Cook once a week to save time and money... A new phenomenon called "batch cooking" (" cooking packages ") is becoming increasingly popular in France with soaring inflation .

In the kitchen of her home in a small village in northeastern France, 30 kilometers from Strasbourg, Sandra Thomann prepares meals for the entire week in cooking processes that take about two hours.

"I love easy recipes, but at the same time unusual," says the forty-year-old, as she marinates the chicken in a soy-ginger sauce.
The dishes Thoman is preparing for next week are chickpea salad, spinach and goat cheese pie, and shrimp pasta. They often refrain from preparing dishes that contain meat and fish because of the possibility of preserving foods for longer periods.

These dishes are stored in the fridge and ready to be reheated and eaten during the week, and Thomann follows the "Batch Cooking" method of preparing the dishes that will be eaten during the week in order to better manage the amount allocated for cooking.

115,000 users follow Sandra's Instagram page called "Cuisine Addict". And every Friday, Sandra announces the dishes she will be preparing for the coming week, indicating the list of products she intends to buy to prepare the foods and the expiration date for each dish.

Sandra Thomann, a cooking blogger who has been cooking for about 15 years, began adopting this method in 2019, and has since gained wide popularity. She is currently living off this passion by cooking.

She says, "The French love to cook, and when we notice that the 'Batch Cooking' method helps us in our daily tasks, facilitates our lives, and through which we can save money, we stick to it," noting that the number of people who apply this method is increasing.

A large number of people are seeking advice to enable them to continue adopting a balanced diet at the lowest possible cost, at a time when most countries of the world are witnessing hyperinflation. In France, food prices rose in March by 15.8 percent year-on-year.

Julie Sling, 29, also began adopting the "batch cocking" method shortly after giving birth to her son. Through this phenomenon, she aims to reduce the "psychological burden" she faces and facilitate her daily life.

And she no longer visits the stores a lot, as she adopts a list of products similar to those suggested by Sandra.

"We only buy the very necessary products, and we avoid buying everything that is subject to rot or any commodity that we may not use," she says while shopping in a Strasbourg store.

The family's monthly budget amounts to about 100 euros per week, including purchases for children, while this budget previously amounted to about "150 euros."

Sandra Thomann confirms that the "Batch Cooking" method puts an end to food waste, eating fast food and ordering takeaway meals.

"When we are tired and come home late and do not have the desire to cook, we only have to heat up the pre-cooked dishes, which keeps us away from ordering expensive takeaway meals," she says.

The blogger notes that Patch Cooking always attracts new people, as its effect is "not fleeting". She says, "This method was created to be adopted always."

The French Football Federation's decision not to allow matches to be suspended to allow Muslim players to break their fast during Ramadan sparked controversy among the league, unlike what is happening in other European leagues.

The "Ultras" group raised the Paris Saint-Germain fans on Sunday at the "Parc des Princes" stadium, a banner criticizing the French Federation for the game, whose firm position on Ramadan contradicts the decisions taken in neighboring countries that sympathize with those who fast.

The issue came to light after the French Federation sent a message to the referees on Thursday reminding them of the applicable laws. Stopping matches during the evening that coincides with the end of fasting for Muslim players "does not respect the provisions of the federation's statute."

"The idea is that there is a time for everything. A time for sports, a time for religious rituals," Eric Borghini, head of the Federal Referees Committee, told AFP.

For Borghini, who is a member of the federation's executive committee, it is simply a matter of "strict application of Article 1 of the federation's statute regarding the demand for respect for the principle of secularism in football."

From this reality, the football community has reinvigorated the debate, old and regular, over what should be French secularism: the freedom to practice one's religion freely, or the primacy of applying common laws to religious beliefs.

"In 2023 we can stop the match for 20 minutes to make decisions, but not for one minute to drink water," Luca Dini, Aston Villa's English player, wrote on social media.

Contrary to the controversy in France, the English Football Association took the decision to stop the matches for a short period to allow Muslim players to break the fast during the month of Ramadan, which began on March 22.

And the Dutch League recently took the same steps for the first time, while the head of the referees in the German League announced last year that he supports the referees who decide to grant such a kind of break.

In Italy and Spain, no decisions were planned, but the door to discussion on this issue was not legislated. Moroccan Soufiane Amrabat (Fiorentina), for example, took advantage of the therapists entering the field to drink water and eat food on Saturday evening during the 1-0 victory over Inter.

England remains the leader in this issue due to the adoption of rest periods two years ago, under the influence of what French Wesley Fofana and Senegalese Sheikho Kouyate, players of Leicester City and Crystal Palace at the time, did after they decided to stop eating in the middle of the match.

"I was born in France and worked there, but there is a big difference between France and England. The English set a good example," said Mali Abdallah Doucoure, Everton midfielder.

In the same context, Nice coach Didier Degard said on Friday, "We know that they are more open than us on this issue and it has always been so. It would be great if France did the same, but no one would worry if that did not happen."

At Nice, where many players spend the month of Ramadan, the most important point is related to the health status of players who may feel unwell during the fasting period, according to the young coach.

"We accompany them as best we can. We have a high-quality performance center. They are monitored in terms of food and water," Degar added.
In the Nantes team, Muslim players are exempt from eating meals together and from the second training period, during the days that witness the establishment of two training periods.

"There is support, there is listening," says Canary coach Antoine Kombuare, but "on match day you shouldn't fast. There's a lot of effort, you have to be ready. Those who fast are not in the group. I don't want them." Justification for not summoning the Algerian Joan Hajjam against Reims on Sunday in the 29th stage competitions (Nantes lost 0-3).

The National People's Congress for Jerusalem launched a political initiative to arrange the Palestinian situation based on many common denominators that bring together the Palestinian people with all its political components, with the aim of strengthening the home front and confronting the threat to the national cause.

The initiative, which was launched under the directives of the Secretary-General of the Conference, Major General Bilal Al-Natsheh, stated that the Palestinian people, as one historical bloc, whose first and last goal is to get rid of the occupation, and to establish an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, which is agreed upon by all factions of national action, including the Islamic factions. Hamas and Islamic Jihad , which means that clear mechanisms must be agreed upon to achieve this common goal.

The initiative also indicated that the current situation on the Arab level and the jogging of some countries towards normalization with the occupying state, we must move towards strengthening Palestinian relations with all Arab and Islamic countries that are not normalized to miss the opportunity for the occupation whose goal of these normalization steps is to achieve peace with Arabs, and expelling the Palestinians from it, as if we were the obstacle standing in the way of achieving it.

The initiative continued: "The Palestinian political level must direct a convincing media discourse to the world based on tangible data on the basis of concrete analysis of the tangible reality, meaning exposing the facts that condemn the occupation and exposing its position on the Palestinian cause through word and image, in a documented manner that does not accept appeal or doubt."

The initiative stressed that the first steps that must precede that, is to conduct an internal dialogue on the homeland based on the decisions of the Algiers Dialogue, the Mecca Agreement and the Arab Peace Initiative, provided that this dialogue includes the " Fatah " movement and the factions of the Liberation Organization and the Islamic forces, which believe that these factions It has grown old and must be revived from good life, provided that a national and Islamic consensus is reached that the organization is the legitimate and sole representative of our people in the homeland and in the diaspora, and that any other alternative bodies that sprout here or there are seeds that do not succeed in a land watered by the blood of martyrs and the sacrifices of prisoners and the wounded .

The initiative considered that continuing to equivocate, exchanging accusations, reprimanding, defaming and treason on satellite channels serves only the enemies of the Palestinian people and their just cause, and is also in favor of the continuation of division, which will inevitably lead to our defeat morally in the first place and politically and on the ground in the second degree.

The initiative demanded that the leaders of the factions, in this blessed month, and under the directives of President Mahmoud Abbas "Abu Mazen", call for an expanded factional meeting at the Muqata'a headquarters in Ramallah, headed by the President, with the participation of "Hamas" and "Jihad" via video conference from Gaza and the diaspora.

As for the West Bank, it will be represented by members of their political bureau and the leadership of the regions and squares, so that the session will be stormy and open to everyone, and it will include clarity, disclosure, frankness and transparency so that we all reach an agreement on common denominators, the most important of which is the continuation of the struggle until the end of the occupation.

The initiative said: "We must agree on a social contract that equates everyone and holds everyone accountable, and its reference is the Palestinian Liberation Organization, the constitution and the law."

The initiative urged the leadership of the "Hamas" movement to translate the words of some of its leaders, "Khaled Meshaal as a model," into actions on the ground, because it is in the interest of the movement to be honest with itself and with the Palestinian masses, and in that is a restoration of its weight in the street, which the PLO does not deny. Foremost among them is the “Fatah” movement, but on the condition that this recognition be mutual, because the Palestinian National Liberation Movement is still the one that has the greatest weight and weight in the Palestinian street, even if there are internal disputes. He benefits from her longitudinal experience and her international, global, Arab and Islamic relations, her influence on the balance of power, and her long experience that extends for decades in the brilliance of revolutionary, struggle and political work, and they should not overlook that her experience with Oslo is the reason for the emergence and rise of the Islamic factions in particular, despite the fact that the sons of Fatah They criticize this agreement more than others in the rest of the factions.

The initiative called for stopping playing the chord of the so-called "security coordination" because at the same time there is a security truce in Gaza, and therefore we must be fully aware of the seriousness of the stage, as well as where we must stop and where we must go with the aim of preserving the interests, lives and capabilities of our people, not that We remain in the circle of skepticism, treason and national humiliation through the various media outlets and in the statements issued by this or that faction.

The initiative called for factional alertness to the danger of the plot woven by the Zionist far-right, which is immersed in extremism in Israel, against the Palestinian people and their just cause, especially against Jerusalem, the capital, which is swallowed up by Judaization and settlement, as Al-Maqdisi is slaughtered a thousand times a day, and unfortunately, "there is no mourning for him, nor supporters and supporters of his steadfastness, except through slogans and strong statements." dialect.”

In conclusion, Major General Bilal Natsheh, Secretary-General of the People's National Congress for Jerusalem, said: "What came in this initiative is subject to discussion with all factions, and that the conference is in the process of preparing for an expanded meeting at the internal level in order to study these proposals and come up with recommendations that will be raised to the political level, and then it will be To the implementation of the items that came in the initiative, in the forefront of which is the meeting at the headquarters of the province and on the homeland, to be a serious beginning for a real reconciliation after a continuous division for nearly 17 years, which constitutes a scar in the history of the Palestinian cause.

The Lebanese judiciary is investigating the embezzlement of $318,000 from the country's embassy in Ukraine , a judicial official told AFP on Monday, while the Foreign Ministry is working to reduce the expenses of its missions in light of the economic collapse .

Since September, suspicions of embezzlement have surfaced, and the Lebanese judiciary opened investigations regarding them later, according to which Ambassador Ali Daher, who was restrained from the embassy, was interrogated several times.

The judicial official familiar with the case said, "The embezzlement affected the embassy's fund, which is fed by passport renewal fees for children of the Lebanese community residing in Ukraine, agencies, marriage contract fees, and others."

He pointed out that "preliminary estimates showed that the value of the embezzled funds amounted to 318 thousand US dollars."

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs restrained the ambassador's hand and put him at his disposal, pending the end of the ongoing investigations, after summoning him and his assistant to Beirut.

According to the same source, the assistant disappeared from view after attending one interrogation session, after which the Public Prosecution Office of the Court of Cassation issued a “report of investigation and investigation against the assistant, and a decision to prevent him from traveling with his Ukrainian wife.”

According to preliminary investigations, it was found that the assistant was depositing money in his personal account in a Ukrainian bank, while sending a letter to the Ministry informing it of transferring the money to its account.

According to the source, "the statements of the ambassador and his assistant in front of the investigators contradicted each other."

The official stated that the ministry "did not check these transfers, nor did it review the embassy or inform it that the money did not reach its account in Lebanon."

The investigation is also looking into suspicions about the actual value of the ambassador's house rent in Kiev.

A diplomatic source in Beirut told AFP that "there are ongoing judicial investigations about a financial case at the Ukrainian embassy."

He pointed out that the work is basically suspended at the embassy, after the start of the war in Ukraine.

And in light of the economic collapse in Lebanon since the fall of 2019, the Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs submitted a proposal last year to suspend the work of 17 missions around the world in order to reduce expenses, but the government did not take a decision in this regard.

"Currently, expenditures and the number of employees are being reduced to reduce the burden as much as possible," the diplomatic source said.

The economic collapse befell the state institutions, whose employees’ salaries shrank dramatically due to the loss of 98 percent of the lira’s value against the dollar.

Today, Monday, the Prisoner's Club published the will of the hunger-striking prisoner, Khader Adnan , for the 58th day in a row, rejecting his arbitrary detention.

Prisoner Adnan said in his will: "As the soul approaches martyrdom, it is right for us to write our will. I send these words to you, as my fat and flesh have melted, my bones have melted, and my strength has weakened from my imprisonment in the beloved, authentic Palestinian Ramla. This is my will to my family, my children, my wife, and my people."

And he continued: "If it is my testimony, do not allow the occupier to dissect my body, imprison me near my father, and write on my grave here, Abdullah the poor Khader Adnan, your prayers for him, his parents and Muslims."

And he added: “Oh, our fatherly people, I send this commandment to you with greetings and love, and I am full of confidence in His mercy, victory and empowerment. This is God’s land, and we have a promise from Him in it that it is the promise of the Hereafter. closer".

And he continued: "My greetings to our masters, the families of the martyrs, and the prisoners , and my greetings to them and all the free and revolutionaries."

Today, Monday, the General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation condemned the continuation of the Israeli aggression on the city of Nablus , which resulted in the death of two Palestinian citizens.

In a statement, the organization held Israel fully responsible for the repercussions of the continuation of these crimes and repeated attacks on the Palestinian people.

The organization called on the UN Security Council to assume its responsibilities in putting an end to these ongoing Israeli crimes, and to provide international protection for the Palestinian people.

Today, Monday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested a young man after closing the Al-Jalama checkpoint , north of Jenin .

According to local sources, the occupation forces arrested the young man, Ahmed Hussam Abu Farha, while he was working on a vegetable stand at Al-Jalama checkpoint.

The head of the Al-Jalama Council, Amjad Abu Farha, told Al-Quds.com that what happened was that an unknown young man brandished a plastic pistol and directed it at the checkpoint. The occupation forces mobilized, fired several bullets in the air, and closed the checkpoint.

Israeli patrols stormed the Al-Jalameh area, and are still detaining the citizens and subjecting them to field investigation.

And Hebrew sources said: "The security guards at the Gilboa crossing noticed a short while ago a Palestinian walking around with a gun in his hand, so they fired warning shots at the suspect, who got into a car and fled from the scene."

Broadcast around midnight from a studio inside a half-derelict shopping mall in Bangkok, Ghost Radio is hugely popular in Thailand , with tens of thousands of people wanting to hear people tell their experiences with ghosts, spirits or otherworldly beings.

Belief in the supernatural is deeply rooted in the kingdom's popular culture, from the legend of the Mae Nak that haunts its neighbors after dying in childbirth, to the fearsome Krasu creatures that thirst for fresh meat.

These ancient stories are being told through communication platforms such as YouTube, TikTok and instant messaging applications.
"A man dressed in white appeared to me in a dream and told me that I was going to die and I had to carry out his instructions," says a participant in the "Ghost Radio" program, with a trembling voice, adding, "When I turned around, I saw his body on the bed."

Inside the studio, presenter Watcharapol Phukjaidi seeks more details of these accounts.
His program is shown twice a week on his YouTube page, which is followed by three million people, while the episode starts at eleven o’clock at night and continues until the hours of dawn.

The beginnings of Watcharapol Phukjaidi in this field go back 20 years, when he was presenting, along with Kabul Thongplop, known as the "Ghost Godfather" in Thailand, a night program that was well received by taxi drivers.

"The chances of seeing ghosts are increasing" thanks to new technologies, Watcharapol, 46, told AFP.
He added, "Ghosts communicate through applications, messages, and phone calls, and technology has become the channel through which they communicate with humans."
The broadcaster recalled the intervention of a man who said that his friend contacted him and set an appointment to meet them in a temple. When the man arrived at the place, he was surprised to see his friend dead, while his mobile phone was placed inside a coffin.

Anthropologist Andrew Allan Johnson, whose study focused on the role of metaphysics in Thai society, explains that "popular beliefs adapt rapidly" to changes in society.

He points out that stories about ghosts contribute to keeping the memory associated with places alive, or to explain the feeling of being uprooted, particularly in Bangkok, which has witnessed many changes in recent years.

In the lower level of the building where the program is filmed, there is a ghost-themed cafe that is frequented by fans of these topics, while it is a source of income for the program along with a number of sponsors.

An employee named Khimjira reads stories submitted by listeners before removing those that deal with sensitive political topics or taboo issues.

“The numbers of young people who are connecting to the program are increasing with the impact of TikTok and Twitter,” he says, adding, “I think people often meet ghosts, and the stories are rarely the same.”

While eating a brownie in the shape of a tombstone, Shalawat Thangud, a 25-year-old police officer, said he had a supernatural experience during a job assignment.

In response to a call he received to enter one of the houses, he noticed upon his arrival the shadow of a very large man walking in the bathroom, and after he took off the door with difficulty, he saw the body of the man whose death had passed hours.

"I saw the fat man's spirit," he says emphatically. "I definitely think ghosts exist."

As for Watcharabul, he, in turn, refuses to express his opinion on the fact that ghosts exist, but he admits to a "great fear" of the ghosts that haunt hospitals.

He believes that people participate in his program "because they are sometimes unable to tell their family members about their experiences with ghosts."
"No one can prove the existence of ghosts except the listeners of the program," he says, before smiling.

Sources close to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, on Monday, that the implementation of the decision to dismiss his army minister, Yoav Gallant , was postponed due to developments in the security situation.

And the Hebrew website Ynet quoted those sources as saying that Netanyahu will deal with this issue at a later time.

It is noteworthy that Gallant did not receive his dismissal letter, which prevents it from being valid.

On Monday morning, the Supreme Military Court in Gaza issued final rulings against 6 collaborators with the Israeli occupation in various cases.

The sentences included two death sentences, one by firing squad and the other by hanging, in addition to four sentences of life imprisonment with hard labor.

The court issued a ruling against the convict (H, A), a military resident of Khan Yunis, born in 1975 AD, and detained by the Military Prosecution on July 28, 2021, upholding the death sentence by firing squad, in support of the text of the indictment.

The convict was associated with the occupation in the year 2000 AD, during his return via the Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing, and he provided the intelligence officer with information about people working in the resistance, their places of residence and the types of their vehicles, as well as the places where missiles were launched and the presence of tunnels, and photographed lathes and cars belonging to the resistance, which resulted in A number of martyrs were raised and some of the resistance fighters were captured.

While the court issued against the convict (R, S), a civilian from Gaza, born in 1975 AD, and detained by the Military Prosecution on March 9, 2017, upholding the death sentence by hanging, in support of the text of the indictment.

The convict was associated with the occupation in the year 2000 AD while working in the industrial zone (Arez), and he provided the intelligence officer with all the information he was asked for related to identifying lathes, houses of the resistance fighters, and cars used by the resistance, which resulted in the lathes and houses that he identified being bombed, in exchange for sums of money, and he continued in his association until he was arrested.

The court also issued a verdict against the convict (A, N), a resident of Beit Hanoun, born in 1995 AD, and detained by the Military Prosecution on November 8, 2018, upholding the sentence of life hard labor, as support for the text of the accusation article.

The convict was associated with the occupation in 2017, and he provided the intelligence officer with information about the resistance men, the nature of their work, their structures, their specializations, their places of residence, and their mobile numbers. He also provided them with information about the missile sites and tunnels of the resistance, the places where the missiles were launched, and the locations of the resistance fighters.

As for the convict (M, B), a resident of Rafah, born in 1959, and detained by the Military Prosecution on January 25, 2018, the court upheld the life hard labor sentence against him.

The convict was associated with the occupation in 2005 AD, and he provided intelligence officers with information related to the resistance, its members, many tunnels, and some other military actions, and he received many sums of money; These actions resulted in a number of targets, many martyrs and injuries, and he continued to communicate until he was arrested.

While the court issued against the convict (M, S), a resident of Al-Bureij, born in 1966 AD, and detained by the Military Prosecution on December 30, 2018, upholding the sentence of life hard labor, in support of the text of the accusation article.

The convict was associated with the occupation in 1998 AD, and he provided the intelligence officer with information about the resistance men, their places of residence, and their phone numbers. The convict received a training course inside the occupied territories on how to photograph and cultivate dead spots. He photographed places, houses, etc. at the request of the intelligence officer. As a result, some of them were targeted.

The court also issued a ruling against the convict (S, N), a military man from Rafah, born in 1959 AD, and detained by the Military Prosecution on October 31, 2017, upholding the sentence of life imprisonment with hard labor, as support for the text of the accusation article.

The convict was associated with the occupation in 2009, while he was passing through the Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing to treat his wife in Jerusalem, and he provided the intelligence officers with a lot of information about the resistance, its actions, its personnel, their places of residence, and the cars they were traveling in, and he had communication with the intelligence officers during the Israeli aggression on Gaza in 1998. 2012, and the aggression in 2014. He also received communication devices and many sums of money.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced Monday that Finland will become the 31st member of NATO on Tuesday.

"Tomorrow (Tuesday) we will welcome Finland as the 31st member," Stoltenberg said, explaining that the Finnish flag will be raised on Tuesday afternoon at the NATO headquarters in Brussels.

Today, Monday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested a freed prisoner from the village of Muthalath al-Shuhada, south of Jenin .

According to local sources, those forces arrested the released prisoner, Ibrahim Ammar Abbas (24 years), after he was summoned to meet their intelligence in Salem Camp, west of Jenin.

On Monday morning, the Israeli army announced that it had shot down a plane in the skies of the Gaza Strip , after it had flown within the Strip's airspace, without infiltrating any of the border settlements or posing any danger.

The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the "Hamas" movement, confirmed that the occupation shot down a "Shehab" plane belonging to him while it was on a training mission in the southern Gaza Strip.

The brigades indicated that it responded immediately by firing several surface-to-air missiles at the Israeli aircraft.

Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh said, "What is happening in Al-Aqsa Mosque is a violation of the sanctity of the sanctities, and pushes the worshipers to move away from Al-Aqsa through intimidation and restrictions on the passage and exit of people through checkpoints and gates. This arbitrariness and criminality must stop."

Shtayyeh condemned, during the government session in Ramallah, today, Monday, the continued incursions of the settlers into Al-Aqsa Mosque and the calls to slaughter sacrifices in its courtyards, and the execution by the occupation forces of the young doctor Muhammad Al-Osaibi from the town of Hura in the Negev, and the accompanying arrests and deportations of the worshipers in the mosque during the holy month, and the execution of The young man, Muhammad Baradiya, from the town of Surif, and the two young men, Muhammad al-Hallaq and Muhammad Abu Bakr, were killed in the city of Nablus.

Shtayyeh added: "Today, the Council of Ministers is completing the discussion of the appendices of the general budget in circumstances in which Israeli deductions are escalating, which amounted to about 250 million shekels per month, in addition to the decline in international aid allocated to the budget, and the demands of unions and public state employees, and despite all that, the government was forced to borrow from banks." A 3-month salary will be paid within days, and a 4-month salary will be paid before the Eid al-Fitr holiday, so that employees can meet their financial obligations during the Eid holiday.

Regarding the teachers, the Prime Minister said to the male and female teachers: "We respect the agreements signed with them, which are based on adding 15% to the voucher, and we will do that, and 5% of it will be paid this month, while the remaining 10% will be allocated to them on the voucher and it is included in the 2023 budget, and we will fulfill it." With all of our commitments towards you, and God willing, we will be able to do so before the end of this year.

He added: "But if the financial crisis continues and we are unable to do so, then we want you to understand and bear the burden with us, and bear with us the country without prejudice to what is yours. I say this to the teachers and to everyone, and accordingly I call on all teachers to return to their schools at the end of the vacation next Sunday. And make up for the students missed lessons according to the schedule prepared by the Ministry of Education.

He continued: "We are a people under occupation and we are facing the occupier in difficult circumstances, politically, security, economically and financially, and there is continuous aggression against our people and our land. In side conflicts that take us away from our main goal.

Shtayyeh said: "The Israeli financial rivalries, and the retreat of some donors, aim to put pressure on us and subdue us, but everyone knows that we do not barter politics for money, and the important thing is that we bear each other, understand our reality in which we live, and that what is between us is the language of dialogue, in order to reach a solution." minimum understanding.

Today, Monday, the General Authority for Crossings and Borders announced the closure of the Kerem Shalom commercial crossing in the southeast of the Gaza Strip, starting from Wednesday, 4/5/2023, until Saturday, 4/8/2023.

The crossing will be closed due to Jewish holidays.

Workers at the United Kingdom's passport- issuing service Monday began a five-week strike, part of a movement by public sector employees to demand better wages and working conditions.

More than a thousand members of the PCS union for civil servants and the public sector are scheduled to participate in the strike , demanding that the government initiate negotiations, as it has done with employees in other sectors, notably nurses and teachers.

Likewise, the union, which includes more than 130,000 government employees, called for a broad strike day on April 28 that includes all government departments.

"Unlike what has happened with other government sectors, the government has not engaged in meaningful talks with us, despite two major strikes and other specific actions in the past six months," union secretary Mark Sirotka said in a statement.

In particular, the union is calling for an increase in wages by more than 2 percent, which was approved, given the inflation that has exceeded 10 percent for months in the country.

The United Kingdom, which has been experiencing an unprecedented living crisis for decades, has been shaken by several social movements in recent months.

After a weeks-long strike, nurses and other health workers, teachers and railway workers have suspended their movement after receiving offers from the government of better wages.

Today, Monday, large Palestinian masses mourned the bodies of the two martyrs, Muhammad Saeed Al-Hallaq and Muhammad Junaidi Abu Bakr, in the city of Nablus .

The funeral procession started in front of Rafidia Hospital to the Martyrs' Circle, where the funeral prayer was held, to take each of them to their final resting place in Al-Ain camp and the town of Al-Junaid.

The two martyrs, Abu Bakr and Al-Hallaq, were shot dead by the Israeli occupation forces during their raid into the city of Nablus in the morning, and clashes broke out in the area, resulting in the injury of 55 citizens and the arrest of two citizens.

Turkey 's inflation continued to decline in March for the fifth month in a row, to 50.51 percent at an annual pace, official data showed Monday.

Consumer prices rose by 2.29 percent during the month.

Compared to the peak recorded in October when consumer prices rose by 85.5 percent, a level not seen since June 1998, this steady decline since November represents good news for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan six weeks before the presidential elections. scheduled for May 14, which he is running to win a new term.

In February, inflation slowed to 55.2 percent, an annual pace.

Experts justify the slowdown in inflation with the "base effect", pointing out that if prices continued to rise month after month, this rise was less severe than in the same period of the previous year.

But independent economists from the Inflation Research Group (Enag) are challenging the official figures. The group confirms that consumer prices rose by 112.51% year-on-year, and in March they reached 5.08%.

The Turkish economy , which is already going through a difficult period, is facing the consequences of the devastating earthquake that struck the south of the country on February 6, killing more than 50,000 people.

The World Bank estimated on Monday that the earthquake and aftershocks caused damage exceeding $34 billion, or 4 percent of Turkey's gross domestic product.

But the Turkish president estimated the total damage in his country at "about $104 billion."

The Minister of Endowments and Religious Affairs, Sheikh Hatem Al-Bakri , said, "The Israeli occupation forces stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque 25 times, and prevented the call to prayer in the Ibrahimi Mosque 42 times during the past month."

Al-Bakri added, in a report issued by the ministry today, Monday, "The occupation authorities continue to tighten their control over the city of Jerusalem, especially Al-Aqsa Mosque and its surroundings, and continue their campaign to clamp down on the mosque and worshipers through a series of measures and decisions aimed at Judaizing the entire city."

The report indicated that the occupation authorities attacked two mosques and endowment properties in Hebron.

The report monitored the occupation's continuation of the policy of persecuting the stationed and the stationed, harassing those in Al-Aqsa Mosque, and attacking them during the blessed month of Ramadan.

And it showed that the intruders among the settlers performed Talmudic prayers, especially in the eastern region of it, and they also intensified their violations of the sanctity of Al-Aqsa Mosque in the form of successive groups, and they performed Talmudic rituals at the doors and in the squares, in addition to continuing the excavations and tunnels under Al-Aqsa Mosque and its surroundings. Glick, accompanied by a number of settlers, visited Al-Aqsa Mosque and performed Talmudic prayers inside its courtyards.

In the Ibrahimi Mosque, the occupation authorities continued the excavation work and the tourist path, and they are still going against the call to prayer as every month, and they prevented the call to prayer in this month 42 times, and continued the work of Judaization, especially in building the electric elevator, to serve the herds of settlers.

The report documents that the occupation forces attacked the Qaytoun Mosque in the Old City of Hebron, and submitted two notifications, one to the Bilal Bin Rabah/Khashem Al-Karm Mosque in the city of Yatta, and the other to its facilities.

The occupation notified the demolition of seven graves in the village of Al-Burj, southwest of Hebron, under the pretext of building in Area C. The cemetery is built on endowment lands belonging to the Palestinian Ministry of Endowments, and has been used by citizens for several years to bury their dead.

Today, Monday, 4 civilians suffocated as a result of the Israeli occupation forces attacking a vehicle in the village of Nabi Saleh, north of Ramallah .

According to local sources, these forces fired tear gas and sound bombs at the vehicle of Khalil al-Rifai from the village of Kafr Ein while he was passing through the military checkpoint near the village of Nabi Saleh, which led to the injury of 4 citizens who suffocated.

The occupation soldiers threw stun grenades at al-Rifai's vehicle, which severely damaged it.

The Russian authorities announced Monday the arrest of the main suspect in the attack that killed a famous military blogger who strongly supports the attack on Ukraine .

The Russian Investigative Committee said via Telegram that investigators "arrested Daria Trepova, who is suspected of participating in the explosion in a cafe in St. Petersburg" on Sunday.

And the Russian RIA Novosti news agency reported that Trepova was previously placed in detention for ten days for her participation in an unauthorized demonstration in February of last year, shortly after Russia launched its attack on Ukraine.

The website of the Ministry of the Interior stated that Trepova, 26, was born in Saint Petersburg and is a Russian citizen.

Sunday's blast killed Vladlin Tatarsky , 40, a prominent blogger born in the Donbass region in eastern Ukraine who supported Russia's invasion of Ukraine and was also critical of the Russian military.

It was reported that Tatarsky, whose real name was Maxim Fomin, was killed after receiving a booby-trapped statuette, and 32 people were injured in the attack.

The Israeli occupation authorities and settlers carried out 436 attacks during the month of March in the West Bank , including direct assault on citizens, vandalism, leveling lands, uprooting trees, seizing property, closures, barriers, and physical injuries.

According to the report of the Settlement and Wall Resistance Commission , today, Monday, these attacks concentrated in Nablus governorate with 130 attacks, followed by Jenin governorate with 60 attacks, then Salfit governorate with 46 attacks.

She explained that the attacks carried out by the settlers in March amounted to 164 attacks, during which they attempted to establish a new settlement outpost in the Jordan Valley, and the settlers’ attacks concentrated this month in the Nablus governorate, with 69 attacks.

According to the commission’s report, the Israeli occupation authorities issued 51 notices to demolish, halt construction, and evacuate Palestinian facilities, ranging from notices to demolish or stop construction under the pretext of non-licensing, and eviction under the pretext of training. Most of them were concentrated in the governorates of Salfit with 19 notices, and Jericho with 11 notices.

The occupation forces and settlers also razed more than 176 dunums of citizens' lands in the governorates of Jerusalem, Ramallah and Jenin, with the aim of controlling and transferring them for the benefit of the settlers.

The head of the committee, Moayed Shaaban, said: "The official occupation institution sponsors settler terrorism, in an organized, systematic and shameless manner."

He pointed out that the demolitions carried out by the Israeli occupation forces during the month of March amounted to 28 demolitions of 33 homes, commercial establishments and a source of livelihood, and these operations were concentrated in the governorates of Jerusalem and Hebron.

And Shaaban indicated that the report monitors the exposure of a total of 635 trees to damage and uprooting at the hands of settlers, all of which were olive trees.

And he said: In March, the occupation authorities issued two seizure orders for military purposes at 391 dunums of citizens’ lands in the governorates of Salfit, Ramallah, and Qalqilya. Balut in the governorates of Ramallah, Al-Bireh, and Salfit.

And he continued: The second order targeted the lands of Jinsafout, the hotel and Hajjah a week ago, which ruled the seizure / seizure of 218 dunums for the purposes of paving a road that the occupying state claimed was a road for military purposes, but in fact it was to serve the settlers, in order to block the road in front of the objections of the landowners, who argued that it was a road for military purposes. a wish.

The National Insurance Company NIC held its regular annual meeting of the company's general assembly, in which the company's shareholders, members of the board of directors, and executive management participated, in the presence of a representative of the Palestinian Capital Market Authority, a representative of the Palestine Stock Exchange, a representative of the companies controller at the Ministry of National Economy, and the company's auditors. The outsiders, Messrs. PricewaterhouseCoopers Palestine, and the company's legal advisor, Shehadeh Law Firm, at the headquarters of the National Insurance Company in Al-Bireh.

After ensuring that the quorum for the meeting was complete, all items on the agenda were discussed and approved and appropriate decisions were taken in this regard, including approval of the Board of Directors’ recommendation regarding the distribution of profits to shareholders at a rate of 12.5%, as of 10/04/2023.

During the meeting, the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Aziz Abdel-Gawad, spoke, indicating that the company incurred in 2021, for the first time since its establishment, losses from its insurance operations of nearly one million US dollars, and the Board of Directors and the Executive Management focused most of their efforts in 2022 on studying and analyzing the causes of these losses to develop the necessary policies and procedures. To enable the company to restore profitability in these operations.

Abdel-Jawad continued that the company applied the provisions of the accounting principle IFRS 9 three years ago and set aside all necessary provisions in accordance with its provisions and is currently working on applying the provisions of the accounting principle IFRS 17 in its financial statements for the year 2023 in accordance with the instructions of the Palestinian Capital Authority, as all studies conducted by actuaries and financial experts It indicates that the obligations that will result from the application of this principle will have a significant impact on the results of the insurance companies, and that only companies with strong financial positions will be able to do so, and reassure the shareholders that their company currently has retained profits that can be distributed to cover these obligations, whatever their value.

On the other hand, the General Manager of the National Insurance Company, Bashar Tawfiq Hussein, stated that “2022 was a difficult and challenging year as a result of what the world suffered from economic inflation, and the region’s continued vulnerability to the devastating effects of the Corona pandemic, and we in Palestine were not immune from these events, but it Our company was able to continue to follow a risk management policy to limit the deterioration of insurance results, in addition to our plan for this year to focus on technological development, and work to increase growth in the company, through the digital transformation project and the addition of new products that serve the insurance sector and the insured in their various needs.

Palestine Islamic Bank renewed its annual support to a number of Jerusalemite institutions, within the framework of its sustainable social responsibility program and strengthening the steadfastness of our people in the city of Jerusalem.

The support provided by the Bank included: Al-Aqsa Islamic Schools and Kindergartens, the Refugee Girl Home Association, and the Fajr Al-Quds Foundation for Economic Empowerment.

A delegation from the bank, including the General Manager of Palestine Islamic Bank, Dr. Imad Al-Saadi and the Assistant Director General for Financial and Administrative Affairs, Rami Taha, met with the aforementioned institutions, and met with their managements, briefed them on their conditions and the challenges they face, and discussed with them ways to enhance their support to ensure their continued provision of services to our people in Jerusalem.

Al-Saadi said that the bank is committed to supporting Jerusalemite institutions, due to its importance in strengthening the steadfastness of citizens, preserving the original identity of the holy city, and developing its various sectors, stressing that this support also comes within the framework of the bank's commitment to supporting the education sector and economic empowerment, in line with its sustainable directions in the field of responsibility. societal.

Al-Saadi added: "What we offer today comes out of our national duty and is at the top of our priorities in the field of social responsibility every year, and we call on all parties and sectors to strengthen the support of Jerusalemite institutions, since their continued existence means supporting our people and strengthening their steadfastness."

Al-Saadi stressed the importance of the educational services provided by Al-Aqsa Islamic schools and kindergartens and the Refugee Girl Home Association in the city of Jerusalem, and the important role they play in preserving the identity of the city and enabling our people to complete their education in an appropriate educational environment, appreciating at the same time the efforts of the Dawn of Jerusalem Foundation in The field of economic empowerment projects and the provision of job opportunities, in a way that contributes to achieving economic and societal development.

During its tour in the city of Jerusalem, the bank delegation visited the hospital of the Makassed Charitable Islamic Association, and met its general manager, Dr. Adnan Farhoud, where they reviewed the conditions of the hospital and discussed ways to enhance joint cooperation, in a way that contributes to ensuring the continued provision of high-quality treatment and health services.

Palestine Islamic Bank allocates part of its annual profits for its sustainable social responsibility program, and allocates the largest part for the health and education sectors, due to their importance in achieving sustainable development.

On Monday, the US Space Agency (NASA) will reveal the names of the four astronauts who will participate in a mission around the moon at the end of 2024, in an introduction to the return of humans to this astronomical body after an absence of half a century.

The identity of the three Americans and the Canadian who will form the "Artemis 2" mission will be revealed at 10:00 am local time (15:00 GMT), from the NASA Center in Houston, Texas, USA.

The four astronauts will be the first human crew to travel towards the moon, without landing on its surface, since the last mission of the "Apollo" program in 1972.

NASA intends to send during this mission the first woman and the first person of color on the moon, while the Apollo program sent 12 men, all of them white.

Through this program, the US space agency intends to return humans to the moon with a permanent presence by establishing a base on its surface and a space station orbiting it.

Learning to live on the moon would allow testing all the technologies needed for the more complex journey of sending a crew of astronauts to Mars.

The Artemis 2 mission is currently scheduled to launch in November 2024, with a duration of about ten days.

The four astronauts will be transported by NASA's SLS rocket, the most powerful in the world today.

The crew will be on top of this rocket inside the "Orion" capsule, which will separate from the rest of the parts upon reaching space and will transport them to the orbit of the moon. When the mission is over, the astronauts land in the ocean.

The "SLS" missile has only been launched once, during the "Artemis 1" mission, which propelled the "Orion" capsule to the moon during an unmanned test mission that lasted just over 25 days. The capsule successfully returned to Earth in December.

NASA chief Bill Nelson said Wednesday that the test flight "was a success, prompting us to add additional experiments during the flight," and "we will now add a crew to it."

He explained that the agency may send a mission to Mars by 2040.

All of the "active" astronauts (currently 41) were officially authorized to join the Artemis 2 crew. However, the selection path was shrouded in great secrecy.

At the end of August, then-Chairman of the Astronaut Office Reed Wiseman said that the qualities required of the crew members included, in particular, technical expertise and a spirit of esprit de corps. He has since left his position and became one of the astronauts eligible to participate in the crew.

He was replaced as Chief Astronaut Joe Acaba, who is at the forefront of the decision-making process.

And it remains for the unlucky astronauts to be part of the crew of the "Artemis 3" mission, which will be the first mission whose members will land on the moon.

The Artemis 3 mission is scheduled to be officially launched at the end of 2025, although the timetable is not settled at this stage.
"Space is complicated," Bill Nelson said Wednesday, "and we have to wait until we can ensure as much safety as possible."

"I'm not too worried about the time. We will only launch at the right time," he added.

"My pain and pain in the month of Ramadan is double and great, during which we miss my beloved son at our tables, and what increases our sadness is the occupation's detention of his body, so there is no grave we can visit, and there is no end to this punishment and the crime that the Israeli occupation practices against us, so how can my heart bear that?".. With these words, The mother, Manal, from the Jenin camp, started her speech about her son, the martyr of Fajr, the university student and resistance fighter , Amjad Iyad Husseiniyeh , with the advent of the blessed month of Ramadan.

In her house, which she decorated with pictures of Amjad III in her family consisting of two sons and a daughter, Ramadan rituals are different for the patient mother, who devoted her life to caring and raising her children, and although Amjad always spoke in front of her about martyrdom and wished for it, she did not believe the news of his early departure as she says: "We cherish We are proud of the martyrs and their heroism, but we are human beings and our hearts ache and grieve for the loss of loved ones, so how about if my spoiled and affectionate son, the bullets of the occupation stole our joys and happiness, and turned my life into sadness and tears that are renewed on every iftar and suhoor table, because it was adorned with his presence and his beautiful personality.

And she adds: “When Ramadan came, I felt the true meaning of the pain of my life with his execution, the abduction of his body, and his absence from our world, so I glorified for me the innocent child, the young man, and the friend who enjoys decency, that he is my son, my brother, and all my life that I devoted to him, and I always repeat when the dear one goes away and we lose him, there is no regret anything in life."

19 years ago, Amjad saw the light in the Jenin camp. He lived and was raised among a struggling family that offered martyrs and prisoners. He bears the name of his martyr uncle, who rose during the stone uprising. He was affiliated with Al-Quds Open University, majoring in accounting, and when he was martyred, he was a third-year student.”

Like the rest of his generation in the resistance camp, Amjad possessed a high patriotic and militant spirit, and he used, as his mother tells it, to participate in confrontations and confront the occupation, which hit him with a live bullet in the thigh area during his participation in the clashes that took place in the camp in 2017, and his mother says: "Amjad was preparing for the preparatory exams for high school, and when the occupation stormed the camp, he went out and participated in its resistance, and was shot, and received treatment, but the treacherous bullet did not undermine his resolve and discourage him from continuing his education.

And she adds: "He sat his exams despite the pain and pain, like the rest of the students, being diligent and distinguished, and he received several certificates of honor and appreciation during his school years for his excellence, as well as after his success in high school despite the injury. Therefore, I always felt proud of his positions."

Umm Azmy resists tears, out of honor and homage to the soul of her beloved, and she says as she recalls the memories: “All his positions in life, study and family are a source of glory and pride for us. Amjad did not stand idly by in front of the difficult circumstances of life. His life is between work and study, when he returns from his school and university, he goes to the vegetable garden that he used to work on in Jenin, next to his liberated prisoner father, who spent many years in the occupation prisons with several arrests.

And she adds: "When his father, Zain Al-Basta, was martyred with his picture and a wreath of flowers, out of pride in his heroic son, and he distributed sweets and dates to his pure soul, and may his memory remain alive in the hearts of all the free."

Amjad’s mother hugs Amjad’s pictures while saying, “He was distinguished by heroism, courage, daring, and daring. He was not afraid of death and occupation. On one occasion, during our conversation, he asked me: What will you do if they bring me a martyr to you? The Lord of the Worlds honored you with martyrdom.”

Days passed, and the patient mother faced the most difficult situation and the shocking news, at the dawn of 8-16-2021, and she did not expect that the hours she spent with him before his martyrdom were the last, and she says: “The night of his martyrdom, unlike the normal days, he returned to our house early, sat with me.” He ate several mouthfuls of food and sat on his bed, then I asked him about his preparation for his university exams that were approaching, but he informed me that he would postpone the semester for the next year until he works and collects his installments, so I told him, “Tighten your tricks, I want to be happy with your graduation.” A strange feeling for the first time from his answer."

And she adds: "A long time ago, I felt Amjad's martyrdom, but I did not know the timing and date, but every deadline has a book, and although it was a bitter and difficult shock, but the martyrdom is not honored by the Lord of the Worlds except for those who sincerely wish for it, and my prayers to the Lord of the Worlds to be one of them."

Umm Azmy remembers Amjad's last moments in her home and life, and says: "Feelings of anxiety dominated me that night, and I did not lose sight of him until dawn, until he received a call about the occupation's storming of the camp and besieging the area near our house."

She added, "I asked him not to go out, and I tried to stop him, but he was determined to go towards the camp square for the resistance, and he went out and disappeared in a blink of an eye, as if he was going to his destiny."

And she continued: "I continued to follow the news, and the sound of bullets did not stop, and when I heard of injuries, my heart shook and I rushed to call his cell phone and he did not answer, and my tension increased after we heard news of the fall of martyrs."

At this time, the streets of Jenin camp turned into arenas of confrontation and violent clashes between the resistance fighters and the occupation forces, which occupied homes and buildings.

Witnesses say: "After the Special Units assassinated the martyr resistance fighter and fighter, Nour Jarrar, his body fell to the ground, and the ambulance crews were unable to reach him. to the side of light.

And the witnesses added: "The occupation also assassinated the two young men, Raed Abu Seif and Saleh Ammar, and kidnapped the bodies of Nour and Amjad before his withdrawal." A call from his uncle, Hammoudi Azmy, and he asked her about the outfit her son was wearing to confirm his identity, and when she informed him, he told her that he was wounded. A fourth martyr without publishing his name.

And she says: "The sight of the people around me made me feel that the martyr was my son Amjad, the brave and the hero with a distinguished personality, and then they brought me his 'protection', which remained after the occupation stole his body, and it was covered in blood, so I realized that he was martyred, so I collapsed because he passed so quickly from my life."

And she adds, "We demand the return of the body of my son Amjad and all the detained bodies. I want to hug him, bid him farewell, join him and bury him in our cemeteries, next to us and our surroundings. Their detention does not undermine our resolve, and they took bodies and did not take souls, for their souls are with the Lord of the Worlds."

And she continues: "We will continue to wait for the recovery of their bodies to bleed them with flowers, because this is the will of his captive brother Azmi, and it is enough honor for us that the angels accompanied him with a beautiful angelic procession with the Lord of the worlds, so he sincerely asked for martyrdom and obtained it. I love meeting God and God loves meeting him."

Today, Monday, Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh and the Palestinian presidency condemned the crime of the Israeli occupation at dawn in the city of Nablus , which led to the death of citizens.

Shtayyeh said in a statement: "The killings and crimes committed by the occupation soldiers and settlers do not stop until they start again, in the sequence of killing and bloodshed of young men, children and women. Yesterday the two young men, Muhammad al-Osaibi and Muhammad Baradiya, were executed, and at dawn today the two young men, Muhammad al-Hallaq and Muhammad Abu Bakr, were executed. Within a systematic policy embraced by murderous criminals.

For his part, presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh said: "The Israeli occupation authorities' continuation of their unilateral measures of settlement, killings and incursions into the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque confirm that they are striving to escalate the situation, tense the atmosphere and drag the region into a cycle of violence and instability."

Abu Rudeineh warned against the continuation of settler incursions into Al-Aqsa Mosque and attacks on worshipers, stressing that these attacks are a dangerous escalation that cannot be accepted.

Abu Rudeineh held the occupation authorities responsible for these continuous attacks on the Palestinian people, calling on the international community, especially the US administration, to intervene and put pressure on this government to stop its crimes against the Palestinian people, before the situation explodes.

The trial of former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci , who is accused of committing war crimes and against humanity against Serbian forces during the 1998-1999 war of independence, begins before a special court in The Hague.

Taji, 54, a former Kosovo Liberation Army veteran, pleaded not guilty in November 2020 during his first appearance before the Special Tribunal for Kosovo.

Taji was elected president of Kosovo in 2016, but resigned after this court indicted him, along with three other suspects being tried alongside him.

The four men are suspected of committing nearly 100 murders, enforced disappearances and torture between March 1998 and September 1999.

Hugh Williamson, Human Rights Watch's director for Europe and Central Asia, said the trial "provides an opportunity, after many years, for the victims to find out what happened."

He added that the trial "shows the generalized impunity that still prevails in the Kosovo conflict."

Taji, who has been at the center of Kosovo politics for two decades, has long pleaded not guilty, accusing international justice of "rewriting history". But he promised to "closely cooperate with the judiciary."

The Kosovo war between Serb forces and armed Albanian separatists resulted in 13,000 deaths, most of them from the region's Albanians. It ended when a campaign of air strikes by Western countries in the spring of 1999 forced Serbian forces to withdraw.

At the end of the war, Hashem Taji abandoned the armed struggle to enter politics, which prompted Joe Biden, who was then Vice President of the United States, to see him as "George Washington of Kosovo."

The trial will start at 9:00 local time (7:00 GMT) with preliminary arguments for the prosecution and the victims' lawyers. The defense attorneys will take the floor on Tuesday.

Thousands of people demonstrated Sunday in Pristina in support of the former president and former rebels.

The three suspects, along with Taji, were transferred to The Hague, and they are the former spokesman for the Kosovo Liberation Army, Jacob Krasniqi, one of Taji's senior political allies, Kadri Veseli, a former intelligence official in this army, as well as one of its prominent figures, Recep Salimi.

The Special Tribunal for Kosovo is a Kosovo judicial body composed of international judges and charged with investigating crimes committed by the Kosovo Liberation Army during and after the war, especially targeting Serbs, Roma and opponents in Kosovo of the Liberation Army.

The majority of the population of Kosovo, which declared its independence in 2008 and was not recognized by Serbia, believes that the conflict was a "just war" against Belgrade's forces.

The appearance of Taji for the first time was reported in the newspapers in Kosovo and broadcast live on television stations.

In December, the Special Tribunal for Kosovo issued its first verdict on war crimes charges and sentenced one of the separatist leaders, Salih Mustafa, who had overseen a torture center, to 26 years in prison.

Peter Schala, a former commander in the Kosovo Liberation Army, is also on trial for war crimes.

In 2021, the court issued prison sentences against two men after convicting them of intimidating witnesses

Paris residents voted overwhelmingly, nearly 90%, against the continuation of renting electric scooters , following an unprecedented referendum, according to figures published by the French capital's municipality.

And the Paris mayor's office reported to AFP that this "citizenship vote", an unprecedented form of voting in Paris, which was held to resolve a heated debate over the location of these electric bikes on the sidewalks and roads of the French capital, was marked by very low participation, as voters did not skip 8% of the total registered voters.

Socialist Mayor Anne Hidalgo vowed to "fully respect the result of the vote," whatever it may be. She also participated in the election campaigns rejecting the continuation of renting these bicycles, under the pretext of mitigating the sources of "disturbing" in the capital.

After hosting it in 2018, Paris will become the first European capital to completely ban these bikes at the end of the contract signed with the three private operators ("Lime", "Tire" and "Dot") on August 31.

Those who reject these bicycles believe that they cause inconvenience because their users leave them everywhere in the public space, and they move very quickly alongside pedestrians on the sidewalks, in addition to their negative environmental impact, given that they are disposed of within only a few months of use.

And after the death of a 32-year-old Italian in 2021 due to being shocked by an electric motorcycle that had two people on it, the Paris municipality forced operating companies to limit the speed of these mechanisms to 10 kilometers per hour in 700 densely populated areas.

Proponents of this means of transportation consider that it provides a "smooth" ability to move, as does the bicycles offered for free hire, with a special benefit in this period of frequent strikes in the public transport in Paris in the framework of the movements against the project to reform the pension system in France.

The Spanish cities of Barcelona and Canadian Montreal completely banned the free rental of electric motorbikes, while the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, plans to reduce their number by half.

On Monday morning, the Israeli bulldozers demolished the tents of the residents of the village of Al-Araqib , which is denied recognition and threatened with uprooting and displacement in the Negev region, for the 215th time in a row, since its first demolition on July 27, 2010.

Those Israeli bulldozers demolished the homes of the people of Al-Araqib for the 214th time, on March 15, 2023.

This is the fourth time that the Israeli authorities have demolished the tents of Al-Araqib residents, since the beginning of 2023, after demolishing them 15 times in the past year 2022, and 14 times in the year before last 2021.