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Netanyahu said, “You recycle the same worn-out and ridiculous slogans about the end of democracy,” as he addressed the opposition in a speech to parliament on Wednesday. Once and for all, democracy is not in danger; it is actually in the bureaucrats’ power.

“Perhaps you could stop putting spanners in the government’s tools in the middle of a war”? You might be able to stop “the street gangs, hatred, and anarchy.” he continued.

In addition to resuming strikes in Gaza without any regard for the captives in the besieged enclave, thousands of Israelis have participated in several days of antigovernment demonstrations, accusing Netanyahu of undermining democracy by ousting Ronen Bar, the head of the Shin Bet internal security agency.

Netanyahu and the Shin Bet chief, who are allegedly conducting a bribery investigation into the prime minister’s office, are locked in a fight over “trust,” according to Netanyahu. The two men have been at odds with one another for the past two years as a result of bitter disagreements over how to stop the southern Israel attacks led by Hamas on October 7, 2023.

A large coalition of anti-Netanyahu organizations, which claim the Israeli leader is trying to stay in power at all costs, organized the demonstrations that started last week.

After several appeals, including those brought by opposition leader Yair Lapid’s center-right Yesh Atid party, the Supreme Court halted Bar’s dismissal.

What critics believe are Netanyahu’s two main causes of his opposition’s appeal:

The government was criticised for the security failure that made Hamas’s most deadly day in country history on October 7, 2023, a critical day for the country.

The second was alleged to have been the result of a Shin Bet investigation into Netanyahu’s close associates on suspicion of having money dealing with Qatar, according to the opposition’s appeal.

The accusations have been labeled “fake news,” according to Netanyahu’s office.

calling for “revolt.”

If the government of Netanyahu refused to accept the verdicts of the country’s Supreme Court, Yair Lapid, the leader of the Israeli opposition called for a “revolt” against it.

According to Lapid, “a government that doesn’t follow the rules of the court is a criminal government that ought to be followed,” Lapid said on local radio 103FM.

“We must shut down the country, and that would be the end of everything,” the government said.

The first step in the process to remove her was a vote of no confidence that Israel’s cabinet received on Sunday against Baharav-Miara, the country’s attorney general.

The attorney general’s job is characterized by “significant and prolonged differences between the government and the government’s legal adviser,” according to Netanyahu’s office.

A special rapporteur for the UN has endorsed Afghanistan’s national women’s football team, who calls on athletes from all over the world to show their solidarity in their struggle to be eliminated from World Cup qualifying events since the Taliban’s takeover in 2021.

Many of the team’s members emigrated from the country at the time because they feared persecution.

Due to FIFA regulations that require national federations recognition, and the Taliban-controlled Afghan Football Federation that forbids women from playing, the women’s team has since been unable to compete internationally.

The Taliban claims that it adheres to Islamic law’s and local customs’ interpretation of women’s rights and that local issues should be resolved.

Mursal Sadat, the captain of the Afghan national team, highlighted the importance of global cooperation in the fight for gender equality in sport at a press conference hosted by the Sports &amp, Rights Alliance on Tuesday.

It’s time for us to unite together, if there is one thing I would ask of the athletes from all over the world. And it’s about time that women back other women, she said.

Because you guys have a voice to use and that platform to be used, it would give us a lot of inspiration and support.

Even a short video posted by athletes on social media would, according to Sadat, represent Afghans’ collective resistance to gender-based violence.

UN Special Representative for Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, stated on Wednesday that he supported Afghan women footballers’ calls for FIFA to step up.

Sports & Rights Alliance has urged FIFA to take a strong stand against gender oppression and allow Afghan women footballers who are exiled from international competition to play there, Bennett wrote on X.

Khalida Popal, the former national team’s founder, stated that the players are merely seeking cooperation from the international body of football.

Because we are not fighting against FIFA or any other organization, Popal said, “our platform is sport – together with everyone, with the media, with individuals, with organizations, with governing bodies, with the media, with the media, with the public, with governing bodies, and with us.”

“We want to work together to find the best solutions by using Afghanistan as an example to ensure that other countries and other countries don’t face the same challenges that we have.”

As soon as details of a $1 billion prize fund were finally revealed, the winners of FIFA’s first 32-team Club World Cup in the United States could win a football record $125 million.

FIFA stated that it had set aside $ 38.1 million to the top-ranked European team, likely Real Madrid, and $ 3.58 million to the Oceania representative Auckland City, for teams that would take part in the tournament between June 14 and July 13.

Results in the 63 games will contribute another $ 470 million, including $7.5 million for round-of-16 play, and $ 40 million for the team that wins the MetLife Stadium near New York, winning the championship game.

Following the delivery of the golden trophy to President Donald Trump by FIFA President Gianni Infantino, the trophy has been sitting in the White House’s Oval Office this month.

A delayed conclusion of a global broadcast agreement with streaming service DAZN, which received significant funding from a Saudi-backed sports agency, was the subject of the prize fund.

FIFA confirmed Saudi Arabia to host the men’s 2034 World Cup in December.

Each of the 12 European clubs participating in the Club World Cup will be charged a fee of at least $12.81 million for entry. Without providing any further information, FIFA stated that “a ranking based on sporting and commercial criteria” would be used to determine payments.

Manchester City, Bayern Munich, Paris Saint-Germain, and Chelsea also qualified by holding the same four seasons’ champions league records as they did from 2021 to 2024.

If a nation didn’t have three Champions League winners, they could only have two entries. Due to the country cap, higher-ranked clubs like Liverpool and Barcelona being unable to advance past the round of 16, Salzburgburg of Austria qualified as the final European team.

A $15.21 million entry fee will be charged to each of the six South American teams.

Despite not winning the MLS Cup title last year, teams from Africa, Asia, and the CONCACAF region of North America will each receive $9.55 million for their contributions to the game.

Due to the fact that Pachuca and Leon of Mexico both received the same level of qualification, FIFA is currently challenging its removal from the competition.

FIFA wants to pay $250 million to organizations all over the world who did not make it to the tournament. How many clubs will receive no guarantees as to how much money will be made.

The Palestinian co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land says he thought he was going to “die” at the hands of Israeli settlers and soldiers before his arrest this week in the occupied West Bank.

Hamdan Ballal was arrested on Monday by Israeli forces after he was beaten and injured three weeks after winning his Oscar in Hollywood. He was released on Tuesday from a police station in the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba.

The incident took place in the village of Susiya in the southern West Bank as residents were breaking their fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Speaking to Al Jazeera on Tuesday, Ballal said he had gone to document a settler attack on his neighbour’s home in Susiya.

But as the situation escalated and Ballal realised it had “become more and more dangerous”, he said he decided to return home to his family.

However, a settler known to him, together with two Israeli soldiers, followed him to his house, Ballal said, adding that the assault took place just outside his home.

“They held the gun directly to me, the soldiers. … The settler went behind me and directly attacked me with his hands. I don’t know what he held in his hands,” he said.

Ballal fell to the ground as the attack continued.

“The soldiers kept on shouting at me, threatening me and putting the gun, one time at my neck. … They also put the gun on my cheek.”

Ballal recalled thinking he would not survive the attack.

“The soldiers let him [the settler] beat me, and the soldiers also beat me with a gun. I fell because it was a hard, hard attack,” he said. “They focused on my head. They kicked my head and also with a gun.

“I felt they were going to kill me, not just to punish me. … I felt I would die,” he told Al Jazeera.

‘Settlers do what they want’

The documentary No Other Land – directed by Ballal, another Palestinian and two Israelis – chronicles settler violence and Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes in the West Bank’s Masafer Yatta area. It won the Oscar for best documentary on March 2.

Since Israel’s war on Gaza began on October 7, 2023, Ballal said the Israeli army “lets the settlers do what they want”.

“Because the army [is] here, they are settlers with uniforms,” he said.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health says Israeli soldiers and settlers have killed at least 884 Palestinians in the West Bank since the war started 17 months ago.