400 kinds of dates on display at Al Jubail

July 28, 2013

Al Jubail, Jul 28: Tonnes of local dates will find their way to Iftar tables this Ramadan, as families and residents queue up at the Dates Exhibition now going on just outside the fruits and vegetable market at Al Jubail.

An annual event organised by the Sharjah Municipality, the Dates Exhibition, which started on June 20 and will continue for three months, opens at 3pm until Iftar time.

Pakistani national Mohammed Aqbal said that the Dates Exhibition was a great initiative since people knew where to get the dates fast in such a hot weather, and get a chance to choose from so many kinds of dates in one place.

Ali Shaaban from Egypt said he went to the Dates Exhibition twice a week to buy at least three kilogrammes of dates for his family in Dubai. “I love the popular khaneizi. It’s so sweet and my kids like it.”

About 400 different kinds of UAE dates are on display, including lulu, khuddari, Nagal, khantaiz, khalas, khaneizi, sokari, and zahidi. A total of 25 shops are participating in this year’s exhibition.

Vishnu, an Indian date-seller, said his shop had many fresh dates, but the favourites were khaneizi, lulu and boumaan. “Daily, more than 200 customers come to buy, most of them come between 3pm and 5pm and an hour after Taraweeh prayers.”

Apart from Emirati families, expatriates from Saudi, Palestine, Iran, Iraq, Morocco, India, Pakistan, Egyptians and other Asians, Africans and Arabs also flock to the exhibition. The exhibition is aimed at helping date farmers to market and distribute their products and encourage them to grow more and different varieties of dates, said Sharjah Municipality Director-General Riyadh Aillan.

He said the exhibition was characterised by availability of all kinds of dates produced in the emirate.

“The municipality is very keen to support the farmers to increase the production and give more attention to date farming. The palm tree is a symbol of our origin and heritage, a source of good (insurance) for present and future.”

Al Aillan said the exhibition included 60 stalls in the fruits and vegetable market in Al Jubail area and Sharjah Cooperative Societies in Al Garayen and Helwan.

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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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