The Times of Israel recorded these events in real time as they occurred on Thursday.
After French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian stated that Israel faces the risk of "long-term apartheid", Foreign Minister Gaby Ashkenaz summoned the French ambassador to Israel to dress up.
A statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that Ashkenazi Jews told Ambassador Eric Danon that Le Drian's remarks were "unacceptable, baseless, and far from reality, and Israel immediately rejected them."
The statement added: “Israel hopes that its friends will not express their opinions in an irresponsible manner,” and said such remarks will encourage “extremists and anti-Israel actions”. According to the ministry, Ashkenazi Jews also expressed concern about the rising anti-Semitism in France.
He was quoted in the statement, emphasizing that Israel is a democratic country that upholds its laws, and stated that he rejects "any attempt to undermine this fact or the foundation of the State of Israel." He also accused France of ignoring Israel’s efforts to prevent violence, and said Le Drian’s remarks “actually reward extremists and terrorist organizations, first of all rewards for the Hamas terrorist organization.”
Tehran, Iran - Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urges Iranians to ignore calls to boycott the presidential election next month, after several promising candidates were barred from competing with ultra-conservative candidates.
Due to widespread dissatisfaction with the severe economic and social crisis, Iranians will elect a successor to President Hassan Rouhani on June 18.
For months, the exiled opposition has launched a campaign on social media networks to call on Iranians to stay away from voting and use Persian hashtags such as #NototheIslamicRepublic.
According to his official Instagram account, Khamenei told lawmakers in a speech through a video conference: “Don’t follow people who are running and say it’s useless to vote, people who shouldn’t vote.”
A day ago, Rouhani stated that he has asked the top leaders to intervene to ensure that the "competition" in the presidential election is more intense.
The Iranian Candidate Review and Guardianship Committee approved seven predominantly ultra-conservative candidates to participate in the election on Tuesday and disqualified the moderate conservative Ali Larijani.
The committee-an unelected institution led by conservatives-also bans the incitement of the seditious former President Ahmadinejad.
Its decision seems to clear the way for the strong operation of Ebrahim Raisi, the head of the ultra-conservative judiciary.
Rouhani was banned by the constitution for the third consecutive term.
Last February, after thousands of candidates (many of whom were moderates and reformers) were disqualified, a record 57% of Iranians did not participate in legislative elections.
The poll was conducted at a critical juncture in Iran’s negotiations with world powers. The agreement aims to restore the nuclear agreement that has been sustaining life since former U.S. President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew in 2018.
Dubai, United Arab Emirates — The European Union has called on Iran to review the case of a prominent female human rights activist who was sentenced to 30 months in prison and 80 lashes for protesting the killing of protesters during the country's unrest in 2019.
A spokesperson for the group urged Iran to investigate Narges Mohammadi’s case in accordance with “applicable international human rights law and taking into account her deteriorating health”.
Earlier this week, Mohammadi confirmed her verdict in an Instagram post and stated that she “does not accept any of these verdicts”.
“The recent jail and caning sentence of Iranian human rights defender Mrs. Najis Mohammedi is a worrying development,” the European Union said.
In the post, Mohammadi said that one of the charges against her was to hold parties and dance in prison.
After serving eight and a half years in prison, she was released in October 2020, and her initial 10-year sentence was commuted. In that case, she was sentenced in the Revolutionary Court of Tehran on charges including planning criminal activities that endanger Iran’s security, spreading propaganda against the government, and forming and managing an illegal group.
Before going to prison, she was also the vice chairman of the Iranian Center for Prohibited Human Rights Defenders.
Mohammadi has a close relationship with Shirin Ebadi, the founder of the center and Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner. After the controversial re-election of then President Ahmadinejad in 2009, Ebadi left Iran, which triggered unprecedented protests and severe repression by the authorities.
In 2018, engineer and physicist Mohammadi won the 2018 Andrey Sakharov Prize.
The head of the Hamas terrorist organization in Gaza described the ceasefire that ended 11 days of fighting with Israel as “fragile”.
“If the occupiers desecrate the Al-Aqsa Mosque again or force our people in the Sheikh Jala community to leave their homes — repeat their previous practices, the ceasefire will be broken,” Yahya Sinwar told Turkey’s state-run Anadolu The news agency refers to traveling to the mosque on the top of the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem and to a neighborhood nearby, where several Palestinian families are facing deportation from homes claimed by Jewish nationalists.
Kigali, Rwanda-French President Emmanuel Macron acknowledged the role of France in the 1994 Rwanda genocide, from supporting the genocidal regime to ignoring warnings of impending massacre.
After three years of diplomatic tensions, Macron embarked on a symbolic visit to Rwanda. He visited the Kigali Genocide Memorial, where he gave a message to approximately 800,000 Tutsi who was slaughtered in the killing. People pay tribute.
Macron said in a speech at the Kigali Holocaust Memorial: "Standing here today, standing by your side with humility and respect, I begin to realize our responsibility."
There was no formal apology for his much-anticipated speech, but he went further than his predecessor, saying that only those who survived the horror "may be forgiven and give us the gift of forgiveness."
Rwandan President Paul Kagame spoke to reporters after the meeting between the two leaders and welcomed Macron's speech.
"His words are more valuable than an apology. They are facts," Kagame said.
Macron is the first French leader to visit this East African country since 2010, and the country has long accused France of participating in the killings.
Macron stated that France "is not an accomplice in genocide."
"But France has a role, a story, and a political responsibility for Rwanda. She has a responsibility: to face history and to acknowledge the suffering caused to the Rwandan people by her long silence on censorship of the truth."
According to the Times of Israel, Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenaz will lead an Israeli delegation to Egypt early next week.
The schedule for this trip is still being worked out. As of now, Ashkenazi Jews are expected to only meet with Egyptian officials.
Egypt has played a central role in drawing up the recent ceasefire agreement to end the fighting between Israel and the Hamas terrorist group ruled by Gaza.
Kiev, Ukraine-Both Ukraine and Russia said they have evacuated dozens of citizens from the Gaza Strip after hostilities between Israeli and Palestinian terrorists.
President Zelensky’s office said in a statement that a plane carrying 109 Ukrainian passport holders who requested to leave the enclave landed at Kiev airport earlier today.
Zelensky praised the "successful return home" and stated that the same plane had delivered 13 Moldovans and 4 Bulgarian nationals to Kiev.
Zelensky’s office said that Ukrainian diplomats held "a series of difficult negotiations" to ensure safe passage in Ukraine.
In addition, Moscow announced that it had brought dozens of nationals to Russia, and the Ministry of Emergency Situations stated that a plane had repatriated 64 people from Gaza.
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit has decided not to file a civil lawsuit against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife on behalf of the country. The case involves allegations of illegal procurement of catering services in the prime minister’s office.
As part of the plea agreement, Sara Netanyahu admitted to unfairly exploiting the error and agreed to pay a fine of approximately $15,000.
She and a former caretaker of the prime minister’s residence also admitted to being charged with the same charges as part of a plea agreement, accused of fraud and breach of trust, because about $100,000 of state funds were used to provide catering services during full-time meals. Staff time cook.
According to Channel 12 News, a relative of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh has been hospitalized in Israel for more than a month, including the recent battle between the Israeli army and the terrorist organization that controls Gaza.
The network quoted sources familiar with the matter as saying that Haniye's 17-year-old niece was hospitalized in Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv after receiving a bone marrow transplant.
The hospital declined to comment.
The publisher of Ha’aretz apologized after publishing an article about Palestinian and Israeli children killed in the recent fighting in Gaza in The New York Times, but removed Israeli children from the report that appeared on its front page this morning. .
In a tweet, Amos Schocken attributed the "serious error" to an unspecified editor, "He explained that we have reported their case extensively in real time."
Shaw Ken said that the version of the story published by Haaretz "undermines the way the New York Times describes what happened during the war to the children of both sides."
He apologized to readers of the left-leaning newspaper and said that the online story version of the story would be corrected.
U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Brinken and Qatar Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdullahman Al Thani talked about the recent ceasefire agreement to end Israel and Hamas in Gaza. fighting.
The US State Department stated that Brinken thanked al-Thani Qatar for its role in helping to ensure a ceasefire.
After Brinken ended his visit to the region in support of the ceasefire and Qatar announced that it would provide US$500 million for the reconstruction of Gaza, the call came the day before.
According to the State Department, Brinken also had a telephone conversation with the Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister to discuss the ceasefire in Gaza.
Two suspects were arrested on suspicion of throwing stones at a car during the Jerusalem Day clash earlier this month, slightly wounding a 7-month-old baby and shot in the head.
The police stated that the suspects are residents of the A-Tur community in East Jerusalem in their 20s and they will be detained until May 31 because the prosecutor is preparing to bring charges against them.
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The Irish Parliament called Israel's handling of the West Bank a "de facto annexation", a term that was rarely used by officials of EU member states.
The designation came from a non-binding motion passed by the Nationalist left-wing Sinn Fein Party’s House of Commons. Simon Coveney, the foreign minister who is not from Sinn Fein, also used the term in parliamentary debates earlier this week.
A draft amendment calling for the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador to Ireland and the imposition of comprehensive sanctions on Israel failed to pass.
The motion stated that the Irish Daily "declared that Israel’s actions constituted an illegal de facto annexation of the territory, and called on the government not to recognize that any situation caused by a serious violation of international law is legal."
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with a delegation from the Jewish Federation of North America, which is in Gaza after the recent battle with Hamas and other terrorist organizations. The delegation is visiting to show solidarity with Israel.
Yesh Atid and the New Hope Party reported that they have begun to make progress in the alliance negotiations and stated that the negotiators reached agreement on many issues at today's meeting.
The two sides said in a joint statement: "These teams will soon continue to negotiate to reach an agreement to form a government."
The High Court ordered the government to explain why it did not appoint the interim state prosecutor Amit Eisman as the permanent head of the state prosecutor’s office.
Due to the ongoing political turmoil in Israel, this post has been vacant since December 2019.
Defense Minister Benny Gantz announced that he will extend the term of the Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces Avi Kohawi for a fourth year and extend his term as the highest commander of the military until 2023.
Gantz welcomed Kohavey's nearly 2.5-year term. He said that allowing the IDF leader to stay for another year will enable him to continue his multi-year "power plan." He also praised Kohawi for his leadership of the army in recent "combat activities" against Palestinian terrorists and the Gaza Strip and other places.
Gantz said in a statement from his office: “Extending his term in this era of regional changes and challenges from various fields is of paramount importance to Israel’s security.”
The statement stated that Gantz updated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit before the announcement.
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit has decided to prosecute Yaakov Litzman, the housing minister of the United Torah Rabbinical Party, for obstruction of justice and breach of trust, pending a hearing.
The pending allegations involve suspicion that Litzman used his position as the former Deputy Minister of Health to block the extradition of the former principal of an Orthodox girls’ school in Melbourne accused of sexually assaulting minors to Australia and to block the closure of a deli on health grounds Violation.
Mandelblit will not prosecute Litzman for bribery, and the police recommend that he be charged.
Lizman’s United Torah Judaism is an important partner of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s right-wing religious group.
Housing Minister Yaakov Litzman’s office issued a statement in response to Attorney General Avichai Mandlelblit’s statement that he intends to prosecute the Minister for obstruction of justice and breach of trust before the hearing.
"We believe Minister Lizman is completely innocent," it said, welcoming Mandenblitt's decision not to include bribery charges.
His office stated that Litzman is preparing for the hearing and that he will not be charged in the end "with God's help."
Rome-The hospital says that the Israeli boy who survived the fatal cable car accident in the mountains of Italy last weekend has woken up and will soon leave the intensive care unit.
Since the cabin collapsed on Mount Motarone, killing 14 other people inside, including his parents, younger brother and great-grandparents, the 5-year-old boy has been in critical condition.
A spokesperson from the Regina Margarita Hospital in Turin said: "Eitan is now awake in the intensive care unit, consciously, talking to his aunt and looking around."
"From a clinical point of view, he is still in critical condition due to chest and abdomen trauma and broken limbs.
"In the next few days, he will leave the intensive care unit and be transferred to the hospital ward."
Italian police arrested three senior managers of the cable car operating company in Sunday’s tragedy yesterday.
They were accused of deliberately deactivating the emergency brake, which was supposed to prevent the cable car from falling backwards if the cable broke.
United Nations-The United Nations issued an urgent appeal to provide Gaza with US$95 million in the next three months to meet urgent humanitarian needs and repair key facilities. This includes hospitals, schools, water and sewage treatment facilities, and other infrastructure that was destroyed or damaged during the recent conflict between Israel and the Gaza terrorist ruler of Hamas.
Lynn Hastings, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Gaza, urged donors to donate generously at a virtual press conference that initiated the appeal, which she said would seek assistance for 1 million people.
"I now call for humanitarian assistance to meet immediate needs," she said.
Hastings said the conflict has prevented 800,000 people from having normal access to tap water. Untreated sewage was discharged into the sea, 58 educational facilities were destroyed, of which 285 buildings, more than 1,000 houses and commercial units were destroyed. Six hospitals and 11 medical centers were also damaged, and the daily power supply was reduced to 4 to 6 hours.
She said that the US$95 million was used to meet the urgent need for rapid maintenance of food, healthcare, medicine, medical supplies and some infrastructure, and added that an assessment is underway to determine priority needs.
Hastings said that most of the funds will be used in Gaza, but some will be used in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, mainly to help the injured, and may provide cash assistance, psychosocial assistance or protection issues. Kes keeps bringing us back to the Gaza Strip that had to be rebuilt," she said.
When asked what measures are being taken to ensure that funds donated for the appeal are not transferred to Hamas, Hastings said that the United Nations “has a very strict monitoring procedure” and “we are working with the Israelis and the Palestinian Authority. Institutional cooperation" to see if it can be improved in any way. "
Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai announced the expansion of Operation Law and Order to arrest suspects in recent violence between Arabs and Jews, which disrupted ethnic mixed communities and other parts of the country.
According to the police, 348 suspects have been arrested in this operation so far, and 1,938 have been arrested since the recent fighting in Gaza and the outbreak of riots in Israel. According to the police, 175 indictments have been filed.
The Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces Aviv Kohawi said that the recent battle between the military and the Hamas terrorist organization ruled by Gaza ended decisively with Israel’s superiority.
In his speech to the graduates of the Military War College, Kohave said: "In the name of the Israel Defense Forces and Hamas, a war was launched as the so-called defender of Jerusalem, and the war ended as the destroyer of Gaza. As a result, the Israel Defense Forces and Hamas have achieved a clear advantage."
He touted Israel's "many achievements" in the campaign and Hamas's "limited" military achievements, which he said were mostly psychological.
He also said that the IDF is learning from the battle, "We are already preparing for the next battle."
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s deputy Naim Qasim told the Lebanese media that he was not seriously ill.
"The secretary-general is okay, thank goodness... he has fallen ill in recent days and needs two or three days to recover. But because people who love him are waiting for his speech on May 25, his failure to show up will raise questions," Ka Sim said.
Nasrallah coughed and gasped in a recent televised speech, leading the Israeli military to speculate that the leader of Hezbollah may be infected with the new coronavirus.
Geneva-The UN Human Rights Council has decided to launch an open international investigation into the recent violence in Gaza and "systematic" violations in the Palestinian territories and Israel.
The resolution was passed with 24 of the 47 members of the Security Council in favor, 9 against, and 14 abstentions. It will conduct an unprecedented review of the abuse of power and its "roots" in the decades-long Middle East conflict.
The Ministry of Health announced that from June 1st, passengers entering Israel must pay mandatory coronavirus testing fees. So far, testing fees have been funded by the state.
It stated that if the test is scheduled before the flight, the test will cost 80 NIS ($25), and for passengers who register before landing at Ben Gurion Airport, the test will cost 100 NIS ($30). The price at the land port is NIS 100 per line.
The ministry also stated that Israelis will now have to pay for their coronavirus tests when traveling abroad.
As part of a new plan, the first vaccinated tourists arrived in Israel, which aims to gradually reopen the Israeli border to foreign tourists who have been vaccinated or recovered from COVID-19.
According to the Ministry of Tourism, the group is made up of theology students from the Prince of Peace Church in Missouri, USA, and the ministry stated that they received flowers before undergoing mandatory COVID-19 testing.
According to a statement from the ministry, “you are the first organized tour group to visit Israel in more than a year,” Tourism Minister Orit Fakash-Hakoen told them. "Israel is an attractive destination, with unparalleled historical and religious sites, sacred by three religions, a vibrant city, delicious food and enthusiastic people. I am sure you will like it all."
She said she hopes that more groups will join soon.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the adoption of a resolution by the United Nations Human Rights Council to conduct permanent investigations into violations in Israel and Palestine.
The investigation will also investigate the recent fighting in the Gaza Strip between Israel and Hamas rulers in the Gaza Strip.
“The decision did not mention the Hamas terrorist organization and completely ignored the 4,300 rockets launched at Israeli citizens,” the ministry said in a statement.
It called the decision a "moral stain on the international community and the United Nations."
The ministry argued that the Israel Defense Forces acted in accordance with international law when protecting Israeli citizens, while Hamas fired rockets at non-combatants indiscriminately.
"The real purpose of the investigation committee is to whitewash the crimes of the Hamas terrorist organization and accuse Israel of taking action to protect its citizens," it said.
It also stated that Israel would not cooperate with the committee and thanked the nine countries that voted against the decision.
According to Channel 12 News, Yamina Chief Naftali Bennett met with the leader of the Blue and White Party Benny Gantz today, although he claimed that there was no “change group” held by the anti-Netanyahu party. talks.
Yamina did not deny the tea party at a hotel in Tel Aviv, but claimed that the "routine meeting" with Defense Minister Gantz was arranged during the recent battle in Gaza.
At the same time, Kan Public Broadcasting Corporation stated that the Yamina negotiators met yesterday with counterparts of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Likud group.
Prime Minister Netanyahu condemned the "shameful" decision of the United Nations Human Rights Council to establish a permanent investigation committee to investigate alleged violations in Israel and Palestine.
The Prime Minister said that the adoption of the resolution was another case of the Security Council’s “blatant anti-Israel obsession”.
"Once again, the unethical automatic majority of the Security Council whitewashed a genocidal terrorist organization that deliberately targeted Israeli civilians while turning civilians in Gaza into human shields," he wrote on Twitter, referring to Hama S. "This also describes democracy as a'guilty party', a democracy that legally protects its citizens from thousands of indiscriminate rocket attacks. This irony is a mockery of international law and encourages terrorists throughout the world. "
Today’s shameful decision is another example of the UN Human Rights Council’s blatant anti-Israel obsession.
— Benjamin Netanyahu (@netanyahu), May 27, 2021
According to a U.S. official familiar with the decision, the Biden administration has decided not to extend the exemption. The exemption allows a politically connected U.S. oil company to conduct business operations if President Donald Trump has promised to "maintain oil production in the region." Started business in northeastern Syria.
The Treasury Department prohibits most American companies from conducting business in Syria. Delta Crescent Energy's exemption was issued in April 2020. A few months ago, Trump announced that he wanted to keep some US troops in oil-rich areas to maintain control of oil profits.
The official who has no right to discuss the decision publicly and has the conditions to speak said that Trump’s "keep oil" message is no longer a U.S. foreign policy under the leadership of the Biden administration, and the use of U.S. forces to promote Syrian oil production is considered inappropriate of. anonymous.
The company was founded in 2019 by James Kane, the U.S. Ambassador to Denmark under President George W. Bush; James Reese, a retired Army Delta Force officer; and John Dorrier Jr., a former leader of Gulfsands Petroleum, based in the United Kingdom. Executives. Cain was the executive officer of the NHL Carolina Hurricanes and has donated more than $30,000 to Republicans and Republican candidates over the years.
Northeast Syria is the center of the remains of the Syrian oil industry. It is a mess, but it is still one of the main sources of income for the Kurdish-led autonomous government there.
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