غزة – “القدس” دوت كوم – اعتبرت حركتا حماس والجهاد الإسلامي، أن هدم الاحتلال لمنزل الأسير منتصر شلبي في بلدة ترمسعيا شمال رام الله، بمثابة عدوان همجي وسلوك إرهابي تمارسه عصابات إجرامية.

وقال حازم قاسم الناطق باسم حركة حماس في تصريح صحفي الخميس، إن استمرار سياسة هدم المنازل يؤكد عجز الاحتلال الكامل في وقف ثورة الشعب الفلسطيني في الميدان.

وأضاف “يدلل هذا على غباء المستعمر الصهيوني الذي مارس هذه السياسة منذ احتلاله لأرض فلسطين وفشل في كل مرة في كسر إرادة النضال لشعبنا الثائر”. كما قال.

من جهته قال طار سلمي الناطق باسم حركة الجهاد الاسلامي، اليوم، إن تفجير منزل عائلة الأسير شلبي هو عدوان بشع وجريمة لن تنال من عزيمة الأحرار.

وأضاف سلمي “لن يوقف المقاومة عدوان جائر ولا سياسة هدم المنازل والعقاب الجماعي التي ينتهجها الاحتلال الغاشم، فالمقاومة حق مشروع وتعبير طبيعي عن رفض الاحتلال، وهي واجب لن يتخلى عنه أبناء الشعب الفلسطيني طالما بقي الاحتلال البغيض لأرضنا”.

The Arab Islamic Bank achieved net profits after tax amounting to $7,359,024 million for the first half of 2022, compared to profits amounting to $6,110,435 million for the same period last year, achieving a growth of 20.4%, mainly due to the remarkable growth in the bank’s operating revenues.

In terms of other financial indicators, the bank's assets amounted to $1,683,842,371, while the net balance of direct credit financing amounted to $996,700,970, while the total customer deposits amounted to $1,399,071,516, in order for the bank to maintain its distinguished market shares and the solidity of its financial performance to be the third bank in the banking sector. In terms of market shares, on the level of assets, its market share amounted to about 8%, and on the level of direct financing, it amounted to about 9.4%, and on the side of customer deposits, it was about 8.6%. On the property rights side, it amounted to $134.3 million, compared to $130.9 million at the end of 2021, an increase of 2.52%. Noting that the paid-up capital increased from $91.7 million in 2021 to $96.2 million this year, an increase of 4.91%, as a result of the Bank distributing bonus shares to its shareholders during the General Assembly meeting, in addition to cash distributions.

In turn, Chairman of the Board of Directors Rushdi Al-Ghalayini commented that this outstanding performance during the first half of 2022 confirms the bank's commitment to providing the best Islamic banking products and services to our valued customers, and providing them with added value. The balanced bank represented in diversifying investment portfolios and increasing the efficiency of operational operations, which led the bank to enhance the quality of assets and improve credit management practices. for our society and economy.

For his part, the General Manager of the Arab Islamic Bank, Hani Nasser, explained that these results represent a success for the bank, and this success will be a starting point for achieving more ambitious goals during the coming period, God willing, as the bank works to develop its services and introduce new banking products that keep pace with the development in the banking sector and meet the needs of And the aspirations of customers, especially digital banking services, which facilitate access to service and save time and effort, as the bank has taken advanced steps in this field through the diversity of electronic services provided such as mobile banking, online banking services, points of sale, and electronic branches. The General Manager also thanked the customers for their confidence in the bank, wishing that the bank would always be their first banking choice.

Algeria - (AFP) - According to the Civil Protection, on Wednesday, forest fires struck many cities in northern Algeria, and injured people in the border city of Souk Harras with Tunisia.

And the Civil Protection confirmed that 26 fires continued to break out in eight states, explaining that four of them were in the Haras market, where four people suffered burns of varying degrees, and 38 others were facing breathing difficulties.

Helicopters intervened in three states, including Souk Haras.

Local television broadcast pictures of the fires.

Since the beginning of summer, many fires have broken out in Algeria and four people have been killed so far.

Forests in Algeria extend over an area of 4.1 million hectares.

The north of the country witnesses forest fires every year, and this phenomenon is greatly increasing due to climate changes.

The summer of 2021 was the most recorded number of deaths. At least ninety people were killed in forest fires that hit the north of the country and destroyed more than 100,000 hectares of forests.

Doha - "Al Quds" dot com - Hamas expressed today, Saturday, its rejection and condemnation of the German police's announcement to open an investigation against Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas , on the background of his statements related to the occupation's crimes against our Palestinian people.

Hussam Badran, a member of the Hamas political bureau, said in a press statement, “Once again, the international forces prove their bias towards the Israeli occupation and their denial of the historical rights of our Palestinian people and their suffering that extends for more than seven decades, which began with the uprooting of our people from their land, and forcibly displacing them to live in exile, in addition to dozens of massacres.” The right of Palestinian civilians, including women, children and others, and the arrest, capture and injury of hundreds of thousands of our people.

Badran added: No matter how hard these forces try to distort the truth, deafen their ears to what befell our people, and use double standards, they will not succeed in obliterating the Palestinian narrative, no matter how long it takes, and whatever the methods and procedures, our people do not forget or forgive in front of the injustice they are exposed to, and their resistance will continue tirelessly until liberation. And return.

He continued: The time has come for all the targeting of our people and their cause to advance practically and forward in achieving true Palestinian national unity based on full partnership within the framework of an inclusive national leadership, and according to a national struggle program that adopts comprehensive resistance in the face of the occupation.

Washington - "Jerusalem" dot com - Saeed Erekat - In a detailed interview conducted by "Truthout" website with legal expert and international relations Richard Falk, published by the website on Wednesday, January 11, 2023, the distinguished expert spoke about the increasing difficulty facing Palestinian journalists In covering the Palestinian issue not only in occupied Palestine, but also in the United States and other countries that are trying to obliterate the flagrant violations of Palestinian human rights at the hands of the Israeli occupation authorities.

The site notes that journalists covering Palestine witnessed a very difficult and horrifying scene in 2022, "which was a year filled with human rights violations, censorship, arrests and outright killings."

In the interview, Falk asserts, "The killing of Palestinian-American journalist Sherine Abu Aqleh last year is a stark reminder of human rights issues and the ongoing transparency of Palestinian journalists." Falk also refers to the deportation of French-Palestinian human rights lawyer Salah Hammouri (who was condemned by Amnesty International) and the temporary ban On Twitter, Palestinian journalist Saeed Erekat (and, more recently, human rights lawyer and law professor Noura Erekat) were further attempts to marginalize Palestinian voices.

Falk points out that while Palestinian journalists are killed or imprisoned by Israel, the American media voluntarily refrain from criticizing Israel.

In the interview, Falk details the case of "corporate journalism" (press owned by media giants) and comments on the broader set of trends that threaten democracy at its core. Despite this, there is a growing awareness of the plight of the Palestinians.

Here are some of the questions that journalist Daniel Falcone directed to legal expert Richard Falk:

Danielle Falcone: Interest in Palestinian affairs and politics, as well as support for the Muhamasheen and their human rights, seems to be growing and gaining strength in 2022. However, encroachments on the freedom and security of journalists covering such matters cannot be seen as a major setback. Can you explain this apparent contradiction?

Richard Falk: Israel, and especially Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has long recognized that exposing Israel's abuses poses a greater threat to Israel's security and expansionist plans than armed struggle. The unexpected collapse of the apartheid regime in South Africa in the 1990s confirmed this perception, and at the same time should ignite the spirit of struggle among the opponents of the Israeli apartheid state so that a successful liberation strategy can be achieved through the mobilization of global militant solidarity initiatives linked to international institutions, law and institutions, as well as promoting civil society boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaigns.

On the Palestinian side, the means of the Palestinian struggle must be diversified, as the Palestinian liberation strategy is weak on many levels due to the intense oppression and obstacles of the giant anti-Palestinian machines.

It is in this atmosphere that Palestinian journalists play a crucial role in reporting what is happening to the world and attempt to report on the daily hardships of a people suffering from long-term oppression coupled with the dispossession of their homeland. Therefore, they are increasingly seen as a serious threat to the dominant actor, which is focused on violence, including murder. Transparency regarding repressive policies is unbearable, and brave independent journalists expose what government representatives refuse to say if it offends the prevailing geopolitical order. The premeditated murder of Shereen Abu Aqleh, Al Jazeera correspondent on Palestinian events in recent years, despite being an American citizen, is revealed in May 2022 revealed Israel's willingness to accept a major setback (in the field of public relations) and in its global public image to silence a voice like Shirin's voice and intimidate others.

Can you comment more on how Palestinian journalists, [or non-Palestinian journalists] always face an uphill battle reporting on the region, and especially the challenges they face when navigating controversial stories?

Falk: By seeking to report on the realities of the occupation and the discriminatory features of Israeli apartheid, Palestinian journalists face harassment, imprisonment, and sometimes murder. It is no coincidence that some of the most critical comments on Israeli violations of Palestinian human rights come from dissident Jewish journalists such as Gideon Levy and Amira Hass.

This tolerance of vitriol from within the Jewish camp protects [Israeli human rights organization] B'Tselem from the kind of repression that responsible Palestinian NGOs, including Right and Conscience, face in their endeavor to continue their fully peaceful and professional work, along with civil society activities. In other words, in order to maintain the superficial credibility of being a democracy based on racial superiority, Jewish journalists in Israel or occupied Palestine are allowed the freedom to express the Palestinians in their homeland. Whether those freedoms are at risk now given the rise to ruling power of the far right in the form of the Religious Zionist coalition is one of many doubts about how far Netanyahu's newly formed, settler-oriented government will go in enforcing what might be called "ideological loyalty" at home. Even against Jews, especially with journalists and scientists who are seen as hostile.

Gideon Levy noted in my presence that he cannot write critically about Israel's mistake in the United States and does not expect access to any influential media platform. In other words, the Diaspora Jewish establishment is more protective of Israel's reputation, reserving harsh slanderous criticism of Jews like me who are rebuked as "anti-Semites" or "self-hating Jews" for seeking to report Israeli wrongdoing. More recently, when influential NGOs, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, issued long reports documenting the apartheid features of Israeli rule, they were not given respect for being subjected to pro-Israel criticism, but mostly dealt with through a press version of "the cure." The Silent One can hardly hope for the operations of an independent press. While Palestinian journalists are killed and imprisoned when they come under Israeli authority, criticism of Israeli behavior is always filtered out, and often blocked, in North America and Western Europe through a superficial, voluntary process of self-censorship and a culture of silence that most of them respect. Publishers and journalists for commercial or professional reasons.

Truthout: Against this background, what are your general thoughts on Twitter's ban on Palestinian (al-Quds) journalist Saeed Erekat and his reporting?

Twitter's suspension of Saeed Erekat's account is another attempt to stifle Palestinian grievances and prevent them from angering US government officials and leveraging social media platforms to convey their version of events and controversial Israeli behavior to a wider audience. Erekat is a soft-spoken Palestinian journalist well known in Washington, respected by colleagues for his ethic and direct questions about Israel/Palestine at press briefings at the US State Department and elsewhere where journalists seek explanations on public policy. This broad effort by leading social media platforms to allow hate speech and fascist messages, but to deny access to those deemed highly sympathetic to the Palestinian struggle for basic rights, is flawed in the quality of democratic practice. It is particularly unfortunate in the digital age, especially with reference to issues that the American public was supposed to have a right to know about. After all, $38 billion in taxpayer revenue has been pledged to Israel over 10 years, much of it used for counter-insurgency and police programs aimed at suppressing Palestinians' rights to resist.

The plight of the Palestinian press is not confined to the territories under direct Israeli control, but through this punitive measure aimed at appeasing Erekat's influence abroad extends to the United States and many other countries. Such facts make a mockery of Biden's claims about leading an alliance of democracies against governments headed by autocrats.

Nablus - "Jerusalem" dot com - Emad Saadeh - The Higher Emergency Committee in Nablus Governorate announced that it has raised its readiness and kept in a permanent meeting, in anticipation of any emergency, and in order to provide all the elements of steadfastness and provide services to our people in various circumstances.

This came during an emergency meeting of the committee, held this evening, Wednesday, at the invitation and presence of the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the "Fatah" movement, Mahmoud Al-Aloul, and the presence of the governor, Major General Ibrahim Ramadan, and representatives of various official institutions and national activities in the governorate, during which the current circumstances were studied, especially in light of the continued aggression. The Israeli occupation of Nablus, continuing its threat, imposing a strict siege on it, and increasing the frequency of settler attacks on citizens and their property.

The conferees held the Israeli occupation government fully responsible for any aggression against citizens and their property, and stressed the need to harden the home front, strengthen national unity and activate joint action.

The conferees also stressed the need to activate the popular committees in various regions and neighborhoods and to raise the pace of readiness in order to meet the needs of citizens in all circumstances.

The Emergency Committee saluted the steadfast Palestinian farmers on their land, and appealed to the masses of our people and its various institutions to organize voluntary campaigns to help the people pick olives this season, and protect them from piracy by settlers and the occupation army.

United Nations - (Xinhua) -- A Chinese envoy said Wednesday that China hopes the United Nations will prioritize its financial resources for development to better take into account the needs and concerns of developing countries.

Cheng Lei, Counselor of the Chinese Permanent Mission to the United Nations, made the remarks at a meeting of the Fifth Committee of the UN General Assembly, where UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres introduced the world organization's 2023 Program Plan and Proposed Program Budget.

Cheng said that the vast developing countries are facing greater challenges in the current situation in terms of economic recovery and are looking for better support from the United Nations, but the level of the budget of the development departments was characterized by a very slight increase that does not reflect the requirements and desires of developing countries.

"We hope that the (United Nations) General Secretariat can improve budget allocations to ensure that development is given priority with sufficient and sustainable financial resources, in order to respond to the actual difficulties and concerns of developing countries, and to promote the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development," he added.

Cheng noted that China noted with concern that under Item 24, the Secretariat had for the first time listed resources for implementing the mandates expected to be adopted on behalf of the new and expanded mandates.

He said that prejudging the mandate of the UN General Assembly or the UN Human Rights Council and loading potential resources into the budget department runs counter to the basic principle of "mandate first, program next, budget last".

Cheng said that the program plans approved by the General Assembly lay the foundation for the program budget, reflecting the program plans from a financing perspective. These plans generally ensure that the United Nations will be able to accurately implement the mandates and priorities of Member States. None of them should be minimized or ignored. Any change in the budget method should not lead to weakness and disconnection between them.

Translation by "Al-Quds" dot com - The Hebrew Channel 12 revealed, on Tuesday, the identity of the second casualty in the " Shu'fat " checkpoint operation in occupied Jerusalem, which took place last Saturday evening and resulted in the death and injury of a female soldier, in addition to a third who was slightly wounded.

According to the channel, the injured, "David Morel" (30 years old), arrived from Brazil to "Israel" in 2017, and served in the Israeli army, then he became a security guard, and he started his work at the "Shufat" checkpoint recently.

The channel indicated that his condition is still serious and unstable, and he is still in intensive care.

NEW YORK - (Xinhua) -- As the new school year heats up, some students have more worries than keeping up with homework, as demand for children's books that address traumatic events such as school shootings has steadily increased, according to the Associated Press. Press) on Tuesday.

According to a report by NBD's BookScan data platform that tracks US retail sales of print books, sales of books to young readers about violence, grief and emotions have increased for nine consecutive years, with nearly six million copies sold in 2021, more than double the amount in 2012.

"With anxiety and depression rates rising among young Americans, educators and caregivers say children's books can play a role in helping them cope," the report noted.

Written by: Rasem Obeidat

The former Prime Minister of the State of Israel, Naftali Bennett, after his accession to the presidency of the government of the State of Israel, borrowed the term “reducing” the Palestinian-“Israeli” conflict from Israeli history professor Micah Goodman, who published on July 15, 2021, an article in French entitled “Israel’s Surprising Consensus on the Palestinian Cause.” Concretely, this concept means the pursuit of every policy that will greatly enhance Palestinian autonomy without threatening Israeli security, and at the heart of this conflict reduction plan will be an effort to create geographical contiguity among the autonomous Palestinian islands in the West Bank, and link this autonomy to the rest of the world. The goal of this strategy is to transform the fragmented and fragile network of self-governing islands of the West Bank into a continuous and prosperous political system.

This concept is based on a truce of expansion and security in exchange for economy and facilities in the Gaza Strip, and economic peace and security cooperation in the West Bank. Jerusalem, and the rejection of the right of return for Palestinian refugees in accordance with the resolutions of international legitimacy.

However, it seems that the entity state, whether during the era of the Bennett government, which adopted this slogan, and the Lapid-Gantz government that succeeded it, chose to escalate the conflict rather than reduce it. And many West Bank settlements in the last two months of March and April of this year.

After these operations, the entity's government launched a series of military operations in order to restore the deterrent force, and to face the widespread criticism and accusations leveled at it by the Israeli public and the Israeli opposition forces, of weakness and submission in front of the Palestinian organizations. Its main square is Jenin and its camp, given that Jenin constitutes the main incubator for the forces of resistance, and “mowing the grass” with the aim of pruning and eradicating the forces of resistance, and preventing them from continuing to grow, rise, solidify and take root, and they are directed mainly against what the entity state calls the “lone wolf” operations that It is difficult to detect it during the preparation and planning stage. In parallel with that, an operation known as "breaking waves" was launched, which is based on continuous exhaustion by carrying out continuous operations of raids, assassinations, liquidations and pre-emptive arrests, to prevent the crystallization of structures and organizational structures for the resistance forces, and to keep the Jenin resistance in its local framework, in a way that enables it to besiege and liquidate it, but it seems that these military operations, despite the large number of martyrs and detainees, and the extent of destruction, destruction and widespread devastation, but the "oil slick" is being defeated I came from Jenin to the rest of the northern regions of the occupied West Bank, especially Nablus and its camps, and this is an indication that the entity state could not regain its deterrence force, and the West Bank is living in an uprising atmosphere similar to the previous uprisings, but there is a difference in terms of style, form and size of participation, and we can call it On what is happening with a special kind of uprising that mixes stones, incendiary bombs, "Molotov cocktails", firearms, knives, and run-over operations, and it was remarkable that individual and organized shooting operations targeting settlers and occupation soldiers are on the rise, and this is the depth of the security and political crisis of the entity state, and the escalation of criticism Accusations of inadequacy and submissiveness, inability to control matters, loss of security for Israeli society, loss of confidence in the security and military institutions, and with the approach of the fifth early elections, and the fear of losing them to the opposition and the return of Netanyahu again as prime minister, we found that that government led a systematic process of escalation over the entire area. Historic Palestine, where it launched an aggressive war on the Gaza Strip on 5/8/2022, under the pretext of targeting the Islamic Jihad Movement, thwarting its military operations, and directly escalating it in the West Bank. West through a campaign of assassinations in the city of Nablus, and then Jenin, and the escalation was also the master of the situation in Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa.

In the West Bank, settlements escalated in an unprecedented manner, and in Jerusalem, the plans to Judaize Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa and finish off the city did not stop, seeking to liquidate the refugee issue, racial discrimination against our people in the Palestinian interior -48-, and aggression and siege on the Gaza Strip.

In the field reality, in the West Bank, assassinations, liquidations, arrests, and incursions did not stop, and the fear that the escalation of military operations in the West Bank would come to change the voters’ view towards the right and extremism and thus give Netanyahu the opportunity to form the next Israeli government, making the military, security and political institutions study a group Among the options, including keeping the pace of the current escalation as it is, easing the conditions for the current escalation, pressuring the authority to double its security coordination, and working to curb the resistance forces through arrests and collecting weapons, and it seems that this option has fallen, as it in itself is described as a transformation The conflict has turned into a Palestinian-Palestinian conflict for the sake of the state of the entity without a political horizon, and the authority tried to feel the pulse of the resistance fighters by negotiating with them to hand over their weapons, to join the apparatus of the authority, to give them salaries and to ensure that they would not be arrested by the occupation, but it seems that the resistance fighters represented by the "Black Den" battalion refused this, as well The entity's government has studied the escalation of specific assassinations by drones, or the expansion and escalation of the operation known as "breaking waves".

It seems that the entity government will continue its escalation operations with the approach of the fifth early elections, along the historical area of Palestine, especially in the northern West Bank, apart from the aggressive nature of this state that aims to liquidate the resistance forces, which has become a source of concern and headache for the entity state, as it believes that any operations A quality that would constitute a shift in Israeli public opinion in the direction of Netanyahu and the right-wing forces allied with him, and therefore it is putting pressure on the Palestinian Authority and its security services and through many Arab security agencies, as well as through America, which received the Minister of Civil Affairs and member of the Executive Committee of the organization Hussein Al-Sheikh last week, And I asked him clearly to work to dismantle the centers of resistance in the northern West Bank and to collect weapons, and that the security of the entity state is a priority over anything else, as there is no political horizon at the current stage, and the entity state also retracted from signing the draft maritime demarcation agreement with Lebanon, after the observations it made The Lebanese government is against it, and the escalation of opposition to this demarcation from within and outside the ruling coalition, which makes its passage the price of losing the Lapid-Gantz alliance for the elections, and therefore the escalation will remain the master of money. Stand by that government, which employs settlements, Palestinian blood, and Al-Aqsa in the issue of the Israeli elections. It will also work to close any political horizon in the relationship with the Palestinian Authority, and keep this relationship within the framework of “economic peace and security coordination.”

Hebron – “Jerusalem” dot com – A young man was injured, this evening, Sunday, by the Israeli occupation bullets, during clashes in the southern area of Hebron.

According to local sources, the occupation forces fired live bullets at the citizens, wounding the young man , Suhaib Adnan Abu Turki, with a bullet in the foot, and several others suffocated.

Gaza- “Jerusalem” dot com – Ahmed Al-Masharawi – The Handball Premier League matches for the 2022-2023 season will resume this evening, sponsored by Jawwal, after they were suspended due to the recent aggression on the Gaza Strip, which killed three athletes, and targeted a number of institutions. The most prominent of which is Saad Sayel Hall, which has many games.

The sports fans and handball fans will be on a date with the meeting of the champion, Ittihad Deir Al-Balah, and the youth of Jabalia, at the Abu Yusef Al-Najjar hall at seven o’clock, in the first round of the tournament, and the Competitions Committee has made all arrangements to resume the league wheel and hold the match, while the Referees Committee determined the crew who will manage it.

It is noteworthy that Khadamat Al-Bureij occupies the lead with 6 points, after its recent victory over Al-Nuseirat in seventh place, with a score of 45-17.

The confrontations will be renewed in the next round: Al-Rabat and Khadamat Al-Nuseirat, Khadamat Al-Bureij and Ahly Al-Nuseirat, Al-Saleh and Ittihad Deir Al-Balah will meet, all of whom will be at Abu Yusuf Al-Najjar Hall.

Jerusalem - "Al Quds" dot com - Today, Wednesday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested three young men from occupied Jerusalem .

According to local sources, the occupation forces beat and kicked two young men at the Chain Gate, while the other one was beaten at the Lions Gate in the Old City, before arresting them.

Jerusalem - "Jerusalem" dot com - Dozens of settlers stormed, on Monday morning, the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque , under the strict protection of the occupation police.

The settlers made provocative tours inside the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and performed Talmudic rituals.

Settler groups storm Al-Aqsa on a daily basis, except for Friday and Saturday.

Nairobi - (AFP) - Ethiopian Airlines announced Tuesday that it will resume commercial flights to Tigray, after an 18-month hiatus due to the bloody conflict in this region in northern Ethiopia.

This comes the day after a visit by a delegation from the Ethiopian government to the region's capital, Mekelle, noting that it is the first official visit in more than two years and constitutes a key stage in the peace process that began in November.

"We are really pleased to resume our flights to Mekele," Ethiopian National Airlines Chairman Mesfin Tasso said in a statement.

He added, "The resumption of these trips allows families to reunite, facilitates the return of commercial activities, gives impetus to the tourist flow, and provides other rare opportunities that will serve the community."

The largest airline in Africa reported that it will operate daily flights to Tigray, with an increase in frequency according to demand.

The delegation that visited Mikkeli on Monday included the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ethiopian Airlines, in addition to the heads of “Ethio Telecom” and the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia, two main parties to the return of basic services that have not been available in Tigray for more than a year.

On December 6, Mekele was connected to the national electricity grid. The Commercial Bank of Ethiopia, the country's largest bank, announced on the 19th of it the resumption of its operations in some cities, in parallel with the start of the return of telephone service.

On November 2, the government and the Tigray rebels signed an agreement ending the two-year war in northern Ethiopia.

The agreement stipulates, in particular, the disarmament of the rebels, the return of federal authority to Tigray, and the reconnection of this region to the outside, after continuous isolation since mid-2021.

UN statistics showed that the conflict made more than 13.6 million people completely dependent on humanitarian assistance in northern Ethiopia, including 5.4 million in Tigray, seven million in Amhara, and 1.2 million in Afar.

Paris, (AFP) - The strike continues in oil refineries in France , Thursday, in "Esso-ExxonMobil", whose workers were first targeted by an order to resume work, while "Total-Energies" announced, as the strikers are still preventing the transfer of fuel to gas stations that suffer from Scarce, for an Exceptional Bonus in December.

In this strike atmosphere, Total-Energies announced an "extraordinary" bonus to be distributed to "all its employees in the world" equal to one month's salary in December, with a cap on "large salaries".

The strikers in this group on Wednesday night vehemently rejected a proposal by management to rescind the ban on dawn deliveries as a precondition for starting wage negotiations.

"It's a broad categorical refusal," Thierry Deversen of the General Trade Union (CGT) and a member of the trade union committee of Total-Energies Europe told AFP after a night meeting at the group's headquarters. He added that the employees "do not want to negotiate this requirement."

He continued, "We wasted a long time and we are now negotiating without conditions," considering that the group's "request" to "release the product," that is, fuel, is synonymous with a "soft" order to resume work.

For its part, the group confirmed to France Press "the negative result of the night's discussions."

The dialogue had apparently resumed earlier in the day, with the administration's agreement to receive the trade union committee.

Until then, the administration was calling, in a precondition, to lift the obstacles to transporting fuel to receive the second union in it.

The conflict entered a new phase on Wednesday with the implementation of the threat to issue orders to return to workplaces waved by the government and currently includes four employees of the fuel depot of the Exxon Mobil refinery in Port Jerome / Notre Dame de Gravenchon in the Seine-Maritime region (northwest).

These employees are required to re-inject the fuel.

One of the leaders of the General Labor Union, Felipe Martinez, who came to support the Exxon Mobil employees, protested against the "scandalous decision" and announced an appeal against it Thursday.

The administration of the Seine-Maritime region said on Wednesday evening that "the pumping has begun and the fuel has reached the pipeline designated to supply the Paris region."

Will it get better? President Emmanuel Macron expected, in an interview with "France 2" channel, on Wednesday evening, that the situation will return to normal regarding the distribution of fuel "during the next week."

Currently, the shortage continues to anger motorists.

And at 17:00 on Wednesday, 30.8 percent of gas stations lacked one or more of their types, compared to 31.3 percent on Tuesday, according to the Ministry of Energy Transition.

However, this ratio is worse in the north, in the Paris region, and in the centre.

For their part, employers expressed this week their concern about the repercussions of this strike on the country's economic life.

Everywhere motorists talk about long queues at gas stations.

"I spent an hour and a half looking for a diesel station (...) on my day off," said Albertine Moret, a nurse in Clichy-la-Garenne, on the outskirts of Paris. "I have to do the same thing in two days," she added.

"I feel terrified," she continued.

The strike includes six of France's seven refineries - four for Total-Energies and two for ExxonMobil. Only the Lavera refinery (Petronius Group) is not included in the strike.

In addition, the "Total-Energies" depots in Lamede (southeast) and the Flanders depots that feed the north of the country are all closed.

In the Esso Group, he signed an agreement with two major unions, but not with the General Confederation of Labor. So the strike continues in Msfatha.

A fourth union, the "Force Ouvriere" of refining employees at Total-Energies, joined the strike.

In this group, the strike has been ongoing since September 27, and includes the Normandy refinery (northwest), the Flanders depot, the Lamed Biorefinery, the Vizin refinery (central east) and the Dong refinery (west).

The reason for the dispute is wages. The General Trade Union, which launched the strike on September 27 at Total-Energies, is demanding a 10 percent increase in 2022, compared to 3.5 percent granted at the beginning of the year, in order to compensate for inflation and take advantage of the group's exceptional profits.

Jerusalem - "Al Quds" dot com - The "Israeli Supreme" Court has set a date for a special session to consider the case of the prisoner Khalil Awadeh , who has been on hunger strike for nearly 160 days.

According to Awadeh's lawyer, the hearing will be held next Sunday to consider the petition submitted against the Ofer Court of Appeal's decision to refuse Awadeh's release.

Qalqilya - "Jerusalem" dot com - Today, Wednesday, the Israeli occupation forces notified three citizens to stop construction on their agricultural facilities in the village of Jayyus, east of Qalqilya.

According to local sources, this force notified the cessation of construction in two agricultural rooms, ranging in area from 32 to 60 square meters, owned by citizens Khalil Muhammad Riyash and Mahmoud Rebhi Sa'sa.

It also issued a notice to stop construction on a 40-cm-high cement wall surrounding a square donum of land belonging to Rabie Youssef Gharaba, under the pretext of building in areas classified as "C".

Later, bulldozers belonging to the Israeli occupation forces demolished two agricultural rooms and a cement wall, in the lands of the village of Nabi Elias.

According to local sources, these bulldozers demolished an agricultural room belonging to Abdullah Ahmed Zaid, which is 70 square meters, and his brother Suhaib's room, which is 50 square meters, in addition to demolishing the cement wall that surrounds their land, under the pretext of building without a permit.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - Muhammad Abu Khdeir - Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Hussein Al-Sheikh , said that US President Joe Biden's visit to Bethlehem in the middle of this month is a test of the seriousness of the US administration, warning of its failure to find a political horizon and forcing Israel to abide by international legitimacy.

In an exclusive interview with Al-Quds.com, on the sidelines of his meeting with a group of Palestinian journalists in his office yesterday, Al-Sheikh revealed 6 main issues that will be addressed in the meeting between President Mahmoud Abbas and US President Joe Biden in Bethlehem, centering on the implementation of the mandates. The United States stands for the promises it made, which are represented by a two-state solution, settlements, stopping the displacement of Jerusalemites, preserving the status quo in Al-Aqsa Mosque and the holy places in Jerusalem, Islamic and Christian, stopping all unilateral measures taken by Israel and opening the US embassy in East Jerusalem.

Al-Sheikh said: We view the meeting with President Biden as a pivotal meeting, and we hope that there will be serious outcomes from the meeting, foremost of which is launching a political horizon and forcing Israel to respect and implement the decisions of international legitimacy, stressing the need for Israel and the United States to adhere to the two-state solution in accordance with international legitimacy.
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He warned that there would be no serious outputs from President Biden's meeting that would give hope to the Palestinian people for a political horizon that would achieve the requirements they want and aspire to for our people who are under occupation, settlements and Israeli violations.

And the sheikh’s chapter on the political horizon: “We want to implement the decisions of the legitimacy that is indispensable and has no alternative, and the international contradiction has emerged in the Russian-Ukrainian war. How does this international legitimacy implement its decisions and why the double standards? We have more than 100 Security Council resolutions, none of which Israel has implemented."

He added, "What is required is that Israel be held accountable and that there be an international will that compels and pushes Israel to abide by the legitimacy decisions related to the Palestinian cause."

Sheikh described the US administration's statement regarding the assassination of Sherine Abu Aqleh as disappointing.

He added, "The Israeli occupation government bears responsibility for the assassination of Sherine Abu Aqelah, and we will complete our procedures before international courts."

Regarding American financial support, the Secretary of the Executive Committee of the PLO confirmed that it has been suspended for years under justifications and pretexts for which we do not know the reason, and he said: “We hope that the US President’s visit to Bethlehem will be a prelude to the return of things to normal and the waters to their normal course, and that President Biden will take clear decisions.” The return of financial support to the authority.

He added: "In the event that President Biden's visit does not fulfill its pledges, foremost of which is the political horizon and the visit fails, we will all go to an uncomfortable square, the loss of hope among the Palestinians and the continuation of this Israeli policy, escalation, abuse, settlements and invasions can no longer be tolerated, and therefore we call on the international community to take control of its responsibilities." .

Regarding going to the United Nations and withdrawing recognition of Israel, Al-Sheikh said: “There are a set of measures approved by the leadership, and they were postponed at the request of our friends and the American administration until after President Joe Biden’s visit, and I hope that we will not have to go to that .. We hope that there will be a serious breakthrough.” But if the visit comes out with nostalgia, I think there is no longer any way out and no choice for the Palestinian leadership."

In response to a question about presenting a group of American economic projects, Sheikh said: "Our issue is political and we want a political horizon. We do not talk about economic projects and economic peace."

He added: "The Palestinian people want freedom and independence, an end to this settlement, invasions and violations, and an end to the occupation, not cosmetic solutions that reproduce the occupation and perpetuate it on the ground and on the chests of our people."

Al-Sheikh stressed that the Palestinian issue cannot be ignored and its solution postponed, and he said: "They have repeatedly tried to marginalize the Palestinian issue, but it was and still is strongly present at all levels."

Al-Sheikh considered that restoring the political horizon is a Palestinian priority, pointing out that the US President has pledged to reopen the US Consulate in Jerusalem, and we are waiting for him to fulfill his promise.

The previous US administration headed by Donald Trump worked to close the US consulate in Jerusalem and close the office of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Washington, while the current US administration pledged to reopen the consulate in Jerusalem without specifying any date for that, but Israel rejected the matter, and proposed opening a consulate in Ramallah. Instead, the US administration proposed appointing an American official to handle the Palestinian file, but the Palestinian leadership insisted and insists on opening the consulate.

Sheikh said: Among the Palestinian demands to be submitted to Biden, the removal of the PLO from the list of "terrorist" organizations, in addition to reopening the office of its diplomatic mission in Washington.

When asked about the position of the Palestinian leadership regarding Yair Lapid assuming the presidency of the Israeli government, Al-Sheikh said: "We will judge him by his actions. Will he continue the Bennett government's settlement policy, demolishing homes, invading cities, arrests and violations? Will Lapid stop that? We will see in the next four days and months."

Al-Sheikh drew attention to the tendency of Israeli society towards the right and settlement, and said that there is no partner in Israel now, and I do not expect it to be in the next few years.

During the meeting, Sheikh reviewed many internal Palestinian issues such as division, dialogue and reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas movements, and expressed his belief in the importance of holding Palestinian elections, especially legislative ones, in East Jerusalem.

The sheikh also dealt with Palestinian-Arab relations and their weaknesses and strengths, stressing the Palestinian leadership's keenness on good relations with all Arab countries and refusing to interfere in their internal affairs, criticizing normalization.

He confirmed to Al-Quds.com that the Fatah movement is working to prepare for the eighth conference before the end of this year to bring together the Fatah ranks, which he described as broad.

He also described the Secretary of the Executive Committee of the PLO in the form of his recent visit to Moscow at the invitation of the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, stressing the importance of that visit and the meeting, which he described as strategic and extremely important.

Al-Sheikh dealt with the overall Palestinian relations, meetings with the leaders of the occupation, and issues with a political dimension, indicating that today there is no partner on the Israeli side ready to talk about the implementation of the agreements or the two-state solution.

He affirmed that he is with the Palestinian discourse that is far from slogans and grandiloquent rhetoric, and said: The next stage is difficult, and requires solid and stable stances, and to achieve the goals of our people by ending the occupation and establishing the state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, with East Jerusalem as its capital, in the shortest way and the lowest costs.

Tokyo - (dpa) - Economic data published today, Tuesday, showed that Japan's industrial output declined in April by 1.3% monthly, while analysts had expected a decline of only 0.2%.

According to Japanese government data, industrial output declined last month by 4.8% annually, after declining by 1.7% annually in March.

This comes at a time when the data expects industrial output to rise by 8.9% annually in June.

Hebron - "Jerusalem" dot com - The delegation of the Palestinian Forum, which included the Palestinian Businessmen Forum represented by its president, Amer Al-Osaili, and a number of members of its board of directors and its general assembly, and the head of the Nablus Businessmen Forum, Abdel Raouf Hawash, and a number of members of its board of directors, held a meeting with the Jordanian Minister of Investment, Eng. Khairy Amr, to discuss several issues of importance that would achieve serious progress on the level of facilities granted to investors in general and to Palestinian businessmen in particular, especially with regard to their personal movements between the two countries and the registration of regional offices for their companies in Jordan, as well as the issue of registering their personal property.

The Minister of Investment indicated that the Kingdom is in the process of taking many important decisions and approving laws that aim to meet the needs of the investor in Jordan, and is working to create a favorable and attractive environment through a series of incentives and facilities, stressing at the same time the dedication of the Palestinian businessman, stressing that this is always necessary. List the priorities of the Jordanian side at various levels.

For his part, the head of the Palestinian Businessmen Forum, Amer Al-Osaili, praised the tangible efforts made by the ministry to achieve the demands that were discussed between the Jordanian and Palestinian parties during the visit that took place late last year, which reflected positively on the flow of trade between the two countries in several related directions, noting that A number of facilities are under follow-up and will be approved by the Jordanian party in the near future.

Al-Osaili, on behalf of the Palestinian delegation participating in the meeting, extended his thanks and appreciation to the Jordanian government, led by King Abdullah II, whose message was clear through Jordanian institutions to provide everything that would enhance the Palestinian economy.

بقلم: عيسى قراقع ‏

على مدار 96 ساعة من تاريخ 5-6-2022 هوجم الشعب الفلسطيني والرأي العام بإشاعات واخبار ‏ملفقة تدعي أن رئيس دولة فلسطين أبو مازن قد توفي ، وتواصلت هذه الفقاعات على مختلف منصات ‏التواصل الاجتماعي وبكثافة وتكرار متعمد وبأشكال متعددة وبتعليقات ومشاركات وتحسينات بصرية ‏ولغوية ،وهذا كله ليس من فراغ او محض صدفة ، هناك مطابخ ومتاجر وفرق من التافهين المنفلتين ‏من اي قانون يشتغلون على قرصنة ادمغة الشعب الفلسطيني والسيطرة على مداركه ومشاعره وتحويله ‏الى سجين للأخبار والاشاعات على مدى ساعات وأيام طويلة . ‏

ليس جديدا على الشعب الفلسطيني الرازح تحت الاحتلال الصهيوني أن يتعرض لحرب اعلامية ‏مبرمجة على وعيه ومناعته الوطنية وجبهته الداخلية ، هذا جزء من منظومات السيطرة الاستعمارية ‏التي تسعى دائما الى تشكيل العقول وتدجينها وتحوير الاهتمامات والاولويات الوطنية والثقافية ، وليس ‏جديدا معرفتنا ان الحرب على الجبهة الداخلية لأي شعب هي اخطر من الحرب العسكرية ، هناك قوى ‏خفية تعمل في الظلام وترتدي الاقنعة ، قوى تعمل في تل أبيب أو دول عربية أو من مجموعات من ‏المرضى الذين يعتقدون أن ممارسة التفاهة والكذب ونشر ثقافة التفاهة تشفيهم من أمراضهم السياسية ‏والفكرية والنفسية والتطلعات المصلحية . ‏

التفاهة اصبحت نظام سياسي واجتماعي له ادواته ورموزه ولغته واساليبه ودعائمه ، مهمة هذا النظام ‏هي اصطياد الادراك والمعرفة ونشر الفوضى واللا يقين ، واستغلال الفضاء السيبراني ووسائل ‏الاعلام والاتصال لأجل تحقيق اهدافه . ‏

‏96 ساعة والرئيس ابو مازن يموت ، اشاعات غير مقيدة بلا مصادر وبلا ضوابط قانونية او تشريعية ‏، الناس اصبحت رهينة فقاعات الاخبار ، اصطادوا انتباه البشر واستحوذوا عليه لاطول فترة ممكنة ، ‏ماذا يريدون من اختراع اقاويل وروايات غير حقيقة وواقعية ؟ انهم يريدون ان يثيروا فينا غرائز ‏ورغبات معتقدين أن هناك وحشا نائما فينا عليه أن يستيقظ ، يريدون أن يحركوا اتجاهات ومراكز قوى ‏ويبقوننا في حالة ترقب وارتياب ، يريدون ابقائنا في حالة ضغط نفسي وتعبئة دائما وخلق شعور كأننا ‏ننتظر زلزالا او كارثة أو مرحلة مفزعة . ‏

الموت حق وكل الناس ستموت ، استغل التافهون هذا الحق الالهي من خلال شخصية ومكانة الرئيس ‏الفلسطيني ابو مازن لقصف الشعب الفلسطيني بأخبار سريعة ومتناثرة وغير منضبطة كأنهم يطلقون ‏الرصاص ، لقد عملوا على فرط اغراء حواسنا بالمثيرات وسرقة وجودنا الانساني وكينونتنا وانتمائنا ‏وكأن هؤلاء يتعاملون مع الشعب الفلسطيني كشعب غبي وساذج وجاهل ، انهم يحتقرون كل عقل ‏فلسطيني من خلال اختلاق اخبار مزيفة ويدسونها في وسائط اعلامية كأنها مخدرات . ‏

هناك قوى تقف وراء كل ذلك وعلى رأسها المحتل الصهيوني وأعوانه لا سيما بعدما فقدت اسرائيل ‏كدولة محتلة قوتها المعنوية وذلك الانطباع بأنها دولة انتصرت على الشعب الفلسطيني ، لقد تآكلت ‏صورة هذه الانتصارات لهذه الدولة الاستعمارية أمام انتفاضات القدس وهباتها وصمودها في مواجهة ‏المستوطنين ومسيراتهم واعتداءاتهم على الأماكن المقدسة ، تآكلت صورة الاحتلال امام ابطال مخيم ‏جنين الذين فرضوا منع التجوال على تل أبيب والمدن الإسرائيلية وأمام ابطال نفق الحرية ، الأعلام ‏الفلسطينية رفعت في القدس رغم الحشد العسكري ورفعت في اللد والرملة ، نعش الشهيدة شيرين ابو ‏عاقلة لم تستطع الهمجية الإسرائيلية من إسقاطه بعد ان ظل مرفوعا على أكتاف وروح القدس العالية ، ‏وعلى مدار 55 عاما من الاحتلال و74 عاما من النكبة لم يتنازل الشعب الفلسطيني وقياداته عن حقوقه ‏السياسية وحق تقرير مصيره . ‏

إن الاستخدام المنظم للمعلومة والدعاية بغرض التأثير على الوضع الداخلي الفلسطيني واحتلال الوعي ‏والإدراك بهذا الحشد والاخبار المفبركة والمخترعة على منصات التواصل الاجتماعي بهدف اثارة ‏التوقعات والخوف من المجهول ومحاولة جعل الاخيولة المخترعة تتحول الى حقيقة بما يضيع الحقيقة ‏الفعلية ، كل ذلك لإخراج قوى كامنة اخرى تعمل بصمت على تدمير الشعب الفلسطيني ومشروعه ‏الوطني وتحويل اهتمامات الشعب من القضايا الوطنية المصيرية إلى القضايا الداخلية ووضعه في عالم ‏من الصور المتنافرة .‏

كم مرة مات الرئيس ابو مازن ؟ لا زالوا يشتغلون على هذا الخبر بحرارة ، تكثر الاسئلة والتحليلات ‏والأفكار المضطربة ، لا أحد يكتب بهذه الغزارة عن الاستيطان المتصاعد وعن عمليات القتل ‏والاعدامات الميدانية والاعتداءات على المسجد الاقصى في القدس وعن حملات الاعتقال اليومية ، كأن ‏المطلوب جعل انشغال الناس بنظام التفاهة غطاء لجرائم الاحتلال المستمرة ولاطفاء جذوة الصمود ‏والمقاومة ،ولاسقاط المثال والرمز ومنظومة القيم والمبادئ الانسانية والاخلاقية للشعب الفلسطيني . ‏

Jerusalem - "Al Quds" dot com - Today, Thursday, the Israeli occupation forces stormed the house of the Governor of Jerusalem , Adnan Ghaith , and renewed the decision to prevent him from entering the West Bank.

It is noteworthy that the occupation authorities constantly renew the decision to prevent him from entering the West Bank for 3 years, as the first decision was issued immediately after he started his work in 2018.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - Started this morning, Wednesday, the arrival of the first batch of pilgrims to the Holy House of God , to the West Bank , through the Karama crossing.

According to the General Administration of Crossings and Borders, the first group arrived in the city of Mahmoud Abbas for pilgrims and Umrah performers, after completing the Hajj rituals in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

The people of the pilgrims flocked to the region to receive them and transport them to the various governorates, amid great joy.

Jerusalem - Union Information Department - The Joseph Blatter Academy team defeated the South African SA Development team, 2-0, in a friendly match that brought them together today, Tuesday, at Faisal Al-Husseini Stadium.

Before the start of the match, the players of both teams observed a minute of silence in memory of player Capello Johnny Malisa, who died by drowning in the city of Jericho last Sunday.

The academy's goals were scored by players Odeh Asfour and Uday Salhia. After the end of the match, the visiting team was honored with medals and commemorative shields.

Kiev ( Ukraine ) (AFP) - Nine Ukrainians, including four children, were injured Saturday in Russian bombing of the city of Voznesensk, near a nuclear power plant in the southern region of Mykolaiv, according to the region's governor, Vitaly Kim.

Kim wrote on the Telegram application that the children ranged from three to seventeen years old, "and all of them are in critical condition," stressing that a girl lost an eye in the attack.

Voznesensk is located about twenty kilometers from Ukraine's Prevdinokrainsk nuclear power plant and about 70 kilometers from Mykolaiv.

The bombing affected a residential building and a number of houses in Voznesensk, which includes about 30,000 people, according to what the State Emergency Service said on Facebook, publishing pictures of a destroyed building.

Heavy and continuous Russian bombardment targets the Mykolaiv region near Kherson, which has been almost completely captured by Russian forces since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24.

Andrei Yermak, director of the office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, condemned the attack, saying, "Voznesensk is a terrorist area, which prompted Russia to strike a residential building."

"Our goal is to make not only the current generation of Russians take responsibility, but also their children and grandchildren. Russia will pay the price," he added.

The Ukrainian army confirmed in the morning, on Telegram, that four Russian Kalibr cruise missiles had been shot down near the city of Dnipro (center-east), launched across the Black Sea, by an S-300 air defense system.

Ivan Federov, the mayor of Melitopol in the Kherson region, who lives in exile, confirmed on Telegram that Ukraine had bombed a Russian military base in this occupied city.

On the ground, the Ukrainian army reported Russian attack attempts, especially in the Donetsk region near Bakhmut, Zaitseve and Kudima. And the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirmed in a statement this morning that "the battles are continuing."

TUNIS - (Xinhua) - A Tunisian group of politicians, trade unionists and civil society activists launched today (Sunday) an initiative to support President Kais Saied's path, which he announced on July 25, 2021, under the name "Let the people win."

This initiative comes at a time when events are accelerating in Tunisia amid increasing partisan alignments and political alliances, opposing the legislative elections scheduled for December 17th.

In a statement signed by 25 political, trade union and community figures, a copy of which was received by Xinhua News Agency, those concerned with this initiative described their initiative as a "national, popular, horizontal struggle framework".

Among the signatories to this statement are Zuhair Hamdi, Secretary General of the Popular Current Party, Haikal Belkacem of the Popular Front Movement, former Parliamentarian Mubaraka Brahmi, Mohamed Ali Boughdiri and Mohamed Saad (former general secretaries of the Tunisian General Labor Union), in addition to Ibrahim Bouderbala, dean of lawyers. the previous.

The owners of this initiative emphasized that their initiative "is open to the general Tunisian people, and to all its diverse forces that deeply believe in the path of December 17-July 25, and completely boycott the pre-2010 and pre-2021 system to achieve political, social and economic change."

This initiative includes 15 points, including an emphasis on basic human rights and other public and individual rights and freedoms, the independence of the judiciary, and the dedication of fair and efficient judicial accountability, in addition to their call for justice between individuals, marginalized parties, and vulnerable groups.

They considered that their initiative is "an intense expression of an integrated national project in various fields that aspires to the unity of destiny with the general people."

On the economic level, it stipulated that "a diversified, balanced, fair and integrated economy based on parity and partnership between the public and private sectors and taking care of the social, solidarity, mutual and civil economy as a basis for progress and development."

The initiative stressed the "enlightened Arab-Islamic, African and international civilizational and cultural affiliation with the necessity of turning to all countries and opening up to emerging global horizons on the basis of gradual liberation from dependence, building respect and cooperation, and adopting a policy of non-alignment."

Despite the assertion of the owners of this initiative that their initiative "is not just an electoral tool, but rather a fusion of struggle on the basis of a very important interim mission," observers linked the timing of its launch to the elections that Tunisia is preparing for on December 17, and to the increase of fronts, alliances, and party coalitions opposing President Kais Saied.

Over the past few months, the Tunisian opposition has sought to try to unify its work within the framework of party fronts and coalitions, and this effort has intensified with the approaching legislative elections, which it said it would boycott.

Among the most prominent of these opposition alliances and coalitions, we find the National Salvation Front, which was founded on May 31, headed by Ahmed Najib al-Shabi.

Tunisia - (Xinhua) - Tunisia's trade deficit rose during the past nine months to 18.8 billion dinars ($5.88 billion), compared to 11.9 billion dinars ($3.71 billion) during the same period of 2021, according to official statistical data published this evening (Thursday). Tunisian National Institute of Statistics.

According to these statistical data, which came in a report on Tunisia's foreign trade, excerpts from which were published by the official Tunisian News Agency this evening, this rise coincided with "the expansion of Tunisia's energy deficit."

She explained that Tunisia's energy balance deficit represents 36.6% of Tunisia's total trade deficit, and pointed out that the value of Tunisian exports during the aforementioned period amounted to 42.2 billion dinars ($13.18 billion), an increase of 25.8% compared to the results recorded during the same period of the year 2021.

She attributed this rise to the development of the country's exports of phosphates by 72.1%, agricultural products by 32.1%, textile and clothing by 21.9%, and mechanical and electrical industries by 13.5%.

On the other hand, the country’s imports increased during the aforementioned period by 35%, to reach 61 billion dinars ($19.06 billion), as a result of an increase in Tunisia’s energy imports by 100.8%, in addition to an increase in imports of raw and semi-finished materials by 37% and consumer goods by 13.4%. %.

This caused a decrease in the percentage of imports covered by exports in Tunisia's trade balance with September 2022, by five points compared to the same period last year.

Written by: Dr. Ibrahim Abrash

In his speech at the United Nations General Assembly last September, President Abu Mazen acknowledged, albeit belatedly and vaguely, that the political settlement process entitled the Oslo Accords and the two-state solution had reached a dead end. It was an acknowledgment due to Israeli practices and international inaction, and he repeated that in his speech on the eleventh of November. On the seventeenth anniversary of the martyrdom of Abu Ammar, and he talked about the issue during the funeral of Shirin Abu Aqleh, and finally after the march of the Jewish flags and the storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque, which has become almost daily, calling on the international community to intervene and the Israeli occupation authorities to return to negotiations and abide by the signed agreements and resolutions of international legitimacy and the two-state solution within a year One, and as a veiled threat, he hinted at abandoning the Oslo Accords and all associated obligations if Israel did not abide by that.

Someone might say that Abu Mazen, with this statement, wants to calm the state of popular anger and absolve himself of responsibility for what happened, and that he is still betting on the international system and the political settlement, and that his threats have no value because the political system and the entire Palestinian situation are not qualified for the options that the president is talking about. .... .

However, if we assume the existence of good intentions and the will to change the approach, then the president's words include, as we mentioned previously, an admission of the failure of the previous policies and strategies of the political system and a preparation for a strategic review, even if Hamas and its affiliated parties also admitted their mistakes and the failure of their policies and stopped arrogance and obstinacy, which is a failure Make sure, after 15 lean years of its rule over the Gaza Strip, that it has become possible to return to a national dialogue that is not limited to the existing parties, but includes all Palestinians, including parties, civil society institutions, and independents, because those outside the parties are more numerous than those inside the parties, a dialogue that establishes a new national strategy that rebuilds The entire political system, and accordingly, the one-year deadline set by the president is not only directed at Israel and the international community, but also at the components of the entire political and societal system. This deadline will lead to a further deterioration of the situation and the consolidation of the division, and we may be attacked by new divisions that are no less dangerous than the current one.

After three-quarters of the presidential deadline/ultimatum has passed, and under an Israeli government headed by Naftali Bennett and an Israeli society that is no less Zionist and extremist than it, there is no chance for Israel to change its policy and adhere to the resolutions of international legitimacy or the two-state solution. The Israeli government has intensified its settlement projects and the storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Jenin, Nablus, Hebron and other areas. The provocation reached the government's adoption of the media march in Jerusalem and its implementation under the protection of the army. It also does not appear on the horizon that Hamas and other factions will pick up the president's initiative and reconsider their policy and take a step towards ending division and the achievement of national reconciliation. Indeed, all its policies and measures in the Gaza Strip confirm that it will not back down from its control over the Strip.

So what will the president do after next September and the expiry of the specified deadline, even though what happened of Zionist practices after the president's speech in September required a response without waiting for the specified deadline?

It may be understandable that Israel is indifferent to the president's speeches and threats, and it has become accustomed to such threats from all Palestinian factions. It is also possible to understand the negativity of Hamas' position, and the Palestinian factions did not take the president's threats seriously, and it seems that the majority of the Palestinian people and all countries of the world do not take the president's threats seriously. Seriously, the reason is simply that all of these parties did not see a movement on the ground by the official institution, which suggests that a change is being prepared for.

Yes, there are no indications that the Palestinian leadership is preparing for a new approach by implementing the decisions of the Central Council or returning to the people through general elections so that the people can say their word. Neither the National Council nor the Central Council nor the Executive Committee of the PLO met to discuss the matter until the eighth general conference of the Fatah movement. Postponing it, and as the popular proverb says (if it needs distraction, it will be clouded), and that some say there is still plenty of time until September, this is an underestimation of minds because the implementation of the president’s threats or what he declared requires a comprehensive national strategy to confront the Israeli reactions to the president’s implementation of his threat. Even without the President's reprieve and his threat, and as previously mentioned, what is happening requires such a move and such a strategy as soon as possible.

And we say it frankly, and after we tracked what happened in the march of the Jewish flags and the settlers’ storming of the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque without valuable reactions from the political class and from the official and partisan institutions, after what happened, we do not believe that what happened after last September will be different from what came before it, rather things will be worse. Even if the president issued a decision to implement the Central Council's decisions, the official institutions would not be able or willing to implement it.

Bordeaux - (AFP) - This month, French women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer will be able to turn the page on their suffering with a free artistic tattoo, with the aim of erasing stigma, as part of the "October Rose" initiative to raise awareness of this disease.

"Look at my tattoo," says Nathalie Sogan, 55, admiring her tattoo in the mirror.

The scars from Sugan's surgical removal of both breasts are no longer visible. Those on the left are covered by a painting showing an Asian landscape that includes a waterfall, stones for their "hardness," two koi fish, a species known for its tough conditions, and Mount Fuji in the background.

It took about seven hours of work to complete this tattoo, as a result of which Sugan turned a page from her life that lasted seven years of suffering from cancer. Sugan was diagnosed for the first time with this disease in May 2015, when doctors told her that the infection affected her right breast.

"Cancer is like a tsunami that we face," she says. She underwent her first mastectomy two months after her condition was diagnosed. To hide the effects of the operation, in 2018 she received a tattoo of a tree and a Buddha statue.

Her second breast developed cancer in 2019, and she became angry at having to undergo a second mastectomy and then chemotherapy.

The drawing of the tree and the Buddha statue are now in harmony with the tattoo of the waterfall and Mount Fuji, while the body of the fifty-year-old woman is characterized by this "work of art", which refused a reconstruction of her breasts because she had suffered enough.

As for the tattoo artist, Yale, she believes that tattoos carry many meanings, and she says, "We do not contribute to saving lives on a daily basis, but we help in healing."

Breast cancer is the most common and deadly type of cancer among women worldwide, with 54,000 new infections and more than 12,000 deaths annually recorded in France.

During the first weekend of October, about twenty women decided to undergo a tattoo in a hotel hall in Bordeaux, the first for most of them, Pascal Murray, 67.

"I did not initially support the idea of tattooing. But the October Rose initiative is taking place in my area, and when I learned about Rose Tattoo, I was convinced," she says.

Doctors told Murray when she was 41 years old that she was in the pre-cancerous stage, that is, the stage of detecting cells growing abnormally. The woman underwent a reconstruction operation using her latissimus dorsi muscle, which left scars at the operation site.

And these wounds disappeared under a tattoo of beautiful roses. "This painting adorned a place that was not beautiful," says the sixty-year-old woman.
"I've been told a lot that getting a tattoo is an end to suffering," says Natalie Cade, president of the Sur Danker association behind the initiative. Other tattoo sessions are scheduled to take place in Paris.

Kaede remembers the first time she launched this initiative in 2016, saying, "There were seven tattoo artists for nine women," noting that this low turnout shocked her.

The demand for tattoos has increased annually since 2016. A woman wishing to receive a tattoo must wait “at least one year” after the last surgery she underwent, in addition to submitting a medical statement that she does not object to resorting to this procedure, provided that it does not exceed the date of the three months preceding the day of the initiative.

The tattoo artists, for their part, undergo training to obtain the necessary “technical and medical information” from a specialized surgeon, and thus become familiar with the physical and psychological consequences of cancer.

Sur Danker's goal is to make tattoo art become a healing tool in itself.

Sandrine, who received a tattoo three years ago and came to accompany her close friend, confirms that she no longer sees the effects of cancer, and says, "I no longer talk about what I went through, but only about tattoos."