
Thursday, August 20
Today on the Agenda: Land-mine Blast, Iranian Attacks and Turkey’s New Law
Land-mine Blast in Til Temir
Ronahî: In the village of Til Hemam, west of Til Temir, five children stepped on a land mine while they were tending sheep.
Ronahî: The children named Ibrahim Abdo Qasim, seven years old, and Muhannad Khalaf Ilawi, twelve years old, were taken to Khabur Hospital in Til Temir with serious injuries and received urgent treatment.
Kamîran: This blast shows that land mines remain a major threat in the region.
Iranian Attacks on the Kurdistan Region
Ronahî: The Kurdistan National Congress issued a statement strongly condemning the Islamic Republic of Iran’s drone attacks on the territory of the Kurdistan Region.
Ronahî: The KNK said these attacks violate the sovereignty and constitutional status of the region and are unacceptable.
Kamîran: In this way, the region has again become an arena of state conflict.
Turkey’s New National Unity Law
Ronahî: The law titled Strengthening National Unity and Social Integration consists of eleven articles and was passed with a majority of four hundred sixty-seven votes.
Ronahî: After the president’s signature, the law was published in the Official Gazette of Turkey at midnight on Monday, at zero zero hours.
Kamîran: The question now is how this law will be implemented.
Israel Says It Has Killed Six Hamas Commanders
Ronahî: The Israeli army announced that yesterday, in the Shati neighbourhood in northern Gaza Strip, the commander of the unit and three elite militia commanders of Hamas’s Beit Lahiya battalion were targeted.
Ronahî: Their names were given as Muhammad Fathi Hussein Nasir, Muhammad al-Attar, Samid Samir Harb Abu Jabal and Muhammad Hamdi Ahmed Misri.
Kamîran: This statement comes as the war in Gaza continues.
In Syria Two Thousand Four Hundred Forty-Two People Have Been Killed or Injured by Land Mines
Ronahî: The HALO Trust organisation reported that from the fall of the Baath regime on the eighth of December two thousand twenty-four until August two thousand twenty-six, nearly two thousand four hundred forty-two people in Syria have been killed or injured by land-mine and war-remnant explosions.
Kamîran: This figure shows that the danger of land mines in Syria remains serious.