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| Iftar with the participation of refugees from Palestine was held in Derbent |
| 2024-04-07 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Refugees from Palestine took part in an iftar in Derbent, which gathered more than 10 thousand people, organized by the head of the republic. As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, a delegation from the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the regional office of the Russian Red Cross visited Dagestan to check the conditions in which refugees from Palestine live, the Ombudsman of Dagestan reported. Ramadan is the ninth month of the Muslim lunar calendar, a month of fasting (as-saum), spiritual and moral purification, as well as strengthening faith and will. During Ramadan, Muslims must abstain from food and drink during daylight hours. During Ramadan, collective iftars (breaking the fast) are held every evening in the cathedral mosques of the North Caucasus, says the “Caucasian Knot” information about Ramadan. More than 10,000 Dagestanis attended iftar in Derbent on behalf of the head of the republic, the administration of the head of Dagestan announced today. Among those gathered were refugees from Palestine, who were invited to the holiday of breaking the fast by the head of the republic, Sergei Melikov, as indicated in a message on the administration’s telegram channel. The publication is illustrated with photographs and videos in which Melikov stands surrounded by Palestinians. “There are no people in Dagestan today who are indifferent to the events in Gaza,” Melikov said. Melikov invited the ambassadors of Muslim countries who are visiting a group of refugees in Dagestan, as follows from a video posted on the Derbent News Telegram channel. “These are our guests from Palestine who came to stay with us, but cannot yet invite us to their place in Gaza,” he said. Since the beginning of the aggravation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, 183 refugees from the Gaza Strip have arrived in Dagestan, the head of the government of the republic said. Earlier, authorities reported that 62 people received Russian passports. The head of the Republic's Ministry of Labor reported that more than 30 immigrants from Palestine are ready to work in Dagestan, mainly in the healthcare sector. 12 immigrants from Palestine asked to be enrolled in universities to receive free higher education in Dagestan. The Ministry of Health and the Medical University of Dagestan organized retraining courses for refugees from Palestine who decided to work in the republic’s healthcare system. The Insan Charitable Foundation has announced its readiness to pay for this training. Most of the Palestinian refugees who arrived in Dagestan are doctors by training, and the Ministry of Labor of the Republic offers jobs as shoemakers and manicurists to people without a specialty and wives of doctors. The heads and high-ranking diplomats of the embassies of Bangladesh, Iraq, Iran, Kazakhstan, Mauritania, Malaysia, Pakistan, Turkey, and Uzbekistan are visiting Dagestan. This is a joint initiative of the Department of State Protocol of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the government of the republic, the department said in a statement on April 5. |
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