Scholars visit Al-Mujahideen in Marib

A number of scholars and guides visited, Al-Mujahideen in southern fronts of Ma’rib Governorate on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr.

During the visit, the visiting scholars conveyed to Al-Mujahideen the congratulations of the Leader of the Revolution, al-Sayyed Abdul-Malik Badr al-Din al-Houthi, and the President of the Supreme Political Council, on this solemn religious occasion.

The visitors exchanged congratulations with al-Mujahideen on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr.

Source: Yemen News Agency

Hydropower project affected areas monitored

An on-site monitoring of the areas affected by the 50 MW United Mewakhola Hydropower Project under-construction in the Mewa River, which flows through the border of Meringden and Mikwakhola Rural Municipalities of Taplejung, was conducted on Friday.

The compensation determination committee formed under the coordination of Meringden rural municipality deputy Chair Durga Prasad Chongwang has collected the details of the damage caused by the project. The committee was formed after many local residents, who had already received compensation as per the standards set by project, started demanding more compensation saying that their land had been damaged by the project.

Coordinator of the committee, Durga Prasad Chongwang, said that a discussion was held with the people’s representatives and local residents about addressing the victims’ demand by looking at the survey map of the land washed away by the river towards Mikwakhola Rural Municipality.

Chair of Meringden Rural Municipality Dumbar Hangam, Assistant Chief District Officer Tanka Bhattarai, representative of survey office, ward chair of the affected area and others were part of the monitoring team.

Source: National Iraqi News Agency

Events organizing committee calls women to mark for Inte’l Quds Day

The Events Organizing Committee called on Thursdays Yemen’s women to mark the International al-Quds Day on Friday in the capital Sana’a and other Yemen’s provinces.

The Committee also called on Yemen’s women to crowd in support of al-Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem and the Palestinian people in their resistance to the Zionist occupation.

Source: Yemen News Agency

AL-HALABI DISCUSSES EDUCATIONAL AFFAIRS WITH PSP DELEGATION

Caretaker Minister of Education, Dr. Abbas Al-Halabi, on Tuesday met with a Progressive Socialist Party delegation headed by General Secretary, Dhafer Nasser.

The meeting discussed educational issues, especially securing teachers’ entitlements and productivity allowances. The delegation later briefed Al-Halabi on the progress of the current academic year and discussed with him the impending official exams.

Al-Halabi separately chaired a number of administrative meetings, during which he followed up on ministerial affairs.

Source: National News Agency – Lebanon

The historical Book of Esther, stolen by Israel’s rescue team from Antakya, returned to Turkey

The theft of a historical manuscript by the Israeli rescue team dispatched to Turkey to help those affected by the earthquake sparked an ethical scandal after pictures and videos showed the team members displaying the stolen manuscript.

The Turkish “Haber7” website said it turned out that the Israeli search and rescue team secretly took the Book of Esther from Turkey’s earthquake-damaged Antakya Synagogue in Hatay province before the theft was discovered and the manuscript returned to Turkey.

The Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism confirmed yesterday that the Anti-Smuggling Department has begun an investigation into this case and that it will be dealt with in coordination with the Turkish Foreign Ministry after which the appropriate decisions will be taken.

It stressed in a series of tweets on its official Twitter account that it is committed to preserving the heritage manuscripts of all cultures and religions.

The Israeli newspaper, Yedioth Ahronot, last week published a news item confirming that the Israeli search and rescue team dispatched to Turkey after the earthquakes had moved the historical Esther scrolls recovered from the Antakya synagogue to Israel.

It published pictures of a man it said was a member of the Israeli team holding the scrolls.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency

Palestinian students suffocated in Israeli raid near Nablus

A number of Palestinian citizens and students Thursday suffered from suffocation during an Israeli forces’ raid in the village of Burqa, northwest of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus.

Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors colonial settlement activities in the northern West Bank, said that confrontations broke out between Palestinians and Israeli forces in the vicinity of the village’s schools after fanatic Israeli settlers attempted sneaking to it.

He added that the soldiers fired bullets, sound and gas bombs, which resulted in some citizens and students suffocating due to inhaling the toxic gas fired at them.

Daghlas noted that in order to guarantee the safety of the students, schools had to be evaccuted.

Source: Palestine News and Information and Agency

Students at a West Bank high school complain that settlers play music at high volume to disrupt their studies

Students and teachers at Azzoun Atmeh high school, south of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilya, today complained that settlers in a nearby illegal settlement play music at high volume to disrupt their education.

Ala Marabeh, the headmaster of the high school, told WAFA that settlers from Shaar Tiqva settlement, built on Azzoun Atmeh land, and for the last three days, intentionally play Hebrew songs at high volume as soon as classes start in the morning, which makes it very difficult for the teachers and students to concentrate on their studies.

He said the settlement is located right behind the high school, where 280 students attend classes.

The senior students at the high school are expected to sit this year for the important matriculation exam that allows them to continue higher education.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency

Israeli settlers attack shepherds in north of West Bank

Israeli settlers today attacked Palestinian shepherds while herding their sheep in Khirbet Tana in the town of Beit Fourik, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, according to a local official.

Ghassan Daghlas, an official who monitors settlement activities, said soldiers were watching when settlers attacked shepherds and did not intervene to stop them, but that they intervened only to protect the settlers after residents rushed to help the shepherds and fend off the settlers’ attack.

Residents clashed with the soldiers, who detained a number of people.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency

Israeli settlers seize Palestinian pastures in the northern Jordan Valley

Israeli settlers fenced off Palestinian pastures, east of the village of al-Farisiya in the northern Jordan Valley, local sources said.

They said that settlers fenced off the land, whose area was not exactly determined and located near the illegal settlement of Shadmot Mehola, in preparation for seizing it.

Over the years, Israeli settlers have seized thousands of dunums of pastures and farming lands in several areas in the northern Jordan Valley and set up outposts on top of mountains in the area.

Since the beginning of 2022, al-Farisiya area has been subjected to several violations by Israeli settlers against Palestinians and their properties, in addition to the soldiers seizing tractors and pursuing farmers working on their lands.

Source: Palestine News & Information Agency

Students suffocate as Israeli forces quell rally north of Hebron

A number of students today suffocated from Israeli army tear gas in al-Arroub refugee camp, north of Hebron, according to local sources.

They said that a number of students enrolled in a local secondary school suffocated from tear gas inhalation after Israeli soldiers forcefully dispersed a rally in the southern West Bank refugee camp.

The rally was called for in protest of the killing of five Palestinians in less than 24 hours across the West Bank on Tuesday.

One of the five Palestinians, a resident of Beitunia city, succumbed to his wounds sustained after being shot by Israeli soldiers at the northern entrance to al-Bireh following a car chase.

The other four slain Palestinians were identified as Raed Na‘ssan, fatally shot by Israeli army live gunfire in al-Mughayyir village, east of the city of Ramallah, Jawad and Thafer Rimawi, 22 and 21, who were killed in an overnight raid into Kafr Ein village, northwest of Ramallah, in addition to Mufeed Ikhlil, 44, who died of Israeli military bullet wounds to the head during a predawn raid in Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency

Israel’s demolition of donor-funded school in Masafer Yatta illegal: EU

BRUSSELS– The European Union has strongly deplored Israel’s demolition of the donor-funded Sfai school in Masafer Yatta in the occupied West Bank province of Hebron, saying the demolition violates children’s right to education.

“The EU recalls that demolitions are illegal under international law, and children’s right to education must be respected,” said Peter Stano, a spokesman for the bloc.

He said the “unacceptable development comes while 1.200 Palestinians in Masafer Yatta remain at risk of forced transfer following the Israeli Supreme Court’s decision in May, and against the backdrop of an increasingly coercive and intimidating environment for the Palestinian residents of Masafer Yatta, including the movement restrictions imposed on them, teachers and humanitarian responders.”

The EU calls on the Israeli occupation authorities to halt all demolitions and evictions, “which will only increase the suffering of the Palestinian population and further escalate an already tense environment.”

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency