Heavy Rains Trigger Collapse at Yemen’s Museum Thought for Today TAEZ (Dispatches) – Heavy rains have triggered the collapse of parts of the newly restored National Museum in Yemen’s third city Taez, in the latest loss to the country’s cultural heritage after years of Who are you to abuse the world when it has openly de- Saudi-led war. Established as an Ottoman palace, then a residence for clared its mortality and mortality of everything connected one of Yemen’s last kings, the building became a museum in 1967 but with it, when it has given everyone of its inhabitants to has since been bombed and its collections pilfered. It was partially restored in 2019, but a recent deluge caused the understand that all of them are to face death? entrance hall to give way last week, with the facade and the rooms inside reduced to rubble. Amir al-Momeneen Ali (AS)

VOL NO: LV 11266 TEHRAN / Est.1959 Wednesday, September 30, 2020, Mehr 9, 1399, Safar 12, 1442 Hezbollah Slams Macron’s Second Intifada Natural Response to Interventionist Remarks Zionist Regime’s ‘Occupation’: Adviser WEST BANK (Dispatches) – tinian areas. Palestinians gathered at a rally in During the first few days of the central Ramallah to mark the 20th second Intifada, it is estimated Zi- anniversary of the beginning of the onist troops fired about 1.3 million second Intifada, or uprising, on Sep- rounds of ammunition, as revealed tember 28, 2000. by Amos Malka, then-director of The second Intifada – commonly the occupying regime’s military referred to by Palestinians as al- spy agency. This occurred despite Aqsa Intifada – began after then- the fact that Palestinians in the ear- Zionist opposition leader Ariel ly weeks did not resort to violence. Sharon sparked the uprising when In the first five days of the Intifa- Hezbollah fighters stand in formation at a rally to mark al-Quds Day in a he stormed al-Aqsa Mosque com- da, 47 Palestinians were martyred southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on May 31, 2019. pound in occupied East al-Quds and another 1,885 were wounded. BEIRUT (Dispatches) – Hezbollah “The movement… is surprised by with more than 1,000 heavily Amnesty International found the has slammed French President Em- comments he made that included armed police and troops. majority of Palestinian casualties manuel Macron following his meddle- accusations and holding (the Amal Nabil Shaath, currently a top ad- were civilian bystanders, and 80 some remarks, stressing that it will Movement and Hezbollah) espe- viser to Palestinian Authority Pres- percent of those martyred in the September 28, 2000 marks the day when the second Intifada, the continue to operate as a resistance cially responsible,” for stalling the ident Mahmoud Mahmoud Abbas, first month posed no life-threaten- Palestinian uprising, started. movement. process, Amal said in its statement. who back then served as a close ing danger to Zionist troops. Five In its main editorial broadcast, He- Meanwhile, Beirut strongly react- aide to Palestinian leader Yasser after year among Palestinians on refugees. Zionists were killed during the zbollah-run news channel Al-Manar ed to the Zionist regime’s envoy’s Arafat, Sharon’s visit move was the backdrop of the refusal of suc- The first days of the uprising same period. TV condemned the French president interventionist remarks against Hez- straw that broke the camel’s back. cessive Zionist administraions to were characterized by large non-vi- Analysts have long said excessive and stated that the movement “is and bollah at a UN Human Rights Coun- The frustration of the Palestin- abide by the Oslo Accords and end olent demonstrations that included use of force was the reason why the will remain an army facing Israel cil session, describing the resistance ians, he says, started long before the occupation. civil disobedience and some stone- phase of Palestinian popular resis- and will keep supporting Syria and movement as an “inseparable part” the notorious visit. The tensions and the frustration throwing. It started in al-Quds and tance in the Second Intifada ended its people against extremists.” of Lebanon and slamming the re- Although the Oslo Accords in had also risen after the failure of the quickly spread to the occupied quickly and was replaced by armed The channel also said that the re- gime’s history of rights violations in 1993 between the Zionist regime Camp David talks that were held in West Bank and East al-Quds. resistance. sistance movement and other Shia Lebanon and other Arab states. and the Palestinians stipulated the July 2000, where then-Palestinian The demonstrations were met At least 4,973 Palestinians were factions within Lebanon were not The Lebanese Ministry of Foreign gradual establishment of an inde- leader Yasser Arafat and Zionist with excessive force from Zionist killed over the course of the Sec- responsible for prime minister-des- Affairs and Emigrants issued a state- pendent Palestinian state, in reality prime minister Ehud Barak failed troops that included rubber-coated ond Intifada. Among them were ignate Mustapha Adib’s resignation ment on Monday in condemnation very little has been done to achieve to reach an agreement because of bullets and live ammunition. Soon 1,262 children, 274 women and 32 and his failure to form a govern- of the comments by Merav Marks, ment, calling Macron’s comments the legal counselor to the Zionist that goal. disagreements over the status of thereafter followed military incur- medical personnel, according to and ultimatum against Lebanese regime’s mission to the UN and in- But prior to Sharon’s move, frus- al-Quds, territorial contiguity, and sions involving helicopters and the Palestinian Center for Human leaders “unjustified and unaccept- ternational organizations in Geneva, tration and anger had risen year Rights. the right of return for Palestinian tanks into heavily populated Pales- able”. who had attacked the Hezbollah The condemnation of Macron by resistance movement for its role in Hezbollah came after the French Lebanon during a general debate at president claimed “Hezbollah can’t the 45th session of the UN Human Ex-Inspector Questions OPCW Report on 2018 Douma Attack be at the same time an army at war Rights Council. with Israel,” among other baseless The Zionist envoy accused the UN remarks. Human Rights Council of not deal- UNITED NATIONS (Dispatches) “We believe that there is more back then. we continue to hope that there’s Lebanon’s Amal movement also ing with what she called Hezbollah’s – A former lead investigator from than sufficient information out there The OPCW concluded that chlo- someone who’s willing and able, expressed surprise on Tuesday over efforts to hamper the mandate of the the Organization for the Prohibition today that has demonstrated our rine had most likely been used in someone who has the courage to do accusations by French President United Nations Interim Force in Leb- of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) says points that the findings of the FFM the attack. However, Syria and Rus- something about this.” Emmanuel Macron that the Shia anon (UNIFIL) and attempts to ma- the final report of the Fact-Finding report on Duma may not reflect the sia both rejected the findings, say- In late 2029, whistleblowing web- party triggered the collapse of talks nipulate the Lebanese government. Mission (FFM) into the alleged use of actual situation,” he added. ing they believed the incident had site WikiLeaks published several to form a new government. In its statement, the ministry said toxic chemicals in an attack in Syria’s Following the suspected chemi- been staged by the White Helmets, batches of documents suggesting Prime minister-designate Musta- Lebanon’s Permanent Mission to Douma in 2018 may not reflect what cal attack, Western countries were a group which claims to be a hu- that the OPCW may have intention- pha Adib quit on Saturday after fail- the UN and other International Or- happened on the ground. quick to blame it on the govern- manitarian NGO but has long been ally doctored its findings, notably ing to line up a non-partisan cabinet, ganizations in Geneva exercised its Ian Henderson was speaking at a ment of Syrian President Bashar accused of working with anti-Da- avoiding revelations which may dealing a blow to a French plan “right to respond to the Israeli en- UN Security Council meeting, or- al-Assad. mascus militants and staging false- point to terrorists having been be- aimed at rallying Lebanese lead- emy’s envoy, as has been the case ganized by the Russian Mission, to On April 14, 2018, the U.S., Britain flag gas attacks. hind the alleged chemical attack. ers to tackle the country’s financial whenever there is an attack on Leba- openly discuss the treatment of the and France launched a coordinated Henderson said the launching of a One of the published documents meltdown. non and its right to resistance.” Syrian chemical dossier, in contrast missile attack against sites and re- transparent technical inquiry aimed showed Sebastien Braha, chief of to traditionally closed gatherings of search facilities near Damascus and at clarifying the actual course of cabinet at the OPCW, had ordered the council on the issue. Homs with the purported goal of events in Douma in 2018 is justi- in an email that “all traces” of a Roadside Bomb Kills 14 “I speak for myself, but I know paralyzing the Syrian government’s fied, given the scope of the avail- report from Henderson be erased there are other Douma FFM inspec- capability to produce chemicals. able information and facts on the from the body’s registries. Civilians in Afghanistan tors who hold the similar concerns Damascus, however, said that no alleged incident. Henderson had found out that the KABUL (AFP) – At least 14 than 800 civilians in Afghanistan that I do about the manner in which chemical attack had happened and “And this needs to be done in a gas cylinders at the site of the Dou- civilians, including women and during the first half of 2020, ac- the investigation was controlled, that the incident had been staged way that demonstrates scientific ma incident had been placed there children, were killed Tuesday by a cording to a UN report released locked-down… [as well as] the by foreign intelligence agencies to rigor and integrity because that manually most likely by militants roadside bomb in central Afghani- in July. findings reflected in the final FMM pressure the government in the face currently has not been done,” he given that the area was not con- stan, officials said, as violence con- The violence comes as Taliban report”, Henderson said. of army advances against militants said. “Perhaps, more importantly, trolled by Damascus at the time. tinues despite talks between the and Afghan government negotia- Taliban and Afghan government. tors are meeting in Doha, where Seven women, five children and they are trying to find a way to Iraq’s Popular Forces Repel Daesh Attack in Salahuddin two men died when their vehicle end 19 years of war. BAGDHAD (Dispatches) – Members of Iraq’s In another development in Iraq, two Katyusha It said Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi had detonated an explosive device in The blast came as the head of Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), better known rockets were fired at a house in Baghdad by ordered the arrest of the perpetrators and said Daikundi province, interior min- the Afghan peace process, Abdul- as Hashd al-Sha’abi forces, thwarted a major at- unknown perpetrators late on Monday, killing “these gangs will not be allowed to go around istry spokesman Tareq Arian said lah Abdullah, kicked off the sec- tack by Daesh terrorists in the northwestern prov- two women and three children while severely and tamper with security” with impunity. in a statement. ond day of a three-day visit to ince of Salahuddin. wounding two other children, the Iraqi military A string of attacks has targeted Americans af- Three children were also neighboring Pakistan. In a statement on Tuesday, the Hashd al- said. ter Washington threatened to close its embassy wounded, he added, blaming the Speaking at an event in Islam- Sha’abi said the Daesh elements were trying to It was the first time in months an attack led and withdraw its 3,000 troops from the country Taliban for the blast. abad, he proclaimed that the “ice infiltrate through Tal al-Zahab region, south of to civilian casualties. The three Iraqi children unless rocket fire stops. Nasrullah Ghori -- the spokes- has been broken” at talks, which Samarra, Al Ekhbariya TV network reported. and two women were from the same family and Between October 2019 and July 2020, at least man for the governor of Daikun- started September 12. It added that the terrorists planned to move to- were killed when a rocket targeting Baghdad 39 rocket attacks targeted American interests in di -- told AFP the victims were Afghanistan has long accused wards Diyala in east and seize a major oil field airport, where U.S. troops are stationed, fell on Iraq. A similar number again has taken place in travelling to a shrine when their Islamabad of providing vital sup- there. their home instead, the army said in a statement. recent months. minibus struck the bomb. port and safe havens to the Tali- The popular forces killed and injured scores of The rockets were launched from the al-Jihad Rockets often target the U.S. embassy in Bagh- No group has claimed responsi- ban. the terrorists during a counterattack. neighborhood of Baghdad. The home was com- dad, within the heavily fortified Green Zone, bility for the blast, but roadside Islamabad denies it supports the In recent months, suspected Daesh terror- pletely destroyed. and U.S. troops present in Iraqi bases as well as bombs have been a weapon of Taliban, but its influence with ists have stepped up attacks, particularly in the The military accused “cowardly criminal the Baghdad airport. Roadside bombs have also choice for the Taliban. the militants is seen as pivotal to area between Kirkuk, Salahuddin, and Diyala, gangs and groups of outlaws” of seeking to frequently targeted convoys carrying equipment “Deliberate attacks” targeting paving the way for any potential known as the “Triangle of Death”. “create chaos and terrorize people”. destined for U.S.-led coalition forces. civilians killed or wounded more deal.