Day: April 20, 2024

He pointed out the importance of digital skills in supporting scientific knowledge and “building the personality of our students,” indicating that the labor market is no longer limited in its demand for holding a university qualification, but the competition has become in the level of possession of skills and the ability to create and excel, expressing readiness to provide all required support for the success of this project.

Hanandeh expressed his thanks to the Ministry of Education for providing the opportunity to participate in this achievement and contribute to the educational process, and to the trainers for their outstanding efforts in this field.

For their part, the students participating in the Digital Coding Club expressed their thanks to all those in charge of the project for its impact in providing them with science and knowledge and acquiring the required digital skills.

The project included training 100 computer teachers and 100 laboratory curators from public schools across the Kingdom north,
center, and south who, in turn, will train students within the targeted schools.

The program, which targets 2,000 students from grades nine to one, aims to provide students with life skills by engaging them in practical application, developing their ideas and expanding their perceptions about the role of technology and programming in our daily lives, and raising their scientific stock about programming and its role in all areas of life.

It also aims to highlight the students’ creativity and development during the training period, enable them to build computer programs capable of addressing many mathematical issues and practical applications, provide them with self-confidence and self-reliance skills, develop personal skills, and create a spirit of competition among them in a way that reflects positively on them and develops their abilities.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Gaza – Ma’an – On Saturday, the head of the government media office in the Gaza Strip, Salama Marouf, accused Israel of promoting what he described as a “false narrative” regarding the increase in the entry of aid into the Strip.

Marouf said, in a statement, that the Israeli side ‘has been promoting a false narrative for some time about introducing improvements in the mechanism for the passage of aid and increasing the number of trucks entering the Gaza Strip.’

He pointed out that only between 130 and 150 aid trucks enter the Gaza Strip daily, with a total of 2,800 trucks since the first of April, saying that the number of trucks that have arrived in the northern Gaza Strip since the beginning of the month has not exceeded 327 trucks, according to the World Food Programme.

He added: “This announcement by the World Food Program is completely consistent with our documented statistics, which confirm that the occupation’s narrative about the improvement in the number of aid trucks, and the United States’ adopt
ion of this narrative and its talk of bringing about 300 aid trucks daily, is a complete lie and distortion of reality.”

He stated that the total amount of aid trucks entering daily ‘actually represents approximately 25% of what was the case before the aggression.’

Source: Maan News Agency

Irbid: A 9-year-old child died on Saturday of drowning in a private swimming pool in Sareeh area of Bani Obeid district, in the northern government of Irbid.

A security source told the Jordanian News Agency (Petra) today that ambulance and rescue teams in the Civil Defense Directorate responded to an incident in which a Syrian child drowned inside a private swimming pool in Sareeh area, noting that the pool is closed and does not receive citizens.

The source added that the ambulance teams evacuated the deceased to King Abdullah University Hospital, while the security apparatus opened an investigation into the incident to find out how the child entered the pool, even though it is closed, and to identify the causes of the accident.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Gaza – Together – Civil Defense crews are still working to recover the bodies of the victims killed by the Israeli army during its storming of the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

Anatolia Agency reported that it monitored the work of civil defense crews in extracting dismembered and decomposed Palestinian bodies from the rubble of homes and on the side of the roads in the city of Khan Yunis, from which the Israeli army withdrew on April 7.

The agency reported that civil defense crews in the Gaza Strip found many bodies under the rubble of homes, in alleys, and on the side of roads, 4 months after the Israeli incursion into Khan Yunis.

She explained that after the army’s withdrawal, medical teams are working to recover the bodies and transport them to hospitals in the Gaza Strip, where they are buried in cemeteries.

After finding the bodies of Palestinians, the number of which was unknown because their dismembered body parts were recovered from the rubble of homes, civil defense crews performe
d funeral prayers for them in the streets.

On April 7, the Israeli army announced its withdrawal from Khan Yunis, 4 months after launching a ground operation that aimed to recover Israeli detainees held by Hamas, but it left the city without achieving its goals.

The Israeli military operation in the city had a significant impact, leaving widespread damage to roads, homes and infrastructure.

The Palestinians in the city of Khan Yunis were displaced from their homes during the Israeli ground operation, to areas near the city of Rafah and the central areas of Deir al-Balah, where they resorted to living in tents and in places of displacement such as centers, schools, and hospitals.

Since last October 7, Israel has been waging a war. A devastating attack on Gaza left more than 100,000 martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and massive destruction and famine that claimed the lives of children and the elderly, according to Palestinian and UN data.

Source: Maan News Agency

Amman: Prices of 21-karat gold, the highest demand at the local market, stood at JD48.60 per gram as a purchasing price, against JD46.60 as a selling price, an official said Saturday.

Jordan Jewelers Association’s Secretary General, Ribhy Allan, told Jordan News Agency (Petra) that the price of 24-karat and 18-karat gold amounted to JD56 and JD43.40, respectively.

The price of a Rashadi lira, weighing seven grams, stood at JD342, while an English lira, which weighs eight grams reached JD390, Allan said.

The demand and supply for gold in the local market improved by up to 25 percent compared to the situation in Ramadan, driven by marriages and the tendency of citizens to sell savings to take advantage of the high prices, Allan added.

He added that gold prices in global markets on Saturday reached $2,390 per ounce, noting that political developments in the region are the main driver of gold prices.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Gaza – Ma’an – The head of the government media office in Gaza, Salama Marouf, confirmed that preventing the entry of cooking gas and fuel into the Strip threatens to exacerbate the humanitarian crisis.

Marouf said: ‘For the seventh month, the occupation continues to prevent the entry of cooking gas and various types of fuel into the Gaza Strip, especially to Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip, which threatens to exacerbate the humanitarian and health crisis in light of the ongoing aggression against our people, as a result of the citizens’ reliance for many months on alternative primitive means of igniting fires.’ The fire was made from wood, charcoal, and building rubble, which caused hundreds of people to suffer from respiratory diseases due to the use of plastic and chemical materials to light the fires, which emit toxic gases.’

He added: “Hundreds of new cases of various respiratory diseases have been recorded, as a result of citizens’ reliance on lighting fires using the aforementioned methods for
long hours every day over the past months, whether to prepare food or heat water and even for lighting sometimes, which portends an increase in the seriousness of this crisis.” Citizens are afflicted with lung and respiratory cancer as a result of toxic gases emitted by these means.’

He continued: “This difficult humanitarian, health and environmental reality requires urgent intervention to put an end to this crisis, and to strive to provide citizens with the basic requirements, most notably cooking gas and fuel of various types. Otherwise, we warn of the worsening crisis of the lack of cooking gas and its danger to the lives of citizens who have been suffering from catastrophic conditions since… The aggression has begun, and we call on the international community and all concerned parties to put pressure on the occupation and move quickly to resolve this crisis and allow the entry of cooking gas and various types of fuel, knowing that preventing such basic life needs is a crime added to the crimes committ
ed by the occupation in light of the genocidal war it has been waging against our people since The seventh of last October.

Source: Maan News Agency