Day: August 3, 2024

The Ministry of Education and Higher Education launched its summer camps for the current year, under the slogan: “We Must Be”, with the support of UNICEF.

These camps, which number 590, target the education directorates in the West Bank governorates, where nearly 100,000 students have joined, distributed over 394 camps; to address the educational loss for grades one through six and 196 camps for the “STEM” program for grades seven through nine.

These camps aim to reduce the impact of educational loss in its academic and social aspects, and to enhance the main skills in the subjects of Arabic, English, mathematics, and science, in addition to developing the skills and abilities of students through implementing purposeful activities.

In this context, Minister of Education and Higher Education Dr. Amjad Barham said that the launch of these camps came in accordance with an educational vision that falls within the framework of combining educational compensation and entertainment, especially in light of the exce
ptional circumstances witnessed during the past school year and its predecessors, which reflected on the overall possession of educational competencies and skills by students, thanking UNICEF for supporting the camps, and praising the efforts of teachers and school principals, considering that organizing this unprecedented number of camps that have the character of summer schools demonstrates the ministry’s keenness to deal with the educational loss file with the great attention it deserves.

For her part, UNICEF Special Representative in Palestine, Jane Gough, said: What is important about these activities, in addition to bringing joy to children, is that they also aim to launch a campaign to return children to their schools by the new school year. While we emphasize our continued support for our partners in the Palestinian National Authority, we continue to advocate for children’s rights in Palestine, especially in these sensitive times. As is the case anywhere else in the world, access to quality and unint
errupted learning must be our top priority

Source: Maan News Agency

For the second time in six hours, an Israeli aircraft bombed a group of resistance fighters in Tulkarm.

Four citizens were killed when the occupation forces bombed a vehicle between the town of Bal’a and the Aktaba suburb east of Tulkarm, bringing the death toll since this morning to 9.

The occupation army claimed that it “bombed militants from the air during an exchange of fire.”

This is the second time that the Israeli army has carried out this operation within six hours. An air strike was carried out this morning in the area, resulting in the martyrdom of five resistance fighters, including a leader in the Qassam Brigades and another from the Jihad.

According to the occupation army, they were on their way to carry out an operation.

Our correspondent reported that the second raid targeted a truck near Tulkarm.

A large force of the occupation army stormed the city of Tulkarm today, Saturday.

Our correspondent reported that the occupation forces surrounded Tulkarm camp and surrounded all its entrances.

The Red Crescent Society said that the crews in Tulkarm dealt with 3 cases of gas suffocation as a result of targeting a group of journalists. Field first aid was provided

Source: Maan News Agency

Five resistance fighters, including a leader in the Qassam Brigades, Haitham Balidi, were killed Saturday morning in an airstrike carried out by an Israeli drone on a vehicle on the road between Attil and Zeita, north of Tulkarem.

The director of Thabet Governmental Hospital in Tulkarem, Amin Khader, said that five were martyred, including a known martyr, Haitham Nour al-Din Balidi (25 years old) from Tulkarem refugee camp.

He pointed out that four martyrs, their charred remains, arrived at Thabet Governmental Hospital after being targeted by a missile from a drone near the town of Zeita.

The drone fired a missile at the vehicle after ground forces had withdrawn from that area and various areas of Tulkarm

Source: Maan News Agency

A large force of the occupation army stormed the city of Tulkarm today, Saturday.

Our correspondent reported that the occupation forces surrounded Tulkarm camp and surrounded all its entrances.

The Red Crescent Society said that the crews in Tulkarm dealt with 3 cases of gas suffocation as a result of targeting a group of journalists. Field first aid was provided.

The occupation bulldozers began destroying the infrastructure in the streets of Tulkarm camp.

The occupation forces gathered at the “Nitzanoz” checkpoint, west of Tulkarm

Source: Maan News Agency

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Affairs Authority, the Prisoners’ Club, the departments of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the foreign regions of Fatah, and a large number of civil society institutions, international campaigns, and supporters of the Palestinian cause have issued an appeal to the living consciences and supporters of the rights of the Palestinian people to make the third of August a national and international day to support Gaza and the Palestinian prisoners.

This day includes protests, issuing solidarity statements, radio and newspaper interviews, seminars, conferences, and publishing opinion articles supporting Palestinian rights.

All these activities will include a global movement to stop the genocide in the Gaza Strip and to stop the abuse and torture of Palestinian prisoners.

The fact sheet on prisoners prepared by the International Academic Campaign Against the Israeli Occupation and Apartheid indicates that Israel exploited what happened on October 7 and abused Palestinian prisoners
through a policy of starvation, beating and torture. Israel also activated a racist law known as the ‘Unlawful Combatant Law’ by a decision of the Minister of the Occupation Army on October 8, 2023 against those arrested in the Gaza Strip, whereby about 1,400 of them were classified as unlawful combatants.

It is estimated that about 5,000 detainees and prisoners from the Gaza Strip since October 7 have been living in harsh and inhumane conditions, which have led to the martyrdom of about 37 of them in the “Sde Taman” detention center in the Negev desert. In continuation of the data included in this paper, and in light of the Red Cross, lawyers and families preventing prisoners from entering, Israel has doubled the number of its arrests in the West Bank since October 7, where the number of arrests reached about 9,870 cases of arrest until the end of July, including about 350 women and girls, and about 680 minors, and the renewal of about 7,600 administrative detention orders and decisions. In addition, about
300 cases of arrest of Palestinians inside the territories occupied in 1948 were recorded on racist grounds related to posting on social media platforms and on charges of incitement, including about 120 university students.

‘In fact, the participation of our Palestinian communities in this movement is necessary and important in order to shed light on the genocidal war waged by Israel in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, and to expose the crimes of the occupation against Palestinian civilians and prisoners. On the other hand, the efforts of the PLO circles to prosecute Israel for its crimes against prisoners are also necessary and important, as raising the prisoners’ cases individually and collectively before the International Criminal Court against the Israeli Prison Service will lead to the punishment of Israeli war army officers on charges of war crimes. As a result, more than 200 international solidarity activities will be present on such a day, and these activities are supposed to continue until the Isra
eli aggression is stopped and all Palestinian prisoners and detainees are released

Source: Maan News Agency

The masses of our people in Tulkarm and its camp bid farewell to the body of the martyr Haitham Nour al-Din Balidi (25 years old) from Tulkarm camp on Saturday.

The funeral procession set off from the Martyr Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital in the city, and toured the streets of the city and the camp amidst angry national chants and slogans denouncing the occupation’s crimes against our Palestinian people.

The mourners headed to his home in the camp, to bid him farewell with his family and relatives, and then prayers were performed over his pure body in the Martyrs’ Mosque in the Hanoun Square neighborhood, before he was buried in the Martyrs’ Cemetery in the neighboring Dhnaba suburb.

The martyr Balidi is among the five martyrs who were killed this morning when an occupation drone bombed a vehicle they were riding in on the Zeita-Attil road north of Tulkarm, causing the vehicle to completely catch fire with everyone inside it. The bodies were transferred to the hospital in charred pieces

Source: Maan
News Agency

A young man was seriously injured on Saturday during clashes with the occupation forces in the town of Abwein, northwest of Ramallah.

Local sources reported that the occupation forces stormed Abwein and took up positions in the center of the town. Clashes erupted during which live bullets were fired, resulting in the injury of a young man (25 years old) in the abdomen. He was transferred to Salfit Hospital.

He explained that the occupation raided two houses in the town, turned them into military barracks, and subjected those inside them to investigation

Source: Maan News Agency

An 80-year-old woman was attacked by three unknown individuals with the intention of stealing from her in the town of Ein Siniya, north of Ramallah.

The Public Relations and Media Department of the Police stated that the police received a report of an attempted robbery of a woman’s house, where the perpetrators beat her, put a knife to her neck, tied her up, and stole the camera storage device (DVR) with the intention of hiding evidence of the crime.

The police added that immediately, a force from the Criminal Evidence Branch in Ramallah moved to the house. Through collecting evidence, one person was suspected, and he was arrested by the Beitunia Police Station, and the police are currently following up on bringing the others.

She confirmed that the suspect confessed to committing the crime during his interrogation by the General Investigations Branch in Ramallah, and he was detained and referred to the competent authorities to follow up on the legal procedures against him

Source: Maan News Agency

Kuwait: The price of Kuwaiti oil went down USD 1.36 to USD 80.47 pb on Friday, compared to USD 81.83 pb the day before, said Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) on Saturday.

On a global scale, the price of Brent Crude futures contracts went down USD 2.17 to settle at USD 76.81 pb, as did West Texas Intermediate crude, down USD 2.79 to USD 73.52 pb, the Kuwaiti News Agency (KUNA) reported.

Source: Bahrain News Agency

Manama: The Kingdom of Bahrain strongly condemned the terrorist attack on a hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu, which led to a number of deaths and injuries.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs emphasised the Kingdom’s rejection of terrorism and violence, affirming that these criminal acts contradict international laws and moral and humanitarian values.

It also expressed Bahrain’s solidarity with Somalia and its support for its measures to maintain its security and stability, extending heartfelt condolences to the families of the victims, the Somali government, and its people.

Source: Bahrain News Agency