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PCHR issues urgent appeal to provide blood units for thalassemia patients in Gaza
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) issued an urgent appeal to the international community and relevant UN institutions, led by the World Health Organization (WHO), to put pressure the Israeli occupation authorities to allow access to blood…
Israel launches series of violent airstrikes on Lebanon
Four people were seriously injured in a series of violent Israeli airstrikes on Saturday afternoon in areas in Nabatieh, al-Tuffah region, and the Western Bekaa.
A Lebanese security source told Petra’s correspondent in Beirut that the Israeli airstri…
Toddler dies of drowning in northern Jordan
A 3-year-old toddler died of drowning on Saturday in a pool of a rest house in Wadi al-Rayyan in the town of Jadiata, part of the Al Koura District, in northern Jordan, said Mohammad Abu Halawa, director of the Princess Raya Public Hospital in the tow…
NCCD dispels rumors on its publications
The National Center for Curriculum Development (NCCD) said that the first edition of its publications is typically a prototype that is developed and modified based on feedback from the community and educational stakeholders, such as parents, teachers,…
14 BAU faculty members selected among world’s most influential researchers
14 faculty members at Al-Balqa’ Applied University (BAU) were selected among the top 2 percent of the world’s most influential researchers, according to the updated database of citation indices prepared by Stanford University and Elsevier for the curr…
Israel kills 10 Gazans in latest strikes
Israeli strikes killed 6 Palestinian citizens and injured others at Saturday dawn, which targeted an apartment in the Batn al-Sameen area, south of Khan Yunis city, south of Gaza Strip, “Petra” correspondent reported.
In another attack, Israeli army …
JCC: Jordan represents ‘advanced’ CIT model
Haitham Rawajbeh, representative of the communications and information technology sector at Jordan Chamber of Commerce (JCC), said Jordan represents an “advanced” model in the communications and information technology (CIT) industry, which requires fu…
Jordan, Saudi Arabia talk expanding industrial relations
A Jordanian industrial delegation Saturday held talks with Saudi officials on prospects of expanding economic ties between the two countries, and also made sample displays to hypermarkets and retail stores in Riyadh and Jeddah.
President of the Jorda…
Gaza Strip: 21 killed in Israeli targeting of school-turned-shelter
Twenty-one Palestinians were killed and 30 injured when Israeli forces bombed a school housing refugees in the Al Zeitoun neighborhood southeast of Gaza City, according to the government media office.
The occupation army carried out “a horrendous mas…
Lebanese Health Ministry: 70 killed in Israeli cyber attacks, Beirut missile strike
Lebanese Health Minister Firas Abiad said Saturday that 70 people were killed in Israeli cyber attacks and a missile strike in Beirut’s southern suburb.
In the Beirut raid, an entire building collapsed on the heads of its residents, most of them civi…