Saudi Arabia's KSrelief, IRVD Sign Deal to Operate Artificial Limbs, Rehabilitation Center in Yemen

The agreement was signed by the Center’s Assistant Supervisor General for Operations and Programs, Engineer Ahmed bin Ali Al-Baiz, at the KSrelief's headquarters in Riyadh, SPA.
The agreement was signed by the Center’s Assistant Supervisor General for Operations and Programs, Engineer Ahmed bin Ali Al-Baiz, at the KSrelief's headquarters in Riyadh, SPA.
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Saudi Arabia's KSrelief, IRVD Sign Deal to Operate Artificial Limbs, Rehabilitation Center in Yemen

The agreement was signed by the Center’s Assistant Supervisor General for Operations and Programs, Engineer Ahmed bin Ali Al-Baiz, at the KSrelief's headquarters in Riyadh, SPA.
The agreement was signed by the Center’s Assistant Supervisor General for Operations and Programs, Engineer Ahmed bin Ali Al-Baiz, at the KSrelief's headquarters in Riyadh, SPA.

TheKing Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) signed a joint cooperation agreement this week with the international Wars and Disaster’s victims’ protection Association (IRVD) to implement the Artificial Limbs and Rehabilitation Center in Seiyun in Yemen's Hadhramout.
The agreement was signed by the Center’s Assistant Supervisor General for Operations and Programs, Engineer Ahmed bin Ali Al-Baiz, at the KSrelief's headquarters in Riyadh, SPA reported.
The Director of the Health and Environmental Aid Department at KSrelief, Dr. Abdullah bin Saleh Al-Muallem, said in a statement that the agreement intends to provide physical rehabilitation services to people with special needs and following up on them to enable them to serve their community, through diagnosis and determining the treatment plan for each patient individually, the installation of artificial limbs and functional rehabilitation services for prosthetic limbs.
The agreement will deal with raising the capabilities of the medical and technical staff professionally and scientifically and qualifying them to deal with specific cases, in addition to minimizing the migration of specialized medical and technical staff. The agreement aims to benefit 1,625 individuals.
The agreement comes within the framework of a series of humanitarian and relief projects implemented by the Kingdom through its humanitarian arm, the KSrelief to alleviate the suffering of the Yemeni people as a result of the humanitarian crisis they are currently experiencing.



Israel Sees More to Do on Lebanon Ceasefire

FILE PHOTO: A car drives past damaged buildings in Naqoura, near the border with Israel, southern Lebanon,  January 23, 2025. REUTERS/Ali Hankir/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: A car drives past damaged buildings in Naqoura, near the border with Israel, southern Lebanon, January 23, 2025. REUTERS/Ali Hankir/File Photo
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Israel Sees More to Do on Lebanon Ceasefire

FILE PHOTO: A car drives past damaged buildings in Naqoura, near the border with Israel, southern Lebanon,  January 23, 2025. REUTERS/Ali Hankir/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: A car drives past damaged buildings in Naqoura, near the border with Israel, southern Lebanon, January 23, 2025. REUTERS/Ali Hankir/File Photo

Israel said on Thursday the terms of a ceasefire with Hezbollah were not being implemented fast enough and there was more work to do, while the Iran-backed group urged pressure to ensure Israeli troops leave south Lebanon by Monday as set out in the deal.

The deal stipulates that Israeli troops withdraw from south Lebanon, Hezbollah remove fighters and weapons from the area and Lebanese troops deploy there - all within a 60-day timeframe which will conclude on Monday at 4 a.m (0200 GMT).

The deal, brokered by the United States and France, ended more than a year of hostilities triggered by the Gaza war. The fighting peaked with a major Israeli offensive that displaced more than 1.2 million people in Lebanon and left Hezbollah severely weakened.

"There have been positive movements where the Lebanese army and UNIFIL have taken the place of Hezbollah forces, as stipulated in the agreement," Israeli government spokesmen David Mencer told reporters, referring to UN peacekeepers in Lebanon.

"We've also made clear that these movements have not been fast enough, and there is much more work to do," he said, affirming that Israel wanted the agreement to continue.

Mencer did not directly respond to questions about whether Israel had requested an extension of the deal or say whether Israeli forces would remain in Lebanon after Monday's deadline.

Hezbollah said in a statement that there had been leaks talking about Israel postponing its withdrawal beyond the 60-day period, and that any breach of the agreement would be unacceptable.
The statement said that possibility required everyone, especially Lebanese political powers, to pile pressure on the states which sponsored the deal to ensure "the implementation of the full (Israeli) withdrawal and the deployment of the Lebanese army to the last inch of Lebanese territory and the return of the people to their villages quickly.”

Any delay beyond the 60 days would mark a blatant violation of the deal with which the Lebanese state would have to deal "through all means and methods guaranteed by international charters" to recover Lebanese land "from the occupation's clutches," Hezbollah said.