Day: 4 June 2023

General Manager of Jordanian Palestinian Agricultural Marketing Company (JPACO), Aladdin Abu Khair, on Saturday evening briefed the company’s board of directors on its activities during 2022, and its vision and programs during 2023. During the company’s extraordinary meeting, discussions went over its contracts to export crops for Arab, European and international markets, which have so far amounted to 4,000 tonnes of Jordanian and Palestinian agricultural products. The board expressed its hope to establish a grading and packing plant for agricultural crops and launch related steps to complete technical and logistical studies for this purpose, a JAPCO statement said. JPACO, which was launched in early 2021, is concerned with inking contracts to export Jordanian and Palestinian agricultural products to international and Arab markets.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates for Diplomatic Affairs Lina Hadid on Sunday received the credentials of the Ambassador of Portugal Rui Alberto Manuppella Tereno, as an accredited and non-resident ambassador to the Kingdom. During a meeting with Diallo, Hadid offered her well wishes on his mission to boost relations between the two countries.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates for Diplomatic Affairs Lina Hadid on Sunday received the credentials of the Ambassador of the Republic of Mali Boubacar Diallo, as an accredited and non-resident ambassador to the Kingdom. During a meeting with Diallo, Hadid offered her well wishes on his mission to boost relations between the two countries.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Israeli settlers Sunday attacked Palestinian-owned houses in the village of Burqa, northwest of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, sources said. Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement activities in the northern West Ban, said that a group of settlers sneaked from the illegal formerly evicted settlement of Homesh under protection from Israeli forces and attacked citizens’ houses in several areas in the village. He added that confrontations broke out after villagers fought off the settlers. One Palestinian was injured after he was hit with a gas canister in his hand, while dozens of others suffered from suffocation due to inhaling toxic gas. Daghlas noted that about 50 settlers stoned a house located on the outskirts of the village and broke the windshield of three vehicles.

Source: En – Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA

Partly cloudy skies and moderate weather conditions are expected today in Palestine with a drop in temperature, which sets back to its seasonal average, according to the Palestinian Meteorological Department (PMD). Winds are westerly to northwesterly, moderate to active, and sea waves are low. Temperature in the capital, Jerusalem, and Bethlehem is expected to reach a high of 27°C and a low of 16°C, and in Ramallah and Hebron a high of 26°C and a low of 15°C. In Jericho, the Dead Sea, and the Jordan Valley temperature is expected to reach a high of 38°C and a low of 23°C, and a high of 28°C and a low of 21°C in Gaza and the coastal areas. No change in temperature or weather conditions is expected on Monday and Tuesday, said the PMD. A rise in temperature is expected on Wednesday, to be slightly above its seasonal average.

Source: En – Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA

A total of 112 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli occupation forces in West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem, since the beginning of 2023, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). In a report issued on Friday, OCHA said that Israeli occupation forces have killed 112 Palestinians and injured 4,229 others in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank since the beginning of the year until May 29. In addition, five Palestinians were killed and 105 others injured in attacks by illegal Israeli settlers since the beginning of the year, according to the report.

Source: En – Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA

Led by extremist Israeli rabbi and MP Yehuda Glick, scores of Israeli settlers guarded by police today broke into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied Jerusalem, according to local sources. Witnesses told WAFA that scores of Israeli settlers led by Glick entered the compound in groups and performed rituals there under the protection of Israeli police officers. Glick is known for advocating for the presence of Jewish settlers in the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s third holiest place of worship, and for the construction of a temple for Jews on the site of the mosque. Since 2003, the Israeli occupation authorities have been allowing settlers into the compound almost on a daily basis, with the exclusion of Friday, the Muslim day of rest and worship. Israel captured East Jerusalem, where Al-Aqsa Mosque is located, during the Six-Day War in 1967 in a move never recognized by the international community.

Source: En – Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA

Israeli occupation forces last night brutally assaulted a Palestinian young man and confiscated the recordings of CCTV cameras during a raid in the village of Nabi Saleh, to the northwest of Ramallah, according to local sources. Bilal Tamimi, a local activist, told WAFA that Israeli occupation soldiers brutally assaulted and beat up Nidal Tamimi, a 35-year-old young man, after savagely raiding his home in the village. He said the young man was detained for several hours by the Israeli soldiers before he was let go. Meantime, Israeli occupation soldiers raided several shops in the village and confiscated the recordings of CCTV cameras. Confrontations erupted during the Israeli raid in the village, during which soldiers fired stun grenades and toxic gas at protesters to disperse them. No injuries were reported.

Source: En – Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA

The capital Mayor, Hammoud Abbad, and the Chairman of the Social Affairs Committee, Hammoud Al-Naqeeb, inaugurated today a project to dig and equip a water well in Al-Sabeen Park, at a cost of 187 million riyals, funded by the local authority.

Captain Abbad, and Director of Parks in the Municipality, Samir Hamza, were briefed on the components of the project, which included drilling the well at a depth of 900 meters in the southern area of Al-Sabeen Park, installing an integrated pumping unit, and building two rooms for the guard and the electricity generator, as well as the well’s water productivity per day.

Abbad confirmed that the project comes within the projects and efforts of the Capital Municipality to pay attention to rehabilitating and improving public gardens and parks, cultivating and expanding green spaces, in a way that contributes to finding recreational outlets for citizens.

He urged the leadership and workers of public gardens and parks in the capital’s secretariat and districts to make more efforts and intensify work to improve, maintain garden facilities, plant fruitful and aesthetic trees in various gardens.

Source: Yemen News Agency

Transport Ministers Abdulwahab Al-Durra, Public Works and Roads Ghalib Mutlaq met on Sunday with Sana’a, Director of the Office of the United Nations Envoy to Yemen Roxana Bazargan.

The meeting, which was attended by the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Transport for the Air Transport Sector, Abdullah Al-Ansi, Head of the Civil Aviation and Meteorological Authority, Dr. Mohammed Abdulkader, and Yemen Airways Chargéd ‘affaires Khalil Jahaf, reviewed the relevant topics of Sana’a International Airport and what has been implemented of important projects to provide ground and air navigation services in accordance with international requirements and conditions and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).

Delays in opening multiple destinations and increasing the number of civilian flights to Jordan and the humanitarian level of operation of Sana ‘a International Airport were mentioned.

The meeting stressed the need to take urgent measures to open Sana ‘a International Airport to all destinations, as it is a right guaranteed by all international instruments and conventions and human rights.

The Minister of Transport pointed out that the opening of the Sana ‘a International Airport was a humanitarian requirement and a legal right for the people of Yemen.

The Yemeni people were suffering from limited humanitarian flights to transport patients and travellers stranded in countries and airports, and had to travel through difficult and unsafe roads that had caused numerous accidents, interruptions and killings of travellers and pilgrims.

Minister Al-Durra stressed that the failure to lift the siege on Sana’a International Airport and open all destinations is intended to continue the suffering of the Yemeni people to achieve political and negotiating purposes at the expense of humanitarian and human rights issues.

He noted that the three weekly flights through Sana’a and Queen Alia airports are not sufficient because the demand for travel is large, and there is an increase in the demand for travel reservations from inside and outside the country.

The Minister of Transport stated that there are a large number of stranded abroad, expatriates and patients who want to return via Sana’a International Airport, pointing to the need to open new destinations and increase flights to meet the increasing demand for patients, humanitarian cases and pilgrims to the Holy House of God.

While the Minister of Public Works and Roads pointed out the importance of Sana’a International Airport as it provides special humanitarian services to patients, stressing that two-thirds of the Yemeni people prefer to travel through Sana’a International Airport.

He affirmed the readiness of the Ministry of Works to provide support and continue implementing projects of importance to the airport.

In turn, the director of the UN envoy’s office stressed the need to increase the number of flights to Jordan to meet the increasing demands and humanitarian cases, noting that the three weekly flights to Jordan are not sufficient to alleviate the suffering of the Yemeni people.

Source: Yemen News Agency