Gaza - "Jerusalem" dot com - Ahmed Al-Masharawi - The Competitions Committee of the Palestinian Basketball Association in the Gaza Strip announced the start dates for the Golden Square matches - the playoffs, what is known as the elimination rounds of the Premier League Championship, sponsored by Jawwal.

The committee decided to kick off the first matches next Friday, July 29, in the first-leg, with Khadamat Al-Bureij and its neighbor, Shabab Al-Bureij, at the hall of the late behind the wheel at 8:00 pm.

The committee decided to hold the second meeting, which will bring together Al-Maghazi services and Rafah services, next Saturday, July 30, at the Martyr Saad Sail Hall, as a home playground for Al-Maghazi services.

The second meeting between the two neighbors, Al-Burij Al-Khadamat and Al-Shabab, will be in the return leg, on the second Tuesday of August, at the Hall of the late Behind the Wheel.

UNITED NATIONS - (Xinhua) -- The intergovernmental conference to draft the first-ever treaty on marine biodiversity opened its fifth and likely final session at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Monday.

The new treaty aims to codify international law on territorial waters, sea lanes and marine resources, while defining the legal framework for all activities in the oceans and seas.

"It is my hope that we can make real progress in these two weeks, with the goal of finalizing the agreement as soon as possible," said Intergovernmental Conference Chair Rina Lee, calling on delegates to prepare to work hard while delving into the technical and legal details.

The fifth session, which will run until August 26, is expected to be the last in a series that has begun since 2018 to draft an international legally binding instrument under the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity beyond areas of national jurisdiction.

Li said the negotiations aimed to address marine genetic resources, including issues related to benefit-sharing, and measures such as area-based management tools, environmental impact assessment, capacity-building, and transfer of marine technology.

She added that delegates were asked to submit text proposals for the fifth session, noting that a workbook containing all the materials was released in early August.

In its resolution 72/249 of 24 December 2017, the General Assembly decided to convene an intergovernmental conference to elaborate on the text of an international legally binding instrument on the conservation and use of marine biological diversity.

By: Gershon Baskin

Here's the situation: Israel and Palestine are stuck in a political impasse. The current Israeli government and any potential Israeli government in the coming years do not have a political mandate or political will to negotiate any kind of agreement with the Palestinian people.

This most important issue facing Israel is not on the political agenda of any political party that will lead the next government. The Palestinian side faces a divided political house between the West Bank and Gaza where the two governments do not have much legitimacy from their own streets. The Palestinians are united only by their overwhelming desire to hold elections. Israel is stuck in a political stagnation due to its inability to form a stable government with a long political life, and therefore; It faces repeated elections with a fundamentally unchanged constituency. Those of us on both sides, in Israel and Palestine, who believe we must go back to the table to figure out how to move forward toward resolving this conflict, have no political leaders to turn to and few constructive ideas about how to do so and end the impasse.

The vast majority of the younger generation on both sides see no hope for peace, and therefore; They are either completely detached, have no desire to contact the other party, are preoccupied with their careers, or tend to adopt extremist ideas.

I saw a recent poll by a leading Israeli pollster that found that less than a third of Israelis believe there is a need to end the occupation of the Palestinian people. Does this mean that two thirds of Israelis believe that Israel can continue to rule over millions of Palestinians and that is a good thing? Do these millions of Israelis believe that there is no price to pay for the continued denial of the rights of the Palestinian people to enjoy the same rights as the Israeli people? The number of Palestinians who believe in the necessity of reaching a political agreement with Israel is declining.

The vast majority of Palestinians, especially the younger generation, no longer believe in the two-state solution. The reality they see all around them is increasing Israeli land grabs and settlement expansion. Two weeks ago, I traveled all over the southern West Bank and saw dozens of new outposts on hilltops across the region. In the northern West Bank there are more. They all know, as every Israeli knows, that not long ago those few caravans on the tops of the hills would become homes to be called new neighborhoods from the existing settlements kilometers away. The few caravans are already connected to the electricity grid and soon all the infrastructure needed for normal life will be available. At the same time, Palestinians are trapped in small areas in towns and villages with no possibility of expansion while 62% of the West Bank, designated by the defunct 1995 Oslo Accords as Area C, has been placed under full Israeli control. Every Palestinian in the West Bank feels suffocated by Israeli settlements and the military government. Palestinian homes are demolished by Israel almost every day. Every night, Israel arrests dozens of Palestinian youth. Occupation surrounds their lives and there is no escape for them. They see their government as nothing more than a subcontractor of the Israeli regime. It should come as no surprise that Palestinian public opinion polls show an increase in support for the armed struggle against Israel.

This mostly comes from the younger generation who did not live through the terrible era of the Second Intifada. A former Israeli prime minister asked me this week if a third intifada was possible. Of course, not only that, there is a fair chance that if that happens we will face Nakba-type measures to expel entire communities of Palestinians from their homes because there is growing support among right-wingers in Israel for doing so. Israel is already doing this in the Yatta path in the south and in small communities in the Jordan Valley and there is complete silence in Israel and around the world.

What can we do? We who still believe that we must find a way to live together on this earth. First, do we all need to work on our part to gain more power within our political systems. In Israel, we are working to launch a joint Arab-Jewish Equity Party, which even if we do not succeed in the next elections, we will begin to challenge the discourse in Israel, and eventually carve out a place in Israeli political culture where the equality of all citizens is a foregone conclusion rather than a point of contention. In Palestine, there must be elections for a president and parliament and there must be agreement among all parties that the will of the people will be fulfilled and that the separation between the West Bank and Gaza will finally come to an end. The political forces that reject the course of violence in Palestine must unite, gain strength, and become strategic in how they present themselves to the public.

Israelis and Palestinians who believe in a shared future must immediately begin their campaign for the release of Marwan Barghouti from prison after twenty years in prison, and Barghouti remains the only Palestinian capable of winning any election against any other candidate. Barghouti is also the one who believes that ending the occupation and resolving the conflict must happen, preferably through negotiations and cooperation. When there are Palestinian elections, Barghouti will run, and he will win. If he is in Israeli prison, there will be an international campaign for his release. The prospect of a democratically elected Palestinian president in an Israeli jail is not far off. That is why I wrote several months ago to the head of the Israeli Shin Bet and encouraged him, as its new chief, to engage Barghouti in a political dialogue while he was in prison, just as they did in South Africa with Nelson Mandela. But as I have been told with people who have the right to visit Barghouti in prison, no one on the Israeli side has engaged him in any kind of political conversation.

I have lost all hope that the international community will come to our rescue. As long as the United States and most of Western Europe still talk about two states but recognize only one of the two states, it is of no use to us politically or even worse. Maintaining the two-state slogan while doing nothing to achieve it only served to increase the unviability of the two-state solution. So, we are stuck here, by ourselves, the Israelis and the Palestinians, who both have no intention of going anywhere else. This is our situation.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Embassy of the State of Palestine to Germany reported the death of the Palestinian student, Amir Mahmoud Abdel-Karim Odeh (Saadat), from Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement that the student, Saadat, died by drowning while he was in a German city.

The embassy confirmed that it is communicating with his brother, who was with him, and his family, to follow up with them regarding the transfer of his body.

London, (AFP) - Unemployment rates in Britain are still close to their lowest levels in 50 years, but the value of wages is falling at a record pace, with inflation reaching the highest level in decades, official data showed Tuesday.

The National Statistics Office said in a statement that the unemployment rate was 3.8 percent in the three months ending in June.

That rate was unchanged from the three months ending in May.

ONS's director of economic statistics, Darren Morgan, said that while recent data suggested the number of vacancies remained "historically very high, it has fallen for the first time since the summer of 2020" when the UK briefly emerged from pandemic-related lockdown measures. Covid.

Excluding bonuses, he added, real wages "are still falling faster than at any time since record breaking records began in 2001".

This comes as inflation in the UK rose to a 40-year high of 9.4 percent amid higher energy and food prices.

The Bank of England expects inflation to peak at just over 13 percent in Britain this year, tipping its economy into recession.

The National Statistics Office will publish the latest inflation figures on Wednesday.

Ramallah - "Al Quds" dot com - The Presidency condemned the Israeli aggression against our people in the Gaza Strip , and calls for an immediate end to it, and holds the occupation forces responsible for this dangerous escalation.

The Presidency called on the international community to compel Israel to stop this aggression against our people everywhere, particularly in Gaza, and to provide them with international protection.

It is noteworthy that this aggression has so far claimed the lives of 8 martyrs and more than 40 injuries.

Washington (AFP) - A network participating in the US "Mega Millions" lottery won Friday night a jackpot of more than $ 1.33 billion, in one of the largest cash rewards in lottery history, organizers announced Saturday.

And the lottery game account in the state of Illinois in the middle of the eastern country wrote, in a tweet on Twitter, "Mega Millions players, check your tickets! We have a winner (...) in Illinois. Stay tuned for more details!"

"We can't wait to find out the winner and hope to congratulate him soon!" said Pat McDonald, CEO of Mega Millions, in a statement.

The grand prize was initially estimated at $1.28 billion, but "the final value was higher than that estimated," based on actual sales, Mega Millions said.

Lucky in Friday's draw will get 1.337 billion if he agrees to pay the installments over 30 years.

But if he wants to receive his prize in one go, he will get “only” $ 780 million, an amount that will be deducted in part for taxes, according to the estimates of those in charge of “Mega Millions”.

The value of the grand prize for this lottery continued to increase steadily for more than three months, and the dreams of the participants in the game grew with it, while no one succeeded in guessing the correct six numbers in the last 29 draws that preceded Friday's draw.
The chances of winning this tempting amount did not exceed one in 303 million. For comparison, the probability of being struck by lightning is one in a million, according to data from US health authorities.
The largest prize in lottery history was $1.586 billion. It was won in January 2016 in the other major US lottery, the Powerball, but the money was divided among three winners.

Bethlehem - "Jerusalem" dot com - Najeeb Farraj - The Israeli occupation forces arrested, this evening, Wednesday, two young men, Awni Ahmed Awni Taqatqa (20 years old) and Saddam Amjad Nassar Taqatqa (21 years old), from the town of Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem.

And local sources reported that the occupation forces arrested the two young men after summoning them to the intelligence headquarters in the headquarters of the military government in the "Gush Etzion" settlement area.

Nablus – “Jerusalem” dot com – Imad Saadeh – Two young men were killed in the old town of Nablus, at dawn today, Sunday, while 10 injured people, one of whom was in a serious condition, were transferred to the city’s hospitals, during violent armed clashes between resistance fighters and the Israeli occupation forces that stormed the Al-Yasmina neighborhood. Inside the town and besieging a house in order to arrest wanted resistance fighters.

According to medical sources, the two martyrs are Abboud Sobh (29 years old) and Muhammad Al-Azizi (22 years old) from Nablus.

According to eyewitnesses, members of the Israeli special units infiltrated the Yasmina neighborhood, then large forces of the occupation army followed them, immediately besieging a building in the neighborhood, and violent armed clashes broke out inside the neighborhood that lasted for about 4 hours.

The Fatah movement's organizational areas in Nablus announced, via loudspeakers, a comprehensive strike in Nablus today, Sunday, to mourn the souls of the two martyrs, Subuh and Azizi.

According to the Hebrew website Ynet, the forces of Yamam and Givati carried out the operation against a group of fugitives in Nablus.

According to the site, the Israeli army used LAW and Matador missiles in the process of targeting the building in which the young men were.

He pointed out that the clashes, from inside and outside the building itself, lasted for 3 hours, and that after this long period of clashes, the Israeli army forces managed to enter the building and found weapons, ammunition and explosive devices.

Gaza - "Jerusalem" dot com - Hamas considered today, Wednesday, the occupation's approval of new settlement plans in occupied Jerusalem, as a deepening Judaization of the land and targeting the identity, and that it is a desperate attempt that will not succeed in obliterating the features of the Holy City and changing the facts of history.

Muhammad Hamadeh, a Hamas spokesman for the city of Jerusalem, expressed his movement’s rejection of these plans, saying: “This Zionist crime will be confronted with the unity of our people and their struggle by all means. Occupied Jerusalem". According to him.

Hamada called on the Palestinian people for more patience and steadfastness in the face of the occupation's violations and its Judaization plans, in defense of our land and our national rights until liberation and return. like he said.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates said, today, Tuesday, that as soon as it was announced that the occupation soldier had been killed near the city of Tulkarm, the Israeli security and military authorities rushed to accuse the Palestinians in a preemptive and intentional manner that reflects the Israeli establishment's view of the Palestinian citizen as an accused in all Conditions must be pursued and punished.

The ministry indicated, in a statement, that after more forces were called in and many roadblocks were set up and mobilized in search of the perpetrators, it became clear to the leaders of the occupation army that the Israeli soldier was killed by what they called "friendly fire". With immediate field investigations, with the intervention of senior Israeli military officials, they were able, within a few hours, to complete their serious and effective investigations, proving that his colleague was the one who shot him.

She said: This picture reminds us of the hundreds of field executions that the occupation army and its members committed against unarmed Palestinian civilians without posing any danger to the occupation soldiers or settlers. None of these ongoing crimes received such Israeli attention or such quick and serious investigations.

And she added: Rather, the occupying state and its military, security and judicial institutions tried to bury the details and circumstances of their crimes against Palestinian citizens without any investigations, and in some cases that had resonance and interaction at the local, regional and international media level, the military establishment carried out some investigations not with the aim of revealing the Israeli murderers and war criminals. And whoever stands behind them, but with the aim of procrastination and blurring the truth or recording it against an unknown person and absolving the occupation army of any responsibility towards it, and sometimes arresting the perpetrator and bringing some charges against him, and if he is tried, the sentence will be lenient and he will soon be released for this or that reason.

And she continued: Also, this racist colonial image always reminds us of the crime of execution of the martyr Sherine Abu Aqelah, who, despite the unprecedented global interest that accompanied her, the occupying state at all levels continues to refuse to conduct any investigations, manipulate words and expressions, and try to politicize the issue or accuse the Palestinians. Falsely and slander, on the way to obliterating it, forgetting it, and completely burying it, in an official Israeli effort to deal with the life of the Palestinian citizen in the worst forms of hatred, hatred, and racism.

And she continued: On the other hand, we remember the victims of the aggressive Israeli war crimes against our people in the Gaza Strip, including the victims of the recent aggression, including women, children, the elderly, and other unarmed Palestinian civilians, despite many Israeli press investigations that prove the involvement of the occupation army in killing the five children in The Fallujah cemetery, east of Jabalia, was attacked by missiles from warplanes, and despite the confession of a number of Israeli officials to this crime, the occupying state, with its official institutions, is trying to evade responsibility for this crime and other crimes in the Gaza Strip, and has not taken any measures against those who committed it, nor has it disclosed them. It did not arrest or prosecute them. The same applies to the crime of executing the young man, Al-Shaham, in the town of Kafr Aqab, inside his house, in a full-fledged crime committed by the occupation forces and his police in a deliberate and intentional manner, and with clear instructions from the military, security and political leaders of the occupation.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs held the Israeli government fully and directly responsible for the crimes of its field executions, and it is following up these crimes officially and documented with the International Criminal Court, asking it to break its silence and take the necessary legal measures imposed by the court’s regulations and the founding Rome Statute towards Israeli criminals and murderers.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Ministry of Health confirmed today, Sunday, that no cases of monkeypox have been recorded in Palestine.

Tariq Hawash, Director of Jericho Health, said in a radio interview that so far no injuries have been recorded, although some injuries have been recorded on the Israeli side.

And he indicated that if the virus spreads, the spread will not be wide because the symptoms of this disease are clear.

ISTANBUL (AFP) - Turkish, Russian and Ukrainian experts on Wednesday inspected the ship carrying the first shipment of grain exported by Ukraine since the Russian invasion on April 24, before the "Razoni" continued its way from Turkey towards Lebanon .

The "Razoni" search took about an hour and a half, according to AFP correspondents. Then the ship continued on its way, passing the northern entrance to the Bosphorus in the early afternoon.

This measure marked the end of a "trial phase" of the mechanisms for implementing the international agreement concluded in July in Istanbul to contain the global food crisis, according to the Joint Coordination Center secretariat.

The Secretariat revealed that "the inspection team was able to communicate with the ship's crew and inquire about the approved route in the open humanitarian sea corridor in the Black Sea," noting that "it is assumed that millions of tons of wheat, corn and other grains will continue to be exported from three Ukrainian ports."

The cargo ship "Razoni", flying the flag of Sierra Leone, appeared at the northern shores of Istanbul on the Black Sea on Tuesday, the day after it left the Ukrainian port of Odessa, heading to Tripoli in Lebanon, carrying 26,000 tons of corn.

A team of about 20 experts and UN delegates in orange life jackets and helmets was led by Turkish Admiral Ozkan Altunbulak, head of the Joint Coordination Center that oversees exports, and retired US Navy Admiral Fred Kenney.

The ship was searched at the request of Russia, which wants to ascertain the nature of the cargo.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said that another 16 ships loaded with grain were "waiting for their turn" to leave the main Black Sea port of Odessa, which before the war secured 60 percent of port activity in the country.

The agreement signed by Russia and Ukraine on July 22, mediated by Turkey and under the auspices of the United Nations, allows for the resumption of shipments to global markets of Ukrainian grain, which have been suspended since the Russian invasion.

The document specifically provides for the establishment of safe corridors to allow commercial ships to sail in the Black Sea and export between twenty and 25 million tons of grain.

"Let's hope that all parties will implement the agreements and that the mechanisms will work effectively," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

A similar agreement was signed guaranteeing Russia at the same time the export of its agricultural products and fertilizers, despite Western sanctions.

The two agreements are supposed to help alleviate the global food crisis caused by high food prices in some of the world's poorest countries.

On the ground, the Russian army bombed the city of Chuguyev in northeastern Ukraine, killing one person and wounding two, according to what was announced on "Facebook" by Sergey Polvinov, an official in the Kharkiv region police. He clarified that the person who was killed and one of the two injured were "Russian citizens".

Kharkiv, the second largest city in Ukraine and close to the Russian border, was hit by two strikes on Tuesday night, launched from Russian territory, according to local authorities.

And the Russian army confirmed in a statement on Wednesday that "high-precision missiles" had destroyed in the Lviv region (west), "a foreign weapons and ammunition depot that was delivered to the Kiev regime from Poland."

According to preliminary information, they are two S-300 missiles launched from the Russian border region of Belgorod. One fell to the ground, while another hit a civilian facility without causing any casualties, according to what was revealed by the region's governor, Aleg Sinigubov, on "Telegram".

And last June, Moscow confirmed the destruction of an arms depot handed over to NATO in western Ukraine, an area rarely hit by Russian strikes.

And the southern city of Mykolaiv was bombed again at night, according to what the region's governor, Vitaly Kim, revealed via "Telegram", noting that a pharmacy and a large store were destroyed, and a horse riding school was damaged.

The mayor, Oleksandr Senkevich, reported on the Telegram application that "strong explosions" were heard around 5 am.

And in the Donbass basin, in eastern Ukraine, the governor of the Donetsk region, which is at the heart of the fighting, reported on Wednesday that four civilians had been killed in the last 24 hours.

But Ukraine, which is currently leading a counter-attack in the south, announced on Tuesday that it had recaptured more than 53 towns in the Kherson region, the first major city that fell under the control of the Russian army on March 3.

Artillery is a crucial factor in the conflict in Ukraine. The Russian and Ukrainian armies, which need large quantities of various types of missiles, are waging a war of attrition at the level of ammunition.

The United States, the major supporter of Ukraine, announced that it would send new weapons to Kiev worth $550 million, bringing its military assistance to more than eight billion dollars. This aid will include ammunition for HIMARS missile platforms and 75,000 155 mm shells.

On Wednesday, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz accused Russia of being responsible for obstructing the delivery of a turbine currently in Germany, without which the Nord Stream gas pipeline cannot operate normally, Moscow says.

Westerners accuse Moscow of using gas as a political weapon in response to the sanctions imposed after the attack on Ukraine.

Nablus - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Israeli occupation forces arrested, at dawn and this morning, Friday, 3 citizens from Nablus, after storming their homes.

According to local sources, the occupation forces arrested the two brothers, Imad and Moataz Mansour, after storming their family home in the village of Kafr Qalil, south of Nablus.

Those forces stormed the clinic of Dr. Amer Mansour, the detainees' brother, in the same village, and destroyed its contents.

While the young man, Alaa Hamayel, was arrested after storming his family’s house in the town of Bita, south of the governorate.

Ramallah – “Jerusalem” dot com – The Prisoner’s Club said, on Monday, that the occupation prison administration has transferred, since January 8, 220 prisoners from several prisons, including Hadarim, Megiddo, and Rimon, as follows. Next: (80) from Hadarim prison, (70) from (Megiddo) prison, and (70) from Rimon prison.

The Prisoner's Club stated in a press statement that the administration of "Raymond" prison transferred yesterday and today (70) prisoners to (Jilboa) prison, from all organizations, and it is expected that another series of transfers will be carried out during the next stage, and it may last up to a month. March of this year.

This transfer comes in the light of large-scale transfers announced by the occupation prison administration, which may affect 2,000 prisoners. The transferred prisoners will be distributed mainly to the new sections in (Nafha), (Ofer) and (Gilboa) prisons.

It is noteworthy that the Occupation Prisons Administration pursues transfers for several purposes, the most important of which is to strike any “stability” situation that the prisoner tries to create inside the prison, and through which it tries to impose more control and oversight on the prisoners.

Noting that the transfer operations escalated significantly within a plan, after the heroic operation "Tunnel of Freedom", and the prison administration tried to impose a new equation on the prisoners through periodic transfers, in the context of compromising the organizational situation, but the prisoners faced this through a series of battles that continued. From September 2021 until last year.

Tangiers (Morocco) - (AFP) - The Moroccan judiciary decided on Wednesday to prosecute a new defendant in the case targeting French businessman Jacques Petit and a number of his aides on charges of sexual harassment, based on a complaint from six young women, according to the plaintiffs' lawyer.

Lawyer Aisha Klaa told AFP that the investigating judge who is looking into this case decided to prevent the new suspect, a French citizen residing in Morocco, from traveling, withdrawing his passport and subjecting him to judicial control.

The latter is added to two other French men and six Moroccans who are under investigation on charges ranging from "human trafficking" to "sexual harassment" and "verbal and moral violence".

Six of them are being pursued while they are in a state of preventive detention, and they were officials of the branch of the "Asso 2000" group in Tangiers in the north of the kingdom, which was run by Potei.

This case was opened after former employees of this company filed a complaint against Bottier and a number of his assistants, on charges of sexual harassment.

On Wednesday, the investigative judge in the Criminal Chamber of the Tangiers Court of Appeal heard in detail all the nine suspects, according to Kalaa.

It is expected that he will continue to investigate them and hold confrontations with civil rights claims on October 6th.

The incidents took place between 2018 and April 2022 in the Moroccan branch of the French group.

This case was opened while charges of human trafficking and rape of minors were brought against Petit, a 75-year-old wealthy businessman, and five other people on May 21 in Paris after a preliminary investigation in mid-March.

He is also wanted for criminal conspiracy to kidnap people, as well as possession of child pornography.

Another powerful storm hit California on Saturday night, forcing thousands to flee their homes, killing at least two people and rupturing a dam in coastal Monterey County.

"We were hoping to avoid this situation, but the worst case scenario happened with the Pajaro River flooding and the dam cracking around midnight," Monterey County official Luis Aliu said Saturday via Twitter.

Residents confirmed to AFP that local fire officials told them in the middle of the night to evacuate their homes.

"The noise of the sirens woke us up," said Musa, who has lived in the area for about 20 years and preferred to give his first name only.

He added that officials came later and knocked on his door several times, but he decided to wait until five o'clock in the morning before leaving with his wife, as the flood waters rose in the vicinity of the house.

The National Weather Service said the area remains under a flood warning on Saturday afternoon.

Pictures posted on Twitter showed guards rescuing residents trapped in their cars due to rising water.

At least one road was damaged in Santa Cruz County, north of Monterrey.

Residents of several towns, mostly in the north, were ordered to evacuate.

A series of unusually severe storms has been hitting California for weeks.

In Pajaro, the Fire Department and National Guard on Saturday used drones to survey flooded areas and search for people stranded in their homes, AFP correspondents reported.

For his part, US President Joe Biden approved Friday's declaration of emergency in California, paving the way for accelerating federal assistance to the state.

Governor Gavin Newsom said California is "using every tool available to protect residents from the severe and deadly storms that batter our state."

Storms in January killed 20 people.

Amman - "Jerusalem" dot com - Arab countries condemned today, Sunday, the settlers' storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque, under the protection of the Israeli occupation forces.

The Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriate Affairs condemned the continued Israeli violations in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and Al-Qudsi Al-Sharif, the latest of which was allowing extremists and a member of the Knesset to storm the mosque and violate its sanctity under the protection of the occupation police, warning of the consequences of the continuation of these violations, and calling for their immediate cessation.

The official spokesman for the ministry, Ambassador Haitham Abu al-Foul, said that the storming of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and the provocative practices against it are a condemned and unacceptable aggression, and a flagrant violation of international law and the existing historical and legal situation in Jerusalem and its sanctities, stressing that the continuous violations and attacks on the sanctities represent a dangerous trend, and an absurd and irresponsible act. It exacerbates tension and pushes the situation into a continuous cycle of violence.

And he stressed that the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and Al-Haram Al-Sharif, with its entire area of 144 dunums, is a pure place of worship for Muslims, and that the Jordanian Department of the Jerusalem Endowments and the Affairs of the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque is the legal authority with exclusive jurisdiction to manage the affairs of the Holy Mosque and regulate entry to it.

The official spokesman for the ministry held the Israeli authorities responsible for the escalation that is taking place today, calling on Israel, as the occupying power, to immediately stop all attacks and violations against the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, and to respect its sanctity, stressing the need to stop all measures aimed at changing the historical and legal status quo, and to respect the authority of Administration of Jerusalem Endowments and the Affairs of the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jordan.

The State of Qatar also condemned the storming of dozens of settlers into the courtyards of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, under the protection of the occupation forces.

In a press statement, the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs stressed that these provocative practices are part of continuous attempts to change the historical and legal status of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and to advance the temporal division of the mosque, and warned that these provocations coincide with the new Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip that will lead to a dangerous escalation and waves of violence. violence.

It called on the international community to assume its legal and moral responsibilities towards Jerusalem and its sanctities, and to deter the occupation's attempts to turn the conflict into a religious war.

The Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs reaffirmed Qatar's firm position on the justice of the Palestinian cause, the legitimate rights of the brotherly Palestinian people, and the establishment of its independent state on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital.

For its part, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia condemned the storming of the courtyards of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque by settlers, in a serious violation of international law and the historical and legal status quo in Jerusalem and its sanctities.

The Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed, in a press statement, that the continuous violations and attacks on sanctities exacerbate tension and push the situation into a continuous cycle of violence.

It stressed its call on the international community to assume its responsibilities to end the escalation of the Israeli occupation, to provide the necessary protection for civilians, and to make all efforts to end this protracted conflict.

The Arab Parliament also condemned the storming of hundreds of settlers, under the protection of the occupying power (Israel), into the courtyards of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and the violation of its sanctity, in commemoration of the so-called "memorial of the destruction of the Temple", which is a clear violation of international law and the historical and legal status of the city of Jerusalem and its sanctities.

The Arab Parliament warned that the coincidence of these provocations by settlers and the occupation forces with the current Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip will lead to a dangerous escalation and waves of violence, endangering peace and security in the region and the world.

The Arab Parliament called on the international community to assume its legal and moral responsibilities towards Jerusalem and its Islamic and Christian sanctities, to deter the occupation’s attempts to turn the conflict into a religious war, and to immediately stop all attacks and violations against Al-Aqsa Mosque, stressing the need to stop all measures aimed at changing the legal and historical status of the city of Jerusalem and its sanctities.

Toronto - "Jerusalem" dot com - A campaign launched in Canada called on Canadian President Trudeau to boycott the Israeli far-right government led by Benjamin Netanyahu .

The campaign, launched today and signed by more than 1,000 Canadian citizens, indicates that the Netanyahu government is the most extreme right-wing government in the history of Israel, and its extremist members pose a real and immediate threat to the safety and security of the Palestinians.

The signatories expressed their displeasure and anger at the Canadian president's congratulations to Netanyahu, saying: "We were outraged to see the Canadian government congratulating Israel's new far-right regime, without any mention of its extremism or its disturbing plans to illegally annex the occupied West Bank."

Source: "Wafa"

Governorates - "Jerusalem" dot com - Today, Monday, an Israeli military bulldozer demolished a tent for selling seedlings and agricultural supplies in the town of Tuqu', southeast of Bethlehem .

According to local sources, the Israeli bulldozer demolished the tent in the "Khirbet al-Deir" area on the main street, while the occupation forces seized iron corners on which the tent, which belonged to the citizen Salim Hamdan Suleiman, was fixed.

It is noteworthy that this is the second time that the occupation demolishes the tent of citizen Suleiman.

The Israeli occupation authorities also forced a Jerusalemite to demolish his under-construction house in the town of Al-Isawiya, east of occupied Jerusalem .

According to local sources, the occupation forced Al-Maqdisi Thaer Obeid to demolish his house, which has an area of about 100 square meters, under the pretext of building without a permit.

In the context, the Israeli occupation forces notified the demolition of greenhouses in several villages in the Jenin governorate, giving the homeowners until the twenty-eighth of this month to submit an objection, or to remove the greenhouses, which are close to the separation wall, at a distance of 200 meters.

بقلم:جيمس زغبي

في عام 2020، نُشر كتاب بعنوان «أصوات عربية: ماذا تقول لنا وما أهميته». واستناداً على استطلاعات الرأي التي أجريناها خلال العقد الأول من هذا القرن الجديد، كان «أصوات عربية» محاولة لعرض الأساطير التي شكلت الخطاب الغربي حول العالم العربي، وفهم سبب ترسخ هذه الأساطير في الأذهان، وما الذي يمكن فعله لتبديدها.
وفي فصول منفصلة، عرض «أصوات عربية» عدداً من هذه الأساطير - مثل، «العرب أكثر عنفاً ويميلون إلى التطرف»، و«العرب يكرهون الغرب»، وغيرها- ثم أوضح مدى خطأ كل واحدة منها واختلافها عن واقع العالم العربي الحقيقي، بناءً على استطلاعاتنا المكثفة للرأي العام العربي. واختتمت الكتاب بتقديم دروس عملية تستطيع بها الحكومات والشركات والمعلمين وعامة الناس اتخاذ تدابير تصحيحية والعمل على تعزيز فهم أفضل. ما وجدناه أن التصورات الغربية للعالم العربي تتشكل في كثير من الأحيان من خلال صور نمطية سلبية وقصص لتسويغ الآراء المتحيزة.
ونتيجة لذلك، حدث غالباً سوء فهم لهوية العرب وقيمهم وتطلعاتهم. وغالباً يتحدث صناع القرار والمحللون السياسيون على السواء عن العرب وإلى العرب، لكنهم نادراً ما يفكرون في الانصات إلى العرب من أجل فهم حياتهم بشكل كامل واحتياجاتهم وآمالهم للمستقبل. وكانت إحدى نتائج ذلك التبسيط المخل لمنطقة معقدة حدوث كوارث سياسية مكلفة.
وإدراكاً لهذه الإخفاقات ونتيجة الوقوع في عراقيل ميول شكلتها تصورات سلبية، تنادي بعض الأصوات في الغرب الآن بالخروج من المنطقة. وبعد أكثر من عقد من الزمان، لم تستمر الأساطير فحسب، بل استمرت معها، وبسببها، سياسات على غير هدى وتحيزات كثيراً ما تشوه تعامل الغرب مع هذه المنطقة الحرجة من العالم. ولهذا السبب، كان من دواعي سروري أن يكلف «معهد توني بلير للتغيير العالمي» شركتي لاستطلاعات الرأي «زغبي للخدمات البحثية» بإجراء استطلاعات حديثة للرأي في سبع دول عربية.
وإدراكاً من المعهد أن العالم العربي يقع في نقطة محورية لثلاث قارات وهي منطقة استثمرت فيها الدول الغربية كثيراً، وأن هذه المنطقة ما زالت تتمتع بإمكانات بشرية هائلة، أشار المعهد إلى اعتقاده بأن تصحيح المسار خيار أفضل من الانسحاب. والسير إلى الأمام، كما يقترح المعهد، يتمثل في استبدال الأساطير والمفاهيم الخاطئة بفهم حقيقي. وفيما يتعلق بنا، يفتح الاقتراع نافذة تتيح سماع الأصوات العربية.
وأنا أطلق على هذا «العلم المحترم» لأننا نسجل آراء كل مشارك. وحين نحلل النتائج، تظهر صورة يمكن أن تساعدنا في تبديد الصور النمطية وتصحيح المفاهيم الخاطئة. وإذا انتبهنا لما يقوله لنا الناس، فيمكننا صياغة سياساتنا بشكل أفضل للاستجابة، وتلبية احتياجاتهم الحقيقية، وليس تلك التي افترضنا وجودها.
وما تعلمناه من استطلاعات الرأي لعام 2022 هو أن الغالبية العظمى من العرب في جميع أنحاء المنطقة يدعمون المساواة في الحقوق للمرأة في التوظيف وفي مكان العمل. كما يفضلون تزويد الشباب بالمهارات التكنولوجية حتى يتمكنوا من المنافسة بشكل أفضل في اقتصاد المستقبل. كما أنهم إما متدينون إلى حد ما أو علمانيون.
ويعتقدون أنه حين تحكم الحركات الدينية، فإنها تجعل الدول أضعف. ويعتقدون أيضاً أن الدين كما يُدرس في بلادهم يحتاج إلى تحديث. ونظراً إلى أن هذا كان عمل حياتنا، يسعدنا أن أتاح لنا المعهد الفرصة لإجراء مسح جديد لاستكشاف القضايا الحرجة التي تواجه العالم العربي اليوم. وأخذ استطلاع الرأي على عاتقه التأمل بعمق في ميول العرب ووضع قائمة أولويات تتطلع للأمام تستجيب للتطلعات العربية.
وهنا توصية أخيرة لواضعي السياسات والمحللين السياسيين: تحققوا من تحيزاتكم قبل الدخول وانصتوا إلى ما يخبرنا به العرب عما يريدونه. فكما دأبت والدتي على أن تقول لي: «إذا أردت أن يسمعك الآخرون، فعليك الإنصات لهم أولاً». وبفضل معهد توني بلير، تتحدث أصوات العرب إليكم. فاستمعوا لها وأنصتوا.

Kiev ( Ukraine ) (AFP) - Ukraine's state nuclear energy corporation Energoatom said Tuesday in a statement that it had suffered an "unprecedented" Russian cyberattack on its website, and that its operations had not been affected.

"On August 16, 2022, the most powerful cyberattack since the beginning of the Russian invasion took place against the official Energoatom website," she wrote on Telegram.

It added that the site "was attacked from Russian territory."

Energoatom said the Russian "people's cyber army" group used more than seven million bots to attack the website over a three-hour period.

Around noon, a channel on Instagram in Russian called "People's Cyber Army" called on its followers to attack the website of the Ukrainian Nuclear Energy Corporation.

But by Tuesday evening, it had announced a "change" of the scheme, redirecting supporters to a new target, the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, and its website had slowed down.

The cyber attack comes at a time of heightened tensions around the Zaporizhia nuclear plant in southern Ukraine, which Russian forces occupied in March shortly after the start of the invasion.

Since the end of July, multiple bombings have targeted the site, and the two sides have exchanged accusations about it. Fears of a nuclear catastrophe were also raised.

Before the Russian invasion, Ukraine relied on four nuclear plants to secure about 50 percent of its electricity needs.

Ukraine witnessed the worst nuclear accident in the world in 1986, when the fourth reactor exploded at the Chernobyl plant, which led to a massive radioactive leak.

Written by: Ibrahim Daibes

A major armed operation took place in Jerusalem, resulting in a number of Israeli deaths and injuries, and the occupation authorities began, in word and deed, to prepare for a very large operation, which is likely to have major repercussions, starting today. They forget the massacre they committed in Jenin.
It is well known that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, who is facing widespread popular opposition among Jews these days, is one of the biggest leaders of extremism and most eager to expand at the expense of the Palestinian land and kill all possibilities of a two-state solution, which has become just an unattainable wish. The opposition that Netanyahu faces will force him to accelerate the settlement and actual annexation of uninhabited or sparsely populated areas.
In fact, had it not been for the population, they would have annexed the entire West Bank. Despite this, they do not stop expanding settlements and confiscating land without the population, and they are working hard to Judaize Jerusalem.
The occupation forces also carried out large-scale demolitions of many buildings in many cities, towns and villages under various pretexts, foremost of which is the lack of permits, noting that obtaining a building permit is one of the most difficult and complicated matters when it comes to the Palestinians on their lands. Talmudic prayers and religious rites in its courtyards.
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has warned that the repercussions of what it called the settlement tremor will affect the future of the region in general, not just the Palestinian cause. The Netanyahu government had pledged to add half a million settlers to the West Bank and to demolish all existing Palestinian buildings in Area C. The Minister of Settlement held a meeting with all the heads of the settlement councils, and they left happy after she informed them of the settlement plans to be implemented.
The Palestinian reactions were simple, foremost of which was the decision to stop the security coordination, which many see as a great popular demand because it has harmed the national cause and its justice. They were not officially informed of its cessation and that the operations of the occupation army will not stop in all cases. Nevertheless, and despite all the Israeli allegations, the cessation of coordination constitutes an opportunity to revive the issue and put it on the agenda of any potential contacts or political initiatives.
In any case, all these occupation policies will not eliminate our people and will not stop their aspiration towards establishing an independent state on their occupied land, despite the nose of the occupation and despite all these racist practices, and despite the arrogance of power and influence. Many strange forces have passed through our land, but they were fleeting forces and remained The land belongs to its people and its people remain in control..!!

Translation by "Jerusalem" docom - The Israeli police arrested a Palestinian young man from Rahat , inside the occupied territories.

According to the website of the Hebrew Maariv newspaper, the detainee (34 years old) was arrested on suspicion of making threats through social media to the so-called Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir .

He indicated that he would represent the detainee before the Magistrate's Court in Beersheba as a prelude to extending his detention.

CAIRO (Xinhua) -- An Egyptian transport company announced (Tuesday) that one of its ships had rescued 60 illegal immigrants of Arab nationalities from drowning in the Mediterranean.

The Holding Company for Maritime and Land Transport, affiliated to the Egyptian Ministry of Transport, stated in a statement published by the ministry on its official Facebook page that “while the ship (Wadi Karnak) owned by the National Navigation Company, one of the Holding Companies for Maritime and Land Transport, was sailing from the port of Safaga (the Egyptian) to the port of Dunkirk, France, to transport a shipment of wheat to Egypt. The company received a signal from the American Protection and Indemnity Club that there were distress signals from a boat in the ship’s sailing area.

The statement added, "The company's management issued immediate instructions to the ship's captain to change the route and take all necessary measures to save the boat. Accordingly, the ship's destination was changed by 40 nautical miles and sailed for five hours in the direction of the aforementioned boat area. The ship communicated with the boat, approached it and attached it to an object." The ship and supplying its passengers with all their needs of food, water and medicines.

He pointed out that "the ship communicated with the Search and Rescue Center in Malta as the nearest rescue site, and coordination was made to keep the boat in its position attached to the ship, but with the intensification of the waves and the entry of water into the boat, the boat passengers were instructed to board the ship's deck in order to preserve their lives."

The statement indicated that the ship arrived with the migrants on board yesterday evening in Malta, where "all the individuals were safely disembarked and all of them were reassured."

The immigrants are 24 men, 12 women and 24 children, including 4 infants, and they hold the nationalities of Syria, Lebanon and Palestine, according to the statement.

These migrants had set off from Lebanon on an illegal immigration boat bound for Europe, and had been at sea for a week before being rescued.

Translation by "Jerusalem" dot com - The US Embassy in occupied Jerusalem asked, on Monday, from the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu , details about the cabinet's decision last night regarding the legalization of 9 outposts and their conversion to settlements.

According to the Hebrew website Ynet, in a brief report, the US embassy requested detailed clarifications, especially as it considers these outposts to be illegal.

Last night, the Israeli Knesset approved bills and amendments to other laws to pass the goals of the current right-wing government and its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu .

According to the Arabic-speaking Israeli Public Broadcasting Authority, the Knesset approved by a majority the amendment of the “Basics of Government” law, which prevents the Supreme Court from announcing that the “prime minister” in reference to Netanyahu is unable to perform the duties of his position, and that only the “prime minister” or the government are authorized. in making such a decision.

Such a government decision is taken only with the approval of three-quarters of the members of the Israeli government, without the Prime Minister himself opposing it. 90 members.

Commenting on this amendment, the head of the Israeli opposition, Yair Lapid, said, "We do not need this law because today Netanyahu exists in a state of impotence, as there is no concern for personal security, free education, and facing the high cost of living and housing prices, and the economy and security are collapsing."

For its part, said the "Movement for the Integrity of Governance": "The only goal of the Prime Minister of this law is to escape from his trial."

Significantly absent from the voting process was the Likud pole, Yuli Edelstein, who Likud circles say is paving the way for defection from the party and joining the left camp.

The Knesset Plenary also approved, in its first reading, the override clause, which allows the Knesset to override the decisions of the High Court of Justice if a majority of 61 members is available.

One of the articles of the bill stipulates that the Supreme Court has the right to annul a law enacted by the Knesset, provided that it clearly contradicts the Basic Law, with a full judicial panel and a majority of at least twelve out of fifteen judges.

Gaza - (AFP) - From the deserted streets to the closed curtains behind the balconies... Hours of Israeli raids, which mainly targeted the Islamic Jihad movement, revived memories of a war not long ago, and scenes that are repeated before their eyes, as if the people of the besieged Gaza Strip signed yesterday.

On Friday afternoon, and as every weekend, the Gaza Corniche was crowded with pilgrims, who see it as one of the few outlets for the people of a strip that is one of the most densely populated areas in the world, and has been under Israeli siege for 15 years.

In less than 24 hours, the scene changed radically: The Corniche, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, became a deserted area missing its visitors, and its cafes closed their doors while their owners stayed in their homes due to the continued Israeli raids, to which the "Quds Brigades", the military wing of the Islamic Jihad, responded by firing bursts. of missiles towards the Jewish state.

The city center, too, was largely empty of movement, as many Gazans chose to take shelter in their homes. And those of them who chose to venture out do so just to inspect the damage of the raids, the shattered glass scattered on the ground, and the traces of the fires that affect the buildings.

"Frankly, this aggression surprised us. We were living in peace, and suddenly the bombing occurred on Friday afternoon," Muhammad Hamami, 40, told AFP. "The occupation always begins by bombing us," he added.

On Friday, the Israeli army announced that it had launched a "preemptive" operation against the Islamic Jihad Movement, the second most prominent armed faction in the Strip after Hamas.

While Israel said it had killed 15 people, the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that 11 people were killed and eighty others were wounded.

Among the dead were Tayseer al-Jabari, a prominent commander in the "Quds Brigades," and Alaa Qaddum, the five-year-old who died after targeting a residential neighborhood where she lives.

The family of the arrival of their daughter while she was still wearing a pink "T-shirt" coordinated with her dark hair tie.

"We demand an end to the occupation's aggression against us. It is enough, it is enough, every few months or a year there is a war," Hamami says with grief and sorrow.

He added, "We live in terror, this occupation is ruthless (...) it bombs homes, pedestrians, and cars, even the streets and agricultural lands" in the Strip, which is inhabited by 2.3 million people on an area of 362 square kilometers, and has witnessed four wars between Israel and the Palestinian factions since 2007.

The last major confrontations took place in May 2021, and lasted for 11 days, killing 260 people on the Palestinian side, including members of the armed factions, compared to 14 people on the Israeli side, including a soldier, according to local authorities.

The roar of planes and the sound of explosions deprived Donia Al-Amal Ismail of sleeping all night from Friday to Saturday, and brought back to her memory the painful scenes of previous wars.

Even in the intervals between one raid and another, when the roar of fighter jets ceases, the people of Gaza do not enjoy complete calm, as the roar of Israeli drones, known locally as "drones", pierces the skies of the Strip.

"The recent escalation brought to mind images of fear, destruction, anxiety, loss, and the feeling that we are alone," says Dunia, a resident of Al-Rimal neighborhood in central Gaza.

And she added, "I hope that this escalation will not be prolonged, spread, or turn into a larger confrontation, and that the Egyptian mediation will succeed in calming the situation."

Egyptian sources indicate that Cairo, which previously played a mediating role for calm between Israel and the factions in the Gaza Strip, is making a similar effort this time as well.

While waiting for the efforts to yield a calm, albeit temporary, that puts an end to the sound of shelling and raids, many of the residents of the Strip go to inspect the damage and try to save what is left of their property.

In the city of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, Fouad Farajallah inspects his house, or at least what remains of it: a living room that has been transformed into a mixture of metal sheets, stones and rubble, and a white fan that miraculously remains hanging from the iron ceiling of the house.

"I was sitting with my wife and children on the sofa (...) Praise be to God, we survived, but my wife broke her hand and my child was hit by shrapnel in his body," Farajallah told AFP.

"Everything happened to us. We didn't know what happened," he added.

Ramallah- “Jerusalem” dot com- The Arab Bank Group achieved positive results during the first half of the year 2022, as net profits after tax amounted to 252 million US dollars, compared to 182.4 million US dollars as on June 30, 2021, achieving a growth of 38%. The group maintained a strong financial position with equity amounting to 10.2 billion US dollars.

The credit facilities showed a growth of 6% by the end of the first half of the year 2022, to reach $35.7 billion, compared to $33.8 billion in the same period of the previous year. This growth is in line with the bank’s prudent strategy to expand by offering products and services to a wide range of customers with Maintaining a geographical and sectoral diversification, while customer deposits increased to reach $47.1 billion as of June 30, 2022, compared to $46 billion at the end of June 30, 2021, with a growth rate of 2%. The continued increase in deposits in most areas in which the bank is located reflects its ability Competitiveness by focusing on a diversified and stable deposit base.

Commenting on these results, Mr. Sobeih Al-Masry - Chairman of the Board of Directors stated: “The positive results achieved by the bank in the first half of the year 2022 reflect the sustainability of the growth process and evidence of the successes achieved by the bank in diversifying sources of revenue, despite the remarkable acceleration in Global inflation rates, which affects the performance of the banking sector.

For her part, Ms. Randa Al-Sadiq - Executive General Manager of the Arab Bank - explained that the Arab Bank Group achieved good operational performance, recording an increase of 6% in its various business sectors as a result of an increase in net interest income by 4% and net commissions by 17%, in line with the bank's strategy to diversify Sources of income and providing appropriate financing solutions that meet customers' needs, in addition to the bank's continued control of operating expenses. Al-Sadiq indicated that the growth in operating profits is based on a solid asset base and is supported by high liquidity levels that take into account achieving better profitability, as the loan-to-deposit ratio reached 75.9%, while the non-performing loan coverage ratio exceeded 100%. Al-Sadiq indicated that the group maintains a strong capital base, most of which is concentrated within the basic capital, as the capital adequacy ratio, according to Basel III instructions, reached 16.4%, which is higher than the minimum required according to the instructions of the Central Bank of Jordan.

Al-Sadiq added that, as part of the bank's strategy, in which digital transformation is an essential axis, the bank continued to launch a series of integrated banking programs and solutions that are enhanced with the latest services and digital channels to provide a distinctive banking experience within the highest levels of ease and security for various segments and sectors. The Arab Bank recently launched interactive banking applications that are the first of their kind in Jordan, including the “ArabiNext” application dedicated to the small and medium-sized companies sector, and the “Arabi Junior” application aimed at children and adolescents, in addition to the issuance of continuous updates to the “Reflect” application, the first Neobank in Jordan that includes features new extra.

In conclusion, Mr. Sabih Al-Masri confirmed that the Arab Bank possesses integrated banking experience that extends for more than ninety years in dealing with all variables and circumstances that enabled it to achieve sustainable profits, praising the efficiency of the bank's business model locally and regionally.

In continuation of the institutional approach adopted by the Bank within the framework of integrating the concept of sustainability in its comprehensive strategic sense within the Bank's business and activities, the Arab Bank recently issued a sustainability report for the twelfth year in a row. It should also be noted here that the bank continued to win international awards to embody its prestigious position in the banking sector, regionally and globally. For the seventh year in a row.

Governorates - "Jerusalem" dot com - A number of citizens were wounded by live bullets, rubber-coated bullets, and suffocation, during clashes that erupted with the occupation forces in the governorates of the West Bank , today, Friday.

Local sources said that a number of citizens suffocated from tear gas today, Friday, during clashes with the occupation in the village of Beit Dajan, east of Nablus, and Beita, to the south.

Clashes broke out with the occupation forces stationed at the entrance to Al-Shuhada Street in Hebron, where they fired stun grenades and tear gas at the citizens, which led to the outbreak of clashes, without any injuries reported.

In Beit Dajan, five citizens, including a journalist, suffocated today, Friday, during the Israeli occupation forces' suppression of an anti-settlement march.

The Director of Ambulance and Emergency at the Red Crescent in Nablus, Ahmed Jibril, stated that treatment was provided to the injured in the field by the Crescent staff.

In the same context, clashes broke out with the occupation forces in the town of Beita, south of Nablus, without any injuries reported.

In Kafr Qaddum, dozens of citizens were injured, as the Israeli occupation forces fired rubber-coated metal bullets and tear gas canisters at the participants in an anti-settlement rally.

In a related context, a number of citizens were injured by suffocation and rubber-coated metal bullets, during clashes with the Israeli occupation forces in the town of Tuqu', southeast of Bethlehem, while the occupation forces closed the western entrance to the town with the iron gate.

In the city of Al-Bireh, a young man was wounded by live bullets by the Israeli occupation forces, during clashes at the entrance to the city.

Meanwhile, 56 civilians suffocated from tear gas, as a result of clashes with the Israeli occupation forces near the Hawara military checkpoint, south of Nablus.