PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 8:05 pm - Jerusalem Time

A citizen was killed in a run-over accident in Nablus

Nablus - "Jerusalem" dot com - Imad Saadeh - The citizen, Hamada Khaled Hanani (47 years), from the town of Beit Furik, east of Nablus, was killed in a run-over accident west of the city, Thursday evening.


The media spokesman for the police, Colonel Louay Irzeigat, stated that the governorate police operations room received a report about a run-over accident involving a citizen who was crossing the road in Malhis Street, west of Nablus. After that, he was taken to the hospital and doctors later announced his death.


Arziqat added that the police seized the driver who caused the accident, while the Public Prosecution Office was informed and the investigation was initiated by the traffic police to find out its reasons.

PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 8:05 pm - Jerusalem Time

A limited Israeli incursion east of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip

Gaza - "Jerusalem" dot com - On Wednesday morning, several Israeli vehicles made a limited incursion into citizens' lands, east of Khan Yunis , in the southern Gaza Strip .


According to eyewitnesses, 4 bulldozers and two machines penetrated the lands located in that area, and carried out razing operations, amid intermittent shooting.


This coincided with shooting at farmers and shepherds in more than one border area, without any injuries reported.


OPINIONS

Wed 15 Mar 2023 8:05 pm - Jerusalem Time

Israel wants a weak and submissive authority

Written by: Nihad Abu Ghosh


There is a debate in many international and local circles about what the government of Israel is pushing for of a total collapse of power, because of its extremist program, its most extreme and brutal behavior, and its clear efforts to resolve the conflict on the ground by armed force, iron, fire, bulldozers, and other measures of Judaization, settlement, oppression, and piracy of Palestinian funds, by unilateral decisions taken by institutions. Occupation without negotiations and in isolation from any international resolutions.

The reality is that the parties to the current Israeli government do not agree on a unified stance towards the PA. There are those who do not mind dissolving and undermining it, as Smotrich and his partner Ben Jvir openly announce, as the former calls in his program to replace the PA with local and regional bodies elected by the Palestinians in proportion to their tribal and clan reality. Because, in his opinion, they do not constitute a people and do not have national rights, but Benjamin Netanyahu and his party (Likud) do not necessarily share all of the extreme right's views, and like the parties to the previous government, they prefer that the Palestinian Authority remain weak and submissive.


The Palestinian National Authority arose as a result of the Oslo Accords on the one hand, and by a decision of the bodies of the Palestine Liberation Organization, specifically the Palestinian Central Council in its session held in Tunis in October 1993, four weeks after the signing of the Oslo Accords. From President Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, in the presence of US President Bill Clinton and the testimony of the US and Russian foreign ministers.

Although the aforementioned agreement was concluded in extremely bad international and regional circumstances for the Arabs and the Palestinians, and it came immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the first international war on Iraq, the Palestinian leadership found in the agreement at that time an opportunity to establish a foothold on the homeland, and to save the Palestinian cause from erasure and liquidation. It wagered on the existence of a serious Israeli desire for peace and settlement, as evidenced by the results of the Israeli elections in 1992 that brought the Labor Party government.

But Israel, experienced in negotiations, in control of the land and supported absolutely by the victorious United States in the two wars (cold against the Soviet Union and bloody against Iraq) planted the aforementioned agreement with dozens of clear and vague clauses, in addition to mines that can explode at every moment, making it general, loose and wide-ranging. The stronger party, which is Israel, controls its interpretation and implementation, and the Palestinian side - according to the memoirs of a number of those who negotiated the agreement, stood behind it and drafted it - were in the utmost haste, and neglected essential items and points (such as the issues of settlement, prisoners, and the political relationship with Jerusalem and Jerusalemites) and it was possible to achieve achievements And significant breakthroughs in these areas would have occurred if the Palestinian position had held together a bit and showed some firmness, which was also revealed by the memoirs of Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres and their aides.

The Palestinian Authority, and the Palestinian people in general, remained subject to the pressure and blackmail of the Israeli governments, which used all their tools and strengths to subdue the Palestinians and demand them to make political concessions. In this context, Israel's control over the Palestinian funds that were supplied to the Palestinian treasury through clearing, was the easiest and most effective weapon. Even used to punish the authority for its domestic and international political stances, such as the formation of the tenth government headed by Ismail Haniyeh, then the national unity government, through joining the Rome Protocol and the International Criminal Court, and insisting on paying the salaries of martyrs and prisoners, up to the recent draft resolution in the United Nations for the International Court of Justice referendum. regarding the occupation and its practices. In addition to hacking clearing funds.

Israel also used the issues of prisoners and mass arrests, control of water, crossings, import and export, and even invasions of areas classified (A) and its control of the main roads and entrances to cities and villages, and access to VIP cards as tools to blackmail the authority.

Israel rejects the PA being the nucleus of a national project that aims for freedom and independence. It does not recognize the Palestinians as a people with political rights, but as a population with subsistence rights only. Therefore, the occupying state fights any manifestation of actual sovereignty, such as control over land, water, airspace, borders, and the electromagnetic field. Of course, it does not care about the manifestations of sovereignty and formal splendor that our officials are keen on, such as honorary titles, privileges, and escorts. At the same time, Israel and its main currents do not favor the collapse of the Authority because its survival brings Israel a number of benefits, most notably the exemption of the occupying state from any responsibility towards more than five million Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza, and the occupation is not interested in returning to managing the traffic system in the streets of Palestinian cities, nor to managing Education and health. The occupation aspires to reduce the PA's role in the security and economic functions, in a way that contributes to protecting Israel's security. Prior to that, the occupying state is concerned with continuing to mislead the world and make it believe that there is an ongoing political process. ), and that everything must be resolved through negotiations, not through the United Nations or international courts, and this is exactly the flimsy argument used by the United States and its Western allies to support the Israeli position and always vote for it.

So Israel wants the authority to remain, but it wants it to be submissive and weak, and unable to take decisive national decisions, just like a patient who continues his life depending on means of resuscitation and injections. Changing the functions of the authority and confining it to the service side, instead of this weak authority swallowing up the Liberation Organization and with it the factions of the Palestinian national movement.

PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 8:05 pm - Jerusalem Time

Injuries in Nablus.. The occupation launches a massive campaign of arrests in the West Bank and Jerusalem

Governorates - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Israeli occupation forces launched, at dawn and Wednesday morning, a massive campaign of arrests among citizens, from separate areas in the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem .


In the latest field developments, two young men were slightly injured, as the occupation forces stormed this morning the Old City of Nablus, and some of its neighboring areas.


The area witnessed violent clashes amidst a house besieged, several shells were fired at it, while news was received of the arrest of a wanted person inside.


According to the Red Crescent, a young man was wounded superficially in the head, and another with shrapnel. He was treated in the field.


In Hebron, the occupation forces arrested the deputy in the Legislative Council, Bassem Al-Za’arir, from the leadership of the movement, who is a resident of the town of Al-Samou’, in addition to the editor, Ayman Abu Awwad, from the same town.


In Bethlehem, 4 of the freedmen were arrested, Ibrahim Abdullah, Issa Al-Arouj, Munir Al-Arouj, and Ahmed Asakreh, along with the young Musa Abu Mufreh from Tuqu'.


In occupied Jerusalem, Qassem Muhammad Daoud, Muhammad Ahmad Daoud, Saeed Mustafa Daoud, Moamen Mustafa Murar, Mazhar Mashhour Daoud, and Karim Rayan, all from Beit Duqqu, northwest of Jerusalem, were arrested.

ARAB AND WORLD

Wed 15 Mar 2023 8:05 pm - Jerusalem Time

Pakistan will seek the mediation of the Supreme Leader of the Taliban in Afghanistan after the mosque bombing

ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Islamabad will ask the supreme leader of the Taliban movement in Afghanistan to mediate with the Pakistani Taliban after an attack on a mosque in Peshawar Monday that killed 84 people, officials said Saturday.


Since the return of the Taliban to power in Kabul, Pakistan has witnessed a sharp escalation of attacks in the border areas with Afghanistan, where the ruggedness of the place allows the militants not to be spotted.


Police attributed Monday's attack to Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, a more extreme faction of the Pakistani Taliban, which denied responsibility for the attack.


The Pakistani Taliban have common goals with the Afghan Taliban, led by Hebatullah Akhundzada, who runs the country from Kandahar (south), the stronghold of the hardline Islamist movement.


Faisal Karim Kundy, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's special adviser, said Saturday that delegations will be sent to Tehran and Kabul "to ask them to ensure that terrorists do not use their lands against Pakistan."


A Pakistani police official in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where Monday's attack took place, told AFP that the Kabul delegation would meet "very high-level personalities".


"When we talk about a very high-ranking figure, we mean ... the Afghan leader Hebatullah Akhundzada," added the official, who preferred to remain anonymous.


Afghan officials did not immediately respond to AFP's requests for comment.


On Wednesday, Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Mottaki warned that Pakistan should not "blame others".


During the two-decade American intervention in Afghanistan, Islamabad was accused of secretly supporting the Afghan Taliban, despite its military alliance with the United States.


But since the return of the Taliban to power in Kabul in 2021, relations have deteriorated, especially after the return of the Pakistani Taliban.


Founded by Pakistani jihadists allied with al Qaeda, the Pakistani Taliban have killed tens of thousands of Pakistani civilians and security forces in less than a decade. A military operation launched in 2014 drove the militants towards the mountainous border with Afghanistan.


A report issued by the UN Security Council in May 2022 indicated that the Pakistani Taliban, which attempted to assassinate Pakistani Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, is one of the most foreign militant groups in Afghanistan "benefiting from the return of the Taliban to power."

PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 8:05 pm - Jerusalem Time

Close the Rafah crossing next Thursday

Gaza - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Egyptian authorities decided today, Tuesday, to close the Rafah crossing in both directions with the Gaza Strip , next Thursday.


According to the Crossings and Borders Authority of the Ministry of Interior and National Security in Gaza, the closure will take place due to an official holiday on the Egyptian side.


She indicated that the crossing will be closed on Friday and Saturday due to the weekly holiday.

ECONOMY

Wed 15 Mar 2023 8:05 pm - Jerusalem Time

Canada's gross domestic product rose to 2.9 percent in the third quarter, beating expectations

Ottawa (AFP) - Canada's gross domestic product rose 2.9 percent in the third quarter, beating analysts' expectations, Statistics Canada announced Tuesday.


The fifth consecutive increase in GDP was mainly due to the growth in exports of crude oil and bitumen (+2.1 percent) and a large build-up of inventories for the second consecutive quarter.


On the other hand, the Canadian Institute of Statistics reduced the growth rate of the Canadian economy slightly for the second quarter, from 3.3 to 3.2 percent.


Inventories in the manufacturing and wholesale and retail sectors rose to a "record level," according to Statistics Canada.


However, this increase was decreased due to the decline in investment in real estate for the second quarter in a row and the decline in household spending, which led to an increase in the abundance of their returns.


Professionally, the wages of Canadian workers continued to rise in the third quarter, but at a slower pace, to be the lowest increase recorded since mid-2020, according to the government institute.


"The strong growth recorded in the third quarter does not, in fact, reflect the underlying strength of the Canadian economy," said Royce Mendez, an analyst at Desjardins Bank, noting that "a large part of the increase comes from external demand and from volatile categories."


Economist Nathan Janzen said, "Some indications indicate that inflationary pressures have begun to recede and (...) a slowdown in domestic demand, which means that the Bank of Canada may soon reach the end of its current cycle by raising current interest rates."


Many analysts agree that the Bank of Canada should not raise the key interest rate next week by more than 0.25 points.


At the end of October, he raised interest rates for the sixth time in a row, from 0.25 percent in January to 3.75 percent, with the aim of slowing inflation.


The inflation rate remained stable in October at 6.9 percent, after reaching a record peak of 8.1 percent in June.


The government said in its latest budget update that GDP growth, estimated at 3.9 percent for 2022, is expected to drop to 0.7 percent in 2023.

PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 8:05 pm - Jerusalem Time

62 dead.. 7 Palestinian women have been killed since the beginning of the year in the occupied interior

A translation of "Jerusalem" dot com - The number of Palestinian women who have been killed in the occupied territories since the beginning of this year has risen to 7, after the killing of teacher Rabab Abu Siam, a mother of three children, yesterday in the city of Lod.

According to the Hebrew website Ynet, 62 Palestinians have been killed since the beginning of the year in murders inside the occupied territories.

The site pointed out that, of the seven murders, the police were able to solve only two cases.

He pointed out that Abu Siam was killed when her baby was in her hands, and from a very close distance.

Wed 15 Mar 2023 8:05 pm - Jerusalem Time

How does one deal with the notes that are directed at him at work?

Berlin - (dpa) - Notes at work come from all directions, whether one asks for it or not. Either he receives a negative note from his boss, or a comment from a colleague.


However, helpful and constructive feedback is rare, says Theresa McInner, motivational coach and author of the books.
Most importantly, it is natural for the comments one hears to have an impact on how one sees and judges oneself. But if the other person does not call it a "commentary", and presents it as absolute information according to what is said on it, then it will lose its significance.



Comments like this usually don't help, whether they're exaggerated praise or a personal attack.


So what are the best ways to deal with such comments? It's entirely up to the person who receives it, McSinner says, adding that only we can decide whether or not to accept such feedback.

ARAB AND WORLD

Wed 15 Mar 2023 8:05 pm - Jerusalem Time

The Swiss President calls for adaptation in the face of difficulties

Geneva - (AFP) - The new president of the Swiss Confederation, Alain Berset, on Sunday called for openness and accommodation to face the difficulties resulting from the war in Ukraine, primarily inflation and the energy crisis.


Bersier, whose 2023 wishes from the National Museum in Zurich coincided with his one-year tenure, expressed "some concern" because "the final stages have been difficult".


He referred to the Covid pandemic and the conflict in Ukraine, "which negatively affects our daily lives, whether in terms of energy or inflation."


He added, "We know how to come together when necessary," and "we have learned that our institutions, our social security, our health system, and our public funds are solid," stressing that "we are able to adapt."


"We will not be able to solve all the problems. But we can contribute to solving them. Solidarity is openness. Extroversion is the opposite of introversion. It is the realization that sooner or later other people's problems will become our own," Berset added.


He continued, "In difficult times, we must stop and think carefully (...) and review ourselves."


He also said, "The problems are many. But we are many in Switzerland and around the world that we want to address. This is enough to maintain optimism and look to the future with confidence."


And the Swiss president is the first among his peers in the seven-member Federal Council, which represents the country abroad.


Bersih, 50, who belongs to the Socialist Party, retains the post of Minister of the Interior, which he has held since joining the parliament in 2012.


As health officer, he has played a key role in Switzerland's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. He assumed the presidency in 2018.


The first change in four years is that two new personalities have joined the Federal Council this year.


The ministers decided that the outgoing President, Ignacio Cassis, would remain in charge of foreign affairs and Viola Amherd, the defense issues, given the unstable international framework.


While Switzerland remains militarily neutral, Russia has applied economic sanctions imposed by the European Union after its invasion of Ukraine at the end of February.

ARAB AND WORLD

Wed 15 Mar 2023 8:05 pm - Jerusalem Time

The death toll from the Brazilian floods rose to 40, and Lula inspected the stricken areas

Sao Sebastiao - (AFP) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva visited the affected areas in the state of Sao Paulo (southeast), where floods and landslides caused by heavy rains left 40 people dead.


After flying by helicopter over the affected areas, Lula held a press conference during which he said, "It is important that we work together (...) We have to pray for the victims, and also for the rain to stop so that we can start rebuilding."


The National Institute of Meteorology issued a warning of more heavy rains in the region over the next few days.


In São Sebastião, a city located about 200 km from São Paulo, the country's economic capital, a landslide swept away about fifty homes.


And 39 of the 40 dead were in this coastal city with a population of 90,000.


The authorities warned that the death toll is likely to rise, as 40 more people are still missing.


"So far, about 40 people have not been found," Michele Cesar, chief of the fire department in Sao Paulo, told CNN Brazil.


As for the only victim who fell outside the city of Sao Sebastiao, she was a little girl who died in the coastal city of Ubatuba, to the north.


Footage from Sao Sebastiao, broadcast by local television channels and shared by accounts on social media, showed entire neighborhoods flooded, homes destroyed by landslides, highways cut off by dust, mud torrents, and cars with fallen trees and electricity poles.


The authorities declared a state of emergency in five coastal cities where landslides swept away the main road networks, making access extremely difficult.

PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 8:04 pm - Jerusalem Time

The occupation delivers notices to citizens in Bethlehem and Hebron

Governorates - "Jerusalem" dot com - Today, Tuesday, the Israeli occupation authorities handed citizens notifications in Bethlehem and Hebron .


In Bethlehem, the occupation forces were notified of the removal of the fence surrounding the 100 dunums of land in the town of Al-Khader, which had been reclaimed some time ago, and belonged to the families of Sobeih, Mousa, Issa, and Salah.


In Hebron, the occupation forces notified Ayed al-Hamamdeh of the removal of a caravan, and Ahmed Makhamreh of the demolition of a shantytown house, east of Yatta.


The settlers of "Jacob Talia" pursued farmers while plowing their lands in the village of LeSaifer in Masafer Yatta, and threw stones at them.

ARAB AND WORLD

Wed 15 Mar 2023 8:04 pm - Jerusalem Time

Kiev: Ukrainian military operation in Lugansk region "successful"

KIEV (Xinhua) -- Adviser to Ukrainian President Oleksiy Aristovich on Monday described the Ukrainian military operation in the main cities of the eastern Luhansk region as "successful."


"The defense of Lysichansk-Severodonetsk is a successful military operation," Aristovich wrote on Facebook.


He added that Ukraine carried out all four main tasks of the defensive operation, including intercepting the main enemy forces, inflicting losses on enemy forces, buying time to receive weapons, and creating conditions for offensive operations in other sectors of the front line.


Aristovich said that Ukraine is currently conducting counter-offensive operations in the eastern Donetsk region and in the southern regions of Kherson and Zaporizhia.


On Sunday, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu informed President Vladimir Putin of taking control of the Lugansk region, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.


Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky late Sunday confirmed the withdrawal of Ukrainian forces from Lysychansk, a major city in Luhansk, but vowed that Ukrainian forces would "come back".

ECONOMY

Wed 15 Mar 2023 8:04 pm - Jerusalem Time

The Palestinian Business Council celebrates its members and the Palestinian community in Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi - "Al Quds" dot com - The Palestinian Business Council in Abu Dhabi held a reception at the Abu Dhabi Intercontinental Hotel, attended by Council members and their wives, and a gathering of the Palestinian community in Abu Dhabi, within the framework of the events and activities that the Council is keen to organize.


Engineer Jamal Abu Bakr, Chairman of the Palestinian Business Council, welcomed the attendees, wishing them a pleasant meeting in the framework of the Palestinian spirit that unites the Palestinian community residing in Abu Dhabi and the UAE.


Abu Bakr said: The Council is keen on such periodic meetings on an ongoing basis to strengthen the bonds of cooperation between the members of the Council and the Palestinian community in Abu Dhabi.


The meeting included a presentation of a number of Palestinian handicrafts and presentation of examples of the Palestinian national heritage and popular Palestinian dishes. This effectiveness.


The attendees also expressed their appreciation to the UAE for hosting the Palestinian community, and for providing all the requirements that ensure an effective and kind presence in the country, with its distinguished meanings of hospitality on its blessed land for all residents of its good land.

ECONOMY

Wed 15 Mar 2023 8:04 pm - Jerusalem Time

Qatar Sovereign Fund launches an initiative to enhance liquidity in the stock exchange

DOHA (Xinhua) - Qatar Stock Exchange said (Tuesday) that the Qatar Investment Authority, the country's sovereign wealth fund, launched the Market Industry Initiative to enhance liquidity on the Qatar Stock Exchange, in a move that comes in the context of its commitment to support the local economy and support the liquidity of stocks listed on the stock exchange.


The stock exchange added, in a statement on its website, that under this initiative, licensed market makers will be able to access part of the holdings of shares owned by the Qatar Investment Authority and incentive programs, in order to support the liquidity of shares listed on the Qatar Stock Exchange.


The statement quoted the CEO of the Authority, Mansour bin Ibrahim Al Mahmoud, as saying that this step comes in the context of the Qatar Investment Authority’s commitment to deepening the capital market, which contributes to attracting foreign asset managers to invest in Qatar on the one hand, and stimulates the participation of individuals that will help diversify and expand the market on the one hand. other.


Al Mahmoud added that the launch of the Market Industry Initiative is only a first step to reach the desired goal and to help develop the Qatari financial markets, especially since Qatar enjoys a unique position that allows it to open capital markets to foreign issuers.


In turn, the Acting CEO of the Qatar Stock Exchange, Abdulaziz Al-Emadi, said that the initiative will contribute to supporting liquidity and attracting investors to the market, especially with the consequences of improving price discovery mechanisms and enhancing investor confidence in the shares of companies listed on the stock exchange.


Al-Emadi added that the Qatar Stock Exchange witnessed this year the largest foreign investment inflows in its history due to its renewed focus on liquidity, pointing out that the launch of the market-making initiative will support the continuation of this trend.


According to the statement, the Qatar Stock Exchange, in the context of its strategy, is working on a number of initiatives to enhance liquidity and is cooperating closely with the Qatar Financial Markets Authority and the Qatar Central Securities Depository Company to achieve this important goal.


The exchange is also working to attract more listings and introduce more exchange traded funds and derivatives, to help investors diversify their investment portfolios and better manage their investment risks.


The exchange encourages various stakeholders to increase the free float shares available for trading in the market.


The recent announcements by major companies regarding increasing the limits of foreign ownership in them are part of a comprehensive plan to enhance the access of foreign investors, and supporting and developing the asset management sector is part of the strategy of the Qatar Stock Exchange, according to the statement.

PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 8:04 pm - Jerusalem Time

The occupation army rejects an appeal to stop the plan to evacuate the Avitar outpost on Jabal Sabih

Ramallah – “Jerusalem” dot com – The occupation army rejected an appeal submitted by the residents of the “Avitar” settlement outpost built on citizens’ lands in Jabal Sobeih.

The mountain is located between 3 villages: Qablan, Yatma and Beita, south of Nablus.

According to the Arabic-language Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation, the occupation army assured the petitioners that it would proceed with its plan to remove the outpost.

The reasons for the decision stated, “This outpost was established illegally on non-princely lands that do not belong to the ‘state’, and that there is no legal basis for the arguments put forward in the appeal to regulate the legal status of the outpost.”

According to the decision, the establishment of the outpost led to destabilizing security in the region, which calls for the mobilization of large forces of the army and police, instead of performing their duties in other places.

According to the authority, the outpost's settlers intend to file a petition with the High Court in order to buy time to delay the eviction order.

ARAB AND WORLD

Wed 15 Mar 2023 8:04 pm - Jerusalem Time

Iran's foreign minister admits to sending drones to Russia before the conflict in Ukraine

TEHRAN - (Xinhua) -- Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on Saturday that Iran had given a "limited number" of drones to Russia months before the start of the conflict in Ukraine.


The official Iranian News Agency (IRNA) quoted Amir Abdollahian as saying, on the sidelines of the first meeting of the national coordinators of the Group of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the United Nations, which kicked off in the Iranian capital, Tehran, on Saturday, "The drones we provided to Russia date back to months." Before the war in Ukraine, and if it is proven to us that Russia used Iranian drones in the war against Ukraine, we will not remain without a reaction.


"We agreed with the Ukrainian foreign minister that if they have any documents showing that Russia has used Iranian drones in Ukraine, they should provide it to us," said Iran's top diplomat.


The Iranian foreign minister's remarks came after Ukraine and Western countries such as the United States accused Tehran in recent weeks of exporting suicide drones to Moscow for use in the conflict in Ukraine.


On Saturday, Amir Abdollahian also rejected the Western "media fuss" about the delivery of Iranian missiles to Russia, saying that "what they said about the missiles is completely wrong."


Amir Abdollahian renewed Iran's position on resolving the Russian-Ukrainian crisis and called for political dialogue between the concerned countries.


It should be noted that the Group of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the United Nations, which was established in March 2021, consists of 19 countries with the aim of preserving, promoting and defending the Charter of the United Nations.

SPORT

Wed 15 Mar 2023 8:04 pm - Jerusalem Time

Champions League: Perez celebrates the continental title, "to score the fifteenth"






Madrid (AFP) - Real Madrid club president Florentino Perez, who won the Champions League after beating Liverpool 1-0 in the final on Saturday, appealed to his team's players to turn their attention to winning the Continental Cup for the fifteenth time, during the royal club's coronation celebrations. With thousands of his supporters Sunday in the capital, Madrid.


Brazilian striker Vinicius Junior won the title in favor of Real Madrid by scoring the match's only goal in the 59th minute, extending his team's record in the number of continental titles to 14. Real Madrid players boarded an open-top bus around the city to celebrate, and it stopped at Almudena Cathedral, the seat of government and the city's municipality, and Plaça Cibeles. Finally, the club's Santiago Bernabeu stadium. Peres addressed the club's supporters, saying, "Real Madrid has made history once again, and here we are crowning the fourteenth European Cup and the thirty-fifth championship in the Spanish League." He added, "This European cup that we won by defeating a legendary club like Liverpool is one of the greatest trophies in the history of the Champions League. "The legend of this club is growing bigger and bigger.


We have defeated four of the best teams in Europe by always fighting and believing until the end," referring to Paris Saint-Germain (the final price), Chelsea (the quarter-finals), Manchester City (the semi-finals) and Liverpool. "It was a great season," he said. And it was achieved in one of the most beautiful and difficult times in our history. Five Champions Leagues in eight years is something very hard to forget for football fans from all over the world. Madrid is eternal. And now, let's win the fifteenth title.”Peres praised the Italian coach of Real Madrid, Carlo Ancelotti, who became the first coach to win the Champions League four times (twice with AC Milan and twice with Real Madrid) and the first coach to win all five major European championships after his team won the Spanish League title. "He embodies Real Madrid," he said in this regard.


Real players wore black suits, white shirts and black ties, and raised the two cups (the domestic league and the Champions League) while they were signing shirts, presenting signatures, and taking memorial photos with their supporters. Frenchman Karim Benzema and Brazilian Marcelo participated in carrying the Champions League Cup, while Croatian Luka Modric and Nacho carried "I didn't sleep much, I had so much adrenaline that I couldn't sleep," said Real Madrid's Belgian international goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois, who was named the best player in the final. "I still can't believe what happened, it's an incredible feeling. It's a great honor for me to play for Real Madrid and I hope I can help the team win more titles."

PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 8:04 pm - Jerusalem Time

Details of the prisoners' suffering inside the "Al-Maabar" section of Al-Ramla prison

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs reported, in a report, the complaints of a number of detainees and details of their suffering from the living and detention conditions inside Al-Ma'bar section of "Al-Ramla" prison.


The Commission stated that many prisoners suffer greatly when they are transferred from prisons and detention centers to the Mabar section in Ramleh, where they are held for long hours in narrow cages, very cold in winter and extremely hot in summer.


She added that the crossing section can accommodate only eight people, but the prison administration deliberately puts more than 20 prisoners in that limited space, without taking into account the sick and elderly prisoners, which forces the prisoners to divide themselves into two parts and take turns standing and sitting according to the available space, and the bathroom is in that. The section is very dirty, and there is no clean place to perform prayers inside the terminal station due to overcrowding and bad smells, knowing that this section is designated for holding both arrested and convicted prisoners.


The Commission called on international and humanitarian institutions to find out what the prisoners are subjected to in terms of multiple violations, including their imprisonment in poor living conditions, and to make efforts to pressure the occupation authorities to provide decent living conditions for the prisoners in accordance with the rights guaranteed by international conventions and norms for them as prisoners of liberation movements.

PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 8:04 pm - Jerusalem Time

A settlement outpost official breaks into Khallet Makhoul in the Jordan Valley

The Jordan Valley - "Jerusalem" dot com - An official of one of the settlement outposts in the Jordan Valley stormed this morning, Saturday, Khirbet Khallet Makhoul in the northern Jordan Valley .


According to press sources, the official of one of the settlement outposts in the Jordan Valley stormed the village and drove his vehicle in front of the residents' tents.


The settlers have been carrying out acts of orgy and provocation against the residents of the Khirbet for days. It is reported that the settlers chased the shepherds while grazing in the Khirbet, yesterday, Friday, after which the occupation forces stormed the tents belonging to the citizen, Burhan Bisharat.

PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 8:04 pm - Jerusalem Time

Occupation forces remove the Palestinian flag from a flagpole in Nablus

Nablus - "Jerusalem" dot com - At dawn Thursday, the Israeli occupation forces removed the Palestinian flag from the pole of Al-Laban Secondary Girls School, south of Nablus.


The occupation soldiers raised the Israeli flag, instead of the Palestinian one, after they stormed the school at dawn.


PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 8:04 pm - Jerusalem Time

Pictures || Gaza Strip fishermen have the opportunity to restore their rickety boats due to the prolonged blockade

Gaza - (AFP) - Mohamad Jerboua works with haste to restore a fishing boat in the Gaza port, nearly 15 years after boat repair work stopped due to Israel's ban on entering the necessary materials into the besieged Strip.


Jarbou and a team of technicians are facing a major challenge to repair dozens of rickety boats lined up on the sands of the beach west of Gaza City, showing signs of corrosion due to neglect resulting from the long blockade that began in 2007.


Israel prevents the entry of many materials into the Strip, including boat repair materials, claiming that they can be used for military purposes by the armed Palestinian factions.



The fishermen suffered greatly in order to repair their boats until the United Nations mediated with the Israeli authorities to allow the supply of fiberglass and its use in the framework of a UN-supervised workshop.


"I started working in this workshop two weeks ago," says Jarbou, who works in a team wearing blue uniforms and wearing masks. "It is a great achievement for the fishermen and for us as technicians, as it gave us a job opportunity."


The team works under the watch of security cameras mounted on a wooden pole as dust billows and the smell of pale blue paint wafts from a newly renovated boat.



Israel imposes a tight blockade on the impoverished and overcrowded Gaza Strip, which has a population of about 2.3 million people and suffers from unemployment of more than 50 percent, according to World Bank data.


Manal Al-Najjar, Coordination Officer at the United Nations Office in the Projects Unit, indicates that there are about 300 boats in Gaza that need to be repaired.


"In the beginning of 2022, intensive efforts were made by the United Nations with the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli side to help support the fishing sector," says al-Najjar, whose office handles infrastructure projects.


And she adds that "on November 13, the first batch of fiberglass was entered to repair ten boats," a task that takes two weeks to a month to complete.



"The agreement stipulates that these materials will be entered sequentially. Whenever a group of boats is repaired, a second batch of ten other boats will be entered under the supervision of the United Nations," the coordinating official explains.


The fishermen get the raw materials at nominal prices, but Al-Najjar confirms that they are of "high quality," referring to the happiness of the fishermen with the sailing of the first restored boat.


"We have nine boats, but we only have two engines. Some of our boats have been completely out of action for 8 years and they need a lot of fiberglass," says Salim Al-Assi (38 years old), who was lucky enough to be among the beneficiaries of the project, standing next to the fishing nets in the port. to fix it". About fifty of the Orontes' relatives work in the fishing profession.


He added, "Hundreds of fishermen have applied to benefit from the project, but I am afraid that it will not cover everyone."



However, Al-Najjar reassures the fishermen that "the project is continuing and aims not only to include glass panels and accessories, but also engines... We are not only talking about repairing the hull of the boat, but about introducing engines because many boats need that."


The disobedient fisherman also describes the suffering of the fishermen because they are prevented from entering the sea except for limited distances.


Israel controls the fishing area by air and sea, which it often shrinks or expands according to security concerns.


The armed factions in the Strip have fought four wars with Israel since 2008, and last August witnessed the last bloody escalation between the two sides.

PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 8:04 pm - Jerusalem Time

Work in Gaza delivers 2,600 names of candidates to obtain work permits

Gaza - "Jerusalem" dot com - Today, Friday morning, the Ministry of Labor in the Gaza Strip handed over 2,600 names of candidates for civil affairs to obtain work permits in the occupied territories, bringing the number of nominated names sent to civil affairs to 8,300 names since the ministry received the permit file.

In a statement, the Ministry of Labor affirmed its constant contact with civil affairs, with a view to coordinating the issuance of workers’ permits, and working according to the agreed mechanisms, to ensure that the permits reach those who are eligible.

The Ministry noted that the permits issued during the current period under the name of economic needs, and starting from August of this year, permits will be issued under the name of worker, with all applicable labor rights.

PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 8:04 pm - Jerusalem Time

Settlers erect tents to try to establish an outpost south of Hebron

Hebron - "Jerusalem" dot com - On Thursday morning, settlers set up several tents on the citizens' lands in the village of Birin, south of Hebron.


According to local sources, a large group of settlers stormed those lands and raised the Israeli flag and racist slogans, with the aim of establishing a settlement outpost in the area.


PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 8:04 pm - Jerusalem Time

Work in Gaza Received 2000 new permits to work in the occupied interior

Gaza - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Ministry of Labor in Gaza announced today, Wednesday, that it had handed over yesterday evening, 2000 permits to work in the occupied interior, to civil affairs, in order to issue them and hand them over to their owners.

The ministry stated in a press statement that the permits will be under the name of economic needs, while it will remain in constant contact with citizens in the event of other batches of permits.

PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 8:04 pm - Jerusalem Time

Settlers bulldozing lands northwest of Jerusalem to establish an outpost

Jerusalem - "Al-Quds" dot com - For the second day in a row, a settler continues bulldozing and excavation work, in lands belonging to the villages of Qalandia and Rafat, northwest of occupied Jerusalem .


The Director General of Documentation and Publication in the Wall and Settlement Commission, Amir Daoud, said in an interview with the official news agency Wafa that the bulldozing work is taking place on lands estimated at 225 dunums, with the aim of establishing an agricultural settlement outpost.


The same sources indicated that the lands that the settlers are bulldozing are located west of Qalandia airport within areas classified as "C", and farmers from the village of Qalandia have been cultivating them for decades, according to lease contracts from the Jordanian government before 1967.

PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 8:04 pm - Jerusalem Time

Extending the working hours at the Khaduri crossing in Tulkarm

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Public Authority for Civil Affairs announced, on Monday morning, that work will be extended on the Khadoori crossing (104) in Tulkarem , located on the western side of the city, from ten in the morning until two in the afternoon.


The authority stated in a brief statement that this will take place from tomorrow, Tuesday, until the end of the holiday.


It is noteworthy that this crossing is used for the entry and exit of the people inside the country to Tulkarm governorate and the rest of the regions.

PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 8:04 pm - Jerusalem Time

Settlers establish a new settlement outpost on the lands of Qusra

Nablus - "Jerusalem" dot com - Today, Sunday, settlers established a new settlement outpost on the land of Qusra town, south of Nablus.


According to press sources, the settlers established a new settlement outpost on the lands of Jabal Al-Khariji, southeast of Qusra, and surrounded it with barbed wire.


The region is witnessing an escalation in settlement construction and the seizure of more lands. to link the settlements together.

Wed 15 Mar 2023 8:04 pm - Jerusalem Time

Poll: Americans face a gender gap in shifting to remote work

WASHINGTON -- (Xinhua) -- Women in the United States continue to face inequality amid the shift to remote work, according to a recent report by Fortune magazine, citing a McKinsey American Opportunity Survey of 25,000 workers.


The report, released on Tuesday, said that while 61 percent of men have had the opportunity to work remotely, only 52 percent of women can say the same in the United States.


However, "this does not match what workers want," the report explained, adding that "when given the opportunity to work remotely, women tend to do so in greater numbers than men."


And he noted that "the lack of a remote option is just the latest way in which American companies fail to maintain an equal work environment for women," noting at the same time that women already receive lower wages than men.

OPINIONS

Wed 15 Mar 2023 8:04 pm - Jerusalem Time

Shereen Abu Aqleh, the last witness

Written by: Fares Habashneh


For her soul of mercy, colleague Shereen Abu Aqelah shed her pure blood.

And in a Palestinian time full of spring martyrdom. Politics and peace agreements are falling, and the martyrs are blooming a Palestinian spring with blood and faith, and their souls ascending to heaven.

The treacherous bullets of the occupation killed Shereen Abu Aqleh, her loud and bold voice, and her scandalous media message for the crimes of the Israeli occupation.

And the bullets of the occupation, and all the crimes and violations it commits, would not have been if it had not known the blood money of the dead Arab, and in the last years of the Palestinian / Israeli conflict, the enemy tried to perpetuate the policy of concealing crimes, even if the world forgets and does not see what is happening in Palestine.

Israel has become well versed in crime, murder, displacement, and the manufacture of death.. In the Israeli calendar, blood and murder are the date and title for reviving and protecting their legendary, mythical, biblical state.

The Palestinian people are besieged and steadfast, and the Palestinian cause is facing oblivion and oblivion from the Arab and international memory. Martyr Shereen Abu Aqelah was a daily witness documenting the crimes of the occupation in pictures, sounds, and words.

Abu Aqila has always been an honest transmitter and narrator of the crimes of the occupation, and her echo reached all parts of the world, and her voice and her calm and powerful words shook the consciences of the world.

“Maybe it is not easy for me to change reality, but at least I was able to convey that voice to the world,” said Al-Jazeera correspondent Sherine Abu Aqleh, after speaking about her coverage of the Israeli occupation forces’ invasion of the West Bank in 2002.

The narrators, witnesses, eyewitnesses, and documentaries of the crimes of the occupation are trying to assassinate them, hunt them down, and liquidate them, whether they are journalists, correspondents, historians, artists, drama writers, archaeologists, public opinion leaders, clerics, and activists.

Witnesses to the crimes of the occupation became scarce and became rare despite the enormity and enormity of the crime..and cameras from the Arab media became deviating from the occupied Palestinian territories and monitoring, documenting and transmitting the crimes of the occupation, and their compass deviated. .

Israel was able to isolate the Palestinian cause and cut off its news from the world, and it was able to plunge it into oblivion and erase its crimes from human memory.

Whoever kills Shreen Abu Aqila will kill another.. Seventy years ago, we bid farewell to the martyrs, and the night has long passed.. and I am certain of the truth.. as long as the martyrs fall daily, Palestine will not die and be forgotten!

What inspires hope in our souls is our deep belief in the resurrection and the resurrection.. and that all these martyrs will live on the land of Palestine one day.. Israel kills and commits crimes, besieges the Palestinians inside, and launches its deadly fire brutally, forgetting that there is room for a glimmer of life and hope. To be assassinated or surrounded by death and bullets.

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