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Israeli troops on Saturday withdrew from the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, a day after storming the centre and arresting dozens of male medical staff and several male patients, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
The raid caused extensive damage to buildings around the hospital and its compound, witnesses told Wafa. Workers, patients and displaced people sheltering at the hospital were denied food, water and medicine while it was occupied, a witness said. Photos taken after the raid showed heavy damage to some rooms and vehicles in the hospital compound, including ambulances.
Israeli forces arrested all male medical staff as well as some sick and wounded patients after storming the hospital compound, the Gaza Health Ministry said, while women were held in a room inside the hospital.
At least 44 of the medical centre's 70-member team were detained by the army, but 14 including the hospital director were later released, Reuters reported, citing medics.
At least two children died in the intensive care unit after the hospital’s generators stopped and the oxygen station was hit on Friday, the Health Ministry said.
The attack on Kamal Adwan, northern Gaza’s last functioning hospital, came as Israel pressed on with its 22-day siege in the north of the enclave, which UN human rights chief Volker Turk called “one of the darkest moments” of the conflict.
Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, the head of the hospital, said on Thursday that all of its departments had come under direct shelling, describing the situation as extremely “tragic and terrifying”. “Instead of receiving aid, we are receiving tanks,” he said in a video statement.
The Israeli military said it was operating near the hospital because militants were in the area.
Late on Friday, World Health Organisation director general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said three health workers and another employee had been injured and 44 detained, with four ambulances damaged.
Kamal Adwan “is still under siege, but we managed to get in touch with the staff”, Dr Tedros said on X, after an earlier post about losing communication with the staff. He said the WHO and partner agencies had reached the hospital late on Wednesday night and transferred 23 patients and 26 caregivers to the Palestinian territory's main Al Shifa Hospital.
“Kamal Adwan Hospital has been overflowing with close to 200 patients – a constant stream of horrific trauma cases,” he said on X. “We urge for hospitals, health workers and patients to be protected. Ceasefire!”
The siege and attacks on health workers occurred only hours after the WHO-led mission delivered essential supplies to keep the centre operational and took critical patients to Al Shifa Hospital, he said.
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The more serious side of specialty coffee
While the taste of beans and freshness of roast is paramount to the specialty coffee scene, so is sustainability and workers’ rights.
The bulk of genuine specialty coffee companies aim to improve on these elements in every stage of production via direct relationships with farmers. For instance, Mokha 1450 on Al Wasl Road strives to work predominantly with women-owned and -operated coffee organisations, including female farmers in the Sabree mountains of Yemen.
Because, as the boutique’s owner, Garfield Kerr, points out: “women represent over 90 per cent of the coffee value chain, but are woefully underrepresented in less than 10 per cent of ownership and management throughout the global coffee industry.”
One of the UAE’s largest suppliers of green (meaning not-yet-roasted) beans, Raw Coffee, is a founding member of the Partnership of Gender Equity, which aims to empower female coffee farmers and harvesters.
Also, globally, many companies have found the perfect way to recycle old coffee grounds: they create the perfect fertile soil in which to grow mushrooms.
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A new relationship with the old country
Treaty of Friendship between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United Arab Emirates
The United kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United Arab Emirates; Considering that the United Arab Emirates has assumed full responsibility as a sovereign and independent State; Determined that the long-standing and traditional relations of close friendship and cooperation between their peoples shall continue; Desiring to give expression to this intention in the form of a Treaty Friendship; Have agreed as follows:
ARTICLE 1 The relations between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United Arab Emirates shall be governed by a spirit of close friendship. In recognition of this, the Contracting Parties, conscious of their common interest in the peace and stability of the region, shall: (a) consult together on matters of mutual concern in time of need; (b) settle all their disputes by peaceful means in conformity with the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations.
ARTICLE 2 The Contracting Parties shall encourage education, scientific and cultural cooperation between the two States in accordance with arrangements to be agreed. Such arrangements shall cover among other things: (a) the promotion of mutual understanding of their respective cultures, civilisations and languages, the promotion of contacts among professional bodies, universities and cultural institutions; (c) the encouragement of technical, scientific and cultural exchanges.
ARTICLE 3 The Contracting Parties shall maintain the close relationship already existing between them in the field of trade and commerce. Representatives of the Contracting Parties shall meet from time to time to consider means by which such relations can be further developed and strengthened, including the possibility of concluding treaties or agreements on matters of mutual concern.
ARTICLE 4 This Treaty shall enter into force on today’s date and shall remain in force for a period of ten years. Unless twelve months before the expiry of the said period of ten years either Contracting Party shall have given notice to the other of its intention to terminate the Treaty, this Treaty shall remain in force thereafter until the expiry of twelve months from the date on which notice of such intention is given.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned have signed this Treaty.
DONE in duplicate at Dubai the second day of December 1971AD, corresponding to the fifteenth day of Shawwal 1391H, in the English and Arabic languages, both texts being equally authoritative.
Signed
Geoffrey Arthur Sheikh Zayed
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