The statue is now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo but not on display. The artefact will be restored, the Ministry said in a statement, Reuters reports.
In a statement today, Columbia President Nemat Minouche Shafik said the university was cancelling in-person classes while denouncing anti-Semitic language and intimidating and harassing behaviour that she said had occurred on campus recently.
The Islamic Republic of Iran respects the agreements made between the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Republic of Armenia in the meeting of the border demarcation commission between the two countries.
“Yet another reason is, if we needed one, for all of these sites to be fully investigated, in a way that is credible and independent,” Spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, said at a press briefing when asked about the uncovering of at least 283 bodies of people from a mass grave at the Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Yunis.
The United Nations has called for a ‘credible’ investigation into hundreds of bodies recovered from mass graves in Nasser Hospital yard in Khan Younis.
Hundreds of members of the teaching staff at Columbia University have held rally in solidarity with the pro-Palestine students who were detained by the police.
More than 120 Jewish settlers have broken into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound under protection of Israeli forces to mark the Jewish celebration of Passover.
A Palestinian man has been shot dead by the Israeli occupation forces in Jericho as tensions between Palestinians and Israeli forces rise in the occupied West Bank.
The international humanitarian organization of Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has decried as “unacceptable” the increasing violence against the medical teams in the occupied West Bank.
“Israel must declare the war over, we have taken our troops out of Gaza anyway, there is no way to destroy it completely, and entering Rafah will not help. If you don’t realise it, we have already lost,” he said in the interview published yesterday.
Outlining how dangerous the situation in the Strip is, Abu Hasna Hadrat Al-Muwatin (Dear Citizen) programme on AlHadath AlYoum satellite channel: “Every ten minutes a child is killed in Gaza, and every day 67 women are killed, including 37 mothers. We are talking about hundreds of orphans. There are about 18,000 orphans who have lost everything; family,...
Major General Aharon Haliva, a 38-year veteran of the military, was one of a number of senior Israeli commanders who said they had failed to foresee and prevent the deadliest attack in Israel’s history.
In a statement, Regional Director of UNICEF, Adele Khodr, said that “in the past 72 three Palestinian children were killed in the latest military operation in Tulkarem in the West Bank and at least another 14 children were reportedly killed in Rafah, Gaza.”
The report, which could prompt some donors to review funding freezes, also said Israel had yet to provide supporting evidence for its claim that a significant number of UNRWA staff was members of terrorist organisations.
Speaking to the media yesterday, Basal said over 150 bodies were found and around 500 people were reported missing in the aftermath of the Khan Yunis massacre following the withdrawal of the Israeli occupation forces.