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The Syrian Taekwondo team won 12 medals in Jordan International Championship that concluded competitions Sunday with wide Arab participation by all categories
The twelve medals gained by the Syrian team were two gold, one silver and nine bronze.
It is notable that a number of countries such Syria, Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon and others participated at the Championship, represented by 1,100 athletes.
Source: Syrian Arab News Agency
Syrian Arab Republic offered condolences to Democratic People’s Republic of Korea over victims of the floods hit areas near Amnok River (Yalu River), and affirmed support for its leadership, government and people.
Foreign and Expatriates Ministry said in a statement to SANA on Sunday ‘The Syrian Arab Republic extends the deepest condolences to friendly Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, for the victims of the floods hit some areas due to heavy rains over the country’s northern border’.
The statement stressed solidarity with leadership, government and people of Korea, asserting confidence that Korean people will overcome this ordeal.
Source: Syrian Arab News Agency
With participation of Minister of Awqaf (Islamic Endowments), Dr. Mohammad Abdul-Sattar al-Sayyed, the 9th Conference of Endowments and Islamic Affairs in the Islamic World began, on Sunday, in Mecca city, Saudi Arabia.
The conference is organized by Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Dawah and Guidance in Saudi Arabia and is entitled ‘Role of Endowments and Islamic Affairs Ministries in Promoting and Consolidating the Principles and the Values of Moderation’.
It is noteworthy that 62 countries from Islamic world are participating in the two-day conference, in addition to the attendance of a large number of Endowments Ministers.
The conference aims at enhancing solidarity among Islamic countries in fields of endowments, Dawah and guidance, and setting up a correct understanding of Islam in confronting extremism and radicalism.
Source: Syrian Arab News Agency
With participation of Minister of Awqaf (Islamic Endowments), Dr. Mohammad Abdul-Sattar al-Sayyed, the 9th Conference of Endowments and Islamic Affairs in the Islamic World began, on Sunday, in Mecca city, Saudi Arabia.
The conference is organized by Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Dawah and Guidance in Saudi Arabia and is entitled ‘Role of Endowments and Islamic Affairs Ministries in Promoting and Consolidating the Principles and the Values of Moderation’.
It is noteworthy that 62 countries from Islamic world are participating in the two-day conference, in addition to the attendance of a large number of Endowments Ministers.
The conference aims at enhancing solidarity among Islamic countries in fields of endowments, Dawah and guidance, and setting up a correct understanding of Islam in confronting extremism and radicalism.
Source: Syrian Arab News Agency
The Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, claimed responsibility on Saturday for the shooting attack that killed Israeli settler Amnon Mukhtar last June.
This came in a statement by Al-Qassam, in which it mourned a group of its fighters who were martyred on Saturday when Israeli aircraft targeted their vehicle in Tulkarm.
The statement said: “With the highest verses of pride, dignity and confidence in God’s imminent victory, the Al-Qassam Brigades announce to the sons of our great people and the masses of our Arab and Islamic nation a group of its honorable knights, Commander Haitham Nour al-Din Balidi (from Tulkarm camp), Martyr Jamal Ibrahim Abu Haniya (from Qalqilya), Martyr Ali Khalil Abu Bakr (from Qalqilya), and Martyr Ahmed Ibrahim Muhajna (from Nour Shams camp).”
The statement added: “They were martyred today, Saturday, August 3, 2024, as a result of a cowardly assassination operation carried out by treacherous aircraft on a vehicle they were riding in between the villages of Attil and Zeita
in Tulkarm Governorate, accompanied by their martyred brother, the leader of the Al-Quds Brigades, Abdul Jabbar Fahd Sabbagh.”
Al-Qassam continued in its statement: ‘As we mourn a new group of our resistance martyrs in the occupied West Bank, we announce our responsibility for the shooting and liquidation operation of the Zionist Amnon Mukhtar, a resident of the occupied city of Petah Tikva, which was carried out by the two Qassam martyrs Jamal Abu Haniyeh and Ali Abu Bakr in the city of Qalqilya on June 22, 2024.’
The Al-Qassam Brigades stressed that “the escape of the occupation army soldiers from the fields of direct confrontation, and the resort of the cowardly army leadership to intensify the aerial bombardment and assassinations of the resistance fighters in the West Bank will have disastrous results for the treacherous occupier, and our resistance and our fighters will only increase their determination and resolve to carry out more resistance actions in all the cities, villages and camps of the occup
ied West Bank; the strikes of our resistance fighters will intensify, their numbers will double, and neither warplanes nor drones will stop their flood, God willing.”
On June 22, the Israeli army announced the killing of an Israeli by gunfire in Qalqilya, in the northern West Bank, noting that the army and police forces were investigating the circumstances of the incident
Source: Maan News Agency
Israeli occupation forces raided the home of the family of the perpetrator of the Holon operation, Ammar Rizq Odeh (34 years old), in the city of Salfit on Sunday.
Citizens said that the occupation forces stormed the city and imposed a tight security cordon around the home of the martyr Awda’s family, then raided it, detained his family members and subjected them to field investigation inside the house. The occupation also prevented press crews from reaching the place.
It is noteworthy that the occupation authorities closed the two entrances to Salfit with an iron gate and set up checkpoints
Source: Maan News Agency
Gaza: The Ministry of Health in Gaza said that the Israeli occupation committed two massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, resulting in 33 martyrs and 118 injuries arriving at hospitals during the past 24 hours.
The Ministry of Health indicated that the death toll from the Israeli aggression has risen to 39,583 martyrs and 91,398 injuries since October 7.
Israeli aircraft continued their bombing of various areas of the Gaza Strip on the 303rd day of the war, leaving a large number of martyrs and wounded
Source: Maan News Agency
Gaza: Israeli aircraft continued their bombardment of various areas in the Gaza Strip on the 303rd day of the war, leaving a large number of martyrs and wounded.
The Israeli occupation committed three massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, of which 31 martyrs and 62 wounded arrived at hospitals during the past 24 hours.
The death toll from the Israeli aggression rose to 39,550 martyrs and 9,1280 wounded since October 7.
The occupation forces continued targeting displacement centers in Gaza City.
The Ministry of Health reported that 18 citizens were killed and 60 others were wounded in targeting the Hamama School, which houses displaced people in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of Gaza City.
The occupation forces later destroyed the school and a neighboring school.
The occupation forces bombed the Zeitoun neighborhood, which led to the martyrdom of two citizens, while they are still carrying out operations to destroy homes in the vicinity of the university college in the Tel al-Hawa neighbor
hood, west of Gaza City.
Eight citizens were killed and a number of wounded as a result of targeting a house belonging to the al-Amoudi family in al-Fakhoura in the Jabalia camp, north of the Strip.
South Gaza Strip:
Six citizens were killed in a bombing that targeted the Abu Hasna family home north of Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip.
The occupation army continued to destroy homes in the center of Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip.
A female citizen was killed and
others were injured in targeting citizens in Qaa al-Qurain south of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. Paramedics recovered two martyrs near the Amir Chalet in the town of al-Qarara east of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.
Central Gaza Strip :
Five martyrs, including two women, were killed in targeting the tents of the displaced inside the al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
Fires broke out in the tents inside the hospital walls, which has been bombed for the third time since the beginning
of the war on the Strip.
Three citizens were killed and others were injured when the occupation aircraft bombed the home of the al-Hasanat family in the Deir al-Balah camp in the central
Gaza Strip. Artillery violently shelled the vicinity of the electricity company and the Malaysian school north of the al-Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip
Source: Maan News Agency
Gaza: The Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, announced on Saturday that it had targeted Israeli soldiers and military vehicles in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
The brigades said in one of its statements that its fighters “were able to snipe a Zionist soldier with a Qassam Ghoul rifle near the eastern cemetery east of Rafah city.”
Al-Qassam fighters targeted two “Nimr” armored personnel carriers, two “D9” military bulldozers, and an Israeli “Merkava” tank with “Al-Yassin 105” shells in the “Zalata” area east of Rafah city
Source: Maan News Agency
Gaza: In the Mawasi area of Khan Yunis, among the tents of the displaced, the International Return Film Festival opened its eighth session – the South African session under the slogan “Waiting for the Return, Return”; attended by a large gathering of intellectuals, directors, writers, heads of cultural and community institutions, and media professionals, amidst a large presence of displaced and homeless people living in the tents.
The festival activities began with a speech by Mr. Ibrahim Khashan, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Human Development Association, the official partner of the Palestinian Film Forum in the eighth session, in which he stressed that Palestinian cinema began a long time ago and there were many attempts by the Lama brothers to make Palestinian films, but the British Mandate prevented them from producing films inside Palestine, which forced them to leave Palestine and establish a film company in Alexandria. He expressed his great happiness to hold a film festival among the ten
ts and under extremely difficult, complex and dangerous circumstances, but it is life that triumphs over the machine of war and destruction.
Film director Saud Muhanna, head of the Palestinian Film Forum and head of the festival, began his speech by welcoming the attendees and reviewing the goals of the festival for which it was established in 2009, and that the Palestinian Film Forum always works to create a new cinematic cultural state in all Palestinian territories, whether in the Gaza Strip or the West Bank.
He added that the Palestinian Film Forum, in partnership with the Human Development Association in Khan Yunis, completed all preparations in a very short period of time, pointing out that the opening ceremony was held simultaneously between several countries, as the eighth session of the festival was also launched in Sydney, Australia, in partnership with the Australian Palestinian Care Association and under the auspices of the Palestinian Justice Movement. The festival activities were also launched
in Cairo in partnership with the General Union of Palestinian Women, Cairo Branch, and in Morocco, the opening was held at the Ayooz Association for Culture and Arts. The opening will take place in the West Bank in cooperation with the Tulkarm Municipality in the coming few days.
Muhanna said: The eighth session was launched under the name of the South Africa session in recognition of the role of the State of South Africa and its struggling people, who stood by the Palestinian cause and did not submit to Zionist pressures and filed a case against the Israeli occupation for its ongoing crimes in the International Court of Justice.
In his speech, the festival director, academic and director Youssef Khattab, director of the International Return Film Festival, said that the eighth session of the festival differed from previous sessions in the number of participating films, as the festival received 92 films from around the world, and that the number of participating countries this year reached 31 different count
ries worldwide.
In terms of the nature of the participating films, Khattab confirmed that the participating films dealt with many Palestinian national issues, the issues of return, refugees and Jerusalem, as the eighth session only received films that dealt with Palestinian national issues.
Director Youssef Khattab, director of the festival, pointed out that the festival launched several important awards, including: the Key of Return Award for the best film about prisoners, in the name of the martyr prisoner Walid Daqqa, as the martyr Walid Daqqa, a Palestinian prisoner who spent nearly two-thirds of his life in the occupation prisons and was martyred there due to medical negligence after being diagnosed with cancer, so it was necessary to honor him and immortalize his memory. Among the most important awards launched are:
– The Key of Return Award for the best film that talks about the right of return, in the name of the freedom fighter Nelson Mandela.
– The Return Key Award for the best film that talks a
bout the issue of Jerusalem, in the name of the late fighter Faisal Al-Husseini.
– The Return Key Award for the best screenplay, in the name of the late novelist Ghareeb Askalani.
– The Return Key Award for the best film that talks about humanity, in the name of the Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres.
The festival included many artistic and heritage segments and the opening film, Al-Sultana, was screened by director Haitham Abdullah and starring Jordanian artist Juliet Awwad. The film, The Challenge, was also screened by directors Saud Muhanna and Youssef Khattab, which talks about the suffering of the festival management during the displacement period and from among the tents
Source: Maan News Agency