Dammam Women’s Market set to open

January 4, 2015

Dammam, Jan 4: The Eastern Province municipality has begun renting out shops at the newly established Dammam Women's Market following the completion of all major construction work.

Ziad bin Abdul Karim Al-Suwaidan, the EP Investments general manager, said that the project is set to make way for various commercial activities covering over 17,500 square meters.

He said that the women's market includes commercial shops, gold workshops, a jewelry showroom and a goldsmith-training center. The project also contains traditional female stalls and parking facilities.

The two-story project includes 57 shops and 165 traditional stalls, as well as toilets, a mosque,a food court, and a café at the ground level, while the first floor contains administrative offices, a training hall and a multipurpose room.

"In developing the project, the EP municipality was keen to redevelop the market so as to keep alive the heritage and popular women's activities among lower economic strata," said Al-Suwaidan, pointing out that the market will be opened shortly.

Coordination is now taking place with investors to develop ad panels for commercial shops in an aesthetically pleasing manner.

The project was awarded the Community and Culture Award at this year's Cityscape in Jeddah, as well as the Prince Sultan bin Salman Award for Architectural Heritage at the level of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), awarded jointly with Abha city at the Fourth National Forum architectural heritage.

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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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