DAMASCUS — Syrian air defenses intercepted multiple flying objects over the Mediterranean Sea near the province of Tartous on Tuesday night, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The Syrian air defenses managed to shoot down 13 “targets,” as military radars detected warplanes in Syrian airspace, said the observatory.
Missiles from Syrian air defense systems continued to be launched toward “targets” over the sea rather than on land, the Britain-based war monitor added, noting that it is still unclear whether the targets were missiles or drones.
There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage in Tartous, a strategic coastal province that hosts a Russian naval facility.
While there has been no official comment on the incident yet, pro-government Sham FM radio reported that Syrian air defense systems were intercepting an Israeli attack over Tartous.
Lebanese citizens who fled on the southern villages amid ongoing Israeli airstrikes Monday, sit in a pickup in Beirut, Tuesday, Sep 24, 2024. AP
BEIRUT — The Israeli military said it killed a top Hezbollah commander Tuesday as part of a two-day aerial barrage that has left more than 560 people dead and prompted thousands in southern Lebanon to seek refuge from the widening conflict.
With the two sides on the brink of all-out war, Hezbollah launched dozens of rockets into Israel, targeting an explosives factory and sending families into bomb shelters.
Families that fled southern Lebanon flocked to Beirut and the coastal city of Sidon, sleeping in schools turned into shelters, as well as in cars, parks and along the beach. Some sought to leave the country, causing a traffic jam at the border with Syria.
Issa Baydoun fled the village of Shihine when it was bombed and drove to Beirut with his extended family. They slept in vehicles on the side of the road because the shelters were full.
“We struggled a lot on the road just to get here,” said Baydoun, who rejected Israel’s contention that it hit only military targets. “We evacuated our homes because Israel is targeting civilians and attacking them.”
Volunteers cooked meals for displaced families at an empty Beirut gas station that first became a hub for relief after a devastating port explosion in 2020.
Israel said late Tuesday that fighter jets carried out “extensive strikes” on Hezbollah weapons and rocket launchers across southern Lebanon and in the Bekaa region to the north.
Asked about the duration of Israel’s operations in Lebanon, military spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said at a news conference that it aims to keep them “as short as possible, that’s why we’re attacking with great force. At the same time, we must be prepared for it to take longer.”
Lebanese citizens who fled on the southern villages amid ongoing Israeli airstrikes Monday, stand on a pickup at a highway that links to Beirut city, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Tuesday, Sep 24, 2024. AP
Tensions between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah have steadily escalated over the last 11 months. Hezbollah has been firing rockets, missiles and drones into northern Israel in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza and its ally Hamas, a fellow Iran-backed militant group.
Israel has responded with increasingly heavy airstrikes and the targeted killing of Hezbollah commanders while threatening a wider operation.
Israel said a strike in Beirut Tuesday had killed Ibrahim Kobeisi, who it said was a top Hezbollah commander with the group’s rocket and missile unit. Military officials said Kobeisi was responsible for launches towards Israel and planned a 2000 attack in which three Israeli soldiers were kidnapped and killed.
It was the latest in a string of assassinations and setbacks for Hezbollah, the strongest political and military actor in Lebanon and widely considered the top paramilitary force in the Arab world. The militant group offered no immediate comment on the Israeli claims.
Lebanon’s Health Ministry said six people were killed and 15 were wounded in the strike in a southern Beirut suburb, an area where Hezbollah has a strong presence. The country’s National News Agency said the attack destroyed three floors of a six-story apartment building.
The U.N.’s High Commissioner for Refugees in Lebanon said one of its staffers and her young son were among those killed Monday in the Bekaa region, while a cleaner under contract was killed in a strike in the south.
Hezbollah said its missile attacks Tuesday targeted eight sites in Israel, including an explosives factory in Zichron Yaakov, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from the border. It fired 300 rockets, injuring six soldiers and civilians, most of them lightly, according to Hagari, the Israeli military spokesman.
The renewed exchange came after Monday’s barrages racked up the highest death toll in any single day in Lebanon since Israel and Hezbollah fought a bruising monthlong war in 2006.
Lebanese citizens who fled on the southern villages amid ongoing Israeli airstrikes Monday, sit on their cars at a highway that links to Beirut City, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Tuesday, Sep 24, 2024. AP
On Tuesday, mourners carried 11 bodies through the streets of the Lebanese village of Saksakieh, some 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of the Lebanon-Israel border, including those of four women, an infant and a 7-year-old girl. All were killed in Israel’s bombardment of the village Monday.
Some of the bodies were draped in Hezbollah flags, others wrapped in black clothes. A wreath of flowers was placed on top of the smallest one.
Mohammad Halal, father of 7-year-old Joury Halal, said his daughter was an “innocent child martyr.”
“She is a martyr for the sake of the south and Palestine,” Halal said and defiantly stated his allegiance to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
Israel said it targeted sites where Hezbollah had stored weapons. Data from American fire-tracking satellites analyzed Tuesday by The Associated Press showed the wide range of Israeli airstrikes aimed at southern Lebanon, covering an area of over 1,700 square kilometers (650 square miles).
NASA’s Fire Information for Resource Management System typically is used to track U.S. wildfires, but can also be used to track the flashes and burning that follow airstrikes. Data from Monday showed significant fires across southern Lebanon and in the Bekaa Valley.
The Lebanese Health Ministry said at least 564 people have been killed in Israeli strikes since Monday, including 50 children and 94 women, and that more than 1,800 have been wounded — a staggering toll for a country still reeling from a deadly attack on communication devices last week.
Nearly a year of fighting between Hezbollah and Israel had displaced tens of thousands of people on both sides of the border before this week’s escalation. Israel has vowed to do whatever it takes to ensure its citizens can return to their homes in the north, while Hezbollah has said it will keep up its rocket attacks until there is a cease-fire in Gaza, which appears increasingly remote.
The Israeli military says it has no immediate plans for a ground invasion but is prepared for one. It has moved thousands of troops who had been serving in Gaza to the northern border. It says Hezbollah has some 150,000 rockets and missiles, including some capable of striking anywhere in Israel, and that the group has fired some 9,000 rockets and drones since last October.
Israel said its warplanes struck 1,600 Hezbollah targets Monday, destroying cruise missiles, long- and short-range rockets and attack drones, including weapons concealed in private homes.
Monday’s escalation came after a particularly heavy exchange of fire Sunday, when Hezbollah launched around 150 rockets, missiles and drones into northern Israel.
Last week, thousands of communications devices used mainly by Hezbollah members exploded in different parts of Lebanon, killing 39 people and wounding nearly 3,000, many of them civilians. Lebanon blamed Israel, but Israel did not confirm or deny responsibility.
KYIV, Sept 24 (Reuters) —Russian attacks on two towns in Ukraine’s east killed three people and wounded two more, regional authorities said.
An artillery strike on the strategic hub of Pokrovsk hit a residential area and killed two middle-aged men, according to Donetsk regional prosecutors.
Russia has long been pressing on the Pokrovsk front and stepped up its assaults in recent months, getting as close to its outskirts as 8 kilometres (5 miles).
Earlier in the day, Russian guided aerial bombs damaged two unspecified infrastructure facilities in Kostiantynivka, the Donetsk regional governor Vadym Filashkin said on Telegram.
One person was killed and two wounded, he added.
Kostiantynivka lies some 12 km from Chasiv Yar, a town on high ground where Ukrainian forces are attempting to stave off Russian westward advances.
Moscow denies intentionally targeting civilians, although thousands have been killed since it invaded Ukraine in February 2022. It says its strikes on infrastructure are legitimate and aimed at reducing Ukraine’s ability to fight.
MARQUELIA, Mexico, Sept 24 (Reuters) — The remnants of Hurricane John soaked a large swath of southwestern Mexico on Tuesday as its trek inland slowed and clean up work got underway, but the once powerful storm still threatened severe flooding and caused at least three deaths.
Stretching across several Mexican states, the storm uprooted trees and electrical posts and ripped off roofs as it made landfall on Monday night and into the early hours of Tuesday, officials told reporters at a briefing.
The affected coastal area is home to both cargo ports and some of the country’s top beach resorts.
Video posted on social media showed sheets of rain pummeling empty streets overnight near the sprawling Lazaro Cardenas port in Michoacan state as strong winds battered trees.
Further south in Oaxaca state, the Puerto Escondido and Huatulco airports popular with tourists had been temporarily closed earlier in the morning.
Two fatalities were reported after a mudslide smothered a house in the small town of Tlacoachistlahuaca, in Guerrero state, located inland in between Puerto Escondido and Acapulco, a major beach resort that was devastated by Hurricane Otis last year.
A third death was also reported in the mountainous area of Guerrero, in the municipality of Malinaltepec, the state’s civil protection agency told Reuters.
Walking across a flooded street in the town of Marquelia, just off Guerrero state’s Pacific coastline, Heidi Carrillo worried about the plight of her neighbors.
“What’s needed right now around the beaches is food, because lots of people there were left without their homes and I think they also need clothes,” she said.
Earlier on Tuesday, Laura Velazquez, the national head of emergency services, said John could cause further “intense rainfall” over Guerrero, one of Mexico’s poorest states.
She said accumulated rainfall overnight and into the morning had totaled nearly 11 inches (28 cm).
John was downgraded from both hurricane and tropical storm strength over the course of the day on Tuesday.
Its remnants are currently located about 70 miles (113 km) northwest of Acapulco as it creeps further inland at a speed of just 3 miles per hour (5 kph), according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center.
John’s maximum sustained winds have weakened considerably over the day, now at 35 mph (56 kph), the Miami-based forecaster said in its latest advisory.
The center nonetheless flagged the possibility of flash flooding across parts of southwestern Mexico over the next few days.
JERUSALEM — The Israeli military confirmed on Tuesday that it killed a senior Hezbollah commander in an airstrike on the southern suburbs of Beirut.
In a statement, the military identified the commander as Ibrahim Muhammad Qubaisi, who was reportedly in charge of Hezbollah’s missile and rocket operations. “Alongside him were other key commanders in Hezbollah’s missile and rocket array,” the military stated.
Hezbollah has not yet commented on Qubaisi’s death.
The airstrike is part of Israel’s most extensive bombardments against Lebanon since 2006, launched on Monday and Tuesday, which has resulted in over 550 fatalities and more than 1,800 injuries across the country.
The significant escalation has raised concerns about the potential for a full-scale conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, with fears that other nations could also become involved.
BEIRUT — At least six people were killed and 15 others injured on Tuesday in an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in the southern suburbs of Beirut, local TV channel Al-Jadeed reported.
TV footage showed smoke rising from the targeted, densely populated Ghobeiry neighbourhood of Dahieh, civil defense teams removing the rubble, and ambulances transporting the casualties to hospitals.
The target of the airstrike is the head of the missiles unit of Hezbollah, who has not yet been identified, Al-Jadeed said.
The latest airstrike took place as Israel’s military chief Herzi Halevi vowed earlier in the day to intensify Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon.
“We should not give Hezbollah a rest” and “should keep on working with full force,” Halevi said in a statement.
Since Oct. 8, 2023, Hezbollah and the Israeli army have been exchanging fire across the Lebanese-Israeli border, raising concerns of a broader conflict as the war between Hamas and Israel continues in the Gaza Strip.
Security personnel stand near a damaged police vehicle at the site of a bomb explosion, in Malam Jabba at Swat district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on September 22, 2024. (AFP)
PESHAWAR — At least 15 people have been killed in clashes between two tribes in northwestern Pakistan, a local official said Tuesday, as a deadly feud over land is reignited.
With heavy weapons including mortar shells, the violence hit Kurram district near the border with Afghanistan where the same tribes fought in July.
“The conflict, initially over land, involves two tribes — one Sunni and the other Shia — which has turned the dispute into a sectarian clash,” a senior administrative official stationed in Kurram told AFP on condition of anonymity.
He said 15 people had been killed since Saturday.
The Associated Press of Pakistan, the official news agency, reported around twenty other people had been wounded.
The Kurram district, formerly a semi-autonomous area, has a history of bloody clashes between tribes belonging to the Sunni and Shiite sects of Islam that have claimed hundreds of lives over the years.
The last clashes in July killed 35 people and ended only after a jirga (tribal council) called a ceasefire, with officials attempting to broker a new truce.
Tribal and family feuds are common in Pakistan.
However, they can be particularly protracted and violent in the mountainous northwestern region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where communities abide by traditional tribal honor codes.
In Pakistan, a predominantly Sunni Muslim country, the Shiite community says they have long suffered discrimination and violence.
BEIRUT — Lebanese health authorities on Tuesday raised the death toll from two days of Israeli airstrikes targeting Hezbollah militants to 558.
Palestinian officials in Gaza, meanwhile, said new Israeli strike killed at least seven people in the southern city of Khan Younis.
Israel’s military says it will do “whatever is necessary” to push Hezbollah away from Lebanon’s border with Israel. Israel and Hezbollah have been trading fire since the Israel-Hamas war began.
On Monday, Israel launched hundreds of airstrikes in southern and eastern Lebanon, killing nearly 500 people and wounding more than 1,600 others.
Thousands of people fled southern Lebanon, jamming the main highway to Beirut in the biggest exodus since the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war. It’s a staggering toll for a country still reeling from a deadly attack on communication devices the week before.
Lebanon blamed the attacks on Israel, but Israel did not confirm or deny its responsibility.
Hezbollah again launched some 100 projectiles toward Israel on Tuesday, the Israeli military said.
Meanwhile, Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV station reported that an Israeli airstrike hit a building in a southern suburb of Beirut on Tuesday afternoon and there was no immediate word on any casualties.
The attack came after a Monday evening airstrike missed Ali Karaki, Hezbollah’s top military commander in south Lebanon, the group said.
An Israeli airstrike on a nearby area on Friday killed 55 people, including top Hezbollah military commander Ibrahim Akil and 15 other Hezbollah members.
JERUSALEM — Israel’s military chief Herzi Halevi said Tuesday that Israel is about to intensify its airstrikes on Lebanon.
“We should not give Hezbollah a rest” and “should keep on working with full force,” Halevi said in a statement.
“Today we will accelerate the offensive operation,” he said, adding that Israel will also continue its military operation in the Gaza Strip.
On Monday, the Israeli army launched intensive airstrikes on villages and towns in southern and eastern Lebanon, prompting Hezbollah to launch retaliatory missile strikes targeting several Israeli military targets in northern Israel.
According to Lebanese officials, the death toll from intensive Israeli airstrikes on southern and eastern Lebanon since Monday has reached 558, including 50 children and 94 women, with injuries totaling 1,835, whereas about 16,500 residents in southern and eastern Lebanon have been displaced to Beirut and other areas in the country.
The two sides resumed crossfire on Tuesday, with Israeli forces unleashing another wave of airstrikes on Hezbollah targets in eastern Lebanon’s Beqaa region and several areas in southern Lebanon, and Hezbollah attacking several airports, headquarters, and sites in northern Israel with artillery and missiles.
Since Oct. 8, 2023, Hezbollah and the Israeli army have been exchanging fire across the Lebanese-Israeli border, raising concerns of a broader conflict as the war between Hamas and Israel continues in the Gaza Strip.
TELUK INTAN — Seorang ibu maut manakala anak lelakinya cedera selepas kenderaan mereka naiki terbabit kemalangan dengan sebuah lori membawa muatan tanah di Jalan Teluk Intan-Bidor, dekat Kampung Ayer Hitam, di sini, hari ini.
Mangsa yang meninghal dikenali sebagai Yap Soh Choo, 74, manakala anak lelakinya yang juga pemandu lori, Ong Kok Leong, 43.
Penolong Pengarah Bahagian Operasi JBPM Perak, Sabarodzi Nor Ahmad berkata pihaknya menerima panggilan kecemasan jam 4.02 petang tadi dan sepasukan anggota daripada Balai Bomba dan Penyelamat (BBP) Ayer Tawar dikejarkan ke lokasi.
“Setibanya jentera di lokasi kejadian didapati kemalangan membabitkan sebuah lori satu tan melanggar bahagian belakang sebuah lori membawa muatan tanah.
“Terdapat dua mangsa masing-masing seorang penumpang wanita dan pemandu lelaki tersepit dalam lori satu tan. Anggota kami kemudiannya berjaya mengeluarkan mereka menggunakan peralatan khas.
“Wanita itu disahkan meninggal dunia di lokasi kejadian oleh pegawai perubatan Kementerian Kesihatan (KKM) dan mayatnya diserahkan kepada polis untuk tindakan lanjut.
“Lelaki yang cedera diserahkan kepada KKM untuk rawatan,” katanya dalam satu kenyataan sambil mengesahkan operasi ditamatkan jam 4.46 petang.
MANJUNG — Kelindan lori telur ayam maut, manakala pemandu cedera selepas kenderaan dinaiki mereka merempuh belakang sebuah treler di KM 237.5 Lebuh Raya Pesisir Pantai Barat (WCE) arah utara, dekat Changkat Cermin, di sini, hari ini.
Difahamkan, mangsa maut adalah seorang lelaki warga Nepal, manakala mangsa cedera adalah lelaki tempatan berusia 23 tahun.
Penolong Pengarah Bahagian Operasi JBPM Perak, Sabarodzi Nor Ahmad berkata, anggota daripada Balai Bomba dan Penyelamat (BBP) Ayer Tawar dikejarkan ke lokasi kejadian sebaik pihaknya menerima panggilan kecemasan pada jam 3.35 petang tadi.
“Setibanya jentera di lokasi kejadian, didapati kemalangan membabitkan lori membawa muatan telur ayam melanggar bahagian belakang treler.
“Dua mangsa di dalam lori telur ayam iaitu pemandu lelaki mengalami kecederaan ringan, manakala kelindan lori seorang lelaki tersepit dan disahkan meninggal dunia di lokasi oleh pegawai perubatan Kementerian Kesihatan (KKM).
“Mangsa yang tersepit kemudiannya dikeluarkan dengan peralatan khas dan diserahkan kepada pihak polis untuk tindakan lanjut.
“Mangsa cedera pula diserahkan kepada pihak KKM untuk rawatan,” katanya dalam kenyataan, hari ini.
SEMPORNA — Seorang kakitangan Majlis Daerah Semporna dijatuhi hukuman penjara 14 bulan dan denda RM2,000 oleh Mahkamah Majistret di sini, hari ini atas kesalahan bersubahat menipu pemohon Projek Perumahan Rakyat (PPR) Tagasan, dua tahun lalu.
Majistret Dayang Aidaku Amira Aminuddin membuat keputusan itu selepas tertuduh, Norsidah Abdul Terasan, 49, didapati bersalah dan mensabitkannya dengan pertuduhan mengikut Seksyen 109 Kanun Keseksaan.
Berdasarkan pertuduhan, wanita itu didakwa bersubahat bersama seorang wanita, Salina Salih, 30, dengan menerima imbuhan RM4,300 hasil penipuan wanita terbabit ke atas salah seorang pemohon PPR terbabit.
Tertuduh juga, yang mana dalam pengetahuannya bahawa permohonan mendaftar serta kelulusan menduduki rumah kediaman PPR itu sebenarnya belum dibuka, selain pembayaran kelulusan permohonan hanya boleh dibuat di kaunter Hasil sahaja.
Perbuatan itu didakwa dilakukan di hadapan Pejabat Pos Daerah Semporna antara 15 Ogos hingga 29 Disember 2022.
Bagi kesalahan itu, dia didakwa mengikut Seksyen 109 Kanun Keseksaan yang boleh dihukum di bawah Seksyen 417 kanun sama.
Terdahulu, tertuduh yang tidak diwakili peguam memohon hukuman ringan atas alasan suami sakit dan menjadi penanggung tunggal keluarga termasuk menyara ibu dan bapa yang uzur serta mempunyai anak kelainan upaya (OKU).
Bagaimanapun, Timbalan Pendakwa Raya Mohd Suhaimi Suryana menegaskan banyak kes salah guna kuasa dalam kalangan penjawat awam dan mahkamah wajar menjatuhkan hukuman yang berat sebagai pengajaran kepada tertuduh dan penjawat awam yang lain.
Mahkamah memerintahkan tertuduh menjalani hukuman penjara tambahan selama dua bulan jika gagal membayar denda dan menetapkan hukuman berkuatkuasa tarikh sabitan hari ini.
Residents fleeing the Israeli airstrikes in the south, sit in a school turned into a shelter in Beirut, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
MOSCOW — The Kremlin warned on Tuesday that Israeli strikes on Lebanon had the potential to destabilize the Middle East and said it was very concerned by the evolving situation.
Israel struck Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon and the Iran-backed group attacked military facilities in northern Israel on Tuesday, increasing fears of a full-blown conflict after Lebanon suffered its deadliest day in decades.
TEHRAN — Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said Tuesday that its ally Hezbollah “cannot stand alone” against Israel, which killed nearly 500 people in Lebanon the previous day in its deadliest bombardment since 2006.
“Hebzollah cannot stand alone against a country that is being defended and supported and supplied by Western countries, by European countries and the United States,” Pezeshkian said in an interview with CNN translated from Farsi to English.
GAZA — 11 civilians were killed and others were injured today in the ongoing occupation aggression in the central and southern Gaza Strip.
Medical sources said that six civilians were killed and others were injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting two houses in Khan Yunis city near the Tahlia area in the Sheikh Nasser area.
In the city of Rafah, two civilians were killed in an Israeli drone targeting their vehicle east of the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
The occupation forces have continued their aggression on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, resulting in the killing of 41,455 civilians and the injury of 95,878 others, most of whom are children and women.
Meanwhile, thousands of missing persons are still under the rubble.
ZHENGZHOU — More than 430,000 people in Shangqiu City, central China’s Henan Province, have been affected by heavy rainfall brought by Typhoon Bebinca, local authorities said Tuesday.
Most parts of Shangqiu were hit by heavy downpours from 8 a.m. on Sept. 17 to 6 a.m. on Sept. 19, which resulted in flooding in 69 townships in Shangqiu, with precipitation reaching as high as 625.9 mm, according to the city’s meteorological, emergency management and water departments.
As of 6 p.m. Monday, more than 433,000 people had been affected and 5,119 people had been evacuated.
Although the heavy rain had stopped in Shangqiu, some areas in the city are still experiencing waterlogging. Emergency response and rescue personnel are on standby to manage the situation.
Bebinca, the 13th typhoon this year, made landfall in Shanghai on Sept. 16. It is believed to be the strongest typhoon to hit the metropolis in 75 years.
Though China’s National Meteorological Center ceased numbering Typhoon Bebinca at 11 p.m. on Sept. 18, its impact led to heavy rainstorms in Henan and other regions.
TANJONG KARANG — Semua institusi di bawah Kementerian Pendidikan (KPM) perlu mendapatkan surat kebenaran daripada ibu bapa atau penjaga sebelum merakam gambar, video dan audio serta memuat naik ke laman media sosial.
Menterinya, Fadhlina Sidek berkata, KPM lebih awal mengeluarkan garis panduan itu pada 21 Ogos lalu untuk menguruskan isu gangguan seksual selain memberi perlindungan kepada keselamatan kanak-kanak, khususnya di sekolah.
“Dalam garis panduan ini, kita sudah mengingatkan guru berkaitan dengan kebenaran yang diberikan ibu bapa apabila ingin membuat content (kandungan).
“Kita sangat mengambil berat mengenai isu kebenaran ini kerana kita tidak mahu ia menjadi isu besar, kerana ada kaitan isu keselamatan khususnya kanak-kanak (ketika berada di sekolah).
“Proses kebenaran daripada ibu bapa (surat akuan) diperlukan sekiranya ada program atau kandungan pendidikan yang membabitkan kanak-kanak,” katanya pada sidang media selepas merasmikan pelancaran Hab STEM di Pusat Kegiatan Guru (PKG) Tanjong Karang, di sini.
Hadir sama, Ketua Pengawai Eksekutif Yayasan PETRONAS, Shariah Nelly Francis dan Timbalan Ketua Pengarah Pendidikan Malaysia (Sektor Operasi Sekolah), Zainal Abas.
Pada 6 September lalu, media melaporkan Menteri Komunikasi, Fahmi Fadzil menyatakan guru di institusi pendidikan tidak terkecuali daripada mematuhi undang-undang tidak menghasilkan kandungan di platform media sosial yang membabitkan kanak-kanak.
Fahmi dilaporkan berkata, KPM perlu memastikan tenaga pengajarnya mematuhi Akta Kanak-Kanak 2001 apabila mahu menghasilkan kandungan untuk dimuat naik dalam media sosial.
Fadhlina berkata, garis panduan itu bukan saja perlu dipatuhi guru malah semua pihak supaya lebih berhati-hati apabila menghasilkan kandungan yang membabitkan pelajar dan kanak-kanak.
“Saya harap garis panduan ini dipatuhi sepenuhnya daripada pendidik. Saya yakin mereka dapat mematuhinya kerana garis panduan ini adalah khusus untuk memastikan keselamatan semua pihak terutama anak-anak,” katanya.
Sebelum ini, KPM melalui surat pekeliling dengan nombor rujukan KPM.100-1/3/2 Jld.9 (52) bertarikh 21 Ogos lalu memaklumkan mengenai pelaksaan surat akuan ibu bapa atau penjaga untuk kebenaran rakaman gambar, video atau audio murid serta memuat naik ke laman media sosial bagi program anjuran institusi pendidikan di bawah KPM.
Pelaksanaan surat akuan kebenaran itu selaras dengan Surat Pekeliling Ikhtisas KPM Bilangan 11 Tahun 2023: Garis Panduan Nilai dan Etika Penggunaan Media Sosial KPM bertarikh 4 Oktober 2023 bertujuan mengawal selia penggunaan media sosial oleh institusi pendidikan bawah KPM.
Menurut surat pekeliling itu lagi, Perkara 5.3 (vi) dalam garis panduan berkenaan selaras dengan Peraturan-Peraturan Penjawat Awam (Kelakuan dan Tatatertib) 1993, iaitu penjawat awam tidak dibenarkan untuk memuat naik kandungan multimedia yang berkaitan dengan pentadbir sekolah, guru, murid, ibu bapa atau penjaga tanpa kebenaran.
Awal bulan ini, seorang pemandu bas yang memuat naik rakaman video murid sekolah rendah yang juga penumpangnya dihadapkan ke Mahkamah Sesyen kerana melanggar Akta Kesalahan-kesalahan Seksual Terhadap Kanak-kanak (AKKSTKK) 2017.
PUTRAJAYA — Keputusan peperiksaan Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia Ulangan (SPMU) Tahun 2024 akan dikeluarkan pada 1 Oktober ini.
Kementerian Pendidikan (KPM) dalam satu kenyataan hari ini berkata seramai 8,195 calon mendaftar untuk menduduki peperiksaan berkenaan di 187 pusat di seluruh negara.
Calon boleh membuat semakan keputusan peperiksaan SPMU Tahun 2024 secara dalam talian di pautan myresultspmu.moe.gov.my bermula pukul 10 pagi pada 1 Oktober sehingga 6 petang 7 Oktober ini.
Kaedah lain adalah melalui sistem pesanan ringkas (SMS) untuk mendapatkan ringkasan keputusan peperiksaan dengan menaip SPMUNoKPAngkaGiliran dan hantar ke 15888.
Sistem itu akan diaktifkan mulai 10 pagi pada 1 Oktober sehingga 6 petang pada 7 Oktober ini.
