Saudi Cabinet praises Palestinian reconciliation efforts

Arab News

October 11, 2017

Riyadh, Oct 11: In a session chaired by King Salman on Tuesday, the Cabinet welcomed Palestinian reconciliation efforts and wished them success to achieve national unity.

It approved changing the Council of Competition’s name to the General Authority for Competition, which is responsible for protecting and promoting fair competition, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.

The Cabinet commended the Presidency of State Security for arresting five Daesh members and 22 others involved in incitement to commit criminal acts, and foiling an attempt to attack the western gate of Al-Salam Palace in Jeddah.

King Salman briefed the Cabinet on the outcomes of his visit to Russia and his talks with President Vladimir Putin and senior Russian officials.

During the visit, the king emphasized Saudi Arabia’s keenness to strengthen bilateral ties and cooperation to ensure the stability of the global oil market, intensify efforts against extremism and terrorism, and end the suffering of the Palestinian people.

He highlighted the global importance of regional security and stability, which require Iran to stop intervening in other countries’ affairs, political solutions to the Yemeni and Syrian conflicts, maintaining Iraq’s unity and territorial integrity, combating terrorism, and urging the international community to assume its responsibilities toward Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims.

King Salman briefed the Cabinet on the phone call he received from Sudan’s President Omar Al-Bashir.

The Cabinet discussed Arab and Islamic denunciations of a flawed UN report on child casualties in Yemen.

It also discussed progress made in achieving the objectives of Vision 2030, especially regarding fiscal control and improving the business environment.

The Cabinet reiterated Saudi condemnation of a bombing in the southern Pakistani province of Baluchistan, and an attack on a patrol in southwest Niger.

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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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