400 kinds of dates on display at Al Jubail

July 28, 2013

Al Jubail, Jul 28: Tonnes of local dates will find their way to Iftar tables this Ramadan, as families and residents queue up at the Dates Exhibition now going on just outside the fruits and vegetable market at Al Jubail.

An annual event organised by the Sharjah Municipality, the Dates Exhibition, which started on June 20 and will continue for three months, opens at 3pm until Iftar time.

Pakistani national Mohammed Aqbal said that the Dates Exhibition was a great initiative since people knew where to get the dates fast in such a hot weather, and get a chance to choose from so many kinds of dates in one place.

Ali Shaaban from Egypt said he went to the Dates Exhibition twice a week to buy at least three kilogrammes of dates for his family in Dubai. “I love the popular khaneizi. It’s so sweet and my kids like it.”

About 400 different kinds of UAE dates are on display, including lulu, khuddari, Nagal, khantaiz, khalas, khaneizi, sokari, and zahidi. A total of 25 shops are participating in this year’s exhibition.

Vishnu, an Indian date-seller, said his shop had many fresh dates, but the favourites were khaneizi, lulu and boumaan. “Daily, more than 200 customers come to buy, most of them come between 3pm and 5pm and an hour after Taraweeh prayers.”

Apart from Emirati families, expatriates from Saudi, Palestine, Iran, Iraq, Morocco, India, Pakistan, Egyptians and other Asians, Africans and Arabs also flock to the exhibition. The exhibition is aimed at helping date farmers to market and distribute their products and encourage them to grow more and different varieties of dates, said Sharjah Municipality Director-General Riyadh Aillan.

He said the exhibition was characterised by availability of all kinds of dates produced in the emirate.

“The municipality is very keen to support the farmers to increase the production and give more attention to date farming. The palm tree is a symbol of our origin and heritage, a source of good (insurance) for present and future.”

Al Aillan said the exhibition included 60 stalls in the fruits and vegetable market in Al Jubail area and Sharjah Cooperative Societies in Al Garayen and Helwan.

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Trail of death and destruction as Israel expands ground invasion of Gaza

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April 4,2025

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In Gaza City, the Israeli military said ground troops had begun pushing into the Shejaiya neighborhood to expand the so-called "security zone" there, claiming that civilians had been allowed to evacuate the area.

Initial reports, however, said a Palestinian woman and her daughter were just killed in an Israeli artillery shelling on displaced people in Shejaiya.

Gaza's civil defense agency said Israeli military aggression had killed at least 30 people in the Palestinian territory since dawn, adding that the toll was "not final".

A single Israeli strike on Khan Yunis killed at least 25 people, a medical source at the southern city's Nasser Hospital said.

"The situation is very dangerous, and there is death coming at us from every direction," Elena Halas told AFP reportedly via text message, adding that she and her family were trapped in her sister's house in Shejaiya.

Israel has pushed since the collapse of a short-lived truce in the war to seize territory in Gaza. Simultaneously, it has escalated attacks on Lebanon and Syria, with a strike in the south Lebanese city of Sidon killing a Hamas commander along with his son on Friday.

Minister of military affairs Israel Katz had said on Wednesday that Israel would bolster its military presence inside the Gaza Strip to "seize large areas that will be incorporated into Israeli security zones", without specifying how much territory.

Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the military was dividing Gaza and "seizing territory" to force Hamas to free the remaining captives seized in the October 2023 operation inside southern settlements.

Netanyahu has said his regime is working closely with the US to implement President Donald Trump's plan to displace Gazans.

Latest air raids have targeted Gaza City, as well as Beit Lahia, Rafah, and Khan Yunis, killing dozens of people and injuring several others.

On Thursday, hundreds of thousands of fleeing Gazans sought shelter in one of the biggest mass displacements of the war, as Israeli forces advanced into the ruins of the city of Rafah.

A day after declaring their intention to capture large swathes of the crowded territory, Israeli forces pushed into the city on Gaza's southern edge which had served as a last refuge for people fleeing other areas for much of the war.

The Ministry of Health in Gaza said on Thursday that 112 Palestinians were killed by Israeli airstrikes, with at least 70 of those deaths taking place in Gaza City, in the north of the strip.

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