Human Rights

05 Dec 2022; MEMO: The Palestinian Authority (PA) has asked the international community to deal with the Israeli occupation state as an "apartheid regime", Wafa news agency reported yesterday.

In a statement, the PA's Foreign Ministry said: "The occupying state is not only perpetuating the occupation, but is also aspiring to annex more areas of the occupied West Bank through a long series of expansionist colonial measures and statements by far-right leaders."

03 Dec 2022; MEMO: Israeli occupation authorities are deciding whether to bar Francesca Albanese, the special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied Since 1967, from entering occupied lands, Israeli media revealed on Friday.

03 Dec 2022; MEMO: The number of deaths among political prisoners inside the Badr Prison Complex in Cairo has risen to four, just a few months after opening the huge complex. This follows the death of detainee Hassan Diab Hassan inside his cell in Badr 3 Prison due to medical negligence.

04 Dec 2022; MEMO: EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has condemned the shooting of a young Palestinian by an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank, reports Anadolu Agency.

On Friday, Palestinian activists shared a video on social media of an Israeli soldier while scuffling with a young man in Huwara town, south of Nablus city.

As the young man, who was identified as Ammar Mefleh, tried to escape, the Israeli soldier shot him at point blank, leaving him badly injured. The Palestinian was later pronounced dead.

04 Dec 2022; MEMO: The Israeli army bombed two sites Sunday belonging to the Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip with no casualties reported, according to an Israeli official, reports Anadolu Agency.

"The warplanes attacked a weapons workshop, which is a significant center where rockets belonging to the Hamas are produced," Army spokesman Avichay Adraee wrote on Twitter.

Warplanes also targeted a tunnel belonging to Hamas in southern Gaza, said Adraee.

Barwani (MP), Dec 3 (PTI) A government school teacher has been suspended for attending the Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Yatra in Madhya Pradesh's Barwani district, an official said on Saturday.

Rajesh Kannoje, a teacher with a primary school under the state's Tribal Affairs Department in Kanasya, was suspended on November 25, a day after he took part in the yatra. The issue came to light after his suspension order surfaced on social media.

02 Dec 2022; MEMO: A group of Israeli settlers stole dozens of honey bee hives and olive harvesting equipment from Palestinian farms in the Occupied West Bank village of Deir Sharaf, based in Nablus, reported Wafa news agency.

According to Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian official who monitors Israeli settlement activities in the Nablus district, the settlers sneaked their way into a farm belonging to Aziz Antari, a local villager and stole 30 honey bee hives and olive picking equipment.

02 Dec 2022; MEMO: An Israeli soldier executed, on Friday, a Palestinian youth in the West Bank city of Nablus following a short scuffle between them, eyewitnesses said.

The Israeli soldier carried out the execution at point-blank range, in the centre of Huwwara, to the south of Nablus.

03 Dec 2022; MEMO: The Israeli occupation army on Friday declared the city of Hebron a "closed military zone" to prevent a tour organised by human rights organisations with the participation of hundreds of activists in the city. This came a week after the occupation soldiers in the city attacked Israeli activists who showed solidarity with the city's residents against settler attacks.

01 Dec 2022; MEMO: Israeli Prime Minister-designate, Benjamin Netanyahu, reached a coalition deal with the far-right Religious Zionism party, bringing him closer to securing a new government after an election last month, Netanyahu's Likud party said on Thursday, Reuters reports.

Religious Zionism will be given, among other portfolios, control of the Finance Ministry as part of a rotation, Likud said, though it did not provide details on how the rotation would work.