Latest News Headlines of Palestine
Senate Speaker Faisal Fayez congratulated Thursday His Majesty King Abdullah and Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah on the wedding of His Highness Prince Al Hussein bin Abdullah II, the Crown Prince, to Her Highness Princess Rajwa Al Hussein.
Source: Jordan News Agency
Thursday bore witness to an illustrious union as His Royal Highness Crown Prince Al Hussein bin Abdullah was joined in wedlock with Ms. Rajwa Alseif. The magnificent ceremony, at Zahran Palace, was led by His Majesty King Abdullah II and Queen Rania Al-Abdullah, casting a splendid spectacle that enveloped the royal family and esteemed guests, inclusive of dignitaries and royal heirs from various Arab and foreign nations. A royal decree was promulgated, bestowing upon Ms. Rajwa bint Khaled Alseif, the title of Her Royal Highness, Princess Rajwa Al Hussein.
Source: Jordan News Agency
The Minister of Transport, Abdulwahab Yahya Al-Durra, paid tribute to the supervisory committee’s efforts to implement the plan to replace the floating reservoir (Safer) and the United Nations efforts that led to the effective commencement of the plan to save the Red Sea marine environment and the countries overlooking it from a major disaster in the event of an oil spill from the floating reservoir.
During his meeting on Thursday with Sana’a, the representative of the World Food Programme of Yemen, Richard Ragan, and representatives of the Office of the United Nations Envoy to Yemen and humanitarian organizations operating in Yemen, the Minister of Transport commended the three-year efforts of the Supervisory and International Commission until the purchase of the ship to which oil would be withdrawn from the old reservoir Safer, currently in DJibouti.
“Today we are in the first step of the last phase in order to save the floating reservoir and prevent an environmental catastrophe that could be the largest in history,” he said.
The Minister stressed the need to adhere to the plan and not delay, stressing that the plan should include the implementation of the replacement ship’s permanent maintenance programme so that the problem would not be repeated again.
He noted the need for all parties to fulfil their duties in all humanity and impartiality so that our country can overcome the effects of the nine-year-old aggression and economic blockade.
In turn, the representative of the World Food Programme stressed the importance of humanitarian action and fruitful joint cooperation with the Ministry of Transport and its bodies and institutions to meet the needs of the Yemeni people.
In the presence of the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Transport, Abdullah al-Ansi, the meeting discussed the areas of bilateral cooperation between the two sides and the mechanism for its development during the next phase.
Source: Yemen News Agency
The Civil Defence Interest (CDI) made an urgent appeal to officials of dams and water barriers in various provinces.
The call for the rapid opening of drainage channels and the reduction of water in dams and water barriers by at least 25 per cent of the total capacity of the dam or water barrier, and to keep pace with the rainfall by maintaining the required reduction rate, in order to avoid its flooding or collapse.
In a statement to Saba, the Civil Defence Interest warned citizens against being present or crossing from torrential corridors and waterfalls during the rainfall.
Source: Yemen News Agency
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates today condemned the Israeli Knesset’s adoption of new racist laws in preliminary reading aimed at the Israelization of education in Arab schools, warning that these laws attempt to impose the Israeli narrative on the awareness of Palestinian generations through intensifying restrictive measures against teachers and students and by blackmailing Arab schools that do not adopt the Israeli curricula by not including them in the education budget. It said in a statement that it looks very seriously at the results of these racist laws and their repercussions that would legitimize the persecution and pursuit of the Palestinian nationalist figures, attempt to control and dominate the consciousness of generations and push them to accept the occupation’s procedures and measures. The Palestinian schools in occupied East Jerusalem will also be targeted in these laws in flagrant violation of international law and the signed agreements, especially as they come after what has become to be known as the law to fight the Palestinian flag by banning raising it in educational institutions and universities. The Foreign Ministry called on the specialized international organizations concerned with human rights and others, particularly UNESCO, to speak out against these laws and urgently intervene to stop the completion of their legislation because they are a flagrant aggression on the right of people to preserve their identity, heritage, culture and cause in accordance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, especially with regard to their freedom to express their opinions and ideas by peaceful means and through education.
Source: En – Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA
Bank of Palestine (BOP) has become the first bank in Palestine and the Middle East to deposit funds in Citi’s Sustainable Deposit Solution, which supports clients when investing their excess cash and meeting their sustainability goals, today said a BOP press release. This will enable Bank of Palestine to indirectly support different sustainable financing projects across Citi’s portfolio, such as renewable energy, water conservation, healthcare and education as well as in social projects that expand financial inclusion for women and traditionally under-represented communities. This is in line with BOP’s commitment towards implementing a holistic sustainability strategy in accordance with international standards and best practice, which was kicked off through a focus on governance to enshrine this commitment, with a sustainability committee at the board level, a dedicated sustainability team, and environmental, social and governance (ESG) commitments across operations, including releasing the bank’s first sustainability report for the year 2021, said the press release. The Bank’s deposit of $5 million is allocated to finance or refinance assets in a portfolio of eligible green and/or social finance projects, based on the criteria set out by Citi. ‘As part of our sustainability strategy, we have instructed our investment teams and our credit teams to invest in green sustainability financial products and equally augment our credit portfolios in social inclusion loans and green loans; such as renewables, agriculture and water and solid waste treatment with sustainability-oriented financial institutions like Citi. This deposit contributes to our strategy in accordance with our commitments to UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and ESG,’ said Hashim Shawa, Chairman Bank of Palestine Group. Nour Jarrar, Citi Jordan CEO, said, ‘We are pleased to support Bank of Palestine with the sustainable deposit solution. Finance and treasury teams are playing an increasingly strategic role in helping their firms to support their environmental, social and governance goals, and Citi is providing tools that help our clients reach their goals.’
Source: En – Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA
After releasing on Tuesday the body of Wadi Abu Rmouz, from Jerusalem, who died while in Israeli custody on January 28 of wounds sustained from Israeli gunfire, the Israeli occupation authorities are still withholding bodies of 12 Palestinian freedom fighters who died while incarcerated in its prisons under different circumstances, today said the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS). It said the longest withheld body is for the prisoner Anis Douleh, who died in 1980. The remaining 11 include Aziz Oweisat, who died in 2018, Faris Baroud, Nassar Taqatqa, and Bassam Sayeh, who died in 2019, Sadi Gharabli and Kamal Abu Waer, who died in 2020, Sami al-Imour, who died in 2021, Daoud Zubeidi, Mohammad Maher Turkman, and Nasser Abu Hmeid, who died in 2022, and Khader Adnan, who died on May 2 of this year after three months of hunger strike in protest against his administrative detention.
Source: En – Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA
Palestine Representative to the European Union, Abdul Rahim al-Farra, said today that some European figures are considering filing court cases to revoke the citizenship of the EU countries from Israeli settlers residing in the illegal settlements established in the occupied West Bank. He told the official Voice of Palestine radio that this step comes in line with the position of the European Union, which considers these settlements illegal and established on the lands of others. Farra called on the European Union to move from only distinguishing settlement products imported to the EU countries to banning their entry.
Source: En – Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA
While the entrances to the village remain closed for the 20th day in a row, the Israeli occupation forces today notified residents of the village of al-Mughayyer, northeast of Ramallah, of seizing a plot of land and halting construction on an agricultural facility. Local sources told WAFA that the occupation forces stormed the village and handed a local resident a notice for seizing five dunums from his land located at the army-sealed eastern entrance to the village, citing the construction of a military watchtower as the reason. They said that the forces handed another resident a notice to halt construction on an agricultural facility and a shed for sheep he was building in the eastern part of the village under the pretext of not obtaining a building permit. The occupation forces continue the siege on the village for the 20th day in a row in a collective punishment move and this morning detained three people during a raid of the village.
Source: En – Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA
The Civil Defence Interest (CDI) made an urgent appeal to officials of dams and water barriers in various provinces.
The call for the rapid opening of drainage channels and the reduction of water in dams and water barriers by at least 25 per cent of the total capacity of the dam or water barrier, and to keep pace with the rainfall by maintaining the required reduction rate, in order to avoid its flooding or collapse.
In a statement to Saba, the Civil Defence Interest warned citizens against being present or crossing from torrential corridors and waterfalls during the rainfall.
Source: Yemen News Agency
The Minister of Transport, Abdulwahab Yahya Al-Durra, paid tribute to the supervisory committee’s efforts to implement the plan to replace the floating reservoir (Safer) and the United Nations efforts that led to the effective commencement of the plan to save the Red Sea marine environment and the countries overlooking it from a major disaster in the event of an oil spill from the floating reservoir.
During his meeting on Thursday with Sana’a, the representative of the World Food Programme of Yemen, Richard Ragan, and representatives of the Office of the United Nations Envoy to Yemen and humanitarian organizations operating in Yemen, the Minister of Transport commended the three-year efforts of the Supervisory and International Commission until the purchase of the ship to which oil would be withdrawn from the old reservoir Safer, currently in DJibouti.
“Today we are in the first step of the last phase in order to save the floating reservoir and prevent an environmental catastrophe that could be the largest in history,” he said.
The Minister stressed the need to adhere to the plan and not delay, stressing that the plan should include the implementation of the replacement ship’s permanent maintenance programme so that the problem would not be repeated again.
He noted the need for all parties to fulfil their duties in all humanity and impartiality so that our country can overcome the effects of the nine-year-old aggression and economic blockade.
In turn, the representative of the World Food Programme stressed the importance of humanitarian action and fruitful joint cooperation with the Ministry of Transport and its bodies and institutions to meet the needs of the Yemeni people.
In the presence of the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Transport, Abdullah al-Ansi, the meeting discussed the areas of bilateral cooperation between the two sides and the mechanism for its development during the next phase.
Source: Yemen News Agency
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg concluded an informal meeting of Foreign Ministers in Oslo, Norway, on Thursday, calling it an “opportunity to discuss key issues as we prepare for our summit in Vilnius (Lithuania) in July,” according to a NATO statement.
“Our focus today was on how we can bring Ukraine closer to NATO, where it belongs,” he told reporters after the meeting, noting that the 31-member Alliance is working on a multi-year package of support with robust funding.
At the Summit, “we will take decisions to further strengthen our deterrence and defence. Agree a new Defence Investment Pledge, with 2% of GDP on defence as the minimum. And deepen our partnerships with our partners in the Indo-Pacific region,” said the NATO chief.
On Ukraine?’s membership, Stoltenberg reiterated that NATO’s door remains open, and that decisions on membership are only for Allies and Ukraine to make.
“We don?’t know when the war ends,” he said, “but we must ensure that, when it does, we have credible arrangements in place to guarantee Ukraine?’s security in the future.” Further, Stoltenberg said he is working hard to ensure that Sweden?’s accession to NATO is completed as soon as possible, and that he will travel to Turkiye in the near future.
Source: Kuwait News Agency