{"id":18796,"date":"2018-10-17T04:25:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T04:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18796"},"modified":"2018-10-17T04:25:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T04:25:10","slug":"rocket-fired-on-israel-from-gaza-israeli-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18796","title":{"rendered":"Rocket fired on Israel from Gaza: Israeli army"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nMOSUL: When Shahed was born in 2015 her father tried to notify Iraq\u2019s civil registry. The problem was, their city of Mosul was held by Daesh group and the office had been shut.<\/p>\n

Three years later, 39-year-old Ahmed Aziz has yet to officially register his daughter\u2019s birth, the certificate for which bears the seal of the so-called caliphate.
Under the late summer sun, the taxi driver braves a long queue outside Mosul\u2019s reopened civil registry, hoping that by the end of the day Shahed\u2019s name will finally appear in state records.
The little girl was born just a year after Daesh swept across the country, seizing swathes of territory including Iraq\u2019s second city Mosul.
\u201cThe civil registry was closed,\u201d said Aziz, holding the IS-stamped document issued by a hospital in Mosul.
But since Iraqi forces ultimately regained control of the city in July 2017 after a bloody months-long campaign, residents have flooded the city\u2019s reopened offices.
Thousands of children like Shahed had been born under Daesh rule, and the extremists had systematically blown up civil offices and archives.
\u201cI saw this massive rush to get to the public offices, so I preferred to wait a bit before going there too,\u201d said Aziz.
As a result, his daughter does not yet officially exist.
During the Daesh\u2019s reign, thousands of Iraqis who lived in areas controlled by Daesh virtually disappeared from state registers.\"\"
Some lost their identity documents as neighborhoods turned into battle zones, others as they fled the violence.
Many of those who remained were given documents from Daesh\u2019s proto-state \u2014 ministries and courts created by the jihadists to register births, marriages, deaths and trade agreements alike.
None of that paperwork has been recognized by Iraqi authorities.
When Zein Mohammed got married in 2014, he and his soon-to-be wife had to present themselves at an IS court to seal the deal.
What should have been the best day of the now 29-year-old civil servant\u2019s life was instead a test.
\u201cI appeared in front of the judge with my fiancee \u2014 she was covered head-to-toe in black,\u201d he told AFP.
Under Daesh rule, Mosul\u2019s residents were forced to bow to the jihadists ultra-conservative demands.
Women were compelled to fully cover themselves in black veils and long robes, and civil cases were heard by courts that dealt out death sentences and corporal punishment for \u201csins..\u201d
\u201cThe judge issued us a marriage certificate bearing the IS seal,\u201d said Mohammed.
When Iraqi forces retook the city and courts reopened, he and his wife rushed to sign a new marriage contract.
Now, packed in among the crowd outside Mosul\u2019s civil registry, Mohammed is hoping to finally regularize their marital status.
Iraqi civil servants are working around the clock to meet the massive demand, compiling files, verifying identities and registering official documents and certificates.
It is a titanic job, often slowed due to additional safeguards imposed by Iraqi security services in the former IS stronghold.
To weed out fake IDs and spot jihadists seeking to slip through the cracks, \u201cintelligence services check each document,\u201d head of Mosul\u2019s registry office General Hussein Mohammed Ali told AFP.
But the added security measures have not hampered progress.
\u201cMore than a million certified documents and more than 2,000 passports have already been issued,\u201d he said.
Mustafa Thamer, a 23-year-old student, is applying for his first passport even though he has no plans to travel soon.
\u201cWe say we must have a passport so that we can leave whenever we want,\u201d he told AFP.
\u201cWe lived under IS occupation and we no longer trust the future of the city,\u201d he said.
\u201cAnything can happen in Mosul.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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