Palestine Amends Laws to Empower Thought for Today Women to Practice Civil Rights RAMALLAH (Xinhua) – Palestinian government approved on Monday a num- One, who serves a person from whom he gets no ber of law amendments and regulations that empower women to practice civil reciprocal performance of duties, in fact, worships rights, ahead of international women’s day. A set of laws have been amended and him. a new law amendment has been submitted to President Mahmoud Abbas to put an end to decreased punitive measures for those indicted of women honor killing, Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah said in a public announcement. Amir al-Momeneen Ali (AS)

VOL NO: LV 10558 TEHRAN / Est.1959 Tuesday, March 6, 2018, Esfand 15, 1396, Jamadi as-Sani 17, 1439 Aid Convoys Enter Syria’s 45 Saudi Soldiers Killed Eastern Ghouta In Yemen in February On Monday, the Russian military said the terrorists had agreed to let civilians leave Eastern Ghouta in exchange for humanitarian aid. The announcement came a day after Russia said terrorists had imposed a curfew during humanitarian pauses to prevent civilians from leaving the enclave. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has vowed to continue operations in eastern Ghouta, stressing that they are part of the country’s battle against terrorism. “We will continue fighting terrorism ... and the Ghouta operation is a continuation of fighting terrorism,” said Members of the Saudi border guard are stationed at a look-out point on Assad during a Sunday broadcast on the Saudi-Yemeni border, in southwestern Saudi Arabia, on April 9, 2015. state television. SANAA (Press TV) – A recent Hadi, who is a staunch ally of the Riyadh “There is no contradiction between report has revealed that Yemeni army regime. a truce and combat operations. The soldiers and fighters from allied Popular At least 13,600 people have been progress achieved yesterday and the Committees killed and injured dozens killed since the onset of Saudi Arabia’s day before in Ghouta by the Syrian of Saudi soldiers in the kingdom’s military campaign against Yemen. Much A picture taken on March 1, 2018 shows members of the Russian military police standing guard at the Arab Army was made during this southwestern border regions in February of the Arabian Peninsula country’s Wafideen checkpoint on the outskirts of Damascus neighboring the militant-held Eastern Ghouta region, truce,” he added. as part of their retaliatory raids against infrastructure, including hospitals, with a member of the Syrian government forces standing by a poster depicting President Bashar al-Assad The Syrian president was referring to the Riyadh regime’s aerial bombardment schools and factories, has been reduced in the background. a Russian-proposed daily humanitarian campaign. to rubble due to the war. ceasefire from 9 am to 2 pm local time. Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah The United Nations says a record 22.2 DAMASCUS (Dispatches) – As It’s also the first shipment to enter Russia says terrorists based in the “Therefore we must continue with the television network, citing unnamed million people are in need of food aid, many as 46 truckloads of relief aid that area since a Russian-backed Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta operation in parallel with opening the Yemeni military sources, reported that including 8.4 million threatened by entered the terrorist-held Douma district humanitarian pause went into force have promised to allow civilians to way for civilians to leave,” he added. Yemeni forces and their allies fatally severe hunger. in the Eastern Ghouta countryside seven days ago. leave the enclave as Syrian troops are He further went on to dismiss shot 45 troopers in the regions of Jizan, A high-ranking UN aid official recently east of the Syrian capital Damascus on The truckloads of aid presented in the midst of an operation to drive out Western claims concerning the Najran and Asir last month. warned against the “catastrophic” living Monday. by the UN, the Syrian Arab Red terrorists. humanitarian situation in eastern Another 19 sustained injuries in conditions in Yemen, stating that there It was the first aid shipment to reach Crescent (SARC) and the International Russia has already introduced a daily Ghouta as ridiculous false accusations. retaliatory attacks as well. is a growing risk of famine and cholera that hotspot area since the UN Security Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) ceasefire in the area but both Moscow “The humanitarian situation which the The report came only a day after there. Council adopted a resolution to achieve entered the Douma district through a and Damascus have said the terrorists West speaks of from time to time, is a Yemeni army soldiers and Popular “After three years of conflict, a 30-day-long humanitarian ceasefire humanitarian corridor in the Wafidin have been preventing local residents very ridiculous lie, as ridiculous as the Committees fighters shot and killed a conditions in Yemen are catastrophic,” in Syria on Feb. 24. area northeast of Damascus. from leaving. western officials who repeat it.” Saudi soldier at al-Hajlah military John Ging, UN director of aid camp in Najran, located about 844 operations, told the UN Security Council Report: kilometers south of Saudi Arabia’s on February 27. capital city of Riyadh. He added, “People’s lives have Yemeni forces and their allies continued unraveling. Conflict has also targeted another Saudi trooper on escalated since November driving an Riyadh, Cairo Set Up $10bn Fund to Develop Saudi Megacity the outskirts of Qamar village in Jizan, estimated 100,000 people from their RIYADH (Dispatches) – Saudi Arabia that use the Suez Canal, Neom is said located 966 kilometers south of Riyadh. homes.” and Egypt have set up a $10 billion joint to be focusing on industries such as Saudi Arabia has been incessantly Ging further noted that cholera has fund to develop a planned mega-city, energy and water, biotechnology, food, pounding Yemen since March 2015 in infected 1.1 million people in Yemen committing more than 1,000 square advanced manufacturing and tourism. an attempt to crush the popular Houthi since last April, and a new outbreak kilometers in the south Sinai, as Crown Riyadh will also work with Egypt Ansarullah movement and reinstate of diphtheria has occurred in the war- Prince Mohammed bin Salman met and Jordan to attract European cruise former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur ravaged Arab country since 1982. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo. companies to operate in the Red Sea The deal came at the start of Prince during the winter season. Mohammed’s first public trip abroad The kingdom is negotiating with seven Iraq Gov’t Urged to Seize Assets since becoming heir apparent last year cruise companies and aims to build and purging the kingdom’s business yacht marinas. and political elite in a crackdown on The Saudi government has already of Saddam Relatives, Officials corruption that saw top princes and asked local construction companies to BAGHDAD (Dispatches) – An of Saddam better known as businessmen detained. build five palaces for members of the Iraqi parliamentary committee on “Chemical Ali”, who was Egypt and Saudi Arabia have royal family in the huge business zone. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (R) welcoming Saudi Arabia’s Monday urged the government to executed in 2010 for notorious strengthened ties since Sisi took power Some companies, including Japan’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman upon his arrival in Cairo on authorize the confiscation of the chemical attacks against Kurds in in 2013 after ousting the Muslim Softbank, have expressed their March 4, 2018 assets of former dictator Saddam 1988, is also on the list. Brotherhood, which both countries have preparedness to invest in Neom, but Hussein’s relatives and officials Among those named in the list banned and designated as a terrorist major, concrete business investments controversial deal, according to which that month, triggering legal action to within his regime. is Tareq Aziz, a top diplomat who organization. have not yet been announced. Cairo cedes the sovereignty of two of its block the deal and unprecedented mass The National Reconciliation, served as deputy prime minister According to the Saudi official, Critics say the project is wasteful and Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia. demonstrations. Accountability and Justice until 2003, when U.S. and British Riyadh plans to build seven cities and ineffective in addressing the problems Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el- Protesters have accused the president Committee made the call – the forces invaded Iraq and ousted tourism projects, while Egypt will focus of the Saudi economy, including Sisi announced in April 2016 that the of surrendering Egyptian territory in first of its kind since Saddam’s Saddam. on developing the existing resort cities unemployment and dependence on oil. two islands of Tiran and Sanafir fell return for Saudi money amid reports that fall in 2003 – in a letter sent to The former Iraqi diplomat, of Sharm el-Sheikh and Hurghada. The joint Riyadh-Cairo fund came a within the territorial waters of Saudi Cairo was receiving 20 billion dollars the prime minister’s office as well who made a name for himself by Adjacent to the Red Sea and the Gulf day after Egypt’s top court dismissed Arabia as stipulated in a border accord in aid from Riyadh to relinquish the as to the ministries of finance, defending Saddam’s regime on of Aqaba close to maritime trade routes all outstanding legal challenges to a signed between Cairo and Riyadh earlier sovereignty of the uninhabited islands. justice and agriculture. the international stage, died at the Saddam’s children, age of 79 on June 5, 2015 after grandchildren and other relatives two years in prison. Zionist Regime Sprays Palestinian Farmlands With Toxic Herbicides were included on a list of names, Aziz’s Son, Ziad, who lives in along with ex-regime ministers, Jordan, denounced the letter as GAZA STRIP (Dispatches) – The occupied Palestinian territories. around their targeted areas, killing and and more importantly, approved security chiefs and Baath Party nothing more than “a stunt to win Zionist regime’s planes have sprayed He said the Palestinian ministry was damaging Palestinian crops. pesticides. officials. Some of the people votes” in Iraq’s parliamentary toxic chemical substances and dangerous not aware of the composition of the The continuing blockade of the Due to the decline in production mentioned on the list are in prison elections slated for May 12. herbicides on farmlands across the chemicals being sprayed on Palestinian Gaza Strip by the occupying regime is and the regime’s ban on the entry of or dead. “We’ve been subjected to besieged Gaza Strip as the Tel Aviv farmlands. putting the lives of people at risk, taking basic commodities, Gazan farmers have In the wake of the Saddam pressure and injustice for 15 regime continues its acts of aggression “Israel has no right to spray herbicides a heavy toll on the enclave’s agriculture resorted to the use of banned chemical government’s fall, many years, it’s enough,” he claimed in against the impoverished Palestinian on Palestinian lands,” Wahedi said. sector. substances to maximize crop yield. This properties belonging to the former a telephone interview. “When enclave. Palestinian farmers say Zionist Farmers are struggling to meet poses a serious health hazard to both dictator and his close allies were will the spite of this so-called Nizar al-Wahedi of the Palestinian troops spray weed killers to dry wild growing demands of 1.8 million farmers and their consumers. reportedly taken by Iraq’s new government end?” Agriculture Ministry said that the plants around fences in order to have Gazans who are living in the tight grip The United Nations has frequently leaders, armed forces and militias. He also denied his family had herbicides were used along the border clear vision to watch the area, but of the siege. They face many challenges expressed concerns over the excessive Ali Hassan al-Majid, a cousin any assets in Iraq. between the Gaza Strip and the they usually spray dozens of meters due to shortages in farming equipment use of toxic pesticides by Gaza farmers.