PALESTINE

Mon 29 May 2023 3:52 pm - Jerusalem Time

Returning to "Homesh"... the good nail in the coffin of the two-state solution

All the lackluster international condemnations and stances, led by the "fragile" American position, which does not go beyond "casting dust in the eyes", did not succeed in dissuading the Israeli occupation state from its gradual and rolling decision to return the settlers to the evacuated "Homesh" settlement, north of Nablus, which is considered a final blow. The nail in the coffin of the "two-state solution", effectively eliminating the last chance for the establishment of a contiguous Palestinian state.


Last Thursday, the Israeli Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant, instructed his soldiers stationed at the entrance to the "Homesh" settlement to allow the settlers to bulldoze and pave an area of land within the borders of the settlement and to install a number of mobile homes in it, to serve as the first building block for building a religious school inside it, which actually means He executed the decision to evacuate the settlement, which was made in 2005.


And the former Prime Minister of the occupying state, "Ariel Sharon", had unilaterally implemented that year an evacuation plan for four settlements in the north of the West Bank, in conjunction with the withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, and these settlements are: "Homesh", "Ghanim", "Kadim" and "Sanor". ".


Specialists believe that the return to "Homesh" and other evacuated settlements will lead to further fragmentation and dismemberment of the Palestinian land, separating the northern West Bank governorates from each other, and opening up the settlers' appetite to control more neighboring lands under various pretexts based in many cases on Alleged religious and historical narratives and legends claiming their right to this land.


The decision to return to "Homesh" is a victory for the extremist religious Zionist ideology that actually controls the current occupation government, and here is the leader of the extremists and the current Minister of Finance "Smotrich" bragging, saying: "We promised to settle the continuation of teaching the Torah in the religious school in "Homesh", and here we are implementing that".


Specialists believe that the steps to revive the "Homesh" settlement and other settlements will take place with great acceleration, especially in light of the presence of an Israeli government that supports these steps, with a pale and fragile international position that can only be seen with one eye, the harshest of which is what was stated by the US State Department spokesman, "Matthew Miller, who considered that "encouraging settlement in the West Bank is an (obstacle) to the issue of a two-state solution," as well as the French position that called on Israel to examine this decision again, and also in light of a weak and shaky Palestinian position that is unable to accept or confront.


It is noteworthy that last March, the "Knesset" approved the "Repeal of the Separation Law" law, which provides for the abolition of the classification of the "closed military zone" that classified the areas of the four evacuated settlements (Homesh, Ganim, Kadim, and Sanur).


Palestinian citizens sense the danger of settlement ambitions in the area between Nablus and Jenin. In this context, the community activist and former head of the village council of Barqa, Sami Douglas, calls on the Palestinian Authority, the government, the PLO, and factions of all affiliations to deal with the issue seriously.


Douglas warned of "three major risks" facing the West Nablus area, the first of which is the reconstruction in the evacuated "Homesh" settlement, noting here that in addition to the buildings and tools that were conjured to establish a religious school in the settlement, the occupation authorities began paving a racist settlement road for the use of Settlers only. It extends from the entrance to Jabal Al-Qubaybat, on which “Homesh” stands, to the entrance to “Shavei Shomron” settlement. It is a 4-kilometer road parallel to the main Nablus-Jenin road. He explains that, for this purpose, 2,200 dunums of citizens' lands were confiscated in the neighboring villages and towns of Cyrenaica, Sebastia, Naqoura and Deir Sharaf.


Douglas added that the second danger is the attempt to control the Hijaz Railway (Al-Masoudia station), and the survey and planning stages have already begun at the site.


He continued that the third danger is the control of the antiquities area in the town of Sebastia, pointing out in this regard that the occupation government allocated about two weeks ago an amount of 29 million shekels to control the area under the pretext of developing it.


It is noteworthy that the controversial "Homesh" settlement was established in the early 1980s on top of the "Qubaibat" mountain, which includes thousands of dunums, most of which are owned by the people of the village of Burqa. Three Palestinian governorates, namely Nablus, Jenin and Tulkarm.


In 2013, the people of Burqa celebrated their decision by the Israeli Supreme Court to recover about 1,200 dunums of their agricultural land that the occupation confiscated from them in 1978 to establish the "Homesh" settlement at the time, without realizing at the time that the decision would be nothing more than "ink on paper."


About 18 years have passed since the Israeli army evacuated the "Homesh" settlement, but the owners of the lands in that area were unable to access and work there freely, due to the return of a number of settlers to reside there semi-permanently under the protection of the Israeli army, in addition to the inability of farmers themselves to reclaim their lands in that region with their own efforts, after the absence of official and institutional support and the policy of neglect for this vital region.

Mon 29 May 2023 3:25 pm - Jerusalem Time

An emergency meeting to understand what happened.. Venice's water turns "bright green"

A section of the waters of the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy, on Sunday turned fluorescent green, prompting a police investigation amid speculation that the incident was caused by environmental activists.


The governor of the Italian region of Veneto, Luca Tsaya, tweeted, "A number of residents reported a change in the color of the canal water," noting that "the governor called for an emergency meeting with the police to investigate the source of this liquid."


Local daily La Nuova Venezia reported that police are investigating the possibility that environmental activists were behind the incident.


Relief workers announced that they would provide assistance to the regional Environmental Protection Authority in the process of taking water samples for analysis.


This is not the first time that the waters of the Grand Canal have turned green. In 1968, on the sidelines of the 34th Venice Film Festival, Argentine artist Nicholas García Uriburu threw green paint into these waters, in a move to raise awareness of environmental issues.

Mon 29 May 2023 3:22 pm - Jerusalem Time

Chess to enhance the abilities of people with cognitive disorders or autism

Inside the Center for Educational Medicine in Villars, near Paris, adolescents with disabilities learn the basics of chess on a piece of cloth similar to a large chessboard, in an experiment aimed at evaluating the benefits of this brain sport on cognitive or autism-related disorders.


As a member of the White Stones team, Maxime Becave hesitates about the step he will take among the several black squares surrounding him, then makes his decision standing on the piece of cloth on which the black and white squares appear, in light of the looks of his three colleagues who share the game and his specialized teacher, Jean-Francois Porsche.


And Becave, 18, has autism, while his colleagues Angeline, Othman and Ethan suffer from cognitive disorders. And each of them wears a crown with the symbol that it represents, like a piece in chess, so one of them puts a crown that shows the symbol of the bishop, for example, while the crown of another teenager represents the rook (the castle).


And soon Angeline, who boasts that she represents the most powerful piece in the game, the queen, quickly eliminates Maxim from the game. "The goal of this experience is not limited to winning and losing only, but they experience the game themselves," says Borcher.


"I imagine myself in a kingdom," says Maxim.


The Center for Educational Medicine in Villars, where about sixty children and young people between the ages of 6 and 20 receive medical care, is one of the four French centers that participated in the testing phase of the "Infinite" program, which is implemented by the French Chess Federation in France. It is expected that the number of these centers will increase to forty by 2024, because the first results prove the effectiveness of the program.


"If the study proves to be effective in the long term, it could make chess part of the non-drug treatment that health professionals recommend to parents of patients to help their children progress," said Frank Drouin, Head of the Department of Health, Social Affairs and Disability at the federation.


Teaching chess to teenagers comes in three stages. The first is represented by a chess board placed on the wall, where the specialist explains to the teenagers the basics of the game. In the second stage, a large piece of cloth placed on the ground represents a chess board, to move finally to the regular board, where teenagers play on it like everyone else. As the specialist explains.


Borchet points out that a physical-based style of play would improve how they interact with spaces, which is key for these youngsters, who should "gain as much independence as possible so that they no longer need their parents," as well as better manage their time. And control the stress they feel.


And after 10 sessions since September, the teens, especially those with cognitive disorders, are "more attentive" and are developing strategies, says Borcher.


"Often these teens don't value themselves very much, but when they notice that they are making progress they feel confident."


“At first I had a lot of difficulties dealing with my movement, but today I am sure that I can become Boboyogov!” Maxim says, a name inspired by his imagination, similar in its syllables to the names of Russian heroes he admires.
The "Infinite" program, which was tested by the International Chess Federation on a larger scale, is implemented in about fifteen countries other than France, including Belarus, Spain, Morocco and Mongolia.


Jean-Francois Porchet shows reservations regarding the cases of some patients who “difficult to attract their attention,” noting that “some are unable to control their movements if their role in the game exceeds the movement of three or four times.”


He points out that he dealt with children who refused to be "eaten" in the game (i.e. excluded from it on the grounds that the stronger piece eliminates the weaker one), because they did not understand the figurative meaning of the word.


In addition to the medical-educational centers, the French Chess Federation would like to organize this program in other places, such as classes for students with disabilities in schools.


"At the Villars Centre, we can share this program with schools as we do when it comes to dance, and thus ensure that segregation does not continue," says Jean-François Boucher.

PALESTINE

Mon 29 May 2023 2:06 pm - Jerusalem Time

Since the beginning of the year, the occupation has arrested about 170 citizens of Jericho

Today, Monday, the Captive Club said, “Since the beginning of this year, the Israeli occupation forces have arrested about (170) citizens from Jericho governorate, concentrated in Aqabat Jaber camp, where more than 100 cases of arrest have been made, in light of the escalation of the current confrontation with the occupation. Note that this percentage is the highest it has been in Jericho for years.”


The club added, in a statement, that the arrests carried out by the occupation forces, specifically in Aqabat Jabr camp, were accompanied by field executions and systematic abuse of detainees and their families. The vandalism of the homes of citizens, and the targeting of several members of the same family, including the families of martyrs who died during the current year, and we mention among them the family of the administrative detainee Wael Awadat, whose two of his sons, Raafat and Ibrahim, were martyred, and his third son, Abdul Hafez, was arrested.


The Captive Club pointed out that among the cases of arrest were 22 children under the age of 18. Three of them were transferred to administrative detention, and they are: Mowad Omar Al-Hajj, Ali Bassam Al-Sheikh Ibrahim, and Jamal Khalil Brahma. It is noteworthy that the three children are from Among the 15 detainees from Ariha, they were transferred to administrative detention.

PALESTINE

Mon 29 May 2023 1:56 pm - Jerusalem Time

Huge crowds mourn the body of martyr Ashraf Ibrahim in Jenin

Today, Monday, large crowds mourned the body of the martyr Colonel Ashraf Muhammad Amin Ibrahim (38 years old), in the city of Jenin.


The funeral procession departed from the Martyr Khalil Suleiman Governmental Hospital, after his family gave a final farewell look at his body.


The march roamed the streets of Jenin, amid chanting patriotic slogans denouncing the occupation and calling for the continuation and escalation of resistance and revenge for the blood of the martyrs.


The body of the martyr Ibrahim was buried in the cemetery of the eastern neighborhood of Jenin.


Ibrahim succumbed to his bullet wound during the occupation forces stormed Jenin at dawn today.

PALESTINE

Mon 29 May 2023 1:34 pm - Jerusalem Time

The occupation arrests a young man from Tulkarm

Today, Monday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested a young man from Tulkarm camp.


According to local sources, these forces arrested the young man, Muhammad Murad Ardah (20 years), while he was passing through the Annab checkpoint.

PALESTINE

Mon 29 May 2023 12:36 pm - Jerusalem Time

Translator: Israel is a state above international law, returning to the policy of assassinations in Gaza

The Hebrew newspaper Haaretz said today, Monday, that Israel carried out the assassination operations against the leaders of the Islamic Jihad movement, despite its prior knowledge of its results, which would lead to harming civilians and killing innocent people, but it chose to carry it out.


According to the Hebrew newspaper, despite the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's talk about carrying out an "exemplary" operation, he did not mention the martyrdom of 10 Palestinian civilians, including children, who were relatives of Islamic Jihad leaders.


She pointed out that the danger of harming Palestinian civilians exists in any military operation, especially in such cases by carrying out targeted assassinations, which is the old renewed policy in which innocent people always fall, noting that there is no official source in Israel that has not recognized the high probability of civilian casualties. was known in advance.


The newspaper quoted the statements of the Chief of Staff of the Israeli Army, Herzi Halevi, who said after the last operation, if it was possible, we would have hit the "terror targets" without harming others, and we are making every effort for that. as claimed.


The newspaper mentioned the former legal adviser to the Shin Bet, Eli Yakhar, who wrote last week in an article in the same Hebrew newspaper, that "the repercussions of the operation were clear ... there is a black flag flying over these assassinations."


Eliav Lieblich, a professor of international law at Tel Aviv University, says that the recent operation did not justify its repercussions as required and understood in the laws of war in international law, indicating that these operations were carried out at a time when no fire was fired on Israel, and in order to thwart an immediate threat.


Lieblich said: "Israel chose the time and place of the operation at a time when there were no actual manifestations of war, and the talk is about people who were replaced by other people immediately."


Giora Eiland, who previously headed for years the National Security Authority and the Operations Department of the Israeli army, says: "The damage caused by the attack may be considered reasonable in general, in the event that there is no reasonable possibility to postpone the operation."


The newspaper pointed out that two Israeli organizations, "There Are Borders" and the "Committee against Torture", asked a few days ago, the legal advisor to the Israeli government, Gali Bahharv Mayara, to form an independent committee to examine the harm to civilians by the army in the assassinations that were carried out.


The two organizations, as presented on their behalf by lawyers Michael Sfard and Schneier Klein, believe that the Israeli government is obligated to do so, in implementation of a decision issued by the Supreme Court in 2006 in the wake of the assassination of Salah Shehadeh of Hamas.


The Office of the Legal Counsel replied that the request would be considered and responded to.


Haaretz says that after the assassination of Shehadeh in 2002, which claimed the lives of 14 Palestinian civilians after throwing a one-ton bomb on a building in Gaza, and after international condemnations and accusations of the Israeli army at the time of committing a war crime, which the latter rejected and considered the targeted assassinations to be legal, a decision was issued by the president. The Supreme Court at the time, Aharon Barak, legitimized the policy of assassinations under certain conditions, including that the aim should be to prevent harm to Israel, after obtaining reliable information, and to avoid harming civilians, except in the absence of other means to deal with this threat.


Lawyer Sfard says that in previous cases, children and women were injured in similar operations, and the Israeli army claimed that it did not estimate what happened correctly, but this time it was different, and that there was an important change, and that is why we have been fighting against liquidations for 20 years, but we We were worried about this operation, because for the first time, according to what was published, the Israeli army knew in advance that it would harm innocent children and women.


It appears from the investigation of a committee formed following the decision of the Supreme Court, specifically in 2011, that in the assassination of Salah Shehadeh, there were major failures in planning the assassination, and that there was a criminal suspicion by an officer in the security apparatus or by the political echelon.


According to Haaretz newspaper, according to the results of the investigation that year, the nature of the security apparatus’s operations changed dramatically in everything related to assassinations carried out by the Air Force, but it seems that those lessons have disappeared in the recent rounds of fighting, and there has been a decrease in the use of targeted assassinations from the air. And the development of technological means to prevent major harm to innocent people in similar cases in the future, which appeared in the last round.


In recent years, Israel has used the term "target bank", which is a list of targets that it aims to hit by the Air Force and other forces, and it does not only include personalities, but has been extended since the term of Aviv Kochavi as Chief of Staff to include infrastructure, homes, military targets and real estate of the Palestinian factions.


Most of the operations carried out in the sector since the withdrawal in 2005 began with the assassination of a leading figure from the factions, and were carried out with an element of initiative and surprise, as happened with Ahmed al-Ja’bari in 2012, before he, like a number of others, hurried to hide.


These attacks are managed from a joint operations room for the Air Force, intelligence, and the military prosecution, and in these rooms there are often heads of the security apparatus and representatives of the political level, and sometimes the prime minister comes to take quick decisions to put an operation into effect, as Netanyahu did in 2019 At the assassination of Bahaa Abu al-Atta, a leader in the Islamic Jihad.


The newspaper says that intelligence information about any target, whether a person or a building, is collected over a long period, until a decision is made to start carrying out the attack, after reaching the very accurate golden information about the location of the target and the technical conditions that may affect the ability to hit the place, and this is checked. With a group of legal advisors, there is a discussion about that as well as about the extent of their involvement in planning to carry out attacks, and not as a response or punishment for their responsibility for operations carried out in the past.


The newspaper notes that since the Supreme Court’s decision in 2006, the Military Prosecutor General ordered an investigation in every case in which innocent people were killed, noting that after the end of Operation Protective Edge in 2014, the Military Prosecutor received about 500 complaints related to about 360 incidents, and at that time Avichai ordered Mandelblit, who was in charge of the Public Prosecution Office, opened an investigation into some prominent cases that received international media coverage or reached various judicial bodies, including the events of "Black Friday" in Rafah, and the bombing of Abu Youssef Al-Najjar Hospital. The presence of evidence that raises suspicion of a criminal offense.


And in Operation "Black Belt" in 2019, 9 Palestinians from the al-Sawarka family in Gaza, five of them children, were killed in a place that the Israeli army believed was for Islamic Jihad. The family was there, and despite that, no legal or punitive measures were taken.

In the request submitted to the legal advisor, the assassination of Salah Shehadeh was the last operation in which an impartial investigation committee was formed, and therefore a similar committee was again requested in the last operation.


The former deputy legal advisor for international affairs, Roei Scheindorf, says that the decision of the Supreme Court in 2006 does not apply to developments in the situation in Gaza, and that the decision touched on the period before the withdrawal from there, and that the current attack on the leadership of jihad is completely different, because Israel considers itself in a state of active confrontation. With the jihad and no longer control the land in Gaza.


And he considered that the assassination of the Jihad leaders came in response to the rocket fire, and therefore it is not considered a focused liquidation operation, but it is according to the Israeli army’s logic that it is a response to the fire from the Strip, considering that it is currently possible to open an investigation into operations related to the West Bank due to the Israeli control over it, and because of the casualties. There are civilians, but there is no connection with what is happening in the Gaza Strip.


In the opinion of Eyal Gross, a professor at Tel Aviv University, that the request to form an investigation committee is still possible, and that it is still certain that strikes can be avoided as long as there is disproportionate harm.


On the other hand, Lieblich said that Israel is obligated to investigate the harm to civilians, not related to the court's decision, but rather due to the rules of international law. It is likely that international experts will investigate what happened recently if Israel did not do so.


Tal Steiner, Director General of the Committee Against Torture, says that if an independent committee is not formed to examine the legality of operations in Gaza, Israel will attest to itself that it does not want to preserve the rules of international law and the laws of war, and it will open the door to the intervention of foreign institutions in order to investigate Justice for the victims of its immoral policies.


PALESTINE

Mon 29 May 2023 11:57 am - Jerusalem Time

Abu Rudeineh: All settlements, including Homesh, are illegal

The official spokesman for the presidency, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, said, "All settlements built on the land of the State of Palestine, including the "Homesh" settlement, are illegal, stressing that the continuation of the attacks will not achieve security or peace for anyone.


Abu Rudeineh added in a statement, "The decision to return the settlers to the "Homesh" settlement, which was evacuated in 2005, is condemned and rejected, and all the resolutions of international legitimacy, the most important of which is resolution (2334), confirmed very clearly that all settlements in the Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem, are in violation. under international law, and must be removed."


He stressed that what is happening is a challenge to the international community, especially the US administration in its recent statements about the return to the "Homesh" settlement, and that statements of denunciation and denunciation are no longer sufficient to confront the actions of the extremist Yemeni government.

PALESTINE

Mon 29 May 2023 11:48 am - Jerusalem Time

The occupation demolishes two houses in Jericho and Bethlehem

Today, Monday, the Israeli occupation forces demolished two houses in Jericho and Bethlehem.


According to local sources, the occupation forces stormed the "Sama Jericho" area, east of Jericho, and demolished an inhabited house of 150 square meters, belonging to a Jerusalemite citizen, under the pretext of not having a permit.


Meanwhile, similar forces demolished a house belonging to Ibrahim Mahmoud Ayesh, with an area of ​​150 square meters, in the village of Artas, south of Bethlehem, under the pretext of not having a permit.


PALESTINE

Mon 29 May 2023 10:56 am - Jerusalem Time

Details of the health status of the sick prisoner, Riyadh al-Amour

Today, Monday, the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs published the latest health developments regarding the condition of the sick prisoner, Riyad al-Amour (53 years), from Bethlehem, after the commission’s lawyer, Karim Ajwa, visited him in Ashkelon prison.


The authority indicated in a statement that Al-Amour underwent 3 blood tests during the past week, and new tests will also be conducted for him during the next two days. low.


He also suffers from a problem with the internal valve of the heart, and needs open-heart surgery, knowing that he underwent two open-heart surgeries in the past, the first was in 2010.

The prisoner al-Amour takes 6 types of medication daily, including a blood thinner, a medicine for pressure and stomach, vitamins, a medicine to treat fluids on the lung, and another for cystitis that he suffers from. He also needs certain types of food that suit his health condition, as he cannot eat many foods. Food items such as fish, meat and chicken.


It is noteworthy that the prisoner was arrested in 2022, and a life sentence was issued against him 11 times, and he faced a harsh and long investigation, as a result of which he lost hearing in one of his ears, and he has been subjected since the beginning of his arrest to the crime of medical negligence, and he stayed in Ramla prison hospital for 7 years, as well He lost his parents during his years in prison and was denied a farewell to them.

PALESTINE

Mon 29 May 2023 10:53 am - Jerusalem Time

A significant increase in the number of administrative prisoners

Today, Monday, the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs confirmed that the number of administrative prisoners in the occupation prisons has recently increased to more than 1,200, which is the highest rate since previous years.


The commission said in a statement, "The occupation authorities have greatly escalated the issuance of administrative orders against Palestinian prisoners. Since the beginning of this year, they have issued about 1,000 new and renewal orders, which has increased the number of administrative prisoners in an unprecedented way since the beginning of the year."


She added: "The occupation, with all its components, uses administrative detention as a policy of collective punishment against the Palestinian people, as it affected all segments of society, without taking into account the standards set by international law that limited its use."


The commission noted that administrative detention is an arbitrary policy aimed at depleting the lives of prisoners without a legal basis, based on secret charges that no one is allowed to see or inspect, noting that the administrative detainee is often subjected to renewal of the detention period more than once, as the extension is three months or six. months, and sometimes years.


The commission called for urgent intervention to stop this massacre against the ages of prisoners, and to place strict restrictions on imposing administrative detention, in line with the provisions of humanitarian charters. It also called for supporting the movements of administrative prisoners and supporting them in any upcoming escalation movement.

OPINIONS

Mon 29 May 2023 10:37 am - Jerusalem Time

Self-financing is a necessity to maintain the educational curricula

Jerusalem Hadith

Jerusalem Hadith

Opinion Writer

The occupation attack on the Palestinian educational curricula is not new today, but rather it is escalating these days with the aim of undermining the real Palestinian narrative and replacing it with the fake Israeli one, and teaching it to Palestinian students on the grounds that it is the correct narrative in an attempt to consolidate it in their minds thinking that this would make them forget The correct Palestinian narrative, and thus coexistence with the occupation, erasing the Palestinian memory, and other things that target the Palestinian generations, especially after the failure of the occupation authorities to force our people to leave their land, whether through their countless practices and crimes, or by providing the necessary facilities for them to leave. However, it is unlikely that it will succeed in that, despite all the practices and violations it has committed that amounted to war crimes.


At the level of the Palestinian curriculum in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the occupying state incites the countries that support the state of Palestine financially, by accusing the Palestinian curricula of being incitement against the occupying state, and does not lead to what they call peace, even though the occupying state is the one that rejects peace and works to annex the West Bank Western lands to it through the confiscation of lands, the establishment of more settlements, the expansion of existing ones, the legalization of settlement outposts, and the allocation of large sums of money to increase the number of settlers in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, to reach more than a million settlers within a year or two, and this was stated by more than one official in the Netanyahu government. Right-wing and racist in the history of the governments of the occupying state, which was established on the ruins of our people with the support of the colonial powers.


And this occupation incitement against the Palestinian curricula led some countries that support education to form committees to study the Israeli incitement, but the Palestinian curricula remained the same as they include the real Palestinian narrative, and the occupying state failed in this incitement, but from time to time the occupying state returns to this incitement and urges the countries Which provides financial and other support to stop this support and demolish schools that the European Union contributes to building, especially in the Jordan Valley, Hebron District and Bethlehem.


As for occupied Jerusalem, there is no problem. The occupying power is working day and night to change the Palestinian curricula and replace them with Israeli curricula, with the aim of erasing the Palestinian memory and spreading the false and forged Israeli narrative that contradicts history and facts.


In this context, schools teaching the Palestinian curriculum threatened to be closed if they continued teaching this curriculum and did not replace it with the Israeli curriculum, from which everything related to Palestine and our people's belonging to this Islamic and Arab land is deleted.


It is also the occupation authority that offers financial inducements to schools that agree to teach the fake and forged Israeli curriculum, and exercises all forms of restrictions on other schools.


In short, what is required in the face of this is that education be fully funded by the responsible Palestinian authorities, and in cooperation with the Palestinian businessmen who have come. Especially from western countries that are completely biased towards the occupying power.

OPINIONS

Mon 29 May 2023 10:36 am - Jerusalem Time

The implications of the student movement elections at An-Najah and Birzeit Universities

Ahmed Issa

Ahmed Issa

Opinion Writer

A few days ago, the student council elections at An-Najah National University in Nablus and Birzeit University in Ramallah ended with the superiority of Hamas over Fatah in the two universities. Fatah had outperformed Hamas in the elections that took place more than a month ago in Hebron and Bethlehem universities.


The results of these elections show that the Fatah and Hamas movements share the percentage of support in the Palestinian public opinion, especially among the student movement, which is considered one of the most important components of the Palestinian national movement in its two parts (the liberal democratic and the conservative Islamic), and from within it the future leaders of the Palestinian people are born, which comes as evidence For the results of Public Opinion Poll No. (87) for the first quarter of this year 2023, which the Palestinian Center for Political and Survey Research continues to implement and publish. The results of this poll showed that the tie between Fatah and Hamas remained unchanged without significant change during the first quarter of this year. .


A preliminary reading of the results of these elections shows that the electoral tendencies of the student movement are different from one university to another, and it seems here that these tendencies in this round of elections were also different in universities in the south of the West Bank than in universities in the north, as Fatah (liberal) won the student councils. In the universities of Hebron and Bethlehem, where the first is considered to be conservative and the second is liberal, Hamas (conservative) won in An-Najah National University, which it considers to be conservative, and Bir Zeit, which is considered liberal.


And while the entire Palestinian people, at least in the West Bank, won victory by holding these elections, which shows their determination to adopt democracy and the ballot box as the only means for transferring power and leadership within the walls of the university campus, reading the implications of the results of these elections, especially in An-Najah and Bir Zeit universities, shows that Fatah's approach to addressing the causes and effects of the Hamas coup against the Palestinian regime in the summer of 2007, and its establishment of a de facto regime in Gaza, is an unsuccessful and counterproductive approach, which reflects the crisis or crises of the Fatah movement, which in turn was the main reason for the youth's inability to win. In strongholds that witnessed the establishment and birth of the youth at the end of the seventies of the last century.


On the other hand, it appears that the victory of Hamas in any elections that take place in the West Bank without an honest and explicit declaration from it that the internal education curriculum in its ranks, which does not see the Palestinian other as a partner in society, was the main reason for the bloodshed in the streets of Gaza in 2007, which It makes achieving reconciliation, strengthening national immunity, producing national and community unity, and establishing a stable political system an impossible task, especially since the culture of these educational curricula is still preparing future generations.


Regarding the chronic crises of the Fatah movement, it should be noted here that the report of the investigation committee on the failure of the Palestinian armed forces to confront the Hamas coup in 2007, which followed its resounding loss to Hamas in the general legislative elections in 2006, summed up the responsibility in the political sphere in two points, the first being the blurry vision The second is the absence of a leadership institution.
The report specified that what is meant by leadership here is the leadership of the Fatah movement, starting with the Central Committee, passing through the Revolutionary Council, and ending with the local leadership of the organization and the leadership of the squares {...}, and the report added that a quick look at recent history reveals the severity of the deep and complex, structural and functional crises that the movement suffers Corresponding even with the erosion of its struggle balance, and its progress in a movement, corruption is rampant in its leadership circles, especially among the elements that occupied advanced positions in power {...}, and in the same context, the report added, and this was one of the main reasons for Fatah losing the municipal and legislative elections to Hamas, and the report continues This, of course, along with fragmentation and the absence of unity of position, has demonstrated that Fatah's experience of governing and leading the political system without political achievements as a result of blockage of prospects, poor performance, and the collapse of the negotiating peace option "was not an encouraging model that motivates the rallying of public opinion."


It is noteworthy here that the reasons for Fatah’s loss to Hamas in the 2005 municipal elections, the 2006 Legislative Council elections, and then the loss of Gaza as a whole in 2007 are still present and effective 16 years after the investigation report was issued, which makes the percentages achieved by the youth out of student votes In success and Bir Zeit, and then its victory in the Bethlehem and Hebron elections, is a great victory that must be built upon if Fatah wants to at least preserve the purity of the national project that its founding generation is writing to resurrect at the end of the fifties of the last century.


As for the Fatah movement's approach to dealing with the effects of the coup, which was based on building an attractive government in the West Bank (democratic, transparent, adjudicated, free from corruption) that achieves prosperity and a comfortable life for people, it is attractive to citizens, especially in Gaza, and motivates them to revolt against the de-facto regime. Which can only be dark and oppressive and unable to fulfill its promises to the people there (liberation from occupation, luxury of living and freedom from corruption), it was completely opposite.


And about the victory of Hamas in the historical strongholds of Fatah in the universities of the West Bank without daring to change the threats to the unity and immunity of Palestinian society represented in its educational curricula that see the Palestinian other as related to fire because it works outside the teachings of the sacred text, the Palestinian people are not reassured that their blood is forbidden for their brother The Palestinian people, especially since the wisdom of Hamas did not grow as much as its military power, which provided models of resistance that no one with insight can deny, which exposes the Palestinian people to loss twice. .

OPINIONS

Mon 29 May 2023 10:35 am - Jerusalem Time

After 75 years of the Nakba... back to square one

Mustafa Barghouti

Mustafa Barghouti

Opinion Writer

75 years have passed since the Nakba of the Palestinian people, and the Zionist gangs carried out one of the largest ethnic cleansing operations in the twentieth century, which resulted in the destruction and removal of no less than 520 Palestinian towns and villages, the implementation of more than 50 brutal massacres, and the forcing of 70% of the Palestinians to leave, To become more than 6.5 million refugees deprived of return to their homeland.

The Zionist movement did not stop its aggressive expansion, and in 1967 it occupied what remained of Palestine, the West Bank, including Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, in addition to the occupied Golan. However, that aggression, in particular, led to the unification of the struggle of all Palestinians at home and abroad, and the crystallization of the unifying Palestinian national character insisting on achieving freedom and self-determination. The overarching Palestinian goal, adopted by the leadership of the Palestine Liberation Organization, was to achieve return and establish a democratic state over all of historic Palestine.

It followed that the Palestinian national liberation movement and the PLO were subjected to great international pressure, to abandon the goal of a single democratic state, and to accept the so-called “two-state solution”, whose content, at best, is the end of the occupation and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on the West Bank and Gaza Strip, i.e. on the 22nd. % of the land of historic Palestine, less than half of what was approved by the United Nations partition project, which gave the Palestinians 44%, when they owned 84% of the land of Palestine.

The acceptance by the PLO leadership of the "two-state solution" paved the way towards the Oslo Accords that were signed in 1993, which was, from the Zionist point of view, the best way to contain the first popular uprising and its consequences, subjecting the right of return to bargaining, as well as state borders, the future of Jerusalem, settlements, and security.

When the Zionist project began to colonize Palestine and implement a colonial, uprooting, substitutional occupation, its main weapon and means were settlement colonies, and the seizure of Palestinian lands by fraud at times, and by armed force, massacres and arbitrary laws in most cases. Since 1948, the Zionist movement has reduced Palestinian ownership of land in what became "Israel" from 82% to only 3.5%, and is still pursuing Palestinian communities to seize more of their lands. With the occupation of the West Bank, Israel immediately began implementing its settlement projects at an escalating pace, and the major sin of the Palestinian negotiators when they signed the Oslo Accord was that they did not stick to the condition of a comprehensive cessation of settlements before signing any agreement, in contrast to the position of Haider Abdel Shafi, who headed the official Palestinian delegation to the Madrid Conference.

Consequently, a reprehensible situation arose in which Israel continued to negotiate and buy time, in parallel with the rapid expansion of settlements in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, until the number of settlers increased from 121,000 when the Oslo agreement was signed to more than 750,000 today.

Settlement did not stop except in the Gaza Strip after 2005 due to its small area, which does not exceed 1% of the land of Palestine, and because of the density of the Palestinian population in it, and the inability of Israel to bear the escalating resistance in it.

Today, no objective observer can fail to realize that what Israel has done and is still doing in the West Bank is no different from what it did in the lands of 1948, that is, it continues to implement and expand the uprooting and expanding settler colonialism, and continues the settlement project itself without concealing its intentions to reject the existence of any Palestinian entity. Independent between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, and after it halted negotiations (since 2014) that had exhausted their purposes by containing the Intifada and deceiving the Palestinians and the world.

As for the international community, especially the West, which continues to pay lip service to the idea of a “two-state solution,” it has not exercised, and is not exercising, any actual pressure on Israel to stop settlement expansion, annexation, and Judaization in Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank. Thus, the Palestinians are facing a situation in which they demand adherence to the two-state solution, while they are watching Israel's devouring of their lands and an unprecedented settlement expansion that kills and destroys any possibility of an independent Palestinian state in the occupied territories.

The major dilemma facing the Zionist movement is its failure, despite its seizure of land by armed force, in forcing the Palestinians to emigrate more and leave, and the biggest failure appears to be Israel. On the other hand, the greatest achievement of the Palestinian people is that the number of Palestinians today on the land of historical Palestine is slightly greater than the number of Israeli Jews. And while the Zionist movement continues its strategy of fragmenting the Palestinians by separating the Gaza Strip from the West Bank, Jerusalem from its surroundings, and the interior from the occupied territories, and dividing the West Bank itself into 224 islands or ghettos separated by more than 645 barriers, the apartheid wall, and racist settlements and roads, Intellectually and on the ground, a state of unity emerges in the Palestinian vision, which transcends the divisions created by the Oslo Accords, and the retreat of the role of the Liberation Organization and its preoccupation with an authority under occupation from the tasks of the national liberation movement.

This unified vision rebels against the attempt of Israel and international parties supporting it to keep the Palestinians imprisoned in the cage of the impossible "two-state solution", to give Israel the necessary time to destroy that solution, or what is left of its possibilities. The unified vision is based on the principle of the unity of the struggle (and goals) of the Palestinian people, which Israel reaffirmed by imposing the apartheid regime as a solution to its demographic dilemma, and which international human rights organizations unanimously agreed that it persecutes not only the Palestinians of the occupied territories, but also those living in the 1948 territories and those forcibly refugees. outside. In fact, the Oslo agreement divided the Palestinians and sought to convince them that Palestine is only the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, or some of them, while the Palestinians’ steadfastness on the land of Palestine, and their joint struggle against the system of apartheid and racial discrimination, restores the unity of the Palestinian people with all its components.

Therefore, the return became legitimate to the roots of the Palestinian cause, and to the only logical and practical goal that fulfills the aspirations of all components and parts of the Palestinian people, which is ending the occupation and achieving the return of all Palestinian refugees to their homes from which they were expelled, and the overthrow of the entire system of apartheid and racial discrimination and the establishment of a single democratic state in which there are equals. Everyone is on all of historic Palestine.

After 75 years of the Nakba, we return to square one, for the Zionist movement to face its worst nightmares, with the return of comprehensive awareness to the Palestinian people, against whom it practiced all kinds of oppression, injustice, displacement and enslavement.

OPINIONS

Mon 29 May 2023 10:34 am - Jerusalem Time

The Palestinian prescription in resisting colonialism in financing education and apartheid

 Ramzi Odeh

Ramzi Odeh

Opinion Writer

The world celebrates the World Anti-colonial Week in financing education, and this occasion acquires special importance in Palestine, where the occupying power targets the educational process, imposes the apartheid regime, imposes the false Zionist narrative, demolishes schools and limits the ability of students and teachers to move, in addition to a continuous series From killing, abuse, arrest and families against the components of the educational process. Colonialism in Palestine is not only directed towards land and people, but is also directed towards education. Education in Jerusalem is a vivid example of the practices of abuse, apartheid, and the imposition of the Israeli narrative.


Not only that, but the donor countries exert a lot of pressure on the Palestinian National Authority in order to change the Palestinian curricula under the pretext that they are curricula that feed the rhetoric of conflict and hatred. On the other hand, no one holds the Israeli side accountable for its official and unofficial curricula that falsify the past and present, and encourage their students to kill and expel the Palestinian people from their land. In fact, as Dr. Marwan Awartani, the Palestinian Minister of Education, spoke at the press conference held at the Ministry of Information on the occasion of Colonization Day in Finance, the occupation itself is the real curriculum for Palestinian students. It represents the reality of injustice and persecution that Palestinian students grow up on daily. and impose an unsafe learning environment on them. In short, it is a curriculum taught by the occupation soldiers and settlers, and its resistance by students does not only become part of the context of the outcomes of the educational process, but rather becomes a lever for awareness and awareness that makes education in Palestine an important tool for preserving and preserving the true Palestinian history in the face of the false Zionist narrative.


The Palestinian National Authority has succeeded in confronting all the international pressures imposed to change the curricula, and the instructions of the Palestinian leadership were decisive in the need to strengthen and develop these curricula, given that our struggle with the occupation is essentially a narrative conflict. Therefore, a national committee for Palestinian curricula was formed, one of its most important goals is to enhance the presence of the novel. Palestinian in the Palestinian curricula. Not only that, but tax reform policies were imposed by the Palestinian Council of Ministers, according to which the collection of education tax (knowledge tax) was expanded to cover most municipalities, with the aim of enhancing national funding for the educational process. In the same context, the Ministry of Education has excelled in creating a distinguished digital system for the project of adopting schools within a framework of governance and transparency, so that the number of schools adopted by Palestinian businessmen abroad has exceeded more than 1350 schools.


In conclusion, it can be said that the Palestinian case represents a balanced and successful model in resisting the colonization of funding in education by fortifying the national narrative and reducing dependence on external support for the educational process and replacing it with national self-financing. In short, it is the typical recipe offered by the State of Palestine to all third world countries in the field of confronting the colonization of funding in education.

OPINIONS

Mon 29 May 2023 10:31 am - Jerusalem Time

Israel should fear itself... for it is an enemy in its own right!

Saleh Al Qallab

Saleh Al Qallab

Opinion Writer

No one wants to drag Syria, God forbid, into a war that is not in its interest with Israel “at this stage.” The very simple question is when this war will be in its interest… “dragging” is rejected in all cases, but the problem is that “the enemy The Zionist" is the one who "drags", and he dragged us more than once... No, rather he dragged us many times to what he wants and to a war or "wars" some might say... God will not bring them back!!


In fact, the occasion for this hadeeth is those statements and “hints” that came out of Israel or were uttered by some of its politicians after several missiles were launched from Syria towards the occupied Syrian Golan a few days ago, and these missiles were also accompanied by other missiles fired at occupied Palestine from Lebanese territory. It was attributed to Palestinian factions, and Israel could not accuse the Lebanese "Hezbollah" of it, even if it - that is, Israel - considered that the firing of these missiles from Lebanon came with the consent and cover of "Hezbollah" and Iran.


Likewise, Israel tried to link the rockets from Syria and Lebanon with a “burst” of small rockets that came out of Gaza into its cover, accusing Hamas and other factions in the Strip of it. Of course, Israel dealt with that as if it were the gentle lamb, as it is said, and the target of many enemies. Forgetting that it was defiling Al-Aqsa and provoking the feelings of hundreds of millions of Muslims in the holy month and attacking the worshipers and those who perform night prayers in the holiest houses of God without regard for anyone, revealing the most heinous aspects of extremism and aggressiveness that are truly rooted in it, not only against the steadfast Palestinian people, but also the entire Arab and Islamic nation. but also the whole world.


Of course, Israel focused its threats and “whispers” on the few missiles that came from Syrian territory towards the Golan, accusing Syria of trying to drag Israel into the war by using Palestinian factions, of course, and adding that all of this was planned and pushed by Iran.


This problem with Israel is that it has been accustomed to “taking control” of the Syrian perimeter for years, and here it is directing air and missile strikes against it repeatedly and periodically, under the pretext of targeting Iranian militias without facing a Syrian military response, as Syria is involved in its internal war that did not remain nor left behind. It has exhausted any capabilities of deterrence and non-deterrence for Israel, and it has the flaming northern front, where the armed opposition factions, the Turkish, American, and Kurdish intervention, and all those who come and go, as they say, accumulate.


Then there is a Syrian military official who said it with the greatness of his tongue... and in classical Arabic that what was lacking in Syria today, God forbid, was the entry of Palestinians from various factions on the line of targeting Israel from its lands.


Neither the Palestinians nor their factions need anyone to push them to target Israel, as they are defending themselves and their people, especially when the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people intensified in the blessed month of Ramadan, and Israel committed killing and violating the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, storming Jenin and Nablus, and its settlers and extremists escaped to attack the Palestinian people. In their villages, towns and neighborhoods, as happened in Hawara and its burning. If the Palestinians do not target Israel, who will they target?


The problem of this Israel is that it is a state that has dissolved itself from all international and humanitarian norms and laws... and a state that insists on its occupation of the land and people of another, the confiscation of its land and the building of its settlements. It is even said that it is being led today by extremists from the extreme religious and national right. He and his racist stances can no longer be tolerated by Israel's closest allies, led by the United States of America.


These religious and other extremists in Tel Aviv do not hesitate... Rather, they are rushing to set fires and attacks and lead the entire region to ignite with its fascist and racist propositions towards the Palestinian Arab people and their legitimate national rights... And they do not hide their expansionist and aggressive plans... They do not even take into account All the peace agreements concluded by the Hebrew state with Arab countries, and even threaten the security of Arab countries with which they are linked to peace, as in the case of Jordan. Arab countries.


The increase in operations inside the West Bank, most of which are individual operations by young youth who are fed up with the occupation and daily humiliation of their people, should ring alarm bells among them, because this people ... the heroic Palestinian people ... possesses the capabilities and energies inherent in the struggle many, many, and not all will intimidate them The Israeli aggression machine, while clinging to its land, homeland, and national rights, is about to explode in the face of this abhorrent occupation, whose internal front is eating contradictions, divisions, and unprecedented polarizations.


Before Israel fears the missiles that come from abroad, or that could come from abroad, it must first fear from within... of this Palestinian people who are steadfast on their land and uphold their rights and dignity. They must fear this young generation, most of whom were born after Oslo, and have not seen Among the illusions of peace are more killings, arrests, harassment and attacks on people, stones and sanctities, and the confiscation of lands... Rather, the dream of establishing an independent state on its land, like the rest of the peoples of the earth, and the end of the occupation through negotiations and peace... Where there is nothing left for him but to confront, even if with stones . In agreement with the "Middle East"

PALESTINE

Mon 29 May 2023 10:18 am - Jerusalem Time

A civilian succumbed to his wounds in Jenin

The citizen, Ashraf Muhammad Amin Ibrahim (37 years), died today, Monday, of succumbing to his wounds during the Israeli aggression on Jenin, at dawn today.


According to the Ministry of Health, the martyr Ibrahim was hit by two explosive bullets, one in the abdomen, which caused the liver to fragment, and the second in the chest, which penetrated the lung.


Al-Quds.com correspondent reported that the martyr Ibrahim was an officer in the Palestinian intelligence service.



OPINIONS

Mon 29 May 2023 10:12 am - Jerusalem Time

Jerusalem in the Jeddah Declaration... the real application?

David Kuttab

David Kuttab

Opinion Writer

I don't know if my obsession with the number of words and phrases in official statements matters or not, but I am inclined to the principle that words have meanings. Therefore, I did a numerical analysis of the number of words and phrases repeated in the Jeddah Declaration of the Arab Summit that was organized recently, in an attempt to understand more deeply the official Arab positions.


Whoever analyzes this statement and compares it, for example, with the "Algeria Declaration" of the previous Arab summit, will notice the vast difference, which may be reflected in a different seriousness that includes initiatives and concerns that were not mentioned in any previous Arab summit statement. And of course, the command key remains in the application. I believe that the seriousness and attention to detail that the observer notices means that Saudi Arabia in 2023 is different from Saudi Arabia and most of the Arab countries that have previously hosted Arab League summits.


It is normal for the word Arabs and Arabs to be mentioned 28 times in a statement of the League of Arab States, and it is good that Palestine/Palestinian was mentioned seven times, equally with Sudan. Jerusalem was mentioned six times. As for Syria, whose president's presence was important news, it was mentioned three times. The difference in the Jeddah Declaration was in the non-political fields, for example, the phrase “initiative” was repeated eight times (twice for political matters, the Arab peace initiative and the Gulf initiative on Yemen) while the rest of the initiatives are of an economic and cultural nature. The word economy was mentioned seven times, the phrase sustainable development six times, and the phrase culture/cultural four times, including an emphasis on the importance of the Arabic language (twice) and teaching Arabic to non-Arabs.

The Saudi government's initiatives were distinctive in the "Jeddah Declaration", which it will work on during the 12-month period during which it will chair the Arab summit, and it includes various topics. For example, paying attention to green culture by supporting environmentally friendly cultural practices and using them to support the creative economy in the Arab countries, ensuring Arab food security, paying attention to water desalination, establishing intellectual incubators, and others. Interest in joint Arab action in addressing various challenges may be one of the most important things mentioned in the final statement. For example, it states the belief of Arab leaders "that visions and plans based on investing resources, opportunities, and addressing challenges are capable of localizing development, activating available capabilities, and investing in technology." In order to achieve a comprehensive Arab industrial and agricultural renaissance whose construction is integrated with the capabilities of our countries, which requires us to consolidate our solidarity and strengthen our interdependence and unity to achieve the aspirations and aspirations of our Arab peoples.


Returning to the Palestinian issue and Jerusalem, which the Arabs expressed by emphasizing "the centrality of the Palestinian cause to our countries as one of the main factors of stability in the region." Concerning Jerusalem, the statement allocated 64 words, or 6% of the total words of the final statement, consisting of 1032 words. Jerusalemites hope to implement what was stated in the "Jeddah Declaration" and what was agreed upon by the Arab foreign ministers in terms of serious support for Jerusalem and its Arab identity. The Minister of Jerusalem, Fadi Al-Hadmi, had presented a full study of the status of East Jerusalem and the needs of all the different sectors to support the steadfastness of Jerusalem and the Jerusalemites.


It is clear that the decision-makers in Saudi Arabia took the idea of chairing the Arab League very seriously. It is expected that we will hear a lot from Riyadh about the great challenges that Saudi Arabia has taken upon itself. We eagerly await all that has been mentioned, which is the sincere implementation of these commitments, not only from Saudi Arabia, but also from all the Arab countries that signed the Jeddah Declaration. Perhaps we will have begun the journey of a thousand miles of Arab renaissance with steady steps.

OPINIONS

Mon 29 May 2023 10:11 am - Jerusalem Time

Israel is in the World Press Freedom Index

Antoine Shalhat

Antoine Shalhat

Opinion Writer

The World Press Freedom Index published by Reporters Without Borders last week showed that Israel has fallen to 97th place out of 180 countries included in the index, after it was ranked 88th in 2022. Among other things, it stated that what it describes as a healthy environment The freedom of the Israeli press is being undermined, after a government came to power that threatens the freedom of the press, in reference to the current sixth government of Benjamin Netanyahu.

With careful follow-up, it can be said that the results of the index were almost completely ignored by the Israeli media itself from end to end, with a few exceptions, most notably the website, The Seventh Eye, which specializes in media criticism, which conveyed the comment of the Journalists Association in Israel on the index, She stressed that after the reduction of future credit to the Israeli economy, we are now witnessing a downgrade of Israel's rating in the field of press freedom, which proves that many disturbing things are piling up, and paints a bleak picture of a clear and immediate danger to democracy in the country.

In order to show the sharpness of the result related to Israel in the index, the site itself deliberately draws attention to two things: First, Israel's grading in the index this year was lower than countries that are not considered democratic, such as Albania, Gabon, Mongolia, Zambia, Guinea-Bissau, Northern Cyprus, Togo, Liberia, Ghana, Burkina Faso and Sahel. ivory and others. The second is that Israel has an influence in grading another country, Greece, which has fallen to 107th place due to its use of an Israeli spying system against journalists.

The World Press Freedom Index is an annual ranking of countries prepared and published by Reporters Without Borders based on the organization's assessment of the press freedom record in each country. It is approved on the basis of a questionnaire sent to participating organizations with the aforementioned organization, including 14 freedom of expression groups on five continents and 130 correspondents around the world, in addition to journalists, researchers, legal experts, and human rights activists. The questionnaire, as it appears on the organization's official website, raises questions about attacks against journalists and media workers, in addition to facts that prove pressures on a free press.

In previous reports from the Index, it was claimed that “the Israeli press enjoys real freedom that is unparalleled in the region.” Despite this, “journalists face most of the hostility of government ministers, in addition to military censorship and decisions to prevent coverage of some issues, including those related to corruption, in addition to procedures Silencing the mouths adopted by the financial and business circles. The reports described how numerous "defamation campaigns against the media by some politicians supported by their parties and their supporters have become frequent, as a number of journalists were subjected to anonymous harassment and threats, which forced some of them to seek personal protection for their safety."


It was pointed out at the time that the journalists who carried out investigative investigations related to suspicions of corruption that turned into articles in the official indictment filed against Prime Minister Netanyahu were the ones who were the ones who were the ones who were the ones who were the most persecuted and threatened.

Naturally, in addition to the dangers the current Israeli government carries in its bowels to the freedom of the press, which indicate the latest changes in Israeli society and its political field, the current year's index, like the previous years' indices, stops at dangers that it describes as traditional threatening the freedom of the press and Israel is plagued by it. For many years, such as restrictions on Palestinian journalists, strict military censorship restrictions, and financial and business sector constraints.

None of the previous reports failed to grasp the effects of these risks, or to form a briefing on them based on facts only. With regard to military censorship alone, a recent report by the American Freedom House organization stated that all printed articles on security issues are subject to military censorship. Likewise, the Israeli government press office withholds press cards from journalists from time to time to prevent them from entering Israel under the pretext of "security considerations." About "Arab 48"

OPINIONS

Mon 29 May 2023 10:10 am - Jerusalem Time

Baath Party and fabricated noise

Hamada Pharaohs

Hamada Pharaohs

Opinion Writer

Any Iraqi party has the right to protest or object to an Arab party from outside Iraq that harms and targets the security of Iraq, just as any Jordanian party has the right to protest and object to any action or position that harms and targets Jordan's security.


The protest of one or more Iraqi parties against the licensing of the Jordanian Arab Socialist Baath Party is a rejected protest, and the classification falls under the category of unjust insult, with motives that lack credibility of direction and purpose, lack of information, and intentional fabricated noise.


First, the Arab Socialist Baath Party in Jordan was born at the beginning of the fifties, and it was the first stop after its founding birth in Syria at the hands of Michel Aflaq and Salah Al-Bitar, and it was active in the Jordanian political life, participating in Parliament, the government, and trade unions, and it remained like the rest of the Jordanian parties, until the end of the democratic stage 1957, the beginning of the martial law phase.


Secondly, re-licensing the party after our people restored their suspended constitutional rights from 1957 to 1989, and re-licensing nationalist and leftist political parties, including the Baath Party, at the beginning of 1992.


Thirdly, the status of the party has been corrected and adapted according to the terms of the new political parties law in 2023.


Fourth, the Arab Socialist Baath Party, a Jordanian party with civil nationalist tendencies. It has no direct connection with Iraq or other than Iraq. What is certain is that it has a connection and a relationship, as a matter of solidarity and equal relations with many parties in the Arab world.


Fifthly, neither the Jordanian party nor any other Jordanian party aims to harm Iraq's security, work to change its political system, or engage in any action targeting Iraq.


For all of this, there is no justification for what whoever did in Iraq against the Jordanian Arab Socialist Baath Party, and its motives are exposed, targeting the Iraqi state’s tendencies in preserving national relations with Jordan, Egypt, and others, at the instigation of regional tools that want Iraq to remain under the will of non-Arab influence, other than National, and attempts to disrupt the political, economic and security agreements between us and Iraq, which are agreements based on common interests and mutual benefits, and are not good or favor from one party to another.


The people of the fabricated protest have unclean motives and intentions. They do not want Iraq to have its national, clean, national orientations, as is the Iraqi people, with its Arabs and Kurds. to reach him.


Jordan's stated, clear and transparent policy does not interfere in the internal affairs of any Arab country, with the same value that no party is allowed to interfere in its internal affairs, choices, and national and international relations. This applies to the Arab Socialist Baath Party and all other Jordanian parties.

OPINIONS

Mon 29 May 2023 10:09 am - Jerusalem Time

Walid Daqqa... a public trial?!

The prisoner Osama Al-Ashqar

The prisoner Osama Al-Ashqar

Opinion Writer

Appeals, calls and claims no longer have any meaning. The countdown to the martyrdom of the prisoner Walid Daqqa has begun. Does anyone listen? Does anyone know the scale of the tragedy or the dimensions of the crime committed against a family that is on the cusp of life after 37 years of waiting.


Walid, who dreamed of freedom, dared to do so, so he fought the long struggle against the racist laws of occupation and was able to achieve his noble human goal of forming a family despite the restrictions and having a birth from within the restrictions, and he is still insisting on fighting ignorance, closure, injustice and racism, Walid, who achieved from inside his prison what he was unable to achieve Achieving his peers outside the walls became a milestone in the struggle, resistance, and insistence on freedom.


Walid, who fell victim to the policies of mass killing practiced by the Department of Prisons against hundreds of prisoners, after more than thirty-seven years of resisting death and triumphing over it, he was surprised by the germs directed by the programming of killing inside the colonial death slaughterhouses, so what does it mean to leave a patient in an infected, unclean and unhealthy atmosphere despite Medical reports confirming the weakness of his body, the weakness of his immune system, and his inability to endure. The report of the medical supervisor of the Prison Service confirms that the prisoner Walid Daqqa faces death at any moment, and that his days are numbered. Despite this, the Israeli entity insists on programming his killing smoothly and without any media fuss. He knows that the goal will be achieved and there is no need to rush. To confirm the direct order to kill, the fascist Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, declared in full view of the whole world that the "terrorist" Walid Daqqa must die.


Walid again insists on his right to a public trial before it is too late. It is still possible for Milad and Sana to have a new birth and a new life. Much can still be done to release Walid and to bring him back to the bosom of his family and his little girl, who will try us one day whenever she looks at the picture of her martyred father with an endowment. implementation.

ARAB AND WORLD

Mon 29 May 2023 10:08 am - Jerusalem Time

From Putin to Biden.. Congratulations continue to Erdogan after his re-election

From Russian President Vladimir Putin to the American Joe Biden, passing through the Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelensky and the French Emmanuel Macron, many world leaders congratulated Recep Tayyip Erdogan on his victory Sunday for a new five-year presidential term.


Putin, who has recently worked closely with his Turkish counterpart, considered Erdogan's victory "the logical result of your selfless work as President of the Turkish Republic," adding that the victory "is clear evidence of the Turkish people's support for your efforts."


The Russian president also referred in particular to the "efforts" made by Erdogan "in strengthening state sovereignty and pursuing an independent foreign policy."


Turkey, a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), has influence in strategic areas important to Moscow, and it also plays a mediating role in the Ukrainian conflict.


US President Joe Biden Sunday congratulated Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on his re-election, and said via Twitter, "I look forward to continuing to work together as NATO allies on bilateral issues and common global challenges."


In turn, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken extended his congratulations to Erdogan via Twitter, saying, "I look forward to continuing our work with the government chosen by the Turkish people."


British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak affirmed his desire to continue "close cooperation" with Turkey.


"I congratulate (President Erdogan). I look forward to continuing the close cooperation between our two countries, from growing trade to addressing security threats as NATO allies," Sunak said on Twitter.


Emmanuel Macron was one of the first European leaders to congratulate Erdogan, saying that France and Turkey faced "enormous challenges that they face together".


Among these "challenges," Macron pointed out via Twitter, "the return of peace in Europe and the future of our Euro-Atlantic and Mediterranean alliance," adding, "With President Erdogan, whom I congratulate, we will continue to move forward."


Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky congratulated Erdogan and expressed his hope to "strengthen" relations between Kiev and Ankara, in particular to ensure "security" in Europe.


"We hope to further strengthen the strategic partnership for the benefit of our two countries, as well as strengthen our cooperation for the security and stability of Europe," Zelensky said on Twitter.


Turkey played a crucial role in concluding and extending the agreement that allows Ukraine to export its grain through the Black Sea.


German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he hoped Recep Tayyip Erdogan's re-election would give "new impetus" to relations between the two countries in order to "advance their common agenda".


In his tweet, he described the two countries as "close partners and allies," noting "the strong interdependence between their peoples and economies."


Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson welcomed Erdogan's re-election, saying that "our common security is a priority for the future."


Sweden is a candidate to join NATO, but it faces rejection from Turkey, which accuses it of harboring "terrorists", especially members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party.


European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Charles Michel expressed via Twitter their desire to "further develop EU-Turkey relations".


Turkey is an official candidate to join the European Union, but accession negotiations that began in 2005 have been stalled for several years.


Relations are complex between the European Union and Turkey, but the latter remains an essential partner for the bloc, especially with regard to immigration.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg congratulated Erdogan, and said in a tweet, "I look forward to continuing our work and preparing for the NATO Summit in Vilnius in July."


In a statement published by the Saudi Press Agency, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sent "sincere congratulations and best wishes for success" to Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Turkish people.


Relations between Riyadh and Ankara deteriorated for more than three years after the assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in his country's consulate in Istanbul at the end of 2018. Erdogan then accused "the highest levels of the Saudi government" of issuing the assassination order, and the Turkish judiciary's suspension of the trial on the case last year paved the way for a rapprochement between the two powers. biregional.

PALESTINE

Mon 29 May 2023 10:01 am - Jerusalem Time

A new lobby in the Knesset to impose sovereignty over Al-Aqsa

On Monday, members of the Israeli Knesset will launch a new lobby, under the name "For the Freedom of the Jews in the Temple Mount" (Al-Aqsa Mosque), with the aim of seeking to impose full sovereignty over it.


According to the Hebrew newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, the lobby will discuss the importance of the Temple Mount in the Zionist fabric and its place in the Israeli presence.


The organizers of the initiative explained that the purpose of this lobby is to promote the "precinct of the Temple" (Al-Aqsa Mosque), and its relationship with the Jews.


This is not the first time that pressure groups have been launched in the Knesset in order to try to impose sovereignty over Al-Aqsa. As reported by the Hebrew newspaper.


Mon 29 May 2023 9:50 am - Jerusalem Time

On Tuesday, China will send its first civilian astronaut into space

On Tuesday, China will send a civilian astronaut for the first time in its history on a manned mission to the Tiangong Station, marking a new stage in pursuing its ambitions for space exploration.


Lin Shiqiang, a spokesman for the China Manned Space Agency, said during a press conference in Beijing that the astronaut Ge Haishu is a professor at the University of Atmospheric and Astronautical Sciences.


Until now, all of the Chinese astronauts who went into space had belonged to the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
The spokesman explained that Guy "will be primarily responsible in orbit for the management of shipments" intended for experiments in space science.
The civilian astronaut will work in orbit alongside Shenzhou-16 mission commander Jing Haiping and cosmonaut Gu Yangguo.


The crew will take off from the Jiuguan base in northwest China on Tuesday at 09:31 local time (01:31 GMT), according to the Chinese space agency.


Beihang University, the other name of the educational institution where Ge works, said the latter "belongs to an ordinary family" from the western province of Yunnan.


Projects within China's "space dream" under President Xi Jinping abound.


This large Asian country has invested billions of dollars for decades in its military-run space program, which has allowed it to compensate for a large part of its lagging behind the Americans and Russians in this field.


China sent its first astronaut in 2003, and the Tiangong (Heavenly Palace) space station has been fully operational since the end of 2022. In 2019, a Chinese rover landed on the dark side of the moon. And in 2021, China sent a small robot to the surface of Mars. It intends to send the first crew to the moon by 2029.


The last part of the space station successfully docked with the main structure of this facility in 2022.


This Chinese station is equipped with advanced scientific equipment, especially the "first cold atomic clock system" dedicated to space, according to the official New China News Agency (Xinhua).


Tiangong is expected to float in low-earth orbit at an altitude of 400 to 450 km, for at least a decade, to allow China to maintain a long-term human presence in space.


Crews will be sent permanently to ensure continued human presence in this orbiting laboratory, and will conduct science experiments and test new technologies.


Beijing does not intend to use the station for purposes of cooperation with other countries, as is the case with the International Space Station, but it confirms that it is open to cooperation, the extent of which has not been specified.


China was excluded from the International Space Station in 2011 when Washington banned the US space agency from any cooperation with Beijing.

SPORT

Mon 29 May 2023 9:46 am - Jerusalem Time

French Championship: Mbappe is the best player in the league for the fourth year in a row

Paris Saint-Germain striker Kylian Mbappe was named the best player in the French Football League for the fourth year in a row at the ceremony that was held in Paris on Sunday.


Mbappe, 24, surpassed the captain of the French national team, who was crowned for the fourth time after the years 2019, 2021 and 2022, the Swedish Zlatan Ibrahimovic, the three-time winner of this award, which has been awarded by the Players Association since 1994. The award was not awarded in 2020 due to the repercussions of the Corona virus.


It is the seventh time in a row that a player from Saint-Germain, the league champion this season, for the eleventh time in its history, won the award after Ibrahimovic (2016), Uruguayan Edinson Cavani (2017) and Brazilian Neymar (2018).


And after receiving the award from the coach of the "Roosters" team, Didier Deschamps, he wanted "above all" to send "my sincere thoughts" to the second goalkeeper in the Spanish team, Sergio Rico, who fell from his horse on Sunday morning and suffered serious injuries.


He added, "There are things more important than football, the whole club is with it, and I wanted to have a sense of priorities by talking about that first."


Mbappe praised the other players, especially "Lens, who had a great season," and (Argentine) Leo (Messi), who also helped me, "but he was absent from the ceremony, and" it is a privilege to play with players like these.


On winning the award for the fourth year in a row, he said, "It gives me great pleasure, I have always wanted to win, to write my name in the history of the tournament. Even with all the ambition I had, I did not expect to win so quickly."


In response to a question about his future, last year's World Cup runner-up confirmed, "I will remain here next season."


The 2018 World Cup champion dominates the French League this season, as he leads the scorers’ ranking with 28 points, one goal ahead of Lyon striker Alexandre Lacazette before the last 38 stage. Mbappe is seeking to win the title of top scorer in “Ligue 1” for the fifth time in a row, to equal the number of Jean-Pierre Baban, the best scorer with Marseille between 1988 and 1992.


Mbappe also scored 7 goals in the Champions League and starred in front of the Baye de Castel amateur team in the French Cup by scoring five.


Mbappe scored 11 goals with France since September 2022 and led him to the Qatar World Cup final, where he lost to Argentina's Messi on penalties.


Lens coach Frank Eyes, 52, won the best coach award for the first time in his career, after leading his team to second place behind the Capital Club.


He became the third Lens coach to win the award after Daniel Leclerc, who led the club to its only league title in 1998, and Joel Mueller, who finished second behind Lyon in 2022.

SPORT

Mon 29 May 2023 9:44 am - Jerusalem Time

England Championship: Leicester City, Leeds and Doucouré relegation save Everton

Leicester City and Leeds United were eliminated from the English Premier League, and Everton won their battle to keep their seat in the dramatic competitions that took place in the final 38th stage on Sunday.


And Everton’s 1-0 victory over Bournemouth contributed to his survival in the Premier League, in exchange for the relegation of Leicester and Leeds, who joined Southampton to the “Championship” next season.


And at Goodison Park, Malian Abdoulaye Doucouré imposed himself as the savior of his team, Everton, and became a hero in front of about 40,000 fans by scoring the goal of survival in the 57th minute.


On the other hand, Leicester City, who won the English Premier League title seven years ago, was relegated for the first time since 2014, despite its 2-1 victory over West Ham.


Leicester's interim manager Dean Smith said: "Every manager thinks he could have done this or that, but the hindsight is amazing. You finish where you deserve over a season."


He added, "One of my tasks was to take over the team for seven weeks and eight matches and try to keep the club in the Premier League. Unfortunately we fell through."


And Leeds' career in the league came to an end after three years spent among the adults, after its great fall against Tottenham 1-4.
"It's professional suicide," Leeds manager Sam Allardyce said of his team's start to the game.


"We made huge mistakes in the wrong period of time," he continued.


Tottenham's victory did not bring any benefit to him, as he will miss participating in Europe next season, due to the deterioration of his results, to settle for eighth place with 60 points.


Manchester City, the champion, who reached the final of the Champions League competition, lost to Inter, Italy, in its final match against Brentford, 0-1.


And the men of Spanish coach Pep Guardiola retained the title for the third season in a row, after Arsenal fell 0-1 to Nottingham in the last stage.


Arsenal concluded its season with a big victory over Wolverhampton 5-0, despite losing the title battle after leading for long periods of the current season. The London team finished the season in second place, 5 points behind City (89 vs. 84).


Manchester United beat Fulham 2-1, scored by Englishman Jadon Sancho and Portuguese Bruno Fernandes.


The "Red Devils" team finished its season in third place, four points ahead of Newcastle IV, which drew 1-1 with Chelsea, knowing that they, along with City and Arsenal, will compete in the Champions League next season.


And Chelsea presented one of its worst seasons ever, as it finished the league in twelfth place with 44 points, failing to qualify for any of the European competitions next season.


Liverpool, fifth in the standings, which will compete in the European League competition “Europa League” next season, led by German coach Jurgen Klopp, finished the season with a 4-4 draw against Southampton.


The "Reds" will be accompanied by Brighton VI, who lost 2-1 at Aston Villa in the second European competition, the "Europa League".


Aston Villa returned to European competitions for the first time in 13 years, by participating in the "Conference League".
Spanish coach Unai Emery's team secured seventh place thanks to goals from Brazilian Douglas Luiz and Olly Watkins in the first half at Villa Park.


"I am very proud. We beat a good team and occupying the European position is the best possible end," said Emery, the French coach of Paris Saint-Germain and former Spanish Villarreal, who brought Aston Villa back to the fore.


"We will participate in a European championship, which is very important to me. It gave me a lot. It's great," added the coach, who took over the technical reins after the dismissal of Steven Gerrard last October.

SPORT

Mon 29 May 2023 9:43 am - Jerusalem Time

Spain Championship: Real Sociedad secures the Champions League seat, and Espanyol is relegated

Real Sociedad secured the final fourth place that qualifies for the Champions League next season, despite losing to its host Atletico Madrid 1-2, on Sunday, at the end of the penultimate 37th stage competitions, which saw Espanyol drop to the second division, with a 2-2 draw with Valencia.


Coach Emmanuel Alguasil's team qualified for the main continental competition for the first time since 2013, after Rayo Vallecano rendered a service to the Basque club by defeating Villarreal V 2-1, noting that the latter will play in the European League competition "Europa League" similar to Real Betis, the winner of Girona 2. -1, with two goals from Borja Iglesias (47 and 77).


Sociedad secured fourth place with 68 points, 5 points ahead of Villarreal, who could no longer catch up with him before the end.


Frenchman Antoine Griezmann imposed himself as a star in the match, opening the scoring (37) and passing the ball for the second goal to Argentine Nahuel Molina (73). Sociedad scored the only Norwegian goal, Alexander Sorloth, two minutes before the end of the regular time of the match (88).


Atletico ranks third with 76 points, one point behind its arch-neighbor in the capital, Real, who beat Seville 2-1 on Saturday in the opening competitions of this stage.


On the other hand, Espanyol fell to the second after the imposed wing of Valencia, Brazilian substitute Samuel Leno, equalized in the third minute of stoppage time.


The “bats” team opened the scoring through Diego Lopes (38), before Espanyol responded with goals from Cesar Montes (40) and Danish substitute Martin Braithwaite (50).


Espanyol occupies the penultimate nineteenth place with 36 points, while the bottom club Elche was relegated earlier (24 points), provided that the identity of the relegated third team is determined, as Valladolid hopes to avoid drinking the bitter cup after its goalless draw with Almeria.


Valladolid occupies the eighteenth place with 39 points, one point behind the seventeenth Celta Vigo, who lost to its host Cadiz 0-1.


Barcelona, the champion, won its last match at its historic stadium, “Camp Nou”, at home to the imperfect Real Mallorca, 3-0, scored by Ansu Fati (1 and 24) and Gavi (70).


Blaugrana fans bid farewell to captains Sergio Busquets and Jordi Alba, who will leave the club at the end of the season.
Barcelona played its last match at Camp Nou because its restoration and expansion works will prevent coach Xavi Hernandez's men from playing matches against him next season, as they will have to play their home matches at the Louis Companes Olympic Stadium.


However, the injury of young left-back Alejando Balde in the 14th minute, after a strong intervention from Senegalese Mallorca striker Amath Ndiaye, who was sent off, spoiled the joy of the Catalans.


And Barcelona reported during the evening that the 19-year-old Spanish international was suffering from a “partial tear in the external ligament of the right ankle,” and that he would be out for between six and seven weeks. He will not be able to join La Roja's squad for the semi-finals of the European Nations League competition in mid-June in the Netherlands.

SPORT

Mon 29 May 2023 9:40 am - Jerusalem Time

Italian Championship: Lazio rises to second place and Giro leads Milan to the Champions League

Lazio regained second place by scoring a fatal goal in the victory over its guest Cremonese, who left the first division 3-2, Sunday at the end of the thirty-seventh and penultimate stage of the Italian Football League on Sunday, and Milan secured the last seat in the Champions League by defeating Juventus 1-0.


Serbian Sergey Milinkovic-Savic scored the winning goal for the Roma team in the 89th minute, and the second was personal after a confusion caused by a corner ball in the match that was held at the Olympic Stadium.


Milinkovic-Savic opened his score in the 37th minute, reinforcing Lazio's lead to two goals after his Albanian colleague, Mr. Gzim Hisai, scored the lead goal 4 minutes after the first whistle, but Cremonese overturned their delay and equalized in the second half, beginning through Chilean Pablo Gladames (54), and then thanks to Friendly fire after a goal by mistake from Manuel Lazzari in his own goal (58).


Lazio advanced to second place, two points ahead of Inter III (71 versus 69), to postpone the decisive struggle until the last stage, when the first plays against Empoli and the second against Turin.


Veteran striker Olivier Giroud (36 years old) led his Milan team to the Champions League next season by scoring the winning goal at Juventus from a header after a pass from Davide Calabria in the 40th minute.


The Rossoneri raised its tally to 67 points in fourth place, the last qualifying position for the most prestigious continental competition, six points ahead of fifth-placed Atalanta.


On the other hand, Juve remained in seventh place outside the European race with 59 points, one point behind sixth Roma.
In a marginal match, Nigerian Victor Osimhen's double was not enough for Napoli, as the Italian champions, crowned for the third time in their history, squandered a two-goal lead to draw with Bologna 2-2.


Osimhen raised his tally this season to 30 goals in all competitions, by scoring two goals (14 and 54), before Scotsman Louis Ferguson (62) and Lorenzo de Silvestri (84) equalized for Bologna.


And Napoli won its first league title this season since its last coronation, led by the late Argentine legend Diego Armando Maradona in 1990, who also led him to the first title in 1987.


On the other hand, the period of suspense will continue until the last moments to determine the third club relegated to the second division, after Verona’s fatal stumbling in front of Empoli 1-1. While Lecce ensured its survival with a dramatic goal from a penalty kick in the last moments, achieving a valuable victory over its host, Monza, 1-0.


Verona had the opportunity to get out of the danger zone after Spezia's 4-0 defeat at home to Turin on Saturday, but with this tie it remained in eighteenth place with 31 points, by goals from the seventeenth Spezia.


Verona did the hardest when he opened the scoring through Argentine Adolfo Gaich (61), but Empoli, who ranks fourteenth, equalized with a shot from Slovenian Petar Stojanovic, which hit the unfortunate defender Gangacomo Manyani (90 + 6).


Thus, the fate of Verona, who paid the price for its decline in the last ten minutes, has been postponed until the confrontation with Rome (the sixth) in the last stage at the end of next week, while Spezia will defeat Milan (the fourth) in the San Siro.


In the other match, Lorenzo Colombo scored the winning goal from the penalty mark in the 11th minute of stoppage time, after the match referee counted a handball on Danish Christian Getkiar after he returned to the assistant referee (VAR) technique.
The Danish player himself wasted a penalty kick for his team six minutes before the end of the regular time of the match, after it was saved by Lecce goalkeeper Vladimiro Falcone.


"I don't cry easily, but there were tears, it's an incredible emotion," said young striker Colombo, 21.
"We went through difficult times, but we did it and fought," added the player, who is on loan from Milan.


Lecce moved five points away from the relegation zone, as it now has 36 points in the sixteenth place, while Montsa's balance froze at 52 points in the tenth place.

ARAB AND WORLD

Mon 29 May 2023 9:38 am - Jerusalem Time

Kyiv is again under attack with marches and missiles

Kiev was again attacked on Sunday night with explosive drones and missiles, according to what the military authorities said, less than 24 hours after it was targeted by the largest drone attack since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.


"We detected more than 40 air targets, and our air strikes destroyed them. The attacks on Kiev were repelled," the Kiev military and civil administration said via Telegram.


The attack, the fifteenth to target the Ukrainian capital since the beginning of May, was launched using cruise missiles launched from "Tu-95MS" strategic bombers and explosive drones, according to the same source.


"Through these continuous operations, the enemy seeks to keep the civilian population in a state of deep psychological tension," he stressed.


The roof of a building was damaged by falling debris, the same source added. "There were no dead or injured," said Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko.


On the night of Saturday-Sunday, two people were killed and three were wounded in what the Ukrainian authorities described as the "largest drone attack" targeting Kiev since the start of the Russian invasion in February 2022. The Ukrainian General Staff said that it shot down 58 out of 59 of these Iranian-made Shahed drones. fired towards Kiev.

SPORT

Mon 29 May 2023 9:38 am - Jerusalem Time

German Championship: Heidenheim rose to the elite for the first time in its history, with two deadly goals

Heidenheim ensured its rise to the German Football League at the expense of one of the oldest clubs, Hamburg, after advancing to second place with a crazy victory at the expense of Jan Regensburg 3-2, with two deadly goals in stoppage time in the second division competitions.


And Hamburg believed that he had decided to return to the first division only minutes before the end of his match against Sandhausen, which he won 1-0, when Heidenheim was trailing 1-2. However, two goals in stoppage time decided that the latter would get a direct boarding pass by coming second, while Hamburg III will play the play-off match from home and away with the sixteenth-placed in the "Bundesliga".


The giants, Hamburg, have been absent from the first-class competitions for five years, and will play the playoffs for the second year in a row, this time facing Stuttgart, who finished third from last.


As for Hindheim, it will celebrate its rise for the first time in its history to the top flight, to accompany Darmstadt, who had previously qualified a week ago.