Kamîran: We begin with Jordan. This attack was also in yesterday’s programme, but the number has changed today.

Ronahî: Jordanian officials announced that the number of people who lost their life in the armed attack during the funeral ceremony has risen to nine. The attack took place at Saint George Church of the Greek Orthodox, in the village of Hemod in the province of Karak.

Ronahî: Earlier, the Directorate of Public Security spoke of seven people and twenty-seven wounded. The Syriac Union Party, in its statement, also spoke of seven people and forty wounded according to the official tally at the time. So the number of wounded is not the same across sources.

Kamîran: That means the figures are still unclear. Are there also wounded whose condition is critical?

Ronahî: Health Minister Ibrahim El-Bedor says one person’s injury is still serious. Security services are also searching for suspects and the investigation continues. The Syriac Union Party also condemned the attack and said that targeting Christians is an attack on equal citizenship and religious rights.

Ronahî: The Saudi Civil Defence Directorate claims that the Houthis fired two ballistic missiles towards Mecca and Medina.

Ronahî: According to the same statement, the missiles were intercepted, but their fragments fell in several places: in Wadi Mukhamis in Mecca, in the Nuzha neighbourhood of Jeddah, in Wadi Jalil in Taif, and in Mastora of Rabigh.

Kamîran: Fragments fell in four distant locations. This shows that the impact spread over a wide area.

Ronahî: Yes, but it must be said that all this information comes only from the Saudi side. Among our sources there is no statement from the Houthis either confirming or denying the claim.

Kamîran: We move from the Gulf to Africa. There too, attacks from the air have caused deaths.

Ronahî: The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights says that in Sudan, in the first three weeks of October alone, at least three hundred six civilians lost their life in drone attacks.

Ronahî: Hundreds of other civilians were also wounded. The Commissioner warns that the warring parties are using more drone aircraft in many areas and are also targeting civilian facilities.

Kamîran: When we divide this figure across the days, it means that roughly fifteen people lose their life every day.

Ronahî: In Gaza, according to medical sources, three people lost their life to gunfire from Israeli forces.

Ronahî: In western Khan Younis, near Nasser Hospital, Taghrid Mohammed Kebaje lost her life. In Beit Lahiya, Fatma Abu El-Leben also lost her life and another woman was wounded. The third death occurred in the Rimal neighbourhood.

Kamîran: Of these three incidents, two of the victims are women. The locations are also spread from the south to the north of Gaza.

Kamîran: In Syria too, remnants of war continue to create danger.

Ronahî: According to local sources, in the village of Bir Isa in Raqqa a nine-year-old child lost their life due to the explosion of a landmine.

Ronahî: According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, since the beginning of this year one hundred fifty-four men, one hundred two children and thirteen women have lost their life because of landmines and remnants of war. Altogether this comes to two hundred sixty-nine people, and nearly one-third of them are children.

Ronahî: According to a report from a website that monitors the situation of prisoners, sixty-four-year-old Masoumeh Nassaji, who is in Evin Prison, is struggling with several illnesses. The report says that a swift decision is needed to protect her life, yet she is still serving her sentence.

Kamîran: And in Sanandaj a teacher has also been arrested…

Ronahî: Yes. According to the human rights organisation HANA, English teacher Muna Debbagh was arrested after being summoned by the Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj and taken to Sanandaj Prison. Earlier this court had sentenced her to four years and six months on the pretext of “activity and propaganda against the state.”

Ronahî: This information comes from human rights organisations. Among our sources there is no response from Iranian officials.