Month: August 2024

An Israeli soldier was killed Saturday and several were injured Saturday in clashes in Jenin refugee camp in the north of the occupied West Bank, Israeli media reported.

The soldiers were ambushed this morning during clashes that broke out in Jenin town and the nearby camp as explosions and shooting were heard in an ongoing army operation in the northern West Bank in which more than two dozen Palestinians were killed.

Channel 14 said Israeli helicopters evacuated injured soldiers to a hospital in Haifa, including one dead.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Eighty-nine Palestinians were killed and 205 injured in the last 48 hours in the ongoing Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, taking the death toll to 40,691 and the total number of injuries to 94,060, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

The ministry said in its latest update of casualties from the war, which began on October 7, that Israeli forces carried out five massacres against civilians and hospitals across the Strip received the dead and wounded.

It said many victims remained under the rubble of buildings devastated by air strikes, or on roads out of reach of ambulance and rescue teams.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Irbid Criminal Investigation Police and forensic laboratories identified and arrested the driver, who ran down and killed a police officer, and four accomplices during a raid of an apartment in Amman on Saturday, the Public security Department (PSD) said.

The PSD media spokesperson said investigation teams acted after the hit-and-run incident Friday evening in which the driver ran over police sergeant Mohammad Abu Askar as he tried to stop the vehicle while on duty, and fled the scene.

The abandoned vehicle was seized and a search led detectives to the identity of the driver and the four occupants, who were arrested during the raid of the apartment in the East Amman neighborhood of Jabal Al-Nasser, he said.

The driver confessed to “deliberately running over the officer multiple times”, he said, adding that the case was referred to the Criminal Court prosecutor, who remanded the driver and an accomplice in a reform and rehabilitation center on murder charges and resisting police.

Source: Jordan News Agenc
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The Energy and Minerals Regulatory Commission (EMRC) on Saturday said the fuel price difference tariff in the electricity bill for the month of September has been set at zero.

In its statement, EMRC added that this value remained unchanged, in comparison to the current month of August.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Israeli occupation army killed 9 Palestinian citizens and injured others Saturday morning after bombing a house west of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, “Petra” correspondent reported.

Israeli jets also killed 4 citizens after pounding a house in Nuseirat camp, while shelling killed 4 Gazans and injured others that targeted a house south of Khan Yunis, south of the strip.

Additionally, 4 Gazans’ bodies were recovered when the occupation’s aircraft targeted a residential building in Jabalia camp, north of the coastal enclave.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Al-Azhar condemned, in a statement issued today, “the Zionist terrorist aggression on the cities of the West Bank, and its destruction of a large sector of roads, facilities and homes, and the shedding of the blood of dozens and the injury and arrest of hundreds,” according to the Palestinian “Wafa” news agency.

Al-Azhar warned “the entire world” of “a Zionist plan being implemented on the occupied Palestinian land in the West Bank with the aim of seizing its ownership and Judaizing its landmarks, killing its owners and Palestinian citizens, and committing a new genocide in light of the brutality of this entity, and in light of international collusion and the unprecedented international collusion and UN failure, and in light of the world’s preoccupation with the daily massacres taking place on the proud land of Gaza, reassuring the enemy that no one would lift a finger regarding what was happening there.’

It also warned of the “danger of this aggression on the security and stability of the region,” calling
on “the human community and all active parties” to “assume their responsibilities towards the tragic and painful number of brutal massacres committed by the Zionist killing machine against the people of the Gaza Strip, and what is about to happen in the West Bank, and the necessity of exerting all efforts to stop the Zionist plans aimed at taking lives, stealing land and falsifying history as if everything is permissible!’

Source: National News Agency – Lebanon

Member of the ‘Democratic Gathering’ parliamentary bloc, MP Wael Abu Faour, stressed that ‘Chief Walid Jumblatt is the guarantor of the Arab Islamic identity of the Druze community from Palestine to Syria to Lebanon,’ considering that ‘the real compass is in Lebanon, and the real compass is with Walid Jumblatt, Taymour Jumblatt, and in Mukhtara, in this Arab and Islamic affiliation of the Druze of Syria, the Golan, Palestine, and everywhere.’

‘The Druze are not a minority in this land, neither a sectarian minority nor a religious, ethnic or racial minority, but rather part of the Arab Islamic majority in this nation,” Abu Faour asserted.

He added: ‘Walid Jumblatt is the guardian of this Arab and Islamic identity, and after him, Taymour Jumblatt is the guarantor of this Arab and Islamic identity against anyone who wants to tamper with it.’

His words came as he represented Jumblatt in patronizing a book signing ceremony by journalist and writer Hassan Bahmad in his recent work honoring the great Arab poet Sa
mih al-Qasim on the tenth anniversary of his passing, in a uniting Druze national gathering between the Golan, Palestine and Lebanon at the invitation of the Social and Cultural Council of Western Bekaa and Rashaya and the Progressive House, held at the Al-Irfan School premises in Dahr al-Ahmar.

‘In our national book, we are one…We differ and are distinct, but if our opinions differ, this does not rule out our nationalism. In our national book, there is no place for treason or political atonement…When it comes to the issue of Palestine, we differ in this matter, but the difference does not mean that anyone from this side or that has the right to reproach the other in his affiliation or nationalism, for we are all sons of this homeland and we all care about it,’ Abu Faour underscored.

He added: ‘This persistence, represented by Samih al-Qasim and many of the sons of occupied Palestine, has today become a real dilemma for the Israeli occupation, which views more than one million and two hundred thousand A
rabs, equivalent to 22 percent of the size of the Israeli electorate, as are Arabs clinging to their Arab identity.’

Source: National News Agency – Lebanon