The Times of Israel records Sunday’s occasions as they occur.
EL CAIRO – Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities the discovery of 14 sarcophagus in the Saqqara necropolis south of Cairo that have been buried for 2500 years.
The coffins were discovered two days ago in an archaeological excavation at the burial site where thirteen other wooden sarcophagus were discovered last week, the ministry said in a statement.
The vast necropolis of saqqarah is located about 16 kilometers (10 miles) south of the famous pyramids of Giza, is part of the ancient city of Memphis, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and houses the colossal stepped pyramid of Djoser.
Photographs of well-preserved coffins show ornate and intricate paintings, with brown and blue lines, as well as hieroglyphic images.
The ministry said additional excavations had been planned in the hope that a treasure trove of wooden coffins would be discovered at the site.
In a video released this month delivering the findings, Tourism and Antiquities Minister Khaled al-Anani said the recent discoveries in Saqqarah were “just the beginning. “
Egypt has sought to publicize archaeological discoveries across the country in order to revive tourism, which has been affected by restrictions due to the new coronavirus pandemic.
– AFP
Last week we announced the discovery of thirteen sealed human coffins. In the last few days, we’ve discovered 14 more. Stay tuned pic. twitter. com/JXBSoUdncW
– Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities (@TourismandAntiq) 19 September 2020
Shas MK Moshe Arbel did the coronavirus test.
Several legislators have had COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic.
Police arrested a driving force that accelerated to the barricades surrounding the open-air anti-Netanyahu demonstration at the prime minister’s apartment in Jerusalem.
The incident is investigation and reports describe it as an alleged bombing attempt.
The driving force allegedly slammed on the brakes before colliding with the barricades.
– כאן חדשות (@kann_news) 20 September 2020
The United States will announce opposing sanctions on more than two dozen Americans and entities linked to Iran’s traditional nuclear, missile, and weapons programs, Reuters reports, pointing to the reinstatement of UN sanctions opposed to Tehran despite opposition from other members of Security. Council.
A senior US official quoted via the news firm warned Iran would possibly have enough curtains to build a nuclear weapon until the end of the year and said the Islamic Republic has resumed cooperation with North Korea on long-range missile progression. .
The official also said the Trump administration will issue a new executive order to anyone who buys or sells weapons with Iran.
“Iran is obviously doing everything it can for a turnkey virtual capability to get back to the militarization sector at any time if it wishes,” the official said of Tehran’s nuclear program.
UNITED NATIONS – Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said that the United Nations will never impose sanctions against Iran again, as required by the United States, until it receives green approval from the Security Council.
The UN leader said in a letter to the board president received through The Associated Press that “there appears to be uncertainty” about U. S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that triggered the “backtracking” mechanism in the Security Council solution that won the 2015 nuclear deal. between Iran and six major powers.
Trump’s leadership said that all UN sanctions opposing Iran have been restored, a resolution that most of the rest of the globals reject as illegal and is likely to be ignored. The US announcement will be debatable at the UN General Assembly’s high-level annual meetings starting Monday, which are held mainly this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The U. S. announcement came 30 days after Pompeo notified the board that the administration caused a “retracement” because Iran in “significant non-compliance” with its obligations under the agreement, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA.
But the overwhelming majority of the 15-nation council considers the U. S. action illegal. President Donald Trump removed the United States from the plan in 2018.
They refer to Security Council Resolution 2231, which establishes the nuclear agreement. Sets that “a PVPOA player state” can cause the “backward” mechanism. The United States insists that, as an original player, you have the legal right, even if you have stopped participating.
Guterres notes in the letter that “the Security Council accepted no after receiving the letter from the U. S. Secretary of State, or any of its members or its president. “
He said most board members had written to the president “that the letter did constitute a ification” that “recoil” had been activated. And he says the chairmans of the board in August and September “have indicated that they are in a position to take action on it. “
For this reason, Guterres says, “it is up to the Secretary-General to continue as if such uncertainty existed. “
Guterres says the UN will not take any action “pending an explanation from the Security Council” as to whether or not the sanctions lifted will be imposed again.
AP
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Bahrain has damaged a plot through Iranian-backed militants to launch attacks on diplomats and foreigners in the island country that hosts the U. S. Navy Fifth Fleet, just days after normalizing relations with Israel, Saudi state television reported.
Bahrain’s Interior Ministry and its state media do not promptly acknowledge the arrests. Bahrain government officials, claiming to break up the plots through Iranian-backed activists, do not promptly respond to a request for comment.
Reports from Saudi state television broadcast images of what appears to be a police raid in a space with a hidden passage. Photographs show attack rifles and explosives, allegedly confiscated in the raid. to get them revenge for the American killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in January, a drone strike in Baghdad.
Some activists have been arrested, while others are believed to be in Iran, according to reports from Saudi state television.
Iranian state media acknowledges the reports of the arrests in Bahrain, but has no official comment.
Bahrain is home to the Fifth Fleet, which patrols the waterways of the Middle East. Officers have been involved in the afterlife that sailors and Marines attached to Manama base may be the target, as well as others that make up the 7,000 U. S. troops there. Rebecca Rebarich, spokesperson for the Fifth Fleet, declined to comment and referred the questions to the Bahraini government.
Bahrain, an island kingdom off the coast of Saudi Arabia, last week normalized relations with Israel throughout the United Arab Emirates, but the Saudi state television report did not mention this.
Ap
A few thousand protesters gather in Jerusalem for Prime Minister Netanyahu’s weekly protest amid a national shutdown aimed at stopping the coronavirus pandemic.
Police have divided the open-air dominance of the prime minister’s apartment into socially remote “capsules,” but video of the demonstration shows that protesters largely seem to forget about them, some being prominent through chalk marks drawn through protesters.
According to Channel 12 news, a guy arrested for asking others to disobey restrictions on the virus.
Police did not enforce government-approved restrictions on Rosh Hashaná prayers at ultra-Orthodox synagogues in Jerusalem and Bnei Brak, Channel 12 reports.
WASHINGTON – For a moment, Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska says she would oppose any vote on a new Supreme Court candidate “so close” to the November 3 presidential election, so she is more likely to be delayed.
She adds her voice to that of Senator Susan Collins of Maine, who made an extra yesterday, saying that the replacement of the defeated Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg will only be made through the president-elect in November.
If two more Republican senators sign up for Murkowski and Collins, they can simply block, or at least delay, a confirmation vote.
– AFP
Professor Ronni Gamzu, tsar of the coronaviruses, said he feared that the number of patients with COVID-19 in serious condition was 800 until the end of the week, and that another 20 people would die the day.
“Ours is serious,” he told the Twelfth Channel.
Gamzu noted his opposition to the tightening of the blockade that came into force on Friday, saying he feared “this formula is working. “
He also said he had asked all hospitals to open up more for coronaviruses, warning that “we are in an emergency situation. “
Any hardening of the national coronavirus blockade is expected to take effect as far as Yom Kippur reports Channel 12.
The Day of Atonement begins this year on the night of September 27 and ends the following night.
The network says Prime Minister Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein new restrictions, while Professor Ronni Gamzu, tsar of the coronavirus, opposes them.
The new measures are the additional restriction on the number of workers in personal sector workplaces and greater application of virus regulations in demonstrations and synagogues, according to the report.
“There are no expectations at this time for the end of the blockade and restrictions and there is also no goal explained. Turns out we’ll succeed in between 700 and 800 serious patients, including the blockade,” officials from the Ministry of Fitness said.
They are also involved in that there may be a jump in two weeks from the circle of family reunions arranged through some Israelis before the closure takes effect.
The Department of Health reported 1906 on other coronavirus cases, raising the number of infections from the onset of the pandemic to 187396.
He also showed seven deaths, bringing the national death toll to 1236.
The ministry says there are 52,262 active cases, 643 of them in serious condition, with fan records.
BEIRUT – Lebanon is holding a concert for those who suffered last month’s fatal explosion in Beirut on the grounds of a 19th-century palace destroyed by the great explosion.
The August 4 explosion in the capital’s harbor killed more than 190 people, wounded thousands and destroyed or destroyed buildings in parts of the city.
“In order to cry, to take the time to remember, it was vital to have this musical moment,” explains artistic director Jean-Louis Mainguy.
The occasion takes place in the gardens of Sursock Palace, whose windows, red shingle roof, ceilings and furniture were devastated by the explosion.
The concert, broadcast on television and broadcast online at the end of the evening, begins with a performance of “Li Beirut”, an ode to the city of the famous Lebanese singer Fairouz.
It is expected to come with virtual contributions from Lebanese artists, as well as the voices of some 250 backing vocals from across the country.
Organizers asked the citizens of Beirut to place a lit candle on their balconies and at its commemoration.
The originally scheduled occasion to take a position at the port, however, moved after the air quality around the site was deemed too poor.
Last night, Lebanese-born singer Mika led the broadcast of an online concert to increase the budget after the explosion.
– AFP
Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi congratulates the United States on pronouncing that UN nuclear sanctions against Iran are back in force.
“I thank the United States for its determined policy in the Security Council. . . to prevent the lifting of the arms embargo opposed to Iran,” Ashkenazi said in a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Despite the STATEMENT by the United States that “fast recoil” sanctions were now in force, Security Council members rejected that decision.
“I call on all other countries in the world to support the United States, to choir the promotion of arms to Iran, and to put sanctions into force,” Ashkenazi said.
It also calls on the three European signatories to the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran (France, Britain and Germany) to abandon their opposition to the US resolution and impose sanctions against Iran.
Police are dividing dominance around the prime minister’s apartment in Jerusalem into separate “capsules” to make some social esttachment among protesters at tonight’s anti-Netanyahu protest.
– 20 September 2020 (@kann_news)
U. S. , Emirati and Sudanese officials will hold a “decisive” assembly in Abu Dhabi today to discuss the normalization of diplomatic relations between Sudan and Israel, Walla reports.
Citing Sudanese officials, the report says that if the United States accepts Sudan’s requests for assistance, an announcement is likely to be made in the coming days that Sudan will normalize relations with Israel.
Sudanese officials say Khartoum has 3 demands for standardization: the $1. 2 billion wheat and fuel; Receive a $2 billion loan to stabilize your economy; and a promise of monetary assistance over the next 3 years.
In addition, Sudan seeks to be removed from the U. S. list of states suffering from terrorism.
The report also states that Prime Minister Netanyahu discussed the status quo of relations between Israel and Sudan when he was in Washington last week for the signing of standardization agreements with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
A convoy of anti-Netanyahu protesters is heading to Jerusalem for tonight’s demonstration before the Prime Minister.
Protesters are also gathering on bridges and viaducts across the country and are expected to show up near Netanyahu’s home in the coastal city of Caesarea.
– TheBlackFlags1 September 20, 2020
KYIV, Ukraine – Tens of thousands of Belarusians asked the authoritarian president to resign from marching in the capital as the country’s wave of protests enters its seventh week.
Hundreds of infantrymen blocked central Minsk, deployed water cannons and armored vehicles of workers and erected barbed fences. Protests are also taking place in several other cities, adding Brest and Grodno.
The crowd in Minsk is about 100,000 people, says Ales Bialiatski, viasna’s human rights director, who says dozens of protesters have been arrested in Minsk and Grodno.
Protests began on 9 August after an election that, according to official effects, gave President Alexander Lukashenko a sixth term; the parties to the conflict and some pollsters say the effects have been manipulated.
Lukashenko, who has taken strong action against the opposition and independent media for 26 years in power, rejected advice to argue with protesters. Many members of the Coordinating Council, which was formed through the opposition to drive a power transition, were arrested or fled the country.
Protesters in Minsk displayed the red and white flags that were the national norm of independent Belarus before being replaced in 1995, at the beginning of Lukashenko’s tenure. Some posters show symptoms showing Lukashenko as a bigotuda cockroach.
Although demonstrations have taken place since the elections, Sunday’s demonstrations in Minsk were by far the largest and attracted crowds of up to 200,000 people.
“Every Sunday you show yourself and the world that other Belarusians are power,” says Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who is lukashenko’s main opponent of elections, in a video message from Lithuania, where she is in exile.
Ap
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif criticizes U. S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo because UN sanctions opposing Iran were again in force, a measure disputed by other members of the Security Council.
“The world says Security Council sanctions have not been restored,” Zarif wrote on Twitter.
“But sir, ” we lie, we deceive, we steal “threat to punish a global who refuses to do so in his parallel universe,” he adds.
But Mr. “we lie, we deceive, we steal” threatens to punish a world that refuses to live in its parallel universe. RealDonaldTrump replaces tactics before @SecPompeo further transforms #MAGA into a global action that laughs tontamente. pic. twitter. com/PeOgJRR2SZ
– Javad Zarif (@JZarif) September 20, 2020
Police are preparing for the option that Israelis may check to use the exemption to protest against national lockout regulations that took effect Friday to circumvent movement restrictions.
“We are well aware that there will be those who retire to take advantage of the exceptions to return home after not being home during [Rosh Hashaná’s] vacation,” a police source told Haaretz. “Anyone who needs it can circumvent the rules, but we’re waiting for the public to be responsible. “
The newspaper said police finished questioning drivers at checkpoints across the country at the end of the Jewish New Year tonight and fining those who did not spend Rosh Hashanah at home.
In addition, police are preparing for the weekly demonstration at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s official apartment in Jerusalem, which will take a stand tonight despite the closure.
Hundreds of officials and water cannons are already deployed in the domain of the minister’s residence, according to public broadcaster Kan.
– כאן חדשות (@kann_news) 20 September 2020
DUESSELDORF, Germany – Hundreds of others are demonstrating in the centre of Dusseldorf against government restrictions on coronaviruses and many other causes.
People wave banners with slogans like “ending panic, the crown pandemic is a lie” and “rebel crown” while playing songs that denounce coronavirus restrictions.
They sing “Free Julian Assange” with a loudspeaker and shape a “W”, symbolizing “all of us”, with their hands, that rise above their heads while the Chariots of Fire theme sounds.
No masks are seen, apart from the hounds covering the rally and some young people minged with the crowd.
Before walking towards the western city, the crowd sways with Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World” and a guy in a Superguy dress sings.
Police report any incidents.
Ap
CAIRO – Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities has the discovery of 14 sarcophagus in the Saqqara necropolis, south of Cairo, which had been buried for 2,500 years.
The coffins were discovered two days ago in an archaeological excavation at the burial site where thirteen other wooden sarcophagus were discovered last week, the ministry said in a statement.
The vast necropolis of saqqara is located about 16 kilometers (10 miles) south of the famous pyramids of Giza, is part of the ancient city of Memphis, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and houses the colossal stepped pyramid of Djoser.
Photographs of well-preserved coffins show ornate and intricate paintings, with brown and blue lines, as well as hieroglyphic images.
The ministry said additional excavations had been planned in the hope that a treasure trove of wooden coffins would be discovered at the site.
In a video released this month delivering the findings, Tourism and Antiquities Minister Khaled al-Anani said the recent discoveries in Saqqarah were “just the beginning. “
Egypt has sought to publicize archaeological discoveries across the country in order to revive tourism, which has been affected by restrictions due to the new coronavirus pandemic.
– AFP
Last week, we announced the discovery of thirteen sealed human coffins. In the last few days, we have discovered 14 more. Stay tuned pic. twitter. com/JXBSoUdncW
– Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities (@TourismandAntiq) 19 September 2020