Day: 3 October 2024

The Islamic Resistance Hezbollah announced targeting the Israeli Sakhnin base for military industries with missiles and achieved direct hits.

Source: National Iraqi News Agency

Jerusalem – Ma’an – Dozens of settlers stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Thursday, on the occasion of the “Jewish New Year.”

Until 10:00 am, about 200 extremists stormed Al-Aqsa through the Mughrabi Gate, whose keys have been controlled by the occupation authorities since the occupation of Jerusalem, under the protection of the occupation forces.

The settlers performed their prayers in Al-Aqsa, and formed groups of dancing and singing, and blew the trumpet in the mosque, under the protection of the occupation forces.

Today, the Al-Aqsa holiday season began, which is considered the longest season of the year. It begins with the Hebrew New Year, then the Feast of Atonement/Kippur, the Feast of Tabernacles/Sukkot, and ends with the Feast of the Sealing of the Torah.

Source: Maan News Agency

The Ministry of Defense announced today, Thursday, the arrival of a security delegation headed by the Chief of Staff of the Army, Lieutenant General Abdul Amir Rashid Yarallah, to the site of the criminal incident in Zgheiton area of Kirkuk.

The Ministry of Defense stated in a statement: “The delegation included the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army for Operations, the Commander of the Land Forces, and the Director of Military Intelligence.”

Earlier yesterday, Wednesday, the Security Media Cell stated that four members of the security forces were martyred in an ambush by the terrorist organization “ISIS” in Kirkuk.

The spokesman for the Ministry of Interior and the Security Media Cell, Brigadier General Muqdad Miri, said in a statement, “At 10:00 on Wednesday, while a force from the Intelligence of the 42nd Brigade of the 11th Division in the army was leaving to carry out a reconnaissance and inspection duty in Zgheiton Valley within the Kirkuk Operations Command Sector, the force was ambushed by ISIS terr
orist gangs, which led to the martyrdom of 4 fighters and the injury of 3 others with light wounds.

Source: National Iraqi News Agency

Al-Khalil – Ma’an – In light of the escalating cash deposit crisis in banks operating in the Palestinian territories, and the lack of a solution, the Syndicate of Gas Stations in Palestine decided to close the doors of its stations next Sunday.

The announcement by the Fuel Stations Syndicate that it will stop providing fuel sales services to citizens may extend to other sectors suffering from the same problem, including the food sector, and even major companies that deal directly with consumers.

Nizar al-Jabari explained in an interview with Ma’an’s correspondent in Hebron that this decision came during an expanded meeting held today in the hall of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Hebron Governorate, where all members of the union unanimously announced the closure of the doors of our stations starting next Sunday.

Al-Jabri said: ‘We are no longer able to meet the citizens’ needs for fuel in light of the many conditions imposed by the banks and their refusal to accept cash deposits without conditions
. We are no longer able to deposit money in the Ministry of Finance’s account to purchase fuel from the General Authority for Fuels, which is affiliated with the Ministry of Finance.’

Al-Jabri continued in his speech: ‘This crisis has been ongoing for two years, and our correspondence, communications, and reviews with the relevant authorities in the Ministry of Finance and the Monetary Authority have not found any response. We buy from the Ministry of Finance, and it must intervene, and the Monetary Authority must find radical solutions to this problem.’

According to unofficial estimates, the shekel surplus exceeds 22 billion shekels annually, piled up in bank vaults.

The Monetary Authority confirmed, in a previous press release, the news of the accumulation of paper currency in bank vaults exceeding their capacity.

The Monetary Authority also stressed that placing restrictions on any deposit operation that meets the compliance requirements is considered unacceptable behaviour that should be reversed with
out delay.

Despite these warnings from the Monetary Authority, banks are still imposing conditions on cash deposits in shekels, which prompted the Gas Stations Syndicate to announce that it will stop selling fuel starting next Sunday.

Source: Maan News Agency

Hebron – Ma’an – Police spokesman Colonel Louay Erziqat announced the death of a 33-year-old citizen who succumbed to serious injuries he sustained a few days ago as a result of a rock collapse in the town of Beit Ula, west of Hebron.

Local and medical sources at the private hospital said that citizen Raafat Ibrahim Al-Amla, 33 years old, died from his injuries.

Source: Maan News Agency

The Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Supply has announced the launch of two tenders for the purchase of 100,000 to 120,000 tons of wheat and an equal amount of barley.

The ministry invited interested parties to visit the tenders department to obtain copies of the tender invitations, which detail the terms and specifications. Each tender document is available for a non-refundable fee of JD650. The deadline for submitting bids for the wheat tender is next Tuesday at 2:00 p.m., while bids for the barley tender are due by 2:00 p.m. next Wednesday.

Participants are required to submit a copy of a valid professional license, a commercial register document certified within 30 days of the bid opening date, and valid registration with the Chamber of Commerce.

Source: Jordan News Agency

HEBRON-Ma’an-Engineer Issa Ismail Amro, founder of the Youth Against Settlements Gathering in Hebron, won the Alternative Nobel Prize for the year 2024, according to what the committee supervising the prize announced in the Swedish capital, Stockholm, today, Thursday.

The committee said in a press release published this morning in Stockholm that it awarded the prize to Amr “in appreciation of his dedication to defending the rights of his people, his steadfastness in the face of occupation, and his reaching out to the world to expose human rights violations.”

Along with Amr, three other people won in the field of environment and human rights from the Philippines, Mozambique and Britain. The four winners were chosen from among 176 candidates from 72 countries in the world.

The four winners will share the one million kronor prize, which is awarded each year to people who work to ensure the foundations of human life.

The Alternative Nobel Prize, or Right Livelihood Award, is described as the ‘harvest of a lif
etime’, and is awarded annually to four figures in the fields of (human rights, sustainable development, health, education, peace, and environmental protection). It is sponsored by the Swedish Parliament, and its board of directors is made up of a large committee of academics and politicians from around the world, and is considered the most important human rights award in the world.

The idea of ??the award goes back to the Swedish-German journalist and stamp collector, Jakob von, who created it in 1980, after he saw that the Nobel Prize was too narrow in its scope and dealt with the interests of industrialized countries, considering it necessary to recognize those who work to directly confront the challenges in their societies.

Vaughn then sold his works to raise the original funding. Since then, individual donors have funded the prizes, which aim to honor and support those who contribute exemplary and practical solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges. Since 1985, the prize has been known as the A
lternative Nobel Prize and is awarded at a formal ceremony held annually in Stockholm at the Swedish Parliament.

Engineer Issa Amro is the second Palestinian to receive this award in the field of human rights, democracy and the rule of law, and the fourth Arab. It was previously received by the Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy in 1980, and the Egyptian scientist in applied chemistry Ibrahim Abu Al-Aish in 2003.

Engineer Issa Amro said after winning the award: “I consider my winning the award a victory for the rights of the Palestinian people to justice, equality, freedom and self-determination, and a victory for the just Palestinian cause. This award came during the most difficult period that the Palestinian people are experiencing in all places of their presence, and unfortunately I cannot celebrate this award.”

He continued: “I dedicate this award to the women and children of Palestine, especially my family in the Gaza Strip, who are suffering from ethnic cleansing and the war of extermination and are pay
ing a heavy price that no one can bear. I dedicate it to my family in the West Bank and Jerusalem, who are suffering from the policy of displacement, injustice and slow killing, and I dedicate it to the people of Hebron who are steadfast in the face of the occupation and settlement in closed areas.”

Amro added: “My winning of the award with Youth Against Settlements means Palestine’s victory morally, politically and legally in the world.”

Source: Maan News Agency

Heavy winds and rain brought by Typhoon Krathon caused at least two deaths, injured 102 and left two people unaccounted in Taiwan due to typhoon Krathon, according to the Central Emergency Operation Center.

Typhoon Krathon, the 18th tropical storm of the year, made landfall near Kaohsiung in the south of Taiwan at 12:40 p.m. (0440 GMT), the Taipei-based Central News Agency reported Thursday, citing the Central Weather Administration.

The typhoon was moving at a speed of 8 km per hour (kph) and traveling in a north-northeasterly direction when it hit land, the weather agency said. The slow-moving storm was packing maximum sustained winds of 126 kph, with gusts of up to 162 kph, it added.

Some 211 passenger and cargo flights at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, the country’s main aviation hub, were canceled on Thursday. In addition, around 51,000 households across the country were without power as of Thursday morning, Taiwan Power Co. said.

Source: Kuwait News Agency