Saudi Cultural Attaché in Ireland Organizes 1st Regular Meeting for Scholarship Students

General view of the Grand Canal Docks area of Dublin, Ireland, February 11, 2022. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyn/File photo
General view of the Grand Canal Docks area of Dublin, Ireland, February 11, 2022. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyn/File photo
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Saudi Cultural Attaché in Ireland Organizes 1st Regular Meeting for Scholarship Students

General view of the Grand Canal Docks area of Dublin, Ireland, February 11, 2022. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyn/File photo
General view of the Grand Canal Docks area of Dublin, Ireland, February 11, 2022. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyn/File photo

The Saudi Cultural Attaché Office in Dublin has organized the first regular meeting for all Saudi students studying in Ireland.
The Acting Head of the Cultural Attaché Office, Dr. Abdulaziz bin Fahd Al-Fuhaid, emphasized on Saturday the wise leadership's keen interest in its students studying abroad during the meeting.
Dr. Abdulaziz indicated that the doors of the cultural attaché are open to serve all students, and all its staff work around the clock to facilitate the procedures for Saudi students studying in Ireland.
This, he said, aims at providing a suitable educational environment, fulfilling the goals of the scholarship recipients, and enabling them to return to their homeland with the best certificates in various fields.
The meeting was attended by the Deputy Ambassador of the Kingdom to Ireland, Abdulsalam bin Abdullah Al-Mushaiti, who explained to the students the essential services provided by the embassy to the students studying and residing in Ireland.
He briefed them on the important instructions related to the residence system, and the observance of the laws of the host country, and highlighted key security aspects.



UN Puts 4th Century Gaza Monastery on Endangered Site List

The Saint Hilarion complex dates back to the fourth century. Mahmud HAMS / AFP/File
The Saint Hilarion complex dates back to the fourth century. Mahmud HAMS / AFP/File
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UN Puts 4th Century Gaza Monastery on Endangered Site List

The Saint Hilarion complex dates back to the fourth century. Mahmud HAMS / AFP/File
The Saint Hilarion complex dates back to the fourth century. Mahmud HAMS / AFP/File

The Saint Hilarion complex, one of the oldest monasteries in the Middle East, has been put on the UNESCO list of World Heritage sites in danger due to the war in Gaza, the body said Friday.
UNESCO said the site, which dates back to the fourth century, had been put on the endangered list at the demand of Palestinian authorities and cited the "imminent threats" it faced.
"It's the only recourse to protect the site from destruction in the current context," Lazare Eloundou Assomo, director of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, told AFP, referring to the war sparked by Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel.
In December, the UNESCO Committee for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict decided to grant "provisional enhanced protection" -- the highest level of immunity established by the 1954 Hague Convention -- to the site.
UNESCO had then said it was "already concerned about the state of conservation of sites, before October 7, due to the lack of adequate policies to protect heritage and culture" in Gaza.
The Hamas attack on October 7 resulted in the deaths of 1,197 people in Israel, most of them civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.
Israel's retaliatory offensive against Hamas has killed at least 39,175 Palestinians in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run territory's health ministry, which does not give details of civilian and militant deaths.