year sentence.

Saarbrücken - (dpa) - German authorities found a gunman who shot and wounded a police officer in the German city of Saarbrücken dead at his home today, Friday.

The body of the 67-year-old was found during a police raid after he barricaded himself in his home for hours.

And the police wrote on “Twitter”: “There is no longer any danger.”

The policeman who was injured earlier in the day was trying to carry out a search warrant when the man opened fire from his window.

A city administration official was injured by flying glass.

Translation by "Jerusalem" dot com - The Israeli army announced, on Monday evening, that the Jordanian authorities had returned an infiltrated Israeli to its territory.

According to an Israeli military spokesman, the Israeli crossed the border into Jordan, was arrested and interrogated there, and then returned.

Tokyo - (AFP) - The Tokyo Municipal Council has approved a controversial plan to rehabilitate a neighborhood in the city center, as it includes the demolition of historic sports facilities and the uprooting of trees donated by citizens more than a century ago in honor of Emperor Meiji.

The project calls for the demolition of the Meiji Jingu baseball stadium, the oldest in Tokyo for this sport that is widely popular in Japan, in addition to other nearby sports sites, including the Shichibunomiya Rugby Stadium, and replacing them with new facilities.

The plan does not include a neighborhood on Jingu Gaen Street lined with ginkgo trees, prized by Tokyoites for their gorgeous golden-yellow leaves in fall.

But conservationists argue that the project's planned construction, including skyscrapers, could kill ginkgo trees by damaging their roots.

They pointed out that the project requires cutting down about 900 other trees, some of which were donated by citizens and planted more than a century ago, when this green oasis was established in honor of Emperor Meiji (1852-1912), who oversaw the rapid modernization of Japan.

Several popular petitions were prepared against the neighborhood rehabilitation project, one of which had more than 110,000 signatures.

But the governor of Japan's capital, Yuriko Koike, confirmed this week that the Jingu Gaen rehabilitation project will in fact increase the number of trees and green areas, preserving its historic spirit while looking to the future.

Tehran - (AFP) - Iran has started building a new nuclear power plant in Khuzestan province in the southwest of the country, according to the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization (AEOI) on Saturday.

And the head of the organization, Muhammad Islami, announced in remarks broadcast by state television the start of construction of the Karun nuclear power plant with a capacity of 300 megawatts in the Darkhvin region in Khuzestan.

He added that the construction of the station will take seven years and is expected to cost between $1.5 billion and $2 billion.
Islami said that "a French company was initially scheduled to build" this station, but the company reneged on its "commitments" after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

"Later, other countries avoided cooperation with the Islamic Republic of Iran, because of the sanctions," he added.

Under the international agreement on the Iranian nuclear deal concluded in 2015, Iran agreed to stop operating the Fordow nuclear facility and limit its enrichment of uranium to the threshold of 3.67%, as part of a package of restrictions imposed on its nuclear activities aimed at preventing it from developing a nuclear weapon.

Iran has repeatedly denied that it is seeking to develop an atomic bomb.

The agreement allowed the lifting of many sanctions that were imposed on the Islamic Republic, in return for reducing its nuclear activities and ensuring the peacefulness of its program.

However, the effects of the agreement have almost disappeared since former US President Donald Trump decided to unilaterally withdraw his country from the agreement in 2018 and re-impose harsh sanctions on Iran.

Since then, Iran has reopened the Fordow plant and last month began producing 60% enriched uranium there.

Iran and the parties still party to the agreement, with the coordination of the European Union and the auspices of the United Nations, and with the indirect participation of the United States, began talks to revive the agreement in April 2021.

After being suspended several times, it seemed about two months ago that an agreement would see the light, before it faltered again due to points of divergence between Washington and Tehran.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - An Israeli special force arrested, on Sunday evening, a young man in the city of Al-Bireh .

According to local sources, a group of undercover men arrested Osaid al-Qaddoumi from Umm al-Sharayet neighborhood, a student at Birzeit University, after raiding and searching his family's house.

Beirut - (AFP) - The General Directorate of State Security released on Saturday afternoon William Noun, one of the most prominent spokesmen for the families of the victims of the Beirut port explosion, the day after he was detained because of statements he made, in a move that sparked widespread indignation after the investigation was suspended more than a year ago.

His release came after an open sit-in carried out by dozens of families of the victims of the explosion, with the participation of deputies and activists, in front of the directorate’s headquarters in Beirut, at a time when investigations are still pending since the end of 2021, as a result of political interference and lawsuits filed successively by defendants, including current deputies and former ministers, to stop the hand of the judicial investigator, Judge Tariq. farrier.

In a brief speech after his release, William, who lost his brother from the fire brigade in the port explosion on August 4, 2020, told reporters, "We are the children of the August 4 case, and we have no personal matter against anyone." "We only want truth and justice," he added, pledging to continue the struggle to complete the investigation.

Noun's attorney, Ralph Tannous, told reporters that the latter "signed a pledge not to throw stones at the Palace of Justice and not to insult the judges."

William, who is known for his sharp tongue and sharp criticism of obstructing the investigation and spearheads all the protest movements of the families of the victims, participated in a sit-in on Tuesday in front of the Palace of Justice, calling for the re-launch of investigations into the port explosion case. He appeared on television throwing stones at the windows of several offices of the Palace of Justice.

Al-Khamis was among the families who organized a sit-in in front of the Palace of Justice, to protest against the attempt to appoint a substitute judge in place of Bitar. He said in several statements during the sit-in and on television that they might "break" or "blow up" the Palace of Justice, if that happened.

Noun, along with more than ten people from the families of the victims, was informed Thursday that they were summoned for interrogation on Monday morning at the Internal Security Forces, before he was summoned by the State Security Apparatus on Friday and then arrested based on a signal from Judge Zaher Hamadeh.

Before being informed of his release, Zina Noun, William's mother, said after she spent the night inside the State Security headquarters, "What did William do? He demands that whoever killed his brother be held accountable? William is not a terrorist."

The Noun family lost their son, Joe, one of the ten members of the fire brigade who rushed to the port to extinguish a fire that preceded the horrific explosion that occurred on August 4, 2020, which claimed more than 215 lives and injured more than 6,500 people, in addition to widespread destruction in the port and a number of Capital neighborhoods.

Dozens of activists and families of the victims participated in the sit-in in front of the headquarters of the State Security Agency in the Ramlet al-Baida area, according to AFP photographers. They were joined successively by a number of deputies and lawyers who denounced Noun's "arbitrary" arrest on the basis of his statements, while the defendants in the explosion refuse to attend their interrogation sessions and obstruct the work of the judicial investigator.

"The balance of justice is disrupted and the weak are oppressed," MP Melhem Khalaf, the former head of the Beirut Bar Association, told AFP, adding, "I wish they would implement with the same enthusiasm all the warrants issued by the judicial investigator in the port crime."

The investigation has been pending for more than a year in the explosion, which, according to the authorities, resulted from the storage of large quantities of ammonium nitrate inside the port without precautionary measures, following the outbreak of a fire whose causes are unknown. It turned out later that officials at several levels were aware of the dangers of storing the substance and did not move a finger.

About five months after receiving the file, following the resignation of a former judge due to political pressure, Judge Bitar announced his intention to interrogate political officials, including a former prime minister and defendants, who asked parliament to lift their immunity. He also requested permission to pursue security officials, including the director of the State Security Agency, Tony Saliba, and claimed former military officials.

However, he collided with political interference that prevented the completion of his work, with major forces, most notably Hezbollah, the most prominent political and military player in Lebanon , objecting to his work and accusing him of “politicizing” the file, leading to a demand for his stepping down.

"The arrest of William Noun clearly shows that the Lebanese judiciary cares more about protecting those in power and those responsible for the Beirut port explosion than protecting the public interest," Aya Majzoub, Deputy Regional Director of Amnesty International in the Middle East and North Africa, tweeted on Saturday.

"Our judicial system is not independent. It is a tool of the political class," she added.

Suspension of the investigation and repeated political interventions in a country where a culture of impunity prevails fuels the anger of the victims' families and human rights organizations calling on the United Nations to send an independent fact-finding mission, in the face of the faltering of the local investigation.

On the 23rd of this month, a French investigative judge visited Beirut to inquire about information requested by the French judiciary about the Beirut port explosion, and he did not receive answers about it, according to what a judicial official told AFP on Wednesday.

Rita Hatti, who lost her son, son-in-law and relative, and the three members of the fire brigade, told AFP during the sit-in, "Today's judiciary is facing the final exam (...) either it will rise up and say its word without any political pressure, or it will be the end of it."

Translation by "Jerusalem" dot com - The Hebrew website Ynet said today, Thursday, that the hunger strike of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons will further detonate the situation in the West Bank , and will not help restore calm to it, especially in light of the calls for confrontation at other points. A petition in solidarity with them, and warnings even from the office of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to warn against harming them.

In an analytical article by Avi Sakharov, the site considered the warning statements, including what was issued by Abu Mazen's office, as a message that the Palestinian Authority will not attempt to intervene or stop the demonstrations in the seam areas to support the prisoners.

Sakharov says that the main headache for the Israeli security apparatus currently in the Palestinian arena, at least, is not the prisoners' strike, but rather the weakness of the Palestinian Authority and the inability of its security services to operate in different areas of the West Bank, especially its north, which are areas that turn into pockets of militants and a mixture of armed cells that launch attacks against Israeli targets to inflict damage.

He pointed out that the fireball rolled from the Jenin camp, to Nablus, and the surrounding villages, and not finally the entry of Silwad near Ramallah on the line of events after several shooting operations were carried out, some of those who carried them out were arrested, which means that the formation of those cells leaked under the watch of the security services. The Israeli is now arriving in Ramallah.

And he considered that the prisoners’ strike, which begins today, will constitute a challenge to the Israeli army and the Shin Bet security service in the coming days, noting that the statistics attest to this more than anything else, after 60 shootings were recorded in the West Bank from the beginning of the year until mid-August, which are numbers Higher than the last two years, in addition to the frustration of double numbers, and talk is about terrifying numbers that we were not accustomed to in the last decade. as he says.

He pointed out that the armed groups confronting the Israeli army forces are different from those that were known in recent years, and it can be said that they are more courageous and seek to fight and refuse to surrender easily, referring to the glorification of these resistance fighters by the Palestinian street and through social networks.

He noted that the militants of the new model of 2023 do not clearly belong to any organization, and they can take pictures of themselves with the banner of Islamic Jihad, and in others of the Al-Aqsa Brigades, and this is what is happening in Jenin and Nablus, and the organization has become less important, while the local identity is the most important incentive. .

He said that the increasing role of the Jihad and Fatah elements in the shooting operations, and their cooperation in that, indicates that this goes beyond punishment, and it is possible that the agents of Hezbollah and Iran in the West Bank, who are seeking to bring about a security escalation there, and Hamas, for its part, does not object to that but rather provides assistance from Yes, and its elements in Gaza and abroad do not stop directing some of the gunmen to carry out operations.

He adds, "During the first years of the second intifada, Hezbollah sought to spend a lot of money to ignite the situation in the West Bank through Fatah elements, especially in Nablus, and such a scenario is likely to happen again, especially in light of attempts to smuggle weapons from the borders." .

The Israeli analyst believes that offering economic privileges to the Palestinians to push them to live in peace with the current reality seems like a pipe dream, and confirms that the Israeli attempts to bury the "head in the sand" in everything related to the Palestinian arena since 2009 until today, the field refuses to accept.

(AFP) - Brazilian star Neymar continued his brilliance this season in the ranks of Paris Saint-Germain by scoring a goal and making another, to lead him to a victory over Lorient 2-1 on Sunday in the fourteenth stage of the French Football Championship .
Neymar gave the capital club the lead in the ninth minute, and Nigerian Terim Movi equalized for the home side in the 53rd minute, before the Brazilian international made the winning goal for the guests with a corner kick that Portuguese midfielder Danilo Pereira took advantage of and headed it into the goal (81).
Neymar raised his tally of goals in the league to 11, equal to his teammate Kylian Mbappe at the top of the scorers list. Neymar also contributed nine assists this season.
It is the fourth successive victory for Saint-Germain in the league and the twelfth this season, and he kept his record free of loss, raising his score to 38 points and returning the difference to five between him and his direct chaser Lens, who defeated his host Angers 2-1 on Saturday.
The Parisian club played the match in the absence of its other star, Argentine international Lionel Messi, due to an inflammation of the Achilles tendon, so young striker Hugo Iketiki played instead.
Less than 9 minutes later, Ikitiki snatched the ball from Lorient's Swiss goalkeeper Yvonne Mfugo and passed it towards Neymar, who dodged a defender before firing into the net.
However, Lorient, the surprise of the season, equalized through Movi at the beginning of the second half (53).
The last word was for Saint-Germain, for whom Pereira scored the winning goal nine minutes before the end of the match, with a header from a corner kick.
"There were two periods in the match, the first in the first half when we dominated and scored a goal and we could have added three or four goals," Galtier said. "And the second in the second half when we did not continue our efforts and lost many doubles and paid the price with the equalizer."
"But there was also a reaction, and we achieved our victory thanks to the desire of the players," he added.
He praised his Brazilian star, saying, "Neymar, in form since July 4, is making a lot of effort. He is preparing great and is obviously very excited about the World Cup finals (...) But for me there is no reason why he should not perform well in the half." The second of the season.
Saint-Germain has not lost a match locally or continentally since the beginning of the current season, which no other team has achieved in the five major tournaments at the European level.
On the other hand, Lorient lost fourth place to Monaco, who now surpasses it on goal difference, after beating its host Toulouse with two clean goals scored by Russian Alexander Golovin (46) and Swiss Brill Embolo (60).
It is the second successive victory for the Principality team and the eighth this season, raising its tally to 27 points, on goal difference against Lorient, which is threatened to drop to sixth place if Marseille beats its guest Lyon later, and on goal difference against Rennes III, who is also a guest at Lille later.
Neighbor Nice followed the example of Monaco and achieved its second victory in a row when it defeated its guest Brest with a single goal scored by Gaetan Laborde in the 54th minute.
Lille braked Rennes, forcing it to a 1-1 draw.
Lille was the first to score with his Portuguese defender, Jose Fonte, in the sixteenth minute, and Rennes got a penalty kick at the beginning of the second half, which Benjamin Borrego successfully set out (58).
Rennes was Yemeni with its sixth successive and ninth victory this season to bring the difference back to three points between him and Lens, but he settled for one point with his fourth draw this season.
Rennes raised his score to 28 points, compared to 23 points for the seventh night.
Reims beat Nantes with a single goal, scored by Englishman Florian Balogun in the 83rd minute.
Nantes played with ten players since the 54th minute, after defender Nicholas Baloa was sent off for receiving a second yellow card.
Clermont-Ferrand tied with Montpellier with a goal by the Croatian Komnen Andric (62) against a goal by Tigi Savanier (10 from the penalty spot).
Clement Ferran missed two penalty kicks, the first by Andric in the 41st minute, and the second by Gregon Key in the 78th minute.

Jerusalem - PalSport Agency / The Jerusalemite Jabal Al Mukaber Club announced on its official page that the photographic journalist "Areen Rinawi" has joined his family, by obtaining the honorary silver card issued by its general assembly.

For her part, Rinawi expressed her pride and happiness in joining Nusour Al-Jabal, noting that this new step is a qualitative addition to her.

For his part, journalist Ali Obeidat praised the efforts made by the club's management and staff in preserving and developing this ancient castle within the institution's comprehensive methodology.

Gaza - "Jerusalem" dot com - Ahmed Al-Masharawi - The sports movement in the Gaza Strip mourned the star of Al-Tuffah and Al-Shuja'ia clubs in the eighties, and its most prominent attackers, the star Fouad Fawaz Al-Maidna, "Abu Fawzi", and the 62-year-old coach of the club's teams, who died of a heart attack, in a crowded funeral procession To the Eastern Martyrs Cemetery, with the participation of representatives of the Football Association, the Ministry of Youth and Sports, the Olympic Committee, clubs, federations, clubs, players and a crowd of fans.

Al-Maidana led Al-Tuffah to appear in the Premier League, and maintained with a group of players the strength of the team located on the eastern borders of Gaza City, despite the difficulties it faced under the Israeli occupation, as the club’s headquarters was subjected to raids and closures several times, and succeeded in leading it to compete with the largest teams in the Strip. As well as preserving the youth entity in the densely populated Al-Tuffah neighborhood by integrating them into useful sports and youth programs in confronting what was planning for the youth generation during the eighties and nineties.

As for his beginnings, they came in the popular arenas, then with the Jaffa High School team, the most prominent outlet for football players and youth at the time, before joining Al-Shujaia Union at the age of 15, after which he moved to Al-Tuffah Club immediately after its establishment in 1979, where I became a player, then a member of the administrative body. Until his retirement in 1993, he was trained by many coaches, including the late Tawheed Murtaja and Ahmed Al-Sayed, and Ismail Al-Masry at Al-Shujaia Club, and the first coach at Al-Tuffah Club, Sami Ajour, Ibrahim Al-Qatta, Omar Abu Zaid, and Sobhi Awad.

The late Al-Maidana also worked in the field of sports media in Al-Bayader Al-Awla magazine, which distributed during the first intifada, as well as in providing media institutions with sports news, including Palestine TV later, and he contributed to the establishment of the Sports Media Union, as he holds a diploma in public relations and media, and several courses in the field of journalism.

Ibrahim Abu Salim, President of the Football Association, mourned him, and offered his condolences to his sports family. Abdul Salam Haniyeh, a member of the Supreme Council for Youth and Sports, offered condolences to the family, so that the page of a player from the beautiful time was celebrated.

القدس-إعلام اللجنة الأولمبية-أشاد رئيس اللجنة الأولمبية الفلسطينية، الفريق جبريل الرجوب، بأداء كافة أعضاء بعثة دولة فلسطين التي شاركت في دورة العاب التضامن الإسلامي بنسختها الخامسة في مدينة قونيا التركية.

وهنأ الرجوب اللاعبين الذين أحرزوا ميداليات خلال مشاركتهم في البطولة وهم: لاعبا منتخب ذوي الهمم لكرة الطاولة خالد شعبان وماهر النقيب اللذان حصدا الميدالية البرونزية في البطولة، ولاعب منتخبنا الوطني للتايكوندو الذي حصد الميدالية الفضية اللاعب احمد بهلول، واللاعب مصطفى شرف الذي حصد الميدالية البرونزية في الكيك بوكسينغ.

وثمن الرجوب جهود كافة الطواقم الفنية والإدارية والطبية والإعلامية للبعثة التي ساهمت في تمثيل فلسطين ورفع علمها في هذا المحفل الرياضي الإسلامي الكبير والهام.

كما أشاد الرجوب بأداء الرياضيين الفلسطينيين، وبالروح الرياضية العالية التي تمتعوا بها خلال البطولة بشكل يليق باسم فلسطين وقضيتها، وهو ما ساهم في إيصال رسالة ومعاناة الشعب الفلسطيني إلى العالم أجمع.

كما أشاد الرجوب بجهود كافة الطواقم الفنية والإدارية للاتحادات المشاركة في البطولة التي بذلت جهودا كبيرة في سبيل تمثيل فلسطين خير تمثيل في هذه البطولة.

يذكر أن فلسطين شاركت في البطولة ببعثة قوامها 30 لاعباً، تنافسوا في 10العاب هي: ألعاب القوى، السباحة، التايكواندو، المصارعة، الجودو، الكاراتيه، الرماية، الكيك بوكسينغ، كرة الطاولة للحالات الخاصة، القوس، كرة السلة 3*3.

Algeria - "Al Quds" dot com - Minister of National Economy Khaled Al-Aseeli welcomed today, Saturday, the adoption by the League Council at the summit level of the recommendation of the State of Palestine to support the Palestinian economy, in preparation for its adoption by the Arab Summit, scheduled to be held on the first of next November, in Algeria.

The Council approved the proposal to add the smallest national currency in the Arab and Islamic countries to the monthly bill of fixed and mobile telephones for subscribers of the service, to help and strengthen the steadfastness of Jerusalem.

The Council authorized the Islamic Development Bank to manage these funds in the same way as the Al-Aqsa Fund and Al-Quds Fund.

The Economic and Social Council renewed its call to the Arab countries to support the Palestinian economy in accordance with bilateral arrangements with the State of Palestine, and to open their markets to the free flow of products of Palestinian origin by exempting them from customs duties, in implementation of previous decisions issued in this regard.

He also stressed the boycott of settlements in all its forms, the revitalization of investment in the Palestinian land, in addition to strengthening the steadfastness of citizens in front of the arbitrary policies and measures of the Israeli occupation, and endorsed the proposal to establish the Arab Center for Economic and Social Empowerment Studies in the State of Palestine.

Minister Osaily called for speeding up the translation of the decisions of the Arab summits aimed at preserving the national identity of the city of Jerusalem, strengthening the steadfastness of our people, and supporting the Palestinian economy.

At the end of its meeting, the Council approved 24 items, which will be submitted to the Arab summit on the first and second of next month. They were unanimously approved, including several recommendations on economic and social files, foremost among them the Arab food security file, activating the free zone, and accelerating the establishment of the Arab customs union.

Guatemala - (AFP) - One of Central America's most active volcanoes has erupted again, spewing lava and ash and forcing authorities in Guatemala City Sunday to temporarily close the country's largest airport as well as a highway.

The volcano, which bears the name Fuego, meaning fire in Spanish, returned to its activity on Saturday night, as molten rock flowed down its slopes and ash was thrown into the sky. The winds also carried the ash towards Guatemala City, 35 kilometers away.

In a statement, the Civil Aviation Authority announced the temporary closure of La Aurora International Airport, which is located six kilometers south of the capital, in the morning, after ash was detected near the runways, and at least two flights were diverted.

The airport reopened at midday after the winds changed direction and blew the ash away from the vital facility.

The authorities also closed a highway linking southern and central Guatemala as a precaution, according to a highway police spokesman, but it was reopened Sunday afternoon after the volcano subsided.

The volcano is located about 16 kilometers from Antigua, the former capital of the country, which is one of the most important tourist attractions in Guatemala.

The Fuego volcano erupts at a rate of once every four or five years, and in 2018 its eruption destroyed the village of San Miguel los Lotes, to which rivers of lava flowed, killing 215 people and missing a similar number.

Civil protection spokesman Rodolfo Garcia said the authorities are watching the latest eruption closely, and so far no one has been evacuated.

"Compared to what happened in 2018, the authorities are now more vigilant and active," said Jose Sol, an Alotenango resident.

Locals witnessed a sudden lava flow on Saturday night and reddened the sky. "People here are used to experiencing this, and they see it as normal," Demetrio Pamal, 28, an indigenous farmer, told AFP.

Many locals have a ready-made backpack with food, water, flashlight and medicine inside so they can evacuate for up to three days if they need to flee without warning.

Two other volcanoes are active in Guatemala, Santiagoto in the west of the country and Basaya in the south.

Fuego is adjacent to the dormant Acatengo volcano, at an altitude of 3,500 metres.

And unlike the Andean volcanoes of South America, Guatemala is not covered in snow due to the warmer climate in Central America.

There are more than 100 volcanoes in Central America, some of which are popular tourist attractions despite causing death and destruction.

Gaza - "Jerusalem" dot com - The American newspaper The New York Times suspended photojournalist Hossam Salem , a resident of the Gaza Strip, from working under the pretext of "anti-Semitism."

According to what Salem wrote on his Facebook page, he was informed of the decision to stop him from working as a freelance photojournalist with the newspaper via a quick phone call.

He pointed out that he later understood that the decision was taken on the charge of "anti-Semitism", which is the same charge that was leveled against other Palestinian journalists who were recently dismissed in the same way, by a Dutch journalist who holds Israeli citizenship.

And Salem indicated that this journalist discussed in a report his publications (i.e. Hussam himself) in which he supports the resistance and the Palestinian people during the repeated Israeli aggression.

Salem accused The New York Times of blatant bias towards the occupation.

Gaza - (AFP) - Tayseer al-Jabari , who was assassinated by Israel on Friday in an air strike in Gaza, is considered the most prominent military commander in the Islamic Jihad movement, and his assassination led to renewed fighting in the Strip.

Al-Ja'bari, who was born in 1972, was killed along with other Palestinians, including the five-year-old Alaa Qaddum, and more than forty people were wounded, during Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip.

Israel said it had launched a "preemptive strike" on Islamic Jihad, in which Jabari was killed, whom the Jewish state holds responsible for recent attacks.

The Jihad movement and its military wing, the Jabari, were mourned.

The Al-Quds Brigades launched more than 100 missiles at Tel Aviv and other Israeli cities, in an "initial response", hours after the assassination of Al-Ja'bari, according to a statement.

Al-Ja'bari comes from a Gazan family, and in the eighties of the last century he joined the jihad movement in the Shuja'iya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.
Al-Jabari assumed responsibility for the Operations Department in the Al-Quds Brigades, before becoming commander of the northern Gaza Strip regions, succeeding Baha Abu Al-Ata, who was assassinated by Israel in a raid on his home in 2019.

Following the assassination of Abu al-Atta, the Strip witnessed a violent military confrontation that lasted for about three days between the Israeli army and Islamic Jihad fighters, during which thirty-five Palestinians were killed, according to the Ministry of Health.

Al-Jabari had a "major role in supervising the implementation of many commando operations" against Israel, according to a source in Islamic Jihad.

Al-Jaabari, who holds a BA in Islamic Sharia Studies, was subjected to several Israeli assassination attempts, the most recent of which was during the May 2021 war, according to Daoud Shehab, media official in the Islamic Jihad movement.

The Secretary-General of the Jihad movement, Ziyad al-Nakhala, vowed that "the occupation will pay a heavy price for its aggression that targeted the Gaza Strip," stressing that "there are no red lines after today."

Egypt and other parties are making intense efforts on both sides to stop this military confrontation and reach a calm.