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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

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

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 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

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 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 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