A 15-year-old boy on Friday died from electric shock at his family’s home in Kafr Awan, in Koura District, west of Irbid. Civil defense cadres rushed the boy to the hospital, but he arrived dead, then his body was transferred to the northern region’s forensic center, a police source said.
Source: Jordan News Agency
First Vice President of the Jordan Chamber of Commerce (JCC), Jamal Rifai, discussed with Panamanian ambassador to Jordan, Jose Ulises Lescure, ways to enhance joint economic and trade relations and role of commerce chambers in this regard. According to a JCC statement released Saturday, the two sides discussed cooperation mechanisms in multiple economic issues of common interest, and the importance of launching a plan to develop trade exchanges and strengthen joint partnership. Rifai and Lescure also discussed sectors of common interest, especially seafood, Dead Sea products, drugs, potash and phosphates, the statement added. During the meeting, the duo stressed the need to hold a joint business forum, prepare a study on exports and imports and sectors of common interest, exchange information on joint investment opportunities, and establish a Jordanian-Panamanian business council.
Source: Jordan News Agency
The Israeli bombardment caused damage to a cattle barn today, as a missile fell near an army checkpoint at the entrance to Al-Rashidiyah, south of Tyre. The partial explosion of the missile killed 6 sheep and birds.
The bombing also caused damage to the electricity transformer in the Ras al-Ain area, and in the words of a project branching from the town’s pools, and damage to homes and cars as a result of the pressure caused by the bombing.
A number of Syrian families working in agriculture have been displaced from Ras al-Ain to remote areas due to the bombing.
Source: National news agency – Lebanon
The Lebanese army announced, in a tweet on Friday that ” an army unit found a rocket launcher in the Marjayoun Plain containing a number of unfired missiles, and work is underway to dismantle it.”
Source: National news agency – Lebanon
Early this morning, the IDF informed UNIFIL that they will begin an artillery response to yesterday’s rocket launches.
Immediately after, UNIFIL personnel heard loud explosions around the city of Tyre.
UNIFIL’s Head of Mission and Force Commander, Major General Aroldo Lázaro, is speaking with authorities on both sides of the Blue Line.
Our liaison and coordination mechanisms are fully engaged.
Both sides have said they do not want a war.
The actions over the past day are dangerous and risk a serious escalation.
We urge all parties to cease all actions across the Blue Line now.
Source: National news agency – Lebanon
All of our thoughts and hearts travel to Thee in begging for Thy atonement for our sins, Maronite patriarch Bshara Rahi, uttered these traditional words in his Good Friday’s Stage of the Cross homily at the Chapel of the Resurrection in Bkirki today.
The patriarch read verses from the gospels of St. Luke, St. John and the Book of Revelation to invoke the tragic memory of Good Friday and Jesus’s ultimate death during the last Stage of the Cross in Golgotha/Jerusalem as recounted in the Christian New Testament tradition.
Rahi has been assisted during the service by two bishops and four priest with high-ranking Maronite leaders and laity comprising most of the congregation.
Source: National news agency – Lebanon
