Human Rights

05 March 2022; MEMO: In light of international support for Ukraine, Palestinians have called for the international community to stop its double-standards policy and back the Palestinian cause.

"When colour, religion and race become an identity, its when values, morals and humanity are lost," member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), Hussein Al-Sheikh, posted on Twitter.

05 March 2022; MEMO: Israeli media outlets have revealed the number of settlers in the occupied West Bank and the Jordan Valley, stressing that the percentage of settlers has increased by 43 per cent since 2011.

The newspaper Israel Today stated that the number of Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank and the Jordan Valley had reached 491,923 as of last January, distributed among approximately 150 settlements.

03 March 2022; MEMO: More than 100 members of staff at the University of Manchester (UoM) have signed a letter opposing the attempt to force out the director of the Whitworth Art Gallery, Alistair Hudson. The signatories called the move a "grave violation of academic and artistic freedom of expression."

03 March 2022; MEMO: Dozens of Tunisian politicians and human rights activists have organised a protest in front of the headquarters of the Military Court in the capital to express their solidarity with the former head of the National Bar of Association, Abderrazak Kilani, and their refusal to prosecute civilians before military courts.

Jaipur, Mar 3 (PTI) Indian students who returned here from Ukraine said the situation at the war-hit country's border with Romania was horrific, with Ukranian soldiers thrashing Indians and firing tear gas shells.

The eight students who arrived here after fleeing the war-torn nation amid the intense Russian military offensive also accused the Indian embassy officials in Ukraine of not extending any support.

03 March 2022; MEMO: Israeli security forces closed Sheikh Jarrah in the centre of occupied East Jerusalem on Wednesday in order to secure a rally organised by Israeli settlers in the neighbourhood, Anadolu has reported.

According to a Facebook post by the Wadi Hilweh Information Centre, the Israeli forces closed the neighbourhood with steel barriers and deployed more armed personnel at the checkpoints. Eyewitnesses said that Israeli police arrested a Palestinian youth while implementing the closure by force.

02 March 2022; MEMO: Requests from Palestinians attempting to leave or enter the Gaza Strip through the Israeli-controlled Erez Crossing are being rejected by the Israeli government if the required documents are headed "State of Palestine".

03 March 2022; MEMO: Palestinian MP, Ahmad Attoun, said yesterday that Israel's theft of Palestinian land in Jerusalem does not change the reality on the ground, the Palestinian Information Centre reported.

His remarks came following an Israeli Planning and Construction Committee's decision to steal the land of the centuries-old Muslim graveyard located east of Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque – Al-Yusufiyah Cemetery.

02 March 2022; MEMO: The United Arab Emirates has temporarily suspended a visa waiver for Ukrainian citizens, Kyiv's Embassy in the Gulf Arab State said, at a time thousands of people are fleeing war in Ukraine, Reuters reports.

The UAE decision went into effect on Tuesday, the Embassy said in a notice to citizens on its Facebook page, without providing a reason. Emirati authorities did not respond to a request for comment.

02 March 2022; MEMO:Qatar's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Sheikh Mohammed Al Thani, on Monday described Israel's occupation of Palestinian land as "one of the worst ongoing humanitarian crises."

Speaking at the 49th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council, he said: "The Israeli occupation of the Palestinian and Arab lands still represents a model of colonial occupation that has been transcended by history."