600,000 Saudis flood job market yearly

Jeddah, Mar 27: Some 600,000 Saudis, who graduate every year and enter the job market, pose a big challenge to the government to provide them with employment, a senior Labor Ministry official said.

Abdul Monem Al-Shahri, director of the Labor Office in Makkah, said over 330,000 Saudi students graduate from schools every year. According to another report, nearly 318,000 graduate from Saudi universities.

Ibrahim Badawood, managing director of ALJ Community Initiatives, emphasized the need to provide job-oriented education to solve the problem.

Speaking to Arab News, he said students must be encouraged to work while studying. “This will help develop a job culture among them and meet market requirements. Companies can hire them and provide on-the-job training.”

People from the three regions account for 77 percent of the total workforce in the public and private sectors, with Riyadh holding 35 percent, followed by the Eastern Province 21 percent and Makkah 19 percent.

The ministry’s wage protection scheme was instrumental in increasing the wage of Saudis, the official said.

“After introducing the scheme, the number of Saudis receiving SR3,000 and more in monthly salary increased from 109,000 to 1.3 million,” he pointed out.

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UN condemns Israeli regime’s ‘organized torture’ against Palestinians

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November 30,2025

The United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) has condemned the Israeli regime for enforcing a policy of “organized torture” against Palestinians.

In a report published on Friday, CAT stated that the occupying regime enforces a deliberate policy of “organized and widespread torture and ill-treatment” against Palestinian abductees, particularly since October 7, 2023, when Israel launched its genocidal war on Gaza.

The committee expressed “deep concern over repeated severe beatings, dog attacks, electrocution, water-boarding, use of prolonged stress positions [and] sexual violence” inflicted on Palestinians.

Palestinian prisoners were degraded by “being made to act like animals or being urinated on,” systematically denied medical care, and subjected to excessive restraints, “in some cases resulting in amputation,” the report added.

CAT also condemned the routine application of “unlawful combatants law” to justify the prolonged detention without trial of thousands of Palestinian men, women, and children.

More than 10,000 Palestinians, including women and children, are currently held in Israeli prisons, according to Palestinian and international human rights groups, with 3,474 Palestinians in “administrative detention,” meaning they are imprisoned without trial for indefinite periods.

The report highlighted the “high proportion of children who are currently detained without charge or on remand,” noting that while Israel sets the age of criminal responsibility at 12, even younger children have been abducted.

Children designated as security prisoners face severe restrictions on family contact, may be subjected to solitary confinement, and are denied access to education, in clear violation of international law.

The committee further suggested that Israel’s policies across the Occupied Territories constitute collective torture against the Palestinian population.

“A range of policies adopted by Israel in the course of its continued unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory amounts to cruel, inhuman or degrading living conditions for the Palestinian population,” the report said.

On Thursday, the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas condemned the systematic killing and torture of Palestinian abductees in Israeli prisons, urging international action to halt these abuses.

Citing human rights data, Hamas stated that 94 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli prisons since the start of Tel Aviv’s genocidal war on Gaza.

“This reflects an organized criminal approach that has turned these prisons into direct killing grounds to eliminate our people,” the resistance movement said.

Hamas called on the international community, the UN, and human rights organizations to immediately pressure Israel to end crimes against prisoners and uphold their rights as guaranteed by all international conventions and norms.

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