Saudi royals appointed to International Olympic Committee

Arab News

August 29, 2018

Dubai, Aug 29: Three Saudi royals have been appointed to the International Olympic Committee, it was announced on Wednesday.

The three are Prince Abdulaziz Bin Turki Al-Faisal Al-Saud, Vice Chairman of the General Sports Authority (GSA) of Saudi Arabi, Princess Reema Bint Bandar Al Saud, Vice President of Planning and Development for the GSA, and Prince Fahad bin Juluwe bin Abdulaziz, Executive Director of International Relations for the Saudi Arabian Olympic Committee.

The appointments come as Saudi Arabia’s Olympic vision gathers strength with 137 athletes from the Kingdom currently competing in the Asian Games in Jakarta.

Prince Abdulaziz has been appointed to the Marketing Commission of the IOC, a body which works to advance the values of the Olympic movement.

“It comes at a moment that the Kingdom is focused on our athletes and their performance on the world stage, both now and into the future. The team we have sent to the Asian Games is our most representative and competitive yet, and we hope it will prove a springboard for our young athletes, a number of whom have already qualified for the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina.”

Saudi Arabia’s team at the Asian Games has the largest number of female athletes competing in the tournament, and Princess Reema has said she intends to build the numbers even further as a member of the IOC’s Women and Sports Commission.

Princess Reema said: “We value many mutual goals with the commission and have been working to realize them. We are committed to increasing participation of women athletes in the Olympic program and in leadership positions within the Olympic Movement.”

Meanwhile Prince Fahad has joined the IOC’s Public Affairs and Social Development Committee, which works on the international stage around sport for development and peace in and beyond the Olympic Games.

One of its focuses is to devise strategies promoting the integration of sport and physical activity in government policy and programs.

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Israel killing Palestinian children in Gaza every day despite ceasefire: UNICEF

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November 22,2025

The Israeli regime’s forces have killed two Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip every day since the ceasefire began in early October, UNICEF has warned.

The UN children’s agency said on Friday that Israeli forces continue to attack Palestinians in Gaza even though the agreement was meant to stop the killing.

“Since 11 October, while the ceasefire has been in effect, at least 67 children have been killed in conflict-related incidents in the Gaza Strip. Dozens more have been injured. That is an average of almost two children killed every day since the ceasefire took effect,” UNICEF spokesperson Ricardo Pires said in Geneva, reminding that each number in the statistics represents a child whose life had ended violently.

“These are not statistics,” he said. “Each child had a story, a family, and a future that was stolen from them.”

Data from Palestinian factions, human rights groups, and government bodies recorded since the US-brokered ceasefire deal went into effect on October 10 show that Israeli forces have carried out numerous attacks, each constituting a separate ceasefire violation.

UNICEF teams say they repeatedly continue to witness heart-wrenching scenes of fearful Palestinian children sleeping outdoors with amputated limbs, while others live as orphans in flooded, makeshift shelters.

“I saw this myself in August. There is no safe place for them. The world cannot normalize their suffering,” Pires said, lamenting that the UN could “do a lot more if the aid that is really needed was entering faster.”

The UNICEF spokesperson warned that with the advent of winter, the risks for hundreds of thousands of displaced children will increase.

He warned, “The stakes are incredibly high” for children as winter acts as a threat multiplier, where children have no heating, no insulation, and few blankets. He said respiratory infections rise.

“Too many children have already paid the highest price,” Pires said. “Too many are still paying it, even under a ceasefire. The world promised them it would stop and that we would protect them.”

“Now we must act like it,” the UNICEF spokesperson added.

Since the Israeli regime launched its genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza in October 2023, it has killed nearly 70,000 people in the territory, most of them women and children, and injured over 170,000 more, while reducing most of the structures in the enclave to rubble.

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