Day: July 31, 2024

Reyhanli, The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) on Sunday launched a volunteer medical project for fitting prosthetic limbs and providing physical therapy in the city of Reyhanli in the Republic of Trkiye.

The project, running from July 27 to August 4, is implemented by 12 volunteers from various medical specialties as part of the Saudi Life Volunteer Program aimed at assisting victims of earthquakes in Syria and Trkiye.

The KSrelief volunteer medical team has provided 235 therapeutic sessions, fitted 12 prosthetic limbs, and applied 28 custom orthotic braces.

The assistance is part of the medical volunteer projects offered by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through its humanitarian arm, KSrelief, to assist needy and affected countries and communities around the world.

Source: Saudi Press Agency

Gaza – Ma’an – Two journalists and a child were killed on Wednesday evening, when a group of journalists were targeted near the home of Ismail Haniyeh in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza.

Al Jazeera correspondent Ismail Al-Ghoul and photographer Rami Al-Rifai were killed in the attack.

Source: Maan News Agency

Gaza – Ma’an – The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced the martyrdom of 45 citizens and the injury of 77 during the past 24 hours, as a result of the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Strip.

The death toll from the Israeli aggression has risen to 39,445 martyrs and 91,073 injuries since October 7.

Source: Maan News Agency

Gaza – Ma’an – Hamas mourned in a statement issued early Wednesday morning “the head of its political bureau, the martyr leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed in a treacherous raid on his residence in Tehran, after participating in the inauguration ceremony of the new Iranian president.”

Ismail Haniyeh was born in the Shati refugee camp, in the Gaza Strip, on May 23, 1963, where his parents had taken refuge from the city of Ashkelon after the Nakba in 1948.

He graduated in 1987 from the Islamic University with a BA in Arabic Literature, then obtained a PhD from the Islamic University in 2009.

His political activity

Ismail Haniyeh began his activity within the “Islamic Bloc”, which represented the student arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, in the Gaza Strip, from which the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, emerged.

He served as a member of the Student Council of the Islamic University of Gaza between 1983 and 1984, and then assumed the position of President of the Student Council the following year.

He was
arrested by the Israeli occupation authorities in 1989 for 3 years, and then exiled to Marj al-Zuhur on the Lebanese-Palestinian border with a group of Hamas leaders.

He returned to Gaza after spending a year in exile, and was appointed dean of the Islamic University there. In 1997, he was appointed head of the office of the founder of Hamas, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, after his release.

He was elected as the head of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, following the assassination of Dr. Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi in 2004.

In December 2005, he headed the ‘Change and Reform’ list, which won the majority in the second Palestinian legislative elections in 2006.

On February 16, 2006, the movement nominated him to assume the position of Prime Minister of Palestine, and he was appointed on the 20th of that month.

In May 2017, he was elected as head of the Hamas Political Bureau, succeeding Khaled Meshaal.

Attempts to assassinate him

Ismail Haniyeh was subjected to several assassination attempts, the last of which was in 2003, when
the Israeli Air Force carried out a raid targeting a group of resistance leaders, following a martyrdom operation by the Al-Qassam Brigades.

Al-Aqsa Flood

Immediately after Hamas launched Operation ‘Al-Aqsa Flood’ on October 7, Haniyeh appeared in a video broadcast by the media, jubilant with the movement’s leaders in his office in Doha, while he was watching a report on an Arab channel about fighters from the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, seizing Israeli military vehicles, before leading a prayer ‘to thank God for this victory,’ as he put it.

On April 10, six members of the family of the head of Hamas’s political bureau were killed, including three of his sons and a number of his grandchildren, in an Israeli bombardment that targeted a car carrying them in the Shati refugee camp while they were walking to congratulate the camp’s residents on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr.

Ten members of his family, including his sister, were also killed in an Israeli bombardment that targeted t
heir home in the Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza, on June 24.

Haniyeh commented on the incident, saying, “Nearly 60 members of my family were martyred, like all the sons of the Palestinian people, and there is no difference between them,” adding, “The occupation believes that by targeting the sons of the leaders, it will break the resolve of our people.”

His most important positions

After being informed of the martyrdom of his sons and grandchildren, he declared: ‘The blood of my martyred sons and grandchildren is not more precious than the blood of the sons of the Palestinian people. I thank God for this honor that He has bestowed upon me through the martyrdom of my three sons and some of my grandchildren.’

In a speech he gave in 2014 in response to the ongoing siege on the Gaza Strip, he said: ‘We are a people who, if your decision is to impose a siege, then our decision is to win. If the decision is to bring Gaza and the people to their knees, then our decision is that we kneel only before God. All
decision-makers inside and outside Palestine must pick up the message of this people. We are a people who love death as our enemies love life. We love martyrdom for what our leaders died for as others love chairs. Take all the chairs and keep the homeland for us.’

Source: Maan News Agency

Gaza – Ma’an – Israeli aircraft continued their bombing of various areas in the Gaza Strip on the 299th day of the war, leaving a large number of martyrs and wounded.

The Israeli occupation committed three massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, resulting in 37 martyrs and 73 injuries arriving at hospitals during the past 24 hours.

The death toll from the Israeli aggression has risen to 39,400 martyrs and 90,996 injuries since October 7.

The occupation army ended its large-scale military operation in the eastern villages of Khan Yunis after eight days in which 250 citizens were killed and about 700 others were injured.

Civil defense teams recovered 42 bodies of martyrs after the tanks retreated.

This morning, the occupation aircraft targeted a house belonging to the Za’rab family in the vicinity of the Red Cross shelter in the Fash Farsh area, west of Rafah, which resulted in the death of a citizen and a number of injuries.

The occupation army continues to blow up houses, especially in the Canada
neighbourhood, west of Rafah.

Central Gaza Strip

12 people were killed and wounded in an Israeli airstrike that targeted several homes in Al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip.

The occupation army bombed the vehicle carrying the martyrs, which led to an increase in the numbers.

Gaza and the North

The occupation army continues its aggression on several neighborhoods inside Gaza City.

Tanks renewed their artillery shelling of the city’s neighborhoods.

Three citizens were killed in an Israeli bombardment that targeted an apartment belonging to the Balawi family on Al-Jalaa Street, north of Gaza City.

Source: Maan News Agency

Salfit – Ma’an – Israeli occupation forces stormed the town of Deir Istiya, northwest of Salfit, on Wednesday evening, raiding a number of shops and detaining a number of young men, under the pretext of throwing stones at settler vehicles passing near the entrance to the town.

The mayor of Deir Istiya, Firas Diab, reported that the occupation forces stormed the town of Deir Istiya, firing sound and light bombs, raided a number of shops in the center of the town, and detained a number of young men and conducted field investigations with them, before releasing them later.

Source: Maan News Agency

Salfit – Ma’an – The occupation authorities issued a decision today, Wednesday, to seize 5 dunams of land from the village of Yasuf, east of Salfit, “for military purposes.”

The head of the Yasuf village council, Wael Abu Madi, reported that the occupation authorities had delivered a military order, ‘in effect,’ to seize those lands from the citizens’ lands in the Jabal Abu al-Suwaid area north of the village, basin numbers (2, 12), under security pretexts and for military purposes.

Abu Madi pointed out that the occupation delivered a notice to seize 30 dunams in that area, so that the number of dunams that will be confiscated will become 35 dunams in the same area, noting that the objection period, as stated in the decision, is for 7 days, adding that the area is adjacent to the ‘Tafuh’ settlement, which is built on citizens’ lands, noting that the objection period is not sufficient, and that it has witnessed expansion operations over the years and the construction of residential units at the expense of ci
tizens’ lands.

Source: Maan News Agency

The Ministry of Transport confirmed, today, Wednesday, the continuation of its flights between Iraq and Lebanon according to the schedules.

The ministry explained that “Iraqi flights continue to the Lebanese capital Beirut and there is no truth to their suspension.

Source: National Iraqi News Agency