Category: General

Amman: The Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) concluded its trading session on Wednesday with a marginal decrease of 0.17 percent, settling at 2,432 points.

The trading activity saw approximately 2 million shares changing hands, accumulating a total value of around JD3.2 million through 1,834 transactions.

A scrutiny of the day’s trading revealed a mixed performance among publicly traded companies. Specifically, 23 companies experienced a decline in their share prices, while 17 companies witnessed an uptick in their shares. The remaining 34 companies maintained stability in their share prices.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Gaza – Ma’an – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, said that Israel deliberately killed employees of the “World Central Kitchen” organization in the Gaza Strip.

This came in a post on the ‘X’ platform today, Wednesday, regarding the Israeli air strike that targeted a convoy of the ‘World Central Kitchen’ organization in Gaza.

Albanese said: ‘Given my knowledge of how Israel operates, my assessment is that Israeli forces deliberately killed World Central Kitchen staff so that donors would withdraw and civilian starvation would continue silently in Gaza.’

She pointed out that Israel “is aware that the majority of Western and Arab countries will not make the slightest effort for the Palestinians.”

Source: Maan News Agency

The Islamic Resistance announced, in a statement on Wednesday, that it has targeted with missiles a newly-established Israeli enemy brigade command position behind Branit barracks.

Source: National News Agency – Lebanon

Doha: On the occasion of Eid Al Fitr, the Amiri Diwan announced that the Eid holiday will be as follows: Eid holiday for ministries, other government entities, and public institutions starts on Sunday 28 Ramadan 1445 AH, corresponding to April 7, 2024, and ends on Monday, corresponding to April 15, 2024. Employees are to resume work on Tuesday, April 16, 2024.

As for Qatar Central Bank (QCB), banks, and financial institutions working under the supervision of QCB and Qatar Financial Markets Authority (QFMA), the Governor of Qatar Central Bank shall specify the start and the end of the holiday.

Source: Qatar News Agency

Amman: In a telephone conversation on Wednesday, King Abdullah II of Jordan discussed with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres the developments in the Gaza Strip.

During the call, they stressed the need to provide protection to the humanitarian relief organizations in the Gaza Strip.

The number of victims of workers providing humanitarian and relief services that the Israeli occupation forces have targeted since the beginning of its aggression against the Gaza Strip on Oct. 7 has reached 196.

For months, the Israeli entity has refused to allow UN and international institutions, especially UNRWA, the Red Cross, and the World Food Program, to work in northern Gaza, while its army restricts the entry of aid by land into the rest of the Gaza Strip, which has led to a scarcity of food, medicine, and fuel supplies and created a famine that is beginning claim the lives of children and the elderly.

On Monday, an Israeli occupation air strike targeted a convoy of the World Central Kitchen organization in Deir al
-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, killing seven of its relief workers, which sparked angry international reactions.

Source: Qatar News Agency