Day: 21 February 2024

The American-British aggression launched two raids on the city of Hodeida.

A security source explained to (Saba) that the American-British aggression targeted the Al-Jabanah area in the city with two raids.

Source: Yemen News Agency

Amman: According to Kanakrieh, the Fund established the SSC Company for Development of Developmental Areas in 2009 as a private joint stock company wholly owned by the General Organization for Social Security, to be the investment arm of the Investment Fund for infrastructure, services, and marketing for the King Hussein bin Talal Development Area/Mafraq, and the Irbid Development Area, declared as areas of economic development through royal initiatives. This company owns 80% of the capital of the Mafraq Development Company, developing the King Hussein bin Talal Development Area, covering 21,000 dunums. Its investments focus on logistics services and renewable energy in various industrial sectors.

Jordanian, Arab, and foreign investments in the region total about JD 500 million, with 58 operating factories and under-construction units in various industrial sectors. Existing factories provide approximately 1,300 permanent jobs, and those under design and construction will offer about 1,780 permanent positions
.

The region attracted 4 solar energy projects totaling 175 megawatts, with an investment of JD 165 million, generating about 200 job opportunities during implementation.

The SSC Company for Development of Developmental Areas wholly owns the Northern Development Company in Irbid, the main developer of the Irbid Development Area covering 1.8 km². Investments focus on information technology, communications, and support services, attracting 8 investments totaling JD 40 million, providing 2,300 job opportunities.

In 2016, the Fund established the SSC Financial Leasing Company for financing major infrastructure projects in various governorates in the health, transportation, and services sectors, contributing to creating training and employment opportunities.

The company finances projects like the Tafila Governmental Hospital, the Amman Customs Building Project – Al Madouna, the Ma’an Military Hospital, and the Bus Rapid Transit project linking Amman and Zarqa.

The pharmaceutical industry is vital to the Jorda
nian economy, enhancing research and development. The SSIF holds strategic shares in leading pharmaceutical companies such as Al-Hikma and Dar Al-Dawaa, contributing to about 80 public and private joint-stock companies. The Fund is represented on their boards by 119 delegates, with 13% being women.

The Fund, through its representatives on company boards, supports enhancing their developmental role by financing pioneering projects and small businesses, and backing social responsibility and sustainable development initiatives.

It ensures its representatives adhere to corporate governance standards and effective oversight controls, recognizing their importance in improving financial performance and shareholder interests, including Social Security. Periodic specialized forums enhance their skills, keeping them updated on legislation, global economic developments, and best practices in institutional governance.

Since 2018, the Fund has developed a social responsibility document outlining strategies and practice
s for economic, social, and environmental development.

To promote responsible investment and contribute to national modernization, the Fund’s strategic plan (2022-2024) includes Sustainable Development Goals like economic growth, poverty eradication, gender equality, and climate action.

Since 2017, the Fund voluntarily issues sustainability reports highlighting achievements in financial, institutional, environmental, and societal sustainability. It emphasizes transparent impact assessment on financial sustainability, social security, the national economy, the environment, and society.

In 2018, the Fund issued a Women’s Empowerment Document to enhance female employees’ skills and opportunities for career advancement on par with male colleagues.

In 2022, it participated in women’s economic empowerment initiatives, proposing strategies for increasing female economic participation, transitioning women from the informal to the formal economy, and facilitating women’s leadership in the private sector.

The Fund
‘s investments span vital sectors such as banking, mining, tourism, communications, energy (traditional and renewable), pharmaceuticals, agriculture, development areas, and real estate. These investments boost the Fund’s portfolio value, ensure financial sustainability for Social Security, stimulate economic activity, create quality jobs, and contribute to comprehensive sustainable development.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Amman: The purchase price for 21-karat gold, which is highly sought after by local consumers, on Wednesday, reached JD41.50 per gram at jewelry stores. Meanwhile, the selling price for the same amount of gold is JD39.80.

The Jordan Jewelers Association has released its daily bulletin, revealing that the current cost of acquisition for one gram of 24-karat gold and 18-karat gold stood at JD48.70 and JD37, respectively.

Today, the yellow metal commenced trading in the global market at a rate of $2,030 per ounce.

Source: Jordan News Agency

The Reporter of the Yemeni News Agency (Saba) in Gaza, Nidal Abu Mustafa, reported the Zionist enemy lamenting the death and injury of dozens of its soldiers due to fungal viruses and dangerous and deadly diseases.

In the last few hours, the Zionist enemy’s media lamenting the death of two occupation soldiers and the injury of about 30 others, who are in a state of extreme danger due to their infection with a fungal virus that transmitted to them from the territory of the Gaza Strip,Abu Mustafa said in an exclusive interview.

He explained that this virus is deadly, as described by ‘the Zionist enemy’s media,’ and that Zionist doctors and laboratories in the enemy entity find it difficult to provide appropriate treatment for this virus.

He pointed out that this comes at a time when the entire world ignores the presence of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian citizens in the Gaza Strip, who face very serious and deadly diseases in a real and very frightening way in the Gaza Strip.

Abu Mustafa confirmed that
diseases are frighteningly widespread in the Gaza Strip for several reasons:

The first of these reasons is that the Zionist enemy army dropped about 66 thousand tons of toxic and dangerous explosives on the Gaza Strip, according to official statistics from the Government Information Office in Gaza.

He stated that the Zionist enemy dropped 66 thousand tons of toxic and dangerous explosives on agricultural lands, housing, and populated areas, and this had a very significant impact on the health of the Palestinian citizens.

In addition to that, one of the reasons that led to the spread of diseases is the accumulation of waste in an extensive manner because the enemy bombed most of the municipalities operating in the Gaza Strip and destroyed most of the mechanisms that transport waste, so the waste remained piled up very large.

He continued, saying: Among the reasons also is the scarcity of food and malnutrition, especially in the northern regions of the Gaza Strip, and the lack of healthy food.

He pointed o
ut that one of the main reasons for the spread of these dangerous viruses and diseases is the serious contamination of drinking water in the Gaza Strip due to the Zionist enemy’s bombing of desalination and water filtration centers in the Strip.

The Saba correspondent stated that among the reasons is the lack of medicines in the Gaza Strip, there are no suitable medicines for these widespread diseases, which greatly facilitates their spread because most of these diseases are contagious and spread very quickly among citizens.

He added: that another reason is that the Zionist enemy killed a large number of doctors specializing in such diseases, especially skin, intestinal and pulmonary infections, breathing problems, and the like.

He stressed that the deliberate killing of some specialized doctors contributed to accelerating the spread of diseases in the Gaza Strip.

According to official statistics from the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, about 700,000 citizens in the Strip are infected or are among t
hose infected with infectious diseases, this is a very large statistic, and represents a third of the population in the Gaza Strip, according to Abu Mustafa.

The correspondent of the Yemeni News Agency (Saba) stressed that the matter is very dangerous and could lead to very catastrophic results, especially since sick people see it on the streets, and sometimes some people die due to these diseases, and no one in this world pays attention to this.

Source: Yemen News Agency

The Yemeni people continue with confidence, strength and steadfastness to support the Palestinian people, support their just cause, and support the valiant resistance, by directing the harshest strikes and carrying out operations against the forces of global hegemony and arrogance led by America, Britain and the Zionist entity.

Despite the American-British aggression against Yemen, in an attempt to stop the operations of the armed forces against Zionist, American, and British ships heading to the occupied ports, the Yemeni forces recently escalated their strikes on British, American, and Zionist ships in the Red and Arabian Seas and the Gulf of Aden, and bombed the depth of the entity in the occupied territories.

The leader of the revolution, al-Sayeed Abdul-Malik Badr al-Din al-Houthi, repeatedly warned America and Britain in more than one speech not to get involved and launch aggression against the Yemeni people, and to stop their support for the Zionist entity. However, Washington and London took a path
that led to escalation in the service of the Zionist lobby and its leaders, who are still committing massacres after massacres against the Palestinian people.

During the last period of Operation ‘Al-Aqsa Flood,’ Sana’a sent reassuring messages to the international community, stating that the operations of the Yemeni armed forces in the Red and Arab Seas were directed only against the ships of the Zionist entity and ships heading to its ports, and linked that limited and temporary measure to stopping the Zionist aggression and lifting its siege on Gaza.

However, it seems that America and Britain did not understand the messages from Sana’a and the warnings of the leader of the revolution and went too far in their arrogance in supporting the enemy entity, which failed to achieve the goals of its aggression against Gaza for nearly five months.

Sana’a is still committed to protecting navigation in the Red and Arabian Seas and the Gulf of Aden, and provides the highest levels of care for the safety of maritime n
avigation. However, the insistence of Washington and London on escalating their aggression against Yemen and thwarting any efforts to stop the war on Palestine has made Sana’a run out of patience towards disciplining America, Britain and the Zionist entity.

America classified the Great Satan, the national component, Ansar Allah, as a terrorist group, as a result of its support for Palestine, its support for the Palestinian cause, and its resistance against the Zionist entity.

As soon as its suspicious decision entered into force, His Excellency Field Marshal Mahdi Al-Mashat, the supreme political leader issued a decision classifying America and Britain as two countries hostile to the Republic of Yemen, and considering it as countries that support the protect Zionist entity.

The American-British escalation over the past few days was matched by an earth-shattering Yemeni escalation, with specific operations carried out by the armed forces as part of a strategy to deter forces hostile to Yemen and Palestine,
by destroying American and British ships in the Red and Arabian Seas and the Gulf of Aden, which caused the sinking of a British ship and the downing of an American plane in Hodeida.

The American-British alliance, which brought its battleships and fleets with superior capabilities in military armament to the region and the Red and Arab Seas, to impose hegemony over peoples and regimes unable today to break the equation imposed by Sana’a.

Today, Washington is drowning in a sea of impotence, after the operations that undermined American statements claiming that its forces had finished off the Yemeni military capabilities and disabled their reactors.

Yemen has succeeded in two important tests: the first is its steadfastness in the official and principled popular position in support of the Palestinian people despite the American policy of enticement and intimidation, and the second moral in the Yemeni armed forces avoided casualties and evacuated the crew of the British ship before it sank.

Source: Yemen New
s Agency

A shipping source confirmed that the ship targeted by the Yemeni armed forces in the Gulf of Aden is a US ship carrying poultry feed, not humanitarian aid as America claims.

The source explained in a statement to Saba that the US ship carries feed for poultry and there is no truth to what America promotes as a ship carrying humanitarian aid.

Source: Yemen News Agency

A Zionist media report revealed today that Zionist shipping companies received a painful blow in the Red Sea, at the hands of Yemeni forces, especially those associated with the occupying entity.

The report said the Yemeni attacks pushed transport companies away from passing through Bab al-Mandab and diverting their routes, tripling their time to reach Zionist ports.

Khitam Salameh, from the Strategic Planning Department at the Haifa Port, confirmed the impact of these attacks on work at the port. “Of course it affected our work and I think it affected the whole region.

The ships will eventually arrive but they take longer than in the normal situation. For example, a week-long ship usually takes three weeks now.”

“At the port we are trying to meet the most orders while reducing the number of ships coming to us. A big ship arrived to us today and we had been waiting for it for almost three weeks.

It was pointed out that the security situation prompted insurance companies to impose additional fees on conta
iners, and the fees amounted to about 65 percent of the value of the ship, in line with the costs of the voyage and the duration of arrival, which doubled in addition to the risks of war.

Commenting on this situation, which doubled the work at the port, Salameh said: “Coordination… Shifts with equipment with ships coming to port. Communicate with shipping companies with which we conclude agreements. We try to fulfill orders.

The port operates 24 hours a day, meaning we work around the clock in line with this emergency.

This case requires us to work more and with a higher satisfactory energy for shipping companies.

For its part, the Zionist Tax Authority pointed out that it compensates ships that were damaged by the war, by 100%, but the continuation of the Zionist war on Gaza will keep the situation as it is in light of the Yemeni forces linking the safety of ships to ending the war.

Yemen’s armed forces target Red Sea cargo ships owned and operated by Zionist companies that transport goods to and from
Israel.

Source: Yemen News Agency

Sana’a University witnessed on Wednesday a presentation of the graduates of the “Al-Aqsa Flood” courses with the participation of two thousand students from the university and private universities under the slogan “We are coming, Al-Aqsa, and ready to fight the battle of the promised conquest and holy jihad.”

During the student parade, which started from the courtyard of the Faculty of Education through the Faculty of Languages to the university’s major square, the participants chanted slogans and slogans condemning the Zionist-American aggression that commits the most heinous massacres and genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza.

The participants in the presentation, which was attended by the head of the Supreme National Campaign in Support of Al-Aqsa, the scholar Muhammad Muftah, the ministers of higher education and scientific research in the caretaker government, Hussein Hazeb, the public works and roads Ghaleb Mutlaq, the head of the education, culture and media sector, Hassan Al-Saadi, and the
President of Sana’a University, Dr. Al-Qasim Abbas, announced readiness and public alarm to support the Palestinian resistance, which writes the most wonderful heroic epics in the face of the Zionist-American war machine.

They affirmed Yemen’s firm and principled position stemming from religious, moral and humanitarian commitment in supporting the heroes of the Palestinian resistance in Gaza and the axis of resistance to confront the three evils, “America, Britain and Israel.”

The participants declared readiness to fight the battle of “Promised Conquest and Holy Jihad” in the face of Israeli, American and British aggression that violates national sovereignty and commits the most heinous massacres against our brothers in the Gaza Strip.

In the student presentation, the head of the Supreme National Campaign in Support of Al-Aqsa praised this great popular show witnessed by Sana’a University in preparation for supporting and supporting the Palestinian people and fighting the battle against the enemies of the
nation.

He stressed that this position angers the enemies and confirms the importance of the role played by the Yemeni people, their revolutionary leadership and their armed forces to support the Palestinian people, whose importance is shown through the moves of America and Britain to try to obstruct this role.

Muftah pointed out that the Yemeni people had the honor of supporting religion and contributing to the Islamic conquests, and today they are returning to the forefront by standing against the enemies of Islam and supporting the Palestinian people.

For his part, Minister Hazeb stressed that Yemen stands at the forefront of the ranks to defend the nation. He pointed out that Yemen’s attainment of this level of pride is thanks to the sacrifices of the martyrs and the project of the martyr leader, which is embodied today in practice and the people’s rallying around the wise leadership.

He pointed out that the Yemeni people were inspired by the project of the martyr leader Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houthi
meanings of sacrifice, redemption, fatherhood and defense of the nation’s sanctities, foremost of which is the Palestinian cause.

Minister Hazeb praised the efforts of the leadership and employees of Sana’a University in coordinating with private universities to hold this great presentation for graduates of open courses, in preparation for confronting the enemies of God and supporting the oppressed in Gaza.

In turn, the President of Sana’a University pointed out that the student presentation confirms the coupling of knowledge with jihad and sacrifice, and the importance of the role of university outputs in raising awareness, sharpening motivation, demonstrating the spirit of jihadist responsibility and faith, and adhering to the Quranic project launched by the martyr leader.

He stressed the need to triumph over the oppression of the Palestinian people, who are subjected to the most heinous war of genocide known in history, siege and starvation that kills children, women and residents of the Gaza Strip in f
ull view of the world subservient to the systems of world imperialism, foremost of which are America and Israel.

Source: Yemen News Agency

The American-British aggression launched its raids again on Hodeida Governorate.

A security source explained to (Saba) that the American-British aggression targeted the Al-Arj area, northwest of the city of Hodeida, with two raids.

The American-British aggression had previously launched two raids on the Al-Jabbana area in the city of Hodeida.

Source: Yemen News Agency