Category: General

Israeli occupation warplanes on Sunday continued their airstrikes against various areas of the Gaza Strip targeting Palestinians’ homes and properties.

According to Palestinian sources, the occupation aircrafts bombed and completely destroyed a house in the Jabalia city, north of the strip, and shelled a residential building at al Yarmouk Street in the center of Gaza City, leveling it to the ground.

Also today, the occupation forces fired a number of rockets at a house in Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the coastal enclave and bombed a site in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza.

Israeli missiles and artillery shells were also bombed at a Palestinian agricultural lands north of Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Occupancy rate in Aqaba’s hotels and residences reached 92% during the Eid Al Fitr holiday, Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority (ASEZA) Tourism Commissioner Sharhabeel Madi said on Sunday.

In a press statement to “Petra,” Madi said the ASEZA had developed an “integrated” plan to encourage tourism and receive visitors on the Eid holiday, with the participation of the city’s public and private sectors, which focused on service aspects in the health, administrative and tourism sectors by deploying teams to serve beaches and parks.

The teams also operated the port city’s public facilities and monitored artistic and recreational activities in the Aqaba governorate, he pointed out.

To help avoid eco-violations and guide tourists, he said the ASEZA distributed awareness leaflets under: “Leave it Clean” campaign at Aqaba entrances, and outlined a free amenities program held at diverse sites in the port city.

Source: Jordan News Agency

The Innovative Startups and Small and Medium Enterprises Fund (ISSF) has provided financial support worth $150,000 to the Tarteeb Company, a tech startup connecting traditional garments tailors to customers.

In a press statement on Sunday, the Fund said that this investment, delivered as of January 2021, is part of a strategy to support 150 to 200 innovative startup projects through direct and indirect investment (investment funds), in addition to training and upgrading the capacities of 825 entrepreneurs and SMEs to qualify them for investment.

Tarteeb, based in Jordan and Saudi Arabia, utilizes technology to provide a platform specialized in tailoring and knitting traditional Arab garments by connecting customers to tailors, which contributes to revitalizing the market and positively influencing all parties involved.

The platform offers customers the possibility to choose fabrics for ready-made models, or enjoy a tailoring experience of a dress to suit their tastes, in addition to providing easy and comfortable measurement methods to ensure their comfort and satisfaction, the statement added.

ISSF CEO Laith Al Qasem said that since the fund’s launch in 2017, the focus has been on innovative and promising startups that exploit technology to support various local markets.

Co-founder of Tarteeb Sultan Bassiouni indicated that the company was committed to interacting with the Fund, noting that the fund’s team greatly responded to startup companies and the challenges they face, and provided consultation and guidance to them.

The ISSF is registered as a Jordanian private shareholding company with the aim of supporting and elevating Jordan’s entrepreneurial and innovation landscape by facilitating the establishment of new investment funds that serve the ecosystem; making direct investments in innovative, export-oriented and scalable local startups; as well as implementing initiatives that improve the capabilities of Jordanian entrepreneurs and startup teams through training, capacity building and targeted incubation and acceleration programs.

Source: Jordan News Agency

The Senate’s Palestine Committee has called on the international community, the United Nations and the Security Council, to pressure Israel to halt settlements, and embrace the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

In a press statement on Sunday, the committee’s head, senator Nayef Al-Qadi, said developments in attacks on Palestinian Islamic and Christian sanctities “reflect the racist Zionist policy pursued by Israeli governments with all barbarism and brutality since the establishment of Israel until today.”

Continuing: ” The Israeli aggression constitutes a clear and systematic challenge to international laws, humanity and interests of the brave and steadfast Palestinian people on their land.”

Jordan and its Hashemite leadership have pledged to defend the rights of the Palestinian people, their interests, and inalienable rights that cannot be compromised, said Al-Qadi.

Jordan, under the leadership of His Majesty King Abdullah II, has repeatedly stressed impossibility of continuing the deadlock, he said, adding that peace and stability must be achieved and “despicable” Israeli occupation must end, according to Al-Qadi.

Israel and its supporters bear the responsibility for the escalation in Jerusalem, Al-Aqsa Mosque and Sheikh Jarrah area, and the flagrant aggression against the population in Gaza Strip, Al-Qadi said.

The lawmaker stressed the need to launch “urgent and effective” moves at the Arab and international levels to end the Israeli occupation, as it undermines peace and stability.

On future action to support their cause, Jordan will stand with the Palestinian people in demanding their inalienable rights, foremost is ending the occupation, and putting East Jerusalem under Palestinian sovereignty as the capital of the Palestinian state, he noted.

Source: Jordan News Agency

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, on Sunday, said its following up on the detention of two Jordanians in Israel.

In a statement, the ministry assured that the Jordanian embassy in Tel Aviv is in contact with the Israeli authorities to work on their release.

Source: Jordan News Agency

The Palestinian issue has been and will remain the region’s central issue and no comprehensive peace or security or stability can be achieved without ending the occupation of Jerusalem which must be the capital of an independent Palestinian state on pre-June 1967 lines, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Ayman Safadi, said on Sunday.

Addressing an extraordinary virtual meeting of the foreign ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Safadi emphasized that Jerusalem and its holy shrines are a red line, saying: “Protecting the Islamic and Christian holy sites in occupied Jerusalem and preserving its Arab, Islamic and Christian identity will remain the supreme duty for which the Custodian, His Majesty King Abdullah II, devotes all of Jordan’s capabilities.”

He added that the Kingdom will continue to stand with all its capabilities on the side of the Palestinian brothers to end their injustice and fulfill all their legitimate rights to a free and dignified life and to an independent and sovereign state on their national soil.

“The Kingdom will take, as always, all the necessary steps to support the brothers, protect holy sites, protect the rights of the brotherly Palestinian people, and the region’s right to a just and comprehensive peace that meets all the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, which constitutes a strategic choice whose only way is the two-state solution, according to international legitimacy decisions and the Arab Peace Initiative,” Safadi indicated.

“Our emergency meeting today is a message that the Islamic world stands united against the illegal, immoral and inhumane Israeli attacks and practices in occupied Jerusalem and its sanctities and in the rest of the occupied Palestinian territories, and against the aggression on Gaza,” he said.

“Israel is pushing the entire region towards more tension and conflict, and threatening all chances of achieving a just and comprehensive peace,” Safadi warned.

The deputy premier stressed that stopping the escalation requires an end to all the illegal and provocative Israeli practices that set it off, and an immediate end to the aggression on Gaza.

Safadi emphasized that “attempts to change the legal and historical status quo in Jerusalem and its holy sites are a flagrant violation of international law and risk pushing the region towards more tension and conflict.

He added that “displacing the residents of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood from their homes would be a war crime that the international community should not allow.”

“Peace and security will be achieved by ending the occupation and fulfilling all the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, and the launch of a real international effort that creates the political horizon required to reach a just peace according to the two-state solution that ends the occupation. This is a priority that the international community must act immediately to honor.”

Source: Jordan News Agency

The Public Security Department (PSD) spokesperson, on Friday, the department personnel have taken all necessary measures to ensure appropriate and reasonable use of police force against protestors who gathered in the Southern Shouna to voice their support for the Palestinian brothers.

A limited number of protestors, the spokesperson said, have assaulted private properties in the area.

He called on the protestors to abide by the allocated places for gathering to maintain order and security.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Jordanians from all walks of life took to the streets on Friday in solidarity with the Palestinian people, the holy city of Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip.

The capital Amman, Aqaba, Ajloun, Irbid, Tafila, Karak, Zarqa, and Balqaa, have witnessed a wide range of demonstrations which reject the Israeli aggressions, violations, and attacks on the Palestinians.

The demonstrators stressed that the Jordanian leadership, the government, and the people of Jordan are standing by the Palestinian brothers as they resisting all the illegal measures by the Israeli occupation authorities.

Source: Jordan News Agency

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, on Friday, called for an immediate halt to hostilities in the Palestinian occupied territories.

In a tweet he added that: “Out of respect for the spirit of Eid, I appeal for an immediate de-escalation and cessation of hostilities in Gaza and Israel. Too many innocent civilians have already died. This conflict can only increase radicalization and extremism in the whole region.”

Source: Jordan News Agency

Jordanians from all walks of life, on Friday, converged at al-Karameh area near the occupied Palestinian territories to voice their support to the Palestinian brothers.

They expressed their anger from the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip, the holy city of Jerusalem, and the rest of the occupied Palestinian territories.

They also condemned the Israeli aggression, stressing their support for the steadfastness of the Palestinian brothers.

The participants at the event also reiterated Jordan’s stance towards the Palestinian cause that supports them to gain their legitimate rights.

Source: Jordan News Agency