‘Great generosity during Ramadan’

July 18, 2014

Riyadh, Jul 18: Companies and individuals are showing great generosity during Ramadan, according to many people polled here recently by Arab News.

Monther M. Tayeb, a press relations and communications director of a multinational company in the Saudi capital, said: “Local companies and individuals show it during Ramadan. Companies give free food to their fasting employees, and non-Muslims, for iftar,” he said.

He said there are many iftar events held at homes and hotels, where people invite their friends, colleagues and acquaintances to sumptuous meals.

“Iftar is breaking the fast in accordance with the rules of the holy month of Ramadan. It’s a valued tradition in Islam and is being nurtured by Muslims in the Arab world including Saudi Arabia,” he said.

Apart from giving free food to their employees, companies also help the less fortunate in society including orphans.

One five-star hotel recently gave 80 iftar boxes to orphans under the care of the municipality in Suleimania district. A hotel spokesman said that there are plans to also provide meals for limousine drivers.

Abdullah Nasser Al-Otaibi, an account executive for a local firm, said: “Even individuals show generosity. It has become a common sight to see distributed food for individuals in the streets for iftar.”

He said this showed that people care for each other.

“They even knock on your door to give you iftar boxes containing water, dates, sweets, laban and a main meal. It goes without saying that this is an exciting aspect of the holy month of Ramadan,” said Fayez Al-Masri, an account executive for a local public relations company.

He said the generosity makes everyone in the Arab world “enjoy every moment of it and look forward to the next holy month.”

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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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