Written by: Attorney Ali Abu Hilal *

Within the framework of the policy of violating the right to education in occupied Jerusalem, the Israeli Ministry of Education issued, last Thursday 7/28/2022, a decision to revoke the licenses of 6 Palestinian schools in the city of Jerusalem, under the pretext of “incitement through the school curricula.” The schools are: the college Ibrahimiyyah, and all faith schools for boys and girls, primary and secondary

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The ministry stated that the school principals were summoned to a hearing, at the end of which it was decided, under the direction of Education Minister Shasha Biton, to withdraw the "permanent operation" license, and instead give the schools a conditional license for one year, in order to correct the contents of the books, and after The patch will be granted a perpetual license

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In a statement, the ministry revealed the examples that include "incitement in the curriculum", including talking about Palestinian prisoners, the occupation's obstacles to ambulances and preventing access to the injured, the water crisis and control of water sources from the occupation, and the Nakba and setback for the Palestinian people. The Ministry mentioned them, which are considered continuous and continuous grave violations of the occupation against the Palestinian people in Jerusalem and in the rest of the occupied Palestinian territories, and do not constitute incitement, but rather a realistic description of the practices and violations of the occupation.

The closure of these schools in Jerusalem constitutes a continuation of the violations of the occupation authorities against education, and its continuous policies of Judaizing the Holy City, and the familyization of education in it, which is a new and old policy, which it initiated since the first years of the occupation of the city.
In the framework of this policy, the Israeli occupation authorities closed in late November 2019 the office of the Directorate of Education in Jerusalem, and other Palestinian institutions working in the field of media and medical services. Under the pretext of carrying out illegal activities, according to the allegations of the occupation authorities. Years before that, the occupation authorities closed a large number of Palestinian institutions operating in Jerusalem, including the Orient House, the Chamber of Commerce, and other institutions working in the human rights, health, economic, social, media, and cultural sectors. The occupation that violates the right to education in Jerusalem The occupation adopts various methods with the aim of capturing the Palestinian curriculum, including deleting everything related to Palestinian national affiliation and adding materials that are in line with its occupation plans by changing the names of Palestinian cities, criminalizing language and national heritage, and deleting poetic verses and Quranic verses Which talks about jihad and martyrs. As for the second method that the occupation authorities resort to, it is allocating more than 20 million shekels to develop education in East Jerusalem at the level of educational facilities and infrastructure, provided that you study the Israeli curriculum, noting that the occupation government has allocated In 2018, an amount of two billion shekels was allocated to the families of East Jerusalem, of which 445 million shekels were allocated to the families of the education sector over the next five years, as part of a five-year plan aimed at raising the rate of Education according to the Israeli curriculum to 90% among Jerusalemite students during the next five years, and the threat to revoke the licenses of private schools that refuse to apply this curriculum, and to provide incentives to Jerusalemite students and facilitate their admission to Israeli universities if they choose to learn it, and this coincides with the occupation’s closure of the Education Directorate Palestinian education in the city of Jerusalem, and restrictions on the infrastructure of Palestinian schools in Jerusalem and preventing their expansion, in exchange for the occupation opening new schools belonging to it, and requiring the granting of a license to any modern school on its commitment to the Israeli matriculation, and targeting private schools by attempting to blackmail them with budgets to put pressure on them in this aspect. ,

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Confronting the occupation policy against education in Jerusalem requires a number of policies that should be adopted by the Palestinian Ministry of Education, either directly or indirectly. Before that, supporting vocational education and allocating a budget for its development and expansion, allocating full university scholarships by Palestinian universities for Tawjihi students in Jerusalem, which may be sponsored by the Palestinian Ministry of Education, in coordination with the Jerusalem Fund and Endowment and the Federation of Businessmen, and the use of Palestinian schools as community centers to support youth It should be emphasized that the issue of education in Jerusalem is an existential issue, which requires the State of Palestine and the Ministry of Education to give special attention to Jerusalem, and to allocate budgets, programs and projects that support the steadfastness of schools in the city. Jerusalem, in addition to the importance of raising the salaries of Palestinian teachers in Jerusalem, in a manner commensurate with the standard of living in order to preserve and develop the teaching staff, and to carry out A popular movement against imposing the Israeli curriculum and matriculation exams on schools, and confronting the phenomenon of storming and inspecting schools and summoning principals and principals for investigation, a phenomenon that has become remarkable in the context of the occupation’s dealings with educational institutions and their employees.

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* Lawyer and university lecturer in international law

بقلم: عيسى قراقع

رحلت الشهيدة والأسيرة الأولى التي اعتقلت بعد انطلاقة الثورة الفلسطينية عام 1965 فاطمة برناوي يوم ‏‏3/11/2022 حاملة معها عاماً فلسطينياً حافلاً بالشهداء، أكثر من 189 شهيداً هذه السنة احتشدوا وزفوا ‏فاطمة في معارج السماء، جاءوا من كل مدينة وقرية ومخيم وشارع وحارة، وكان عرساً فلسطينياً يقطر بالدم ‏والزيت والأرواح والرصاص والحناء. ‏
رحلت فاطمة برناوي وهي تستعد لاستقبال جنين ونابلس والقدس، أعدت شموعها في ذكرى رحيل الشهيد ‏ياسر عرفات، زرعت شجرة زيتون لتحتفل بأعياد الميلاد، ارتدت أجمل ملابسها لتروي جرحاً لم يكتبه الراوي ‏عن مسيرة طويلة من الصمود والبطولة لجموع النساء. ‏
من حارات القدس العتيقة ومن فجرها انطلقت القديسة الفدائية فاطمة برناوي في عمليتها الفدائية عام 1968 ‏رداً على الهزيمة والنكسة، لتؤكد أن القدس لا تخضع ولا تستسلم للغزاة والمعتدين، حكمت بالسجن مؤبدين ‏وعشر سنوات وأفرج عنها عام 1978. ‏
خرجت فاطمة من حارة الأفارقة في القدس، امرأة مقدسية سمراء لم تحتمل أن تهتز بوابات القدس ويقتحمها ‏جنود الاحتلال؛ قالت: القدس عصية على المحتلين، القدس قنبلة ومسدس وكوفية وأنبياء، إذا سقطت ‏القدس سقط كل مقدس في الكون، وكانت نبوءة، لتصير فاطمة برناوي هي كل امرأة وفتاة في القدس الآن، ‏هي كل النساء المرابطات المدافعات عن عروبة وهوية القدس، هي أم كل أسير وشهيد وروح المكان. ‏
الأسيرة الأولى التي قاتل والدها في ثورة 1936، لا تغادر البسمة وجهها، القدس تبتسم من خلال هذه المرأة ‏الشجاعة، شجاعة نساء فلسطين، فاطمة لا تؤجل الصلاة، لا تختبئ في ملجأ أو ترفع الراية البيضاء، ‏فاطمة تشعل القدس التي انطلقت منها كلمات الحياة، فالقدس هي انحناء السماء على الأرض، تقول ‏فاطمة، هي مدينة الفداء، مدينة عبد القادر الحسيني وفيصل الحسيني وقاسم أبو عكر وعمر القاسم وجمعة ‏إسماعيل وسامر العيساوي وهند الحسيني وأحمد مناصرة وعلاء البازيان وإسراء جعابيص ومرح باكير ‏وشروق دويات وسمير أبو نعمة وعلي جدة ومحمود جدة وخليل بيدس ووائل القاسم، مدينة الفدائيين ‏والفدائيات، الأسرى والشهداء والصامدين في جبل الزيتون والعيسوية وسلوان وصور باهر والمكبر والبلدة ‏القديمة وشعفاط وكل حارة من حاراتها وكل شارع من شوارعها. ‏
هكذا تكلمت فاطمة برناوي زوجة الأسير المرحوم فوزي النمر ابن مدينة عكا، القدس لا تشيخ، لا تقولوا ‏تأخر الضوء، لا تخافوا من هذا المستوطن الإرهابي الذي يحكم دولة الاحتلال، دعوه يغرق في فاشيته ‏وعنصريته حتى آخر عملية اغتيال في جنين، دعوه يحرس حواجزه العسكرية الكثيرة وأسلاك السجن، دعوه ‏يعربد ويقتحم وينهب ويسلب ويعتقل وينتظر في القدس عدي التميمي على بوابة المستوطنة. ‏
هكذا تكلمت فاطمة برناوي، لا تفتح النوافذ إلا بالأيدي التي عرفت وجع القيد، ولن تفهموا تعاليم القدس، إلا ‏إذا عرفتم العلاقة بين جسد المرأة وعظام الأرض، النبوءة فقط للشهيد الذي يحرك أسرار الغيب، وللأسير ‏الذي يحفر الظلام بأظافره ليكتب قصيدته للنهار وللجمال وللحب. ‏
رحلت الأسيرة الأولى فاطمة برناوي مبتسمة للماضي والحاضر والمستقبل، ذاكرة السجن وتلك السجانة وهي ‏تحرك الأقفال في عتمات الزنازين، أغنية تعانق الغيم وتبشر الفلاحين والسنابل والفؤوس بعاصفة ورياح، ‏في القدس تزرع حقول الصيف في هذا الشتاء. ‏
الأسيرة الأولى حفرت على جدران السجن اسم القدس، تغني للقدس مع عائشة عودة ورسمية عودة ومع ‏روحية بكري وربيحة ذياب وفاطمة حلبي، وزكية شموط وابتسام عميرة ولمياء معروف وأميمة الآغا، وسمر ‏صبح وروضة بصير ومعزوزة شحادة ورحاب العيساوي، وفيولا ساعاتي وفاطمة الكردي وإيمان أبو خاطر ‏ولمياء معروف وزهرة قرعوش ونادية الخياط وفاطمة الجعفري وعطاف عليان وسميحة خليل، ومع المئات ‏من الأسيرات الأوائل، يوقدون جمرة الثورة خلف القضبان، القدس ترفض الحشر والاختناق، القدس تخرج من ‏الظلمات إلى النور، ما هذه القدس التي تحمل روحها وسيادتها وتاجها ومكانتها أينما حلت وأينما كانت، ما ‏هذه القدس التي لا زال اليسوع الناصري يحمل آلام الناس وفي القدس مشى إلى طريق الحرية والخلاص. ‏
هكذا تكلمت فاطمة برناوي: القدس أو الموت، فلتحذر كل العواصم إذا ما غضبت القدس لن تبتسم أي ‏عاصمة أخرى. ‏
هكذا تكلمت فاطمة برناوي: لهذا الجيل الفلسطيني المتمرد وجه امرأة تسمى فلسطين، ذروة الولادة وذروة ‏الأمل، أزهار الروح، الوقت تجدده هذه البلاد وتطلق فيه أبجديات المقاومة في اللغة، السجن علمنا الإصغاء ‏طويلاً إلى الزمن، ألقوا القبض علينا لكنهم لم يقبضوا على أحلام الحياة، تتحرك الأعاصير وتتوحد الأمكنة. ‏
هكذا تكلمت فاطمة برناوي، السجون قنبلة بشرية حاضنة للسفر والخيال والانفجار، السجون أمكنة متحولة، ‏الأسير المحشور أعطى جسمه لجسوم كثيرة، انهار الجدار في سجن جلبوع، سقطت منظومة القمع والسياج ‏والأبراج والأقنعة، مئات السنين من الأعمار المهدورة تتحرك كنهر جارف في تلك الدائرة، هل تفهم إسرائيل ‏المحتلة ذلك المعنى في الرعد والزلازل القادمة؟ ‏
هكذا تكلمت الشهيدة والأسيرة الأولى فاطمة برناوي، القدس أو الموت، الحياة أو الموت، الموت في الموت، ‏اختاروا لا تترددوا تكلموا لتكسروا الصمت، فالإنسان الحر: ضوء وقرار وصوت.‏
وداعاً فاطمة برناوي ‏
لك اسمان:‏
واحد في سجل التاريخ
وآخر في سجل التكوين
أم عظيمة لشعب عظيم ‏
البلاد نساء يجمعن كل الطيف
الحرية خصوبة ومبدأ ويقين. ‏

Seoul - (AFP) - Pyongyang on Friday rejected an offer made to it by Seoul this week, stipulating that North Korea would obtain financial and economic assistance from its southern neighbor in return for the North giving up its nuclear weapons.

South Korean President Yoon Sok-yul proposed this week to North Korea an aid package in the areas of food, energy and infrastructure if it abandons its nuclear weapons program.

Lyon made this proposal for the first time in May in his inaugural speech, but analysts considered that the chances of Pyongyang accepting such an offer are slim, if not non-existent.

North Korea has long asserted that it can never accept such a compromise.

On Friday, Kim Yo-jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, launched a fierce attack on the South Korean president, considering his offer "the height of absurdity."

"When you find out that the plan to barter 'economic cooperation' for our honor, for our nuclear weapons, is Leon's great dream, hope and plan, then you realize that it is really simple and even childish," said the influential woman, according to what was quoted by the official Central News Agency.

"Obviously, we're not going to sit face-to-face with him," she added.

This year, North Korea conducted a record number of missile tests, including its first intercontinental ballistic missile launch since 2017.

Officials in Washington and Seoul have repeatedly warned that North Korea is preparing to resume its nuclear tests.

فاز فريق أستون فيلا على ضيفه إيفرتون 2-1 خلال المباراة التي جمعتهما اليوم السبت في الجولة الثانية من منافسات الدوري الإنجليزي الممتاز لكرة القدم.

وتقدم أستون فيلا بهدف سجله داني إنجز في الدقيقة 31، وأضاف إميليانو بوينديا الهدف الثاني في الدقيقة 86، قبل أن يسجل إيفرتون هدف تقليص الفارق في الدقيقة 78 عن طريق لوكاس ديني، لاعب أستون فيلا، بالخطأ في مرمى فريقه.

وحصد أستون فيلا أول ثلاث نقاط له في الدوري هذا الموسم، حيث خسر في الجولة الأولى أمام بورنموث بهدفين نظيفين.

في المقابل ظل فريق إيفرتون من دون رصيد حيث خسر في الجولة الأولى أيضا أمام تشيلسي بهدف دون رد.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and the Palestinian Territories, Chairman of the Supreme Fatwa Council, Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, called on farmers to pay the olive zakat to those who deserve it.

And the Grand Mufti stated in a press statement today, Sunday, that whoever has reached the estimated nisab by weight of (653) kg of grain, or the equivalent of the oil produced from it after the afternoon, he must pay 10% of it as zakat if it was irrigated with rain water, and if it was It is watered by other irrigation means, and 5% of it comes out.

He urged the citizens to take care of their agricultural land so that it remains a fertile and good land and a homeland for our people that its generations adhere to with determination and determination, denouncing the occupation’s deliberate assault on the lands planted with olive trees by looting, uprooting and burning the trees and terrorizing the farmers with the aim of preventing them from reaching their lands and reaping the fruits of their trees, appreciating the heroic steadfastness of the Palestinian farmer Al-Murabit. On his land, despite all odds and challenges.

Written by: Hamdi Farrag

It does not help much to spend time scrutinizing, analyzing, and refuting the enemy camp. One specialized department affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or Security is sufficient to carry out this important task. Either we all use all our capabilities and capabilities to find out what happened in the recent Israeli elections, including television, schools and mosques. The church, the stadium, the embassy, the stock exchange, the syndicate, the opposition and the center are experts in the Israeli issue, and we stopped at them for a long period of the year.
For almost thirty years, we have been betting on the victory of the "peace" camp, which practically won only a very limited number of times, Rabin, Barak and Olmert, while the "war" camp won and continued occupation, settlement, killing, demolition, imprisonment to the point of death and uprooting, including In that uprooting the olives, he won the majority of these elections, including six times for Netanyahu alone. Have we extracted, even for once, the futility of "waiting" that has become an empty strategy for our political, daily, and temporary behavior? never ever ever .
We did not conclude that since the victory of the Likud for the first time in 1977, that this victory was not a boom or an outburst cut off from roots and branches, but rather a historical extension of what was before the establishment of the state, of the criminal Zionist gangs formed by Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Shamir and Ariel Sharon, who not by chance became all These are prime ministers of this country, in an open future to continue uprooting.
We did not notice, and mostly we did not want to notice, the course of the rising right line, which will certainly be met by the decline of the peace camp, the limit of extinction. Until we reached the day when the government would be "pure", Jewish, Zionist, Talmudic, and fascist, whose motto would be death to the Arabs, the demolition of Al-Aqsa, the execution of prisoners, the annexation of "Judea and Samaria," and the cleansing of the state from Tibi, Odeh, and Mansour Abbas.
Recently, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations responded to its recent decisions regarding the nature of Israel in the occupied territories, by saying: No one decides for us that we occupy the land of our forefathers, and also recently, Lapid said in the United Nations that Israel is the only country in the world that was established by decree My God, he means Psalm. Most recently, Lapid, the leftist Islamist, decided to activate punitive measures against the authority for its recent move in the United Nations, despite his departure from the corridor of power within days.
What did we want from this wait? For a peace government to resume negotiations and give us an independent state with Jerusalem as its capital? Until the Lapid government came, he did not make a single phone call with the presidency of the Authority. The Authority is an Israeli internal affair that is subordinate to the Civil Administration of the Ministry of Defense.
Fear, all fear, is that the authority will come out of us, who proposes to wait for what the upcoming government will bring, given that we have waited thirty years, about 360 months, so what will we lose if we wait a few more months? Then waiting for the components of the new government to clash with each other to hold new elections.

Jerusalem - "Al Quds" dot com - Last night, the Israeli occupation forces carried out a massive demolition operation in the town of Hizma in occupied Jerusalem .

According to local sources, these forces, accompanied by bulldozers, demolished approximately 15 shops in the town.

The occupation authorities claim that these shops were built without a permit and are located in an area where construction is prohibited.

BEIJING (Xinhua) -- China's National Meteorological Center on Wednesday renewed the red alert for high temperature, the severest alert in its weather warning system, as severe heat waves continue to ravage many regions of the country.

The center stated that during the day on Wednesday, parts of Shaanxi, Anhui, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Fujian, Sichuan, Chongqing, Guizhou, Guangxi and Guangdong are expected to witness high temperatures ranging from 35 to 39 degrees Celsius. .

The center said temperatures in parts of Sichuan, Chongqing, Hunan, Jiangxi and Zhejiang could exceed 40 degrees Celsius.

The center advised the local authorities to take emergency measures to confront heat waves, suspend work in open spaces exposed to high temperatures, pay close attention to fire safety, and pay special attention to the care of vulnerable groups.

In China, there is a weather warning system consisting of four levels coded in different colors, where red represents the most severe warning, followed by orange, yellow, and blue.

Translation by "Al Quds" dot com - The official spokesman for the Israeli army , Ran Kokhav, said today, Sunday, that the examination of the bullets that killed journalist Sherine Abu Aqleh will take place in the presence of a representative of "Israel".

Speaking to the Israeli Army Radio, Kokhav said that the examination process would be carried out by the Israelis, with an American presence.

"If we kill her, we will take responsibility and regret it," he said.

In another context, he claimed that the Israeli army had early intelligence information about the planes that Hezbollah had flown towards the Mediterranean in an attempt to reach the gas platforms, especially the Karish field.

Kokhav said in an interview that his forces do not keep any account open, threatening to respond to Hezbollah's flight of planes, considering that the interception operation was a huge operational success.

While Kokhav said in an interview with the Hebrew Radio 103 affiliated with the Maariv Foundation, that the planes were not explosive, and that Hezbollah suffered great operational discrimination after the planes were shot down, indicating that the Lebanese organization tried to carry out a failed defiance and awareness operation (proving that the area is Lebanese), stressing However, the army had prior information about the operation.

He added, "Israel's economic waters are part of Israel, and it is not a disputed area, and there is no discussion about it... Hezbollah is trying to undermine Israeli sovereignty in various ways, on the ground, in the air, and at sea."

Regarding the prisoner exchange deal with Hamas after Hisham Al-Sayed's video, Kokhav told Radio 103 that there is no option to conclude a deal without returning the two soldiers, Hadar Goldin and Aron Shaul.

GAZA, (Xinhua) -- The Palestinian Muhammad Abu Hasira is busy, for hours a day, renovating his small restaurant, west of Gaza City, after it was destroyed during the latest round of military tension between Islamic Jihad and Israel.

Abu Hasira Restaurant specializes in cooking and serving different types of seafood dishes with distinctive hot flavors and taste inherited from his family, which has been famous for decades in the fishing profession and fish trade.

Muhammad Abu Hasira Restaurant, nicknamed "Babu Ali", is frequented by all classes of society, even the wealthy residents of the coastal sector, which is inhabited by more than two million people, in addition to a number of visiting foreign delegations, as it enjoys a reputation and professionalism in serving fish meals.

The summer season represents an opportunity for good income for Abu Hasira, as commercial activity is active in it, and visitors to his restaurant at such times increase to eat fresh fish.

Abu Hasira, a father of two, told Xinhua that the destruction of his restaurant caused him a heavy loss, whether the cost of reconstruction or the loss of this period of the year.

He added, "In the summer, the restaurant does not stop receiving customers who eat fresh fish meals."

He continued while observing a number of workers whom he brought to restore and rebuild his restaurant, that the recent escalation in Gaza caused great damage to the restaurant and paralyzed the area completely, which means losing my only source of income.

On the sixth of August, Israeli warplanes launched an attack on a house adjacent to Abu Hasira Restaurant, claiming that one of its residents belonged to the Islamic Jihad movement.

Abu Hasira says, "The bombing caused great damage to the shops, factories and homes in the entire neighborhood, including my restaurant."

He added, "After days of bombing, I became very confused, either waiting for financial compensation from the competent authorities, which also requires another wait for the approval of donor countries to help and thus closing my only door of livelihood, or bearing the losses that I suffered and restoring what was destroyed and not missing this season and keeping the door open." My livelihood is open non-stop, so I chose the latter.”

"I borrowed a sum of money from my relatives and friends, and rushed to restore the restaurant to restore life again, waiting for compensation," he added.

Abu Hasira points out, "The delay in restoring the restaurant, whose area is estimated at 200 square meters, and its remaining closed for a long time will increase material losses and the reluctance of customers, in addition to depriving its workers of their source of livelihood and joining the army of unemployment and the lists of the poor."

The Israeli blockade imposed on Gaza since 2007 and the instability of the political and security situation in the region caused a decline in the economic and commercial situation in the Gaza Strip .

Abu Hasira expresses his hope "to reach a peace agreement with Israel one day, and to live in the Gaza Strip safely without fear of the future or even fear of losing our loved ones, neighbors and family, then life will be easier and more beautiful."

The Israeli army launched dozens of air strikes on military sites and residential buildings allegedly belonging to the Islamic Jihad movement and its activists, killing at least 49 Palestinians, including 16 children and four women.

The Israeli army said that the pre-emptive attacks came to prevent offensive plans that the movement was preparing to implement against Israel.

The two sides reached an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire agreement to end the round of tension, which is the most severe since May 2021, when violent military fighting broke out between armed Palestinian factions and Israel that lasted for 11 days, leaving more than 255 Palestinians dead and 13 dead in Israel.

Abu Hasira says, "We are tired of repeating wars, destruction and blood. Our lives have become difficult and we have endured all circumstances, and no one in the world is looking at us. It is time for the world to intervene to prevent the situation from collapsing again."

In an area not far from Abu Hasira, the 69-year-old Palestinian Hassan Shamalakh does not seem to be lucky, as he is forced to wait for the start of the process of rebuilding his house, which was severely damaged due to the Israeli air strikes targeting a nearby house.

"My family and I, consisting of ten people, have become homeless without warning, and we will not be able to restore our normal life as it was," Shamlakh told Xinhua. "What is the fault of my family and I for being homeless, because I do not belong to any organization or faction?"

And he continued, while sitting next to a small hill from his destroyed house, "I feel heartbreak and sadness after I used to receive people and guests in my house. I began to beg for accommodation and shelter. It is a very difficult feeling."

Days after the shooting stopped, Shamalakh still went with his family every morning to dig through the rubble and destruction in search of his house's belongings.

He says that he is not able to rebuild his house, especially since he does not work and his children cannot provide the necessary money for that, expressing his fear of the delay in the reconstruction process, which will increase his ordeal and the tragedy of his family.

According to the Ministry of Public Works and Housing in Gaza, the recent Israeli escalation in the Strip completely destroyed 22 housing units and 77 partially, rendering them uninhabitable, while 1,908 units were damaged but are still habitable. /ts/

Seoul (AFP) - South Korean giant Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday that its third-quarter operating profit fell 31.39 percent year-on-year, after the global economic slowdown weighed on consumer electronics.

Revenue in Samsung's crucial memory chip business declined, the company said in a statement, adding that "consumer demand remains weak."

Operating profit for the July-September 2022 period fell to 10 trillion won ($7 billion), compared to 15.8 trillion won in the same period last year.

The results came the same day the company announced the promotion of the company's de facto chairman, Lee Jae-yong, who was granted a presidential pardon in August over a fraud conviction, to chairman of Samsung Electronics.

"Our survival depends on future technology," Lee said in a message posted on a company platform after his promotion, according to Yonhap news agency. "We can turn this crisis into an opportunity."

The quarterly results mark the first year-on-year profit decline in nearly three years for Samsung Electronics, the world's largest smartphone maker.

But the company said it reported a 3.79 percent increase in sales over the same period last year, at 76 trillion won.

The world's largest manufacturer of memory chips is the main subsidiary of the giant Samsung Group, the largest family-owned conglomerate that dominates business in South Korea, Asia's fourth-largest economy.

The conglomerate is central to the strength of South Korea's economy, with gross sales equaling one-fifth of the national gross domestic product.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - Rawan Al-Asaad - Despite our belief in fate and fate, and our full awareness that the issue of infertility, whether on the part of women or men, is a pathological condition, societal acceptance has a funny and crying equation. Is it because of a stereotype that has been planted in the minds since eternity and became a reality and reality; It is as if it is a sacred constitution that gives the husband the right to abandon his wife and grants society the status of an executioner for a woman who cannot bear children like other women, to increase her psychological suffering exponentially. Why does a woman bear the greatest degree of responsibility in the event of her inability to bear children? "Al-Quds" discussed the issue with the researcher in the field of social and human sciences, Abdulaziz Al-Salihi.

First of all, researcher Abdulaziz Al-Salhi says: We all agree that infertility is a disease that affects both males and females, and the World Health Organization has defined it as “the inability to achieve pregnancy after 12 months or more of committed sexual intercourse without means of protection.” Therefore, we agree that this disease affects Both sexes, and the estimates of the World Health Organization indicate that there are 48 million couples and 186 million infertile individuals in the world, and it is possible that infertility is primary and secondary, and this is a very important issue that we must point out, as primary infertility means that pregnancy does not occur at all during the marriage period and has Social dimensions are harsher and stronger than secondary infertility that occurs at a later stage, and there is pregnancy and childbirth at least once during the marriage stage.

The inferior status of women who are unable to bear children

He continued: It is very important to point out that this phenomenon is not associated with Arab local communities only, as is common from a stereotype. If we search in quantitative and qualitative studies and literature, we find dozens of studies that talk about stigmatizing women as a result of infertility in all countries of the world, although For example, in the United States, one out of every six couples suffers from infertility or problems related to reproduction, which is accompanied by a stigma attached to females in particular, but the paradox lies in the scale that researchers use to determine the stigma and the extent of its impact. Here, standards differ from society to society.

How does the social stigmatization process take place and why does it occur and leave behind social dimensions?

Al-Salihi says: When looking at the issue of childlessness and its social dimensions with a sociological eye (from the perspective of sociology), it is necessary to return to family sociology, which is the science that studies the social roots of the family, the impact of society, the social structure and its relationship with the family, and is concerned with studying everything related to the family in terms of structure and functions. And internal and kinship relations and social and economic systems. The sociology of the family proposes that in order to properly understand the family, we must understand the functions that relate to the family within society, its natural structural and functional functions. From here, we can understand the inability to have children "infertility" sociologically in terms of its location in this system, i.e. the building system, specifically in functions In the sense that there is a functional role associated with the issue of procreation in society, which reflects the social dimensions and accompanies them in parallel, and in more detail, the structural dimension of childbearing and infertility is accompanied by cultural dimensions that exist mainly in the cultural heritage, therefore structurally everything that comes in the cultural heritage has a functional analysis, On the sociological level, the role of childbearing is important, hence the stigma associated with childlessness.

Society's view of social roles

In this context, Al-Salihi says: We must understand how society views the social roles of individuals in their societies, in order to understand where the stigma comes from. It is said that the more society tends towards functional division, the less severe sterility as a social stigma will be, because the roles related to individuals appear in other locations and manifestations. different from procreation, so the focus becomes in complex societies in which the division of roles is high over other roles; For example, is she a successful doctor? Is her social status high? This makes the issue of childbearing or whether it is not linked in the functional criteria to the role of women, and here the stigma is less, unlike societies in which “childbearing” is considered one of the most prominent roles associated with women in the social imagination, so the composition of stigma is higher and she feels herself in her in a higher way.

The phenomenon of infertility from the perspective of sociology

He says: As we mentioned previously, sociology, if we want to understand matters from the perspective of sociology, we must first understand the relationship of the family to society, its role and functions, and how infertility is a concept opposite to the basic function in establishing the family, which is “procreation.” This is an introduction to deducing the social status of the family, as it is the basic building block Society, which is a general phenomenon in all societies despite the different forms of families in different societies, and it is an essential feature that affects and is affected by all systems within society. Hence, it can be said that the difference from the rules of society and the absence of elements that fill the functional factors may bring stigma, not in the sense that difference means Stigma, but how does society view it? If the family structure within the society proceeds based on the prevailing social system in it and performs its function by procreation, reproduction, and the establishment of a family in the socially agreed manner, a kind of stigma occurs in the event that this is violated, and it is an entrance to understanding the phenomenon of infertility and its social and cultural dimensions. And its reasons.

Why do women take an inferior position when they are unable to have children?

Al-Salihi answers, saying: Women take a more inferior position than men and they are the victims, but to be frankly fair within society, both the male and the female become inferior when the issue relates to infertility, meaning that the barren male becomes inferior in his place as the female, and what some people do not understand is that the patriarchal system fell on males In many cases, it is completely omnipotent, as it is on females.

He continued: This is due to the social imagination and its broad and complex sociological concept, as it defines for individuals preconceived ideas about their roles within society and where they should be. The imagination is the fertile soil through which we inherited and imbibed all these ideas, so yes, the social imagination is directly linked to the woman because she takes care of children and bears, and automatically the assumption becomes that the problem exists with her, and this has existed since time immemorial, as the woman was a symbol of fertility in the ancient gods and she was the one who She rules matrilineal societies because she is the one who gives birth. So the issue is historically in the social imagination.

And he continued: In contrast to the space available to both males and females as well, the masculine society has special criteria for success in the family that are related to the male, and these criteria are completely different from those of the female, meaning that the criteria for success for spouses is that the man is able to collect sufficient income according to societal standards and accomplish material achievements. More, such as owning a house, a vehicle, and a prestigious position, and these roles are related to the male, and if he gets them, according to the social imagination, he has approached the ideal, and there is no problem for him, and the space he has to cover up the issue of childlessness is greater, unlike the female who does not get imaginative opportunities Association.

These paradoxes are certainly related to the psychological and social repercussions on women, and most of the negative feelings resulting from infertility are directly related to stigma. A case different from the individuals present and involved in their surroundings, so it is very important to understand that in all societies of the world there is stigma for sterile women, but the question is how is it practiced on them? Here, a difference can be made in the appearances and formations of stigma, whether it was practiced verbally or treated with inferiority, and it must be noted whether these feelings are individual or not. Direct on self-esteem and self-confidence which goes along with this issue.

Is awareness the only solution?

Regarding solutions, he says: Sociologically, I can talk about the roles of society’s institutions in this issue, especially raising awareness in digesting, assimilating, and presenting the concept of “infertility” to individuals in society. Governance, and this may be completely absent from policies according to what countries see as priorities, unless these policies are related to scientific research and increasing infertility treatment centers in some cases, and this is another issue. On another level, which is the level of society as a society by changing the rule, which is completely educational and there is no way to work on it other than awareness, and here is the role of the basic institutions, specifically in the university, as students can be made aware of the concepts of reproductive health and others, and by talking about the phenomenon of infertility within society, there is an understanding It is greater, especially when you play the role-playing game at the university stage, in the sense that you present the phenomenon and put it in its place, developing different feelings instead of judging the phenomenon from afar.

The second role is the role of health centers, some of which may deal with the patient as if she is taking a physiological treatment for infertility without taking into account the psychological and social dimensions, as it must be taken into account that all organic diseases, specifically diseases related to infertility and symbols of femininity and masculinity, are accompanied by negative dimensions on the psychological level, and therefore There must be a focus on mental health care for patients, awareness and psychological support, and not be limited to physical physiological treatment. Here the government intervenes by allocating programs in hospitals and medical centers, and our only way out is awareness and we count on awareness.

Finally, and as an introduction to the issue of alleviating the psychological pain and social suffering resulting from infertility on females and males in society, it is necessary to review the legislation related to incubation at the community level, as some of them make the incubation steps much more difficult for those who are unable to have children as a result of infertility. Ministers No. (10) of 2013 in the Foster Families Regulation of 2013 AD and in Article (8) of the law, it states that “priority in fostering a child is given to:” 1. The family residing in the Palestinian Territories 2. The family with the appropriate educational, cultural and social level 3. Cases of sterility of one or both of the spouses and their marriage has passed for ten years. This prompts us to question whether the legislation actually facilitates the process of incubation or places some obstacles in front of it, as the extent of The appropriateness of specifying the period of marriage of the spouses to ten years, and if this requirement really hinders children’s access to the right to care, and does not take into account disadvantaged families who are unable to have children.In addition, the idea that priority should be given to families with an appropriate educational, cultural and social level must be reviewed, as it is proposed The phrase questions about normativity in such a proposition, and the fear of depriving the “less fortunate” of that.

Written by: Professor Alon Ben-Meir
Given that Israel and Hamas cooperate overtly and tacitly on multiple fronts, one would think that they would finally realize that they are stuck and neither can escape from the other. It is time for both of them to come to terms with their inescapable reality and seek a long-term solution to their conflict.

In searching for a solution to the conflict between Israel and Hamas, one has to look at their reality and identify the elements that sustain their conflict and those that maintain a wide range of cooperation regardless of their hostile relationship. The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) calls for the destruction of Israel, and Israel considers Hamas a "terrorist" organization that must be isolated and kept under siege. And while both sides "seem" to pitch conviction against the other, they also recognize that they are stuck together. Regardless of their public statements to the contrary, they privately admit that neither of them can get rid of the other. The absurdity of their relationship is that although they know the status quo cannot continue indefinitely, they make little if any effort to change the course of their conflict.

Since Hamas took control of Gaza in 2007, Israel and Hamas have fought four wars and dozens of violent incidents between them without achieving any lasting gains. Indeed, to the contrary, Israel has repeatedly suffered economic turmoil as a result of intermittent violence and wars, while the Palestinians have suffered widespread devastation, thousands dead, and tens of thousands who will continue to endure years of despair and devastation from war in the aftermath of these violent confrontations.

The conflict between them continues because Hamas wants to preserve its political standing in the eyes of its public by showing militancy and confrontational resistance against Israel in its public statements and actions, and strengthening its role at the forefront of the struggle against the occupation and the blockade. On the other hand, Israel strictly maintains its blockade and control over people and goods at the crossings to and from Gaza, and when necessary uses military force to subdue any major violent provocations by invading Gaza and "mowing the lawn" to prevent Hamas from advancing or revival.

Meanwhile, despite its failure to reap tangible benefits over the years, Hamas still refuses to renounce violence against Israel and continues to build up its arsenal of weapons (mostly rockets). On the other hand, Israel is preparing for the next round of hostilities, but each time it fails to change the dynamics of the conflict in its favour. The paradox here is that while this situation is outwardly perfect, they continue to deal directly but tacitly with each other or through Egypt. They negotiate specific security or economic measures after each war breaks out and reach new agreements on the various conflicting issues that unintentionally arise as a result of the futile reality of their confrontation.
The absurdity or absurdity of the relationship between Israel and Hamas is threefold. The paradox in the first sense is that Hamas was created by Israel itself, which has been confirmed by many senior Israeli military and civilian officials over several years. Former Brigadier General Yitzhak Segev, who was Israel's military ruler in Gaza in the early 1980s, told a New York Times reporter that he helped fund Hamas as a "counterweight" to the secular and leftists in the PLO and Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, saying that "the Israeli government She gave me a budget and the military government used to give it to mosques." Among many others, Avner Cohen—a former Israeli religious affairs official who worked in Gaza for more than two decades—told the Wall Street Journal in 2009 that "Hamas, very unfortunately, is a creation of Israel."

The IDF's thinking at the time was that it would be enormously beneficial to Israel if the religiously observant Hamas and the socialist Palestine Liberation Organization continued to fight each other rather than Israel. Certainly, Israel helped transform a "bandit" of Palestinian Islamists in the late 1970s into a relatively large force. And for most Israelis, this fact is either unknown or easily dismissed as a conspiracy theory. The Israeli leaders at that time (Rabin and Shamir) did not know that Hamas would become the sworn enemy of Israel.

The second aspect of the absurd relationship between Israel and Hamas is that while Israel officially refuses to negotiate with any "terrorist" organization, and certainly does not in any way aid or support any of them, it finds itself in a different predicament when it comes to Hamas. Other than occasionally slowing or suspending traffic through the two crossings under Israeli control (Erez for people and Kerem Shalom for goods) due to violent incidents, Israel has no other choice but to allow supplies of food, construction materials, medical equipment, and oil and gas to cross into Gaza. In addition, Israel is funneling money to Hamas from various donors, notably Qatar, while allowing up to 17,000 Palestinian workers from Gaza to work in Israel on a daily basis to ease the severe economic hardships most Palestinians in the Strip suffer from.

And the third is that even though both parties know that they are stuck and must live with each other indefinitely, they still refuse to accept the other's inescapable existence. Speaking to dozens of Israelis and Palestinians about the continuing unstable situation between the two sides, I found little consensus about the nature of any potential solution. However, there was general agreement that neither could get rid of the other. The question is, since they must regularly confront and interact on so many levels, why not seek a permanent solution to the conflict, given their present reality?

The answer is that there are many other elements at play in the conflict that make it so difficult to resolve, including historical narratives, religious connections, psychology, and emotional states whose mitigation are prerequisites for finding a solution. Although all Palestinians share the same historical perspective, sentiments, mentality, and beliefs, the extremism and intolerance of Hamas as they relate to all these elements makes its prospect of moderation more difficult and complex.

Hamas, like most Palestinians, believes in the Palestinians' right to the historical land of their ancestors, demands a Palestinian state on all of historic Palestine (including Gaza, the West Bank, and Israel), and goes further than other Palestinians in insisting that this will be an Islamic state. And although it remains unbelievable for Hamas to give up so much of what it considers to be historical Palestine, they also know deep down that it will be impossible to fully recover it. The most they can hope for is the establishment of a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders which they have offered on several occasions, and these include the West Bank with some land swaps and all of Gaza.

And as an organization rooted in Islam, Hamas has a strong religious connection to the land. Its charter proclaims its belief that “the land of Palestine is an Islamic waqf dedicated to future generations of Muslims until the Day of Judgment,” and Hamas refers to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in fanatical terms as indisputable evidence of its sacred relationship with it.

More than 70 years of bloody conflict that necessitated the drain of heavy human and material resources, suffering and disintegration, certainly left deep and indelible psychological suffering and resistance that continues to haunt all Palestinians, especially the people of Gaza. Regardless of Hamas' obstinacy and missed opportunities over the years, the blockade of Gaza only deepens their psychological trauma and provides a constant reminder of their miserable situation for which they blame Israel.

Finally, any reasoned discourse is overshadowed by the emotional component. Hamas is at the head of the emotionally distraught and exhausted Palestinian population of Gaza, with a deep sense of hopelessness. Day in and day out they are struggling to make ends meet without much relief in sight. Their emotional resistance to the blockade incites hatred against Israel and generates a strong desire for revenge that leaves little room for understanding and reconciliation with the Israeli reality.

Even after the most thorough examination of the above four points, and regardless of Israel's convincing explanation for Hamas' intransigence, one conclusion remains inescapable: Nothing will change the need for reconciliation with Israel. In the last analysis, Hamas must still find a way to come to terms with Israel's existence because neither Hamas nor Israel can eliminate each other's existence - not now, not in ten years, not anytime in the foreseeable future.

To this end, I must ask every member of the Hamas leadership to look in the mirror and ask themselves the following question, and answer it honestly: Under what circumstances and under what conditions, how, when, and by what means will Hamas be in a position to destroy Israel? If they are honest with themselves, the answer will be never at any time.
Maybe it's time for them to be bold and clear. If one day Israel faces a clear and present existential threat, it will unleash all its military power to completely and ruthlessly eliminate the source of the threat that will end the existence of Hamas or any other sworn enemies of Israel.

And every political leader in Israel must also ask a similar question, which is, will there ever be a circumstance under which Israel can completely get rid of Hamas? The answer here would also be an emphatic no. And so, notwithstanding their deep enmity towards each other and their mutually destructive thinking, they are stuck with each other and there is no point in waiting for the day when either can achieve a unilateral and permanent victory over the other. That day will not come, the dynamic of the conflict will not change dramatically, and the potential for recurring violent confrontations is everywhere. Regardless of who will form the next Israeli government, whether Netanyahu or Lapid, public discourse should begin on this issue.

In August, Hamas showed restraint by not joining the Islamic Jihad's missile attack on Israel, which ended in "Islamic Jihad's humiliation" as a result of Israel's retaliation! Hamas has also shown that the interest of the people it rules comes first, and has refrained from joining the recent violent unrest in the West Bank. This may not seem particularly noticeable; However, these events provide an opportunity for both Israel and Hamas to build on.

In the short term, Israel should reciprocate by increasing the number of Palestinian workers from Gaza who can work in Israel from the current number of 20,000 to 30,000 as reported by the Qatari envoy to Gaza Mohammed Al-Emadi who meets regularly with Israeli and Palestinian officials and expediting, whenever possible By transferring money and transporting goods to Gaza. Moreover, Israel should make it easier for Palestinians who need urgent medical care to receive it in Israel, as well as facilitate the exit of Palestinian students from Gaza to universities.

On the other hand, Hamas should not provoke Israel and should continue to gradually moderate its vitriolic public narrative against Israel and rein in Islamic Jihad from provoking Israel. Neither side will lose face by cooperating at this level and gradually expanding their cooperation without much fanfare.

In the long term, Hamas should renew its call for a 15-20 year cease-fire (hudna) and tacitly agree with Israel that during this period it will focus on building the state rather than buying more weapons and missiles to prepare for the next round of hostilities, while distancing itself About Iran. Both Israel and Hamas should develop a credible and mutually acceptable mechanism for this. The idea, in fact, behind the long-term cease-fire is to provide the building blocks for a permanent peace agreement based on a two-state solution negotiated jointly with or separately from the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. In any case, a long-term ceasefire remains a critical first step toward that end.

Hamas signaling its willingness to cease all hostilities is not surrender - it is the moral and most beneficial thing for its people. The same goes for Israel. The notion, for many Israelis, that Hamas simply cannot be reformed is absurd. The same has been said about the Palestine Liberation Organization. Israel has nothing to lose by also indicating that it is open to dialogue with the aim of reaching an interim agreement.

I must appeal to the Hamas leadership to reflect on the plight of its people. Their suffering will not end until the blockade is finally lifted. Instead of training another generation of fighters for desperate battles and sacrificing themselves for the imaginary goal of destroying Israel, Hamas is obligated to think carefully about their future and aspire for a new dawn and a new beginning that they so crave, richly deserve and proud of in their accomplishments, if only they had the chance.

It is time for Israel to confront the reality of Hamas and address the consequences of its creation. Conversely, Hamas has to accept the reality of Israel however unacceptable that may be, simply because they have no other choice.

Translation of " Jerusalem " dot com - Thousands of Israelis demonstrated, on Saturday evening, in several cities, to protest against the far-right government headed by Benjamin Netanyahu , and its policies, especially with regard to the so-called "judicial reforms."

About 20,000 demonstrators participated in the main demonstration in Habima Square in Tel Aviv , with the participation of ministers, Knesset members, and former political figures, some of whom are current, especially from the opposition, and left-wing activists and others.

Among the participants are former Israeli army minister and current Knesset member Benny Gantz, current Knesset member Yair Golan, along with former minister Ehud Barak, former foreign minister Tzipi Livni, and others.

About 2,000 people participated in a demonstration in front of the home of Israeli President Isaac Herzog, and hundreds at the homes of Justice Minister Yariv Levin and Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana. Thousands are expected to arrive in the vicinity of Benjamin Netanyahu's house.

About 2,000 people demonstrated in Haifa on the pretext of several left-wing movements.

The demonstrators accuse the current government of hijacking democracy through these judicial reforms, and accusing it of seeking to turn Israel into a dictatorship. according to their expression.

Prior to the marches, the Israeli police raised the state of alert and deployed more than a thousand policemen in the vicinity of Habima Square alone, and hundreds were deployed in separate areas and in the vicinity of the homes of Herzog, Netanyahu and others.

Washington - "Jerusalem" dot com - Saeed Erekat - Representative in the US state of Massachusetts parliament, Jamie Pelcito, strongly criticized Israel's policies against the Palestinians last week, saying that the Hebrew state is on a "mission to kill the Palestinians" and steal their lands.

The politician representing Essex 4th District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives tweeted on her official Twitter page on December 29, 2022 that Israel is a "thug terrorist regime run by an apartheid regime," and urged the United States to recognize that.

She said, "The United States must recognize that the Israeli administration is a thug terrorist regime run by the apartheid regime on a mission to kill Palestinians" and added, "Killing and land grabbing have nothing to do with anti-Semitism. It is genocide."

In another tweet earlier this past December, Pilcito praised the Jordanian film "Joy" by Jordanian director Darine Salam, which depicts Zionist militias killing or displacing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians during the Nakba ("catastrophe").

In a tweet, she said: "My family sat together to watch this movie. The United States has no understanding of what the Nakba is. The truth cannot be silenced. In 1948 the British European Zionists created Hell on Earth. This movie is about deep hatred, ethnic cleansing, terrorism and apartheid." subjected to the Palestinians.

Pilcito was elected on November 30, 2021, in a special election following former Representative Brad Hill's appointment to the Massachusetts Gaming Commission.

The pro-Israel lobby forces in the United States are organizing a fundraising campaign to overthrow Blisto in the upcoming elections.

(Xinhua) A stone tablet dating back to 1286, during the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) was discovered in Longyao County in north China's Hebei Province.
According to experts, the painting recorded the merits and virtues of a local family called the "Wang Family".
The painting is 1.52 meters high, 0.76 meters wide and 0.26 meters thick, and is made of blue stone with a dome at the top. The letters on the front side of the plate were clear in 18 lines.
The inscription describes the deeds of Wang's ancestors who had been engaged in agriculture all their lives, working hard in the fields and buying houses, caring for their elders, and helping the poor. So Wang's ancestors rebuilt the tombs and erected the plaque as a monument to remember their merits and virtues.
In this context, Guo Yingjie, an academic specializing in literature and history in Longyao County, said that the discovery of this painting is of high value for the study of the history of civilization in the Yuan Dynasty.

Hebron - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Israeli occupation forces targeted citizens' homes in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, with live ammunition, today, Wednesday.

Waffa, that the occupation forces targeted, with live ammunition, the homes of citizens in Khallet Al-Dabaa community in Masafer Yatta, which led to damage to the roofs and walls of four houses as a result of being hit directly with live bullets, belonging to citizens of the Dababseh family, where a state of fear and panic prevailed among children and women.

He added that the occupation forces have been carrying out live ammunition exercises for days in the "Bir al-Qat" area near the al-Halawa community, and in the vicinity of a number of residential communities in Masafer Yatta, which are threatened with demolition and displacement, with the aim of the occupation, through that, to intimidate the people and threaten their lives, to push them to leave those areas in favor of settlement expansion. .

It is noteworthy that the Occupation Supreme Court had rejected, earlier this year, a petition submitted by the residents of 12 residential communities in Masafer Yatta, against the occupation’s decision to declare their communities “shooting” areas, which allowed those forces to continue to carry out military exercises in those areas on By demolishing these communities and displacing their residents.

ALGIERS - (Xinhua) - Algeria and Jordan signed today (Sunday) five cooperation agreements on the occasion of the two-day state visit of Jordan's King Abdullah bin Al-Hussein to Algeria.

The agreements were signed in the capital, Algiers, in the presence of Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune and the Jordanian king.

The matter relates to a memorandum of understanding on bilateral political consultations, an agreement on mutual exemption from visas for holders of diplomatic passports, a memorandum of understanding between the Diplomatic Institute and International Relations and the Jordanian Diplomatic Institute, a joint cooperation program between the Algerian News Agency and the Jordanian News Agency, and an agreement on mutual recognition of eligibility certificates for navigators, education programs and levels Naval training.

A joint statement was issued on the state visit, in which the two sides praised the cooperation achieved in the pharmaceutical industry and the successful experience of cooperation between Algerian and Jordanian factories in this field.

They also discussed ways to increase trade exchange between the two countries, and the importance of encouraging investors and businessmen to explore opportunities and possibilities available in the economic, investment and trade fields, and expanding joint cooperation to include other sectors, including health care, energy, medical tourism, hotel, transportation, aviation training, culture, higher education and exchange. inter-university culture.

It was agreed to start preparing for the next session of the Joint Higher Committee, to be held next year.

During the visit, the Algerian President awarded the Jordanian monarch, King Abdullah bin Al-Hussein, the Atheer Medal of Merit for the Republic of Algeria.

United Nations (United States) - (AFP) - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday appointed a new coordinator for the Black Sea Grains Initiative, the deal reached in July between the United Nations, Ukraine, Russia and Turkey aimed at alleviating the food crisis. Globalism.

And the Sudanese Amir Mahmoud Abdullah, who had held the position since August, was replaced by the Kuwaiti Abdullah Abdul Samad Dashti, a retired admiral in the armed forces in his country, Guterres' spokesman announced in a statement.

Guterres' office noted, "The Secretary-General is grateful to Mr. Abdullah for his supervision, hard work, and commitment to implementing the initiative, especially during difficult times."

In recent years, Dashti, a former soldier in the Navy, served as Kuwait's military attaché in Belgium and his country's representative to NATO.

The Black Sea Grain Initiative (the official name of the agreement for Ukrainian grain exports from Ukrainian ports) resulted from an agreement struck on July 22 and helped alleviate the global food crisis caused by the war.

The agreement was renewed in mid-November for four months in the winter.

According to Ukraine's Ministry of Agrarian Policy, so far a total of 580 ships carrying 15 million tons of grain have left Ukrainian ports since July, bound for Asia, Africa and Europe.

On December 15, Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Rebecca Greenspan, who is participating in the initiative, announced that more than 14 million tons of grain had been exported from Ukrainian ports.
For its part, Russia deplores the failure to implement a second agreement with the United Nations dating back to July 22 regarding its exports of grain and fertilizers, due to Western sanctions, according to it.

New York - (AFP) - Emergency crews began inspecting the losses of the snow storm that prevented millions of Americans from celebrating Christmas, especially in snow-covered areas of western New York, where the number of deaths due to the weather reached 27 on Monday, in what the authorities described as a "war with nature." Mother" in the face of "the storm of the century".

Parts of the northeastern United States continued to face a series of extreme weather events with associated snow, wind and freezing temperatures that swept the country over several days, causing widespread power outages, thousands of flight cancellations and at least 49 deaths.

Extreme weather has led to more than 17,000 flights being canceled in recent days, including about 3,800 on Monday, according to Flightaware.com.

Meteorologists expected that snowfall would continue in Buffalo, which is accustomed to bad winter weather, and that a 35-centimeter-thick layer would be added on Monday, in addition to what had accumulated for days and led to paralysis of the city and the collapse of its emergency services.

US President Joe Biden wrote in a tweet on Twitter, Monday, "My heart is with those who have lost their loved ones," noting that he had spoken by phone with New York Governor Cathy Hochul, and promised to provide the necessary federal resources.

Stormy weather continued to camp over Erie County in western New York, where Buffalo is located, which has become the epicenter of the weather crisis.

"In addition to the 13 deaths confirmed yesterday, the Erie County Health Department's Office has confirmed 12 additional deaths, bringing the county-wide total number of deaths from the blizzard to 25," Mark Polonkarz, Erie County Executive Officer, told a news conference.

The severe weather makes this "probably the worst storm in our lives and in the city's history," Poloncars added, noting that the number of deaths in Erie will likely exceed the victims of the 1977 Buffalo Blizzard that killed about 30 people.

With more snow expected and most of Buffalo's roads declared "impassable," Boloncars warned residents to stay indoors.

"This is not the end yet, we are not there yet," he said.

National Guard personnel and other teams rescued hundreds of people from cars buried under snow, but authorities said more people were still trapped.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul said she was shocked by what she saw during a reconnaissance tour of the city Sunday.

Hochul described the matter as "a war zone, and the sight of cars on both sides of the roads is shocking," noting the threat of snow accumulated by more than two meters to homes and the residents' suffering from power outages.

"It's a war with Mother Nature," she said. "It is certainly the storm of the century," she told reporters, adding that "it is too early to say that it is about to end."

Severe weather sent temperatures in 48 US states below freezing over the weekend.

Poloncars said that power would not be fully restored in Buffalo until Monday, and that Buffalo International Airport would remain closed until Tuesday.

Ali Lawson, 34, who has lived in Buffalo for eight years, told AFP on Saturday that "the winds are so strong" that the snow is shaped like "sand dunes". He described the situation as "crazy".

More than 48,000 homes were without power on the East Coast on Sunday, according to the Power-Autage website, which reported power outages for about 150,000 homes initially.

The US Weather Service said it expects temperatures to return to normal seasonal levels "by the middle of next week."

It added in its latest forecast forecast that the weather "will continue to cause dangerous travel conditions locally over the next two days."

And the meteorologists warned that "most parts of the eastern United States will continue to suffer from icy weather during the day on Monday, before conditions begin to moderate from Tuesday."

In the province of British Columbia in Canada, a bus overturned Saturday, probably due to ice, killed four people and transferred 53 others to hospital, including two who were in critical condition early Sunday morning.

Hundreds of thousands of people were deprived of power in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec, a large number of flights were canceled in major cities, and passenger train service between Toronto and Ottawa was suspended.

Jenin / Translation by "Al-Quds" dot com - Ali Samoudi - Jenin is witnessing a state of security tension after a group of resistance fighters kidnapped the body of a "Druze" resident of Daliat al-Carmel inside the occupied territories, on suspicion that he was one of the occupation soldiers or its intelligence services, after he was killed in a traffic accident in the morning. Near the Arab American University.

According to sources who spoke to Al-Quds.com, extensive contacts are taking place to try to resolve the crisis, and that several parties are intervening to try to hand over his body.

A large deployment of the Palestinian security forces was observed in the vicinity of Ibn Sina Hospital and other areas, prior to their subsequent withdrawal.

Al-Quds.com correspondent reported that efforts failed to hand over the body, after the resistance refused to hand it over for unknown reasons.

He pointed out that the resistance groups in Jenin are on high alert and have completely closed the entrance to the camp.

The Hebrew Channel 13 reported that Israel had asked the Palestinian Authority to hand over the body.

While an Israeli military spokesman said in an official statement that the person who was killed, another was wounded with him and was taken for treatment in an Israeli hospital, and that his body is expected to be transferred as soon as possible.

Washington - (AFP) - Rapper Kanye West, mired in a series of problems, has hinted that he intends to run for the 2024 US presidential elections, confirming that he offered former President Donald Trump to be a candidate for his vice presidency.

The singer, who changed his name to "Yi", posted a series of videos on his Twitter account on Thursday night and Friday, accompanied by the slogan "Yi 24".

In one of these clips, West, 45, referred to a conversation he had with Trump, who himself announced his candidacy for the 2024 election.

"I asked him to be the vice president," Yi said, emphasizing that Trump "was yelling" at him. And the feisty singer in the worlds of music and fashion had previously surprisingly run for the 2020 elections, but he only got 70,000 votes.

And the forty-fifth president of the United States confirmed on Friday that he had dinner with the rap star at his residence in Florida, but described his meeting with him as "quick" and "quiet."

Trump then clarified that they had a "talk of politics", adding, "I told him he should never run for president and that 'every electorate he might have should vote for Trump'."

The black singer was recently criticized for wearing a T-shirt that read "White Lives Matter" during Paris Fashion Week.

This slogan, used by the American far-right, is an amendment to the name of the "Black Lives Matter" movement, which fights against racism against African Americans. The star also posted comments on Instagram and Twitter that were deemed anti-Semitic.

And the German sports equipment manufacturer, Adidas, announced Thursday that it had opened an independent investigation into “allegations” of inappropriate behavior against a number of its employees from Kanye West, with whom the company recently cut off its cooperation in the manufacture of Yeezy shoes.

This investigation is related to what was reported by the American “Rolling Stones” magazine, quoting former officials of “Yeeze” and “Adidas”, that the behavior complained of ranged from acts of intimidation, displaying pornographic material to employees during meetings, discussing pornographic topics,

In addition to “Adidas”, several other companies cut ties with the singer, including the “Balenciaga” fashion house, the American “Gap” ready-to-wear company, and the “CAA” agency that manages his business, while the production company “MRC” announced Cancellation of a documentary that deals with West, which has already been filmed.

Seoul - (AFP) - South Korea accused North Korea on Monday of sending a number of drones that crossed its borders, prompting Seoul to deploy warplanes and fire warning shots to repel them.

The alleged breach of South Korean airspace was the first in five years and follows a series of weapons tests by Pyongyang.

South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said the military "first detected a North Korean drone in the vicinity of Gimpo airspace at 10:25" (01:25 GMT) and "immediately responded".

"It is a clear provocative act in which North Korea violated our airspace," a senior officer in the Joint Chiefs of Staff told reporters.

According to the South Korean military, the breach led to warning shots from Seoul, which also deployed fighter jets and helicopter gunships to shoot down five drones, one of which reached the airspace near Seoul.

Yonhap news agency reported that one of the South Korean planes, a Kai-1 fighter, then crashed in eastern Hongseong Province.

The military did not say whether the drones were shot down or crossed again the border between the two Koreas, which is among the most secure areas in the world.

The South Korean army also deployed its reconnaissance means - with and without crews - in the areas near and north of the Military Demarcation Line to take "appropriate measures".

"We conducted reconnaissance and operational activities, including photographing key enemy military installations," the Joint Chiefs of Staff official said.

"Our military will continue to respond comprehensively and resolutely to such provocations by North Korea," he added.

And the Yonhap news agency, quoting an official at the South Korean Ministry of Transport, said that flights were temporarily suspended at its international airports, Gimpo and Incheon, near the capital, for about an hour, at the request of the army.

According to Yang Moo-jin, a professor at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul, this is the first time that flights have been suspended in South Korea due to "the proliferation of North Korean drones."

"Given the low level of development of unmanned aerial vehicles in North Korea, it is unlikely that they would have offensive capabilities used in modern warfare," the researcher said, considering that they were deployed for the purpose of espionage.

"We assume that it entered our region for reconnaissance training," he added.

It is the first time in five years that North Korean drones have flown into South Korean airspace.
The incursion comes amid heightened tensions, as Pyongyang has conducted an unprecedented series of weapons tests this year, notably testing its most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile yet.

Last week, Pyongyang launched two short-range ballistic missiles and said it had developed new capabilities for capturing images from space using a spy satellite, which it plans to complete in April 2023.

North Korea's use of drones is a growing concern for Seoul, but Pyongyang denies any involvement and accuses the South of fabricating evidence.

In 2017, the South Korean army fired warning shots at a flying object that entered the country's airspace from North Korea.

A year ago, South Korean soldiers fired warning shots at a North Korean drone that crossed the most sensitive area west of the border.

In September 2015, South Korea issued an anti-aircraft alert. It sent an attack helicopter and a fighter to chase down a drone that crossed the border, but their attempt failed.

In 2014, a South Korean fisherman found the wreckage of a North Korean drone in his net near an island on the disputed border in the Yellow Sea.

(AFP) - AC Milan and Germany's Leipzig completed the teams that qualified for the final price of the UEFA Champions League by defeating Austria's Salzburg and Ukraine's Shakhtar Donetsk, respectively, with a similar result, 4-0, Wednesday, in the sixth-last round.

Milan and Leipzig thus joined 14 other teams: Napoli, Italy, Liverpool, England (Group A), Club Brugge, Porto, Portugal (second), Bayern Munich, Inter Milan, Italy (third), Tottenham, England, Eintracht Frankfurt, Germany (fourth), Chelsea, England (fifth), and Real Madrid, Spain. (sixth), Manchester City, Germany, Borussia Dortmund (seventh), Paris Saint-Germain, France, and Benfica of Portugal (eighth).

In the first match at the San Siro stadium, Milan qualified for the final price for the first time since the 2013-2014 season.
Milan raised its score to 10 points in second place, behind leaders Chelsea, who won 2-1 over Dinamo Zagreb, raising its tally to 13 points.

Milan entered the match needing a draw only to lead their rivals by one point.

Veteran French striker Giroud opened the scoring, taking advantage of a corner kick by Sandro Tonali, who rose above everyone else and headed into the net (14).

At the beginning of the second half, Milan strengthened its lead with a second goal through Bosnian Kronic from a header, after a solo effort by Serbian striker Ante Rebic (46).

Soon, Giroud finally decided the result in favor of his team by adding the third and second personal goal to him, after a wonderful individual effort by the brilliant Portuguese winger Rafael Leao, to shoot with his left hand into the net (57).

Brazilian Macías concluded the festival of goals by scoring the fourth in the first minute of stoppage time.

In the same group, Chelsea overturned its failure against Dinamo Zagreb with a goal to win 2-1, to avenge its loss against it at the start of its career in this competition, which overthrew its former German coach, Thomas Tuchel, before Graham Potter took over the task in his place.

In Group Six, Leipzig followed the example of Milan, with a landslide victory over Shakhtar Donetsk, 4-0.
Leipzig, who needed a point to qualify, raised its tally in second place to 12 points, a point behind Spanish leaders Real Madrid, the guarantor of its qualification, and the winner over Celtic, the Scottish bottom club, 5-1, while Danitsk’s balance froze at 6 points in third place, to move to the play-offs. The price of the final of the European League competition "Europa League".
In the same group, Madrid honored its guest, Celtic, by defeating it 5-1.
The royal club settled the result in its favor in the first half by scoring two goals from two penalty kicks through the Croatian Luka Modric (6) and the Brazilian Rodrigo (21), before adding a hat-trick in the second half that Marco Asensio (51), the Brazilian Vinicius Junior (61) and the Uruguayan Federico Valverde (61) took turns. 71).
The Portuguese losing team's goal was scored by Jota (84).

In Turin, Paris Saint-Germain's victory over Juventus 2-1 in the last home was not enough for the French capital team to take the lead in Group H in their favour, because Benfica succeeded in defeating Maccabi Tel Aviv, Israel, 6-1, to snatch it from it in the final seconds.
Benfica raised its score to 14 points, surpassing Saint-Germain by one goal, noting that the two confrontations between them, back and forth, ended in a draw with the same result, 1-1.
The French capital team, the only one in the five major tournaments that has not been defeated so far this season in various competitions (16 victories and 4 draws), played the match in the absence of its Brazilian striker Neymar due to multiple yellow cards.
Mbappe got rid of Federico Gatti in a wonderful way, despite the latter holding the shirt of the French striker, then Manuel Locatelli, with a wonderful technical movement, before he hit a ball that hit the post and headed into the net (13).
It is the seventh goal for Mbappe in the Champions League, to equal with Egyptian Liverpool striker Mohamed Salah at the top of the scorers' ranking. It is also his 40th goal in the most important European competition.
At the age of 23 years, 10 months and 13 days, Mbappe became the youngest player to reach the forty-goal barrier in the history of European competition, breaking the previous record of his Argentine colleague Lionel Messi (24 years, 4 months and 8 days), which had been standing since November 2011, according to the Opta statistics agency.
Colombian Juan Cuadrado responded with a powerful left shot from the outskirts of the area, which passed to the side of the post (20).
However, Juventus succeeded in equalizing when Cuadrado crossed a header in front of the goal, which Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma was unable to catch, to be followed by veteran Juventus defender and captain Leonardo Bonucci from close range into the net (39).
Saint-Germain coach Christophe Galtier included the Portuguese left-back, Nuno Mendes, instead of Spaniard Juan Bernat in the 68th minute, and one minute after his arrival, he received a front ball from Mbappe, so he was faster than Cuadrado, to follow it crawling with his left into the far corner of the Juventus goal, giving the lead again to his team.
On the other hand, Enrico Chiesa participated in the ranks of Juventus in the last quarter of an hour for the first time after an absence from the stadiums that lasted 10 months after undergoing cruciate ligament surgery.
Locatelli scored a goal that was not counted by the referee for offside (77).
In the second match, after the end of the first half, with Maccabi and Benfica tied 1-1, the latter rained down its opponent with five goals in the second half, including a goal in the second minute of stoppage time scored by Joao Mario, who settled the lead in favor of his team.
Manchester City, England, returned to the winning tone, after falling into a goalless draw in the past two rounds, by defeating Spain's Seville 3-1, in Group G competitions.
City, the guarantor of his qualification to the final price from the top of the group, increased his score to 14 points, 5 points ahead of Dortmund II, who drew 1-1 with Copenhagen, who reserved his seat for the next round with a goalless draw with City in the last round, while Seville is third with 5. Points for the play-offs for the final price of the “Europa League” competition.
City dominated the first half and took possession of the ball, but the Andalusian club opened the scoring thanks to Rafa Mir, who was free from control (31).
City turned the score in the second half by scoring three goals, which Luis opened after a pass from Argentine striker Julian Alvares (52), so that the latter came back and scored the second after a magical pass from 40 meters to Belgian Kevin De Bruyne (73). And the Algerian international, Riyad Mahrez, added the third, after a second assist from Alvares (83).
In the second match, Belgian Thorgan Hazard opened the scoring for Dortmund with a shot in the middle of the goal (23), before Copenhagen equalized through Icelandic midfielder Hakon Arna Haraldsson after a back pass from Swede Victor Clayson inside the penalty area (41).

German Leipzig caught up with the clubs that qualified for the final price of the European Champions League competition, by sweeping its host, Shakhtar Donetsk, Ukraine, 4-0, on Wednesday, in the sixth group competitions of the last sixth round.
Leipzig, who needed a point to qualify, raised its tally in second place to 12 points, a point behind Spanish leaders Real Madrid, the guarantor of its qualification, and the winner over Celtic, the Scottish bottom club, 5-1, while Danitsk’s balance froze at 6 points in third place, to move to the play-offs. The price of the final of the European League competition "Europa League".
15 teams have qualified so far, namely Napoli, Italy, Liverpool, England (Group A), Club Bruges, Porto, Portugal (second), Bayern Munich, Inter Milan, Italy (third), Tottenham, England, Eintracht Frankfurt, Germany (fourth), Chelsea, England (fifth), Real Madrid and Leipzig (sixth). Manchester City, Germany, Borussia Dortmund (seventh), Paris Saint-Germain, France, Benfica, Portugal (eighth).
And Leipzig needed only one point to reach the final price round for the third time in its short history (established in 2009) after the first season 2019-2020 when it reached the semi-finals and 2020-2021 when it exited the final price.
Leipzig avenged its loss at home to the Ukrainian team 1-4, continuing its uprising in the competition to achieve its fourth successive victory after losing in the first and second rounds, while the first loss this season was inflicted on the king of the competition, Real Madrid, when it defeated it 3-1 in the fifth round.
In the Polish capital, Warsaw, where Donetsk plays its matches due to Russia's invasion of his country, Leipzig coach Marco Rose pushed an offensive squad with Timo Werner and Hungarian Dominic Shubulay on the halls to support the French duo Christopher Nkunku and the Portuguese Andre Silva.
Werner almost opened the scoring 8 minutes after the whistle, after a game with the heel of the foot from Nkunko, followed by the German international with a left-footed shot, which was blocked by goalkeeper Anatoly Turbin with his foot, so that the Frenchman returned and scored two minutes later the first goal after he followed into the net a ball that Werner hit and the goalkeeper blocked it.
It is Nkunku's third goal in the mother continental competition this season.
However, Leipzig received a heavy blow, with Werner leaving in the 19th minute due to an injury to his left ankle, to be replaced by Swedish midfielder Emil Forsberg.
With the start of the second half, Leipzig added the second, after a cross from defender David Raum, to which his French counterpart, Muhammad Semakan, rose to it without pressure from the Danietsk players, and reached Silva, who shot the bird into the net (49), before the guest team fired a coup de grace at its host by adding it. The third crossed Shobulai after an assist from Nkunku (62), and the fourth came from Spain's Dani Olmo, a minute after he came on as a substitute with a through ball (68), before he later awarded the goal to Danitsk defender Valery Bondar, who diverted the direction of the ball.
Madrid honored its guest, Celtic, by defeating it 5-1.
The royal club settled the result in its favor in the first half by scoring two goals from two penalty kicks through the Croatian Luka Modric (6) and the Brazilian Rodrigo (21), before adding a hat-trick in the second half that Marco Asensio (51), the Brazilian Vinicius Junior (61) and the Uruguayan Federico Valverde (61) took turns. 71).
The Portuguese losing team's goal was scored by Jota (84).
Real Madrid, who holds the record for the number of titles in the competition (14), regained the tone of victories that it missed in the past two matches, by losing to Leipzig and falling into the trap of a draw against its guest Girona 1-1 in the League.
Real Madrid swept Celtic 3-0 in the first round of the competition, while the confrontation was considered marginal for the Scottish team, as it lost hopes of competing for the third place that qualifies for the play-off round that qualifies for the Europa League competition.

Jeddah - (AFP) - In a car repair shop in Jeddah, Saudi women work side by side with men... Just four years after women were allowed to drive in the kingdom, they entered the world of mechanics, which was also the preserve of men.

The "Petromin Express" workshop, located on the Red Sea coast in western Saudi Arabia, decided to implement the approach that the government is pushing towards in terms of opening work fields for men and women in various sectors. It was not without the difficulties the women concerned faced when entering a male-dominated field around the world, and even more so, of course, in the conservative kingdom.

The mechanics told AFP about the first months on the job, which raised doubts and anxiety for them, while they were sometimes subjected to mistreatment from some customers.

Ghada Ahmed told AFP that an "old man" came to the workshop and ordered all the women out, saying he did not want them near his car, preferring to deal with a man.

"In the beginning, it was natural that no one would trust me, because I am a woman," said Ahmed, who wore oily white gloves and a long blue coat, adding, "It is something new for them (men customers)... after years of dealing only with men."

As she struggled to learn the basics like checking engine oil and changing tires, there were times when Ahmed wondered if these men were really right.
"I struggled at first, and I would come home sad with swollen hands and cry and say, 'This job is not for me. It seems they (the men) are right'," she says.
But as her skills developed, and with her, her self-confidence, there were clients who supported her.

And she continues happily, "A while ago, a man came and said, 'I am very proud of you. You are an honor for us. You are a crown on our heads.'"

The promotion of women's rights is among the most prominent points of Vision 2030 launched by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, which aims to diversify the economy and change the image of Saudi Arabia's militancy prevailing in the world.

In recent years, the kingdom has reduced "guardianship" rules that give men sweeping powers over women in their families. Despite this policy of social openness, the Saudi crown prince is being criticized for suppressing and imprisoning women rights advocates who demanded reforms.

The mechanics told AFP that they would not have embarked on such a arduous profession without their husbands' consent.
Ola Flemban, a 44-year-old mother of four, says she heard about the job via Snapchat, and immediately asked her husband, Raafat, if she could apply for this profession. He agreed and helped her prepare for the interview by teaching her the names of different car parts.
After getting the job, Ola quickly surpassed her husband and their 23-year-old son in automotive skill and knowledge.
"Now she has experience in different types of cars, how to check them carefully, and how to change the oil. She even checks my cars now," says Raafat Flimban.
Thanks to the support of her family, it is easy for Ola to deal with the customers in the workshop.
"At first, they were very surprised that women were working in this field. They would ask us how we liked this field," she says. "This is the question we are asked the most," she adds.
While she was speaking to AFP, Meshaal, 20, was entering his car into the workshop to change the engine oil.
Meshaal admits that he was "shocked" when he found out that a woman would do the job, but he was largely calm.
"Once they've come to this place, they've definitely trained well," he says. "Perhaps they understand cars more than I do," he laughs.
Petromin's vice president says his company was "confident that this initiative will encourage more women to join the automotive sector at all levels."
Perhaps the most satisfied with the Jeddah workshop initiative are the women drivers in the city who feel more comfortable when they take their car to a place where women work.
"We make women feel comfortable when we work on their car," says Angham Jidawi, 30.
She explains, "Some women feel ashamed when they deal with men, so they do not know how to discuss with men to find out what is happening in their car. (...) As for us, they discuss and ask a lot."
For Jidawi, this job was a dream she thought impossible.
She says, "My dream was to join the automotive field, but of course, as a Saudi woman, this specialty was not available. So, when the opportunity came, I applied without hesitation, and thank God I was accepted."
She is now studying to take a driving test and get her driver's license in a month.
"Now I know the problems that the car can face," says Jeddawi, adding, "If a problem occurs to me in the middle of the road, I know how to act."

Translation by "Jerusalem" dot com - A citizen was killed today, Sunday, as a result of a fire that broke out in a residential building in the Wadi Al-Joz neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem.

According to the website of the Hebrew Maariv newspaper, the Red Star of David crews determined the death of Maqdisi at the scene, after he was taken out from inside an apartment where the fire broke out while he was suffering from burns all over his body.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - A member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization and head of the Department of Expatriate Affairs, Dr. Faisal Aranki, said, "The promotion of civil peace and the rule of law are two lofty bridges on which the pillars of a sound building of a society prevailed in security and safety."

Aranki stressed, during his speech on behalf of President Mahmoud Abbas, at the Seventh National Conference for Promoting Civil Peace and the Rule of Law, which is organized by the Civil Coalition for Promoting Civil Peace and the Rule of Law, that the Israeli occupation, through its mined tools and contexts, continues to fragment the cohesion of the societal structure in order to shake and crack the structure of society until It falls and crumbles, as castles fall from within.

He said, "We are on this land that God has blessed and He has blessed around From here and there to discourage our great people from continuing their path towards salvation and emancipation from the occupation, but it failed, with the awareness of our people and their insistence on the right path for Palestine, which there is no alternative but to insist on a country that is our purest and most lasting sky and our pure essence.

He went on to say, "The occupation remained, until this moment, the main contradiction, and everything else is an exception and a secondary one. The occupation sought to transform the primary into a secondary and the secondary into a primary by igniting the fire of internal strife, strengthening sectarianism and rooting abhorrent clan and tribalism, and generalizing internal strife and fighting among the people of one people to perpetuate separation between the members of the body." One uses a different means, method, and threat to civil peace, so that chaos finds its vast space to expand and expand.

And he added that the occupation, through its mined tools and contexts, is still continuing to fragment the cohesion of the societal structure, to shake and crack the structure of society until it falls and crumbles, as castles fall from within.

And he stressed that the sacrifices of our people and the accumulation of their actions indicate that our people open their eyes to thwart the black plans that continue to target our social fabric in order to prevent us from reaching sound components on whose foundations the foundations of the state we aspire to rise.

He also stressed that promoting healthy contexts that take points of light from the heritage of our ancestors and accumulate them through modernity and beyond is the proper and true embodiment of stabilizing society's immunity from the poisonous winds and dismantling strategies that blow on it.

He pointed out that before the Nakba, Palestine was a bright and advanced model and an example to follow for development and intellectual, cultural and media renaissance, so the occupation came to obliterate and erase all these features, trying to replace the factors of advancement with disgrace, desperation, erasure and abolition, but our people with its deep roots continue its giving trees in various areas. Healed from the dust of oblivion on the roots of the Palestinian act, it increased its freshness and magnificence until our people added to the whole world creative models that do not change or disappear.

He added, "Our bet will remain on collective awareness and sound thinking to confirm and activate citizenship in order to protect the homeland from deterioration and targeting, and this requires you to find a moral compass that protects society from violations through joint coordination between the state and the people."

He stressed that the Citizenship Law is a guarantor of a free and healthy homeland befitting Palestine, the idea that remains after the fall of everything. Through working to institutionalize all values and equal opportunities. Citizenship is a guarantee of Palestinian patriotism to remain white without harm when balance and harmony are achieved between the total human energies that are directed to serve his individual benefit and serve the common good.

(شينخوا) رفعت الصين أسعار التجزئة للبنزين والديزل ابتداء من اليوم الثلاثاء بناء على التغيرات التي شهدتها أسعار النفط الدولية مؤخرا.

وقد أعلنت اللجنة الوطنية للتنمية والإصلاح، أكبر هيئة للتخطيط الاقتصادي في البلاد، تعديل الأسعار في يوم الاثنين الماضي. ثم ارتفعت أسعار البنزين والديزل اليوم الثلاثاء بمقدار 155 يوانا (حوالي 21.44 دولار أمريكي) للطن و150 يوانا للطن على التوالي.

ووفقا لآلية التسعير الحالية، إذا تغيرت أسعار النفط الدولية بمقدار أكثر من 50 يوانا لكل طن وظلت عند هذا المستوى لمدة 10 أيام عمل، يتم تعديل أسعار المنتجات النفطية المكررة المتمثلة في البنزين والديزل في الصين بناء على ذلك.

وقالت اللجنة إن أكبر ثلاث شركات نفط، وهي الشركة الوطنية الصينية للنفط والشركة الصينية للبتروكيماويات والشركة الوطنية الصينية للنفط البحري، إلى جانب شركات معالجة النفط الأخرى، يجب أن تحافظ على استقرار إنتاجها للمنتجات النفطية وتسهل نقلها لضمان استقرار إمداداتها.

وأشار مركز مراقبة الأسعار التابع للجنة إلى أنه من المتوقع بقاء أسعار النفط الدولية عند مستويات عالية في الأجل القصير.

AMMAN - (Xinhua) - The Central Bank of Jordan decided to raise interest rates on all monetary policy instruments of the bank by 75 basis points (0.75 percent), starting next Sunday.

The bank said in a statement today (Thursday) that this decision "aims primarily to maintain monetary stability in the Kingdom and to maintain the attractiveness of assets denominated in Jordanian dinars."

He explained that the decision "comes in line with the continuation of upward trends in interest rates in international and regional financial markets, in light of global inflation rates remaining at high levels compared to the rates targeted by central banks."

The bank stated that the annual inflation rate in the Kingdom increased from 2.5 percent in January 2022 to 5.4 percent in September, bringing the average inflation rate to 4.0 percent during the first three quarters of this year.

The statement said that it was decided to fix the preferential interest rates for the Central Bank’s program to refinance vital economic sectors, amounting to 1.3 billion dinars (the dinar is equivalent to 1.41 US dollars), at 1.0 percent for beneficiary projects within the Capital Governorate, and 0.5 percent for projects in the rest of the governorates, with a guarantee. The interest rate remains constant throughout the ten-year loan term.

The bank stated that this step comes "in view of the importance that the central bank attaches to achieving a balance between its goal of maintaining monetary stability and continuing to stimulate and support sustainable economic growth."

The bank also decided to fix interest rates within its program to support small and medium-sized companies, professionals, craftsmen, and importers of the wholesale sector of basic commodities, amounting to 700 million dinars, at its current level, which does not exceed 2 percent for borrowers, until the end of the program.

According to the reports submitted to the bank, monetary, banking and economic indicators showed an improvement in their performance, as deposits increased by 2.3 billion dinars compared to the end of 2021, bringing their balance to 41.8 billion dinars at the end of September 2022, according to the statement.

Credit facilities granted by banks increased by 2.3 billion dinars during the same period, bringing their balance to 32.3 billion dinars.

The central bank's foreign reserves also recorded a "comfortable level", which currently stands at about $16 billion. This level is sufficient to cover more than 8 months of the Kingdom's imports of goods and services.

The economic growth rate also rose to 2.9 percent during the second quarter of this year, after recording a growth of 2.5 percent during the first quarter of 2022, bringing the average growth rate to 2.7 percent during the first half of 2022, compared to a growth of 1.8 percent during the same period. From 2021, this is the highest semi-annual rate recorded since 2017.

Tourism income also rose during the first three quarters of this year to 3 billion dinars, compared to 1.2 billion dinars during the same period last year, with a growth rate of nearly 140.8 percent.

Jordanian exports increased by 45.6 percent during the first eight months of this year, as well as remittances from Jordanians working abroad by 0.6 percent during the same period. In addition, foreign investment increased by 96.9 percent during the first half of the year.

The bank raised interest rates on all monetary policy tools of the bank by 75 basis points on September 22, after raising them by the same rate in late July.

The bank previously raised the interest rate by 50 basis points on all monetary policy tools on the eighth of last May, before raising it again by the same value on the 16th of last June.

(AFP) - Barcelona put a step forward in the final with a valuable victory in the El Clasico match against its host Real Madrid 1-0 on Thursday, in the first leg of the Spanish Cup semi-finals in football.
And Real signed at its “Santiago Bernabeu” stadium in the prohibited, as it gifted the match’s only goal to its rival, starting from a passing error by Frenchman Eduardo Camavinga, which Barcelona players took advantage of with a shot that hit Brazilian Meringue defender Eder Militao and turned into the net by mistake (26).
The return match will be held at the Camp Nou on April 5.
The Frenchman, Aurelien Chouamini, and the Belgian, Eden Hazard, sat on the bench, while the Italian coach, Carlo Ancelotti Camavinga, joined the German veterans, Toni Kroos, and the Croatian, Luka Modric, in the middle. And pushed defender Nacho Fernandez on the left corridor.
Frenchman Ferland Mendy and Austrian defender David Alaba were absent due to injury.
On the Barcelona side, coach Xavi Hernandez pushed French defender Jules Conde as a mainstay, with Ferran Torres in the lead alongside Gavi and Rafinha. Ansu Fati sat on the bench, while Frenchman Osman Dembele, Polish Robert Lewandowski and Pedri were absent from injury.
Barcelona entered the match at the top of the league, 7 points ahead of arch-rivals Real, but faced Al-Merengue after losing 0-1 to Almeria.
As for Real, it came out tied in the capital's derby against arch-neighbor Atletico 1-1.
Fate varies in the European arena, as Real achieved a historic victory in the home of Liverpool, England, 5-2 in the first leg of the Champions League final price, unlike Barcelona, who exited the qualifying supplement for the final price of the European League competition “Europa League” against Manchester United, England (2-2). 2 and 1-2).
Real failed to avenge its loss to Barcelona in the Spanish Super Cup final 1-3 in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, on January 15, in the first titles for its former midfielder, current coach Xavi Hernandez.
With a single shot in the first half, Barcelona, who only had 40 percent possession of the ball, scored the first goal, to show its realism, benefiting from a mistake from Camavinga and a goal through friendly fire from Militao, whose team failed to shake the net of its opponent, as he shot 5 times without hitting the woodwork. the three.
A minute after the starting whistle, Real kicked off the ball to pass Daniel Carvajal in the depths to Modric, who was not offside, so he hit a ball from the right side into the outside net.
Real believed that he had opened the scoring after an attack by the Brazilian Vinicius Junior on the left side inside the area, to pass to the second post to Karim Benzema, who controlled the ball with his chest and hit his left foot into the net, but the referee canceled the goal for offside the French striker (12).
Barcelona waited until the 22nd minute to reach the Real area after a free kick 35 meters away was carried out by Marcos Alonso inside the area, which was removed by Uruguayan Federico Valverde.
Barcelona opened the scoring with friendly fire after a bad pass from Camavinga and a mistake by defender Militao, who returned the ball to his team’s net after a pass from Ferran Torres to Ivorian Frank Kessier on the left of the area, to shoot the latter and block Belgian goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois, so the ball returned to the Brazilian and collided with him and into the goal (27 ).
The referee canceled the goal for offside Rafinha when Torres passed to Kessier, but the return to the video assistant referee "VAR" confirmed the validity of the goal.
Carvajal missed the equalizing goal after a pass from Kroos on the left side, 30 meters away, which the Spaniard followed on the fly over the goal (41).
In the second half, Vinicius tried with a powerful shot that was blocked by German goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen (57), while Ansu Fati, who entered instead of Rafinha, stopped his team from doubling the score after a shot from Kessier passed Courtois and collided with the Barcelona striker (72).
And Ancelotti paid the Brazilian Rodrigo instead of Nacho and Chuamini in place of Kroos and Alvaro Rodrigues instead of Modric to activate the attack, and Xavi responded by removing Kessier and introducing Sergi Roberto with the aim of preserving the score.
Rodrigo hit a powerful ball from outside the area to the left of goalkeeper Ter Stegen (90), without Real equalizing.
Barcelona midfielder Sergio Busquets played the 46th El Clasico in his career, which is a record against the two colleagues in Paris Saint-Germain, former Real defender Sergio Ramos and former Barcelona star, Argentine Lionel Messi (45 each).
"We knew how to compete, and the team did a great job physically, we were very strong, and we were able to stop them through the middle," captain Busquets told TVE.
And he continued, "Although they had possession of the ball, they did not get clear chances, in return we had the goal, which is a small difference for the second leg."