ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Doha Bank head Ali, Anderson ‘Best Banking lead England Chairman’ rout of India Business | 17 Sport | 28 Sunday 10 August 2014 • 14 Shawwal 1435 • Volume 19 Number 6153 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Investors in Qatar raises real estate over QR148m eyeing Doha outskirts DOHA: With project works of for Gaza relief Doha Metro rail picking up, real estate investors are increas- ingly looking to invest in the Funds pour in at festival in one night outskirts of the city, the areas covering an estimated over DOHA: In an exemplary show Qatar Red Crescent (QRC) and 100km network. of solidarity with the people Katara held a press conference There is a growing appetite to of Gaza, donations from Qatar yesterday at Katara to announce invest money in the interiors like crossed QR148m in one night. the donations, in the presence of Al Shamal, Al Khaisa, Umm Salal Katara had launched Solidarity Palestinian Ambassador, Munir and Al Kharaitiyat. Festival in support of Gaza on Ghannam. Works on metro project are Friday, in cooperation with The QRC President, fast progressing. Simultaneously, Qatari Red Crescent, Qatar TV, Mohammed bin Ghanem Al Ali Al the government is investing huge Al Rayyan TV and q.media. Maadheed, said the campaign to amount of money in the interiors During the opening of the fes- provide aid for Gaza will continue, to develop infrastructure facili- tival, donations poured in from all and called on the public to par- A Palestinian protester carries a burning tyre during clashes with Israeli soldiers at the entrance of the Jewish ties with the support of concerned sections of society, including indi- ticipate in the campaign not just settlement of Psagot near the Palestinian town of Al Bireh yesterday. municipal authorities. viduals, student unions, companies with financial support, but also The civic bodies have also set and financial institutions. with media and political support aside enough money in their Qatar Petroleum emerged as the through the use of traditional and annual budgets to expand public largest institutional donor with an social media to condemn Israel’s Israel raids Gaza amid new truce calls service facilities in their areas, announcement of QR10m. attacks on Gaza. adding incentives to investors. Qatar Islamic Bank, Commercial Al Maadheed said QRC was GAZA CITY: Israeli war- scheduled to arrive in the city, out more than 100 strikes in Gaza In Al Shamal, 12 major com- Bank and Al Rayan Bank donated cooperating with Arab Red planes pummelled Gaza with where a Palestinian team and since Friday morning, 49 of them mercial complexes are under con- QR3m each while Al Ahli Bank, Crescent and Red Cross to deliver 50 air strikes that killed eight Egyptian mediators are waiting. yesterday. In the occupied West struction and several projects are Qatar International Islamic Bank, donations to the people of Gaza. Palestinians yesterday as mili- But an Israeli official said Bank, 15 Palestinian youth were in the designing stage. Doha Bank, Al Khaliji Bank, Qatar QRC has an office in Gaza that is tants slammed 25 rockets into talks could not take place until injured in clashes with Israeli These development works are Electricity and Watar Corporation coordinating with the Palestinian Israel amid mounting calls for a Palestinian rocket fire halted. troops in the town of Hebron. encouraging investors to put their and Rasgas donated QR2m each. Ministry of Health to estimate fresh ceasefire. “The Egyptian initiative was The conflict has killed at least money in these emerging town- Barwa Bank donated QR2.5m the needs of the people in terms Britain, France and Germany based on two stages in a consecu- 1,914 Palestinians and 67 on the ships, Roots Real Estate General while Qafco and Qatar Steel QR1m of clean water, medicine, shelter urged Israel and Hamas to agree tive order. “First, unconditional Israeli side since July 8. Manager, Ahmed Al Arouqi, told each. and electricity. a truce at once. ceasefire, and after implementa- A Palestinian official said Egypt an Arabic daily. Major donations from individu- The General Manager of “We call upon all parties imme- tion of it there would be discus- and the Palestinians had reached Similarly, a large number of als totalled QR21m with one indi- Katara, Dr Khalid bin Ibrahim diately to return to a ceasefire. sions in Cairo. The first stage has a draft agreement for submission development works are also in the vidual announcing a donation of Al Sulaiti, thanked everyone who We fully support the ongoing still not been implemented.” to Israel. It would see Egypt and pipeline in and around Al Khaisa, QR10m. participated in the festival. He efforts by Egypt to this end,” said Gaza emergency services said the Palestinian Authority (PA) Umm Salal and Al Kharaitiyat. Qatar Student Union in United said the festival aimed to aid the a statement from foreign minis- eight men were killed in Israeli take control of the Rafah border The remote Al Kharaitiyat States and Al Sailiya Club donated Palestinian people living through ters Laurent Fabius of France, raids. The Palestinian interior crossing into Egypt, essentially recently hit the headlines after QR100,000 each. Some other com- a horrific humanitarian crisis Philip Hammond of Britain and ministry said Israeli jets destroyed activating part of a unity accord a plot in the area was sold at a panies also announced major dona- and Katara’s role in supporting Frank-Walter Steinmeier of three mosques. The army said 25 Hamas signed with PA in April. record QR19,091 per sqm. tions to show their solidarity with humanitarian causes that promote Germany. rockets rained on Israel, bring- Negotiations on the sea port Deals involving open lands have the people of Gaza. charitable and aid work. Donations A Palestinian official said indi- ing to 63 the number of projectiles would be entrusted to PA, with increased manifolds in the area Sheikh Thani bin Abdulla Al can be made by phone or at any rect negotiations for a ceasefire launched at the Jewish state since whom Israel is prepared to deal. over the past several months. Thani, Chairman of Dar Al Sharq of QRC’s check-points and offices. were expected to resume in Cairo a 72-hour truce ended on Friday AGENCIES THE PENINSULA donated QR250,000. THE PENINSULA today with an Israeli delegation morning. Israel said it had carried See also page 5 Continued on page 4 Water tanker SCH issues travel alert over Ebola Obama: Iraq solution to take time DOHA: The Supreme Council of Health (SCH) has warned Qataris carrying diesel and residents against travelling to Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia WASHINGTON: President and Nigeria, all of which have been affected by Ebola outbreaks. Barack Obama said yesterday The advisory is valid until further notice. US air strikes have destroyed seized, driver Those who need to travel to these countries should follow strict arms and equipment that infection prevention and control measures, the SCH said in a statement Islamic State insurgents could arrested yesterday. Travellers should wash their hands, avoid direct contact have used to attack Arbil, with the blood and other body fluids of others, use personal protective the Iraqi Kurdish capital, but DOHA: The Ministry of equipment, avoid skin-piercing instruments and practise safe hygienic warned Americans it could take Environment (MoE) patrols measures. The SCH again confirmed that there was no suspected or some time to end the crisis. seized a potable water tanker confirmed case of Ebola in Qatar as of yesterday. “I don’t think we’re going to transporting diesel on Shamal The SCH is engaged in local, regional and international contacts solve this problem in weeks. road. as part of preparations to participate in a GCC meeting on Ebola in This is going to take some time,” A patrolling squad handed over Riyadh on August 13. Dr Tawfiq bin Ahmed Khoja, Director-General, Obama told reporters before leav- the vehicle and the driver to secu- Executive Board of the GCC Health Ministers Council, said the meeting ing Washington for a two-week rity authorities. aims to put in place precautionary measures to protect Gulf citizens vacation in Massachusetts. In a separate incident, another in the event of an outbreak of Ebola. In a scheduled expanded meet- Obama said the US would con- patrolling squad of the ministry ing tomorrow, officials from the SCH, Hamad Medical Corporation, tinue to provide military assist- rounded up a truck driver for not Primary Health Care Corporation, Qatar Airways, QP, the Ministry of ance and advice to the Baghdad properly covering the materials Interior, and the army will discuss potential Ebola outbreak scenarios government and Kurdish forces, Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters take position on the front line in Makhmur, loaded in his vehicle. and the appropriate preventive and control measures. but stressed repeatedly the about 280km north of Baghdad, during clashes with Islamic State militants The team also seized the vehi- Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia’s health ministry yesterday said initial importance of Iraq forming an yesterday. cle and handed over to police. tests on a dead Saudi suspected of having contracted Ebola had inclusive government “right now.” This is the second time the returned negative. The man died on Wednesday after returning from “I think this a wake-up call for who have been seizing territory in now is the Iraqi government get- ministry has seized a water a business trip to Sierra Leone and presenting symptoms similar to a lot of Iraqis inside of Baghdad northern Iraq, a limited operation ting formed and finalised.” tanker carrying diesel from Al those of Ebola sufferers.