Oslo - (AFP) - Norway announced Saturday that it had arrested a Russian citizen in possession of a drone and photography equipment after he was seen taking pictures of an airport in the far north, in the second such arrest within a week.

This comes as Norway, which has become Europe's main gas exporter, has tightened security measures around oil and gas facilities on its soil after mysterious drone strikes near these infrastructures, and supposed sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas lines in the nearby Baltic Sea.

Several Western countries suggested that the explosions that affected the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines last month under the Baltic Sea were the result of sabotage.

The 51-year-old Russian, whose name was not revealed, was arrested on suspicion of flying a drone in Norway, which he admitted.

"Police confiscated large quantities of photographic equipment, including a drone and memory cards," police in the northern town of Tromsø said in a statement.

The confiscated equipment includes pictures of another airport in the northern town of Kirkenes, and of the Bell helicopters belonging to the Norwegian army.
Tromsø police said the Norwegian police security service had been invited to investigate.

Like other Western countries, Norway banned Russian individuals and entities from overflying its territory in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The law stipulates a prison sentence of up to three years for violators.

The Norwegian police announced Friday the arrest of another Russian in possession of two drones and a set of photos and video recordings while trying to return to his country.

Vitaly Rostanov, 50, stopped this week at the North Pole at Storskog, the only border crossing between Norway and Russia, according to Norwegian police.

Rostanov admitted that he "filmed and operated a drone for special purposes and confirmed that he likes to take pictures and that he is a photographer," according to the police.

He was carrying two Russian passports and an Israeli passport when he was arrested while trying to return to Russia.

According to the judicial decision, seen by Agence France-Presse, Rostanov has been in Norway since August and admitted that he had launched the drones to fly "all over the country". He had 4 terabytes of photos and videos, some of which had been encrypted.

Gaza - "Jerusalem" dot com - Today, Tuesday, the " Hamas " movement considered the occupation army's use of armed drones in the West Bank as a dangerous criminal escalation, revealing the state of terror and failure experienced by its leaders due to the operations carried out by the resistance fighters, and the continuous response to its incursions into all cities. West Bank villages and camps.

Abdel-Latif al-Qanou', a Hamas spokesman, said in a press statement, "This is tantamount to a desperate attempt that will not succeed in quelling the escalating clash against its occupying soldiers and herds of settlers."

Al-Qanou affirmed that all the killing tools and means of terror used by the occupation against our people will not bring them alleged security, nor will they achieve their malicious goals in continuing their rabid war on our land and sanctities, in the heart of which are Jerusalem and the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.

He called on the masses to continue their steadfastness and confront the occupation by all means until it is defeated from our land and our legitimate rights are taken away. like he said.

Jerusalem - "Al-Quds" dot com - The Israeli occupation forces suppressed, this evening, Thursday, a demonstration in the village of Al-Tur, east of occupied Jerusalem, which went out to demand the recovery of the body of the martyr Muhammad Abu Juma'a.

Local sources reported that the occupation forces fired tear gas and sound bombs at the participants in the demonstration, without any injuries reported.

The demonstration was launched from the house of the martyr Abu Jumaa in the "Hardoub" area of the village, during which the participants chanted slogans demanding the recovery of his body, which has been detained by the occupation authorities since his martyrdom on September 22.

The lawyer of the Wadi Hilweh Information Center, Muhammad Mahmoud, said that the occupation prosecution informed him that it did not intend to hand over the body of the martyr Abu Juma’a, after he submitted a petition to the so-called “Israeli Magistrate Court,” explaining that the martyr’s family is considering going to submit a petition to the “Israeli Supreme Court” to retrieve the body of their son.

The young man, Abu Jumaa, was shot dead by the Israeli occupation forces near the town of Beit Sira, west of Ramallah.

In his recent article, the Israeli writer Gideon Levy presented in the newspaper "Haaretz" the incident of the killing of an Israeli soldier by his comrade, another Israeli soldier, in the Tulkarem area recently, "by mistake," rejecting this claim, stressing that the reason behind this is what he called "the policy of rapid pressure on The trigger", which is a correct and direct analysis, which none of the leaders of the Palestinian people in the West Bank and Gaza Strip reached, some of whom attributed this to the fear that the occupation soldiers afflict as soon as they enter our land, their knees colliding and their eyes fainting, while the second cited Quranic verses and hadiths. She is honorable, so that he would almost say that it is the angels who came down to fight them with each other's weapons, or the papal birds. As for the third, some prefer not to comment on the grounds that the matter is an "internal matter" in which we do not interfere.

The matter was not limited in the sterility of the analysis to the first, second and third ranks of leaders working in the political, media, intellectual and advocacy affairs, but rather affected the vast army of analysts, thinkers, pundits and "experts" on the Israeli issue, who when one compares them to the Israeli writer Gideon Levy, one wonders where they think from If Levi was thinking out of his head.

This led me to Abu Mazen's statement about the Holocaust in the country of the Holocaust, Germany, and a few days before that, the slogan of "unity of the arenas" launched by the Islamic Jihad movement in the case of the arrest of Sheikh Saadi and the prisoner who has been on hunger strike for more than 160 days, the hero Khalil Awadeh, and abused the resistance and the arenas much more than He served or united it, simply because he reduced the issue, the homeland, the people, the struggle, history and prisoners to two people from the tribe.

About three months ago, Al-Sinwar stood in front of a picture of the storming of Al-Aqsa by Israeli soldiers, to say: It is forbidden for this scene and this picture to be repeated. Martyr Sherine Abu Aqelah, the cemetery, universities, schools, camps, cities and villages are in more horrible forms and scenes, even killing and destroying Gaza, children, women and resistance fighters.

As for the “Saif al-Quds” and “what comes after it is not the same as before,” whose phrases were mentioned by the head of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, it turned out that it was sheathed, or rather, returned to its scabbard after it was unsheathed for one time orphan, which was used by al-Qassam leader Muhammad Dhaif, and Masses came out in all parts of Palestine chanting behind him: Put the sword before the sword / We are the men of Muhammad Dhaif.

In one of his recent speeches, Hassan Nasrallah referred to the phenomenon of impromptu speeches, and I don't think he was referring to the speeches of the Arab leaders, who are generally illiterate, barely able to decipher the line. It is the intent of the leaders of the Palestinian resistance, who should not write their speeches, or at least put them in bullet points, as he does.

Kahramanmaraş ( Turkey ) - (AFP) - The earthquake that struck Turkey on February 6 not only caused massive devastation in southern Turkey and caused the deaths of millions of people, but also showed the limitations of a central authority that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pushed towards.

The Turks discovered with bitterness that the relief and rescue teams needed several days to reach the center of the disaster, with survivors who were left to fend for themselves as they tried to pull relatives out of the rubble with their own hands in the freezing cold, without aid or supplies.

It did not send reinforcements to the powerful Turkish army immediately, as the government, seeking to maintain control of matters, preferred to assign relief operations to the General Authority for Disaster Management (AFAD), which was unable to absorb the situation in the face of the horror of the destruction.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan acknowledged the existence of "gaps" in the organization of relief operations, attributing this to the tremendous strength of the earthquake (7.8 degrees in an urban area and during the night).

He emphasized that no other party would have done the job better than that.

More than 36,000 bodies have been recovered from the rubble, 11 days after the earthquake, and this toll is likely to rise, or even double, according to the United Nations.

"Centralization affects all institutions in Turkey, including those that should never operate in a centralized manner, such as Avad," explains Htav Rogan, a disaster management consultant in Denmark who follows Turkey closely.

This expert believes that this excessive centralization of power hindered the delivery of aid to the most affected areas, and sometimes the arrival of foreign teams. The authorities tried to remove all other parties from the ground.

Rogan asserts, "For an effective management of relief operations, on the contrary, local teams must be delegated with local means."

Social media is full of testimonies of many volunteers who rushed to help their fellow citizens and had to wait for late arrival permits and equipment.

Crane operators who suggested providing much-needed rescue assistance had to wait for Avad to agree to act.

Agence France-Presse journalists witnessed altercations between volunteers of a non-governmental organization and representatives of AFAD in Al-Bustan in the Kahramanmarsh province, which was subjected to massive destruction, while the nighttime temperature dropped to minus 15 degrees.

"We started working on these rubble while Avad tried to dissuade us. When we heard the voice of a person still alive, the Avad teams pushed us away and took our place," said one of the volunteers, who asked not to be named.

Murad, 48, said that when he was waiting for information about his relatives under the rubble in Kahramanmaraş, he witnessed a similar case.

"When miners from Zonguldak (on the Black Sea) located a living person under the rubble, they were pushed and replaced by people who wanted to be in front of the TV cameras," he recounted.

The "Ahbab" association, which was founded by the famous Turkish singer Haluk Levent, and municipalities run by the opposition, wanting to extend a hand, angered the government because it organized aid in an independent way.

Turkish Interior Minister Suleiman Soylu warned, "Necessary measures will be taken against those who try to compete with the state."

Devlet Bahceli, leader of an ultra-nationalist party and a member of the ruling coalition, accused these parties of seeking to "show the state as powerless."

Turkish media reported that an advertising campaign entitled "The Disaster of the Age" aimed to convince Turks that the loopholes are justified by the magnitude of the disaster.

This advertising campaign, which was prepared by an agency close to the authority, was withdrawn after widespread criticism.

The leader of the main opposition party, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, said, "There is no coordination. They were late at the most delicate and critical hours (...) Their impotence cost tens of thousands of our citizens their lives."

Erdogan saw these criticisms as "slander and misleading information to degrade the efforts made with dedication."

It is expected that the two men will face each other in the upcoming presidential elections, if the date remains on May 14.

In the year 1999, after an earthquake struck the northwest of the country, the famous Turkish journalist Mehmet Ali Birand denounced the meagerness of the rescue operations management and wrote at that time, "Turkey, which was proud of its greatness and influence, seemed like a paper tiger."

The authorities then confirmed that they had learned lessons from this failure and strengthened the organization of relief and rescue operations.

"It is too early to say whether or not this attempt to control the national narrative will succeed," Rogan said.

But he added, "There is no doubt that this constitutes a political test for Erdogan before the next elections."

Jenin - "Jerusalem" dot com - Ali Samoudi - Hours and days spent by the sixty-year-old grandmother, Khadija Abu Khamis, clarifying and explaining the issue of the arrest of her captive son Suhaib Ahmed Abu Khamis , seeking to alleviate the sorrows of his son and grandson Golan (6 years), who does not stop asking about him And expressing his great sadness for his continuous absence two weeks ago, after the occupation forces stormed his house in the village of Faqou’a, east of Jenin, and took him from his family, and he is still isolated under interrogation in the occupation cells.

And the grandmother, Umm Omar, says: “My heart is torn apart, and I feel a knife cutting my depths. Whenever I see my grandsons, Golan and Tala, they carry pictures of their father and cry. Like us, they are not used to his absence and being cut off from us. There are no words to describe the extent of my pain and pain, and they repeat questions about their father, who we do not have any. information about him.”

She added, "We did not want to inform my grandson, Golan, about the issue of the occupation's arrest of his mother, but every day he gets up from his bed as every morning, and he asks us when he will return and bring them sweets and what he and his brother love, because of his strong attachment to his father."

And she continues: "I suffered a lot until I understood that the occupation soldiers had arrested his father, and what increased my sadness and heartbreak when he told me: I am afraid for my father a lot, because they will beat him, so how will we protect him and bring him back from prison to our house?"

The sad grandmother stood unable to answer in front of her grandson, as no one can, as she says, know when this disaster that befell our family will end. And my lack of resourcefulness, and my inability to give a real answer to my grandson, whose father considers everything beautiful in life.

She adds: "A few days ago, I cried a lot when I saw my granddaughter Tala carrying a picture of her father and looking for him, then she sat next to her brother Golan, who told her: "The army took a door on the prison." The child felt a lot of fear, and she cried despite their lack of understanding of the truth of what is going on, but Despite her young age, she felt that the word “prison” was difficult and painful, and she stole her father from her, so I rushed to embrace her and try to calm her down, and told her: “Do not be afraid, Baba will come back and bring many toys for you and your brother Golan, and every day I gather them and tell them stories to check on their father.”

The prisoner Suhaib hails from the village of Faqqu’ah, where he was born in 1990, to be the second in his family of 8 members. He was brought up there and educated in its schools until he achieved success in high school. He joined the Arab American University and graduated with a bachelor’s degree from the Faculty of Law, but he headed for the practical life. He worked in the field of trade and marketing, got married and had two children, and filled his family with happiness, until the occupation cut him off by arresting him on 1/2/2023.

His wife says: "At 3:00 in the morning, we woke up after dozens of soldiers stormed our house without warning. They detained us in an isolated room until the inspection process ended. Our greatest shock was the snatching and arrest of my husband after blindfolding and handcuffing him. They also confiscated his private vehicle without knowing the reasons."

She adds: "He is still isolated under torture in the interrogation center in Al-Jalama prison, and he is forbidden to meet and visit lawyers. He was brought before the court once and his detention was extended at the request of the intelligence services to complete the investigation with him."

And she continues: "They claim that his file is confidential, and there is no information about the alleged charges against my husband, about whom we are very concerned, because of the circumstances of his arrest. He suffers from a stab in the heart, and his bouts of pain are repeated continuously until he is injected with a needle and he needs a period to return to his health." .

And she continues: "My husband needs medical care and permanent health monitoring, which is certainly not available in the torture cells, and we appeal to the Red Cross and prisoner institutions to visit him immediately, follow up on his condition and pressure to provide his treatment until his release and the end of this tragedy."

Translation by "Jerusalem" dot com - Today, Wednesday, new demonstrations took place in Israeli cities, protesting the policy of Benjamin Netanyahu's government regarding "judicial reforms."

According to the Hebrew website Ynet, the Israeli police arrested at least 15 demonstrators in different areas where these demonstrations took place.

This coincided with the approval of the Constitution Committee in the Israeli Knesset, draft laws that will be presented to the General Assembly later for approval.

The Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, had ordered the roads to be opened by force if necessary.

Nablus - "Jerusalem" dot com - Today, Tuesday, a number of citizens suffocated as a result of the Israeli occupation forces' suppression of a march to break the siege at the Hawara checkpoint, south of Nablus.

According to local sources, the occupation forces fired gas bombs at the participants in the event, which was called for by the factions, activities and institutions of the Nablus governorate, to break the siege imposed on the governorate about three weeks ago.

Jerusalem - Pal Sport Agency / In a summit meeting and intense competition, Salfit Hall witnessed a handball match between Azzun Club and Asira Al-Shamaliya Club within the handball championship matches for the 2022 season, which bears the name “The late Shebrin Abu Aqelah” at Salfit Hall last Saturday, where the match ended With the victory of Azzun Club over Asira Al-Shamaliya, with a score of 27/28, the meeting was described as an early final, as it was the peak of performance, technical skills, and intense clubbing.

Azzun started scoring in the first minute, and Asira Club responded by scoring with the goal of equalizing. In favor of Azzun, by 12/18 goals.

In the second half, Asira started in a different way, as Asira Club excelled in its performance, and the club seemed clear and determined to adjust the result, as it reduced the score and the tie was the master of the situation, as it equalized in the 29th minute of the second half of the match, and in an attack by Lazzun, it grabbed the precious winning goal by 27/28.

The game was characterized by high pace, technical skills and fast attacks.

In this meeting, each of Asira Club, Bashar Sawalha, scored 7 goals, Osaid Jawabreh scored 4 goals, Amir Sawalha scored 3 goals, and Pearlers from Azzun Club Ahmed Musleh scored 7 goals, Mutasim Radwan scored 6 goals, Ahmed Tabib scored 5 goals, Ragheb Rabi 5 goals, and Waddah Asi 4 goals. They have an active and distinguished role.

The meeting was ably led by the referee, Issa Odeh, the referee Jamal Jabali, for the Miqati arena, Montaser Khudair, and the match scorer, Ahmed Mari. Match observer Nidal Radwan from the Palestinian Handball Federation.

Written by: Hamdi Farrag

Whether the supplementary conference of the “Jordanian” Aqaba summit is held in the “Egyptian” Sharm el-Sheikh, which originally emanated from the “Israeli” Negev summit, or not, the full care remains for the United States of America, whether in financing, training or arming, regardless of the Arabs present or absent. At the forefront of them are the Palestinians, the owners of the cause, who were absent from the Negev summit, but they were present at the Aqaba summit. (The UAE and Bahrain were absent from the Aqaba summit, but they were present at the Negev summit).

The overwhelming American sponsorship for such meetings goes beyond what was mentioned above, from financing, training and arming, and deciding who is present and who is absent, to determining the level of attendance. Sharm el-Sheikh, if it is held this March according to the plan, that the level will be the Ministers of Defense, as the Minister, the American gentleman, came to the region, starting with Jordan, then Egypt, then Israel.

As for the temporal aspect of the dates of these meetings or summits, the effects of their report are the Palestinian resistance on the ground. While the Negev summit was held in March of last year, the Aqaba summit was held about ten days ago, that is, about a year between the two summits, but the Sharm al-Sheikh summit is supposed to be held in This month, that is, a few days between the two summits, so why this rapid acceleration, and why are Jordan and the Palestinians brought up in a hurry, while they were absent from the mother summit, the Negev?

Ramadan, Ramadan is the reason, which falls within two weeks from today, and it seemed as if its arrival had taken everyone by surprise, although it intersects to a large extent this year with Jewish holidays in the eternal place of religious and dogmatic sensitivities; Jerusalem, specifically Al-Aqsa Mosque. Some considered that the commando operations were nothing but setbacks in preparation for the struggle, struggle and sacrifice of Ramadan, so America rushed to defuse the fuse, and as it has done for the last fifty years of its life, dealing with results instead of reasons and introductions, it decided to train five thousand Palestinian security personnel to replace the forces Israeli missions to storm, clash, arrest, and possibly kill if necessary, especially in the areas that fell out of the authority’s control, specifically Jenin and Nablus, which witnessed real massacres, the latest of which was the Hawara Holocaust, and the accompanying sincere Israeli Zionist-Talmudic calls, which dictate the necessity of erasing them. out of existence. That is why he hastened to bring the Palestinians to the summit. As for the Jordanians, it is necessary that the training will take place with them.

Perhaps they do not realize that Jordan is Palestine, and that with such hostile, criminal, conspiratorial measures, they are only pushing the brotherly Jordanian people to an advanced stage in the furnace of the rampant conflict with this racist occupation, the facts of which are unfolding more and more with the days. Whether the Sharm el-Sheikh summit is held or not, the arrival of the US Secretary of Defense to the region two days ago means that it has begun.

Written by: Tayseer Khaled
Two months after the elections, Benjamin Netanyahu presented his government to the Knesset to gain confidence, after a series of maneuvers through which he was able to sign coalition agreements with his partners in the government, the religious Zionists, Otzma Yehudit, Noam, Shas and Honorable Yehudot. We will not discuss here his coalition agreements with the last three parties, but rather his agreements with each of the religious Zionists led by Bezalel Smotrich and Otzma Yehudit led by Itamar Ben Afir, where he pledged to the first among other ministries to take over the Ministry of Finance with a minister in the Ministry of the Army who is responsible for the settlement and service department National and pre-military colleges, as well as membership in the mini-ministerial for political security affairs, assigning to the second wide powers through the Ministry of National Security and great powers over the police, replacing shooting procedures, exempting soldiers and police personnel from legal accountability, as well as membership in the mini-ministerial council, what The former prime minister pushed Netanyahu to accuse him of appointing arsonists (in the literal sense) in the fire brigade. And next to them are cats to guard the butter.

Barak, the son of the military institution, knows the truth, but he did not fully cover it in his fears that Smotrich and Ben Gvir's fingers would extend to the institution through the gate of powers, which they wrested from Netanyahu, and which would raise the level of flames not only in its repercussions on the relationship with the Palestinians, but also in Its repercussions on the internal situation in Israel and its relations with the world and the image that was promoted about the most moral army in the world. The picture changed and changed over the years without the presence of Smotrich or Ben Gvir. In the 1980s and 1990s, shifts took place in the social composition of the Israeli army, which witnessed a gradual decline in the motives for joining the army, especially among the secular groups of the middle class who formed the backbone of the Israeli forces, in a society lured by the factors of orientation to the market economy and within which a state of restlessness developed. From conflicts and wars, especially after the signing of peace agreements with Egypt in the seventies, and later with the Palestinian Authority in Oslo, and with Jordan in the early nineties of the last century, and the accompanying trend among those groups to search for a new path in positioning Israel in the region.

These transformations were visible, which prompted the Israeli army to ease restrictions on religious affiliation in order to fill a gap that is expected to widen in the recruitment system as a result of the reluctance of the middle class to catch up with it, and the beginning came by allowing the establishment of preparatory military religious schools. Filling the military vacuum came as an opportunity for religious Zionists to serve in the army on reduced terms, and an invitation from the military leaders, the leaders of the army branches themselves, the rabbis, to attract religious people to the army, who in turn took advantage of the opportunity to engage in the institution in order to enhance their social status since Rabbi Ibrahim Shabir, one of the most prominent leaders of this The current, a fatwa stating that recruitment in religious units is close to God, and that military service and fighting spirit are a collective task imposed by God with the aim of leading the Jewish project, coinciding with the religious spirit settlement project that flourished at that time, which prepared the conditions for the transformation of religious Zionism from a marginal stream into a political one And central cultural in both society and the army. In light of this transformation, religious schools and academies for military training began in the settlements of the West Bank, focusing on religious motivation to belong to the army and join its ranks. The percentage of religious people increased among the ranks of senior officers, and their presence in field units increased. The largest percentage of these officers came from settlement residents in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. , which created a link between the settlers and the army on the one hand, and gave the rabbis greater influence within the military establishment on the other hand.

In light of these transformations, the rabbis in Israel had a strong influence in various aspects of life, even within the army. They are able to influence the parliamentary elections, the formation of the government coalition, and the orientations of the political parties, through their control over many parties such as: Shas, United Torah Judaism, the Jewish Home, and more recently in other parties, especially fascism, such as religious Zionism, the Jewish power, and the Noam party, where they can Through these parties influence the laws according to their desires and tendencies. A study prepared by the Department of Social Sciences at the Israeli Bar-Ilan University, known for its religious orientations, on the extent to which religious recruits obey the orders of the rabbis revealed that more than 90% of those who describe themselves as religious believe that if the steps taken by the Israeli government contradict the opinion of Rabbis, the first is to apply the opinion of the rabbis, and more than 95% of religious soldiers confirmed that they cannot obey military orders issued to them, without being consistent with the religious fatwas issued by the rabbis and religious authorities.

Beyond that, religious sermons were spread, delivered by soldiers belonging to rabbinical schools in front of the soldiers, such as the religious sermon delivered by the commander of the Samaria Brigade on April 13, 2022 in front of his soldiers before they entered Joseph’s tomb in Nablus, where he assured them that they work with their upper hand, not as night thieves, but as sons Kings. This racist religious discourse is additional evidence of the shifts taking place in the ranks of the occupation army, which now takes the rabbis as one of its references, or the speech of the Samaria Brigade commander himself, who claimed at a celebration on the occasion of the so-called "unification of Jerusalem" in the Elon Moreh settlement, east of the city of Nablus Whoever says that the army and the settlers cooperate, the settlers and the army are the same thing.. They are one identical body.

Pre-military academies play an important role in all of this, which explains Smotrich's insistence on supervising them in his coalition agreement with Netanyahu. In those academies, preparations are being made for the infiltration movement into the military establishment. The pre-military academy in Eli (Bani David) settlement, which was established by the occupation on the lands of the villages of Qaryut, Al-Sawiya, and Al-Laban Al-Sharqiah to the south of the city of Nablus, was the beginning. For about a decade in Nili settlement in Bethlehem governorate, this was followed by the establishment of a large number of academies until the number reached about 36 military academies, 41.66% of which (15 academies) are located east of the 1967 borders (12 in the West Bank and 3 in the Golan Heights). In all of the pre-military academies, 74 percent of the senior staff are from settlements beyond the 1967 lines.

Further, out of every five towns that had the highest rates of recruitment into combat units, three were in the West Bank. Beit El was first stationed in the Ramallah and Al-Bireh governorate, where 86% of the men born in 1991 served in combat units. The third place went to Efrat in Gush Etzion in the Bethlehem governorate, where 81% of the men born in 1991 had joined the combat units. The fourth place went to the Regional Council of Mount Hebron, with a rate of 78.4%. Ariel in the Salfit governorate, which is considered a secular settlement and whose Jewish population is questionable, was one of four cities in which the percentage of recruits exceeded 90%. From the point of view of the members of these academies scattered in the West Bank, the non-religious and liberal city of Tel Aviv represents all the diseases that pervaded society. The Israelis, they celebrate life and oppose the settlers, and they are the same ones whose willingness to contribute to the state reaches a great zero. In this environment, fascism tendencies grew, which was revealed by an opinion poll conducted by the Israeli Democracy Institute and published by the Jerusalem Post at the end of November 2022, in which more than 55% affirmed that the Israeli army should kill the Palestinians even if they no longer pose any threat.
It is wrong and in this case to believe that Ben Gvir and Smotrich's strong rise to power is the decisive factor that would strongly push the spread and penetration of the extreme right-wing tide into the center of political life in Israel and among the military establishment. Indeed, the dominance of the extreme right-wing discourse on the political arena in Israel in the civil and military fields over the last two decades is the one who constituted the real lever for the rise of the extremist right-wing forces with this momentum to power in light of the decline in the role of liberal and leftist forces, despite their limitations in Israel due to the limited humanitarian situation in this country, and he is the one who accelerated the solution of the contradiction complex in Attempts to define Israel as a Jewish and democratic state at the same time, after the right-wing camp decided to abandon democracy as long as it constitutes an obstacle that must be removed through the project of settlements, annexation, the Judaization of Jerusalem, the imposition of the Jewish state and Greater Israel, and by transforming the army from the people’s army into the Lord’s army. The tools provided by the pseudo-democracy did not allow the realization of these goals and the realization of racist projects. It is required to replace them with more right-wing tools and a system of government. extreme.

Finally, in this context, the arguments made by some about the recent elections seem absurd, such as the claim that everyone should respect the results of the democratic process that facilitated the rise of the extreme right to power in Israel, as this happened in no other place in this world. What happened in Israel's recent elections is a caricature of the rise of such forces and parties in several countries of the world. For information only, half of the elected members of the Knesset are affiliated with parties that do not conduct internal elections.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - Today, Monday, the Prisoners' Club confirmed that the medical examinations of the prisoner, Shadi Gwadrah (34 years), from the town of Bir Al-Basha, south of Jenin, showed that he does not have a cancerous tumor, and that what he suffers from is lung and stomach infections. As well as an emphysema in the lung, as a result of the effects of the severe injury he suffered during arrest.

The Captive Club stated that Gwadrah, who was subjected to willful medical negligence over the years of his detention, had recently suffered from a deterioration in his health condition, and after preliminary examinations conducted on him last June, which were carried out after numerous claims; At the time, it revealed the presence of a tumor whose nature was not determined, until other medical examinations were conducted recently, which showed that he did not have a cancerous tumor.

The Captive Club added that Gwadara, who was in "Nafha" prison when he was arrested in 2003, was 15 years old, and at that time he was seriously injured, as he was hit by seven bullets, and underwent several surgeries, during which part of his stomach was removed, and he was sentenced to death. The occupation was subsequently imprisoned for life.

The Captive Club continued, that the prisoner Gawadrah needs health follow-up and periodic examinations to monitor his health condition, especially since dozens of prisoners who initially suffered from health problems, and needed follow-up, worsened their health condition, as a result of the policy of medical negligence (slow killing), until their problems transformed Their health conditions lead to chronic diseases that are difficult to treat, and some of them died years later.

It is noteworthy that the number of sick prisoners in the occupation prisons is about 600, including 200 prisoners who suffer from chronic diseases and need close health follow-up.

Nablus - "Jerusalem" dot com - Emad Saadeh - A massive march was launched in Martyrs' Square in the center of Nablus, in support of the "Lions' Den" group.

The participants in the march chanted slogans supporting the group, praising its role and struggles, and others opposing the occupation and its agents.

The call for the march came from activists on social networks, hours after the issuance of a statement from the "Lions' Den" in which the group affirmed that it would remain and would continue the struggle, and vowed that it would protect the idea of resistance until the last fighter in it.

It seems that the statement warmed the hearts of the citizens, especially after the occupation forces assassinated a number of the leaders of the den, headed by the most prominent leader in the group, Wadih al-Houh.

Djerba - (AFP) - French President Emmanuel Macron announced Saturday to his Tunisian counterpart, Kais Saied, that his country will grant a loan of 200 million euros to Tunisia, which is going through a deep economic crisis exacerbated by the Russian war in Ukraine.

A statement issued by the Elysee stated that "the President of the Republic renewed France's support for Tunisia and the Tunisian people in facing the challenges facing the country."

The French President also welcomed "the constructive and open dialogue between the Tunisian government and the International Monetary Fund, in the hope that it will lead to a final agreement."

The meeting of the two presidents came on the sidelines of the 18th session of the Francophone Summit on the island of Djerba, with the participation of about ninety delegations and 31 senior leaders, to confirm that the Francophone Organization can play an "important role" on the international scale in resolving the current crises.

Since the 2011 revolution, Tunisia has been facing an economic crisis, exacerbated by the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic and the absence of political stability in the country.

And the Russian war on Ukraine contributed to the exacerbation of the crisis in a country that relies heavily on imports of grain and fuel, two sectors that are witnessing a rise in prices.

Tunisia, whose debts exceed 100 percent of GDP, reached a preliminary agreement with the International Monetary Fund in mid-October to obtain a new loan of about two billion dollars, to be disbursed in installments starting in December.

On the other hand, the Tunisian government committed itself to implementing reforms that include the gradual removal of government subsidies for basic food and energy products, and the restructuring of public companies that monopolize many sectors.

Emmanuel Macron also discussed with his Tunisian counterpart the political situation in Tunisia, recalling that "fundamental freedoms... are essential... for democratic gains" in Tunisia at a time when NGOs are denouncing the decline of democracy since Saied decided to monopolize power in the country on July 25. 2021.

Bucharest - (AFP) - Romanian prosecutors on Wednesday questioned controversial social media star Andrew Tait in a case centered on human trafficking and rape, while the British-American citizen denounced the case as invalid.

After the end of the hearing with the Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Terrorism in Romania, Tait said in a statement to the attending journalists, "There is no evidence in my file because I did nothing wrong, and everyone knows that I am innocent."

"The regime is trying to implicate me, but God knows the truth," he added.

The former kickboxer, his younger brother and two Romanian women are under investigation over allegations of their involvement in "creating an organized criminal group, human trafficking and rape".
They face accusations of forcing women into "forced labour... and indulging in pornography" with the aim of achieving "significant financial benefits".
The four persons were arrested at the end of December.

Tate, 36, and his brother Tristan, 34, have denied all charges against them.

The two brothers pleaded not guilty Wednesday, while Tristan considered that the prosecutors of the Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Terrorism "have no evidence" against him.

Last week, a Bucharest court issued a decision to extend their detention until February 27, but the two brothers appealed the decision.

They could be held for a maximum of 180 days, pending the issuance of a possible indictment.

"They want the truth to emerge quickly," said their defense attorney, Eugene Vedenik, stressing that they "provided detailed statements and showed cooperation in the investigation."

Tate had indicated, through his Twitter account, which has 4.8 million followers, that there was a "political process aimed at weakening" his influence and a desire to "unjustly imprison" him, which were used to "silence influential people," referring to himself.

He also denounced the poor conditions of his detention, pointing out on Twitter that he had "no friends" at night except cockroaches, lice and bugs.

Prosecutors state that the human trafficking network established by the suspects has been operating since 2019 and has recruited "a large number of victims, including minors... with the aim of sexually exploiting them."

And in 2016, Tate appeared on the "Big Brother" reality TV program in Britain, but he was excluded from it after a video clip appeared in which he attacked a woman.

Then he resorted to communication sites to express his controversial views, before he was banned from it after his anti-women and hateful statements.

He was allowed to use his Twitter account again after Elon Musk acquired the social platform.

Algiers (AFP) - Algeria called for the resumption of "direct negotiations" between Morocco and the Polisario Front to resolve the conflict in Western Sahara, during a meeting between the UN envoy for Western Sahara Staffan de Mistura and Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra on Monday in Algiers, according to a statement by the Algerian Foreign Ministry.

"The two sides discussed the latest political developments related to the Sahrawi issue and prospects for strengthening international efforts to resume direct negotiations between the two parties to the conflict, the Kingdom of Morocco and the Polisario Front, with the aim of reaching a just, lasting and mutually acceptable political solution," the statement said.

The statement added that the desired solution must ensure that the Saharawi people are able to exercise their inalienable or imprescriptible right to self-determination, in accordance with relevant United Nations resolutions and its doctrine in the field of decolonization.

On Sunday, the UN envoy to Western Sahara met Polisario leader Ibrahim Ghali "in a closed session" in a Sahrawi refugee camp in Tindouf, southwestern Algeria, as part of his second tour in the region.
On Saturday, de Mistura met Polisario's representative to the United Nations, Ammar Sidi Mohamed, and the head of the Polisario's negotiating delegation, Khitri Adoh.

After the meeting, Sidi Mohamed affirmed that the Polisario Front "is committed to peace, but is also committed to defending, by all legitimate means, the right of the Sahrawi people to self-determination and independence."

"The Polisario Front is ready to cooperate with the United Nations and the Personal Envoy in their efforts to reach a peaceful, just and lasting solution based on full respect for the inalienable and non-negotiable right of the Sahrawi people to self-determination and independence," he added.

Since his appointment in November 2021, de Mistura conducted his first tour of the region in January when he visited Rabat, Mauritania, Algeria and Tindouf.

At the beginning of July, de Mistura went to Rabat to meet with Moroccan officials but gave up visiting Western Sahara, hoping to be able to do so at a later date.

Western Sahara is a former Spanish colony that the United Nations considers a "non-self-governing territory" and has been a bone of contention between Morocco and the Algerian-backed Polisario Front for decades.

And Rabat, which controls nearly 80% of this region, proposes an autonomy plan under its sovereignty, while the Polisario Front calls for a referendum for self-determination under the auspices of the United Nations.

Algeria severed diplomatic relations with Morocco in August 2021 due to deep differences over Western Sahara and the security rapprochement between Rabat and Israel.

بقلم:فتحي أحمد
الضفة الغربية في الفكر الصهيوني هي اهم مما يسمى تل ابيب، ومن فلسطين التاريخية، التي احتلتها العصابات الصهيونية قبل سبعة عقود ونيف، لهذا يعتبر اجرام المستوطنين بحق الشعب الفلسطيني في الضفة الغربية منذ عام 67 عام النكسة هو تحقيق نبوءة التوراة. توراتياً ( في الكتاب المقدس اليهودي )، تنص التوراة وفق المتدينين اليهود الصهاينة، على أن أرض الضفة الغربية يجب أن تبقى تحت السيطرة الإسرائيلية، لما في ذلك من تقريب لعودة المسيخ ( المخلص لليهود ))، والأبعد من ذلك وفق معتقدات تيار الصهيونية اليهودية، أن السيطرة على الضفة الغربية، وبناء جبل الهيكل وفق ادعائهم مكان المسجد الأقصى انطلاقا من هنا، بدأوا ببناء ما يسمى بالمذبح، لنقله إلى المسجد ووفق التعاليم اليهودية، فإن المذبح ذو أهمية بالغة ومكون أساس في البيت المقدس ويعتبر بناءه المرحلة الأولى في بناء ما يسميه اليهود جبل الهيكل.
تعتبر تصريحات رؤساء أمريكيا بعد موجة الإرهاب الصهيونية من غلاة المستوطنين منذ حوالي ستة عقود هو ضرورة للدفاع عن النفس مع الأخذ بالاعتبار ضرورة التخفيف من لهجة الاعتداءات بحق الشعب الفلسطيني، وهذا ينسحب أيضا على المؤسسات الدولية التي ما زالت لا تعير لهذه الاعتداءات الوحشية على ممتلكات الفلسطينيين سوى موجة من القتال التي لا ترقى للإرهاب في مفهوم المؤسسات الدولية، وخصوصاً في الضفة الغربية -جنين ونابلس والخليل والقدس- وهي تشاهد هذه المؤسسات حجم الدمار الذي يخلفه المستوطنون بحق البشر والشجر والحجر.
لقد جاء اجتماع العقبة من اجل تطويق الاحداث في الضفة الغربية، وبعيد العملية طالبت الكتل الدينية العنصرية المتطرفة في الكنيست بالانسحاب من المؤتمر، وقال بن غفير ما تم الاتفاق عليه في العقبة سيبقى هنالك، للإشارة إلى المضي قدما في سياسة تهويد الضفة الغربية وزيادة حجم الاستيطان فيها. من خلال تصريحات قادة الاحتلال سواء كانوا أعضاء كنيست أو وزراء في حكومة التطرف الديني فإن هذا يعني تهويد الضفة الغربية بوتيرة عالية جدا مقارنة مع العقود المنصرمة. لقد جاءت هذه الحكومة المتطرفة بتفويض من الشعب في دولة الاحتلال، بمعنى إن ما يقارب نصف من صوتوا في الانتخابات الأخيرة للكنيست هم مع طرد الشعب الفلسطيني من ارضه وتهجيرهم من خلال إرهاب المستوطنين المنظم وحماية جيش الاحتلال له، وهذا ما نشاهده في الخليل والقدس وما شاهدناه مؤخرا في حوارة جنوب نابلس، عندما أقدم حفنة من المتطرفين الصهاينة بمهاجمة القرى الوادعة جنوب مدينة نابلس وقاموا بتحطيم البيوت وحرقها كما اعتدوا على مركبات المواطنين في البلدة. الرسالة واضحة فهي ليست بحاجة إلى تفكيك شفراتها، وهي تطويق الضفة الغربية بمزيداً من المستوطنات ومصادرة التلال والجبال لإقامة بؤر استيطانية ومعسكرات للجيش، الهدف خنق المواطن الفلسطيني، وكل ما يحدث اليوم من الامعان في قتل الشعب الفلسطيني والاعتداء على ممتلكاته مرده لترحيلهم تحت بند الترحيل القسري، والأداة المنفذة هي عصابات المستوطنين، وهنا يذكرنا التاريخ بمنظمات الهاجاناه وشتيرن وغيرهما وما قامت به من تخويف الفلسطينيين وترهيبهم بقوة السلاح.
لا شك أن سمة التطرف هي الغالبة على المجتمع في إسرائيل. ويظهر ذلك جليًا من خلال اتساع دائرة المنظمات المتطرفة من حيث العدد والنفوذ فيه، لدرجة أن هذه المنظمات أصبحت تحدد السياسات العامة في دولة الاحتلال تجاه أبناء الأرض الفلسطينيين؛ بهدف طردهم والنيل من صمودهم عن طريق اتباع كافة السبل التي تهدد حياتهم وممتلكاتهم ومقدساتهم؛ وذلك بدعم المؤسسات الأمنية والعسكرية والسياسية، وحتى التشريعية في دولة الاحتلال. وهذا يدلل على إن الحرب بشكلها الفعلي ضد الوجود الفلسطيني في الضفة الغربية قد بدأت بالفعل وإن مرحلة الصلف والغرور لدولة الاحتلال وصل لأعلى مراتبه، هنالك في العقبة كان الاجتماع لجسر الهوة بين الطرفين، الصورة مختلفة في تل ابيب يعلن قادة الكيان وعلى رأسهم نتنياهو الاستمرار في بناء الوحدات السكانية، اذن نحن امام دولة تمتهن الإرهاب السياسي والعسكري بحذافيره، وغاب عن القادة العرب الحل مع إسرائيل بات مفقوداً، في الوقت الذي يسيطر اليمين الديني على مفاصل الدولة ويتحكم حتى في قراراتها المصيرية.
الخلاصة قادة الاحتلال لا يعون حجم الخطورة عليهم وعلى دولتهم وإن صاحب الحق هو من سيظفر في نهاية المطاف، فالمسألة وقتية ليس إلا، وكل ما يقوم به المستوطنون من عربدة وقتل وتخريب في الممتلكات العامة سوف يكون في النهاية وبالا عليهم وما النصر إلا صبر ساعة.

Ottawa - (AFP) - US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken described the Russian forces' use of Iranian drones as "terrifying," stressing that the United States and its allies are determined to prevent the delivery of these weapons.

Blinken said during a visit to Ottawa that the use of these marches to "kill Ukrainian civilians and destroy the infrastructure they depend on for electricity, water and heat" is "terrifying".

He added, "The United States and Canada will continue to work with our allies and partners with the aim of deterring Iran and preventing it from delivering these weapons."

Kiev and its Western allies have repeatedly accused Moscow of using Iranian drones in its attacks in Ukraine in recent weeks.
Ukraine said that Moscow used about 400 Iranian drones against the civilian population, pointing out that it had requested to provide it with about 2,000 of these drones.

But Tehran denied these accusations, and its foreign minister, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, confirmed this week that his country had not provided Russia with any weapons or drones to use in its war against Ukraine.

The United States, Britain and the European Union have previously imposed sanctions on Iran over the drone issue.
And last month, Kiev decided to significantly reduce its diplomatic relations with Tehran.

Gaza - " Jerusalem " dot com - Today, Friday, the national and Islamic forces organized a mass rally in the Nusseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip , in support of the people of Jerusalem, and as an expression of their rejection of the continued storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque .

The participants in the vigil raised the Palestinian flag, the flags of the factions, and slogans denouncing the occupation and its policies in the Holy City and Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Nahed al-Qarnawi, a leader in the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, said, during a speech on behalf of the forces, that the crimes taking place in the Palestinian West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, in terms of executions, incursions, daily arrests, house demolitions and attacks on sanctities, is a blatant war waged by the Israeli occupation state against our people. in batches.

Al-Qarnawi added: The occupying state is trying to present its crimes against our people as measures against "terrorism", and at the same time forgetting its organized terrorism against our people through its various forms, in addition to the daily crimes against humanity and war crimes it commits in accordance with the standards of the international community, against Our people, their land, sanctities, property and national sovereignty over their land.

And he continued: The occupying state does not exclude the dead in its aggression against our people when it detains the bodies of the martyrs in the "cemeteries of numbers", in measures that are condemned by the most basic standards of humanity and are practiced only by the occupying state, which owns prisons above and below the ground.

And he continued: 40 years since the Sabra and Shatila massacre committed by the Israeli occupation army led by the criminal Ariel Sharon, leaving thousands of Palestinian victims, most of them children and women. .

He called on the Palestinian masses in Jerusalem, the West Bank and the 48 areas to gather in the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque to confront settler incursions and impose new facts on the city of Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque, including its temporal and spatial division.

The leader in democracy, speaking on behalf of the forces, called on the international community and international organizations to stand up to its responsibilities by stopping the measures of the occupying power that are pushing the situation towards explosion, and that do not give weight to the decisions of international legitimacy and the principles of international and humanitarian law.

Al-Qarnawi stressed that the occupation’s aggression against the Palestinian people, their land and sanctities will be met with more resistance in all its forms, calling on the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization to convene to discuss the situation, and take the necessary measures and plans, to limit the occupation state’s encroachment on Jerusalem and the sanctities and daily violations in the West Bank, including the implementation of the decisions of the two councils. The national and central forces have been suspended since 2015, in favor of an inclusive and combative national strategy that provides our people with the elements of strength, steadfastness, steadfastness, and the development of their popular resistance. like he said.

(AFP) - The White House said Friday that it was "deeply concerned" about the escalation of violence between Israel and the Palestinians, following the air raids launched by the Hebrew state on Gaza in response to rockets fired from the Strip in retaliation for the killing of nine Palestinians during an Israeli operation in the occupied West Bank .

John Kirby, a spokesman for the US National Security Council, told reporters that the United States is "very concerned about the escalation of violence in the West Bank, as well as about the rockets that appear to have been fired from Gaza (...) We believe that all parties concerned should seek to urgently to defuse the crisis.

On Sunday, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken heads to Egypt, then to Israel and the West Bank, against the backdrop of renewed violence in the region.

On Friday, the Israeli army launched raids on the Gaza Strip in response to rocket fire from the Strip, after an Israeli military operation in the occupied West Bank, the bloodiest in years.

"We are certainly aware of the challenges that Israel faces every day on the security front," Kirby added.

Blinken's visit to Israel comes a week after a similar visit by White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, who assured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of the United States' support.

For its part, France on Friday called on both Israel and the Palestinians to "refrain from fueling escalation."

"France expresses its deep concern about the risks of escalation, including in the Gaza Strip, following the operation carried out by the Israeli army yesterday in the Jenin camp in the West Bank, which reportedly resulted in the death of civilians.”

Legendre regretted that the violence in the West Bank resulted in the death of 30 Palestinians in January alone.

The spokeswoman stressed that France affirms its adherence to respect for international humanitarian law and "Israel's duty to protect civilians in occupied territories."

She added that Paris "calls on all parties to exercise restraint and refrain from fueling escalation."

Legendre affirmed her country's adherence to the two-state solution, which provides for the establishment of a Palestinian state living with Israel "side by side in peace and security."

The spokeswoman stressed that France considers this "the only solution capable of guaranteeing a just and lasting peace for the Israelis and the Palestinians."

Washington - (AFP) - Thousands of people, including many Iranian men and women, marched in the US capital, Washington, on Saturday, in support of the protests in Iran, and marched to the White House, carrying the slogan "Women Live Freedom."

The march started at the end of the afternoon from the National Mall, which is a large square in the city center. Carrying the colors of the Iranian flag in the sun, they headed towards the White House, and the participants chanted, "We want freedom" and "justice for Iran."

"This is our fifth weekly protest in Washington, and I think it is the largest," Siamak Aram, one of the organizers, told AFP, adding that the number of participants is likely to be "more than ten thousand" people.

Some of the protesters came from other American cities such as Boston.

"Help liberate Iran," said Mahshid, 28, who was wearing a green T-shirt. "We no longer want this tyrannical regime that prevents us from benefiting from our human rights and our freedom," added the young engineer, who left Iran three years ago and did not want to reveal her full name because her family is still in the country.

On a banner held by another young woman, a lock of hair hung alongside the words, "Our hair may bother you, but our mind will finish you."

More than a month ago, widespread protests erupted in Iran, sparked by the death of the young Iranian-Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, after she was arrested by the morality police, who accused her of violating the strict dress code in the Islamic Republic.

On Saturday, demonstrations took place in support of Berlin and Tokyo as well. In Washington, Marjan, 55, said it was important to "show that we support the people of Iran." She was pleased that the procession included people of "different ages and religions" who lived in Iran and abroad.

"This is a wonderful revolution led by women who are the most oppressed in Iran," Negar, 53, told AFP. "The least we can do is be here."

Al-Quds - "Al-Quds" dot com - Today, Saturday, in occupied Jerusalem , students organized vigils to denounce attempts to impose the Israeli curriculum on Jerusalemite schools.

A protest stand was organized for the parents of the students of faith schools in Beit Hanina, raising slogans denouncing the attempts of "Educationalization" in the Holy City.

The students of the town of Silwan, south of Al-Aqsa Mosque, also organized a similar stand, during which they affirmed the right of their children to obtain the Palestinian curriculum and transportation.

Dozens of students’ families flocked in front of the schools of Silwan in the Ras al-Amud neighborhood, demanding the provision of services and safe ways to reach schools, as well as affirming the right of their children to teach the Palestinian curriculum and rejecting any attempts to substitute the distorted Israeli curriculum for it.

In the context, the students of Jabal Al Mukaber schools returned to their schools after 3 days of strike due to the occupation policies to stop transportation for students.

The students, through their strike, with the support of the teaching staff and parents, forced the occupation to retract its decision to deny 600 students out of 1,200 the use of transportation to reach their schools.

BERLIN (Xinhua) -- German Minister for Economics and Climate Action Robert Habeck on Wednesday criticized the "exorbitant" gas prices imposed by "friendly" supplier countries such as the United States .

"Some countries, even friendly ones, charge astronomical prices in some cases. Of course, this creates problems that we have to talk about," Habeck told the Neue Osnabruecker Zeitung newspaper.

Gas prices in Europe are now twice as high as they were before the start of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.

He added, "The United States turned to us when oil prices rose, and the national oil reserves in Europe were also depleted. I think such solidarity would also be good for lowering gas prices."

Habeck also called on the EU to "pool its market power, coordinate smartly and make simultaneous purchases."

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she would prefer to discuss a cap on gas prices.

Berlin - (dpa) - Informed sources said that the leaders of the Group of Seven major industrialized countries are preparing to issue instructions to their ministers to study the possibility of imposing a ceiling on the purchase price of Russian natural gas.

Bloomberg news agency stated that this mandate is expected to be announced at the conclusion of the G7 summit in Germany, tomorrow, Tuesday, adding that this step comes as part of broader discussions on how to limit Russia's benefit from its energy exports. It is also expected to mention a mechanism to impose a ceiling on the price of Russian crude oil in the closing statement of the summit.

The G7 includes the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Canada and Japan

On a related note, the Russian oil tanker fleet returned to work at its normal rates before Russia's invasion of Ukraine in late February, as Russia found ways to circumvent Western sanctions and restrictions on maritime traffic.

Bloomberg news agency quoted data from data analysis company Kepler as saying that among about 50 Aframax oil tankers owned by the state-owned shipping company Sofcomflot, there are about 25 tankers loaded daily, which is commensurate with operating rates in 2021, and more than the low operating rate. Too much, which reached about 7 tankers last April.

Bloomberg news agency indicated that Russia's invasion of Ukraine prompted Western countries to impose several packages of sanctions aimed at reducing Russia's financial revenues so that it could not finance the war.

The increased operating rates of Sovcomflot's fleet is the latest evidence of Russia's success in adapting to economic sanctions.

And last May, the Russian shipping company Sovcom said, when it sold 14 ships in order to be able to pay off its debts, that it owned 110 tankers. These tankers range from small ships that transport oil products in various directions to giant ships that can carry up to more than two million barrels of crude.

The fleet of Aframax tankers is the largest in the world.

El Qalaa - (AFP) Algerian firefighters continued Thursday to fight a series of fires that have killed at least 38 people and caused widespread destruction, at a time when deadly forest fires have become a disaster the country faces annually.

Multiple sources, including local journalists and fire services, indicated that at least 38 people were killed, most of them in the state of El Tarf in northeastern Algeria near the border with Tunisia, when the temperature reached 48 degrees Celsius.

At least 200 other people suffered burns or respiratory problems due to the smoke, according to Algerian media.

The Ministry of Justice opened an investigation aimed at determining whether the fires were intentional, after the Ministry of Interior spoke of "arson fires."

According to the fire service, 24 fires are still burning across seven states. During the past 24 hours, 1,700 firefighters were mobilized to put out the fire in 118 locations in 21 states. The army, along with the fire brigade, uses water bombs.

The scenes raised fears of a repeat of last year's fires, which killed at least 90 people and destroyed 100,000 hectares of forests and agricultural lands in the north of the country.

And saw a team of journalists from Agence France-Presse, on the road leading to the castle on the coast in the far north-east of the country, charred trees and vehicles burned.

The team also saw significant damage at the wildlife park, where a witness who asked not to be named said 12 people were burned alive inside their bus as they tried to flee.

In a hospital in Al-Qalaa, "of the 72 people admitted, nine are in intensive care, nine have died and the rest have been discharged," a health official in El Tarf province told AFP.

Prime Minister Ayman bin Abdulrahman from El Tarf state said it was very difficult to contain the fires with wind speeds of 91 kilometers per hour.

And an aviation expert confirmed the information in an interview with Agence France-Presse, explaining that "winds exceeding 90 kilometers per hour make the work of water bombers that get as close as possible to the fire, which is spreading quickly due to the wind, difficult or even impossible."

In solidarity with the families of the fire victims, all cultural activities in Algeria have been postponed, according to the Ministry of Culture.
And associations began to collect money and medicines for the victims, many of whom were burned to varying degrees.

The fires that occurred in recent days have sparked harsh criticism of the authorities for the lack of firefighting aircraft.

Experts also called for greater efforts to enhance the ability to fight fires in the largest African country with more than four million hectares of forests.

Algeria rented a Russian Beriev BE 200 water bomber. However, after it intervened to put out several fires, this plane broke down and will not be ready to fight fire again before Saturday, according to Interior Minister Kamal Beljoud.

Algeria agreed to buy seven fire-fighting aircraft from the Spanish company "Belisa", but canceled the contract following a diplomatic row in June, according to the specialized "Mina Defense" website.

On Thursday, the prime minister confirmed that his country had requested four water bombers, the first of which would arrive in December.
One expert told AFP, on condition of anonymity, that in the 1980s the country had 22 Grumman planes to fight forest fires, but they were "sold cheaply, without proposing any alternative solution."

University professor Rafiq Baba Ahmed, for his part, attributed the fires to the "mismanagement" of the forests, which were invaded by human activities.

Jerusalem - "Al-Quds" dot com - Dozens of Palestinians participated, Thursday evening, in a march demanding the recovery of the body of the martyr Muhammad Abu Juma'a.

The Israeli occupation forces suppressed the march in the village of Al-Tur, east of occupied Jerusalem , and fired stun grenades at the participants in the demonstration. No injuries were reported.

The participants in the demonstration chanted slogans demanding the return of the body of Abu Juma'a, who has been detained by the occupation authorities since his martyrdom on September 22, near the town of Beit Sira, west of Ramallah.

BEIRUT, DOHA - (Xinhua) - Qatar Energy Company announced (Sunday) the acquisition of a 30 percent stake in exploration rights in two offshore blocks off the coast of Lebanon , as part of a consortium that also includes the French companies Total Energies and the Italian Eni. .

The Qatari company said in a statement on its official account on the social networking site (Facebook) that it had signed agreements with the Lebanese government and both ((Total Energy)) and ((Eni)) to become a partner in exploration rights in two offshore areas off the coast of the Republic of Lebanon.

The statement added that according to the agreements signed today in the capital, Beirut, Qatar Energy will acquire a 30 percent stake in Blocks 4 and 9, while Total Energy, the operator, and Eni will acquire a 35 percent stake each.

He explained that this represents the first exploratory activity of Qatar Energy in Lebanon, as Area No. 9 is located at a distance of about 80 kilometers off the southern coast of Lebanon, with a total area of 1,749 square kilometers and in waters about 1,700 meters deep, while the area of Area 4 is about 1,911 square kilometers. It is located in waters about 1500 meters deep.

Lebanese Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati patronized at the Prime Minister's headquarters the signing ceremony of two amendments to the exploration and production agreements in offshore blocks 4 and 9, in the presence of Lebanese Energy Minister Walid Fayyad, Minister of State for Energy Affairs, CEO of Qatar Energy Saad Al-Kaabi, and CEO of Total. Energies) Patrick Pouyanné and CEO of ((Eni)) Claudio Descalzi.

Mikati said in a speech on the occasion that the Qatari investment in the energy sector constitutes a strategic partnership between Lebanon and Qatar and opens the way for future Arab and Gulf investments in particular for the interest of Lebanon and its Arab brothers.

And he considered that in the event that commercial quantities are discovered, the discoveries will be rapidly developed and the Lebanese market, especially the electricity plants, will be supplied with natural gas, which will contribute to the growth of the local economy.

Mikati added that Lebanon's geographical location will enable it to play a pivotal role, in addition to friendly countries in the region, to supply gas to Europe. It also encourages international companies to participate in the second licensing cycle for offshore blocks offered for bidding.

Lebanon had announced the launch of a second licensing round for oil and gas exploration in its marine waters in 8 offshore blocks, the submission of offers for participation in which ends on June 30, and the Lebanese government divided into 10 blocks the Mediterranean waters that are subject to Lebanese jurisdiction.

In turn, the Lebanese Minister of Energy said in his statement after the signing that he is looking forward to a long-term partnership with the three companies in additional offshore blocks offered for bidding.

He hoped that the discoveries in Lebanon's waters would contribute to helping him achieve his strategic goals by launching the wheel of economic development.

For his part, Qatari Minister Saad Al-Kaabi stressed the importance of the agreement signed today, saying that it "gives us an opportunity to support economic development in Lebanon," stressing that "the State of Qatar is always there to support a better future for Lebanon and its people."

Al-Kaabi stressed that, under the directives of the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Doha "is always there to support a better future for Lebanon and its people."

He pointed out that Qatar Energy shares a long history of cooperation with the French Total Energies and the Italian Eni, and that the two companies have a deep understanding of the region and a proven track record in the field of exploration, expressing his aspiration to start work in these promising areas, according to for the statement.

For his part, CEO of Total Energies, Patrick Pouyanné, said that the recent demarcation of Lebanon's southern maritime borders gave new impetus to explore the country's hydrocarbon potential.

He pointed out that the new partnership between ((Total Energy)) and ((Qatar Energy)) expands the scope of international cooperation in the field of exploration and raises the number of countries in which the two companies cooperate to 9 countries.

As for the CEO of ((Eni)) Claudio Descalzi, he hoped that the exploration would result in commercial explorations for the benefit of the Lebanese people.

He pointed out that the signing today comes at a precise time when energy is the basis for relations between countries and at a time when Russian gas supplies to Europe have stopped.

An alliance of French and Italian companies, along with the Russian company (Novetec), had won exploration offers in Blocks 4 and 9 during the first licensing round in Lebanon in 2017, but the Russian company soon withdrew in September last year to leave its stake to the Lebanese government.

It is noteworthy that the rotation of the wheel of gas exploration procedures in the Lebanese maritime patch No. 9 border with Israel comes after the completion of the demarcation of the maritime borders between the two countries last October, after indirect negotiations that lasted for two years, mediated by the United States and the UN, over a dispute over an area in the Mediterranean with an area of 860 kilometers. Square believed to be rich in oil and gas.

BEIJING (AFP) - A tightly strapped Kanish poodle watches anxiously as a veterinarian pricks him with fine needles in his back and legs, as more and more dog and cat owners in China offer their pets acupuncture .

This traditional Chinese medicine clinic in Beijing is crowded, morning and evening, with animals of all sizes, even rabbits.
And now many people prefer this type of treatment over the usual veterinary treatment, as it is less severe and has side effects.

"The advantage of traditional Chinese medicine lies in the fact that it does not depend on surgery, and therefore the percentage of animal suffering is diminished, as well as the duration of its recovery phase," explained the owner of the Caneche dog, Jay Shunyu, 38, to AFP.

His three-year-old dog, Donio, suffers from Legg-Calve-Perthes disease, which affects the head and neck of the femur and causes them to accumulate, with inflammation in the joints and pain, resulting in a lameness while walking.

"He was in so much pain that he could no longer stand on the ground and lost his appetite," said Jay, who works in finance.

He added, "A doctor advised me to remove the head of the femur. But I did not want to do that because I have another Kanish dog who went through the same suffering, and was in a lot of pain as a result of the operation and its effects."

A friend advised him to try acupuncture at the clinic, which 68-year-old veterinarian Li Wen opened in 2016.
"After five or six sessions, we can see the results. Donyo can walk and even run a bit now," he said.

The veterinarian issues a diagnosis based on examining the animal's size, eyes and tongue color, taking its pulse and asking questions of the owner. Then he suspects his needles on the acupuncture points of cats and dogs.

"Out of ten animals I receive on average every day, one or two always rebel against treatment," said Li Wen, who has been working in this field for 46 years.
He stressed the need for the doctor to communicate with the animals, treat them kindly, and reassure them that he does not want to harm them.
Li Wen relaxes his patients with soft music that he broadcasts in his clinic, including the sound of bamboo flutes and the chirping of birds.

Like a person, and once the needles are suspected, the veterinarian stimulates the points with a heating lamp in which tablets of fireweed are placed, which is called “cautery” treatment.

This treatment is supposed to complement acupuncture and reduce rheumatism as well as muscle and joint pain.
The veterinarian mainly treats cases of paralysis, limb weakness, epilepsy, pain and urinary retention.

Acupuncture can also be used in the absence of another treatment, as is the case with a male Labrador dog named Shawmei (12 years old) who suffers from nervous pressure in his lower back and the appearance of a parrot's beak as a result of cartilage deterioration.

Ma Li, 41, told AFP that her dog, "last September, was unable after swimming to stand again on its legs. The vet told us after that that it was impossible to treat it and that it would become paralyzed."

She added, "Thanks to acupuncture, he still has difficulties, but he walks normally and even runs."

The average price for a session is 360 to 390 yuan (52 to 57 euros), which is acceptable for most pet owners in Beijing.

"The first time, he was scared and only endured the treatment for five minutes," said Yang Lihua, 65, a pensioner who came with her dog Nianyan, who had a herniated disc.

But the situation is different now, and he "loves it! After the session, he feels so relaxed that he sleeps in the car on the way home," she said.
Animal acupuncture dates back about six centuries in China, according to Professor Lee.

It was used for the first time to treat cows, sheep, horses, rabbits or even chickens. And its application to dogs and cats is the latest.

Professor Lee emphasized that "the aim of traditional Chinese medicine is not to replace ordinary medicine" because "both have their strengths" and are "complementary" to the other.

The market for animal acupuncture is currently still limited.

However, according to Professor Lee, "it has been gaining popularity since 2016". "With the increase in education levels, living conditions and income, more people realize the benefits of this medicine," he said.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - The occupation authorities renewed today, Thursday, the administrative detention of the captive Jerusalemite MP Ahmed Atoun, for a period of four months for the second time in a row.

The Captive Club stated that the prisoner, Representative Atoun, was arrested on April 1, 2022, and the occupation authorities issued an administrative detention order against him for a period of four months.

It is noteworthy that the prisoner Atoun, a former prisoner, spent about 16 years in the prisons of the Israeli occupation, and is now in "Ofer" prison.

Ottawa - (AFP) - The Canadian government announced on Tuesday that it will impose new sanctions on Belarusian officials, while the leader of the Belarusian opposition in exile, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, is visiting the country to urge Ottawa to maintain pressure on the regime of Alexander Lukashenko.

This batch of sanctions targets 22 officials of the regime and 15 institutions related to "the manufacture of military equipment, technology, engineering, banking, and railway transportation." In total, Canada's sanctions affect more than 100 individuals and companies in the country.

In a statement, Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Jolie accused the Belarusian president's regime of letting "its lands turn into a launching pad for Russia's horrific attacks on Ukraine."

Jolie denounced Belarusian leaders for allowing "the Russian regime to commit human rights violations in places like Bucha, Izyum and Mariupol" in Ukraine, and criticized "President Putin's use of food and energy as weapons."

"We know that there are human rights violations in Belarus, and we also know that Belarus is complicit in the Russian invasion of Ukraine," she added.

Tikhanovskaya announced, in an interview with the press, Monday, her intention to ask the Canadian Prime Minister to "impose sanctions" on officials in Alexander Lukashenko's regime.

"Today, the very existence of Belarus is threatened," she said.

It also announced that it intends to seek more assistance for Belarusian civil society, in particular for independent journalists, but also for the approximately 1,400 political prisoners and their families.

Tikhanovskaya lives in exile after fleeing abroad from violent crackdowns launched by Lukashenko, who declared victory in the 2020 elections and is considered "stolen" by the West.