Human Rights

11 June 2021; MEMO: Israeli occupation forces have shot dead at least three Palestinians, including two Palestinian Authority (PA) intelligence officers, in a predawn raid in the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian authorities said today.

11 June 2021; MEMO: Former US President Donald Trump would have "unconditionally" supported Israel in its latest onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said.

"We, in the previous administration, would have done it differently. We would immediately clarify our support for Israel without reservation," Pompeo said in an interview with Israel's Yedioth Ahronoth.

9 June 2021; MEMO: Israeli officials announced today that they will allow a far-right march through Jerusalem's Old City to go ahead next week, despite cancelling the event yesterday due to fears of renewed tension between the occupation state and Palestinian resistance groups in Gaza. Hamas had warned against allowing the so-march through the Old City's Muslim quarter.

10 June 2021; MEMO: Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia have been named among the countries that are deporting Uyghur Muslims to China, raising concerns about Beijing's growing reach, CNN reports.

10 June 2021; MEMO: Israeli occupation forces yesterday raided the headquarters of a leading healthcare organisation in the occupied West Bank city of Al-Bireh and ordered it to close for six months, a statement issued by the organisation said.

Muzaffarnagar, Jun 9 (PTI) A woman died under suspicious circumstances at her house in Khedi Sarai village here on Wednesday, police said.

According to police, they have lodged a case on the complaint of her parents, who alleged that she was killed by her in-laws.

Puja's parents told police that she had married Manoj Kumar around two years ago and her in-laws were harassing her.

They told police that Puja's in-laws informed them that she died from coronavirus.

(AP) --- The Biden administration is laying the groundwork for a renewed push to encourage more Arab countries to sign accords with Israel and working to strengthen existing deals after last month’s devastating war in the Gaza Strip interrupted those diplomatic efforts.

The embrace of the so-called Abraham Accords is a rare carryover of a signature Trump administration policy by President Joe Biden and other Democrats.

09 June 2021; AA: Turkey’s Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that a UN court in The Hague’s upholding of a life sentence for Ratko Mladic for his part in the genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina was the right call, although it would not reduce the pain of the relatives of the victims.

09 June 2021; MEMO: Hamas yesterday condemned the latest remarks made by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in which he endorsed the Israeli occupation's "right to defend itself".

"Blinken gives the Israeli occupation a greenlight to continue its aggression on the Palestinian people," Hamas said in a statement.

Kolkata, Jun 9 (PTI) Farmer leaders led by Rakesh Tikait and Yudhvir Singh of the Bharatiya Kisan Union will be meeting West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday to elicit her support for the ongoing farmers' stir against the new agriculture laws and for a Minimum Support Price for farm produce.

Banerjee's support for the agitation which has drawn on the farmer community in rural north India, is being viewed as a potential booster which has been flagging in recent weeks.