Day: 12 March 2024

A spokesperson for the Public Security Department (PSD) said Tuesday that specialized explosive ordnance disposal teams from the Jordan Armed Forces and the PSD have located fragments of a drone in an open area of Irbid, north.

This discovery follows reports of an explosion heard in the region on the evening of Monday, March 11. According to the spokesperson, the incident did not result in any damage.

An investigation has been initiated to ascertain the origins of the drone and to understand the specifics surrounding the incident. The spokesperson urged the public to refrain from spreading unverified videos related to the event, which some individuals have attempted to distribute across various social media platforms.

Source: Jordan News Agency

RAMALLAH: Weather on Palestine today is generally clear, with another rise in temperature, becoming 7 degrees Celsius around its annual average, according to the Palestinian Meteorological Department (PMD).

Wind is easterly to southeasterly, light to moderate. Sea waves are low.

Partially cloudy to clear conditions are expected for Wednesday. Temperature is expected to rise again, becoming eight degrees Celsius above annual average.

Thursday’s weather is expected to be partially cloudy to clear and mild, with a drop in temperature, while remaining four degrees Celsius above annual average.

Source: Palestine news and Information Agency – WAFA

Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdullah Bou Habib welcomed his Cypriot counterpart, Constantinos Kombos, on Tuesday and congratulated him on Cyprus’ decision to open a corridor to deliver aid to the Palestinian people in Gaza, who are in great need of assistance. “The aid that comes through Rafah is not enough,” he said, hoping that “this corridor will be a means for food to reach Gaza and help reduce hunger there.”

Bou Habib added in a statement that they “discussed the refugee crisis, which is an issue that must be resolved with the need to urge other countries to help us, and we agree on this with other countries that suffer from the same crisis, such as Greece.”

He added, “Minister Kombos was also briefed on our vision for security and peace on our southern borders and our demand for the implementation of Resolution 1701.”

He explained that “complete peace with Israel comes after peace with the Palestinians. There will be no complete peace before peace with the Palestinians, but we can enjoy security and pe
ace on our borders.”

For his part, the Cypriot minister said: “I would like to point out our continued support for Lebanon, and I thank it for its constant and principled stand on the Cypriot issue in the framework of supporting international law and the resolutions of the UN Security Council and maintaining political equality over time, within the framework of the United Republic of Cyprus, which remains the only solution to this issue.”

Source: Jordan News Agency

A huge number of political unions and party activities from various parts of the Karak Governorate participated on Tuesday in a massive march called “From Al-Aqsa to Gaza, let’s break the siege.”

The participants called on all Arab and Islamic institutions to make this blessed month an opportunity to work seriously and exert pressure by all means to stop the aggression, to operate land, sea, and air bridges, and to bring relief aid and field hospitals to various areas of the Gaza Strip in order to prevent the continuation of the starvation and extermination war.

They called on Arab and Islamic countries to move to help the Palestinians and to ensure the delivery of aid, chanting slogans that praise the steadfastness of Gaza and reject the targeting of civilians.

The participants condemned the silence of the international community towards the flagrant Israeli aggression and the heinous crime it committed by attacking and targeting children, women, and the elderly in a collective punishment style.

Source:
Jordan News Agency

Yarmouk University participated in the University Specializations and Training Programs Exhibition (UTEX4), which was held recently in Oman.

The 3-day exhibition saw the participation of 54 educational institutions and was organized by the Directorate General of Education for North Al Batinah Governorate / Sohar.

Yarmouk University was the only Jordanian university to participate in the exhibition via a special pavilion that was prepared to promote the university’s development and progress in international rankings, in addition to promoting the academic programs it offers for various degrees and attracting Omani students wishing to study in Jordan.

According to a university statement issued on Tuesday, the university president, Dr. Islam Massad, said that globalization and global technological developments and their resulting developments in various knowledge fields, including the education and higher education sectors, have forced higher education institutions in the Arab world to strive to move from nati
onal borders to regional and even global borders. This is done by raising the quality of the teaching and learning processes, offering qualitative academic programs that keep pace with scientific developments and the requirements of the labor market on the one hand, and emulating the ambitions of Arab youth and raising their capabilities on the other hand.

Massad pointed out that Yarmouk University has taken a series of development measures on its study plans in terms of restructuring the courses, increasing the integration of technology in the education process, in addition to providing the student with communication skills in foreign languages ??by offering packages of courses for key foreign languages ??that raise the efficiency of its graduates and increase their level of competitiveness in international labor markets, and qualify them to be able to lead development and construction processes in various work sites.

Assistant dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts,Omar Shboul, and Head of the Advertising and M
arketing Department in the Presidency Department, Shatha Saadoun, presented a series of introductory lectures on Yarmouk University and its stages of development and modernization, the modern qualitative programs it offers, and its continuous efforts to update and develop its plans and courses for various academic disciplines in a way that keeps pace with modern developments in various knowledge fields, meets the needs of the labor market, and the extracurricular activities and events it holds for its students to enhance their skills and prepare them in the best way to enter the Arab and international labor markets.

Source: Jordan News Agency

The Israeli occupation army said on Tuesday that three soldiers were injured in the Gaza clashes over the last 24 hours.

The Israeli Broadcasting Authority reports that on October 7, the army declared the death of an American-citizen soldier who was being held captive in Gaza.

Since October 7, the Israeli army has formally declared the deaths of 591 officers and soldiers, 247 of whom were lost in ground combat within Gaza.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Minister of Social Development and Chairman of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Women’s Empowerment, Wafa Bani Mustafa, said that it is impossible to talk about ending poverty for women and girls without addressing women’s economic empowerment.

Bani Mustafa made these remarks during her participation in a ministerial roundtable at the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68) on Tuesday, entitled “Mobilizing financing for gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls: Policies and strategies to end women’s and girls’ poverty,” in New York.

She added that Jordan has launched the Economic Modernization Vision to improve the quality of life for citizens, and as a result, the Women’s Empowerment Strategy in the Economic Modernization Vision was launched, which aims to double women’s economic participation within ten years.

She reviewed the initiatives included in the strategy, including providing soft loans for women, supporting and encouraging the establishment of nurseries
for childcare, establishing e-stores for women, improving the infrastructure of the work environment related to women, promoting women’s participation in manufacturing industries, organizing women’s work in the informal sector, and providing transportation.

Bani Mustafa explained that the coverage under the social security umbrella has been expanded to include the informal sector and micro-enterprises, and the decision has been made to raise the early retirement age and introduce maternity insurance, in addition to the “Care” program – through which the Social Security Corporation bears the cost of paying for childcare in the nursery for 6 months in order to support working women in the private sector and provide social protection.

She added that the Ministry of Social Development is leading the official efforts in implementing the National Social Protection Strategy, explaining that the social strategy is comprehensive, responds to shocks and crises, and presents future visions for social protection. It is
essentially gender-sensitive and takes into account the needs of the most vulnerable groups.

The Ministry also implements many training and economic empowerment projects in community development centers, and projects to promote productivity to help women and families start projects that enable them to escape poverty.

She pointed out that through the National Aid Fund, the main social protection program, policies for integrating gender equality have been adopted, as the fund has identified 8 target groups for the repeated financial assistance program, which are women: widows of orphans, elderly women, those with permanent total disability and their families, alternative families, families of prisoners and detainees, families of the missing or missing, divorced women and their children, and women with no breadwinner.

Bani Mustafa emphasized that Jordan is committed to continuing this work to close the gender gap, expand the social safety net, and reduce the feminization of poverty.

Source: Jordan News Agen
cy

The Tadamon Foundation organised a panel discussion and an exhibition for images of real stories supported through the Tadamon platform.

Sponsored by Princess Wijdan Hashemi, the exhibition highlighted the charitable accomplishments achieved through its platform over the past two years.

Attending the panel discussion held at the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts were Prince Abbas bin Ali, Princess Rajwa bint Ali, Princess Sima Abbas, Amir Shihadeh, the Founding Partner and CEO of Tadamon Foundation, Nadia Saeed, the CEO of Bank Al-Etihad, the first Strategic Partner of Tadamon, Fawzi Hammouri, General Manager and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Specialty Hospital, the first Medical Partner of Tadamon. Markiting Communication Advisor, Nicole Shahin moderated the panel discussion.

Amir Shihadeh said, “Tadamon is a charitable organization (NGO) established with my partners Samih Toukan and Hussam Khoury. It works on organising humanitarian and community cases by verifying and presenting them on a si
ngle digital platform (website and application) making it easy for donors to support cases as all donations go fully to meet the beneficiary’s needs.”

Shihadeh thanked all supporters for their donations over the past two years, “which have significantly impacted meeting the various needs of over 200 direct beneficiaries from across the kingdom, including healthcare assistance (operations, medicines, medical supplies), education, nutrition, housing construction and renovation and other needs.”

He revealed that over 200 hours of study sessions were provided to students in universities and colleges, and 15 major surgeries, such as kidney and corneal transplants, were performed.

Saeed spoke about the bank’s interest in the idea of “Tadamon” from the beginning, even before its official establishment, emphasizing the importance of purposeful humanitarian partnerships to support community development and achieve social welfare for all within the framework of sustainable development goals and a transparent approac
h with mechanisms for managing individual cases and the ability to measure impact accurately. S

Hamouri expressed his pride in the youth running the Tadamon Foundation, who were pioneers in innovating this digital platform to act as a link between beneficiaries and donors while preserving the privacy, dignity and humanity of these beneficiaries, adding that the Specialty Hospital is the first medical partner of the Tadamon Foundation to provide healthcare services to patients.

The Senior Advisor for House Reconstruction and Building at Tadamon, Loay Najjar, outlined the mechanisms of their engineering office’s work in building and renovating houses to ensure decent living conditions for beneficiaries.

The Community Cases Supervisor at Tadamon, Rand Al-Kayyali, spoke about her work with the foundation, outlining the working mechanisms and the role of the Tadamon team in following up on cases and providing the necessary assistance and support.

Kayyali and volunteer Community Contributor Mahmoud Abu Farha sh
ared several experiences monitoring humanitarian cases within the Tadamon platform.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Israeli airstrikes against Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley killed at least one and injured six others.

According to a Lebanese security official, the raid targeted a plastic tools factory and the outskirts of the town of Nabi Sheet, causing severe material damage.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Director General of Aqaba Company for Ports Operation and Management (ACPOM) Mahmoud Khalifat said that the main port of Aqaba and berths are offering all facilities and services to attract foreign investments and business.

“The port today is a Jordanian success story, whose features are being consolidated every day, thanks to the efforts of the port’s cadres and skilled manpower in various specializations,” he said in a press release after a ship of Iraqi investors docked at the port Monday evening carrying 7,000 heads of Brazilian cattle.

He hailed security services for their cooperation, facilities and response.

Iraqi investors thanked port authorities for the speed and logistical, technical and administrative facilities.

Source: Jordan News Agency