IS design to divide Kingdom exposed

May 25, 2015

Jeddah, May 25: The Interior Ministry has confirmed the hand of Islamic State in Qatif suicide bombing.

Maj. Gen. Mansour Al-Turki, Interior Ministry spokesman, said latest investigations have revealed that IS was behind the bombing of Ali bin Abi Taleb Mosque.

Last month, a cell was busted, and security forces revealed that one of the arrested members, Essam Al-Daoud, had provided shelter to Al-Qadeeh suicide bomber Saleh Al-Qashami.

Al-Turki said that Al-Daoud has been brought back to the Kingdom from Lebanon in 2009 and was sentenced to two years in prison in the Kingdom. He was released after serving his prison term.

Brig. Gen. Bassam Attia said that the IS strategy is based on splitting the Kingdom into sectors based on geographical, sectarian and economic divides. He added that IS foresees implementing three clear objectives — targeting security men, inciting sectarian strife and targeting foreigners. These three goals serve the organization’s general aim of spreading chaos.

He said that the orders for the recent attack on a security patrol in Riyadh went through several people. The attack led to the killing of Majid Ayed Al-Ghamdi, a soldier.

Attia explained that the preparation for the operation started 10 months before the attack as Abdul Malik Al-Baaidi started communicating with his brother Abdul Aziz Al-Baaidi, who had gone to Syria to join IS, asking to join him. The brother’s response was for Abdul Malik to stay and wait for orders to fight inside Saudi Arabia. The brother in Syria connected Abdul Malik to a dreaded terrorist who is wanted by the security forces.

The communication continued for four months and then Abdul Malik was ordered to target security personnel.

Upon receiving the orders, he proceeded to form a cell of 23 people whose names were sent to the organization’s leaders in Syria. The cell was provided with arms and cell members were trained in using weapons.

In a cell meeting, the now-arrested terrorist, Mohammad Al-Tuwairesh, located a patrol on a mission in Riyadh while he was at a family picnic. He noticed that the patrol remained in a specific location.

When Abdul Malik agreed on the target, the roles were defined. Abdul Malik and Mohammed Al-Assimi took on the shooting roles; Mohammad Al-Tuwairesh would handle the driving; Mohammed Al-Khamis was responsible for scanning the location before the cell arrived at the site, while Abdullah Al-Shanbeer was handed the task of filming the operation.

Attia said that the cell members decided to attack on Friday afternoon, May 9.

When they arrived at the site and received a signal, Abdul Malik and Al-Assimi fired 10 shots at the patrol vehicle while Al-Tuwairesh poured gas on the patrol and set it on fire while soldier Majid Al-Ghamdi was in the car.

Al-Turki said that the information proved that this terrorist group is closely linked to IS and said security forces are looking to find whether this cell is connected with Iran.

“We cannot accuse anybody now without verification, but we want to make it clear that the explosives used in Al-Qadeeh are the same type as seized on King Fahd Causeway that were coming from Bahrain,” he said.

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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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