Middle East & North Africa

03 Apr 2021; MEMO: The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas announced on Friday that it is ready to form a coalition government after the parliamentary election.

Speaking to Al Jazeera Mubasher TV, Hamas official Ismail Ridwan stated: "Even if Hamas won the majority of the seats in parliament, it would be ready to form a national coalition government."

He also affirmed: "We hope that the election goes ahead without Israeli interference."

03 Apr 2021; MEMO: Antoine Constantine, advisor to Michel Aoun, has announced that the president is preparing for a new initiative that will present great opportunities to the Lebanese people.

Constantine confirmed in a tweet that President Aoun is set to establish a joint economic market.

03 Apr 2021; MEMO: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is entangled in differences between his two fanatic right-wing supporters regarding his alliance with Arabs, Al Watan Voice reported on Friday.

03 Apr 2021; MEMO: The Egyptian Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics announced on Friday that the Egyptian population had reached 101,674,434, RT reported.

In February 2020, the Egyptian population reached 100 million. According to RT, the population stood at 94.8 million in April 2017.

DAMASCUS, April 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Inside the emergency room of a hospital of the Syrian capital, an elderly woman with Covid-19 waited for a bed at an intensive care unit packed with coronavirus patients.

Sitting on a wheelchair barely an arms-length from another patient, the woman in her seventies tilted her head back as a doctor wedged between them covered her face with an oxygen mask.

“We receive many cases who need a ventilator, and there are many patients who need intensive care,” said the doctor, Asma Sbayni of Mouwasat Hospital, one of the largest in Damascus.

JERUSALEM, April 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The leader of an Arab Islamist party in Israel delivered a prime-time address in Hebrew on Thursday that was carried live by major TV networks, calling for coexistence between Arabs and Jews in a stunning display of the community’s newfound political influence.

02 Apr 2021; MEMO: Lebanon witnesses a suicide case every 60 hours, a new study revealed, Anadolu reports.

Based on suicide statistics from the Lebanese Internal Security Forces between January 2008 and December 2018, the study prepared by seven therapists in Lebanon was published late last month in the Asian Journal of Psychiatry.

The statistics showed that security forces reported 1,366 cases, an average of 2.4 cases per 100,000 people over 11 years.

02 Apr 2021; MEMO: The Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas is claimed to have slammed the Israeli intelligence service's interference in the upcoming Palestinian parliamentary elections scheduled for May, Israel's public broadcaster KAN reported.

01 Apr 2021; MEMO: Sudanese sources said on Wednesday that the UAE authorities have detained the head of Sudan's National Border Commission, Arabi21 has reported. Dr Moaz Tango is also a member of Sudan's delegation of negotiators and he was in the Emirates to participate in official talks in Abu Dhabi, which mediates between Sudan and Ethiopia on border issues.

01 Apr 2021; MEMO: Yemen's Houthi group said today that they carried out drone strikes targeting "sensitive and important" sites in Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh, Anadolu Agency reports.

"Today, the air force managed to carry out an offensive operation in the capital of the Saudi enemy, Riyadh, with four drones," the group's spokesperson, Yahya Saree, said in a statement.

He said the drones targeted "sensitive and important sites and the strike was accurate."