Day: 3 October 2024

HEBRON – Ma’an – For the third consecutive day, the Israeli occupation authorities continue to impose a siege on the city of Hebron, closing the main entrances to the cities, towns and villages in the governorate with iron gates, preventing the movement of vehicles, and sometimes opening one of the entrances for a while and then closing it again. At dawn today, they arrested six citizens after storming their homes in Hebron and Halhul.

Local sources reported that the occupation forces raided the city of Hebron and stormed several homes. During this, they arrested the following: Engineer Hassan Khaled Al-Qawasmeh, Ibrahim Shafiq Al-Qawasmeh, Basil Al-Qawasmeh, Abdul Rahman Ali Al-Qawasmeh, and Amir Amjad Skafi. The young man, Adi Shaker Abu Zalta, was also arrested after raiding his family’s home in the city of Halhul.

In a separate context, today, Thursday, the occupation authorities prevented worshipers and visitors from reaching the Ibrahimi Mosque under the pretext of Jewish holidays.

Director General o
f the Hebron Endowments Directorate, Ghassan Al-Rajabi, said that the closure today will be until 10 pm, when the settlers will storm the Islamic mosque to perform Talmudic religious rituals inside and outside it.

He added that the occupation prevented the entry of the Awqaf employees or their access to the sanctuary, noting that for the 22nd consecutive day, the occupation authorities have prevented the dawn call to prayer from the minarets of the Ibrahimi Mosque.

Source: Maan News Agency

His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah sent on Thursday a cable of congratulations to President of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier on his country’s national day on Thursday.

Source: Kuwait News Agency

Ramallah – Ma’an – The Board of Directors of the Palestinian Insurance Federation decided to appoint Kayed Miari as Secretary-General of the Federation, in an effort to enhance the Federation’s role in the growth and stability of the insurance industry in Palestine.

The Council’s decision comes from its vision of the necessity of consolidating joint work and strengthening cooperation with all relevant parties in a way that serves the Palestinian national economy and enhances its ability to respond to all challenges.

Miari has extensive experience in the field of public and international relations, project and institutional management. His professional career has included a number of financial and development institutions, the last of which were the Capital Market Authority, the Palestinian Council for Development and Reconstruction (PECDAR), and the Engineers Syndicate. Miari holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism and media and has passed several professional certificates in the field of communication and
management.

Source: Maan News Agency

The Ministry of Immigration received (686) Lebanese citizens through Al-Qaim border crossing.

The Ministry stated in a statement that the Ministry’s cadres continued to receive Lebanese families coming to Iraq due to the ongoing brutal Zionist aggression on Lebanon, through Al-Qaim border crossing, as the cadres received a new batch of (686) Lebanese citizens, and provided them with all necessary facilities.

Source: National Iraqi News Agency

Gaza – Ma’an – The Ministry of Health in Gaza said that the occupation army committed 8 massacres that killed 99 martyrs and injured 169 in the occupation’s bombing of the Gaza Strip within 24 hours.

The Ministry of Health indicated that the death toll from the Israeli aggression has risen to 41,788 martyrs and 96,794 injuries since October 7.

She pointed out that there are still a number of victims under the rubble and on the roads, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them.

Source: Maan News Agency

Gaza – Ma’an – Israeli warplanes renewed their bombing of several areas in the Gaza Strip on Thursday afternoon, causing more martyrs and injuries.

Medical sources reported that 12 martyrs were killed in Israeli raids on various areas in the Gaza Strip since dawn today. Two

martyrs and others were injured in an Israeli drone strike that targeted a group of citizens in the Khirbet al-Adas area north of Rafah city.

A young man was killed and another was injured in an Israeli strike that targeted a house west of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Gunfire was renewed from Israeli vehicles and drones northwest of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Martyrs were killed as a result of the occupation targeting a residential house in the al-Shati camp west of Gaza City.

The daily statistical report on the number of martyrs and injured as a result of the ongoing Israeli aggression for the 363rd day on the Gaza Strip showed that the Israeli occupation committed 8 massacres against families in th
e Gaza Strip, of which 99 martyrs and 169 injuries arrived at hospitals during the past 24 hours.

The death toll from the Israeli aggression has risen to 41,788 martyrs and 96,794 injuries since October 7.

Source: Maan News Agency

Bethlehem – Ma’an – The Syndicate of Gas Stations announced that gas stations will close their doors to citizens next Sunday.

The union explained that this comes due to the banks’ refusal to accept cash deposits to purchase fuel from the General Petroleum Corporation, which results in the stations’ inability to transfer the value of their purchases from the Petroleum Corporation.

Source: Maan News Agency

Doha – Ma’an – President Mahmoud Abbas said that the State of Palestine seeks to get rid of the occupation and settlement and stop the Israeli aggression in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and Jerusalem, leading to the complete end of the occupation of the land of the State of Palestine with East Jerusalem as its capital.

He added in his speech at the third summit of the Asian Cooperation Dialogue under the slogan: “Sports Diplomacy”, today, Thursday, in the Qatari capital, Doha, that despite all the difficulties created by the occupation, Palestinian athletes, like the rest of their people, continue with perseverance and steadfastness to achieve proud accomplishments, and the State of Palestine embodies sports diplomacy, through its participation in all international sports forums, where our athletes carry the cause of their steadfast people who are determined to live.

The President continued: This summit is being held while our region is facing great dangers due to the insistence of the Israeli occupation s
tate on its approach of aggression and violence. Our Palestinian people, including its athletes, as well as the brotherly Lebanese people, are being subjected to a brutal Israeli war of extermination, which has claimed the lives of thousands of children, women and the elderly. The ongoing Israeli aggression has also destroyed more than 90% of the infrastructure in the Gaza Strip, including sports facilities and installations.

He stressed that peace and tolerance cannot coexist with occupation, war of extermination, racial discrimination, ethnic cleansing, oppression and injustice, preventing the Palestinian people from achieving their aspirations for freedom and independence, and aggression against the brotherly Lebanese people, calling on the international community to intervene immediately to stop the barbaric aggression against Palestine and Lebanon.

The President said that holding this Asian summit under the title: “Sports Diplomacy” represents an opportunity to enhance dialogue in a language no less in
fluential than official diplomacy, as it is a diplomacy that eliminates barriers and provides spaces for human relations based on fair competition, within the framework of governing laws, regardless of identity, religion, race or language.

Source: Maan News Agency