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UN official calls for end to ‘illegal’ blockade against Qatar

A United Nations expert has called on Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain and Egypt to lift their blockade on Qatar after concluding the punitive sanctions taken by the quartet were illegal. In a preliminary report published on Thursday following a two-week visit to Qatar, Alena Douhan, UN special rapporteur on the negative impact of sanctions on human rights, said the “unilateral measures” levied against Doha have had […]

today15 November 2020

International News

UN top court rules Qatar blockade is illegal

In a humiliating defeat for Saudi Arabia and its allies, the top UN court has ruled in a 16-1 decision in favour of Qatar over the ongoing dispute between Doha and its Gulf neighbours. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) dismissed, today, the appeal lodged by Saudi Arabia,UAE, Egypt and Bahrain against the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). The aviation body had ruled two years ago that the air blockade […]

today15 July 2020

International News

Israeli navy intercepts activist boat trying to break Gaza blockade

Israel's navy has intercepted a Norwegian-flagged activist boat trying to break the more than decade-long blockade of the Gaza Strip, the military and activists said. "The activity ended without exceptional events," a military statement said on Sunday. "At this time the ship is being transferred to the port of Ashdod" along the coast of central Israel. An activist group affiliated with the boat, the al-Awda (the Return), said 22 people […]

today30 July 2018

International News

Israel detains Gaza Freedom Flotilla

The Freedom Flotilla set sail from the local port on Tuesday in defiance of a 12-year Israeli sea blockade on Gaza. The boat, said to be carrying 17 passengers and crew, was stopped by the Israeli navy which announced it had taken control of the vessel less than 12 miles from its home port. The International Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) said in a statement it "condemns Israel's brutal act of […]

today30 May 2018

International News

Qatar bans goods from UAE, Saudi as embargo anniversary approaches

Qatar said it was banning products originating from the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Bahrain, almost a year after those states imposed an embargo on Doha, accusing it of supporting terrorism. “Products originating from the blockading states, which as a result of the blockade cannot pass the Gulf Cooperation Council Customs Territory, have to undergo proper import inspections and customs procedures,” a government statement said late on Saturday. […]

today27 May 2018

International News

Qatar joins military exercise in Saudi Arabia

Qatari armed forces participated in the conclusion of the Gulf Shield 1 military exercise in Saudi Arabia earlier this week. The Qatari army said in a statement issued yesterday that Qatari Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Ghanem Al-Ghanim, participated in the final day of the Gulf Shield 1 exercise on Monday at the invitation of his Saudi counterpart, General Fayyadh Al Ruwaili. According to the statement, the exercise took place […]

today19 April 2018

International News

Qatar blockade taking toll on ordinary citizens: Amnesty

Families are being torn apart by the rift between Qatar and some other Gulf Arab states that began six months ago, Amnesty International said on Thursday, in spite of measures to ease the impact of the crisis on ordinary citizens. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, along with Egypt, imposed travel, economic and diplomatic sanctions on Qatar in June over allegations of supporting terrorism. Doha denies the charge. […]

today15 December 2017

International News

UN: Yemen facing massive famine if blockade not lifted

Millions of people will die in Yemen, in what will be the world's worst famine crisis in decades, unless a Saudi-led military coalition ends a devastating blockade and allows aid into the country, the United Nations has warned. The Saudi-led alliance fighting Yemen's Houthi rebels tightened its air, land and sea blockade of the country after a ballistic missile was fired on Saturday towards the Saudi capital, Riyadh. Since then, […]

today9 November 2017

International News

Travel plea for conjoined twins to leave blockaded Gaza

Conjoined twins born in Gaza on Sunday need to leave the blockaded Palestinian enclave for treatment crucial to their survival, their doctor and a family member said. Israel has maintained a blockade of the enclave for a decade, citing security fears over Hamas, which is ruling over the Gaza Strip. "A woman gave birth this morning to Siamese twins joined at the stomach and pelvis," Allam Abu Hamda, head of […]

today23 October 2017

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