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Al Etihad
03-06-2025
- Business
- Al Etihad
Emirates Stallions Group launches boutique real estate developer
3 June 2025 11:33 ABU DHABI (ALETIHAD)Emirates Stallions Group, a subsidiary of International Holding Company (IHC), has announced the launch of Royal Development Holding, a boutique real estate developer created by consolidating its existing real estate subsidiaries into a single branded move marks a strategic shift in ESG's property development newly launched entity brings together specialised subsidiaries such as Royal Development Company (RDC) and Royal Architect Project Management (RAPM). It also sets the stage for introducing new entities to further enhance ESG's capabilities across the real estate value chain.'With Royal Development Holding, we are evolving the Royal Development name and scope of work,' said Kayed Ali Khorma, CEO of ESG. 'It will build lifestyle-driven communities to nurture growth, transform the everyday experience, and shape the future of living.'RDC, the flagship subsidiary, brings to the new holding company a 15-year legacy of excellence, having managed over 60 landmark projects in more than 15 countries. This consolidation will allow ESG to offer end-to-end real estate solutions, enabling it to stay competitive in a rapidly evolving Nazzal, General Manager of Royal Development Holding, commented: 'By listing several of the Group's real estate development and project management companies under Royal Development Holding, we are aligning with our vision of continuous growth and transformation. Innovation, sustainability, and creative design are at the heart of our future projects.'Royal Development Holding aims to position itself as a forward-thinking player in the boutique development space. As of March 21, 2025, ESG reported total assets of Dh3.68 billion, reinforcing its robust foundation for expansion both within the UAE and globally. It is a listed company at the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange, with a market cap of Dh2.75 billion. Source: Aletihad - Abu Dhabi
Scoop
26-05-2025
- Politics
- Scoop
More Government Double Standards On Palestine And It Greenlights Escalating Genocide
More Government Double Standards on Palestine and it Greenlights Escalating Genocide The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa is accusing Foreign Minister, Winston Peters of blatant double standards and giving it the green-light for its escalating attacks on Gaza. PSNA Co-Chair, Maher Nazzal says Peters publicly deplored the shooting of two Israeli Embassy staff in Washington last week, yet he kept silent on the killing of nine Palestinian children of the Al Najjar family in Khan Younis in a single Israeli airstrike just two days later. Late last week, Peters expressed his sympathy to the Israeli government, tweeting on behalf of the New Zealand government 'Our thoughts are with their loved ones'. Nazzal says months go by in Gaza without a word of objection from Peters that Israel is still starving the whole population in Gaza and carpet bombing them. 'Just over a week ago, top genocide scholars from around the world were unanimous in assessing Israel's actions amount to genocide.' 'Mr Peters' sympathies are, at least, consistent. He has sided with Israel from day one to the present.' 'I suspect Peters is letting his prejudices run amok as his term in office runs out,' Nazzal says.'Surely many, if not most, government MPs will be sickened by his sympathy towards representatives of the Israeli government, and mostly silence on the deaths of innocent Palestinians.' Nazzal says PSNA reiterates its call for New Zealand to impose wide-ranging and immediate sanctions on Israel. 'Israel has been happy to ignore the half-heated and pro-forma posturing by western governments over the past 19 months. Tel Aviv will interpret Peters' tweet as a subtle but clear diplomatic signal that its ok by Winston Peters that it can escalate its carnage in Gaza.'
Scoop
20-05-2025
- Politics
- Scoop
Israeli ‘Nine Truck Photo-Op' Doesn't Slow Gaza Genocide
The Israeli government approved nine truck aid convoy into Gaza is a cynical photo-op, according to the Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa. PSNA says the trucks are designed to appease and confuse both western news media and critics of Israeli genocide in Gaza. PSNA Co-Chair Maher Nazzal says the Israeli Prime Minister is openly reported in the Israeli media that leading backers of Israel in the United States are concerned that blocking food and other supplies entering Gaza is not a good look. 'These American politicians completely back Israeli war crimes of genocide and ethnic cleansing, but they worry that US and UK war supplies for Israel are in jeopardy if it looks like Israel is starving an entire civilian population to death.' 'The UN estimated that 600 trucks a day are required for minimum food, medicine and fuel supply. This was before Israel destroyed food production in Gaza itself. Nine truckloads – even if a few more follow – will make no difference.' Nazzal says the images of trucks entering Gaza will dominate what he describes as obedient media coverage. 'The indications are that Israel is escalating the military onslaught on Gaza to unprecedented ferocity.' 'Israel has wreaked nearly every building in the Gaza Strip. This new phase is to kill and drive the population of more than two million Palestinians, men, women and children, either onto tiny reservations in Gaza or into Africa. This is happening in full view of the world.' 'Leading international genocide scholars have just announced that Israel is conducting genocide. There are no ifs and buts about their conclusion.' 'We just hope that our Foreign Minister, Winston Peters, has been briefed on the most recent of Israeli war crimes and intentions.' 'He's scheduled to visit a number of South Asian countries next week. He'll be needing to end his silence on Israeli atrocities in Gaza and be able to tell foreign leaders what specific steps New Zealand is taking to help bring Israel to heel.'
Scoop
14-05-2025
- Politics
- Scoop
Commemorating 77 Years Of The Palestinian Nakba: A Call For Justice, Memory, And Solidarity
On 15 May 2025, Palestinians and their allies around the world mark Nakba Day, commemorating 77 years since the catastrophic displacement of over 750,000 Palestinians from their homes in 1948. Known as al-Nakba, or 'the Catastrophe,' this moment in history saw the systematic destruction of Palestinian villages, towns, and society — a tragedy whose consequences are still being felt today. For Palestinians, the Nakba is not confined to history books; it is a lived and ongoing reality. Millions remain refugees and exiles, denied their internationally recognised right of return, while those in the occupied Palestinian territories and within historic Palestine continue to endure military occupation, siege, and systematic oppression. "Nakba Day is a solemn reminder of both the injustice that befell the Palestinian people in 1948 and the ongoing violations of their rights to this day," said Maher Nazzal, spokesperson for the Palestine Forum of New Zealand. "It is a call to the international community — including here in Aotearoa — to stand with Palestinians in their struggle for freedom, justice, and self-determination." This year's commemoration comes amid intensified violence in Gaza, relentless settlement expansion in the West Bank, and a growing humanitarian catastrophe. The Palestine Forum of New Zealand calls on the New Zealand government to uphold its moral and legal responsibilities by advocating for an end to the occupation, supporting the right of return for refugees, and taking decisive action against ongoing violations of international law. "The Nakba is not a chapter of the past — it is a continuing story of dispossession and resistance," Nazzal added. "We urge all people of conscience to honour the memory of the Nakba by standing in solidarity with Palestine today."
Daily Maverick
21-04-2025
- Politics
- Daily Maverick
Media under siege: The alarming toll of war on Palestinian journalists in Gaza
More media workers have been killed in Gaza than in all the wars over a period of more than 100 years combined. That means more than 200 journalists have been killed during the Gaza conflict. Two Palestinian journalists and a media worker were burned alive in a targeted attack by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) in Gaza overnight on Sunday and Monday, 6 and 7 April 2025, once again highlighting the dangers faced by those covering the Gaza war and West Bank conflict. 'An Israeli airstrike on a tent in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday evening killed several journalists and a 27-year-old father who was working with an NBC News crew,' the channel reported. 'The strike killed Ahmed Mansour, an editor with the Palestine Today news agency, and his coworker Hilmi Al-Faqawi. Yousef Al-Khozindar, a father of two working with NBC News to procure supplies and fuel, was in the tent next door,' said NBC. The Committee to Protect Journalists denounced Israel's targeted airstrike that hit the media tent in the grounds of a hospital in Gaza, killing the two journalists and injuring seven others, and called on the international community to act to stop Israel killing Palestinian journalists. Cost of War report Al-Khozindar later died from his burns, bringing the death toll to three. Meanwhile, a Cost of War report by the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University in the US says the war in Gaza has, since 7 October 2023, killed more journalists than the US Civil War, World Wars 1 and 2, the Korean War, the Vietnam War (including the conflicts in Cambodia and Laos), the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s and 2000s and the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan combined. More than 200 journalists, the vast majority Palestinian, have been killed in this conflict. Reporters Without Borders stated in its press freedom report for 2024 that Israel, a country that has always prided itself on being the only democracy in the Middle East, had slid down to number 101 out of 180 countries for media freedom. South Africa came in at number 38. Omar Nazzal from the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, who was held in Israeli administrative detention, or detention without trial, said covering the conflict had always been tough for Palestinian journalists because of attacks by Israeli soldiers, but the situation had escalated significantly since Hamas' 7 October attack on Israel. 'It's a scary situation now because we never know when Israeli soldiers and settlers will shoot at us, beat us up, vandalise our cars or arrest us without charges,' said Nazzal in Jenin, where dozens of Palestinians have been killed, including gunmen. Palestinian civilians have also been forced from the Jenin refugee camp and its surrounds as Israel carries out a vast displacement campaign, which has resulted in more than 40,000 Palestinians being driven from their homes in several towns and cities in the West Bank. Nazzal said Israeli soldiers had also deliberately run over Palestinian journalists and destroyed their equipment. The deliberate targeting of Palestinian journalists has been investigated by several media organisations. The International Federation of Journalists said it had evidence that the Israeli army had deliberately targeted journalists, and some of these cases were now the subject of a complaint filed at the International Criminal Court. 'Longstanding pattern of impunity' The Committee to Protect Journalists called for an end to the longstanding pattern of impunity in cases of journalists killed by the IDF. Even before the October attack, the committee said a pattern of journalists being deliberately targeted and the consequent impunity was a problem. Several internationally renowned media outlets also carried out their own investigations into incidents in which Palestinian journalists were killed by the IDF, which then denied responsibility before deflecting blame. For example, the Washington Post did a forensic investigation into the killing of renowned Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who worked for Al Jazeera. She was shot dead by Israeli soldiers near the Jenin refugee camp in the northern Israeli-occupied Palestinian West Bank in 2022. The newspaper disputed Israel's original claim that Abu Akleh had been killed by 'indiscriminate gunfire' from Palestinian armed groups. Foreign journalists who have spent time in the West Bank and reported from there have also faced difficulties trying to cover the situation despite their foreign passports, Israeli government press accreditation and mostly white skins. While international media organisations investigate the intimidation and targeted killings and crunch the numbers, many foreign journalists don't need convincing. Intensified pressure Several foreign media teams, including Australia's ABC and CNN in the US, have been harassed and intimidated by both Israeli settlers and soldiers as they tried to cover West Bank violence. 'The repression of reporters in the West Bank and East Jerusalem has intensified in recent months despite the recent ceasefire in Gaza, which collapsed when Israel resumed its strikes on the Western Palestinian strip,' said Reporters Without Borders. 'In the eastern Palestinian territories, Israeli armed forces have shot at journalists, arrested them and restricted their movement.' Jafar Shtayeh, a photographer with AFP who has been on several assignments in the West Bank, has also been shot at and beaten up over the years by Israeli soldiers. 'However, the situation is way more serious because working as a journalist has now become a life-and-death event, and every time we cover a story we worry about getting out alive,' Shtayeh said. Wajjah Mufleh and Mujahid Mufleh, two Palestinian journalists from Beita, near Nablus in the West Bank, have in recent months been stopped regularly by the Israeli military as they enter and exit the village covering stories. 'We were assaulted, held for hours with our hands zip-tied and then released with no reason given for our detention. It's just a repeated pattern of harassment and intimidation,' Wajjah said. Reporters Without Borders traces Israel's disinformation campaign and its increasing repression of the media to the right-wing, conservative Israeli government and several laws passed by the Knesset, or parliament. These include a 2023 amendment to the anti-terrorism law that punishes those who 'systematically and continuously consume terrorist publications', or who broadcast 'a direct call to commit an act of terrorism'. 'Its broad interpretation in the context of war carries risks for press freedom,' Reporters Without Borders said. A second law, approved by Parliament in 2024, makes it possible to prohibit the broadcast of foreign media that allegedly threatens state security. Palestinians have also been arrested and charged simply for expressing sympathy for Gaza or sharing posts by resistance groups. Attacks by organised crime and police brutality during protests are the main concerns in terms of the safety of journalists in Israel. Twenty-three journalists are being detained at present. Meanwhile, the Foreign Press Association in Israel has taken the Israeli government to court twice, demanding that the ban on journalists entering Gaza to cover the conflict be lifted. Twice this has been rejected, including by Israel's Supreme Court. DM
