Written by: Mohamed Salama

Yair Lapid, the candidate of the coalition camp (Change), retired from scripts for dramas and singing in 2012 AD, to found his party “Yesh Atid”, which means in Arabic there is a future, moving to politics after he was an accomplished singer and a TV star, in addition to his profession in boxing and martial arts, and he achieved the highest viewership among Israelis.
Singer Lapid, before the scheduled elections, the day after tomorrow, Tuesday, said: “I smell victory, based on the latest poll conducted by Channel 13, which showed that his party will get about (27) seats in the Knesset, and that his coalition may displace Netanyahu’s right-wing camp from forming the next government.” Although the Likud may get (29) seats, while the Zionist movement of the United Torah Judaism and Shas parties, and the presence of Gvir Ben Itamar and Smotrich, constitute the explosion bomb in Netanyahu’s face after they described him as a liar, the son of a liar, and then apologized to him, and it was reported that he (i.e. Netanyahu) does not like appearing in the media. and television programs so that he does not commit a mistake..and strips him of his popularity in favor of his opponent, the singer Lapid, who has been touring these days in the Israeli media and satellite channels, bragging about the demarcation of the maritime borders with Lebanon, his war against the Islamic Jihad in Gaza for three days, his storming of Nablus and the dismantling of the Balata camp battalion cell And the arrest of leaders from the Lions' Den and the liquidation of others.
The right-wing camp led by Netanyahu, according to the latest opinion poll, will get (59--60) seats, while the change camp led by singer Lapid will get (56--57), and that the Arab Gathering will be the helmsman, and that all polls go until the moment until The opportunity is ripe for the singer Lapid to re-form a new government, and if this happens, Netanyahu will receive the final blow and may leave the political arena, as reported by some of his close associates.
Singer Lapid and General Gantz fill the screens of Israeli satellite channels these days, without the appearance of their stubborn opponent, Netanyahu, who chose calm, and it was reported that there are deep and sharp differences in his camp, and that if he wins the elections, his formation of the government will not last long, and that the religious parties allied with him have conditions that he cannot meet in his camp. Singer Lapid, despite the existence of contradictions between his broad coalition from the right to the far left, is his chance still the strongest in forming a stable government in Israel that enjoys American approval and a liberal image in front of the West, especially since he showed excessive sympathy for his colleague (former actor) Zelensky, the President of Ukraine.
Singer Lapid was born in Tel Aviv in 1963 AD, and his father is a journalist, and his name is Joseph Lapid. He was a journalist for Yedioth Ahronoth, then Haaretz, then took over the Ministry of Justice in the Netanyahu government, and his mother Shulamit Lapid is a well-known novelist and writer of stories, and in 2021 AD, he formed an alliance with Naftali Bennett, who was director of Netanyahu's office He shared with him the presidency of the Israeli government.
Singer Lapid's party took place in 2013. He won the second place in the Knesset elections, and this was the beginning of his star’s brightness in the political arena, and his alliance with General Gantz “white-blue” helped him grab the attention of the Israelis because he is from outside the military establishment, and today he is a star on Israeli satellite screens, and he speaks publicly that he is going to Winning and that he will form the new government in Israel.

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(Xinhua) - Cuban Minister of Trade and Foreign Investment Rodrigo Malmerca said Monday that the US blockade against Cuba remains the main obstacle to the country's development.

"Despite the US blockade on the island and the Covid-19 pandemic, the world still has confidence in the Cuban market," he said in a press conference about the 38th edition of the Havana International Trade Fair, to be held from November 14 to 18.

Malmerca reported that companies from more than 60 countries are expected to participate in the event, which has been suspended for the past two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to the Cuban government, the US trade embargo caused losses of 3.806 billion US dollars to the Cuban economy between August 2021 and February 2022.

DOHA - (Xinhua) - Official data showed today (Thursday) that Qatar's budget recorded a surplus of 47.3 billion riyals (about 12.99 billion dollars) at the end of the first half of this year, compared to 4 billion riyals (1.1 billion dollars) for the same period last year. Supported by oil and gas revenues.

The data issued today by the Qatari Ministry of Finance indicated that this surplus was distributed to 33.7 billion riyals (one US dollar equals approximately 3.64 riyals) during the second quarter of the year 2022, or the three months ending on June 30, and 13.6 billion riyals in the first quarter of the year. The same ending on March 31st.

According to ministry figures published by official media, public revenues grew by 58.3 percent at the end of the first half of this year to 150.7 billion riyals, distributed among 85.7 billion riyals in the second quarter and 65 billion riyals in the first quarter.

This growth was supported by an increase in oil and gas revenues by 67 percent, to record 117.6 billion riyals, compared to 70.4 billion riyals for the first half of last year, while non-oil revenues amounted to 33.1 billion riyals, distributed among 27.5 billion riyals during the second quarter of this year and 5.6 billion riyals in the quarter. the first.

On the other hand, total expenditures amounted to 103.4 billion riyals during the first half of this year, an increase of 13.6 percent on an annual basis, and were distributed among 52 billion riyals in the second quarter and 51.4 billion riyals in the first quarter.

The International Monetary Fund had expected that the surplus of the general budget of the State of Qatar next year would reach 70.3 billion riyals (19.3 billion US dollars), compared to 44.6 billion riyals (12.3 billion dollars) for the current year, an increase of 57.6 percent.

The fund estimated that Qatar would record almost stability in its expenditures during the year 2023, to reach 235.4 billion riyals, compared to expenditures worth 236 billion riyals in the current year, and that it would achieve an increase in its revenues next year by about 9.4 percent, to reach about 306.3 billion riyals, compared to 280 billion riyals this year. general.

He attributed this to the increase in revenues from investment revenues of public companies by 121.4 billion riyals next year, compared to 82.3 billion riyals in 2022, while it is expected that revenues from oil will reach about 54 billion riyals, and revenues from liquefied natural gas will reach about 73.3 billion riyals.

Written by: Dr. Mustafa Barghouti
The reactions of Israeli officials to what is happening in the West Bank range from panic at the extent of their surprise at the escalation of resistance to the occupation, to exaggeration in claiming imaginary victories achieved by the occupation army and its security apparatus in suppressing the Palestinian people. Both responses, despite their contradictory nature, essentially express a chronic inability to understand the Palestinian people and their motives, including an inability to anticipate their actions, especially when it comes to the younger generations. They also express poor judgment and failure to assess the results of the conflict raging on the ground. The behavior of Israeli settler colonialism here is not different from many examples of colonial regimes that repeatedly failed to understand the peoples they rule and oppress, and practiced stupid arrogance that always ended in the collapse of the colonial system that established them.

The racist ideology of the Zionist movement, and the thought based on the negation of the other, in addition to the need to deny the great crime committed during the Nakba in 1948 against the Palestinian people, deepen the inability to see the Palestinians as a people who have rights and human characteristics like other peoples, and who, therefore, has the ability to develop an ability to resist injustice to which he is exposed. The intellectual positions of the Israeli system appear to be governed by a chronic fear that any partial recognition of the Palestinians' humanity will lead to the catastrophe of recognizing the scale of the historical crime committed by the Zionist movement, and what this means in terms of a complete collapse of the structure of the Israeli narrative, which has been presented to the world and the Israelis themselves for eight decades. That is why the Israeli establishment also dwells on describing every Palestinian act of resistance, no matter how noble, as terrorism, and at the same time exaggerates it in exaggerating the claim that Israel is the victim, even though it is the one who practices the occupation and perpetuates the apartheid regime.

The rulers of Israel compete in shedding Palestinian blood as fuel for their electoral campaigns, and do not hesitate to use lethal weapons against a civilian population in the first place, and unleash the hand of settler colonialists to attack the Palestinians and their homes, properties, and trees, with full protection from the occupation army. In every round of confrontation, whether in Jerusalem, the rest of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, or the Palestinian interior, the Israeli establishment uses the most lethal weapons, a highly developed and complex intelligence system, uses collective punishment, and oppresses civilians and children, then announces its tactical victories, by destroying and killing Martyrs, the liquidation of groups, and the arrest of thousands.

On the surface, it seems every time that the occupation has achieved victories that it sells to its extremist fans and is proud of. These results cannot be considered victories, as the discrepancy in losses is understandable in light of the huge difference between the military and human capabilities of the occupation army and that of the Palestinian resistance. However, the occupation hides, and perhaps does not realize, that its tactical successes are nothing but deceptive manifestations of a major strategic failure, because things are measured, in the end, by their results.

The first of these results confirms the failure of the Israeli-Zionist institution, despite the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing, and the aggressions of 1956 and 1967. The largest part of the Palestinian people succeeded in remaining steadfast in their homeland, so that their number today is greater than the number of Israeli Jews on the land of historic Palestine.

The second of these results is that all operations of repression, killing, and arrest have not succeeded in imposing submission and acquiescence on the Palestinian human existence, which has become a resistance existence, using all forms of resistance, from the simplest to the most complex.

The third consequence lies in the failure of the Oslo project, which set a trap for the Palestinians, with the aim of buying time for the Zionist movement to spread settlements and to force the Palestinians to submit to permanent occupation under the cover of self-rule governed by Israeli control. The Palestinian people overcame that project and returned to cohesion around the option of a strategy of resistance and struggle to change the balance of power, instead of yielding to its imbalance in favor of Israel.

The fourth result was the return of the cohesion of the components of the Palestinian people and their arenas around a vision for a common national project, in the arenas of common struggle, of which we saw a shining example in the Battle of Jerusalem in 2021.

Perhaps the fifth strategic outcome will be the development of collective Palestinian awareness towards the realization that the collective Palestinian goal is no longer only an end to the occupation, but rather includes the overthrow of the entire system of apartheid and racial discrimination in all of historical Palestine.

After 74 years of the Nakba, the destruction of 500 Palestinian villages and towns and the displacement of 70% of the Palestinian people, and after 55 years of the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the Palestinian people unite around the option of resistance and struggle, and the chances of isolating Israel are increasing at the international level. It seems clear that a qualitative shift has occurred in the consciousness of an entire people, and the realization deepens that Israeli settler colonialism will face the same fate that colonialism faced in many other countries, and this is accompanied by a comprehensive Palestinian awareness of the need for self-reliance, self-organization, and the challenge of the entire Israeli system of occupation and apartheid.

As for Israel's choice to destroy the so-called "two-state solution" and to establish the reality of "one state with an apartheid regime," it has no permanence, and the end of its path, if it continues, can only be its demise, and the imposition of full equality in national and civil rights, foremost among which is the absolute right of the Palestinian people to freely decide his fate.

In the end, despite the oppression and Israeli denial of the facts, the Palestinian people rise up once again in resistance, confirming the words of the Palestinian poet and activist Tawfiq Ziyad: "We are not better than any people in the world, but there is no better people in this world than us."

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Ministry of Interior in the Gaza Strip announced today, Sunday, that the Rafah land crossing will be closed on Monday.

The ministry explained in a brief statement that the reason for the closure of the Rafah crossing on Monday (April 25) is due to a leave of absence on the Egyptian side.

Paris - (AFP) - By finally agreeing to hand over German and American-made heavy tanks to Kiev despite Russian warnings, the Western camp is crossing a new symbolic threshold in its support for Ukraine , which is likely to benefit from the tanks in penetrating the lines of the Russian forces.

After weeks of Kiev's insistence on granting it "Leopard 2" tanks, which are reputed to be among the best in the world, Germany agreed on Wednesday, pledging to send 14 of them to Ukraine, paving the way for similar deliveries from many European countries that own these tanks.

"From the donation of 5,000 heavy helmets to sending the Leopard to Ukraine: in less than a year Germany has abandoned seven decades of pacifism. Maybe with some reluctance, but that makes a point," Bruno Leit, a researcher at the German Marshall Fund of the United States of the United States, commented on Twitter. A major transformation in itself."

Also Wednesday, a senior US official announced that the United States would send 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine.

Before that, London promised to give Kiev dozens of Challenger 2 tanks, while Paris and Washington announced the delivery of armored vehicles for reconnaissance and infantry forces.

This unified front behind Kiev appears to be a new challenge for the Russians, who have bet since the beginning of the conflict on the decline of Western support for Ukraine.

With these new shipments to Kiev, Westerners once again risk being accused by Moscow of "participating in the conflict". But in fact, many taboos have already fallen since the beginning of the war in Ukraine.

Ukrainian military analyst Mykola Belikov confirms that "howitzers and rocket launchers that were provided in 2022 were dangerous equipment, if not more dangerous than combat tanks, because artillery is more powerful."

Likewise, Washington recently ended up agreeing to deliver a medium-range Patriot surface-to-air missile system to Kiev after much hesitation for fear of escalation, and it is considered among the best in the West.

On Wednesday, the Russian ambassador to Germany, Sergey Nechaev, denounced Berlin's "very dangerous decision that would take the conflict to a new level of confrontation."

But a European government source said, "Our assessment is that (tanks) today are not tools of escalation, given their likely use by the Ukrainians" only on their territory, not abroad.

In the midst of its response, Moscow may deploy the next generation of its T14 combat tanks on the battlefield for the first time, but the problem is that "only about 20 of them have been manufactured" so far, according to Andras Rach, a researcher at the German Council for International Relations.

Thus, "in the absence of a commensurate military response, we can expect an increased media offensive from Russia, which could also launch a second military mobilization campaign," according to Rach.

However, the expert believes that "the Russians know very well that a few dozen Western tanks will not change the face of the war, and therefore I do not expect an immediate escalation from Moscow."

Since December, Kiev has called for sending about 300 Western-made tanks to launch counterattacks, in light of the relatively stable battle lines for months, and the imminent arrival of spring raises fears of launching a large-scale Russian operation in the Donbass region (east).

Tanks and armor could allow Ukrainian forces to gain an advantage in movement, hoping to penetrate Russian defense lines with artillery support and break the trench warfare taking place in the east of the country.

"Battle tanks have been an integral part of the arms race since World War II. No defensive or offensive operation can be carried out without an arsenal of offensive tanks," says Ukrainian expert Mykola Beliskov.

However, tanks alone will not guarantee an advantage on the battlefield.

The expert stresses that "only when used in coordination with mechanized infantry, artillery, air defense and missile divisions can tanks achieve results."

TUNIS (Xinhua) -- Tunisian Prime Minister Naglaa Boudin affirmed (Monday) that her country's economy is on the way to recovery, calling for the need to invent a new development model that takes into account major economic and social transformations.

This evening, local radio stations quoted Boudin as saying during a seminar on "rethinking the restructuring of the world of work in Tunisia in order to achieve a successful recovery after the Covid-19 pandemic," that "Tunisia's economy is on its way to recovery, and the state is capable of confronting the current situation and overcoming various challenges." Challenges and restoring financial balances.

And she believed that "the development model adopted in Tunisia for decades has become unable to face economic and social challenges, and has proven very clearly that it does not respond to major reforms and to the requirements of sustainable, comprehensive and integrated development that we aspire to."

And she added that this development model "has produced many structural problems that have exacerbated indicators of regional and social inequality and feelings of exclusion and marginalization among important segments of society."

And she called for "the need to create a new development model that takes into account the current major economic and social transformations, and respects the principles of transparency, rational disposal of wealth and good corporate governance in a way that contributes to achieving equality and social justice."

In this regard, she emphasized that her government had embarked on a set of reforms "according to an approach based on participatory and dialogue," she said.

The Tunisian Prime Minister had met earlier today with President Kais Saied.

The Tunisian presidency said in a statement posted on its official Facebook page that the meeting "dealt with government work in general and the financial, economic and social conditions in particular."

She pointed out that during this meeting, they discussed "the effects of the changes the world is witnessing today on Tunisia, and the need to take measures to limit their consequences at the level of the state's financial balances."

In a statement in mid-October, the International Monetary Fund announced that it had reached a preliminary agreement at the expert level with Tunisia to grant it a $1.9 billion loan to support its economic policies.

The final agreement regarding this loan remains subject to the approval of the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund, which is scheduled to discuss Tunisia's request in December, according to the statement.

Written by: Dr. Crimean Amani
Israel has a consistent strategy in dealing with the media's systematic assassinations, especially those that provoke angry global reactions. The promotion of this strategy takes place through a huge propaganda machine, the most important and prominent of which is the mobilization of the official Israeli voice with the popular with the media, with most of its writers and journalists of various spectrums, united to form a propaganda wall for Israel and its defender. In the assassination of the witness and martyr Shireen Abu Aqleh, the Israeli propaganda strategy was recalled, which depends / in general / on three elements:
The first: denial through the theory of inevitability condemning the occupation. The prelude to the theory comes by depicting the place as a battlefield and a battle between two parties: the Palestinians are the evil part of it as "terrorists", and the occupation army is the fighter against terrorism. Therefore, it is only natural that everyone who is present in the battle, including journalists, will be injured and killed. This is what we saw in the initial Israeli reactions to the assassination. For example, the statement of Naftali Bennett, the Prime Minister of the entity, carried accusations that armed Palestinians fired indiscriminately, which led to the death of the journalist, with an assertion that the Israeli government will continue to launch its raids against "terrorism," according to him. Also, most of the Israeli newspapers and the media showed pictures showing clashes between the Palestinians and the Israelis.
Second: Attempting to comprehend the event: The event here, in the view of the occupation, is not the killing of Sherine in itself, but the overwhelming power enjoyed by the Al-Jazeera channel network and its harnessing of its various tools to expose the assassination and provoke a huge wave of popular and official global reactions to the crime. It has rightly proven that it is one of the first in the world in the ability to influence, stimulate interaction, focus on the event and multiply its momentum. Israel announced that it had requested a joint investigation with the Palestinian Authority, which in turn refused. This is what Israel is well aware of, and I do not know when there was even a joint investigation in such cases. However, the goal was not to investigate or whitewash the face of the occupation in front of the PA and the Palestinians, but to accommodate and control the angry global reaction to show that it is a democratic country that is likely to make mistakes during its battle against terrorism and that it is ready to correct the mistake.
And the third: shifting the compass of the novel from the center to the branches: after the torrent of independent investigations and scientific analyzes carried out by human rights groups and press institutions on the assassination of Sherine, which confirms the eyewitness account supported by videos with audio and video, that it is impossible that the assassination of Sherine was carried out with a Palestinian bullet, according to the analysis Line of sight, distance estimation, and bullet pointing. And it is proved that Shirin was killed by an intended Israeli bullet, and her colleague, Ali Al-Samoudi, was also wounded by a targeted bullet. The Israeli media began to move towards other forms of response that deviate from the main problem and spread negative propaganda to cast doubt on the true story through:
1. Turning the opponent into a demon, prompting the Israeli pens to attack Al-Jazeera and consider it a mouthpiece for extremists.
2. To shed light on the alleged ongoing threat that Israel faces, and to publish videos of pictures of dead Israeli civilians.
3. Attacking the Palestinian Authority and its leadership for being the reason for the incitement and fueling the situation. In the case of the assassination of Sherine, the Authority was accused of supporting what Israel called the "Jenin terrorists". Accordingly, the moral responsibility for the occurrence of losses is something that Israel does not bear alone, but rather the Palestinian National Authority.
4. Repetition, the repetition of the same narrative with its lies in the Israeli propaganda machine and its global extensions and by various officials, writers, journalists, and influencers on social networking sites based on “Lie… lie, then lie so that people believe you.”
By the time the truth can come out, the world will have forgotten the event and no longer care.
By the way, when Israel bombed the tower with missiles, in the May 2021 Gaza war, the tower, which houses dozens of offices of international press organizations, justified its attack by claiming that Hamas was using it. Until now, Israel did not provide any evidence for its claim, but it was not noticed that the global coverage of the war decreased significantly after the bombing.
Thanks to the modern means of communication that documented the killing of Sherine, and she was faster than Israel in sound and image in conveying the truth to the world and conveying the message of the eyewitnesses who were with her.

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Washington (AFP) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who has not left his country since the Russian invasion on February 24, arrived in Washington on Wednesday, which announced that it would provide his country with the most advanced Patriot air defense system.

President Joe Biden will receive his Ukrainian counterpart at the White House before the latter addresses the US Congress as part of this historic visit.

On this occasion, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced, "Today's assistance package includes, for the first time, the Patriot air defense system, which is capable of shooting down intercontinental missiles, short-range ballistic missiles, and aircraft flying at altitudes that clearly exceed the capabilities of the defense systems that have been delivered so far."

For his part, Russian President Vladimir Putin promised Wednesday to continue developing the capabilities of his army and its nuclear power, disavowing any responsibility for the "common tragedy" in Ukraine.

In an intervention he delivered during an expanded meeting with senior officers, Putin announced that new intercontinental Zircon hypersonic missiles would enter service "beginning of January," stressing his intention to increase the number of the Russian army to 1.5 million soldiers.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said one of the "priorities" would be "to continue to carry out the special operation (in Ukraine) until all its goals are fulfilled."

Shoigu considered that in Ukraine, "the Russian military is confronting the combined forces of the West," adding that "the growing presence of the West at our borders and the borders of Belarus, and the West's intention to extend military operations in Ukraine to the maximum extent with the aim of weakening our country, are of particular concern."

US presidential spokeswoman Karen Jean-Pierre said in a statement that Zelensky's visit confirms that the United States will support Ukraine "as long as necessary."

The Kremlin said on Wednesday that new US arms shipments to Ukraine would only "exacerbate" the conflict with Russia. "All this certainly exacerbates the conflict and does not bode well for Ukraine," said Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov, referring to new arms shipments to Kiev.

And the Ukrainian president confirmed in a tweet on Wednesday morning that he was "on his way to the United States to strengthen the resilience and defense capabilities" of Ukraine.

On September 1, 2021, President Joe Biden received Zelensky in the Oval Office and promised him his support in confronting Russia.

On Wednesday, the two men will meet in the same place, but in a meeting that takes a different historical dimension, as it is the first physical meeting since Russia invaded Ukraine, which made Zelensky the war leader known all over the world, and Joe Biden, the supreme leader of the Western response to Russia.

During this visit, which is surrounded by very tight security measures and will only take "short hours", the Ukrainian president will first hold a meeting with the US president and his apparatus at the White House, before holding a press conference, as a senior US official explained during a meeting with reporters.

US parliamentarians are preparing to vote on a new package of aid to Ukraine worth about $45 billion.
They will hear Zelensky's speech as Congress partially shifts to the side of the Republican opposition in January, which raises some questions about the future policy of the United States on Ukraine.

During a visit to the front on Tuesday, in the city of Bakhmut (east), the Ukrainian president gave a sign upon receiving the flag from the fighters, saying, "We will give it to the US Congress, to the US president. We are grateful for their support, but this is not enough."

The United States is the largest donor to Kiev by a large margin, and according to expert estimates, it provided about 50 billion dollars in aid to Ukraine, including 20 billion dollars in arms and military assistance.

On the ground, the fighting continued on Wednesday, as the Ukrainian General Staff reported Russian attacks and shelling in the east and northeast.

At least three people were killed and 14 injured in strikes on the Donetsk and Kherson regions, according to local authorities.

The Russian military said it had captured "new heights and base lines" near Donetsk, a stronghold of pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.

After a series of Russian military setbacks in northeastern and southern Ukraine, the bulk of the fighting is currently concentrated in the east. Russia has been carrying out massive bombing of Ukrainian infrastructure since October, causing power and water outages.

The delivery of the Patriot systems is intended to respond to these attacks.

Shanghai - (AFP) - Demonstrations have been taking place in the Chinese city of Shanghai since dawn Sunday, according to eyewitnesses, in protest against the strict closure measures applied by the authorities within the framework of the "zero Covid" policy in the country for nearly three years.

In a video recording widely circulated on the Internet, demonstrators appear in a place identified by AFP as geographically located on Wulumukhi Street in central Shanghai, chanting slogans calling for President Xi Jinping to "resign" and attacking the Chinese Communist Party, in a rare expression of hostility to the president and the regime in China. The economic capital of the country.

In another video clip transmitted by an eyewitness to France Press, people appear as they gather in central Shanghai to honor ten people who were killed in a fire in Urumqi in Xinjiang (western China).

Internet pioneers are circulating posts on social networks in China confirming that anti-Covid measures have exacerbated the tragedy because they have slowed down the arrival of help.

Other posts on social media reported that vigils were held to commemorate the Urumqi victims at a number of universities across the country.

A person who participated in one of the protest rallies in Shanghai told AFP, on condition of anonymity, that he had arrived at the gathering at about two o'clock in the morning.

This witness said that "a group of sad people put flowers on the pavement while another group was chanting."

He added that "some limited clashes occurred, but in general the police acted civilly," explaining that "the police took two people for unknown reasons."

The police did not hesitate to impose restrictions on online discussions about the demonstration. It blocked the "Urumqi Road" hashtag on Weibo, China's Twitter-like platform, shortly after photos of the gatherings were posted.

The strict policy to combat the COVID-19 epidemic is causing increasing dissatisfaction in China. Sporadic demonstrations, some of them violent, have taken place in a number of cities in recent days, including at the world's largest iPhone factory located in downtown Zhengzhou and owned by Taiwanese giant Foxconn.

Despite the many vaccines available, and unlike other countries in the world, China still imposes isolation measures as soon as infections appear, including quarantine for those who prove infected with the disease in centers, and almost daily “BCR” tests to enter public places.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Palestinian Bar Association decided, this evening, Tuesday, to suspend work throughout tomorrow, Wednesday, before all courts of all types and degrees, regular, military and administrative, settlement courts and the Supreme Court, including civil, administrative and military prosecutions, official departments, execution departments and the clerk's department. Justice, with the exception of procedures related to legal terms.

The Syndicate called on all lawyers to actively participate in the "peaceful" sit-in scheduled to be held tomorrow, Wednesday, starting at 12:00 noon with overnight stay in front of the Magistrate Court and the beginning of Nablus.

She also called on all lawyers to take these decisions, confirming that violators of the Bar Council’s decisions to suspend work will be referred to the disciplinary councils, suspended from work.

Ramallah- “Jerusalem” dot com- Bank of Palestine and Proparco, the investment arm of the French Development Agency (AFD), with funding from the European Union, signed a renewal agreement to support and finance small and medium enterprises, through the ARIZ MENA portfolio, at a value of $9.2 million.

The agreement was signed on Monday, 01/30/2023, at the headquarters of the General Administration in Ramallah, in the presence of His Excellency the Governor of the Palestine Monetary Authority, Dr. Firas Melhem, Mr. Hashim Shawa, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bank of Palestine Group, Ms. Françoise Lemopard, CEO of Proparco, and Mrs. Sarah Morsi, Regional Director for the Middle East at Proparco, Mr. Sven Kon von Burgsdorff, Representative of the European Union to Palestine, Mr. Mahmoud Shawa, General Manager of Bank of Palestine, and a number of officials and managers from both parties.

This support is the fifth that the AFD Group provides through Probaco within this project to Bank of Palestine and in cooperation with the European Union, which provides financial facilities in the Middle East and North Africa region. By targeting marginalized sectors such as: small, micro, medium, and green projects, and startups under 3 years of age, and leading to support for projects of business owners and youth, which target the sectors of agriculture, health, education, tourism, and digital sectors, to contribute to achieving inclusion. financial, especially since many of these companies were affected and faced great challenges in obtaining financing and loans, after the end of the Corona pandemic period.

Françoise Lombard, CEO of Proparco, said: “Proparco is pleased to continue its successful cooperation with Bank of Palestine, through this project, which will contribute to supporting the Palestinian private sector, in key sectors that have a significant impact on local development.”

In turn, Sven Kon von Burgsdorff, the representative of the European Union to Palestine, expressed his happiness at renewing the signing of this agreement, saying, "We are pleased in the European Union to contribute to supporting and financing this important investment with our partners, Proparco and Bank of Palestine, through our guarantees, to assist small and medium-sized companies in their commercial undertakings, and to absorb High risks when needed, and unleashing investment, which contributes to promoting development and creating job opportunities.Burgsdorf added that investments of this kind show our commitment to supporting sustainable economic development in Palestine, and establishing a strong and independent economy that can serve as the backbone of the future Palestinian state.

In this context, Hashim Shawa, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bank of Palestine Group, expressed his pride in the strategic partnership with Proparco and the European Union as main partners and investors in the Bank for many years, which contributes to supporting sustainable economic development, adding that together we were able to contribute to creating a positive impact on our society. And our economy, in terms of SME lending, including green finance, with a real focus on sustainability and financial inclusion.

In turn, Mahmoud Shawa, General Manager of Bank of Palestine, appreciated the efforts of the AFD Group and the European Union for their continuous support to the Palestinian private sector, due to their pioneering role in supporting economic and social development, indicating that we are looking forward to more cooperation with the European Union, the French Development Agency, and Proparco in the field of financial intermediation. .

Funded by the European Union, the AFD Group launched this project, which targets countries in the Middle East and North Africa to support financial inclusion and finance small and medium-sized companies in seven Mediterranean countries: Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine and Tunisia, with the aim of providing financing solutions in local currency, performance incentives, and assistance Technical, to facilitate and provide credit to companies with high development impact.

It is noteworthy that Proparco, in cooperation with the European Union, signed an agreement with Bank of Palestine in January 2022, at a value of $30 million, to provide green loans, within the SUNREF II green financing program.

Palestine bank:

Bank of Palestine is the largest financial institution in Palestine, seeking to raise the level of banking services in Palestine, and develop them, in line with the development witnessed by the banking sector in the world, to meet all the financial needs of the various Palestinian segments and sectors. Bank of Palestine plays a major role in supporting the Palestinian economy, including small and medium-sized companies within the framework of its strategy, contributing to the promotion of green financing, investing in technology and digitization, in addition to allocating programs and services that target owners of small, medium and micro enterprises, in addition to services directed to individuals. Low-income people, workers, beneficiaries of aid programs and other segments as part of its comprehensive strategy for sustainability.

Proparco Corporation:

It is the private sector financing arm of the AFD Group, which has been promoting sustainable economic, social and environmental development for more than 40 years, providing financing and support to both corporate and financial institutions in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, to enable key development sectors: infrastructure, especially in energy renewables, agribusiness, financial institutions, health and education.

The European Union's external investment plan in the Middle East and North Africa:

The EU's ambitious foreign investment plan is designed to encourage investment in its partner countries. In order to help better identify, prioritize, coordinate and promote the investment opportunities offered by the plan through its many instruments in Palestine, the EU and the Palestinian Authority have set up a dedicated EU-Palestinian investment platform, promoting mutual dialogues and policies.

The plan aims to encourage a selected number of financial institutions to increase their lending activity to small and medium enterprises in order to reduce their exposure to risks. The guarantee facility in the Middle East and North Africa region consists of preparing a set of financial instruments consisting of risk-sharing facilities, by providing lines of credit, and providing technical assistance to increase the portfolios of financial institutions for small and medium enterprises.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned, today, Wednesday, in the strongest terms the insistence of the occupying state, its government and its various arms to commit more violations and crimes against the Palestinian citizens, their land, homes, sanctities and facilities, including the crimes of demolishing homes and facilities that continue as is the case. In occupied Jerusalem, Masafer Yatta, Hebron, the Jordan Valley, and all areas designated (C).

The ministry considered this an official Israeli disregard for international legitimacy, its decisions, and international demands to stop the continuous Israeli escalation and settlements, and to return to calm as an essential prelude to building confidence between the Palestinian and Israeli sides on the road to restoring the political horizon for resolving the conflict.

The Ministry considered that the occupying state is not satisfied with committing these crimes on a daily and continuous basis, but rather does not tolerate and reject any conversations or statements that remind the Israelis and the international community of the many crimes committed by Israel and its gangs against our people, as is the case with the miserable and misleading statement made by the Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid regarding the statements President Mahmoud Abbas in Germany, in an attempt to protect the false narrative promoted by Israel and its governments to mislead the world about the conflict, history and geography, which indicates that the occupying state has no intention of apologizing for the crimes and massacres committed by the Zionist gangs, whose various arms continue to perpetrate against our people and their land until this moment. .

She said, "The denial of Lapid and other Israeli officials of the historical injustice that befell our people and is still continuing is further evidence of the occupation's intentions not to stop committing more of these crimes. On the Israeli recognition not only of the suffering of the Palestinian people, but also of their just and legitimate national rights and their independent state, which was approved by international legitimacy.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs held the Israeli government fully and directly responsible for the crimes committed by its forces against our people in the Gaza Strip and the ongoing crimes against our people in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem. the date.

She indicated that the Ministry is following up with the international community, its institutions, countries and the International Criminal Court, on a continuous basis, the violations and crimes of the occupation against our people, as well as the attacks of armed settler militias against Palestinian towns and villages with the aim of perpetuating the theft of more Palestinian land and allocating it in favor of settlements as a war crime and a crime against humanity, as happened In their attacks on the archaeological area in Sebastaba, under the protection of the occupation forces, with the aim of controlling and stealing it.

And she stressed that the right beginning to establish the foundations and pillars of peace is the occupation state's recognition of the injustice that befell our people and the cessation of settlement activity and all forms of crimes it commits.

And she called on the international community to translate its positions and decisions into measures and actions that would force the occupying state to stop its crimes and engage in a real political process that necessarily leads to ending the Israeli occupation of the land of the State of Palestine.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics said that the index for the quantities of industrial production recorded an increase of 11.39% during June 2022 compared to May 2022; The industrial production index rose to 118.57 in June 2022, compared to 106.45 in May 2022 (base year 2019 = 100).

The movement of industrial production quantities at the level of the main economic activities

Manufacturing activities recorded a sharp increase of 13.09% during June 2022 compared to the previous month, the relative importance of which constitutes 87.89% of the total industry activities.

As for the sub-activities, which have a significant relative impact on the overall index, some manufacturing activities recorded an increase during the month of June 2022 compared to May 2022, the most important of which is the manufacture of shaped metal products except for machinery and equipment “aluminum”, and the manufacture of other non-metallic mineral products “concrete, stone, marble, and asphalt”, the manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products and their preparations, the manufacture of food products, the clothing industry, the furniture industry, the activities of printing and reproduction of recorded media, and the manufacture of tobacco products.

On the other hand, according to the statistics, the industrial production index recorded a decline in some manufacturing activities, the most important of which are the beverage industry, the textile industry, and the chemical and chemical products industry.

Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply activities also recorded an increase of 4.58%, the relative importance of which is 7.38% of the total industry activities.

While the activities of water supply, sanitation, waste management and treatment recorded a sharp decline of 12.98%, whose relative importance is 1.84% of the total industry activities.

Mining and quarrying activities recorded a decrease of 3.38%, the relative importance of which is 2.89% of the total industry activities.

New York - (AFP) - The former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, who is close to former US President Donald Trump , has pleaded guilty to fraud and tax evasion and agreed to testify at the organization's trial, according to the Manhattan attorney general's office.

The attorney general's office said in a statement that Allen Fisselberg pleaded guilty to 15 counts of fraud and tax evasion involving $1.76 million in unreported income between 2005 and 2021.

Weisselberg, 75, has been working for the Trump family since 1973, and the judiciary accuses him of having benefited from in-kind benefits, including an apartment in a luxurious neighborhood in Manhattan, renting two Mercedes cars for him and his wife, and obtaining money to spend his vacations, and he kept all of this from the tax system.

Manhattan Attorney General Alvin Bragg said, "Today, Alan Weisselberg admitted in court to using his position at the Trump Organization to defraud taxpayers and enrich himself."

He added, "The agreement reached with the judiciary directly links the Trump Organization to a wide range of criminal activities and requires Weisselberg to give valuable testimony in the upcoming trial against the organization."

Initially, Weisselberg pleaded not guilty in July 2021 to the charges against him, which subjected him to a prison sentence of up to 15 years.

However, according to the agreement he concluded with the judiciary, he will only spend five months in prison and will pay about two million dollars, including evaded taxes, fines and interest, according to the statement.

Until this agreement was concluded, Weisselberg had refused to testify against Donald Trump personally.

The criminal trial against the Trump Organization, which has pleaded not guilty, is scheduled to start on October 24.

New York State Attorney General Letitia James is conducting another civil investigation, regarding the same suspicions of financial and tax fraud in the Trump Organization.

In this context, Donald Trump had to testify under oath last week, but he refused to answer questions under the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution, which allows any litigant not to testify against himself.

In another file, a search took place at Donald Trump's home in Florida last week.

FBI investigators suspected that the former president had violated the Anti-Espionage Act, which strictly regulates the possession of classified documents related to national security, and "supposed to be kept only in private government facilities," according to judicial documents.

A parliamentary committee is also seeking to shed light on the role the billionaire played in the attack that a mob of his supporters launched on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Yuzhny ( Ukraine ) (AFP) - Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Alexander Kubrakov announced Sunday that the first ship chartered by the United Nations and loaded with 23,000 tons of grain is ready to leave the country.

"The ship will head towards Africa, and Ethiopia will be the last country to deliver the cargo," the minister said at the port of Pivdni in the city of Yuzhny, during the loading operations of the ship "MV Private Commander".

"I hope that other ships chartered within the framework of the World Food Program will arrive at our ports, and I hope that there will soon be two or three additional ships," he added.

Later, he added on his Twitter account that the shipment had ended and that the sentinel was ready to leave, without specifying a date for that.

The ship docked Friday in the port near Odessa. The Ministry of Infrastructure said it would go to Djibouti, and from there shipments would be transported to Ethiopia.

It is the first shipment of food aid to leave Ukraine since Kiev signed an agreement in July with Russia, mediated by Turkey and supervised by the United Nations, which provides for the export of Ukrainian grain, which was suspended due to the war between the two countries.

"We've already planned for more ships to leave Ukraine's ports to help people around the world. It's the first of a number of humanitarian ships leaving ports," Marian Ward, assistant director of operations for the World Food Programme, told reporters.

The first commercial ship left on August 1, and 16 ships have departed from Ukraine since the agreement entered into force, according to a census of the Ukrainian authorities.

No UN humanitarian ship has yet left the port.

Ukraine and Russia are among the world's largest exporters of wheat, whose prices are skyrocketing due to the war.

The World Food Program confirms that 345 million people, a record number, in 82 countries, are facing food shortages today.

While fifty million people in 45 countries are threatened with starvation if they do not receive humanitarian aid.

We reaffirm to everyone near and far that the occupying power is the main cause of the tensions that our people and the region are experiencing, and violations of Palestinian human rights, in particular, and of Arabs in general, as a result of the crimes it commits against the country and the people.

Every day, you either kill a martyr in cold blood, especially young men and boys, or you carry out a campaign of arrests targeting the young and the old, in addition to the attacks of herds of settlers who are supported and protected by the occupying forces deployed in the occupied Palestinian territories, which suppress citizens and degrade their dignity, especially at the military checkpoints near which he was martyred. Dozens, or even hundreds, of our people were killed by the bullets of these forces, which did not hesitate to shoot and kill them in cold blood, in front of the ears and eyes of the whole world.

Yesterday, it stormed the Jenin camp and executed a young man in the prime of his life for no reason other than that he was Palestinian, in addition to arresting the leader of the Islamic Jihad movement, Sheikh Bassam Al-Saadi, and a number of others from his relatives and from the camp. This angered the citizens, who clashed with the storming forces.

And after it carried out its crimes and violations, it declared a state of alert, fearing the reaction of the Islamic Jihad movement, to these crimes, from the Gaza Strip, meaning that the occupying state is responsible for the killings and provocations, and it is the one that puts the region on the crater of a volcano that could explode at any moment. Especially since our people cannot remain silent on these occupation crimes, nor on the crimes of the herds of settlers.

The Palestinian side, represented by the authority and all factions of national and Islamic action, must move at the highest levels to confront these crimes, which have become intolerable and cannot be tolerated, especially since they are on a continuous and daily escalation without any regard for laws, norms and international decisions.

And the first Palestinian steps on the official and factional level is serious work to end the long-standing division, before it turns into separation, which the occupying state benefits from and feeds, because in the end it is in its interest and the interest of its repressive policies against our people, our land, and our sanctities.

It is without the unity of the national ranks and ending the shameful division, which constitutes a disgrace in the forehead of those in charge of it and those who nurture it, and are procrastinating in restoring things to their proper place.

It is true that there is a field unit in the popular response to the occupation forces and herds of settlers, but this field unit must culminate in the political and geographical levels, and the development of a joint action program to confront the challenges, violations and occupation crimes that ultimately target the Palestinian cause and work to liquidate it.

The time has come for all Palestinians to assume their responsibilities and not to leave our people alone in the face of the brutal occupation and the herds of its settlers.

Amman - PalSport Agency / The President of the Palestinian Jiu-Jitsu Federation, Ghassan Abu Matar, praised the prominent Palestinian presence in the activities of the Amman International Jiu-Jitsu Championship “ADCC”, which Jordan hosted for the third time in the Middle East, amid the wide participation of players, clubs and centers representing 14 countries. Abu praised Matar praised the efforts made by the player of the Jordanian national team for jiu-jitsu and the executive director of the organization, Zaid Jarandouqa, with the support of Palestinian jiu-jitsu. , to expand the base of the game and provide the national teams with players, including the Palestinian national team, which has become referred to as Lebanon in this sport.

Yesterday, Saturday, our Palestinian national team player, Qais Shuqair, won the gold medal in the weight above 76 and in the weight under 91, he also won the silver medal, and the player Rashid Ghazal won the silver medal, both of them from the "101" club.

In the same context, and in another international tournament to be held in the Italian capital, Rome, Jaafar Al-Tamimi, the Palestinian national jiu-jitsu team player, won the bronze medal.

Abu Matar confirmed in his interview with Pal Sport Network and Agency that these participations in which our players participate come with the aim of discovering ores to be explored. The Palestinian players were among the strong competitors in all tournaments.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - The head of the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, Major General Qadri Abu Bakr, condemned today, Sunday, the retaliatory policy practiced by the occupation prison administration against the prisoners of the Freedom Tunnel , which is represented by a set of practices and punishments based on racism and permanent hatred.

Abu Bakr said in a press statement to him, "Since our heroic prisoners were able to break the security system in Gilboa prison and enable them to escape honorably and roam the occupied country for several days, the military and political components of the occupation are living in a state of frustration and disorientation, and are trying to escape from this failure by continuing Domination over the six prisoners in their isolation.

Abu Bakr added: "It is inconceivable that this farce should continue, as flight is legitimate in accordance with international laws and regulations, and accountability for it is rejected by virtue of the agreements and customs in force in the world, except here in occupied Palestine all the principles of the international system are violated by the Israeli occupation state without anyone moving still.”

The head of the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs confirmed that all the immoral and inhuman behaviors and practices that are practiced against the prisoners of the Freedom Tunnel and the continuous abuses against them, which was confirmed by the heroic prisoner Muhammad Al-Ardah, who is in the cells of the “Ayalon” isolation, and that his cell, like his brothers in other places of isolation, is subjected to continuous storming in a manner A provocation that increases their patience and defiance until freedom is achieved and this occupation is broken, knowing that he is being held in a cell with the prisoner, Iyad Haradat, where the commission's lawyer, Fawaz Al-Shaludi, was able to visit them recently.

Larissa (AFP) - At least 36 people were killed and 85 injured Tuesday evening in a collision between two trains in Greece, according to relief teams Wednesday, which led to a wave of discontent over the lack of safety on this railway .

A police source told AFP that the director of Larissa station in the center of the country, a town not far from the scene of the accident, was arrested on Wednesday.

Government spokesman Yannis Oikonomu said that, for an unknown reason, the two trains had been traveling on the same track "for several kilometres".

"The death toll has now risen to 36," Vassilis Vathrakoyannis, a spokesman for the fire brigade, told reporters, adding that operations were still underway to remove the passengers still trapped in the damaged carriages.

He explained that "66 people were transferred to hospitals, including six in intensive care," while the previous toll spoke of 85 wounded.

The passenger train was making a trip between the capital, Athens, and the city of Thessaloniki in the north-east of the country, while the freight train was making the same trip in the opposite direction.

The head of the union of train drivers, Kostas Genidonias, who went to the scene of the tragedy, denounced the lack of safety systems on this line that connects the two main cities in Greece.

"The two trains were on the same tracks and there was a head-on collision," he told AFP. "No safety system, remote control or traffic lights operated. This terrible accident could have been avoided if the safety systems had been working."

Train users in Greece regularly complain about the outdated network. The Italian FS group oversees the Hellenic Train, which was privatized in 2018.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis went to the site of the accident, while mourning was declared for three days in Greece.
Greek Transport Minister Kostas Karamanlis called on his compatriots to "remain calm".

In the early morning hours, images showed charred vehicles amid sheet metal and shattered windows. Other less damaged vehicles overturned while rescuers used ladders to extract survivors from the wreckage.

The two trains collided at the exit of a small tunnel over which a highway connects the two major cities of Greece.

Greek media reported that the disaster was "the worst railway accident Greece has ever seen".

"The work of the fire and rescue teams is very difficult, as they are looking for ... the charred bodies," said Konstantinos Yanakopoulos, head of the Larissa Doctors' Syndicate, on public television, ART.

"We felt the impact like a violent earthquake," a passenger named Angelos, 22, told AFP at the scene.
"Fortunately, we were in the penultimate carriage and survived. A fire broke out in the front carriages and panic ensued. I had a nightmare... I am still shivering."

A spokesman for the fire brigade said that several vehicles derailed before midnight on Tuesday, north of the city of Larissa, at the level of the Tambeh Valley, after a freight train collided with another carrying 350 passengers.
"Most of the passengers were young people," said Greek Health Minister Thanos Pleveris. Many students were on the train on their way back to Thessaloniki after a long weekend.

Gaza

Today, Friday, Hamas denounced the occupation's policies against the educational system in occupied Jerusalem , especially its attempts to erase the curricula, distort the Palestinian identity and obliterate its features among the younger generation, and limit the possibility of developing the school and educational environment within its schools.

Muhammad Hamadeh, a Hamas spokesman for the city of Jerusalem, praised the educational institutions and their pioneering national role, expressing his full support for them.

Hamadeh emphasized that the attempts to "clandestine" the educational curriculum and tamper with the national educational institutions will not succeed, and will be shattered on the rock of the steadfastness and awareness of the Palestinian people.

The Hamas spokesman called for mobilizing resources and energies, officially and popularly, to strengthen the national education system in the city of Jerusalem, to enable our people to enjoy all their rights, foremost of which is their right to education.

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لا يقتصر تمدد جغرافية ونفوذ وتسلط المستعمرة وأدواتها على الأرض، بل تمتد لتشمل فرض التعليمات والأوامر والإجراءات الاستعمارية على الفلسطينيين، لم يكن ذلك بقرار إعادة احتلال المدن التي سبق وانسحب منها، أو تراجع عنها، أو إعادة الانتشار خارجها، وعودة جيش الاحتلال لإعادة سيطرته على المدن الفلسطينية منذ قرار شارون في 29 آذار 2002، بعد انتهاء قمة بيروت، وصدور المبادرة العربية ورداً عليها، ورفضاً لها، في حينه أعاد شارون احتلال مدن الضفة الفلسطينية جميعها بدون استثناء إلى اليوم.

لم تقتصر السيطرة الاستعمارية الإسرائيلية على المدن، وبقاء السلطة الفلسطينية، كما يصفها الرئيس أبو مازن «سلطة بدون سلطة»، بل تعدى ذلك تدريجياً بإعادة العمل بما يسمى «الإدارة المدنية» وهي الشكل المدني زوراً للاحتلال، فالإدارة المدنية الإسرائيلية هي وجه جيش الاحتلال وأدواته كي تكون البديل العملي للسلطة الفلسطينية، إنها تتسلل تدريجيا لتقويض السلطة الفلسطينية المحدودة، وجعلها شكلاً بلا قيمة، بلا وزن، بلا قرار، تمهيداً لمستقبل أكثر سواداً في إنهاء السلطة لدى الضفة الفلسطينية، لتكون مقتصرة على قطاع غزة، لأن حل الدولتين لدى المستعمرة هي دولة فلسطين الغزاوية إلى جانب دولة المستعمرة الممتدة على كامل خارطة فلسطين باستثناء قطاع غزة، غير المرغوبة، غير المطلوبة، غير المنضوية في خارطة المستعمرة الممتدة من البحر المتوسط حتى نهر الأردن، ويتم ذلك تدريجياً، في القدس وعلى أرض الضفة الفلسطينية بدون قطاع غزة.

الإدارة المدنية تسرق تدريجياً مكانة السلطة الفلسطينية، ودورها وخدماتها وعنوان نفوذها وإدارتها، مثلما يسرق المستوطنون ويتمددوا تدريجياً في سلب وسرقة ونهب أرض الفلسطينيين على امتداد خارطة وطنهم.

دققوا بما تقوله الصحفية الإسرائيلية عميرة هيس المعادية للاحتلال وللصهيونية، في مقال لها نشرته صحيفة هآرتس يوم 1/8/2022، تقول:

«نحن اليهود الإسرائيليين، بكوننا طاردين لشعب من وطنه، قمنا بتطوير الاحتلال والإدارة ليصبح فناً نستخدم قوة الأوامر التي قمنا بصياغتها والقوانين والإجراءات وقرارات القضاة، من أجل الإساءة طوال الوقت لشعب آخر، الإدارة المدنية لم تخترع هذه الطريقة، بل هي رأس الحربة لعنف الاحتلال البيروقراطي».

في اللقاء مع قيادات المستعمرة، رفضوا ثلاثة مطالب قُدمت لهم، أولاً وقف اقتحام حرمة المسجد الأقصى، ثانياً وقف الاستيطان، ثالثاً فتح طاولة المفاوضات الفلسطينية الإسرائيلية، رغم تواضع هذه المطالب مقارنة مع مطالب إزالة المستوطنات ورحيل المستوطنين، وإنهاء الاحتلال ونيل الشعب الفلسطيني لحريته على 22 بالمائة من خارطة فلسطين، ولكنهم رفضوا ذلك: هيرتسوغ، نفتالي بينيت، يائير لبيد، بني غانتس، وآخرون، فهم سائرون في برنامجهم لاستكمال مشروع الاحتلال والاستعمار والسيطرة على كامل خارطة فلسطين باستثناء قطاع غزة.

مطار رامون في النقب سيخصص للفلسطينيين، للسفر والعودة، حتى يختزلوا السفر إلى الأردن عبر الجسور، وما أزمة الجسور الصيفية سوى شكل من أشكال «القرف» و»التعب» و»الإرهاق» و»الكلفة المالية» المتعمدة من قبل سلطات الاحتلال، كي يكون مطار أورون هو وسيلة تنقل الفلسطينيين بالذهاب والإياب من وإلى فلسطين بديلاً عن الخدمات الأردنية.

الإدارة المدنية ومطار رامون هما وسيلتا الإضعاف المبرمجة لفرض سلطات المستعمرة وتوجهاتها وسياساتها على الفلسطينيين بديلاً لسلطتهم الفلسطينية، بشكل تدريجي تراكمي، فهل تدرك سلطة رام الله وسلطة غزة ذلك؟ هل يفهمون؟ هل يستوعبون؟ هل يصنعون البديل؟.

شيتاغونغ، بنغلاديش-(شينخوا) تم الاحتفال باكتمال الأعمال الإنشائية للمدخل الجنوبي لأول نفق تحت الماء في جنوب آسيا.

يقع نفق بنغاباندهو شيخ مجبور رحمن، الذي تشيده شركة صينية، عند مصب نهر كانابوري في مدينة شيتاغونغ، ويربط بين الضفتين الشرقية والغربية للنهر.

قامت ببناء النفق شركة إنشاء الاتصالات الصينية المحدودة ويمتد بطول 9.3 كم بسرعة 80 كم في الساعة. وتم دعم المشروع من قبل بنك الصين للتصدير والاستيراد بائتمان تفضيلي.

وانضمت رئيسة وزراء بنغلاديش الشيخة حسينة إلى الاحتفال يوم السبت افتراضيا من مقر إقامتها الرسمي غانابهابان في دكا، حيث أعربت عن تقديرها لجميع الجهود المبذولة في بناء المشروع.

وقال السفير الصيني لدى بنغلاديش لي جيمينغ إن هذا النفق سيعمل على تحسين النقل المحلي بشكل كبير وسيسهل الاتصال بين بنغلاديش والدول المجاورة، مما يدل على دور بنغلاديش المحوري في الاتصال الإقليمي ودورها المركزي بين دول الحزام والطريق.

ويعد المشروع أيضا أول نفق يبني بأسلوب الدرع تحت الماء بقطر كبير تنفذه شركة صينية في الخارج.

New York - (AFP) - A man carrying a Kalashnikov was arrested in New York last week in front of the home of an Iranian-American journalist and feminist who has been critical of Iranian authorities and was the target of a 2018 kidnapping plot.

Khaled Mehdiyev was spotted last Wednesday and Thursday behaving suspiciously around the home of journalist Masih Alinejad in Brooklyn, New York. Last week, the FBI arrested the man and found an AK-47 rifle and about 60 bullets in his car, according to a Federal Police memorandum filed Friday before the Manhattan Federal Court.

Masih Alinejad was not mentioned in the published judicial documents, but on Sunday and Monday she confirmed via Twitter, accompanied by tweets with footage from surveillance cameras, that the man, who was arrested by the New York Police Department, "attempted to enter her home in New York with a loaded firearm to kill her."

"Last year, the FBI prevented the Islamic Republic from kidnapping me. My crime is to give a voice to those who have no voice. The US government should be tough on terrorism," the feminist activist wrote on social media.

In July 2021, the US judiciary charged four “Iranian intelligence agents” with plotting to kidnap Masih Alinejad in 2018, by trying to force Iranian relatives of the journalist to lure her to another country, with the aim of arresting her, transferring her to Iran and imprisoning her.

Last summer, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken met with an Iranian-American activist who is known for encouraging women in her country not to wear the hijab and for her statements and writings against the Iranian authorities.

London - (AFP) - As of December 8, Netflix will provide the documentary series about Prince Harry and his wife, Megan Markle, according to what their biographer announced Thursday, while the streaming platform showed a short promotional clip about the work that the royal family awaits. British worried.

Harry and Meghan biographer Omid Scobie explained that this series, which is distributed over six episodes, "will deal with the other side of their love story and the difficulties they faced."

The promotional clip, titled "Harry and Meghan", featured black-and-white photos of the couple accompanied by dramatic music, with Harry saying, "No one sees what happens behind closed doors." "I had to do my best to protect my family," he adds.

The announcement of the series coincided with the visit of Prince William and his wife Kate to the United States, in light of the continued coldness in his relationship with his brother Harry and Megan, who currently reside in the US state of California.

In the promotional clip describing the screening of the documentary series as a "global event", Megan also says, "When the challenges are so great, doesn't it make sense to hear our side of the story?"

In early January, Prince Harry will publish his memoirs, which are also expected to reveal embarrassing secrets.

الحلقة الثالثة
بقلم:حمادة فراعنة
تخوض انتخابات الكنيست اليوم الثلاثاء، الاول من تشرين الثاني 40 قائمة حزبية، لن تتمكن من الفوز سوى عشر كتل من الكتل الإسرائيلية، إضافة إلى الكتلتين الفلسطينيتين: المشتركة والموحدة، والامل أن تنضم لهما الثالثة: كتلة حزب التجمع الوطني الديمقراطي.
القوائم الحزبية الإسرائيلية العشر، خمسة منها جرت لديها تعديلات وإضافات وانحيازات، لتضمن ليس فقط عبور نسبة الحسم، وقدرتها مضمونة على ذلك، ولكنها تسعى ورغبتها نحو وصول المشاركة في تشكيل حكومة المستعمرة المقبلة، أما الخمس الباقية فقد سبق لها الفوز، وهي ممثلة في الكنيست الحالي 24، وتتوسل العودة بالفوز للكنيست المقبل 25.

الكتل الإسرائيلية التي أضافت لنفسها قوة هي:


1- الليكود برئاسة نتنياهو، لديه 30 مقعداً، انضم له نواباً وشخصيات نافذة، مما سيعطيه فرصة زيادة تمثيله، لأكثر من ثلاثين نائباً.
2- يوجد مستقبل برئاسة يائير لبيد، لديه 17 مقعداً في الكنيست، وانضم له رئيس الأركان السابق الجنرال غادي أيزنكوت، والنائب ميشال شير، عضو حزب أمل جديد، والنائب ماتان كاهانا نائب وزير الاديان السابق.
3- المعسكر الرسمي برئاسة بيني غانتس، رئيس حزب أزرق أبيض، لديه 8 مقاعد، انضم له جدعون ساعر وحزبه أمل جديد، ولديه 6 مقاعد، مما يؤكد أنهما عبر كتلتهما الائتلافية الجديدة، سيكون لديهما ما يوازي 14 مقعداً.
4- الصهيونية الدينية برئاسة بتسلئيل سموترتش، ولديه 6 مقاعد، انضم له المتطرف إيتمار بن غفير، وسيكون لهما قائمة متطرفة أكثر عدوانية ضد الفلسطينيين في منطقتي 48 و67، وتعلن برنامجها عن طرد الشعب الفلسطيني وترحيله عن وطنه.
5- حزب البيت اليهودي، الذي إندمج معه حزب يمينا برئاسة إيليت شاكيدا، بعد أن تم حل الحزب الذي كان يقوده نفتالي بينيت، الذي استقال من رئاسة الحكومة ومن رئاسة الحزب، ولديه 7 مقاعد.
البيت اليهودي برئاسة يوشي بروداني، تنازل عن رئاسة القائمة لصالح شاكيدا، ومتوقع لهما الفوز المؤكد لاكثر مما كان لديهما في دورة الكنيست السابقة 24 .
أما الأحزاب الخمسة التي حافظت على وحدتها وتماسكها وسبق لها التمثيل في الكنيست السابقة، فهي:
1- شاس برئاسة أريه درعي، وله 9 مقاعد.
2- يهودت هتوراة برئاسة موشيه غفني وله 7 مقاعد.
3- إسرائيل بيتنا برئاسة أفيغدور ليبرمان وله 7 مقاعد.
4- حزب العمل برئاسة ميراف ميخائيلي وله 7 مقاعد.
5- حركة ميرتس برئاسة نيتسان هورفيتس وله 6 مقاعد.
إضافة إلى الكتلتين العربيتين: 1- المشتركة ومتوقع لها أربعة مقاعد بدلاً من ستة بعد خروج حزب التجمع الوطني الديمقراطي منها، 2- القائمة العربية البرلمانية الموحدة- الحركة الإسلامية الجنوبية، ولها 4 مقاعد، متوقع أن تحافظ عليها.
السؤال من هو الأكثر نصيباً بالفوز؟؟.
اعتماداً على المعطيات القائمة، من المتوقع أن يفوز نتنياهو برئاسة حكومة المستعمرة المقبلة لعدة أسباب هي:
أولاً سيكون هو صاحب الكتلة الأكبر، لأكثر من 30 مقعداً، وله الأولوية في التكليف كونه رئيس كتلة الحزب الأكبر.
ثانياً ستكون إيليت شاكيدا، رئيسة حزب البيت اليهودي حليفة له، كما أعلنت ذلك، بعد أن كانت في حزب يمينا الذي تم حله برئاسة نفتالي بينيت الذي شكل حكومة التغيير بعد فشل نتنياهو في تشكيل الحكومة السابقة، مما يعني أن شاكيداً ستنتقل من معسكر يائير لبيد إلى معسكر نتنياهو.
ثالثاً لقد أعلن منصور عباس أنه سيتحالف مع أي كتلة تعرض عليه الائتلاف، وإذا حالف نتنياهو فرصة التكليف، سيكون جاهزاً كي يكسب الأغلبية، ليعرض على رئيس القائمة الموحدة منصور عباس ليكون معه حليفاً في الائتلاف، ويستجيب لمطالب الحركة الإسلامية كي يفوز في تشكيل الحكومة، قبل أن يحظى بها يائير لبيد.

Gaza - "Jerusalem" dot com - Dr. Abd Khalayleh, director of the organ transplantation unit at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital, and Dr. Samer Diab, a vascular surgeon from Rambam Hospital, both members of the Physicians for Human Rights Association, performed two transplants last weekend. Kidneys of Palestinian patients from the Gaza Strip .

Each of Dr. Concubine Dr. Diab came to the Gaza Strip as part of a delegation from the Society of Physicians for Human Rights, which visited the Strip at the end of last week for the purpose of carrying out a medical activity.

The delegation consisted of 25 doctors and members of the medical staff, who performed surgeries, brought in medicines and medical equipment, provided medical care to patients, and held rehabilitation courses in the field of mental health.

The two kidney transplant operations were performed at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. The first operation was performed on a 27-year-old girl from Gaza City, who received a donation from her father. The second operation was performed on a 25-year-old girl from Nusseirat refugee camp. She received a kidney donation from her sister.

The operations were carried out after preparatory work that lasted for a few weeks, led by Physicians for Human Rights and in coordination with Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza. The preparations included meetings via Zoom program between the surgeons and the medical staff of Al-Shifa Hospital, in addition to taking blood samples from patients and sending them to Hadassah Hospital at a cost. It amounted to tens of thousands of shekels in order to ensure the suitability of the organs for transplantation and to buy injections and special medicines for them.

It is noteworthy that a few kidney transplant operations were performed in the Gaza Strip, irregularly, by two doctors, one from England and the other from Jordan, but Israel stopped allowing the Jordanian doctor to enter the Strip, which caused a reduction in the number of such operations inside the Strip.

The two operations that took place in Al-Shifa Hospital are in addition to 16 other surgeries that were performed by the doctors of the Physicians for Human Rights delegation, including: nine orthopedic operations in Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, under the supervision of Dr. Mustafa Yassin and Dr. Mahmoud Khatib, two high-ranking orthopedic doctors from Hasharon Hospital, and 7 eye surgeries under the supervision of Dr. Ahed Mtairat, an ophthalmologist from Soroka Hospital, and a blood vessel operation under the supervision of Dr. Jamal Hijazi, a vascular surgeon at Shaare Zedek Hospital, at the European Hospital in the city.

The members of the medical delegation also held, in parallel, medical days in the fields of family medicine and gynecology, two of which were held in the Nuseirat refugee camp, where more than 330 patients were examined, while the psychologists among the delegation members continued their approach in holding vocational rehabilitation courses In the field of mental health for Palestinian mental health teams from the Gaza Center for Mental Health, the Palestinian Ministry of Health, and the Medical Center for Trauma Victims in Gaza City.

The visit also included the delivery of medical equipment and medicines worth more than 300,000 shekels.

Salah Haj Yahya, delegate director of the Physicians for Human Rights Association, stated: “The Gaza Strip has been suffering all the time, 365 days a year, for more than 15 years, as a result of the Israeli blockade that suffocates the civilian population and prevents them from any possibility of obtaining conditions.” In addition to the medical objectives, the delegation's visit constitutes solidarity with the suffering and hardship of the residents of the Strip, and it represents a clear message that the illegal Israeli policy of blockade must be stopped.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Ministry of National Economy, in cooperation with its partners, launched today, Sunday, the activities of the National Product Day, which was approved by the government on the first of November of each year to encourage national products.

The National Day program includes organizing an exhibition of industries in the northern and southern governorates, a promotional bazaar for national products, and a series of seminars and workshops with the aim of highlighting the reality of national products and the importance of being the first choice for citizens.

Within the activities of the National Product Day, the Ministry will promote the platform for requests and offers for Arab industrial and mining products, in addition to implementing awareness and guidance campaigns in cooperation with all partners in the public and private sectors.

The program of events aims to promote and introduce our national products that are marketed in countries of the world, and it has become necessary for them to be the first choice in various fields of life.

The Ministry stressed that developing and supporting our national products is a collective responsibility that requires us to practice it as a way of life because of its positive repercussions on production and operation.

BEIJING - (Xinhua) The People's Bank of China (the central bank) on Sunday pumped 2 billion yuan (about 281.7 million U.S. dollars) into the market through reverse repo operations to maintain liquidity in the banking system.

According to the People's Bank of China, the seven-day reverse repo rate is set at two percent.
The central bank said the move aims to maintain stable liquidity in the banking system.

Reverse repurchases, or what is known as a "reverse repo", are financial operations in which the central bank purchases securities from commercial banks through specific offers, with an agreement to resell them to them again in the future.

JUBA - (Xinhua) -- South Sudan on Sunday declared a measles outbreak after a continuous rise in the number of confirmed cases during the past 38 epidemic weeks.

John Romono, director general of preventive health services at the Department of Health, said 31 deaths and 2,471 measles cases had been reported in 22 districts across the country.

"Based on the number of laboratory-confirmed measles cases across the country, the National Ministry of Health hereby declares an outbreak of measles in South Sudan," Romono told reporters in Juba, the capital of South Sudan.

He said South Sudan has experienced recurrent measles outbreaks since 2021, primarily due to intermittent routine immunization services and inadequate implementation of supplementary immunization activities.

"The last national measles immunization campaign was conducted in 2020, with less than 85 percent coverage, which is below the recommended 95 percent immunization rate," he said.