The Times of Israel released Thursday’s advances as they unfolded.

Justice Undersecretary Dina Zilber said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can simply make fitness decisions that restrict weekly protests against him.

She says there is no conflict of interest, according to reports from the Hebrew media.

Warning of a slippery slope, Zilber writes in reaction to an organization’s question about the factor that since the protests are aimed at the government, it can also be argued that therefore all ministers are prohibited from managing demonstrations.

Weekly protests opposed to Netanyahu’s corruption cases were reduced amid the blocked pandemic, a protest.

An employee of the Ministry of Health is suspected of accepting bribes in exchange for lifting quarantine needs for others exposed to coronavirus.

The employee, who works in the call unit, was arrested and is being questioned, police said.

The body of a child discovered near a cemetery in the northern city of Haifa.

The police are investigating.

Russia accuses opposition leader Alexei Navalny of running for the CIA and making “unfounded and unacceptable statements” after claiming that President Vladimir Putin had orchestrated his poisoning.

“We believe that such accusations against the Russian president are undoubtedly unfounded and unacceptable,” Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. He also claims that the Central Intelligence Agency “was currently working” with Navalny.

– AFP

Police locate a woman’s lifeless body at her home in the south of ashkelon city.

The cases of his death are unclear.

The woman’s husband questioned, according to the Ynet news website.

Coronavirus tsar Ronni Gamzu says the outbreak of virus cases is still catching up over the weekend and in Yom Kippur, when peak control centers and laboratories were closed.

“The 9,000 new instances did not surprise me, as they were taken after Yom Kippur. That’s a total of Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. We can assume that we will see those figures continue today,” he told reporters.

Gamzu says the number of cases where the ultra-Orthodox network is increasing.

“Forty of the [cases] shown are ultra-Orthodox,” he says, referring to recent diagnoses.

Ultra-Orthodox make up approximately 12% of the population.

He says the number of cases of virus among the elderly in the ultra-Orthodox network is increasing.

The head of the public fitness services, dr. Sharon Elari-Price said Israel’s departure flight restrictions had more to do with “equality” than with real concerns about the coronavirus, in an interview with public broadcaster Kan.

“It’s hard to tell other people in the state of Israel that they have restrictions and can’t move, but those with cash can buy a plane ticket,” he says.

He claims there is a threat of fitness to fly, but claims that epidemiological threats do not justify the ban.

On Friday, the Israeli government imposed restrictions on departure flights as part of a series of measures aimed at strengthening the blockade of the virus, so it stopped promoting airfares and allowed those who in the past purchased tickets to leave the country.

Gamzu, in statements to reporters, said the blockade at the moment appears to be “effective. “

“It’s effective, but will we get to discounted rates like Easter?No, we’re here,” he said.

He says predictions about the effect of the lock “are not definitive. “

“Next week will be fateful,” says the coronavirus tsar.

Gamzu also responded to Health Minister Yuli Edelstein’s call to stay in the workplace after November, and says he will think about it, but prefers to take over the management of Ichilov Medical Center.

Gamzu said former director general of the Ministry of Fitness, Moshe Bar Siman-Tov, would be a worthy successor to his post as the country’s most sensible official in terms of the rate of response to the virus, which he is expected to leave in November.

Siman-Tov Bar is “a friend,” he says.

“If he’s the next candidate, I’d be delighted. It’s a smart choice,” he said, a day after Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported that Bar Siman-Tov had received the post.

British scientists report that the rate of coronavirus infection in England quadrupled last month and even rose in spaces such as north-west England and London.

This is according to a giant government-commissioned study that randomly tested tens of thousands of people in the community, but the researchers also say the epidemic doesn’t appear to be developing exponentially yet.

“There is evidence of a slowdown,” says Paul Elliott, president of epidemiology at Imperial College London, who led the study. Elliott says some of the measures recently imposed in the UK, adding a ban on meetings of more than six people, may have helped curb the spread of COVID-19.

Elliott says approximately 1 in 200 people in England are inflamed with coronavirus, compared to about 1 in 800 people in early September.

“We have to get this over with now so it doesn’t build up exponentially,” he said.

Elliott and his colleagues point out that the heavy accumulation of cases began in August, when the British government introduced a month-long promotion that gave other people great discounts for dining in restaurants.

The study also notes that infection rates are spreading on all age teams in England, with prevalence among 18-24 year olds. Scientists reported that blacks and others of Asian descent were twice as likely to have COVID-19 as whites.

– AP

The leader of the Karlin-Stolin Hasysidic dynasty, Boruch Meir Yaakov Shochet, was hospitalized by COVID-19.

He was taken to Laniado Medical Center in Netanya, reports the online news page Behadrey Haredim.

The community message urges everyone to respect physical fitness restrictions. The Hasidic organization closed all its synagogues and learning centers amid the pandemic, and its leader ordered everyone to adhere strictly to regulations and wear masks, according to the Haredi website.

Lebanon and Israel will hold talks with UN mediation on their disputed land and sea borders, announced by Parliament’s President Nabih Berri.

The United States will act as facilitator in the talks, which will take place on Lebanon’s southern border, the city of Naqoura, Berri said at a press conference without giving a date for negotiations.

– AFP

Iran’s currency is at its lowest price ever recorded at 300,000 riyars for every dollar amid the severe US sanctions against the country.

The rial fell from about 262,000 in mid-September, a minimum of 12%.

Iran’s currency, 32,000 riyars, is consistent with the dollar at the time of Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with global powers.

U. S. sanctions have caused a sharp drop in oil exports from Iran, the country’s main source of income.

Following U. S. President Donald Trump’s resolution more than two years ago to pull the United States out of the nuclear deal and re-impose sanctions on iran-opposing crippling industry, the currency has recovered for some time.

Iranian officials have warned exporters for months to repay their foreign source of income or threaten to revoke their export licences, and the central bank warned that it will publish the names of the infringers.

In June, the central bank reported that Iranian corporations export more than $ 40 billion worth of non-oil products a year, and officials say that about 50% of that amount remains abroad. Profits.

Ap

The presidents of Russia, the United States and France are calling for a ceasefire in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, urging Armenia and Azerbaijan to engage in talks without delay or preconditions.

“We called for a rapid cessation of hostilities between the military forces involved,” French President Emmanuel Macron, his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump of the United States said in a statement through the Elysus Palace.

“We also call on the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan to resume substantive negotiations,” said the leaders, whose countries are co-chairs of the OSCE organization in Minsk, which has been seeking a solution to the confrontation since the 1990s.

He said that these talks deserve to be “in a smart religion without preconditions” and deserve to take a position under the auspices of the co-chairs of the OSCE Group in Minsk.

The Minsk Group, established through the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in 1992, has overseen summits between Armenian and Azeri leaders, but has failed to find a lasting solution to the conflict.

– AFP

The U. S. State Department welcomes talks between Lebanon and Israel on maritime borders and the disputed land border, calling them “historic. “

The agreement between the two sides on a non-unusual framework for maritime discussions will allow the two countries to initiate discussions, which have the prospect of providing greater stability, security and prosperity to Lebanese and Israeli citizens. Today’s announcement is an important step forward that serves the interests of Lebanon and Israel, the region and the United States.

“Recognizing the positive joy of the tripartite mechanism, the United States is also ahead of separate discussions at the expert level to identify unresolved problems similar to the Blue Line, which offer the promise of some other positive step for regional stability,” he says. .

Roni Numa, an Israeli primary general who serves as a link to the ultra-Orthodox network on the virus, says there are 21,000 cases of COVID-19 in the Haredim.

He says 5, 000 are in coronavirus hotels.

Numa says that the maximum number of yeshiva scholars who are in poor health from the virus are under observation.

“Almost all yeshiva scholars shown are in yeshivas, hotels, and . . . [other institutions] where they receive help,” he says. The feeling that there are thousands of cases shown [among yeshiva scholars] wandering the net is incorrect. “

According to Enlivex Therapeutics, five coronavirus patients recovered from the virus within days of receiving Allocetra immunotherapy in a clinical trial at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem.

“The clinical trial included five patients with COVID-19, 3 in severe condition and two in critical condition. The five patients recovered from their respective serious/critical condition and were discharged from the hospital after an average of 5. 5 days (severe) and 8. 5 days (critical), after the management of AllocetraTM, at which point they all turned out negative for COVID-19 PCR,” a statement said.

“No serious allocetraTM-related adverse cases were reported in patients and the remedy was well tolerated,” he says.

Chancellor Gabi Ashkenazi thanked the United States for three years of intense diplomatic efforts that resulted in direct talks between Israel and Lebanon, negotiated across Washington, on the disputed borders.

Ashkenazi, in a tweet, said: “I that the good fortune of the talks will make a particular contribution to the stability of the region and publicitate the prosperity of the citizens of Israel and Lebanon. “

The French government agreed to return 3 looted paintings to the heirs of a Jewish collector who died in a German concentration camp.

The paintings of fauvist André Derain once belonged to the celebrated Parisian gallerist René Gimpel, who denounced through a rival merchant after joining the Resistance to fight the Nazi profession and the collaborationist vichy government.

The ruling comes after a Paris appeals court oversteald a decreasing court ruling on Wednesday to reverse the work.

They are located in the Museum of Modern Art of Troyes and the Cantini Museum in Marseille.

The works, painted between 1907 and 1910, were taken as loot the arrest of Gimpel.

The lower court had held that there were doubts about the authenticity of the paintings, but the appellate judges stated that there were “precise, serious and consistent indications” that the works were the same as those taken at Gimpel.

“It’s great,” says Corinne Hershkovitch, a lawyer for the Gimpel estate, who is still searching for other works from her collection.

“The court has agreed on the issues we have raised and we are very much to be recognized,” he said.

Gimpel, of Jewish origin, the main collector of art in the early twentieth century, active in the Resistance, fled Paris at the beginning of World War II and headed to the French Riviera.

He was arrested in 1944 and deported to the Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg, Germany, where he died the following year.

– AFP

The ultra-Orthodox yeshivas will reopen at the end of October, says the IDF general who coordinates the government’s viral backlash with the Haredim.

Roni Numa says schools will reopen when the government allows all students over the age of 10 to return to class.

The United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon says it is in a position to assist in the proposed direct talks between Israel and Lebanon on the country’s maritime border.

“The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon welcomes today’s announcement of a framework agreement to liberate negotiations between Lebanon and Israel on the demarcation of maritime and land borders between the two countries,” said a spokesman for the organization.

“UNIFIL is in a position to provide the parties with all the support it has and facilitate efforts for the forthcoming negotiations and move towards the demarcation of the Blue Line,” he added.

UNIFIL is technically guilty of ensuring the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the Second Lebanon War in 2006 and called for the withdrawal of Hezbollah and all other armed teams from southern Lebanon, but due to the limitations of its mandate, it serves as a mediator between Israel and Lebanon. Fixed no official ties.

– Judah Ari Gross

A cartel of the shared crusade on social media through Meretz accuses ultra-Orthodox politicians of having “blood on their hands. “

It is erased shortly after.

The poster, which features photographs of Shas leader Aryeh Deri and Tor leader Yaakov Litzman, is a critique of his coronavirus policy and occurs amid a massive accumulation of virus cases among the Haredim and across the country.

The poster condemned him through opposition leader Yair Lapid, who called him “unbearable and illegitimate. “

“This is not what the State of Israel and the other people of Israel need. I strongly condemn this statement. That’s not how we’re going to get out of the crisis,” he tweeted.

Lapid congratulates Meretz on deleting the message.

French President Emmanuel Macron said Syrian jihadist fighters were in Nagorno-Karabakh, where Armenia and Azerbaijan are fighting intensely.

Macron said he had evidence that the militants had crossed the Turkish city of Gaziantep in the direction of the caucasus confrontation, where fiercest clashes in years left nearly 130 people dead.

“We now have data that indicates with certainty that Syrian fighters from jihadist teams have traveled through Gaziantep to succeed in karabakh’s theatre of operations,” Macron said as he reached a summit with EU leaders in Brussels.

“This is a very serious new fact, which adjusts the game. “

– AFP

The European Medicines Agency has its first review procedure for the vaccine in COVID-19 research in progression through the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca.

The EU regulator says it has introduced a “continuous review” procedure that it hopes will speed up any final approval.

The EMA has begun analyzing scientists’ initial data on the Oxford vaccine, suggesting that the vaccine “triggers the production of antibodies and T cells”, referring to immune formula cells that attack the virus. complex vaccine tests involving thousands of people, expected to be shared in the coming months.

A similar procedure used to pass remdesivir, one of the only legal drugs to treat COVID-19. This approval was issued in just over a month; The popular procedure can take up to seven months.

The Oxford vaccine is undergoing a giant trial in the UK, a similar test was discontinued in the United States while the FDA is reviewing a report of a serious neurological effect on a British player in the trial.

Ap

Israel’s Defense Forces are preparing to open and manage two coronaviruses at Haifa’s Rambam Medical Center, fearing that the number of patients requiring hospitalization will be triggered in the coming weeks, an army spokesman said.

“This is believed to be the first time in the country’s history that the military has the official task of providing medical care to civilians,” IDF spokesman Hidai Zilberman told the press.

Although the military has finished making plans for the measure, in collaboration with the Department of Health and medical center to resolve the main points, the factor will require final government approval before moving forward. Zilberman says the army plans to start opening theaters. in the next two to four weeks.

In a discreet but unequivocal critique, Zilberman says the army is not in favor of lending troops to the police to enforce the national shutdown.

“This is one of our most effective missions,” says Zilberman.

– Judah Ari Gross

According to ministry data, 629 Israelis died of coronavirus in September.

The death toll from the virus until 1571.

Yossi Cohen, head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence firm, visited the Kingdom of Bahrain yesterday, to the official Bahrain news firm (BNA).

During his visit, Cohen met with Bahrain’s security chiefs, Lieutenant General Adel bin Khalifa Al-Fadil and Sheikh Ahmed bin Abdulaziz Al Khalifa.

The two sides discussed problems of little interest and under pressure the importance of the declaration of peace signed between the Kingdom of Bahrain and the State of Israel, as well as the role it will play particularly in the sale of stability and the protection of the values of peace. . Open horizons for cooperation between the two countries,” according to BNA.

– Aaron Boxerman

Israelis across the country continue to protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, less than a mile from their homes and in small groups, in accordance with blocking regulations, after Knesset law reduced mass protests due to rising virus rates.

– Joshua Davidovich (@Josh_Davidovich) October 1, 2020

– Tal Schneider – @talschneider 1 October 2020

The Jerusalem District Court is giving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu until November 29 to respond to the crime rate against him, delaying the original date of October 18, according to Hebrew media.

The delay comes when Netanyahu’s lawyers seek additional evidence of the minister’s investigation.

The 40-day delay will most likely delay the trial stage, which is expected to begin in January, with 3 hearings consistent with the week.

The New York School District is implementing a monthly plan to verify students and detect coronavirus.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city plans to do more than 100,000 virus tests on academics according to the month, at a cost of between $78 and $90 according to the test.

The nation’s largest school district will review between 10% and 20% of students and staff in construction month, starting Thursday, the same day that the wave of lack of more than a million students in the district began returning to classical classrooms.

De Blasio announces the plan as part of an agreement with the teachers’ union for a strike; at least 79 Ministry of Education workers died from COVID-19.

Los Angeles Public Schools has introduced a $150 million testing program.

The CDC said coronavirus in school-age youth in the United States has been expanding since early September, when many returned to the classroom.

Ap

U. S. envoy David Schenker said Israel-Lebanon border talks would begin in the week of October 12.

Lebanon and Israel previously said they would hold negotiations negotiated by the United States on their disputed land and sea borders, in which Washington has a “historic” agreement between two parties, which are technically still at war.

– with AFP

Washington warns that it will not tolerate attacks on U. S. interests in Iraq through Iranian-backed militias, as Baghdad is involved in a imaginable US withdrawal.

“We tolerate threats to our people, men and women abroad,” said David Schenker, undersecretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs.

Schenker has officially shown the U. S. risk of withdrawing its troops and closing its embassy in Baghdad unless the attacks against them continue.

– AFP

U. S. President Donald Trump was the world’s largest misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study by Cornell University.

A Cornell Alliance for Science team evaluated 38 million articles through classic English media worldwide between January 1 and May 26 this year.

The database used includes policy from countries such as the United States, Great Britain, India, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and African and Asian countries.

The team met 522,472 press articles that reproduced or mislified similar to the coronavirus pandemic, or what the World Health Organization called “infodemics”.

These have been categorized into 11 main subtopics, ranging from conspiracy theories to attacks on scientist Anthony Fauci and the concept that the virus is a biological weapon untied in China.

But through the most popular theme what the authors examine called “miracle cures”, which appeared in 295,351 articles, more than the other 10 themes combined.

The authors found that President Trump’s comments had caused primary spikes in the issue of “miracle cures,” leading to his April 24 press conference in which he contemplated the framework’s option of internal disinfectants to cure coronavirus.

Similar spikes occurred when promoting un cured remedies such as hydroxychloroquine.

“We conclude that the president of the United States was probably the main driving force of COVID-19’s ‘infodemic’ misinformation,” the team wrote.

Sara Evanega, who led the study and is director of The Cornell Science Alliance, said: “If other people are deceived through clinical and non-disease-based claims, they are less likely to adhere to official rules and therefore will not. threat of spread of the virus. “

Co-author Jordan Adams, a knowledge analyst at Cision Insights who provided the knowledge base, adds: “One of the most attractive facets of the knowledge-gathering procedure has been finding the staggering amount of incorrect information policies similar to the public comments of a small number of people. “

After miracle cures, the maximum moment is not an unusual topic of incorrect information that the pandemic had been created to promote a “new global order. “

Then comes the claim that the pandemic was a hoax to make political gains through the American Democratic Party, followed by conspiracies alleging that the virus is a biological weapon released through a laboratory in Wuhan, China.

Conspiracy theories linking the pandemic to philanthropist Bill Gates came here, followed by the deception that COVID-19 symptoms occur through 5G telephone networks, anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, and the perception that the virus is a form of population control.

Attacks on American scientist Fauci, references to the demystified video “Plandemic” and the virus’s fault to the Chinese who eat bat soup complete the list.

He also tracked how stories were shared on social media, and found that posts had generated 36 million interactions, three-quarters of them on Facebook.

Studies funded in component through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

– AFP

In an updated account, the Ministry of Health says that more than 9013 new instances of coronavirus were shown yesterday, with more than 70,000 tests conducted.

This is the first time that the number of daily instances has exceeded 9,000, some of them would be part of an accumulation of Yom Kippur, when the maximum tests were suspended and the laboratories were closed.

More than 13% of the tests returned on Wednesday.

According to the ministry, of the 71,956 active cases, 817 are in serious condition, adding 186 fans, another 277 are in moderate condition, others with mild or absent symptoms.

The death toll is 1,600, 48 dead in the last 24 hours.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the government would on Monday tighten the closing rules.

“On Monday, we’ll take a resolution on how to proceed with the lock: hardening or release,” he said in a Facebook Live video.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said “Jerusalem is our city,” in a tweet.

“The Jerusalem factor is not a geopolitical challenge for us. Our ancestors have shown their respect for centuries by keeping this city in maximum esteem,” he says. “Jerusalem is our city, a city of us. “

That’s why Turkey will stay with the Palestinians, he says.

“With this understanding, we will defend the Palestinian cause, which is the bleeding wound of global consciousness, and the Jerusalem issue to the end. “

– Turkish Presidency (@trpresidency) 1 October 2020

More than 1,000 small scattered demonstrations calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are taking a position throughout Israel in accordance with the restrictions of the coronavirus, before the anti-Netanyahu protest organization The Black Flags.

The Knesset passed a law in the morning that prohibits others from traveling more than a kilometer from their home to attend a demonstration. The law is a component of the government’s efforts to reduce coronavirus infections while Israel is under its pandemic blockade.

Organizations involved in anti-Netanyahu protests over the more than 3 months have strongly opposed new regulations, violating their freedom to protest. Black flags, along with several other anti-Netanyahu groups, have promised to continue protesting in accordance with the restrictions.

“These are dark days for the State of Israel. No country has legislate to restrict the right to protest, for an undeniable reason: there is no logic of public aptitude. There is only the logic of a criminal – of a accused criminal trying to flee for fear of being punished,” the Black Flags said in a statement.

– Aaron Boxerman

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri says the ultra-Orthodox network follows regulations on the virus more strictly than the general population, amid a massive build-up of cases of haredim virus.

“The vast majority of other ultra-Orthodox people adhere to the rules, much more than the general public. There is no other network that is so disciplined,” she told Channel 12.

“If it’s my fault, it’s for convincing [the public] that the Haredim are betting on the rules. They are committing an injustice by opposing the Jasidim,” he adds, adding that the Hasidic gursidic sect, the most giant in the country, has closed its synagogues in the midst of a giant outbreak.

The Director General of the Ministry of Health, Chezy Levy, has warned that some marginal teams among the ultra-Orthodox seek to intentionally become inflamed with coronavirus, with the aim of creating “collective immunity” in their communities, according to Channel 12.

“This is our fitness doctrine and we adopt collective immunity, with the infections and deaths that this entails. I’m very sad about this behavior, and this is a moment of fact for the defense and leadership of the network,” Levy said.

The Israeli Association of Public Health Physicians warns the Ministry of Health not to approve a legal vacuum allowing meetings of up to 20 more people in “semi-open” succas, army radio reports.

The Ministry of Health plans to make an exception for makeshift cabins built for the holidays that are open to more than 50%, according to the Hebrew media. Experts fear that the resolution could pave the way for massive meetings that could lead to coronavirus infections.

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri told the Twelfth Channel that the exception would allow up to 20 more people to pray at the event, but not eat. According to blocking rules, meetings are limited to 20 outside and 10 in.

The government previously said that other people who succas who are not home will be fined.

Armenia withdrew its ambassador to Israel, a day after an Azeri official boasted of Israeli weapons in the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, according to the Walla news site.

In an interview with Walla on Wednesday, Azerbaijani president’s assistant said his country had used Israeli drones, adding lazy munitions, or “suicide drones,” the recent fighting circular and praised its effectiveness.

“Congratulations to the engineers who designed it,” Hikmet Hajiyev said. He also said the Azeri “greatly appreciate cooperation with Israel, cooperation in defence. “

Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi addresses his Kosovar counterpart, Meliza Haradinaj Stublla, for the first time from the state of Jerusalem last month.

Israel’s popularity of Kosovo is part of a tri-component agreement announced on 4 September through the White House. According to the announcement, Serbia, which claims ownership of the territory of Kosovo and fought against the foreign popularity of its declaration of independence in 2008, agreed to cooperate in certain economic problems with the government of the separatist region.

The agreement stipulates that the two countries will open embassies in Jerusalem, a progression that Israel and the United States are advancing, despite opposition from the Palestinians and the European Union.

Ashkenazi said in a message that he thanked Stublla for agreeing to open an embassy in Jerusalem, for identifying Hezbollah as a terrorist group, and for his private efforts to get the government to adopt the IHRA’s definition of anti-Semitism.

The two agreed that a delegation from Kosovo would invite Israel to discuss the status quo of diplomatic relations, Ashkenazi said.

– with JTA

The Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee approves restrictions on protests over closure, which will restrict demonstrations to 20 others within a one-kilometre radius of their homes.

The panel also provides soft green to the final synagogues of government regulations and prohibits others from visiting other people’s upcoming Succot vacations, according to army radio.

Regulations must now take effect at midnight, according to Hebrew reports.

In addition to more than a thousand small protests across the country, protesters are gathering Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv’s HaBima Square.

Army radio says some 3,000 protesters have gathered there.

Terrorist Hamas announces that deputy political leader Saleh al-Arouri has become inflamed with the new coronavirus.

Al-Arouri, who lives in Beirut, met last week with several senior Palestinian officials, Fatah Secretary General Jibril Rajoub and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.

It is unclear that other senior Hamas or Fatah officials are quarantined.

– Aaron Boxerman

The presidents of Russia, the United States and France are calling for a ceasefire in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, urging Armenia and Azerbaijan to engage in talks without delay or preconditions.

“We called for a rapid cessation of hostilities between the military forces involved,” French President Emmanuel Macron, his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump of the United States said in a statement through the Elysus Palace.

“We also call on the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan to resume substantive negotiations,” said the leaders, whose countries are co-chairs of the OSCE organization in Minsk, which has been seeking a solution to the confrontation since the 1990s.

He said that these talks deserve to be “in a smart religion without preconditions” and deserve to take a position under the auspices of the co-chairs of the OSCE Group in Minsk.

The Minsk Group, established through the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in 1992, has overseen summits between Armenian and Azeri leaders, but has failed to find a lasting solution to the conflict.

– AFP