Human Rights

23 Mar 2020; MEMO: UN humanitarian coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territory said that there can be frightening consequences of coronavirus in Gaza Strip that is under the Israeli blockade, Anadolu Agency reports.

Jamie McGoldrick told UN News that a possible COVID-19 outbreak in Gaza can be terrible due to the long-term blockade, over population, and limited health facilities in the region.

23 Mar 2020; MEMO: The Head of the Hamas Political Bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, has called on Saudi Arabia’s King Salman Bin Abdulaziz to release Palestinians being held in his country’s prisons, fearing for their lives from the spread of the coronavirus, Anadolu has reported.

23 Mar 2020; MEMO: An Egyptian online opposition campaign has accused President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi of failing to deal with the coronavirus crisis that has swept the world in the past weeks, calling on Egyptians to confront Al-Sisi just like they need to confront COVID-19 because they are both dangerous for Egyptians’ lives and future.

The “Batel” movement said in a post on its Facebook page, which has more than 260,000 followers, that Al-Sisi and the coronavirus “are two sides of the same danger.”

RAMALLAH, Mar 23 (NNN-WAFA) – A Palestinian man was declared dead Sunday night, after being shot by Israeli soldiers, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Palestinian Ministry of Health, said.

Another Palestinian was hospitalised after being injured by Israeli gunfire, in the same incident, the ministry said in a statement.

The two men were driving to their home, in the village of Nilin, west of Ramallah, before they saw a military checkpoint at the village’s entrance, where they were shot at.

New Delhi, Mar 22 (PTI) An unidentified man allegedly opened fire and hurled a petrol bomb at the empty protest site outside the Jamia Millia Islamia on Sunday, according to officials and students of the university.

The Jamia Coordination Committee (JCC), comprising current and former students of the university, had temporarily suspended its sit-in protest against the new citizenship law on Saturday in view of the coronavirus outbreak.

Rajgarh (MP), Mar 21 (PTI) A four-year old girl was allegedly raped by an 18-year-old man at a village in Madhya Pradesh's Rajgarh district, an official said on Saturday.

The accused allegedly lured the minor girl, while she was playing outside her house, when her family was away on Friday afternoon and raped her, Chhapiheda police station in- charge Umashankar Mukati said.

The incident came to light when the victim complained of pain to her parents, following which a police complaint was lodged and the accused was arrested, he said.

TEHRAN, Mar 21 (NNN-IRNA) – Iranian President, Hassan Rouhani, urged the American people, to press the U.S. government, to lift sanctions against Iran, as the country is fighting against COVID-19, according to Iran’s presidential website.

“U.S. sanctions targeted major sectors of Iran’s financial and economic system, which has inflicted hundreds of dollars of losses to Iran’s economy and people,” Rouhani said.

20 Mar 2020; MEMO: Nearly 1,600 trees have been vandalised by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank since the start of 2020, according to UN OCHA.

According to the agency’s latest fortnightly report, during the period 3-16 March, Israeli settlers vandalised at least 385 Palestinian-owned trees and vehicles in the West Bank.

20 Mar 2020; MEMO: The Palestinian Prisoner Society said yesterday that four Palestinian inmates have contracted the novel coronavirus in an Israeli prison.

In a press release, the non-governmental organisation said the Israel Prison Service informed it that the prisoners caught the virus in Megiddo Prison. The virus was brought into the prison by a detainee who had been interrogated at the occupation’s Petah Tikva Investigation Centre.

New Delhi, Mar 20 (PTI) The women protesters in Shaheen Bagh will continue with their protest on Sunday, the day when Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged people to remain inside their houses under a self-imposed curfew.

The women have been blocking a side of a road connecting southeast Delhi to Noida since mid-December to protest against the amended citizenship law.