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BUSINESS | Page 1 SPORT | Page 1 Foreign perceptions Tennis: Roger of Qatar’s fi nancial Federer heads situation remain for rethink aft er ‘upbeat’: IIF Geneva fi rst round loss published in QATAR since 1978 WEDNESDAY Vol. XXXXII No. 11918 May 19, 2021 Shawwal 7, 1442 AH GULF TIMES www. gulf-times.com 2 Riyals Qatar’s rower Tala Abujbara qualifies for Tokyo Olympics Sheikh Hamad hospital in Gaza damaged Team Qatar rower Tala Abujbara has qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, Qatar News Agency reported yesterday. Tala’s in Israeli ‘bombings’; suspends services qualification came through her participation in the Asia and Oceania Rowing Qualification Championship ervices at His Highness Sheikh in Kuwait, where she achieved a Hamad Hospital for Rehabilita- time of 8.20 minutes in the 2,000m Stion and Artifi cial Limbs in Gaza, race. Tala had previously won the funded by the Qatar Fund for Develop- gold medal at the second Arab ment (QFFD), have been suspended Championship in Indoor Rowing, after the hospital’s main building and which was hosted by Kuwait in 2018. departments suff ered signifi cant dam- age due to continuous Israeli bombing Minister’s remarks in the surrounding areas. Dr Rafat Lubbad, director-general of anger Gulf states the hospital, strongly condemned the Lebanon’s president said yesterday bombing in a press statement yester- that critical comments made by the day. foreign minister about Gulf states Dr Lubbad said the bombing nega- did not reflect off icial policy, seeking tively aff ected the hospital’s abil- to avoid further strain on ties with ity to provide its services, which were countries that have been Lebanon’s stopped due to concerns for the safety allies and donors. Lebanese Foreign of staff and patients. Minister Charbel Wehbe stoked Funded by QFFD and implemented tensions in a television interview on by the National Committee for the Monday, when he appeared to blame Reconstruction of Gaza in coopera- Gulf nations for the rise of Islamic tion with the Ministry of Public Health State in Iraq and Syria. Wehbe said of Qatar, the hospital serves disabled yesterday his comments had been people through its three departments misrepresented and President - prosthetics, rehabilitation and audi- Michel Aoun said the minister’s ology. comments were his “personal Qatar had sent a number of doctors opinion” and praised “brotherly” ties to operate and train the medical staff . with the Gulf. Page 5 Qatar opened His Highness Sheikh Hamad Hospital , the fi rst prosthetic Plea to evacuate Afghan hospital and disability rehab centre in A view of the damage caused to the hospital. A view of the damage caused to the hospital. the Gaza Strip, in April 2019. allies before pullout The hospital has 100 beds and of- to become the largest medical institu- services at the Sheikh Hamad hospital which housed a number of media insti- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin US lawmakers pleaded yesterday for fers services to people who lost their tion for rehabilitation and prosthetic has dealt another blow to the already tutions, including Al Jazeera offi ces, in Netanyahu has vowed to continue the the evacuation of thousands of allies limbs because of confl ict or accidents. limbs,” said Khalifa bin Jassim al- stretched health facilities in Gaza. the Gaza Strip. military onslaught on the coastal en- in Afghanistan, fearing a bloodbath Children with hearing impairment or Kuwari, director general of the Qatar On Monday, Qatar expressed its Israel’s intense bombing campaign clave “as long as necessary”. as America ends its longest war, but motor disabilities can fi nd treatment in Fund, in comments made at the open- strong condemnation of the Israeli oc- on Gaza has killed 213 Palestinians, Israeli strikes that again sent fi re- the administration brushed off fears the state-of-the-art, 12,000-square- ing of the facility. cupation’s bombing of the Qatar Red including 61 children, and wounded balls, debris and black smoke into the the Kabul government would quickly metre facility. Israel’s incessant bombing campaign Crescent Society (QRCS) building in more than 1,400 people in Gaza in sky have levelled homes and multi- crumble. Some 18,000 Afghan “This hospital was built under the has destroyed much of the infrastruc- the besieged Gaza Strip, which resulted more than a week of fi ghting against story towers, cratered roads and left interpreters, commandos and others full supervision of [Qatar] … and in ac- ture , including health facilities in the in several deaths and injuries. Earlier, Islamist group Hamas, according to two million Palestinians in Gaza des- who backed US forces are waiting cordance with international standards, besieged enclave. The suspension of Israel had also bombed Al-Jalaa tower, the health ministry in Gaza. perate for reprieve. Page 5 for decisions on visas to emigrate to the United States, a backlog that lawmakers say could take more than two years. “We cannot allow Kabul to be another Saigon,” Representative Mike McCaul said, at a hearing, QRCS to continue work in Gaza; Beware of fraudsters, referring to the chaotic helicopter lifts of people as US-allied South Vietnam fell in 1975. charity draws worldwide support says Qatar Post Cyclone pummels Indian coast, killing at least 29 By Ayman Adly By Joseph Varghese the country through Qatar Post. For The Indian Navy mounted a Staff Reporter Staff Reporter instance, there are a large number of massive air and sea rescue mission orders for medicines from the Primary yesterday for 79 oil workers and Health Care Corporation (PHCC) and crew whose barge sank in heavy day after its offi ce in the Gaza atar Post has cautioned its cus- other institutions, and these are being seas following a powerful cyclone Strip was bombed by Israeli tomers to be aware of fraudu- delivered by Qatar Post. that tore up the west coast killing at A forces, Qatar Red Crescent So- Qlent e-mails, SMSes or tel- As the PHCC collects only the least 29 people. Around 182 of those ciety (QRCS) vowed to continue with ephone calls asking for payment or amount for the medicine online, the on board the barge, which sank off its humanitarian projects for the ben- personal banking information. postal charges are paid through credit the coast of Mumbai, were rescued efi t of the Palestinian people in the Qatar Post has sent an SMS say- or debit card while the medicines are from the huge waves, the navy said. occupied territories, even as support ing “Dear customer, please be aware delivered at the given address. Scam- Cyclone Tauktae, the most powerful poured in for the organisation follow- of fraudulent telephone calls, SMS or sters are making use of this and fi nding storm to batter the west coast in ing the attack. phishing e-mails asking for your cred- it an opportunity to trick customers by two decades, ripped out power In a statement to Gulf Times yester- it/debit card number or any personal sending messages and asking them to pylons, trees and caused house day, QRCS said co-ordination is cur- banking information. Please be careful pay the delivery charges online before collapses killing at least 29 people, rently on to provide aid and support and report any suspicious calls, SMS or the actual delivery of medicines. authorities said. Page 7 worth $1mn to help those aff ected by emails to Qatar Post Help Desk at 104.” A couple of days ago, a reader of Gulf the recent events, in co-operation Due to the prevailing Covid-19 pan- Times got a message seemingly from Macron to visit with the Palestinian Red Crescent demic situation, citizens and residents Qatar Post asking for a payment of Rwanda this month Society. have been availing of various serv- QR10.89 as charges for the delivery of On Monday, Qatar had expressed ices provided by diff erent entities in medicines. To Page 4 French President Emmanuel Macron its strong condemnation of the Israeli said he would make his first visit to occupation’s bombing of the QRCS Taking stock of the damage caused to the QRCS building. Rwanda at the end of this month, a building in the besieged Gaza Strip, Putin lauds close ties with Qatar possible breakthrough in relations which resulted in several deaths Thani, chairman of the QRCS Board Turkish envoy overshadowed by France’s role and injuries as well as damage to the of Directors, expressed strong con- as envoy presents credentials during the 1994 genocide. “I confirm building. demnation of the continued Israeli condemns attack I am going to Rwanda at the end of QRCS said all international organi- attacks on civilians, medical facili- the month. The visit will be one of sations concerned have been notifi ed ties and humanitarian institutions on QRCS office politics and remembrance but also about the Israeli violations, stressing operating in the Gaza Strip, which on QNA economic,” Macron said at the end of that great support and solidarity have Monday targeted the headquarters Turkish ambassador to Qatar Moscow an Africa summit in Paris. He added been extended to QRCS at the level of of the QRCS in Gaza, stressing that Dr Mustafa Goksu has strongly he had agreed with his Rwandan governments, international organisa- these attacks represented a fl agrant condemned the bombing of the counterpart Paul Kagame “to write a tions as well as the public. violation of the international human- Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) ussian President new page in relations”. Sheikh Abdullah bin Thamer al- itarian law. To Page 2 off ice in Gaza by Israel, stressing Vladimir Putin received that targeting such humanitarian Rthe credentials of HE Pelosi calls for boycott aid organisations is an evidence of Sheikh Ahmed bin Nasser al- the excessive and indiscriminate Thani as Qatar’s ambassador of China’s ’22 Olympics force used by the occupation Extraordinary and Plenipo- US House of Representatives forces that clearly violates the tentiary to Russia.