Gulf fund’s problems highlight Syria-aid-challenge
‘Issue is how to make sure money gets to the
right people’:
Two weeks after their bold promise, Saudi Arabia
and other wealthy Arab Gulf states have yet to start distributing
money from a multimillion-dollar fund designed to prop up Syria's
rebels and entice defections from President Bashar Assad's army,
Syrian opposition members and international officials say. The cash
program was outlined this month at a conference in Istanbul, where
representatives of the United States and more than 60 other nations
met to strengthen Syria's opposition and increase pressure on the
Assad regime.
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Palestinian inmates of Israeli jails begin mass hunger strike
At least 1,200 Palestinian inmates of Israeli
jails began an open-ended hunger strike on Tuesday as thousands of
people rallied across the occupied territories for Prisoners’ Day.
As crowds gathered in towns and cities across the West Bank and the
Gaza Strip, three-quarters of the 4,700 Palestinians held by Israel
began refusing food, said the Israel Prisons Service.
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