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QATARQATAR | Page 16 SPORT | Page 1 Al Duhail edge Al Sadd to enter Amir 3,000 Ethiopians take part in Community Day Cup fi nal published in QATAR since 1978 SATURDAY Vol. XXXIX No. 10816 May 12, 2018 Sha’baan 26, 1439 AH GULF TIMES www. gulf-times.com 2 Riyals Cruise tourism In brief to help Qatar excel, grow as a QATAR | Farming Agriculture yards set to close today The yards for selling local destination: QTA agriculture products are set to close today and resume operations ruise tourism, which has be- after the end of the upcoming come one of the most impor- holy month of Ramadan, general Ctant sectors of Qatar’s tourism, supervisor Abdulrahman al-Sulaiti will further help the country excel and has announced. A number of grow as a destination, Qatar Tourism frequent customers told local Arabic Authority’s acting chairman Hassan daily Arrayah that the yards have al-Ibrahim has said. helped them to get high quality Speaking on the sidelines of the and fresh products at reasonable cruise season closing ceremony prices. Customers said they would 2017/2018 in Doha recently, he noted like to see the yards function round Female demonstrators run for cover from teargas fired by Israeli forces during a protest where Palestinians demand the right that the cruise sector grew 39% (com- the year, including Ramadan. The to return to their homeland, at the Israel-Gaza border in the southern Gaza Strip, yesterday. pared to last cruise season), receiving yards were a boon to inhabitants of more than 65,000 visitors on board 22 Al Khor and the northern areas as it luxury and mega ships. provided them with good products. “In terms of people leaving the ship it was around 86%, it is one of the Hassan al-Ibrahim ARAB WORLD | Politics highest percentages if you compare it with the region or even global stand- service that tourism products are of- ‘Doha Document should ards,” al-Ibrahim said. fering,” al-Ibrahim explained. be base for Darfur peace’ “In terms of the satisfaction rates we “So we were able to achieve very Kuwait renewed late Thursday calls One Palestinian have achieved in the range of 89% to high rates when we compare ourselves for finding a political solution to the 93% and we are talking about the ho- to other destinations and it is at par conflict in Darfur, saying that the listic customer experience end to end,” with the strategies that we are having,” Doha Document should be the base he pointed out. he said. for peace in the Sudanese region. Data gathered by QTA shows that The probability of people visiting the Speaking to the meeting on the 86% of passengers disembarked and destination is 16 times higher if they UN mission in Darfur, Permanent enjoyed Qatar’s various off erings, with visit Qatar on a cruise ship, al-Ibrahim Representative of Kuwait at the killed, 170 hurt 53% preferring city tours, and 18% noted. UN headquarters in New York, choosing desert safaris. “Yes we will achieve 500,000 visi- ambassador Mansour al-Otaibi The cruise season continued from tors after the (2022 FIFA) World Cup lauded the recent UN Secretariat October 2017 to April 2018, and wit- but this is not the only thing that we report on the improving security nessed fi ve maiden voyages to Doha, are trying to achieve, customer expe- situation in Dafur, reported Kuwait made by MSC Splendida, Mein Schiff 5, rience is very important,” he stressed. news agency KUNA. Crystal Symphony, Europa 2 and Crys- “We also like to deepen the economic by Israeli fi re tal Serenity. impact of this sector while becoming a REGION | Diplomacy According to the senior QTA offi - turnaround port or a home port.” Kuwait-Philippines deal Agencies drone to down fl aming kites that pro- tests as peaceful, and said: “We hope cial, the importance of the cruise sec- “So people will start or end their Gaza City testers fl ew over the border in a bid to these incidents will pass without a tor is not only in terms of growth in journey from or in Qatar and this is to regulate labour torch bushes and distract snipers. large number of martyrs and wounded, the number of visitors or ships Qatar what we are trying to achieve hopefully Kuwait and the Philippines signed A report by the aid charity Save the and the occupation forces must re- receives annually. in the future,” al-Ibrahim said. a deal yesterday to regulate sraeli troops killed one Palestinian Children, published yesterday, said strain themselves.” “It helps us a lot also in understand- With the expansion that the Doha domestic workers, after a dispute and wounded at least 170 protest- that at least 250 Gazan children had Samir, a refugee whose grandfather ing our destination, what tourists are Port, he said it will be able to receive between the two countries led to a Iers in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian been hit with live bullets during the originally came from Jaff a, which now looking for and hence we focus so much two megaships at the same time within ban on Filipino workers in the Gulf medical workers said, bringing to 44 protests, among nearly 700 children lies 40 miles up the coast in Israel, on the tourist experience through our the next season (2018/2019). state. “A short time ago we signed the number killed during a six-week injured overall. rolled tyres towards the area close to sector,” he added. “The following seasons the capacity an agreement between the two protest at the Gaza-Israel border. The analysis was based on data col- the fence where he later burned them. “It also entails the visa facilitation will increase to four megaships simul- countries on the employment of The man killed was protesting east lected by the Palestinian Ministry of “My grandfather told me about Jaff a, process, the checks in the port, the taneously and we hope that by doing so domestic workers,” Foreign Minister of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, said Health in Gaza. where he came from, he said it was the logistics and transportation, the tours we will be able to accommodate more Sheikh Sabah al-Khaled al-Sabah medics, who said that seven other Human rights organisations say the bride of the sea, the most beautiful of that they are having and the quality of and more visitors,” al-Ibrahim added. told a joint press conference with people were critically injured, includ- army’s use of force is disproportionate all. I want to go back to Jaff a,” he said. his Filipino counterpart Alan Peter ing a 16-year-old youth who was shot to the threat posed by the Palestinians, “Killing me will not change any- Cayetano. Page 12 in the face. who throw rocks, burn tyres and hurl thing, Jaff a will remain Jaff a. They Organisers of the protest, called the petrol bombs. need to kill every last one of us to QATAR | Weather “Great March of Return,” said they The Gaza Strip, home to 2mn peo- change the facts.” Zarif to embark on diplomatic tour expected tens of thousands of Gazans ple, is run by Hamas which has fought US President Donald Trump’s rec- Heat surge and dusty at tented border encampments in the three wars against Israel in the past ognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital ran’s foreign minister will embark maining parties to the 2015 nuclear deal. wind expected today coming days. decade. infuriated Palestinians, who see the on a diplomatic tour to try to sal- Iran appeared determined not to be Mercury is expected to spike to The protests peak on Fridays and are Israel and Egypt maintain an eco- eastern part of the city as the capital of Ivage the nuclear deal amid high drawn into a wider regional confl ict early or mid 40s today, Qatar building to a climax on May 15, the day nomic blockade of the strip, which has their future state. tensions following the US withdrawal with Israel during the sensitive nego- Meteorological Department Palestinians call the “Nakba” or “Ca- the highest unemployment rate in the Separately, the border with Egypt, and global fears over reports of unprec- tiations. announced yesterday in a tweet. tastrophe”, marking the displacement world and has become far poorer than the only country apart from Israel with edented clashes with Israel in Syria. Zarif will hold high-pressure talks The heat surge is due to the eff ect of of hundreds of thousands of Palestin- the other main Palestinian territory, which Gaza shares a border, is set to Mohamed Javad Zarif will leave late with the other parties to the deal, fi rst in southerly dust-raising fresh to strong ians in the confl ict surrounding the the Israeli-occupied West Bank. open its crossing for four days start- today for visits to Beijing, Moscow and Beijing and Moscow, and then with his wind. Caution is advised to avoid creation of Israel in 1948. On Thursday in Gaza, Hamas leader ing today, the Palestinian embassy in Brussels, a spokesman said yesterday, counterparts from Britain, France and direct sunlight, the Met off ice added. Witnesses said Israeli soldiers used a Yehya al-Sinwar described the pro- Cairo said. holding meetings with all fi ve of the re- Germany in Brussels on Tuesday.Page 3 China’s Shenzhen keen to exchange expertise with Doha By Ayman Adly ago. The government was able to con- portation buses in Shenzhen are elec- Shenzhen hosts the headquarters of ing press delegation from the Qatar, the Shenzhen vert it from a small remote fi shing vil- tric and the city is “committed to the some of the largest manufacturers in offi cials said the motivation to establish lage into a well-planned city whose concept of environment-friendly de- the world, such as BYD Auto Industry such co-operation between the Shen- GDP expanded to 2.24tn yuan in 2017, velopment”.