The Vatican - (AFP) - The Vatican's website could not be accessed Wednesday night due to "extraordinary attempts to access it", the Holy See's media office said, in a cyberattack likely attributed to Ukraine's ambassador to Russia.

"Technical investigations are underway (at the end of the day) due to unusual attempts to access the site," Matteo Bruni, director of the Vatican's information department, told AFP.

A large number of Vatican websites were down Wednesday evening, as well as the main official website, Vatican.va.

The likely attack followed a sharp reaction from Russia, which expressed "indignation" after remarks by Pope Francis about the supposed role of Russian ethnic minorities in the conflict in Ukraine.

In an interview published by the American Jesuit magazine "America" on Monday, the Pope spoke of the "brutality" that Ukraine faces in the Russian attack, referring in particular to the Chechens and Buryats.

"Today Russian terrorists are attacking the websites of the Vatican State: access to many Internet pages of various structures of the Roman Church has become inaccessible!"

He added, "Russian hackers show once again the true face of Russian politics," considering that it was "a response to the recent statements" of Pope Francis.

United Nations (United States) - (AFP) - The European Union prepared Wednesday new sanctions to impose on Iran for supplying military drones to Russia , on the eve of the UN Security Council meeting to discuss Russia's drone attacks in Ukraine.

The United States, France and Britain requested a closed session of the Security Council to discuss the issue of Tehran supplying Russia with arms, according to diplomats.

Russia has veto power in the council and is expected to overrule any decision it makes. But the United States and France have warned that Iran, by arming Russia, is violating Security Council resolutions.

Ukraine reported weeks ago that Russia had launched Iranian Shahed-136 drones, drones whose warheads explode in suicide landings, and Kiev moved to sever ties with Tehran.

However, Iran and Russia denied using the drones, and Tehran expressed its desire to hold talks with Ukraine. But the European Union announced on Wednesday its assertion that Iran is behind supplying the drones to Russia.

"We have collected our own evidence," said Nabila Masrali, spokeswoman for EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, and the bloc was preparing for a "clear, swift and firm response."

A list seen by AFP showed that the European Union had prepared to impose sanctions on three Iranian military officials, including General Mohammad Bagheri, chief of the general staff of the Iranian armed forces.

The sanctions, which are expected to be approved Thursday at a European summit in Brussels, will include Shahed Aviation Industries, a company linked to the Revolutionary Guards.

On Wednesday, the Ukrainian military reported that it had shot down more than 220 Iranian-made drones in about a month, although the drone bombing of Kiev on Monday resulted in five deaths.

The United States accuses Iran, by transferring war drones to Russia, of violating UN Security Council Resolution No. 2231 of 2015, which sponsored a nuclear agreement that is now on the brink of collapse.

And in 2020, the ban imposed by the resolution on Iranian conventional arms sales ended, despite previous attempts by the Donald Trump administration to extend it.

But the resolution still prohibits, until October 2023, any transfers except with the permission of the Security Council if they benefit ballistic missile capabilities.

US State Department spokesman Vedant Patel said on Wednesday that "Iran's supply of these specific types of drones to Russia is a violation of UN Security Council Resolution 2231, and it is a matter for the UN Security Council."

The alleged arms transfers come as Iran faces mounting pressure over its crackdown on the country's biggest protests in years, following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while in the custody of the "morality police".

The unrest has led to new Western sanctions on Iran and a rollback in efforts by US President Joe Biden to revive the 2015 nuclear deal that Donald Trump withdrew from.

Western officials have highlighted the Iranian drones as evidence that Russia, historically one of the world's largest arms exporters, is depleting its arsenal from battlefield losses.

The United States revealed intelligence information saying that Iranian drones had malfunctions in many cases, and that Russia had turned to North Korea to obtain planes after China rejected invitations to send weapons.

Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur said during a visit to Washington that Russia relied on drones due to the lack of supplies and Ukraine's success in protecting its airspace.

Pevkor told reporters that the Russians "realize that in the air they have no control now, because there is air defense from the Ukrainian side. They have lost a lot of planes."

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - Under the slogan "Happiness is two joys! And every month there are two winners", Bank of Jordan announced the launch of a huge campaign for savings account prizes in Palestine, as part of its vision aimed at constantly rewarding its customers, providing them with the best prizes and services, and increasing chance of winning them.

The new campaign includes a prize of 100,000 shekels per month for two winners, starting in April, and a grand prize at the end of the year worth 500,000 shekels.

The Regional Director of Bank of Jordan in Palestine, Mr. Hatem Fuqaha, expressed his happiness with the launch of this new campaign, considering that these campaigns offered by the Bank to its customers are a result of the customers' confidence in the Bank and their continuous and increasing dealings with it, stressing that Bank of Jordan is constantly striving to maintain its superiority in its performance and services, as well as He excelled in the various awards he offered to his clients within the various programs and campaigns of the Bank.

Jurists called on everyone to open savings accounts with the Bank of Jordan or replenish their existing accounts so that they can enter the upcoming draws of the campaign, pointing out that all the bank's branches in the West Bank and Gaza Strip participate in the draws and that feeding the customer to his account balance increases the chances he gets in the draw.
Through this campaign, Bank of Jordan aims to emphasize that the savings account contributes to changing the life of citizens in the future, and these prizes act as an incentive and a source of awareness for citizens on the importance of this societal goal, through which we contribute to developing the idea of saving and saving for times of need.

In addition to the savings account campaigns, Bank of Jordan continues its offers and other campaigns, such as the campaign for personal loans, car loans, campaigns on credit and debit cards, and other distinguished banking programs and services, which confirms the bank’s tendency to serve all segments and groups of Palestinian society in all its sectors, in order to facilitate their lives and giving them the opportunity to realize their dreams and meet their needs according to their ability and monthly income.

In this context, Bank of Jordan recently launched a new program for savings deposits for children, under the name "Sanabil Children's Account", with multiple advantages and rewards and high returns that help parents secure the future of their children.

It is worth mentioning that Bank of Jordan is one of the first banks to be present in the Palestinian market, and the bank provides its services to all categories of customers, individuals, companies and institutions, through its branches and offices spread across the various governorates of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

واصل مجلس إدارة نادي سموحة، برئاسة وليد عرفات، تدعيم صفوف فريق الكرة استعدادا للموسم الجديد، وذلك بالتعاقد مع الفلسطيني الدولي محمد باسم رشيد، لاعب وسط نادي بيرسيب الإندونيسي لمدة 3 مواسم قادمة في صفقة انتقال حر.

وأعلن نادي سموحة بشكل رسمي عن تعاقده مع اللاعب الفلسطيني صاحب ال27 عاما بعد اجتيازه الكشف الطبي.

وأتم اللاعب الاتفاق على كافة التفاصيل المالية، مع إدارة الموج الأزرق، حيث وقع على العقود منذ أيام قليلة.

كما تواجد اللاعب في مدرجات ستاد الإسكندرية، أمس الأربعاء مع الوافد الجديد أحمد حسين، الذي تم التعاقد معه في صفقة انتقال حر من نادي الداخلية.

من جانبه ، أكد عبد الحميد بسيوني المدير الفني لفريق سموحة عبر المركز الإعلامي لناديه أن رشيد سيكون إضافة للفريق موضحا أن الجهاز الفني حدد احتياجاته لتدعيم صفوف سموحة في الموسم المقبل.

وحضر الثنائي مباراة سموحة أمام فريق فيوتشر في الجولة 30 من مسابقة الدوري الممتاز، والتي انتهت بالتعادل (1-1).

يذكر أن سموحة قد أعلن أيضا الفترة الماضية، عن التعاقد مع المهاجم النيجيري جونيور أجاي مهاجم النادي الأهلي السابق، في صفقة انتقال حر.

Los Angeles - (AFP) - Nick Carter , a member of the American band "Backstreet Boys", is facing an accusation of rape against him by one of his fans, who referred Thursday to incidents dating back to 2001 when she was 17 years old.

Shannon Roth announced, in a press conference from California in the presence of her defense attorney, that she had filed a complaint against the singer for rape on the sidelines of one of the band's concerts in Tacoma, Washington.

"Even though I have autism and cerebral palsy, I believe nothing in my life has hurt me more than what Nick Carter did to me," the 39-year-old said in tears.

After Ruth asked for an autograph, the star invited her to accompany him on a bus and then offered her a "freakish" drink referred to as a "vip juice", plaintiff's attorney Mark Boskovitch confirmed.

"After she drank the juice, he took her to the bus toilet and asked her to perform sexual acts," her defense attorney added.
Boskovic explained that the teenage girl at the time was crying all the time while the singer continued his assault on her, noting that Carter "threw her on the bed" at the back of the bus and "raped" her despite her attempt to fend him off.

Ruth filed her civil lawsuit in Las Vegas, specifically in Nevada, the area where she and the singer also live. She is asking for financial compensation, the details of which have not been disclosed.

The lawyer pointed out that the lawsuit includes the statements of three other women who accuse the singer of sexually assaulting them as well. They do not wish to reveal their identities and have not yet filed any lawsuits in a personal capacity.

In 2017, Nick Carter was accused of rape by American singer Melissa Schumann.

He constantly denied the facts of this case, which was not completed due to the statute of limitations.

After contacting AFP with Carter's representatives, they did not comment on the new accusations against him. The singer never referred to the lawsuit on his social media pages, which include recent posts about his brother, who died last month.
One of his close associates confirmed to TMZ that "these accusations are completely false," adding that "Nick is focused on his family and the issue of his brother's passing."

Doha/Translation by Al-Quds.com - Al-Jazeera TV revealed, on Monday evening, an operation carried out by the Israeli " Mossad " against an activist in the " Hamas " movement from the Gaza Strip, who was in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur.

The channel quoted unidentified sources as saying that the Malaysian intelligence managed to free the Palestinian after he was kidnapped by a group working for the Israeli security apparatus.

She pointed out that the kidnapping took place in late September, and that the Mossad sought help from Malaysian agents who had received training in a European country.

It indicated that the Malaysian intelligence was able to reach the location of the kidnappers, arrest them, and free the activist within 24 hours.

She pointed out that the Mossad interrogated the Palestinian activist via video link from Tel Aviv regarding his association with the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas.

While the Ynet / Yedioth Ahronoth website reported on unidentified media outlets, that on September 28, two Palestinians who specialized in electronic programming systems and technology were on their way to get in their car after they had dinner in a shopping center in the center of Kuala Lumpur, and I headed towards them. A white vehicle and 4 people got out of it. They reached the driver, beat him and dragged him to the vehicle they were with. They shouted at him, “Our president wants to talk to you.” The other Palestinian tried to help his friend, but he was warned to move away from the scene of the accident.

According to the site, when it became clear to him that they were working for the Israeli Mossad, he ran to a nearby hotel to ask for help from the staff, at a time when the vehicle that hijacked the other man quickly fled the scene, and he submitted a report to the police 40 minutes after the event.

This is not the first operation of the Israeli Mossad in Malaysia, where the young scientist, Fadi Al-Batsh, a resident of Jabalia, was assassinated in April 2018, during his scientific studies in the country, by a group tracking the agency.

A Palestinian from Khan Yunis who participated in the operation was arrested after his return from Gaza, and a court specialized in the Strip issued a death sentence against him a few days ago.

The Israeli security apparatus carries out several secret and other uncovered operations against Palestinian activists, such as those that took place against the leader of the Qassam movement, the martyr Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai.

(AFP) - Former Silicon Valley biotechnology star Elizabeth Holmes has asked an appeals court to overturn her sentence of more than 11 years in prison, following her trial for fraud by her startup, Theranos.
Holmes and her legal team have until March 3 to submit documents and court transcripts supporting their petition, according to a notice released Monday by the California Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Holmes' appeal says she is contesting her prison sentence last month, as well as "any and all dissenting judgments included in, prior to, or appended to the judgment".
Holmes was sentenced to 135 months in prison for defrauding investors with Silicon Valley startup Theranos.
Four months after a highly publicized trial in a San Jose, California court, Holmes was found guilty in January of lying to investors about the true progress of her company.
Holmes, who is pregnant, will not have to turn herself in until April next year, according to a court order in San Jose, California.
Holmes created Theranos Medical Diagnostics in 2003 when she was just 19, touting devices that were considered revolutionary and capable, she claimed, of up to 200 medical tests with just a few drops of blood, faster and cheaper than traditional medical laboratories.
However, after years of deceptive propaganda and the subsequent hiring of billions of dollars, these promises did not bear fruit and the promised devices did not see the light, according to the Public Prosecution Office.
In 2015, the scandal broke when the Wall Street Journal revealed that the company's promised device did not work as it should.
At its peak, the company was valued at nearly $10 billion, with Elizabeth Holmes, the majority shareholder, at the helm of a fortune of $3.6 billion, according to Forbes.

Jerusalem - "Al Quds" dot com - The Palestinians welcomed the opening of the Karama "Allenby" crossing between the West Bank and Jordan soon, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with Moroccan mediation.

The Assistant Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, Said Abu Ali, the former Minister of the Interior, expressed his appreciation for Morocco's efforts to open the crossing around the clock and said, "These are blessed efforts of the brotherly Morocco, king, government and people. We are fully aware of the extent of the status that the Palestinian cause occupies in the conscience of the Moroccan people." Especially the city of Jerusalem and the essence of the Palestinian cause with King Mohammed VI and his efforts to protect Jerusalem and thus enable the Palestinian people to enjoy their freedom and independence and build their state with East Jerusalem as its capital.

Abu Ali praised the role of the Jerusalem Committee, which is chaired by the Moroccan King, and the Bayt Mal Al-Quds Agency and the support it provides to strengthen the steadfastness of Jerusalemites, stressing that "opening the crossing around the clock will alleviate the suffering of travelers and facilitate their movement."

The Secretary-General of the Islamic Christian Organization for the Support of Jerusalem and Holy Sites, Hatem Abdel Qader, said, "We thank the Kingdom of Morocco, king, government, and people for this achievement, which would alleviate the suffering of the Palestinian citizens who move between the West Bank and Jordan, stressing that Morocco stands as a strong supporter of the Palestinian cause at all levels and in all sectors." Arab and international forums, and he has a major role in supporting and strengthening the steadfastness of citizens in the city of Jerusalem and preserving the Arab identity of the city through what he offers through the Bayt Mal Al-Quds Agency under the leadership of the Managing Director, Dr.

Hazem Al-Qawasmi, a member of the Secretariat of the Campaign with Dignity for the Freedom of Movement of Palestinians, stressed that "opening the crossing around the clock is not a new matter, but it has been achieved since the middle of the year 2017 until the Corona came, and now that the world's land and air borders have opened again, and there is no single reason not to reopen." The bridge is available around the clock, seven days a week, throughout the year, adding that the Karama campaign has begun to mobilize this right, provided that the implementation of the decision begins today and not in September, as the need to open the bridge has a top priority in summer days and holidays, and there is absolutely no reason to delay the implementation of the decision. .

Al-Qawasmi pointed out that this issue was among the topics that accompanied US President Biden's visit to Palestine, and he said, "We thank the sisterly state of Morocco for supporting this human rights demand to facilitate the Palestinians in their coming and going, as it is no secret to anyone that the humiliation that the Palestinian regiments are going through, stacked at the crossing these days It also coincided with the return of the pilgrims from the Sacred House of God, expressing the hope that King Abdullah of Jordan would issue his directives to allow Jerusalemites to enter Jordan also through the Sheikh Hussein Bridge, and not only through the Karama crossing, which will have an impact on relieving pressure and smoothing the movement.

In turn, the political analyst, Dr. Ahmed Rafiq Awad, head of the Al-Quds Center for Future Studies at Al-Quds University, said, "There is a commendable Moroccan effort that is added to the rest of the other efforts to alleviate the suffering of the Palestinians in their movements with dignity and freedom, especially at the Al-Karama crossing. Thus, we appreciate the Moroccan effort and we desire double efforts from the brothers in Morocco to make life a reality." The Palestinian is less painful and distressed, because he is suffering from a very hateful occupation."

Academic Dr. Amjad Shehab said, "The success of the mediation of the Kingdom of Morocco under the auspices of King Mohammed VI to put pressure on Israel to permanently open the Karama crossing, which separates the West Bank, which is inhabited by more than 3 million Palestinians, and is the only outlet for them with the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the world, which will reflect positively on their lives." several aspects, the most important of which are social and economic.

Shehab expressed his hope that this step would be the first in order for the Kingdom of Morocco to play a role that opens up political horizons to save the Palestinian cause from liquidation, appealing to Moroccan King Mohammed VI in his capacity as Chairman of the Jerusalem Committee to pressure Israel to stop the policy of Judaizing Jerusalem, attacks on holy places and demolitions of homes. Also, Moroccan efforts contribute to the permanent opening of the Rafah crossing to help the people of the Gaza Strip alleviate the unjust siege imposed on them for more than 15 years.

It is noteworthy that Israel announced that it had decided, with Moroccan mediation, to soon open the Karama crossing around the clock.

New Delhi - (AFP) - When the Indian , Athar Rashid, began to notice the beginnings of baldness, he decided to undergo a hair transplant in order to regain his beauty and be able to marry, but the young man in charge of a television station did not realize that this operation, which was safe in principle, would cost him his life.

Women have always been judged based on their appearance, but in an Indian society where tendencies towards material appearances are increasing, men have also begun to take care of their appearance for fear of losing their social status.

Men with premature baldness are increasingly resorting to hair transplantation as incomes rise and focus on personal appearance increases.

But in a poorly regulated sector, this process, sometimes carried out by amateurs training on YouTube, can have fatal consequences.

Rashid was the only breadwinner for his family and he aspired to a better life... buying a house and marrying off his two sisters.

But he contracted blood poisoning after undergoing a hair transplant at a clinic in New Delhi last year, his mother, Asia Begum, 62, told AFP.

"My son died a very painful death. His kidneys stopped working and then all his other organs collapsed," she added.

Armed with photos showing Rashid's face swollen and a black rash spreading all over his body in his final hours, the family filed a complaint with the police.

Four people, including the two men who performed the surgery, have been arrested and are awaiting trial.

"I remember my son every day and die a slow death," said Asia, sitting in her modest rented apartment in a slum in the capital. "I lost my son but I don't want any other mother to lose her son because of the fraudulent practices of a handful of people."

When performed by a skilled surgeon, hair transplantation can be a life-changing experience and boost confidence especially for young Indians looking for personal and professional growth.

Harish Iyer, a human rights activist and social commentator, said men are starting to focus more on taking care of themselves as their lifestyles change.

"The need to show youth and vitality is an issue that is gaining more and more importance for both sexes," he told AFP.

But at the same time, specialists say that lifestyles characterized by inactivity, smoking, improper diets and stress may lead to early hair loss.

Hair transplantation involves removing follicles from a hairy area such as the back of the head and implanting them in the bald area.

Dr. Mayank Singh performs up to 15 operations a month in his high-end clinic in a posh neighborhood of New Delhi.

Most of his patients are between the ages of 25 and 35 and they seek either marriage or career advancement, especially in jobs where appearance is important.

The operation costs around 350,000 rupees ($4,300), which is a lot of money in a country where millions live on less than $2 a day.

Therefore, many resort to unlicensed clinics that employ unqualified people, but their prices are low.
Singh, who is also a prominent member of the Association of Hair Transplant Surgeons of India, said these swindlers are tarnishing the reputation of the industry.

"People believe in the myth that this operation is simple, while the duration of the surgery is very long, up to between six and eight hours," he added.

"It involves gradually giving the patient local anesthesia. If the person performing the operation does not have sufficient knowledge about that, it may become an unsafe procedure," he explained.

India's National Medical Commission issued a warning in September over the increase in clinics, which often offer substandard service at discounted rates.

"Watching during workshops or on YouTube or similar platforms is not considered sufficient training to perform cosmetic procedures, including hair transplantation," she said.

Singh noted that it is necessary to adhere to the guidelines.

He has a long list of satisfied clients, including 29-year-old doctor Lakshmi Narayanan, who for years avoided social events because of his baldness.

"My hair started falling out at the age of 18," he told AFP. "I used to avoid taking pictures of myself or even looking in the mirror."

"But it is no longer the case. I can interact confidently with people now and I am looking for a life partner," he added.

Paris - (AFP) - The President of the French Football Federation, Noel Le Graet , acknowledged, in a statement to Agence France-Presse, Monday, "inappropriate statements that created a misunderstanding" related to the legend of the national team, Zinedine Zidane , and offered him a "personal apology."

"These inappropriate statements generated a misunderstanding," Le Graet said the day after his speech about Zidane.

On Sunday, in response to a question in an interview with Radio Monte Carlo regarding whether Zidane, who was considered by many to be the first choice to coach the national team in the event that Didier Deschamps did not renew, had contacted him in recent days, Le Graet said, “Zinedine Zidane, I was not So to answer the call, to tell him what? + Hey mister, don't worry, find another club, I've reached an agreement with Deschamps +?"

This led to harsh criticism from Kylian Mbappe and the Minister of Sports, the latest of which was from Real Madrid , which Zidane led as a coach to the Champions League title three times in a row between 2016 and 2018.

"Real Madrid C. F. deplores the unfortunate comments made by Le Graet regarding Zinedine Zidane, one of the biggest legends of sport in the world," the club said in a statement on Monday.

"These statements show disrespect for one of the most respected personalities by football fans around the world and our club is waiting for immediate correction. Zinedine Zidane, the world and European champion, and many other titles, embodies the values of sport and has proven this throughout his professional career as a player and as a coach."

And he added, "The statements of the president of the federation are not appropriate for a person who has such representation and are in themselves inappropriate, like those he also made about our leader, Karim Benzema."

Deschamps' contract expired after the World Cup in Qatar, where defending champions France lost to Argentina on penalties after a thrilling final on December 18.

After questions about the future, Deschamps signed on Saturday a new contract until the 2026 World Cup.

"I gave an interview to Radio Monte Carlo that I was not supposed to do because it was looking for controversy by putting Didier in the face of Zinedine Zidane, two giants in French football. I admit that I made inappropriate remarks that led to A misunderstanding. Zinedine Zidane knows the great respect I have for him, like all Frenchmen."

Mbappe, the 2018 World Cup champion in Russia and runner-up in the 2022 final, in which he scored a hat-trick, tweeted on his Twitter account on Sunday, "Zidane is France. We do not underestimate the respect for the legend in this way."

For her part, Sports Minister Amelie Odia-Castierra demanded an apology from Zidane and tweeted: "Remarks detached from reality again and this time with shameful disrespect, which hurts us all, for the legend of football and sport: the president of the first sports federation in France should not say that." Please apologize to Zidane, please."

Le Graet, 81, also responded tersely on Sunday to rumors of Zidane's interest in coaching Brazil. Where he wants, in a club, there are many in Europe, a big club, national team? I care about what concerns me."

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - The two detainees, Khalil Awawda and Sheikh Youssef Al-Baz , continue their open hunger strike to demand their release.

He hits Awadeh in refusal of his administrative detention, as the occupation refuses to this day to respond to his demand.

Awawdeh, 40, from the town of Ithna, Hebron district, entered his 155th day of strike, as he had been on strike for 111 days. his second.

The Captive Club confirmed in a statement that the prisoner Awadeh is facing death, in light of difficult health conditions that are exacerbating with the passage of time.

Meanwhile, Sheikh Youssef Al-Baz (64 years old) continues his hunger strike for the fifth day in a row to protest his continued detention. He is still in Soroka Hospital, due to the deterioration of his health a few days ago.

Sheikh Al-Baz had escalated his strike by abstaining from water.

It is noteworthy that the occupation and its intelligence kept him in detention, despite a previous court decision to release him, and he began a hunger strike.

It is noteworthy that Sheikh Al-Baz is from the territories occupied in 1948. He is married and the father of six children. He is the imam of the Lod Grand Mosque, and the occupation had arrested him on April 30.

Written by: Jawad Boulos

Five years ago, when the Special Investigation Units of the Israel Police began interrogating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and many of his relatives and close associates and those who worked with him and his entourage during the past years; Speculation abounded about his political fate and who would replace him.

As everyone knows, the investigations have led to more than one serious indictment against him, which the Israeli judiciary is still examining, and no one can predict its outcome today. All possibilities were and still are open.

Many have bet, according to the evidence revealed in the press, on the imminence of Benjamin Netanyahu's political end, or, at least, on the decline of his popularity among the citizens; However, Benjamin Netanyahu was not deterred, as was expected and natural for a prime minister facing a number of criminal charges to behave, nor did his popularity among citizens, at the popular and elite levels, decline. On the contrary, he faced his rivals with remarkable ferocity and, at the same time, enjoyed popularity that might lead him with his party to form the next Israeli government.

The Israeli scene in the past five years was not limited to how Netanyahu himself disdained the details of his case, but rather went beyond it when he used it in his war to undermine the foundations of the Israeli system of government, especially the judiciary in all its branches. So, with his infernal and populist methods, and with the help of his striking teams, he inflamed the atmosphere and pitted his supporters against the institutions of government and law, challenging their legitimacy and questioning their independence and integrity.

Netanyahu advanced the ranks of his camp in this war, and his policy, in all its stations, was the ferment that contributed to accelerating the completion of the process of right-wing fascist delinquency and bridging the gaps within the quarreling and discordant segments of Israeli Jewish society, and melting them together so that they rush together in the streets and squares of the country like a torrent of lava. scorching.
These developments have aroused the resentment of a number of legal figures among the Israeli elites. Some of them expressed, in addition to the discontent, fear about the form of governance and the fate of their state itself, while others dealt with the phenomenon of Benjamin Netanyahu as an anomalous and transient event, believing that state institutions are still able to punish and limit him. And saving the state's structures from "authoritarian corruption and rot" that have taken hold of most of its body parts.
All their bets will soon be off; The issue, as I said five years ago, is not confined to Netanyahu and his clique, nor to his political fate. Rather, it goes beyond all of that to what is more general and more dangerous, even if his name was marked, in the history papers, for this entire era.
Where does Netanyahu's high popularity come from?
Indeed, Netanyahu's party stands behind him as one man; This in itself is an expected harvest of what he planned in the last two decades, when he deliberately systematically excluded all the historical traditional leaders of the "Likud" party and brought in personalities obscure in "history and partisan lineage" and recruited in this way to teams of political "martyrs" who are ready to sacrifice the "victorious leader." With everything they have, and whatever he did or didn't do. If we review how these people acted and what they declared, we would verify that they are loyal soldiers in Netanyahu's army, and we would discover the depth of the differences between them and those who founded the Likud party and led it for a long time. Representative Miki Makhlouf Zohar, for example, did not hesitate to compare the investigations with his “redeemed leader” to the killing of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, or as he stated at the time: “I said clearly in the past that just as Yigal Amir wanted to bring down the government in an undemocratic way, This is how they do to Prime Minister Netanyahu through attempts to “distort and tarnish his reputation.” In Netanyahu’s case, “the media is Yigal Amir, and they are trying to shed the man’s blood by persecuting him, and this is what the people feel,” according to Zohar’s statement with the start of the investigations with Netanyahu.
This deputy was not alone in his impersonation of the spokesman for “the people,” like its leader, and his attack on “others.” Others also uttered dangerous inflammatory speeches, through which we can explore what Netanyahu relies on as a basis for his strength and confidence.
The people are the constant goal in his basic political discourse, and appeasing them is his highest task. This is how he taught his followers, and it suffices to pay attention to Representative Zohar’s response, and his clear and provocative assertion, when some of his colleagues in the Knesset demanded that he apologize for his previous statements, on the grounds that his positions are “clear and I will not apologize for my words, because I am not “naive” but rather that I reflect what the people feel. I represent a million voters who supported the Likud party and feel that some are trying to steal power from them in undemocratic ways."
They are obedient students who speak as their teacher and, like him, try to bypass and ignore state institutions; In the name of the "people" they defend their "democracy" and trample the real democracy with their slippers. In the name of the people they invent a "right" for themselves and in its name they anticipate the results and by its power they exonerate their leader.
It is the school of absolute loyalty to the strong leader, which adopts the rhetoric of "pure demagoguery"; Its students are the masters in striving to build a system at the head of which stands the "teacher", the powerful, omnipotent, omnipotent magician who is capable of everything, free from sins, and whose faults and mistakes are forgiven; For them, he is this "Netanyahu", the savior of the people and the protector of the future of the state from all its enemies, internally and externally.
It is a state that is born in the mind and bosom of the "person", then soon becomes larger and more dangerous than him, just as history has introduced us to its similarity; Netanyahu may be the most difficult problem today, but he may disappear or his role may end, by a judicial decision or otherwise. But the “situation” that he engineered and laid down its concepts remains, and it is our real problem. He has become an "idolized" leader among wide segments and segments of the people because he knew how to plant his concepts in their "pockets" and reach their hearts, and from there to control their fists.
In short, he is the "royal" leader who is able to win over the hearts of simple people like the minds of those with money and mighty equipment and equipment, and to speak in front of them and make them feel that they are "masters of the universe" and that with them they stand on "the nose of the world" and at the head of a state that does not compete with its power; Then he captivates them, with a body language and a unique rhetoric that a supposed prison cannot fail from, and will not stop its extension by the rods that he sees from paper.
His Israel / Israel, as he repeats on all occasions, is the mother of progress and excellence in all areas of life; She is the goddess of strength and the army that cannot be challenged by force, and she is the impenetrable fortress of the economy, which testifies to her position in the currency markets of nations. He is the leader who knows what he wants and how to get what he wants.
All Netanyahu's files pending before the Israeli judiciary will soon end, and we will know if there are still judges in Israel who dare to convict this "leader"; However, far from any conclusion reached by the court judges, I recommend that we not wait for the fate of Netanyahu the person and not rely on justice that did not do justice to the victims of Netanyahu and the leaders who preceded him, each of whom participated, according to his concepts, in paving the paths of oppression, repression and racism that brought us to the complete fascism of our days. Our tragedy, we, the Arab citizens, began far back in time, let's say with "Bangurionism" and before it, and worsened from era to era until it worsened in the era of "Netanyahuism". Our forefathers knew what it was like to stay in the homeland and how to suggest signs of struggle and steadfastness, when they understood that our cause was not confined to a person who stood at the head of the state, but rather it was “more than that in our blood.” Ben-Gurion was not the problem, but “Bangurism.” The issue was not Sharon, but “Sharonism.” Today, the solution will not be with or against Gantz, Lapid, or Netanyahu.

Gaza-Mohammed Hajjaj – The board of directors of Ittihad Khan Yunis Club, one of the clubs in Khan Yunis Governorate in southern Gaza, and the competitor in the Premier League Football League, revealed on Saturday evening its deals in the summer transfers, in preparation for the new season 2022/2023.

The "mills" hope that his new deals will be a strong addition to the team, with the aim of competing for titles in the next season. It is noteworthy that Ittihad Khan Younis finished last season in third place in the league championship with 38 points.

During the meeting, the Board of Directors confirmed its contract with Hatem Nassar, Hassan Marzouk, Omar Abu Obeida, Muhammad Tamraz, and Mahmoud Al-Habibi, in addition to renewing the contracts of Basil Abu Batnin, Mahmoud Sheikh Al-Eid, and Youssef Lulu.

He also signed with the young defender, "Hassan Abu Ratima", who is distinguished in more than one position in the back line, on the statements of the Khan Younis Club yesterday, to defend its colors next season, as part of his constant endeavor to compete for one of the two promotion cards to the Premier League. The defender was Abu Ratima, a few days ago, obtained a dismissal letter from Ittihad Deir Al-Balah club, after he presented two wonderful seasons with him in the second division, and his transfer to the services came in a free transfer deal for one season, and he will certainly be a strong and important addition to the back line.

It is worth noting that Ittihad Khan Yunis Club finished the last football season in third place in the Premier League, with 38 points.

On the other hand, the Premier League football clubs in the Gaza Strip issued a statement after the end of their meeting, which was held at the headquarters of Al-Shujaia Club east of Gaza City, in the presence of 9 clubs, namely: Al-Shujaia Union, Rafah Youth, Rafah Services, Khan Younis Union, Jabalia Youth, and Al-Sadaqa. , Beit Hanoun Union, Nuseirat Services, and Zawaida Youth, while the Khan Yunis Youth Clubs, Gaza Sports Club, and Gaza Crescent were absent.

The heads of the premium-class clubs stipulated, during their meeting, that they obtain the club dues accumulated for three years, and not stop the official support, grants and aid due to the clubs for the third year in a row.

On the other hand, Ittihad Khan Yunis Club finished the activities of the "Zahret al-Madaen Camp", which was implemented under the supervision of the Supreme Council for Youth and Sports, over a period of five days at the club's headquarters in the Sports City for a number of about 50 cubs of the club. The club is preparing this week to launch the Vanguard Camp 2022 ( Prisoners and Prisoners) under the auspices of the Supreme Council for Youth and Sports, with the participation of 70 cubs.

Jerusalem Hadith

The military siege on many areas in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, in a desperate attempt to deter citizens and harm the resistance fighters, who are responding to the violations and crimes of the occupation by several means, after enough is enough, and the Palestinian people have no choice but to confront the violations and crimes of the occupation forces herds of settlers.

The military siege imposed on the city of Nablus and its environs, coupled with the attacks of settlers and the occupation forces, especially on Hawara, near Nablus, cannot work, and it cannot make the citizens acquiesce or conform to the policies and goals of the occupation in undermining their cause and their inalienable national rights to return and self-determination. Fate and the establishment of an independent state with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital. On the contrary, such violations will intensify the conflict and confrontation between the Palestinian people and the occupation forces and herds of settlers who wreak havoc on the land with the support of the occupation government, the Minister of Defense and other occupying security agencies.

The lack of a political horizon as a result of the occupying state’s rejection of peace, its attempts to reduce the conflict instead of resolving it, and proposing economic solutions instead of political solutions, along with the practices and violations of its forces deployed along the West Bank and its breadth, including East Jerusalem, in addition to the attacks of herds of settlers that affected people, trees and stones, are behind What is happening in the West Bank in terms of resistance to the occupation, especially since the youth do not see any future for them under the occupation and its attempts to confirm this occupation, taking advantage of the international, local, Arab and Islamic conditions to implement its policies, which will, as in the past, be doomed to inevitable failure.

The simplest way to establish security and peace in the region is the end of the occupation and the recognition of our people's inalienable and inalienable national rights.

The first steps in this direction, which the occupation has no choice but to resort to sooner or later, is to lift the siege on cities, villages and camps, especially the city of Nablus and its environs, and to curb the herds of settlers and delinquency to peace based on the two-state solution according to the international vision, leading to ending the occupation. And his irreversible departure from the Palestinian land.

Without that, the situation will go from bad to worse, and the other side, the occupation, will also pay the price, not the Palestinian people alone.

Also, the state of hostility will increase, which complicates matters, and therefore the price that will be paid in terms of blood will be many times over for delinquency to peace.

Gaza
The Ministry of National Economy in the Gaza Strip said today, Wednesday, that the occupation's continued closure of the commercial crossings "Karm Abu Salem" and "Beit Hanoun" will cause heavy losses to the commercial and industrial sectors.

The Director General of Trade and Crossings, Rami Abu Al-Rish, confirmed in a press statement that the occupation practices a policy of extortion against the residents of the Gaza Strip and tightens its stranglehold and siege on them.

Abu Al-Rish explained that the continuation of the closure will disrupt the work of factories in the sector as a result of the non-entry of raw materials and will lead to a complete paralysis of the commercial movement.

Abu Al-Rish indicated that 80 percent of the population's consumption and commercial movement depends on the Kerem Abu Salem crossing, calling for the need to put pressure on the occupation to stop its practices and open the crossings urgently.

Paris - (AFP) - Colombia is in negotiations to buy 16 Rafale fighter jets from the French manufacturer Dassault, the presidency of the South American country announced Wednesday, as part of its efforts to replace its Israeli Kfir aircraft.

The presidency said in a statement that the South American country "pre-selected the offer of the French government to sell 16 Rafale aircraft," after reviewing the Swedish Gripen and the American F-16.

"There are no contracts signed, it is a preliminary negotiation" on an offer estimated at 15 billion pesos (about $3 million), she added.

The presidency stated that the Rafale aircraft represent "the best option for the country in terms of price, efficiency and operability."

Before assuming power in August, leftist President Gustavo Petro opposed the purchase of new fighter jets.

The presidency confirmed Wednesday that the planes would not be funded by a major tax reform.

The reform, approved by the Colombian Senate last month, seeks to raise taxes on the wealthy and the oil sector.

The presidency said that the cost of the planes would be paid "after five years, with the aim of not sacrificing social spending."

Istanbul (AFP) - Turkey on Thursday rejected accusations that its armed forces used chemical weapons against Kurdish militants in northern Iraq as "unfounded" and "baseless".

Media outlets close to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which Turkey classifies as terrorists, published video clips this week showing the Turkish army's use of chemical weapons against the armed group in northern Iraq.

The Turkish Ministry of Defense issued a statement saying that "allegations of the use of chemical weapons by the Turkish Armed Forces are baseless and completely unfounded." Accusing some of seeking to spread misleading information to cover up the achievements of the Turkish army.

Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin criticized the allegations, describing them as a "lie" and part of a "defamation campaign" targeting the army, police and intelligence agencies that are clamping down on Kurdish fighters.

"The chemical weapons lie is a failed attempt by those who seek to whitewash and beautify terrorism," Kalin wrote on Twitter.

The Turkish Public Prosecution office opened an investigation into the claim of Sepnem Koror Funangi, head of the Turkish Medical Association, that chemical weapons were used, and concluded that after checking the video clips.

"It is clear that a toxic chemical gas that directly affects the nervous system has been used," Fanangi claimed.

"Although its use is prohibited, we see that it is used in clashes," she noted.

According to Turkish media reports, Finangi is accused of "propaganda for a terrorist organization" and "insulting the Turkish nation and the Turkish state."

The International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, a nonpartisan federation of medical groups in more than 60 countries, sent a mission to northern Iraq in late September.

"Some indirect evidence of possible violations of the Chemical Weapons Convention was found," the association said in its report.

According to the report, "the materials found near an area abandoned by the Turkish army included containers for hydrochloric acid and bleach that can be used to produce chlorine, a conventional agent used in chemical weapons."

The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has been continuing its insurrection for Kurdish autonomy in southeastern Turkey since 1984.

The Turkish army launched successive operations against the armed group's rear bases in northern Iraq, and these operations constituted a constant factor of tension in Ankara's relationship with the Baghdad government.

(Xinhua) To avoid racist language and stigmatization, the World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday recommended renaming the monkeypox virus as "mbox".

The WHO said in a press release that both names -- monkeypox and Mumbox -- will be used in tandem for one year while the first name is phased out.

The change comes after a number of individuals and countries expressed concern in several meetings and asked the World Health Organization to suggest a way forward to change the name.

The transition period aims to ease experts' concerns about the confusion caused by the name change in the midst of a global outbreak. It also gives time to complete the process of updating the International Classification of Diseases and updating the publications of the World Health Organization.

Last July, the World Health Organization officially declared an outbreak of monkeypox in several countries outside the traditional endemic areas in Africa a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, the highest level of alert the WHO can issue.

According to the World Health Organization, as of Saturday, 110 member countries had reported 81,107 laboratory-confirmed cases and 1,526 probable cases, including 55 deaths.

RIYADH (Xinhua) - The Saudi Aviation Investigation Bureau announced today (Tuesday) that a light plane crashed in Riyadh and the death of its pilot.

The office stated that the accident occurred after the plane took off this morning from Al-Thumama Airport in Riyadh, with only the pilot on board, according to a tweet on the official account of the office on Twitter.

The office noted that a specialized team had been sent to conduct the investigation to uncover the circumstances and causes of the accident.

Translation by "Al-Quds" dot com - It was announced on Tuesday morning, the death of the child Walid Shehab (14 years), from the critical wounds he sustained last Friday, as a result of shooting by unknown persons towards a shop from which the child was leaving in the Jisr Al-Zarqa area. .

According to the Hebrew website Ynet, the child was carrying the "pizza" when he left the shop, and was hit by several bullets out of a total of dozens of bullets that targeted the shop.

BEIJING (AFP) - COVID-19 restrictions are being eased in a growing number of Chinese cities, including Beijing and Shanghai, with shops reopening and testing requirements lifted in many places, after a week of unprecedented protests.

In the capital, which has a population of 22 million, many shops have reopened over the past two days, and residents can use shared transportation again on Monday without having to present a negative PCR test result conducted within less than 48 hours.

The same measure was adopted in Shanghai, where the requirement for an entrance examination to some public places such as parks and tourist sites was lifted.

A strict lockdown was imposed in Shanghai, a major financial center with a population of 25 million, for more than two months in the spring when a cluster of Covid infections was recorded, in a measure that did not win popular support and had repercussions on the country's economy.

A week ago, this anger that had languished for months over the very strict “zero Covid” policy came out into the open with demonstrations in about a dozen Chinese cities of an unprecedented size since the pro-democracy rallies in Tiananmen Square in 1989.

This policy has been adopted for nearly three years and has radically changed the lives of citizens, with frequent closure decisions and large-scale PCR checks on an almost daily basis during 2022.

Soon, these demonstrations, in which students participated in particular, took on a political dimension if some called for the departure of Chinese President Xi Jinping.

In response to these protests, the authorities began easing restrictions, a decision welcomed by the World Health Organization.

The Chinese president personally acknowledged that the less lethal variant, Omicron, "opens the door to greater flexibility in restrictions," according to statements by the President of the Council of Europe, Charles Michel, who visited Beijing last week, and was reported by a European official.

Last month, China published a list of measures aimed at achieving "the best results" in its health policy and downplayed the importance of the socio-economic repercussions, but its implementation at the local level was uneven.

And while the Chinese economy is expected to record one of the worst growth in four decades this year, the exit from the “zero Covid” policy remains a sensitive matter.

"Finding a balance between measures to control COVID-19 and economic growth has returned to the central issue," said economist Wang Jie, who commented Monday on the poor results of the service business.

"The central government a short time ago set clear conditions on how to achieve better results (in health policy). However, whether or not local authorities implement these directives will be decisive," he added.

Near Shanghai, the city of Hangzhou announced it was ending mass diagnostic checks and keeping them only for people in contact with nursing homes, schools and nurseries.

In Urumqi, capital of the northwestern province of Xinjiang, where a deadly fire sparked nationwide protests after health restrictions were blamed for hampering rescue operations, supermarkets, hotels and restaurants as well as ski resorts reopened.

This city of four million people has suffered from one of the longest periods of closure in the country, imposed in some areas since the beginning of August.

In Wuhan, in the center of the country, where the first injuries were recorded in December 2019, and in Shandun Province, in the east, passengers are no longer required to present a negative ECR test result.

In Zhengzhou in the center of the country, the authorities also lifted this requirement in places and public transportation as well as residential buildings.

And while many examination booths have been removed in recent days, queues have formed, especially in Beijing and Shenzhen in the south of the country, because examinations are still necessary to enter many places.

"Students cannot enter the school without a negative examination, the result of which does not exceed 24 hours. Why did they close the examination booths without canceling the requirement to conduct examinations?"

The number of infections decreased on Monday, with 29,724 cases recorded, most of them asymptomatic, which is a small number compared to the total population of 1.4 billion.

Ramallah / translation by "Al-Quds" dot com - The young man, Qais Imad Shujaia, was killed on Friday evening, as a result of the occupation forces shooting at him near the "Beit El" settlement, north of Ramallah.

According to local sources, the young man, a resident of the village of Deir Jarir, east of Ramallah, is the brother of the prisoner, Bahaa Shejaia.

And the Israeli army announced, earlier this evening, that its forces had neutralized a Palestinian gunman who had carried out a shooting attack from near the Jalazoun refugee camp towards the "Beit El" settlement, north of Ramallah.

A picture published by Israeli military correspondents showed the young man being killed.

According to an Israeli military spokesman, a military force that was lurking in the place was able to open fire and neutralize the attacker, while another fled the scene and large forces are chasing him and sweeping the place.

He pointed out that the shooting towards the settlement led to the injury of a settler with minor injuries, and he was taken for treatment.

LOS ANGELES (Xinhua) -- More than 25,000 hospitalizations for influenza were reported in the United States in the week ending Dec. 3, according to data released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday.

And the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that the incidence of seasonal influenza remains high across the country.

At least 13 million cases, 120,000 hospitalizations and 7,300 deaths have been recorded from the flu this season in the United States, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Meanwhile, 7 flu-related deaths among children were reported this week, bringing the toll of flu-related deaths among children this season in the country to 21.

Geneva - (AFP) - The World Health Organization ( WHO) decided on Monday to maintain a state of maximum emergency regarding the Covid-19 epidemic, three years after declaring the disease a health emergency of global proportions.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus followed the recommendations of the Emergency Committee on COVID-19, a committee of experts that met Friday for the 14th time, according to a statement.

On January 30, 2020, the committee declared that Covid-19 constitutes a “public health emergency on an international scale,” while at that time, less than a hundred cases were recorded outside China, without any deaths.

Tedros had previously confirmed that the abolition of the maximum state of emergency was "premature".

He said Monday during a regular press conference in Geneva, "Although I do not want to pre-empt the opinion of the emergency committee, I remain very concerned about the situation in several countries and the increasing number of deaths."

"My message is clear: do not underestimate this virus, it has surprised us and will continue to surprise us and will continue to kill us, unless we do more to provide health facilities to those in need and to combat disinformation globally," he added.

The Director-General of the UN organization has the power to choose whether or not to follow the recommendation of the Emergency Committee.

The health emergency with a complex name failed to convince the authorities and the public of the seriousness of the situation in January 2020, which allowed the use of the term "pandemic" on March 11 by the head of the World Health Organization.

After three years, the Committee considers that “the COVID-19 pandemic may have reached a transitional phase” and the Director-General said he appreciates “the Committee's recommendations to move cautiously through this transitional phase and mitigate potential negative consequences.”

On Friday, the Director-General of the World Health Organization indicated, in his opening speech at the beginning of the meeting, that "since the beginning of December, the number of deaths recorded per week in the world has increased."

He added, "The lifting of restrictions in China also led to an increase in the number of deaths in the world's most populous country" during the week from January 16 to January 22, explaining that among the nearly 40,000 deaths due to Covid reported by the World Health Organization, "were recorded More than half of them are in China.

The epidemic has killed 170,000 people in the past two months.

Tedros lamented that there were only a small number of people who had received the vaccine correctly and that the surveillance and genetic sequencing that allowed tracking the evolution and transmission of the virus had declined sharply.

The virus caused the death of 6,804,491 people and infected more than 752 million people as of January 27, according to the organization, but the UN agency and experts consider that the numbers are actually much higher.

Jerusalem - (Xinhua) - The Israeli Ministry of Defense announced today, Thursday, the start of building a 4.6-kilometer-long wall in the Israeli towns bordering the Gaza Strip to protect against counterfire.

The Israeli Ministry of Defense said in a statement: "It has started working on the security corridor project in the Gaza Strip, with the aim of concealing the intersections to allow the movement of residents in times of emergency without fear of counter-fire from the Strip."

The statement added: "The project is to build a huge wall with a length of 4.6 kilometers in the Israeli towns bordering the Gaza Strip."

The Israeli towns bordering the Gaza Strip are usually exposed to rocket fire from Palestinian militants, especially in times of security tensions, which forces the townspeople to stay in shelters and not move outside their homes.

Tokyo, (AFP) - A drunken Japanese policeman who fell asleep on duty has lost investigation documents containing the personal information of more than 400 people, including a suspected crime suspect, police and local media reported.

A police official told AFP on Monday that the 49-year-old policeman lost the bag containing the documents in the western Hyogo region between 11 p.m. Friday and 5 a.m. Saturday.

He pointed out that the documents include names and addresses, without giving further details.

Prominent Japanese media, quoting police officials, reported that the policeman went out to drink alcohol with his colleagues, then fell asleep while returning home with the bag in his possession.

When he woke up, he found himself near a train station and could not find the bag, according to media reports.

This is not the first time that similar incidents have occurred in Japan.

In June, Amagasaki city authorities reported that a contractor lost a bag containing a USB memory stick containing personal data for the area's 460,000 residents after he went out for a drink and fell asleep on the road on his way home.

The bag was found the day after the news broke.

N'Djamena (AFP) - About "thirty" people, including "about ten" security personnel, were killed Thursday during clashes in N'Djamena between the police and demonstrators against the extension of the political transition in Chad , according to the government spokesman.

"A banned demonstration turned into a rebellion. About thirty people were killed, including about ten members of the security forces, and a large number of wounded. The demonstrators attacked public buildings, the headquarters of the governorate, the headquarters of the Prime Minister's party and the headquarters of the head of the National Assembly," Aziz Muhammad Salih told AFP.

France, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, condemned the violence. The ministry said in a statement that "violence occurred this morning in Chad, especially with the use of lethal weapons against demonstrators, which France condemns," stressing at the same time that Paris "plays no role in these events."

Meanwhile, the Chadian Red Cross Society announced that it had deployed "dozens of teams" to tense areas of the capital. "We are providing first aid and transporting dozens of wounded people by car to hospitals," its head, Al-Khala Ahmed Al-Senussi, told AFP.

These clashes are taking place after the transitional period has been extended for two years, after it was scheduled to end on Thursday, October 20th.

However, at the end of September, Mohamed Idriss Deby Itno remained in his position as head of state until the organization of free and democratic elections, which are supposed to be held at the end of the second transitional period in which Deby will be able to run.

Idriss Deby Itno's stay in power came at the end of the comprehensive and sovereign national dialogue (DNIS), which was boycotted by a large part of the opposition, completing the targeting of the political and armed opposition and embarrassing the international community that had supported Deby 18 months ago.

The army announced him as a transitional president on April 20, 2021, at the head of a transitional military council that includes 15 generals, on the same day as the announcement of the death of his father, Idriss Deby Itno, who was killed on the front after ruling Chad for nearly thirty years.

Clouds of black smoke and tear gas shots were seen in the capital on Thursday morning, while barricades were set up in several parts of the city and tires were burned on main roads, according to AFP journalists in N'Djamena.

The demonstration was banned on Wednesday by the authorities.

Abbas Muhammad, 35, said, "I went out to demonstrate to denounce this facade dialogue that perpetuates the regime and to demand a change of power. In 31 years, we have not witnessed any positive change in our country."

In the center of the capital, Mohamed Mbodo told AFP, while staring at his phone to follow events in the south of the city, "we were told that there was a demonstration in the city and I came like my other colleagues to stay in front of my shop to avoid looting."

In the sixth district, the stronghold of the opposition and home to Prime Minister Saleh Kabzano, the streets were deserted. An AFP journalist also indicated that tires, tree trunks and piles of bricks were scattered in the streets, while schools and universities were closed.

The demonstrators targeted the headquarters of the National Union for Development and Renewal, to which Kabzabo belongs, which was "partially burned," the party's vice-president, Celestin Tubona, told AFP.

Kabzabo had joined the government appointed by the military council led by Mohamed Idriss Deby Itno, after he was a historical opponent of his father, who ruled the country with an iron fist for 30 years.

"They are shooting at us. They are killing our people," said Soxieh insisting, one of the most prominent dissidents.

Soldiers of the only general who refused to respect his word, and today is the end of the 18 months, thus he intends to install his dynasty by killing people,” after he had called on people to demonstrate peacefully.

Written by: Dr. Ahmed Youssef

After Algeria’s announcement of Palestinian reunification, my conviction increased more than ever before that the scene of governance and politics needs the emergence of new faces other than those that created the national tragedy and catastrophe fifteen years ago, and became part of the Palestinian scene in the crisis and the failures to reach a solution that restores balance and stability to the Palestinian situation. It has lost its compass and lost its ship in a deep sea of accusations and contradictions, with it - unfortunately - our social fabric has been torn apart and our most trustworthy bond has crumbled, and our sails and political arms are no longer in this dispute and fragmentation with the force capable of bringing together and facing the challenge.
The "Algeria Declaration" may have given us a glimmer of hope to open a new page, which is to hold legislative and presidential elections a year from now, a period in which if we put our internal house in order, then we can expand in the spaces of hope, and say that the pessimism of the prevailing mind today among the intelligentsia, It can be balanced by the optimism of the will of the Palestinian street.
For my part, I advise my brothers in the Hamas movement that there is an opportunity for a new political outlook, by announcing a political party whose program carries a vision that reflects the state of maturity that the movement has reached after dealing with its regional environment, and the activities that take place behind the scenes with the international community. Accordingly; I suggest to my brothers in the leadership of Hamas not to waste the opportunity for elections and to run for them with patriotic figures (technocrats) who are faithful to the constants, whose positions are not tainted by non-national contexts, and who are capable of making a breakthrough at the regional and international levels.
I wish Hamas to preserve its jihadist history, its resistance action, its missionary approach and its school of genuine educational advocacy work, and to dismount to those whom it trusts among the knights of this country to carry the secretariat of political work, manage the negotiating process with the occupation and the international community, and invest what it possesses of pressure and mobilization cards to support These knights.
Perhaps here I will repeat what I previously raised in the context of advice, which is that the process of managing the future requires great acumen and wisdom, and it also requires deep thinking about the options and alternatives offered, taking into account the consequences of each of them in the context of scenarios whose prospects we can anticipate, and based on That is why plans are drawn up, and aspirations are drawn in light of the possibilities and the data of the existing circumstances, as politics is a reflection of the balance of power, which seems today to be in the interest of the Islamists and Hamas in particular.
Yes; We have already talked more than 15 years ago about the importance of establishing a political party that represents the movement and expresses its policies, especially after Hamas entered the arena of political action, and became established in the scene of governance and politics. All movement and organization exempt from the consequences of political action, as the presence of a political wing protects the movement from prosecution and accusation, and the targeting parties remain limited and do not affect everyone.
What we demanded more than a decade and a half ago still exists, although its feasibility at the beginning of the governance project was more effective and important, and its chances of entering the world of competition with others and establishing a national partnership with them are easier, and it is not fraught with the dangers that it may face today, especially After the statements that implicated Arab and Islamic parties by accusing Hamas of extremism and terrorism!!
A political party that bears the orientations of the Hamas movement in general will give the movement wide spaces for movement and maneuver. It will also avoid the movement draining all its energies, and will protect some of its arms from prosecution and accusation. regional and international.
The new political paper launched by the movement in 2017 may include much of what can be adopted in the political party's program, which will pave the way for the possibility of moving within the framework of any political settlements to preserve the ceiling of Palestinian demands in the context of the historical constants, for which generations fought during all the years of conflict. with the usurper occupier.
What is being orchestrated for the region in terms of deception, deception, and attrition under the so-called war on terror, in which reference was made to Hamas by former US President Donald Trump, in a way that reflects the extent of Western bias towards Israel, which gives dangerous indications of the nature of the next stage, and the size of the conspiracy that will be exposed. He owns the movement and its institutions in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
The choice of the political party may not be widely accepted by the leadership of the movement, although many of the movement's elites and thinkers have approval for the idea, and this is what makes it difficult to expect a natural birth for the party at present, but the factor of time and the pressures of reality will impose its birth, and this is the challenge that the movement will face. In the near future, with many other challenges awaiting her.

Written by: Rashid Hassan

Did the lions of the Nablus den defeat the Zionist occupation in the last battle in which their heroic leader, Wadih al-Houh, was martyred??.. and what is the secret of the intended media blackout? And the convergence of some people's skepticism with the Zionist fabrications and allegations..??

We are certain that the lions won.. based on a number of facts, incidents and evidence, the most prominent of which are:

First: The enemy failed to destroy the lions' den...and failed to strike the huge popular base of this den. As evidenced by the huge demonstrations that took place the next day in support of the resistance of the lions, and rallying around the resistance of our people as the only way to get out of the state of indignity and humiliation imposed by the brutal occupation.

Second: The failure of the Zionist enemy to capture any of the lions alive, injured or martyred.. This indicates the cohesion of the resistance, its strength and readiness. And the cowardice of the enemy, which was surprised by the lions' readiness, their audacity, and their insistence on resisting, no matter what the price. Five moons were martyred.

Third: The enemy failed to reach the hospital where the wounded and the leader of the lions «Al-Houh» were being treated. After cordoning off the hospital and preventing the enemy soldiers from reaching it, and kidnapping the injured, especially the commander, Al-Houh, as the enemy had planned.

These facts confirm the victory of the lions, and the enemy's failure miserably.. Evidence that he was unable to capture any of these resistance fighters, or to reach their homes and photograph them.. or to reach the wounded. It is true that he assassinated five moonshiners..among them a barber and his assistant. They discovered the undercover forces.. They also managed the heroic leader “Al-Houh” by means of the drones, and seriously wounded him.. after they fired missiles at the house through the windows.. and they did not dare to storm his house.

The black guerrillas...challenged the enemy to publish the videos in his possession about the battle...and the fate of the undercover forces that lost many of their members, after the blacks discovered their infiltration, and after they got off the cars carrying them..!

On the other hand. The Israeli orientalist "Mikhail Felstein" asserted in an article he published on the website of Channel 12 of the Israeli TV, "that Israel is living in a strategic dilemma"... the area where the "lion's den" is located. It is a region with a long history of rebellion.. It had previously revolted during the Ottoman era.. Through the rebellion during the British Mandate era.. Then during the Israeli rule...

He added that Al-Aswad is not affiliated with any official or institutional entity, and they are not in agreement with the Palestinian Authority, which they see as implementing Israeli instructions.

Although the den does not include large numbers, it enjoys a wide echo in the Palestinian regime, due to its deep presence on the Internet, by publishing video clips representing lions’ attacks on Israeli soldiers and settlers.. Felstein concludes his hadith by emphasizing that the continued activity of lions represents three threats to Israel, namely:

The first: It includes continuous attacks on the army and settlers.
The second: the joining of large numbers of Palestinian youth to this model that arouses their admiration.
And the third: the possibility of organizations sponsoring and financing these groups.

In short... Israel is in a serious dilemma... after its failure to eradicate the phenomenon of lions... which has spread throughout the Palestinian geography, like wildfire... and may contribute - as observers expected - to the failure of the ruling coalition in the upcoming elections..
And every incident has a hadeeth. About the "Jordanian Constitution"

London - (AFP) - Thanks to a complex structure, US computer giant Microsoft Group avoids paying taxes on billions of dollars in countries where it has concluded lucrative public contracts, such as Britain, Australia and New Zealand, according to a study published Thursday.

"In many cases, Microsoft has not paid any tax in recent years by shifting profits to companies based in Bermuda and other tax havens," the Australian-based Accountancy and Research Center on International Corporate Taxation said in a statement.

Jason Ward, an analyst at the Institute of Studies, expressed his surprise because "Microsoft boasts that it offers profit margins in excess of thirty percent to its shareholders, even though it talks about imports that do not exceed 3 or 4 percent in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand," as the statement quoted.

He added, "It does not seem reasonable that the performance of these booming markets is so weak," considering that "a huge indicator of tax avoidance."

This, he added, "deprives the public sector of much-needed income," despite "billions in profits as a source of supply for the governments" of these countries.

The study said that Microsoft Global Finance, an Irish subsidiary with tax resident status in Bermuda, has invested more than $100 billion. Despite the investment earnings of $2.4 billion, he paid no taxes in 2020.

The other example mentioned in the study is Microsoft Singapore Holdings, the branch in Singapore, which announced profits of $ 22.4 billion in 2020, and only paid $ 15 in tax.

Microsoft has concluded public contracts worth at least $3.3 billion in the last five years in the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia or Canada, according to the data in the study.

The center indicated that Microsoft is subject to investigations by the tax departments in the United States and other countries, especially in Australia, explaining that "more than eighty percent of its total income in foreign exchange passes through Puerto Rico and Ireland."

Microsoft wrote in its annual report in 2021 that "in fiscal years 2021 and 2020, foreign regional operating centers in Ireland and Puerto Rico, which are subject to tax rates lower than the US average, generated 82 percent and 86 percent of our foreign income before tax."

In contact with the report's authors, Microsoft said it respects "all local laws and regulations" in the countries in which it operates.