Stormy cold wave to hit Riyadh, Eastern Province over the weekend

February 24, 2017

Jeddah, Feb 24: Following a week of floods and heavy rainstorm that hit parts of Saudi Arabia, a new cold windy wave and thunderstorms are expected to strike Riyadh and the Eastern Province over the weekend.

Hussein Al-Qahtani, official spokesman of the Presidency of Meteorology and Environment (PME) told Arab News the changes in the weather conditions are milder this time compared to last week.

Dusty wind is also expected to restrict the vision in the capital.

Daytime high temperatures in Riyadh are expected reach 18° C and 19° C on Friday and Saturday, respectively. While overnight lows will drop to 9° during the weekend. In the Eastern Province, the highs are expected to register 21° C and 22° C, while nighttime temperatures will drop to 9° C.

Asir region’s daytime high temperatures in the are expected reach 25° C Friday and drop to 22° C on Saturday, while overnight lows will drop to 12° during the weekend.

Asir Region, which witnessed adverse weather conditions and heavy rainfall resulting in the flooding of nine valleys will also be rainy. However, no floods are expected. Last week, one person was reported dead and another missing. Around 10 people were injured and 104 had car accidents while others were trapped in their vehicles.

The region’s Civil Defense’s operation room received 600 flood-related reports in Abha and had rescued 25 people.

Al-Qahtani encouraged those in the affected area to take the needed precautionary actions.

“It’s important for people to be perceptive of the warnings they get from official bodies, such as the Traffic Department, Civil Defense, the Ministry of Health, the Coast Guard for those who are vising the seaside,” he said.

The weather change wave is expected to continue until Saturday.

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Israel orders 100,000 Palestinians to evacuate eastern Rafah ahead of ground invasion

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May 6,2024

The Israeli regime is forcibly evacuating Palestinians from the eastern part of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip amid the prospect of its widely-discouraged ground invasion.

“The estimate is around 100,000 people,” an Israeli military spokesman told journalists on Monday when asked how many people were being evacuated.

International organizations, including the United Nations, have repeatedly warned the regime against invading the city, citing its hosting around 1.5 million Palestinian refugees.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said a ground assault on Rafah would “put the final nail in the coffin” for humanitarian aid operations in the Gaza Strip.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs also said, “Any ground operation would mean more suffering and death,” with an official saying “It could be a slaughter of civilians.”

Multiple aid agencies, including the Norwegian Refugee Council, have likewise warned against a Rafah offensive.

The NRC said such an invasion “would profoundly exacerbate the already catastrophic levels of need and the humanitarian emergency for millions of civilians with nowhere left to go.”

The official alleged Hamas had killed three Israeli forces on Sunday, attacking them from Rafah.

The evacuation order came a sat least 22 people lost their lives in the regime’s airstrikes killed in Rafah earlier on Monday.

Rafah’s evacuation “is part of our plans to dismantle Hamas,” the Israeli spokesman added, referring to the Palestinian resistance movement that has been defending Gaza in the face of the war.

The Palestinians have fled there from the ravages of a war that the regime began waging against Gaza on October 7, following a retaliatory operation by the coastal sliver’s resistance groups.

At least 34,683 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been killed and 78,018 others injured so far during the brutal military onslaught.

On Friday, Hossam Badran, a member of Hamas’ Political Bureau, said Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s insistence on carrying out a ground invasion of Rafah was a key stumbling block in negotiations aimed at a truce agreement.

The Israeli premier has said the regime would go ahead with invading the city “with or without” a truce.

Hamas has, however, asserted that the regime has failed to defeat the resistance during the war.

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