Fort Lauderdale (AFP) - A US jury on Thursday rejected the death penalty for Nicholas Cruz, the shooter who killed 17 people at his former high school in Florida, opting instead for life in prison without the possibility of parole.

The jury deliberated all day Wednesday and briefly Thursday before deciding to sentence Cruz, 24, to life in prison for the February 2018 shooting and death of 14 students and three staff members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

The death penalty should be recommended unanimously by the panel, in which case at least one or more members of the 12-member panel considered that the penalty was not justified because of mitigating circumstances.

As the verdict was read, Cruz stared blankly at the defense table, while many of the victims' relatives who attended the hearing shook their heads in disbelief.

Cruz had pleaded guilty to the crime he carried out on Valentine's Day last year, and prosecutors said during the three-month sentencing hearings that the appropriate punishment is the death penalty.

Cruz's lawyer, Melissa McNeil, had called on the jury to show clemency to a young man, whom she described as "mentally ill, psychologically ill and a broken person."

Governorates - "Jerusalem" dot com - A group of settlers attacked, on Tuesday evening, under the protection of the Israeli occupation forces, citizens' vehicles in separate areas of the West Bank .

Local sources reported that settlers threw stones at citizens' vehicles at the northern entrance to Al-Bireh, which damaged a number of them. The occupation forces and settlers closed the military checkpoint, preventing citizens from crossing it in both directions.

In the same context, a young man was wounded by a stone in the head when settlers attacked his vehicle near Al-Laban Al-Sharqiya village, south of Nablus.

According to local sources, dozens of settlers attacked citizens' vehicles on the Nablus-Ramallah road, causing great damage to a number of vehicles.

In addition, a young man was wounded in the head when settlers attacked his vehicle near the town of Hawara, south of Nablus, in addition to their attack on the house of Bilal Yusef Dmaidi in the town, which damaged the windows of the house.

In the northern Jordan Valley, a group of settlers smashed citizens' vehicles with stones and closed the street at the Al-Maleh junction.

In the context, a group of settlers threw stones at citizens' vehicles at the Ein Ayoub roundabout, northwest of Ramallah, which damaged a number of them.

In Tulkarm, settlers closed the eastern and western entrances to the village of Shufa, and prevented vehicles and citizens from passing, at a time when settler gangs gathered in the area.

In addition, a large force of the occupation army closed the entrance to the town of Beit Lid, east of Tulkarm, and prevented the passage of vehicles.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - The National Electronic Payment Company "Jawwal Pay" and the Bank of Jordan signed a cooperation agreement to provide electronic payment services to the bank, according to which citizens will be able to pay government fees through electronic payment methods with ease and speed. . ‏

The agreement was signed by the CEO of “Jawwal Pay” Ibrahim Khammash, and Acting Regional Director of Bank of Jordan in Palestine Raed Al-Masri, in the presence of the company’s strategic accounts manager Abdul Razzaq Al-Shalabi, commercial director Jamal Al-Khalili, compliance manager Fadi Obaid, and a number of managers. Bank regional management

Khammash pointed out that cooperation between the various economic sectors would raise the level of services provided to the Palestinian citizen, stressing that this agreement is a prelude to greater cooperation between the Bank of Jordan and the National Electronic Payment Company in the near future.

Khammash said that in the next stage, electronic payment services will be provided to Bank of Jordan customers to enable them to benefit from digital financial services quickly and easily, as part of its digital approach to facilitate financial services to citizens, and in line with the global development in this sector, expressing his pride. With the efforts made by Bank of Jordan to serve its customers with a new system that keeps pace with the global technological development

In turn, Al-Masri stressed that the signing of this important agreement comes within the strategic directions of Bank of Jordan in the field of digital transformation, by providing a set of distinguished electronic services to its customers, with the aim of completing their banking transactions easily, quickly and safely without the need to reach the bank's branches, praising the partnership with the company. The National Electronic Payment "Jawwal Pay", which constitutes a qualitative addition to enhancing the services provided by the bank and providing an opportunity for the bank's customers to pay their obligations electronically, thus saving them effort and time.

He pointed out that the bank owns a group of electronic channels that provide customers with various banking services without the need to visit bank branches, including: ATMs, credit cards, internet banking, Bank of Jordan application, and other innovative and distinctive services and solutions.

It is worth noting that the national electronic payment company "Jawwal Pay" provides a group of digital financial services that meet the aspirations of the new trend towards digitization and suit the growing requirements of society.

It is also mentioned that Bank of Jordan is one of the first banks to be present in the Palestinian market, and it provides its services to all categories of individual, corporate and institutional customers, through its branches and offices spread in Ramallah, Hebron, Jenin, Nablus, Gaza, Ram, Al-Eizariya, Tulkarem, and Bethlehem. Jerusalem, and through its various electronic channels around the clock

TUNIS - (Xinhua) - Units of the Tunisian Naval Guard today (Monday) recovered 8 bodies off the coast of the southeastern city of Zarzis, believed to be those of illegal immigrants whose boat sank at sea while trying to sneak into the Italian coast.

The official Tunisian News Agency said that a number of Tunisian fishermen found these bodies during the search for 18 missing persons who had sailed in an illegal immigration operation from the coasts of the city of Zarzis towards the Italian coasts during the night between 21 and 22 last September.

The agency quoted the head of the Al-Bahar Development Association, Shams El-Din Bourassin, as saying that the bodies that were found, "the features of their owners could not be identified because of their erosion."

The search operations began on September 25, with the participation of army and guard units, after the families of those missing announced that they had lost contact with them, according to the agency.

Over the past few months, illegal immigration operations have escalated from the Tunisian coast , which extends over 1,300 kilometers, towards the Italian coast, with the participation of Tunisians and other African nationalities.

Hardly a day passes without the Tunisian authorities announcing the thwarting of such attempts and saving many dreamers of emigration from death by drowning at sea while trying to reach the Italian island of Lampedusa.

The island of Lampedusa, which dreamers of immigration usually choose as the first stop on their cruise, is the closest point to the Tunisian shores, only about 80 kilometers away.

Barcelona - (AFP) - "RainAir" canceled about 10 flights to and from Spain on Monday, and 111 other flights were delayed on the first day of a new strike for air crews in the country, which is scheduled to continue until January 2023.

Eight low-cost Irish flights were canceled as of 13:00 (1100 GMT) due to take off or land at Barcelona airport, according to the trade union union, which organized the strike in cooperation with the independent union of aircrews.

"Unfortunately, there is a (compulsory) minimum service of 80% imposed by the Ministry of Transport," said Pau Ibarzabal, a spokesman for the Confederation of Trade Unions, considering that this measure is "unclassified" and "weakens the employees' right to strike."

The Irish airline, which operates more than 650 flights with Spain, believes that this outage has "had a very limited impact", according to a statement published Monday.

Ryanair employees in Spain started the strike on June 24 and then extended it until July 28 to demand better working conditions and the signing of a collective agreement.

After the unions considered that the dispute had reached a dead end, they organized wider strikes that start on Monday and continue until January 7, 2023, at a rate of four days a week (from Monday to Thursday).
Ryanair, the only global airline that does not have a collective agreement in Spain according to the unions, recently reached an agreement with the CCOO (workers' committees) union, which is a minority within the cabin crew.
But the agreement was rejected by the Confederation of Trade Unions and the Independent Aircrews' Union, which deemed it insufficient and demanded, in addition, that 11 strikers who were laid off last month be rehired.

Gaza - Ahmed Al-Masharawi - Khadamat Al-Bureij Club is close to winning the championship of the Gaza Strip Basketball League for the Premier League, for the season 2022-2023, sponsored by Jawwal, by defeating its traditional rival, Khadamat Al-Maghazi, with a score of 85-61, at the hall of the late behind the wheel in Khadamat Al-Bureij Club. In the presence of a large crowd that did not stop cheering throughout the match. The two big clubs will meet next Monday evening, August 15th, in the return match against Abu Youssef Al-Najjar.

The match was strong and exciting, and the two teams were keen to win in the first leg, relying on the rapid offensive rebound, closing the defensive area and following the three-pointers from outside the area. Rahal, and Al-Maghazi scored 9 points through Musa Abu Ghazal 7 points, and a brace for Ryan Rayan, to end with Al-Bureij leading 25-9.

In the second quarter, Al-Bureij maintained its lead, and Abu Rahal scored 5 points, including a hat-trick, and 4 points by Muhammad Mahdi, Rami Al-Jammal and Eid Al-Shaer, and two points by Ahmed Mahdi, and Al-Maghazi Musa Abu Ghazal scored 6 points, including a hat-trick, and 5 points by Khalil Mahdi, and two points by Muhammad Abu Ghazal. And Musa Musa, to end the tower 16-19.

Al-Bureij succeeded in settling the third quarter through three throws, scoring 6 shots by Thaer Issa and Ramy Al-Jamal, and a throw for Ibrahim Abu Rahal and Taha Jabr. Al-Maghazi, through Ryan Rayan, reduced 13 points by penetrating the Al-Bureij basket and shooting well from inside the area, and 6 points through Muhammad Abu. Ghazal scored 4 points, and a point through Musa Abu Ghazal and Musa Musa, to end with the score 26-19.

In the last quarter, Al-Maghazi returned to the atmosphere of the match, and Rayan scored 11 points, 4 points for Musa, and 2 points for Musa Abu Ghazal, and from Al-Bureij Thaer 7 points, including a hat-trick, a double for Eid Al-Shaer, and a double for Abu Rahal, to advance 17-15, but Al-Bureij wins with the total score 85-61.

It is noteworthy that the next match in which Al-Bureij needs to repeat its victory and crown the title, or Al-Maghazi postpones the decision for a third decisive match.

Referee: Dooley Basil Kron, Dooley Saeed Diazadeh, Tamer Qeshta, Jad Agha Recorder, Mohamed Al-Aloul Mikati, Mohamed Skaik Mikati 24 seconds.

Written by: Hani Al-Masry

There is no dispute that Benjamin Netanyahu's sixth government, which he has begun to form, will be the worst government in the history of Israel, and it will be a government that seeks to escalate aggression in all its forms against the Palestinians and in the region. It also aims at annexation, Judaization, displacement, expansion of settler colonialism, and prejudice to the status of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and it targets Palestinians in their various places of residence. The disagreement between analysts and experts is not over this assessment, but to what extent will it be extremist? Will the Palestinians, the Arabs and the world, and the United States in particular, allow it to implement its programme? Not for the blackening of the eyes of the Palestinians, but rather for fear of the consequences of this extremism on security, stability and peace in the region and the world. Israeli fascist extremism will call for a Palestinian, Arab and international response.

It is good news that the Republican candidates, especially supporters of Donald Trump, did not succeed in achieving their goal of a “red wave” and obtaining a majority in the House of Representatives and the Senate. As the Democratic Party retained the majority in the Senate, while the Republicans advanced in the House of Representatives by 8 seats so far; This will leave Biden's hand somewhat free, and he will tie the hands of the Kahanist Israeli government, whose hands will be free in the event that the Republican Party wins, and the extent of extremism that the Netanyahu government will implement will be affected by the response or objection of the US administration.

The question is: To what extent will Netanyahu let his foolish fascist ministers loose, or tighten their reins by stripping basic powers from the ministries they will receive, and will Bezalel Smotrich be the Minister of War and Itamar Ben Gvir the Minister of Internal Security? In this case, it will adopt policies and implement the maximum exceptional measures in its extremism. In any case, many of them will be members of the cabinet. Political and religious extremism is not limited to the religious Zionist party, but rather affects most of the members and ministers of the coalition that will rule.


Fascist policies affect all Palestinians

These policies and procedures are not limited to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and not only against Palestinian "terrorist" resistance fighters, but will affect all Palestinians, including those who have obtained Israeli citizenship. As it is planned to deport many of them with the rest of their brothers voluntarily before they are forcibly deported when a suitable opportunity becomes available for that, and those who remain must be slaves and loyal to the Jewish state, including the authority that the new government will not be concerned with its support and survival to the same extent as the current government that weakened it while speaking Rather, it will continue to weaken it, and there are ministers in it who will demand the dissolution of the civil administration affiliated with the Ministry of War in order to facilitate the annexation of the West Bank to Israel. Therefore, they prefer the collapse of the authority and the appointment of representative offices of the occupation representing local authorities separate from each other in Hebron, Nablus, Ramallah... etc.; Because the existence of one authority embodies one national identity, and this keeps the issue of establishing a Palestinian state in mind, and makes it possible to bring it up again, and they want to bury it once and for all.

The collapse of power and chaos... a possible scenario

Based on the foregoing, the scenario of chaos and the collapse of power became more likely after the fascists became ministers, and it does not provide a guaranteed opportunity for the escalation of comprehensive resistance against the occupation. Rather, turning a dangerous challenge into an opportunity depends first on the Palestinians’ response to providing the requirements of steadfastness and resistance, and the continuation and strengthening of the popular presence. The Palestinian on the land of Palestine, and to desist from inaction, surrender, extremism, and adventurism, and this will not succeed unless the reality of the drawn Israeli plans is realized, whose title is to move faster in liquidating the Palestinian issue from its various dimensions, and that it cannot be defeated if the Palestinian situation remains as it is, and it can Defeat it if there is awareness, plan and the necessary will.

We do not exaggerate when we say that among the most important reasons for the rise of the extreme political and religious right in Israel are the following:

First: The Palestinian situation is in a state of weakness, division and disorientation. As the Palestinian issue and how to deal with it is no longer a major issue on the agenda of the Israelis. What encouraged the extremists to continue their extremism, and gave credibility to their approach that relies on force and imposing facts on the ground, and rejects settlement with the Palestinians, even if it was among the Israeli “no’s” that were the subject of an Israeli consensus in the past, and it was replaced by a new consensus that only groups and individuals do not deviate from. in Central Stream in Israel.

Second: There is a wave of official Arab normalization with Israel that has reached the point of allying with it. What achieved Netanyahu's statement about the priority of peace with the Arabs without resolving the Palestinian issue first, or within what was stated in the Arab peace initiative that proposes a complete withdrawal in return for full normalization; Where he used normalization as a card of pressure on the Palestinians to force them to accept the "Israeli peace" that would be implemented without negotiations, by continuing and intensifying the creation of the occupation and racist realities that make the Israeli solution the only proposed and feasible solution.

It is not possible to confront these existential dangers and drop the scheme of annexation and liquidation of the issue by continuing with the same policies adopted before the formation of the Israeli government, as what works before it will not work after it, even though the approved official Palestinian policies did not preserve even the bad status quo, nor did they prevent the continuous deterioration, It did not prevent the progress of realizing the Israeli plan aimed at establishing "Greater Israel".



Full membership is not a substitute

The demand for full membership of the State of Palestine in the United Nations, and the political and legal prosecution of Israel in the United Nations and its agencies and institutions, including the International Court of Justice and the Criminal Court, cannot be considered the Palestinian alternative.

Despite the importance of these tools, they are just branches and tools of the required strategy, as they do not have the possibility of implementation, and they cannot bypass the American veto that stands in the way of international recognition of the Palestinian state, and they are not and should not be the core of the Palestinian strategy, which must be based on the starting point that fascist extremism The Israeli provides an opportunity to re-consider the inclusive Palestinian national project, which unites the land, the cause, and the land, and proceeds from the historical narrative, and takes into account the circumstances and characteristics that characterize the different groups of people.

The national project has been lost in the corridors of illusions about the possibility of reaching a settlement through negotiations, concessions and proof of merit, the unilateral military resistance strategy that does not have a tangible program, and the misconception that the Palestinian political system can be effective in providing security, peace and stability in the region, and will be rewarded with a state for This role, rather, this strategy not only failed to reach an agreement that includes the embodiment of independence and a sovereign state over the West Bank and Gaza Strip, or even parts of them, but rather it was unable to maintain the very bad situation and prevent it from deteriorating and becoming constantly worse, after Finishing off the so-called "two-state solution", progress is being made on the path of negating any framework for the Palestinian identity, albeit through an autonomous authority that is completely dependent on Israeli sovereignty. This was the program of the so-called Israeli "center" and "left", which has largely collapsed, and even a section of the secular right. As for the religious and nationalist extremist right, the winner and the candidate to increase its influence, it does not want any expression of any Palestinian identity, but rather wants a greater implementation of the basic Zionist movement’s maxim of establishing “Greater Israel” and “a people without a land for a land without a people” and the slogan “the largest area of land and the least number Of the population".

Internationalization is not the basis of the Palestinian strategy, but rather a part of it

The international strategy, which is the strategy of the official leadership, and which was used as a tactic to pressure a return to negotiations to achieve the so-called "two-state solution" does not lead to the achievement of Palestinian goals, including ending the occupation and embodying the state, and the evidence, as the Palestinian president said more than once, is that More than 900 resolutions issued by the General Assembly, the Security Council and the Human Rights Council, including the advisory opinion issued by the High Court of Justice regarding the apartheid wall, have not been implemented, and not one of them has been implemented. They are important political, legal and moral achievements, in addition to the important resolution that was issued recently. Regarding obtaining a new advisory opinion regarding the occupation.

That is, the international strategy is not the basis of the Palestinian strategy, but rather a branch that can serve it, which in essence aims to mobilize the entire people in a unified, representative national framework, and to use all forms of resistance and struggle in all its forms, to change the facts on the ground; In order to change the balance of power, in order to allow the imposition of the realization of Palestinian rights, within the equation of achieving the maximum possible at every stage, on the path to achieving the full goals, by relying primarily on the Palestinians first, the Arabs second, and the free people in the whole world third, and benefiting from the ongoing transformations that Israel is moving towards It worries and intimidates large circles around the world, including large Jewish circles inside and outside Israel. The fascists want to overturn even Jewish democracy, secularism and liberalism, and establish a religious state whose reference is Jewish law, as they see it, just like ISIS and worse. Therefore, one of the goals of the new Israeli government is to eliminate the Israeli Supreme Court of Justice, by restricting it and making it subject to the laws approved by the Knesset, whose majority is from the right and the extremists.

Palestinian unity is the gateway

In order for the plans of the new government to be thwarted and the balance of power to change, division must be ended and unity restored by activating and developing the Algerian initiative, filling its shortcomings, and linking it to the Egyptian initiative, and with Arab cover. To reach a sustainable solution based on the principle of a comprehensive package, and its pillars are implemented in parallel and simultaneously; Where the political program is agreed upon first, and a government of national unity is formed, which prepares for presidential and legislative elections and is committed to Palestinian national rights, and is armed with international law and United Nations resolutions that respond to Palestinian rights, and at the same time a transitional leadership framework is formed that leads the PLO for a maximum period of one year, and is Its primary task is to form a new national council in accordance with the organization's statute, through elections whenever possible, and through consensus and appointment within objective and national criteria whenever elections are not possible.

We must, from the outset, bear in mind that the fascist government will not accept free and fair Palestinian elections, respect their results, and strengthen and unite the Palestinians, unless it finds itself forced, and this makes the issue of holding elections a tool of the struggle against the occupation, and not the fruit of an agreement with the occupation, as happened. previously; The function of the first elections in 1996 was to grant popular legitimacy to the Oslo Accords and the authority that emanated from it, while the function of the elections in 2005 and 2006 was to include factions opposing the Oslo Accords and resistance to the occupation, and to renew the legitimacy of the post-Yasser Arafat authority.

At that time, the field’s calculations did not fit the calculations of Al-Baydar, with the success of the Change and Reform bloc affiliated with Hamas by the majority, and this matter will not be allowed to repeat unless the Palestinians accept the crumbs offered to them, or a new Palestinian situation arises capable of imposing holding elections, and this needs accumulated struggle It absorbs the lessons of previous struggles, and leads to a massive Palestinian popular revival that does not happen with the push of a button and quickly, but rather requires a comprehensive vision, new strategies, a unified leadership, and a will ready for confrontation and paying the price.



Fascist government is a danger that can be turned into an opportunity

The formation of a fascist government in Israel is an imminent and existential danger, and it should not be exaggerated or minimized, but it can be turned into an opportunity if the Palestinians first demand the isolation and boycott of the new government, seek to include the “religious Zionism” party on the list of terrorism, and stop the obligations arising from the Oslo Accords. and what they must do. This is on the table and provides the official leadership, and President Mahmoud Abbas in particular, with an opportunity that may be, or is most likely, the last, as there is not enough life left that allows for new opportunities to end his life with a great national achievement, which is restoring unity, by making all necessary efforts and paying the price for ending the division, just as In his speech at the festival commemorating the assassination of leader Yasser Arafat, he said about new steps, and after meeting Azzam Al-Ahmad and Musa Abu Marzouk in Beirut the day before yesterday, will he do it? Will this time be a serious attempt to end the division, and not like the previous ones?

For this to happen, it needs cooperation from Hamas based on its willingness to give up its unilateral control over the Gaza Strip, in return for its full partnership in the authority that must be changed to meet Palestinian needs, and in the organization whose institutions must be rebuilt to include the various colors of the political and social spectrum.

Answer: No, if we take the political practice so far, the president and the interest groups of division here and there have become prisoners of what his hands and hands have made, but he may do it, and in all cases political and popular pressure is required in order for unity to be achieved before it is too late, and God knows best.

BEIJING -- (Xinhua) -- The space fuel cell payload aboard the Tianzhou-5 cargo spacecraft has completed in-orbit tests, the first time China has conducted such tests, according to the China Academy of Space Technology.

Wan Zheng'an, chief designer of Beijing Spacecraft Manufacturing Co., Ltd., the developer of the system under the China Academy of Space Technology, said that the tests have initially verified the integrity of the system's properties under conditions such as vacuum, low temperature and microgravity, providing important data. And theoretical support for the development and important research technology of space fuel cell power system.

Wan said the tests aim to provide support for the application of space fuel cell power systems in the country's future major projects, including manned lunar exploration and deep space exploration.

Tianzhou-5 was launched on November 12 from the Wenchang spacecraft launch site in south China's Hainan Island Province.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - US President Joe Biden called, on Tuesday evening, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid , congratulating him on reaching an agreement on the demarcation of the maritime borders with Lebanon, which will guarantee the security of "Israel on the northern borders, and strengthen the Israeli and Lebanese economies."

Biden said to Lapid - as mentioned by the latter's office - "I made history," stressing his commitment to the security of "Israel" and regional stability.

Lapid thanked Biden for his leadership and for the American mediation in the negotiations with Lebanon, expressing his special appreciation to the American mediator, Amos Hochstein, for his tireless and effective work. According to a statement by Lapid's office in Arabic.

Washington, (AFP) - The US Congressional Police announced that they had arrested 17 parliamentarians, including the rising leftist representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, on Tuesday in front of the Capitol building, because of their refusal to obey her orders during their participation in a demonstration in defense of the right to abortion.

"We have arrested 35 people in total," the Capitol Police said in a tweet, including "17 members of Congress."

She explained that she had ordered the demonstrators to clear the street between the Capitol building and the Supreme Court, but some of them refused to comply with her orders, and after she issued three warnings to them, she arrested them.

For her part, Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar said in a tweet on Twitter that the Capitol Police stopped her during her participation in "civil disobedience."

Omar, who, along with Ocasio-Cortez, is considered a symbol of the left wing of the Democratic Party, added, "I will do everything in my power to sound the alarm about the assault on our reproductive rights."

A video clip posted by Ocasio-Cortez on her Twitter account showed a policeman escorting her out of the road separating the Congress and Supreme Court buildings.

According to the Axios news website, the 17 parliamentarians who were arrested are all Democratic representatives, and most of them are women.

At the end of June, the Supreme Court overturned the historic ruling it issued in 1973, in which it considered that women's right to abortion is enshrined in the United States Constitution, in a decision that returned the United States to the situation that was in force before 1973 when every state was free to allow abortion or to ban it.

In 1973, at the end of its consideration of the Roe v. Wade case, the Supreme Court issued a ruling that set a judicial precedent, as it guaranteed the right of a woman to voluntarily terminate her pregnancy as long as her fetus is unable to survive outside her womb, that is, until about 22 weeks from the start of pregnancy. .

However, the highest judicial body in the United States overturned this decision, and therefore the right to abortion is no longer enshrined in the federal constitution, but rather varies from state to state.

The balance of power within the Supreme Court changed radically during the reign of former President Donald Trump, who appointed three of its nine judges, and chose all of them from conservatives, so that the majority of two-thirds became conservatives (six to three).

(AFP) - The upcoming confrontation between Udinese and its guest Atalanta ended in favor of Napoli, with a 2-2 draw in a meeting during which the guests advanced with two clean goals, Sunday, in the ninth stage of the Italian Football League , which allowed the southern team to take the lead by defeating its host Cremonese 4. -1.

Atalanta seemed on its way to its sixth victory in the last seven stages and the seventh this season without any defeat, after advancing with two clean goals, which would have allowed it to temporarily lead by three points from Naples.

But Udinese, who played the match on the back of five consecutive victories, came back from afar and saved a point to avoid a second defeat for the season, after it received an opening 2-4 against Milan, the defending champion, on August 13.

Atalanta finished the first half ahead with a goal from the Nigerian-English Ademola Lookman after a pass from Colombian Luis Muriel (36), before the latter added the second goal from a penalty kick that he snatched himself from Destiny Odoji (56).

Spaniard Gerard Deulofeu narrowed the difference to the landowner in the 67th minute with a free kick, then Argentine Nehuen Perez succeeded in snatching a tie with a header after a corner kick (78), giving his team its twentieth point in third place, on goal difference against Milan, the defending champion, while Atalanta temporarily topped before To give it up after Napoli's away win over Cremonese.

"It's a very important point for us," Peres told the "Dazon" broadcasting network. "It is very important to collect points at home. The match became different after we were two goals behind, but we played well."

Atalanta will face very intense tests from now until the league stops due to the Qatar World Cup, which starts on the 20th of next month, as it faces Lazio (stage 11), Napoli (stage 13) and Inter (the last 15th stage before the league stopped on November 13). .

Atalanta coach Jean-Piero Gasperini, who was celebrating his 300th match with La Dia, said that his team should be "happy with this result, even though it was achieved at a time when the match was in our hands by advancing with two deserved goals."

He continued, "The free kick scored by Deulofeu was a big boost for Udinese, and we were unable to maintain our level despite the changes we made."

In Cremona, Napoli continued its wonderful season by achieving, for the first time in its history, eight consecutive victories in all competitions, including three in the Champions League, and the last of which was in the middle of the week away from home, with a sweeping result over Dutch Ajax 6-1, by defeating the injured Cremonese 4-1.

The result does not reflect the course of the match, as coach Luciano Spalletti's team waited the last quarter of an hour to advance and stoppage time to finally decide the result.

The southern team started the match well, after taking the lead in the 26th minute from a penalty kick executed by Matteo Politano, which was grabbed by the brilliant Georgian newcomer, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia.

The result remained the same until the end of the first half, but Cremonese started the second by equalizing through the Nigerian-Belgian Cyril Desire (47), then withstood his guest until the 76th minute before bowing in front of the header of Argentine substitute Giovanni Simeone, who received the ball from Portuguese Mario Roy.

Diego Simeone's son, Spanish coach Atletico Madrid, raised his score to four goals in nine matches he played with the southern team since he came to him this summer from Verona, including only one as a starter.

Simeone touched on his life in Naples to the "Dazon" network, saying, "I feel a bit like one of them. I'm a bit Argentinian and a bit Italian," adding, "What matters in football is the quality you present at the time you play. There are a lot of times when I didn't play." A lot of minutes and I did well, times I played a lot of minutes without doing anything."

And when the match was taking its last breath, Naples finally won with a third goal for the other Mexican substitute, Hirving Losano, after another pass from Kfaratskhelia (3 + 90), before the other Uruguayan substitute, Matias Oliveira, added the fourth with a header after a corner kick (5 + 90).

Argentine Paulo Dybala continued his brilliance with his new team, Roma, by scoring his fifth goal in the Capital Club shirt, contributing to compensating for his fall Thursday at home in the “Europa League” against Spanish Real Betis 1-2 by defeating 2-1, but the joy was not complete because he left. injured.
And after opening the scoring early through Englishman Chris Smalling (6), Roma found himself at the same distance from his guest after Brazilian Gabriel Streveza equalized (39), despite the numerical shortage in his team as a result of the expulsion of Dane Morten Helmand (23).
But Dybala returned the team of Portuguese coach Jose Mourinho to the front at the beginning of the second half (48) before he was injured after executing the penalty kick.
With his sixth victory, Roma raised its tally to 19 points, temporarily in fifth place, at the expense of its neighbor Lazio, who will visit Fiorentina on Monday.

Tehran - (AFP) - The Iranian judiciary confirmed on Tuesday that the opposition director, Jaafar Panahi, who was arrested last week, must serve a six-year prison sentence that was imposed on him more than a decade ago.

"Panahi was sentenced in 2010 to six years in prison (...) and accordingly he was admitted to the detention center (prison) in Evin (Tehran) to serve this sentence," Judicial Authority spokesman Masoud Staishi said in a press conference.

On July 11, Iranian media reported Panahi's arrest, making him the third director to announce his detention within days, after Muhammad Rasoulaf and Mustafa Al-Ahmad.

The "Mehr" agency stated at the time that Panahi was arrested "while he was attending the Public Prosecution office in Tehran to follow up on the file of another director, Muhammad Rasoul Af."

Panahi, 62, is considered one of the most prominent names in contemporary Iranian cinema, and he won international awards, the most important of which was the Golden Bear Award for Best Film at the Berlin Film Festival in 2015 for “Tehran Taxi” and the best screenplay at the Cannes Festival 2018 for “Three Faces”.

The arrest of Panahi, who had previously been sentenced to prison and officially banned from preparing cinematic works in his country, came after the disclosure on Friday of the arrest of directors Muhammad Rasoul Af and Mustafa Al-Ahmad on charges of “disrupting public order” in Iran.

Panahi was known for his opposition to the authorities in his country. He was arrested in 2010 and later convicted of “propaganda against the political system” of the Islamic Republic. He was sentenced to six years in prison and banned from directing or writing films for many years, or from traveling and speaking to the media, following his support for the protest movements that followed the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadi. Ahmadinejad in 2009.

The official media revealed the arrest of Rasoul Af and Al Ahmad on charges of "disrupting public order" after they supported protest movements in Iranian regions against the background of the collapse of a building in the southwest of the country in May, in an accident that killed 43 people.

The collapse of the "Metropole" building, which was under construction in Abadan, Khuzestan Province, caused a disaster that is considered one of the worst in the Islamic Republic during the past years, followed by movements in several cities in solidarity with the families of the victims, protesting against corruption and incompetence, and demanding accountability for those responsible for the accident.

A group of Iranian filmmakers led by Rasoul Af published an open letter in late May calling on the security forces to "lay down their arms" in the face of anger at "corruption, theft, incompetence and oppression".

Likewise, Rasoul Af and Panahi were among the signatories in the same month of an open book criticizing the arrest of a number of their colleagues by the Iranian authorities at that time.

The administrations of international film festivals, such as Venice, Berlin and Cannes, called for the release of Panahi and his colleagues, while France expressed "concern" about the arrest of a number of directors in the Islamic Republic.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs revealed, on Wednesday evening, through the visit of its lawyer, Karim Ajwa, details of the health status of three injured prisoners and detainees who are in "Hadassah Hospital" to receive treatment, after the occupation forces fired live bullets at them. the moment of their arrest.

Among these cases is the case of detainee Qusai Farah (21 years old) from Jericho Governorate, where he is in the surgery department and his health condition is stable, but he still needs health care, noting that he was shot by the Israeli army in the left side of the flank.

And about the case of the prisoner Hassan Awadat (20 years) from Aqabat Jabr camp in Jericho, who is in the intensive care unit, and who was shot in his shoulders and feet. During which he put platinum, according to the captive.

It is worth mentioning that tomorrow a detention extension session will be held for detainee Awadat at the "Ofer Military Court" without his presence due to his health condition.

As for the case of prisoner Alaa Awadat, he is in Hadassah Hospital - Ein Karem, in the intensive care unit, under anesthesia and breathing machines.

It should be noted that a hearing to extend his detention will be held tomorrow at the military court in Ofer, where the session will be held without his presence due to his health condition.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - Minister of National Economy Khaled Al-Osaily said today, Tuesday, that work is underway to complete a new law to encourage investment, an e-commerce law , a strategy for small and medium enterprises, and new programs to integrate home-based entrepreneurs into the economy.

This came during his participation in the dialogue between the public and private sectors on facilitating the access of small and medium enterprises to financing, which is organized in the context of the European Union and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development program on investment “The Palestinian Investment Platform” and the working group concerned with financing small and medium enterprises, in cooperation with Ministry of National Economy and the Palestinian Monetary Authority.

During the dialogue sessions, the meeting discussed policy options to improve the enabling environment for small and medium-sized companies to access financing in Palestine, and to identify a set of priority policy measures through dialogue between the public and private sectors.

Al-Osaily pointed out the tendency to study making some amendments to the law of the registry of security rights in movable funds, with the aim of providing and increasing opportunities for small, medium and micro companies to obtain the financing necessary for their growth.

He considered that financial inclusion is a fundamental pillar towards achieving comprehensive and sustainable growth, especially since expanding the financing base and empowering all segments of society would improve living conditions, reduce poverty, and make them less vulnerable to financial shocks.

Osaily reviewed the Ministry's efforts to create a legislative framework and provide a business environment that stimulates creativity and innovation, and is supportive of small, medium and micro enterprises, including the adoption of a unified definition of small, medium and micro enterprises, and the approval of the first Palestinian corporate law.

He stressed the endeavors to shift towards a green and digital economy in line with global developments and developments, the implementation of many programs and initiatives aimed at integrating home-based entrepreneurs into the formal economy, and allocating more encouraging programs and projects to integrate women into the economic process.

He stressed the real dialogue and partnership between the public and private sectors and the joint efforts that are being made to develop and improve the national economy, pointing to the efforts exerted to complete the tender for the construction of wheat silos in Palestine.

Minister Al-Osaily noted the importance of finding alternative solutions for financial inclusion for small, medium and micro enterprises, within the framework of digital transformation and diversification of financial services and products to achieve more financial inclusion, provide consumers with broader choices and address customer needs through technology-based innovation.

Jerusalem - "Al Quds" dot com - Two women were injured and a citizen and his son were arrested this evening, Saturday, after the Israeli occupation forces stormed the African Community neighborhood in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem.

According to press sources, the occupation forces stormed the African Community neighborhood near Bab al-Majlis in the Old City, and fired stun grenades at the citizens and their homes, wounding two women with shrapnel, one in the shoulder and the other in the thigh.

It added that the occupation forces arrested Ahmed al-Qadi and his son Muhammad, after they raided their house in the neighborhood.

Source: Wafa, the official news agency.

Written by: Ibrahim Abrash

The term (the unity of the squares) was sometimes referred to when talking about (the axis of resistance), and what is meant by it is the interaction and coordination between the squares that are hostile to Israel and declare armed resistance against it, which are the resistance factions in Gaza, Hezbollah, Iran and Syria, then the Secretary General of the Islamic Jihad Movement, Ismail al-Nakhala, launched the term The unity of the arenas on the battle that the Jihad movement waged against Israel last August.

The unity of the squares is synonymous and opposite to saying that there is a strategy to resist the occupation, whether it is on the Arab, Islamic or Palestinian level. Unfortunately, this strategy (the unity of the squares) did not exist in the history of the conflict with the Zionist enemy in its three levels, as Israel, supported by Washington, succeeded in fragmenting the squares of boycott, opposition and resistance through The fragmentation and fragmentation of the Arab and Islamic nations and the sowing of differences and conflicts between their countries and within each country, the latest of which is what happened during the chaos of the so-called (Arab Spring), even partial coordination and reaching a unified strategy between Egypt and Syria during the October 1973 war did not last long, which led to a partial victory In this war, it was possible to achieve a greater victory if coordination and Arab support for the two states continued.

With regard to the unity of the squares within the scope of the axis of resistance, the unity was at the level of slogans and modest forms of support and coordination. In reality, Israel succeeded in being unique in each square separately. Sometimes it is the Gaza square while the other squares are silent, and once it is isolated by Hezbollah 2006 and the other squares are silent, and so on.

The Zionist enemy, supported by Washington, not only succeeded in distracting and weakening the Arab position in support of the Palestinians, but also dragged some of them into normalization and military cooperation with it. And the interests of one of the parties to the axis of resistance, and as a Palestinian, the enemy succeeded in creating division, separating Gaza from the West Bank, and creating preoccupations and problems for each party, but the enemy did not succeed in shaking the people’s faith in their national cause or striking the unity of the people, and this is what we are seeing these days through the escalation of confrontations between our people in the West Bank and the army Occupation and herds of settlers.

The launch of the Islamic Jihad movement under the name Unity of the Squares on the last battle with the Zionist enemy was a cry of pain and hope at the same time that all fronts against the enemy would ignite instead of leaving the jihad alone in the arena. Gaza factions, especially Hamas.

We will not expand here on talking about the unity of the arenas in the Arab world or at the level of the axis of resistance, and we will not even go back to talking about the Palestinian geographical, ideological and political division as the greatest threat to the unity of the resistance, national unity and the unity of the arenas. What we want to talk about and warn against is the enemy’s efforts to fragment the arenas in the West Bank through Besieging the fighters and excluding each city and camp.

What happened in the Jenin camp requires evoking the saying of the unity of the Palestinian arenas. It is not permissible for us to leave the enemy alone in the Jenin camp, so that the war appears as if it is between the Jenin camp and Israel, or between Nablus and Israel, as happened previously in the wars on Gaza, which showed the matter as a war between Gaza and Israel only, and then It turned into a war between Islamic Jihad and Israel.

With our full appreciation and respect for the fighters and everyone who stands up to the occupation army in the Jenin camp or other arenas, and with all the positive actions of the resistance, even if it is individual, and with our realization that the resistance is like a rolling snowball that is gradually growing, and for the snowball to roll in the right direction, it needs a national strategy to confront The occupation is a strategy with multiple tracks of action, politically, culturally, economically, and popular resistance, and in coordination between all arenas, not only between the camps, cities, and villages of the West Bank and Jerusalem, but also between the West Bank, Gaza, 48, and the diaspora.

If the enemy succeeds in fragmenting the resistance arenas in the West Bank, then it will have dominance over every single arena, and it must not be swayed by the patriotic emotions and feelings. He left them alone in the confrontation, and we have seen what happened in Jerusalem.

We have to recall that the beginning of the contemporary Palestinian revolution in the mid-sixties was in the arena abroad, and had it not been for the support of the people inside and outside the homeland and the national unity that was embodied in the PLO, this revolution would not have succeeded in mobilizing patriotism and the Palestinian identity and imposing the issue on the world as a cause of national liberation, as we must remind With the uprising of our people inside the Green Line on Earth Day in March 1976, when the people in all their places of residence interacted with this uprising and still celebrate its memory to this day, and the uprising of our people in the Negev, and for us in the first two uprisings 1987 and the second 2000 lessons, where national unity or the unity of the squares was manifested in particular At the beginning of the two uprisings, before the arenas were divided as a result of political conflicts and external interference, and the most important contemporary embodiment of the unity of the arenas was the Palestinians in the (Battle of Saif al-Quds) in May 2021, where the masses of our people rose up at home and in Gaza, the West Bank and the diaspora in support of our people in Jerusalem, and the occupation leaders admitted that what It posed a real existential threat to Israel, and unfortunately this uprising was aborted and circumvented by the force of Arab and international interventions and the power of Zionist oppression, in addition to a The division prevented it from continuing and exploiting it, as was the case with the two previous uprisings.

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TUNIS - (Xinhua) - The African Development Bank granted Tunisia new financing of $80 million to strengthen the emergency support project for food security and support the country's cereal system's resilience against external variables and climate fluctuations.

The official Tunisian News Agency said on Thursday evening that the agreement for this new financing was signed by the Minister of Economy and Planning, Samir Said, and the Director of the North African Regional Office of the African Development Bank in Tunisia, Mohamed El Azizi, in the presence of the Tunisian Minister of Agriculture, Water Resources and Fishing, Mahmoud Elias Hamza.

She explained that the emergency support for food security project "aims to improve food sufficiency and security by securing the supply of soft wheat, barley and fertilizers, supporting the resilience of the grain system against external shocks and climatic fluctuations, improving the production rate of these materials and basic fodder in milk production, as well as developing grain system, and support the institutional capacities of this sector.

It quoted the Tunisian Minister of Economy as saying on the sidelines of the signing of this agreement, "This funding falls within the framework of the Tunisian government's work to secure the supply of grains and seeds as well as the necessary fertilizers in light of the current global crisis, and within the framework of keenness to support national capabilities to improve the profitability of the large agricultural sector and develop good governance." related institutions.

For his part, the Tunisian Minister of Agriculture considered that this funding "will help ensure the regular supply of soft wheat and barley, in addition to supporting about 100,000 small farmers to prepare for the next agricultural season by providing the necessary fertilizers and increasing the cultivated areas in order to increase production."

Ankara - (AFP) - On Thursday evening, with the general elections scheduled for June 2023 approaching, the Turkish Parliament approved a law to combat disinformation, which imposes, in particular, on those who publish "false or misleading information", a penalty of up to three years in prison.

In addition to visual, audio and written media, the law targets social networks and websites that will be obligated, according to its provisions, to report their users who publish misleading or false news and provide the authorities with their personal data.

The law, which was approved on Thursday evening under the name "The Press Law," includes forty articles, and Parliament began debating it in early October.

Since the beginning of the discussion of this law proposal, the opposition has tried to introduce several amendments to its provisions, but its attempts failed.
The opposition denounced the new legislation, considering it a "censorship law".

Article 29 of this law stipulates, in particular, the imposition of a prison sentence of between one and three years on anyone who commits the crime of “publishing false or misleading information that contradicts the internal or external security of the country, or that is likely to harm public health, or disturb pacifying public order, or spreading fear or panic among people.”

The new sharia is the fruit of a law proposal put forward in May by deputies of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), led by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who will seek a new term in the June 2023 elections.

Dozens of Turkish journalists staged a sit-in in front of the parliament in Ankara in early October, rejecting the "censorship law" and emphasizing that "a free press is a condition for democracy."

With the presidential and legislative elections scheduled for June 2023 approaching, observers believe that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is trying to exercise more control over the press and social media.

Non-governmental organizations continue to denounce the decline in press freedom in Turkey, which ranks 149th out of 180 countries in the 2022 press freedom ranking issued by Reporters Without Borders.

Washington (AFP) - The unemployment rate rose slightly in the United States in October, while job creation maintained high levels, and these signs do not reflect the effects of the US Federal Reserve's monetary policy to counter inflation.

And data issued Friday by the US Department of Labor confirmed that the unemployment rate rose by 0.2 percent in one month in October, to reach 3.7 percent, but it remained within the rates recorded since March.

On the other hand, job creation maintained a high pace despite its decline compared to September, as 261,000 jobs were created last month, compared to 315,000 in September, in the sectors of health, technical services and industry in particular.

In a statement, US President Joe Biden praised the job opportunities that have been created, indicating that "the recovery in employment remains strong," while unemployment remains at a "historically low" level.

"Inflation remains the main economic challenge for us," Biden added, stressing his "knowledge that American families are feeling the pressure."

The results exceeded analysts' expectations, as they expected the unemployment rate to reach 3.6 percent, with only 220,000 jobs created, according to Breving.com.

Rubella Farooqi, chief economist at AFI, said that the labor market “does not yet show any real sign of adjusting to the rapid monetary policy tightening led by the Federal Reserve,” but there are indications that the labor market in the United States is heading towards contraction as “ Activity rate and average hourly earnings are down.”

The employment situation is being monitored as it is expected to be affected by the fight against inflation. Paradoxically, a relative deterioration of the labor market is both desirable and expected.

The labor market has been experiencing tension for more than a year due to a shortage of workers. Employers struggle to hire and raise wages to attract job seekers and retain their employees, which contributes to higher prices.

On Wednesday, the US Federal Reserve (the central bank) raised interest rates to their highest level in 15 years, and indicated that it would continue in this direction in an effort to curb significant inflation facing the country's economy, in a task complicated by the risk of recession.

As expected, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 0.75 percentage points, to within a range of 3.75 to 4 percent.

Investors view the low unemployment rate as a sign of a strong economy, giving the Fed more room to act.

WASHINGTON -- (Xinhua) -- The US Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised interest rates for the fourth time in a row by 3 quarters amid the worst inflation in 4 decades.

The Fed raised its short-term borrowing rate by 0.75 percentage points, to its highest level since January 2008.

A statement said that the Fed "will take into account the cumulative tightening of monetary policy, and the delays with which monetary policy affects economic activity, inflation, and economic and financial development."

The higher rate is expected to hit consumers' wallets, making it more expensive for Americans to pay off debt or obtain mortgages.

Meanwhile, the widely watched consumer price index showed that in September, inflation eased slightly to 8.2 percent year on year, while it rose 0.4 percent month on month.

On the other hand, lawmakers are increasingly calling for the central bank to stop increasing its rate, as critics worry that this will spark a recession.

However, the Fed did not provide any indication that this would change direction. The central bank's goal is to bring inflation down to a set rate of 2 percent, even if these efforts trigger a recession.

At the same time, the labor market remains strong, with plenty of job opportunities and low unemployment.

However , economists expect the possibility of a recession next year, especially if the central bank continues to raise interest rates at such a strong pace.

تبدأ اليوم في عاصمة بلد المليون شهيد والتي أجبرت الاحتلال الفرنسي على الرحيل، اجتماعات الفصائل الفلسطينية من أجل إنهاء الانقسام المدمر واستعادة الوحدة الوطنية الفلسطينية التي من خلالها وفي إطار منظمة التحرير الفلسطينية الممثل الشرعي والوحيد لشعبنا في كافة أماكن تواجده في الداخل والشتات، تحقيق إنجازات كبيرة على طريق تحقيق أهداف شعبنا في العودة وتقرير المصير وإقامة الدولة المستقلة وعاصمتها القدس الشريف.

غير ان هذه المنجزات التي جاءت من خلال التضحيات الجسام التي قدمها ويقدمها شعبنا، مهددة في هذه المرحلة بسبب الانقسام المخزي والذي تستغله دولة الاحتلال للنيل من هذه المنجزات وتصفية قضية شعبنا، خاصة في ضوء الاوضاع الدولية الراهنة التي يبدو أنها تعمل لصالح مخططات الاحتلال في محاولاته مواصلة وتجذير احتلاله وضم المزيد من الاراضي وإقامة المزيد من المستوطنات وزيادة عدد قطعان المستوطنين الذي عاثوا ويعيثون فساداً في الارض الفلسطينية.

ونظراً لهذه الظروف والاوضاع جاءت مبادرة بلد المليون شهيد بقيادة رئيسها عبدالمجيد تبون، من أجل إعادة الاعتبار للقضية الفلسطينية، خاصة وان هذا البلد المناضل سيستضيف القمة العربية الشهر المقبل ووجد أنه من المهم إعادة الاعتبار للقضية الفلسطينية، خاصة في ضوء تطبيع بعض الدول العربية مع دولة الاحتلال رغم أنها تواصل احتلالها وتسفك الدماء الفلسطينية أمام مرأى ومسمع العالم أجمع والذي لا يحرك ساكناً ويكتفي في بعض الاحيان بإصدار بيانات الشجب والاستنكار بطريقة خجولة دون اتخاذ أية خطوات عملية لردع قوات الاحتلال وقطعان المستوطنين.

ورغم ان جميع المحاولات السابقة على الصعيدين الفلسطيني والعربي وحتى العالمي ممثلة بدولة مصر الشقيقة وقطر وتركيا وحتى روسيا، الى جانب أطراف فلسطينية، لانهاء هذا الانقسام السياسي والجغرافي، إلا ان الفشل كان حصيلة هذه الجهود بسبب اشتراطات طرفي الانقسام كل طرف على الآخر، إلا ان هذه المرة والتي جاءت من قبل بلد المليون شهيد، والذي هو مع فلسطين قلباً وقالباً، ربما تنجح جهوده في إتمام المصالحة الوطنية الفلسطينية.

واذا ما احترمت الاطراف الفلسطينية تاريخ هذا البلد ونضالاته وتحقيق انتصاره على الاستعمار الاستيطاني الفرنسي ووقوفه المبدأي الثابت لجانب شعبنا وقضيته، وإصراره على ضرورة استعادة الجانب الفلسطيني لوحدته الوطنية التي هي الطريق نحو تحقيق الانتصارات، فإن النجاح سيكون حليف المبادرة الجزائرية الى جانب أمور أخرى ومن أبرزها تغليب طرفي الانقسام للمصلحة الوطنية العليا على المصالح الحزبية والشخصية.
ان الوحدة الوطنية الفلسطينية باتت ضرورية في هذه المرحلة التي تتكالب فيها الهجمات التصفوية على قضية شعبنا، فهل يستجيب الجانب الفلسطيني لنداءات الوطن والمواطن الذي يدفع الثمن يومياً بسبب جرائم الاحتلال التي لا يردعها سوى الوحدة الوطنية؟!.

Jerusalem - Pal Sport Agency / The Palestinian Cellular Communications Company "Jawwal" hosted at its headquarters in Al-Bireh, the Palestinian Handball Federation to hold the draw ceremony for handball clubs for the 2022 season, which will be held under the auspices of Jawwal.

The meeting was attended by Grace Shami, representative of Jawwal Company, lawyer Marihan Omran, chairwoman of the Disciplinary and Arbitration Committee in the Palestinian Handball Federation, members of the Palestinian Handball Federation, Assistant Secretary-General Muhammad Ziadeh, technical director and development of the federation, Dr. Iyad Abdullah, head of the competitions committee Omar Hanoun, and members of the Palestinian Volleyball Federation. Represented by the president of the federation, Hamza Radhi, the media spokesperson for the federation, Muhammad al-Rantisi and Marouf Shatara, and representatives of the Palestinian clubs: Burj al-Luqluq Club and Azzun Club.

The Secretary-General of the Federation, Muhammad Ziyadah, welcomed the attendees, and thanked the sponsoring company, Jawwal, the pioneer in its permanent and continuous support for the sports process in Palestine. Then Dr. Iyad Abdullah explained the instructions and the system of the league, so that he said that the league for this period will be in the semi-periodic system and asked the clubs to adhere to the approved uniform. He said that the period is short at this stage, so that the league must start quickly during the next week after the end of the cup final match next Friday.

The head of the Disciplinary and Appeal Committee, Lawyer Marihan Omran, gave a full explanation that the basis for violations of sports behavior during matches, whether players, administrators or the public, depends on the availability of the necessary reports from the match observer, the referees’ report and official evidence, video clips, and accordingly decisions are issued after their studies with the Disciplinary Committee And arbitration, and that the aim of this is not specific penalties, but is to control and follow up the sports process to be the true destination of the Palestinian sport.

Then the draw was held for the participating clubs, namely: Asira Al-Shamaliya Club, Artah Club, Salfit Club, Izna Youth Club, Burj Al-Luqluq Association Club, Yasid Club, and Azzun Club.

The matches will extend for a period of seven weeks in order to end the league on the specified date before the end of the current year, and it was agreed to set three days for the matches, which are Friday, Saturday and Tuesday of each week.

Jiuquan (Xinhua) -- China sent a new Earth observation satellite into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Monday.

The Gaofen-12 03 satellite was launched by a Long March-4C carrier rocket at 11:46 p.m. (Beijing time) and successfully entered the planned orbit.

It will be used in a variety of fields, including land surveying, urban planning, road network design, crop yield estimation and disaster relief.

This is the 425th flight of the Long March series carrier rocket.

RIYADH, (AFP) - A Saudi appeals court has sentenced a Saudi woman to 45 years in prison for "disrupting public order" over social media posts, weeks after another activist was sentenced to 34 years in prison over tweets, the rights group said. A human rights activist examined the case papers on Tuesday.

The Criminal Court of Appeal in Riyadh, which specializes in terrorism crimes, sentenced Noura bint Saeed Al-Qahtani, 45, to prison on charges of “seeking to destabilize the social fabric and national cohesion and disturb the cohesion of society and its public order … through the Internet,” according to what the Democracy Now Foundation for the Arab World (Dawn) reported. ) and is based in Washington.

The foundation said that the verdict against Al-Qahtani was issued "probably during the last week."

Al-Qahtani, about whom not much is known yet, was tried under the Anti-Terrorism and Financing Crimes Law after her arrest in July 2021.

Part of the case papers was seen by AFP, but they could not be independently verified.

It was not immediately possible to obtain comment from the Saudi authorities.

Al-Qahtani has the right to appeal the ruling before the Supreme Court within 30 days of receiving the court's decision, according to the Saudi legal system.

The new ruling comes a few weeks after the prison sentence of doctoral student Salma Al-Shehab, 34, for her conviction on appeal on charges of “providing aid” to opponents seeking to “destabilize the state” due to tweets and retweets on Twitter.

Al-Shehab also has the right to overturn the ruling, according to the case documents, which were seen by AFP at the time.
Saudi Arabia intensified its campaign against activists, weeks after US President Joe Biden met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

The move represented a setback for Biden, who had promised during his election campaign to turn the kingdom into a "pariah" state, in light of the case of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 and its human rights record.

Biden refrained from communicating for more than a year and a half with the crown prince, the de facto ruler of his country, but the war in Ukraine and the record rise in oil prices caused by it prompted Biden to break the western isolation imposed on the Saudi crown prince since the killing of Khashoggi.

Abdullah Al-Odah, research director at the Democracy Now Foundation, which was founded by Khashoggi himself, said, “Just weeks after the shocking sentence issued this month imprisoning Salma Al-Shehab, 34 years, the 45-year prison sentence for Al-Qahtani, apparently for simply tweeting about her views, shows how emboldened the Saudi authorities feel to punish even Less criticism from its citizens.

In a statement, he indicated that it was "impossible not to link the meeting" of the crown prince and Biden in Jeddah with "the escalation in repressive attacks against anyone who dares criticize the crown prince or the Saudi government."

And he told AFP that there have been "many similar cases recently" involving the arrest of people on the background of their posts on social media.

Al-Shehab, a mother of two, who is studying a doctorate on a scholarship from Princess Nora University of Saudi Arabia in the field of dentistry at the University of Leeds in England, was arrested while she was on vacation in Saudi Arabia in January 2021.

A close friend of the Saudi activist, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP that Al-Shehab did not take threats to report her to security "seriously."

Shehab, she said, "didn't think security would be interested in someone with less than 2,000 followers."

These rulings come within the framework of a widespread crackdown targeting activists and human rights defenders in the Gulf kingdom with prison sentences and long-term travel bans.

(Xinhua) -- The third batch of space scientific experimental samples from China's Tiangong space station arrived in Beijing Monday, following the return of the crew of the Shenzhou-14 space mission.
The recovered experimental samples, including three cold packs of rice and Arabidopsis, and a bag with four boxes of uncontained material, were delivered to the Space Exploitation Technology and Engineering Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The seeds of the two aforementioned plants were cultivated for 120 days in Tiangong. Scientists will analyze the effects that microgravity in space has on the samples, according to the academy.
The experiment cabinet for uncontained materials in the station's "Tianhe" core module is the first in China and the second of its kind in the world to be used in orbit. It has been working in space for more than 590 days, during which it completed in-orbit experiments with seven boxes of materials.
The academy said that scientists have obtained a large amount of data through in-orbit experiments, which will help them accelerate the pace of research on the development of new materials on Earth.
The return capsule of the manned spacecraft "Shenzhou-14", which carried the three astronauts: Chen Dong, Liu Yang and Cai Xuezhe, landed at the "Dongfeng" landing site in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region last Sunday, after completing a mission to the space station that lasted six months.

Washington - (AFP) - Instagram and Twitter imposed restrictions on the accounts of American rapper Kanye West , also known as "Ye", after he posted comments described as anti-Semitic.

A Twitter spokeswoman told AFP on Sunday that Kanye West's account had been suspended for violating the social network's rules.

For its part, a spokeswoman for Meta, the parent company of Instagram, told AFP that the group deleted the contents, without specifying them, from the “Yi” account on the grounds of violating its rules.

Instagram also imposed restrictions on his account, which may include preventing him from posting, writing comments, or sending private messages, according to the same source.

Kanye West, a black artist, has caused a stir on social media since he wore a T-shirt that read "White Lives Matter" during Paris Fashion Week.

And in this phrase is a conversion of the name of the famous "Black Lives Matter" ("Black Lives Matter") movement whose slogan is issued by the anti-racism demonstrations in the summer of 2020 in the United States.

On Instagram, Ye, 45, posted screenshots of conversations he had Friday with rapper Diddy, who criticized the shirt and its message.

"I will use you as an example to show the Jews who asked you to contact me that no one can threaten or influence me," Kanye West wrote. The post was later deleted, but copies of it are still visible online.

Then on Twitter, Kanye West said in a tweet that was later deleted that he intended to attack Jews. The social network indicated that the post violated its rules.
The American Jewish Committee (AJC) accused the rapper of promoting "hatred of Jews".
"Kanye West should find a way to get his point across without resorting to anti-Semitism," she said.
Yi, who suffers from bipolar disorder, is used to causing controversy and was previously banned from Instagram for 24 hours in March, in the midst of his tumultuous divorce from reality TV star Kim Kardashian.
The rapper is also on the verge of parting ways with the brand "Adidas", which said it intends to "re-evaluate" its collaboration with the artist.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - Hussein Al-Sheikh, Minister of Civil Affairs, today, Tuesday, held the Israeli government responsible for the disastrous conditions at Al-Karama crossing, "King Hussein Bridge".

Al-Sheikh pointed out in a tweet to him via Twitter, that intensive contacts are underway with Jordan to find solutions to this tragic situation that the Palestinian citizens live through in their movement.

Al-Sheikh called on Israel to take the necessary measures to end this suffering.

Gaza - Media of the Triathlon Federation - The players of the Palestinian Triathlon Federation participated in the third edition of the Fujairah International Triathlon Championship, known as "Triathlon", which was held in the United Arab Emirates during the period from 11/13 November 2022, under the auspices of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad, Crown Prince Emirate of Fujairah.

The championship, organized by the Fujairah Club, witnessed a wide international participation of 380 male and female players from 20 countries of different age groups, and the Palestinian player, Abdullah Abu Shabab, achieved second place, and won the silver medal at the level of all categories in the "Sprint Triathlon" race.

The player, Omar Abu Shabab, also achieved first place in the category under 23 years old, and sixth for all age groups participating in the tournament.

It is noteworthy that the players of the "triathlon" team are currently participating in the Olympic preparation program, which is sponsored by the International Olympic Solidarity Program, and under the supervision and follow-up of the Palestinian Olympic Committee.

The President of the Palestinian Triathlon Federation thanked and appreciated the Palestinian Olympic Committee, headed by Lieutenant General Jibril Rajoub, and his deputy, Dr. Asaad Al-Majdalawi for their continuous sponsorship and support for the federation's participation in tournaments and foreign participations, which led to the continued improvement of numbers, from one tournament to another.

Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad bin Saif Al Sharqi, President of the Body Building and Fitness Federation, crowned the first winners participating in the various races in the third edition of the Fujairah International Triathlon Championship, which aims to promote and spread the sport of "triathlon" in the Arab sports community.

Kiev (Ukraine) (AFP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Kiev Sunday of committing a "terrorist act" by masterminding and carrying out the explosion Saturday that partially destroyed the Crimean bridge linking Russia and the peninsula, which was followed overnight by bloody Russian strikes on a Ukrainian city.

"The perpetrators and planners are the Ukrainian intelligence services," Putin said during a meeting with the head of the Russian Investigative Committee, according to a video clip broadcast by the Kremlin.

"There is no doubt that this is a terrorist act aimed at destroying Russia's civilian infrastructure of great importance," he added.

This is Putin's first reaction to the explosion, which occurred at dawn on Saturday, at a time when his forces are facing field difficulties in Ukraine.

The Kremlin announced that the Russian president will hold a meeting of the Security Council on Monday.

The Ukrainian army and the Ukrainian special services declined to deny or confirm their responsibility, and President Volodymyr Zelensky contented himself with mocking the issue in a video in which he mocked Saturday the "cloudy" and "hot" weather in Crimea, referring to the fire that broke out on the bridge following the explosion.

During the night, Russian bombing targeted residential buildings in Zaporizhia, killing 12 to 17 people, according to different numbers, three days after a previous bombing that killed 17 people in the city.

The latest toll issued by the local administration indicated that 13 people were killed and 60 injured, including women and children, after a previous toll issued by the municipal council stated that there were 17 dead.

"Absolutely meaningless. Absolute evil. Terrorists and savages. Who issued this order to the one who carried it out. All bear responsibility. Before the law and before the people," the Ukrainian president wrote in his account on Telegram.

He added that this Russian strike "destroyed private residences where people lived, slept without attacking anyone."

The Ukrainian Air Force reported that four cruise missiles and two missiles fired from fighter jets and other anti-aircraft missiles were fired at Zaporizhia.

For its part, the Russian army announced that it had launched strikes with "high-precision weapons" on units of "foreign mercenaries" near Zaporizhia.

The city is located in the vicinity of the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant, which has been the center of a conflict that has been going on for months, causing it to stop working. The International Atomic Energy Agency warned on Saturday that the plant had lost its last external source of electricity due to the bombings and had now relied on emergency generators only.

In the aftermath of the massive explosion on the Crimean Bridge, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khosnullin announced that divers would inspect the bridge on Sunday to assess the structural damage in it, and to issue "the first results" during the day.

The movement of cars and trains resumed on Saturday, a few hours after the explosion, which caused the collapse of several parts of one of the tracks of the bridge, which was built at great cost and inaugurated by Putin in 2018, and led to the outbreak of fire in several tank trailers loaded with fuel on part of the railway from the bridge.

In the first stage, ferries handled the transportation of trucks.

On Sunday, the Ministry of Transportation announced that passenger trains from Crimea to Russia were "running according to normal schedule".

The Russian authorities attributed the explosion, which killed three people on Saturday morning, to a truck bomb owned by a resident of the Russian Krasnodar region.

Kiev has repeatedly threatened to hit this bridge, which is used to transport supplies to Russian forces in Ukraine.

Surveillance camera footage circulated on the Internet showed a powerful explosion coinciding with the passage of several vehicles on the bridge, including a truck, which the Russian authorities suspect was the source of the explosion.

Other footage showed a convoy of burning tanker vehicles in the railway part of the bridge, and the collapse of two sections of one of the two lanes of the road.

According to investigators, the attack, which occurred early Saturday morning, killed three people, the truck driver, a man and a woman who were in a nearby car at the time of the explosion, and their bodies were recovered from the water.

And at a time when it is facing difficulties on the Kherson front in southern Ukraine, the Russian army confirmed on Saturday that the supplies of its forces are not threatened.

Since the beginning of September, Russian forces have been forced to retreat at many points on the front. It was especially forced to withdraw from the Kharkiv region (northeast) and retreat in the Kherson region.

In the face of these setbacks in the face of the onrush of the Ukrainian army, reinforced with Western weapons supplies, at the end of September Putin issued a decree calling up hundreds of thousands of reservists and announced the annexation of four Ukrainian regions, although his forces only partially control them.

On Sunday, the Russian security services (FSB) monitored a "significant increase" in the Ukrainian bombing that targeted the Russian lands bordering Ukraine, killing one person and injuring five others during the past week.

London - (AFP) - The Bank of England raised key interest rates Thursday by 0.75 points to 3 percent, the largest increase since 1989, to counter inflation, which will push Britain into recession that is set to last until mid-2024.

After a regular meeting, the Bank of England said it raised borrowing costs by 0.75 points to 3% - the biggest increase since the 2008 global financial crisis - to adjust for UK inflation, which is expected to soon peak at a four-decade high of around 11%. .

"We have a difficult road ahead," Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey told a news conference.

He warned that "the sharp increase in energy prices resulting from the Russian invasion of Ukraine has made us poorer as a nation. It is expected that the level of economic activity will be non-existent and may even decline for some time."

The recent increase in interest rates reflects central banks raising interest rates around the world as food prices and energy bills rise.

Wednesday, the US Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the fourth time in a row by 0.75 points - and its chairman, Jerome Powell, suggested that the increase would be higher than expected.

The Bank of England said that inflation in Britain will peak at 10.9% this year, but with such a high level, analysts said the central bank's interest rate could reach 5% in the coming months.

The minutes of its meeting warned of "difficult prospects for the British economy," which "is expected to remain in recession for a long time," dealing a blow to the troubled British government.

The Bank of England said that the economy has contracted since the third quarter and entered a period of technical recession that will continue until the first half of 2024.
The pound sterling fell 2% against the dollar amid expectations of a prolonged recession.

"The typical trade no longer holds because currencies usually go up when the central bank raises interest rates," said Naeem Aslam, chief market analyst at Avatrade.

"Difficult times lie ahead and we will see the economy, the markets and the currency deteriorate in the coming months," he added.

The FTSE 100 index in London improved, losing about half a percent.

The Bank of England's interest rate hike is set to exacerbate the cost of living crisis for millions of Britons as central banks' rate hikes cause retail lenders to raise interest rates on their own loans.

"The central bank has had the unenviable task of combating spiraling inflation amid economic and political uncertainty," said Craig Erlam, an analyst at trading platform OANDA.

UK mortgage payments have also risen in recent weeks after the heavily indebted budget of former British Prime Minister Liz Terrace forced her resignation and led to an emergency purchase of British government bonds by the Bank of England. Her successor, Rishi Sunak, tried to calm the markets by hinting at tax increases in a new budget on November 17, even if such a move hurt the British economy.

"I think everyone knows we are facing a difficult economic outlook and tough decisions will have to be taken," Sunak, the former British finance minister, told parliament on Wednesday.

The annual inflation rate in Britain is 10.1%, the highest level in 40 years.

With the onset of the Covid pandemic in early 2020, the Bank of England cut its key interest rate to a record low of 0.1% and also injected huge amounts of cash into the economy.

The Bank of England began raising interest rates last December, while Thursday's decision was the eighth consecutive increase.
"Importantly, most of the policy tightening over the past year has not yet affected the real economy," the Bank of England's minutes said.