Middle East Experience

The Mughrabi Bridge was originally built as a temporary structure and despite a safety warning issued in 2011, has remained in operation since
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: MK Miri Regev: 'Writing is on the wall' for Temple Mount bridge collapse

"If Mansour Abbas will ask him to stand on one foot, clap and put his hands on his head, Bennett will do it. Bennett is a weak and extorted prime minister."
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Netanyahu: Bennett 'surrendered' to Mansour Abbas

The Green Riyadh project aims to create a greener and more eco-friendly city by planting 7.5 million trees by 2030 according to the project’s director, Abdelaziz al-Moqbel.For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app.Some 3000 urban parks across the city are also planned, which they say will not only play an environmental and climatic role by reducing air and dust pollution, but also societal and urban by offering shade for pedestrians.Most of the trees chosen by experts for this project are acacia due to their natural ability to withstand the region’s arid climate, and nurseries are being planted to provide saplings for trees that fail to take root.Some one million cubic meters of water will be used daily to irrigate this project, which they report will be recycled via a new complex underground irrigation system that will reuse wastewater.Al-Moqbel predicts the Green Project will help decrease the temperature of the city by one to two degrees Celsius.Read more: Saudi Arabia selects 60,000 people to perform Hajj amid ongoing COVID-19 rulesFive years of achievements towards Vision 2030Saudi Crown Prince announces Saudi Green Initiative, Middle East Green Initiative
Source: Al Arabiya
Full Article: Saudi Arabia’s Green Riyadh project to plant 7.5 million trees

Former Egyptian first lady Jehan Sadat, wife of late President Anwar Sadat, has died at the age of 88 after a short battle with an illness, Egyptian media reported on Friday.For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app.On Thursday, a relative of the late president said Sadat had been battling an illness for a year and a half and was receiving medical treatment abroad before returning to Egypt, according to a local media report.The relative also said the former first lady was receiving medical care at a health facility in the country over the past two weeks, but her health had deteriorated. The relative did not reveal what illness Sadat was battling, however, he confirmed it was not COVID-19.The Egyptian Presidency mourned the death of Sadat, saying she was a leading example for the Egyptian women in supporting her husband during the difficult circumstances “until he led the country in achieving a historic victory in the glorious October war.”The Presidency's office also granted her a prestigious national award and announced the naming of a key highway in Cairo after her.In August 1933, Jehan was born in Cairo to an Egyptian middle-class father and a British mother. In 1949, she was married to Anwar Sadat, a military officer at the time who later on served as Egypt’s president from 1970 until his assassination in 1981. The couple had given birth to three daughters, Noha, Gihan, Lobna and a son, Gamal.With the Associated PressRead more: Widow of late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat hails ‘hero’ SisiAnwar Sadat's widow slams the Brotherhood
Source: Al Arabiya
Full Article: Jehan Sadat dies at age 88 after battle with illness

After a decadelong hiatus, Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal spoke to Saudi Arabia’s Al-Arabiya TV, promoting the resumption of relations with Saudi Arabia.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Hamas leader Meshaal reaches out to Riyadh on Saudi TV

Health authorities are asking Iraqis to take the COVID-19 vaccine as rates remain low and infections rise once again.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Iraq breaks record for highest daily virus cases

The 2018 law, which enshrines national self-determination as a unique right of the Jewish people, was denounced by critics who say it discriminates against Israel's Arab population.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Israel's top court upholds Jewish nation-state law

The delayed Palestinian elections, reconstruction in Gaza and Israel will be among the subjects discussed between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Palestinian president to visit Turkey

“Austria supports efforts to combat racism worldwide, while rejecting the misuse of the Durban process to unfairly single out and target Israel,” the Austrian Embassy in Israel said on Friday.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Austria joins Durban Conference boycott

Palestinians turned out in Damascus on Friday to mourn Ahmed Jibril, whose Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command fought Israel in the 1970s and 1980s and backed Syria’s government in the civil war.Relatives and members of factions, some armed and wearing camouflaged uniforms, joined a convoy taking his body to the city’s Al-Othman Mosque and then on to the cemetery at the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk.For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app.“Before he died he said that during this long struggle he never sold his principles or gave up and we shouldn’t either,” Khaled Jibril, his son and the group’s director of military and security, told Reuters.Ahmed Jibril, who died on Wednesday aged 83, founded his PFLP-GC in 1968 after splitting from the PFLP of Palestinian nationalist leader George Habash.In its early years, the PFLP-GC, designated as a terrorist group by the US, carried out dozens of attacks in the Middle East and Europe, including airplane bombings, kidnappings and letter bombs.Jibril was long at odds with the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and his successor Mahmoud Abbas over peace accords with Israel.Jibril had fought alongside Syrian government troops to retake Yarmouk during Syria’s decade-long conflict and was criticized by some Palestinians for aligning his group behind President Bashar al-Assad’s forces throughout the war.His funeral was attended by the Iranian ambassador in Damascus, leaders of Palestinian factions in Syria and top officials from Syria’s ruling party.Jibril’s youngest son, Mohamed Bader, led the prayers over the coffin which was draped with the Palestinian flag.Read more:Russia proposes six-month extension of Syria cross-border aid: UN sourcesPentagon ‘deeply concerned’ by recent attacks on US personnel in Iraq, SyriaTop EU official says aid access to Syrians through border crossing must stay open
Source: Al Arabiya
Full Article: Ahmed Jibril, founder of pro-Syrian Palestinian guerrilla group, buried in Damascus