Day: April 15, 2024

Ramallah – Together – the Minister of Education and Higher Education, Dr. Amjad Barham; Today, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell and her accompanying delegation arrived at Jaba’ Boys’ Secondary School, where during the visit, which witnessed the participation of Undersecretary Dr. Nafi Assaf, representatives of the Ministry, Deputy Governor of Jerusalem Abdullah Siam, and the Jerusalem Suburbs Directorate highlighted the suffering of students in reaching their school due to the occupation’s checkpoints.

Barham and the visiting guest discussed ways to protect the right of Palestinian children to life and education and enable them to have safe access to their schools, considering that targeting education in Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem is a transgression that contradicts human values ??and international charters and treaties, and crosses all red lines.

While the Deputy Governor of Jerusalem, Abdullah Siam, touched on some of the difficulties facing education in Jerusalem that do not stop at the
limits of targeting the curriculum.

The Executive Director of UNICEF expressed her influence by what she heard from the students, and what she saw of the students’ suffering as they faced daily difficulties in reaching their school.

The school’s students, its principal, and representatives of the local community presented positions expressing difficult daily experiences as a result of the school being located in an area of ??direct contact with the occupation army and its settlers.

After that, Minister Barham and the accompanying delegation visited the Jerusalem Suburbs Directorate, where he was briefed on the reality of work in the directorate, appreciating the role of the directorate’s staff in serving the educational process, and praising the efforts of the teachers and the directorate’s staff in facing difficult challenges.

The Minister noted that education was and will remain a lever for our national project, a tool for liberation, and an oasis to express the creativity of our students and teachers,
considering that the educational field is the pillar of giving.

For his part, Director General of Education, Issam Ezzat, reviewed the most prominent challenges facing the educational process, which have increased due to the current circumstances.

Source: Maan News Agency

Ramallah – Ma’an – President Mahmoud Abbas issued, on Monday evening, a decision to form a new board of directors for the Palestine Investment Fund, headed by Iyad Judeh.

The Board of Directors of the Investment Fund includes Messrs. Maher Al-Masry and Dr. Mohamed Nasr, Tamer Bazari, and Dr. Atef Alawneh, Muhammad Abu Ramadan, Counselor Ali Abu Diak, Lana Abu Hijleh/Abdul Hadi, and Dr. Firas Melhem.

Source: Maan News Agency

Amman: Iraq President Abdul Latif Rashid lauded the deep-rooted ties between Jordan and Iraq, and expressed keenness to continue developing them to serve both countries.

During a meeting with the Iraqi community in Jordan on Monday, Rashid commended His Majesty King Abdullah’s efforts to bolster relations with Iraq and contribute to the mutual advancement of the two countries.

The Iraqi president said that his visit to Jordan came amid the difficult stages the region is going through as a result of the brutal aggression against Palestine, stressing his full support for the Palestinian people in all fields and their right to establish their independent state with Jerusalem as its capital.

Rashid voiced his rejection of the barbaric aggression against the Palestinian people by the occupation, the killing of children and women, and the destruction of infrastructure, hospitals, schools, and universities.

He added that Iraq focuses on its stability through its friendship with all countries of the region and th
e world and maintaining internal security and stability through the imposition of security, to enable the Iraqi people to enjoy security and stability in their country, after going through difficult and long stages of instability due to internal and regional conflicts since the 1970s, pointing out that the main goal is to stabilize security and stability in Iraq.

Rashid pointed out that Iraq is strong in its sects, religions, and economy, as it is one of the richest countries in the Middle East and has the longest history in the world.

The Iraqi president praised the strength, durability, and seriousness of Iraq’s relations with neighboring countries and the world, focusing on enhancing agricultural and environmental services. This can only be achieved with a strong administration to properly exploit all of Iraq’s resources.

He noted that there are mega projects in Iraq represented by “the railroad, the expansion of the port, and the transportation of oil abroad.”

He added that a committee has been formed
between Iraq and Turkey on the one hand, and Iraq and Iran on the other, to discuss the repeated violations and develop appropriate solutions to stop them.

Iraqi Minister of Trade and Industry, Khaled Battal presented key trade cooperation relations with Jordan, represented by “the establishment of an economic and free city between the two countries,” which was introduced since 2019, pointing out that his country has started the final procedures, and two weeks ago the tender was awarded to an Iraqi company to start work, which is built on 4,000 dunums from the Iraqi side, and 1,000 dunums from Jordan, as the first major cooperation between the two countries.

He said that an oil pipeline was constructed, the first part connecting Basra to Haditha, and the second part connecting Haditha to the port of Aqaba, with an estimated capacity of two million barrels, lauding the great cooperation with the Jordan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and work is underway to establish a Jordanian chamber in Iraq.

Source:
Jordan News Agency

Ramallah – Ma’an – The Ministry of Education and Higher Education announced today the start of applications for the Scientific Researcher Scholarship offered by the Japanese government.

The Ministry also announced the availability of a number of scholarships in India for the academic year 2024-2025, in the fields of bachelor’s and postgraduate studies (Master’s and Doctorate).

The Ministry also announced the availability of a number of scholarships at President’s University in Indonesia for the academic year 2024-2025, in the field of bachelor’s and master’s degrees.

The Ministry of Higher Education invited those wishing to compete for these scholarships to visit its website http://www.mohe.pna.ps for full details.

Source: Maan News Agency

Amman: The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor condemned the Israeli army’s targeting of thousands of forcibly displaced Palestinians as they tried to return to their homes in Gaza City and its north, with artillery shells and live bullets, which resulted in the martyrdom of dozens and numerous wounds, forcing the rest to return to their places of displacement and preventing them from returning to their residential areas in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

The occupation continues to implement and entrench the crime of forced displacement against Palestinians by preventing forcibly displaced civilians, including women and children, from crossing from the center and south of the Gaza Strip and returning to their residential areas in the northern areas, despite the cessation of hostilities in most of those areas, the Monitor said in a press release on Monday.

The serious crimes carried out by the Israeli army, especially the crime of forced displacement, are aimed at destroying the lives of Palestinians in the
Gaza Strip and are part of the crime of genocide that Israel has been committing for more than six months, the Monitor added.

The Monitor has documented consistent testimonies of Israeli forces firing artillery shells, machine guns from naval boats, live bullets, and tear gas directly and deliberately at thousands of civilians as they attempted to return.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Ramallah – Ma’an – A statement issued by the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate confirmed the continuation of the occupation’s crimes against Palestinian journalists by killing 6 colleagues as martyrs by Israeli occupation army fire, as well as increasing the pace of targeting of journalists in their institutions, homes, and in the field of work and press coverage.

The statement issued by the Freedoms Committee of the Syndicate indicated that the occupation army is expanding its targeting in various forms against journalists, specifically in the Gaza Strip, when it continued to target and kill, where 3 of our colleagues became martyrs by targeting their homes with bombing, and 3 of our colleagues with bullets and missile fragments. While 9 journalists sustained bloody wounds as a result of being hit by shrapnel from missiles and bullets, which led to the amputation of some of their limbs, while others are still in serious and difficult condition as a result of their injuries.

The statement stated that the Is
raeli occupation forces committed about 105 crimes, violations, and assaults over the course of last March, including the destruction of about 12 institutions and homes for journalists, all in the Gaza Strip, as well as the arrest of 8 journalists, while 24 cases of smashing and confiscating work equipment were recorded, and 22 incidents were recorded. Crews detained and prevented from working.

The statement added that the occupation forces stormed 4 homes and media institutions, and 3 cases of direct shooting were observed towards where the journalists were covering, while about 10 male and female colleagues were beaten, while the settlers carried out an attack, destruction, and death threat.

There were 2 cases of summons and 3 cases of being brought before the courts.

The statement explained that the pace of targeting of the journalistic situation is escalating, including the continued targeting and closure of press institutions in Jerusalem, as the decision to ban the Palestine TV satellite channel from
operating in Jerusalem was renewed, and decisions were made to remove some journalists from working and covering in Jerusalem and the vicinity of Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The statement concluded by emphasizing that the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate continues its tireless efforts to prosecute the occupation for its crimes against the Palestinian journalistic situation at all local, Arab and international levels, by working with high professionalism in monitoring and documenting its crimes and adapting them to the legal requirements of war crimes courts and international courts.

Source: Maan News Agency