LONDON: Injuries inflicted during Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have become an “endemic disease,” a high-profile British-Palestinian surgeon has warned.
Ghassan Abu-Sittah, a reconstructive surgeon, has made regular trips to Gaza since the 1980s to treat wounded Palestinians.
He returned to the war-torn territory last week amid renewed Israeli-Palestinian fighting. The 11-day conflict left more than 250 people dead in Gaza and 13 in Israel.
But the real toll is reflected in survivors who must live with life-changing injuries, Abu-Sittah warned. “War injuries are now something akin to an endemic disease in Gaza,” he told the Daily Telegraph.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said almost 2,000 Palestinians were injured in the conflict, including more than 600 children and 400 women.
PHILADELPHIA: The next phase of international diplomacy to address the Israeli-Palestinian conflict must focus on ending Israel’s occupation and establishing an independent Palestinian state, according to Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian ambassador to the UN. He told Arab News said that efforts at the UN relating to Palestine this year have fallen into three distinct phases.
JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia is expanding its use of technology in all fields from education, medicine and computer science to entertainment and electronic sports.
Last year, the Kingdom hosted “Gamers without Borders,” a $10 million charity prize fund to help combat the pandemic.
The world’s biggest gaming event was launched by ESL Gaming, the global e-sports giant responsible for numerous online and offline competitions.
Over the course of seven weeks, elite gamers came together to take part in one-off tournaments, with the winners donating part of the $10 million prize purse to international charities fighting coronavirus.
The Kingdom’s ability to host such large-scale events could make the country a beacon for e-sports competitions, according to industry insiders.
DUBAI: The Arab coalition destroyed two booby-trapped boats at the port of Salif in the Red Sea, foiling a planned Houthi attack, state TV Al-Ekhbariya reported. The Houthi militia continues to threaten shipping lines and global trade, the coalition said in a statement. Earlier, Saudi air defenses intercepted and destroyed the drone, launched by the Iran-supported militants
RIYADH: Spending on IT systems in Saudi Arabia is expected to rebound in 2021, after a slight decrease in 2020 as a result of the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a forecast by US-based research firm Gartner. According to a new report, $27.593 billion was spent on IT in the Kingdom in 2020, a decline of 1.6 percent compared to 2019. However, the figure