Human Rights

1 Mar 2023; MEMO: Protesters against the Israeli government's controversial judicial reform plan today launched a "National Day of Disruption" by blocking roads and marching in cities across the country. At least 22 people have been arrested on charges including assaulting police officers, disrupting traffic and refusing orders to leave major junctions and roadways.

1 Mar 2023; MEMO: Israeli police have arrested five suspects over a Jewish settler rampage and arson attack in the Occupied West Bank earlier this week that an Israeli General described as a "pogrom" and which followed a deadly Palestinian gun attack, Reuters reports.

2 Mar 2023; MEMO: A senior member of the Hamas Political Bureau has described the security summit held in Aqaba on Sunday as "the worst sin committed by Arab states at this stage," Watan Voice has reported. A joint communique issued by participants at the summit said that the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan hosted Jordanian, Egyptian, Israeli, Palestinian and US senior officials on 26 February for "comprehensive and frank discussions" to work towards a "just and lasting peace".

2 Mar 2023; MEMO: The Israeli occupation authorities seized the bank accounts of freed Palestinian prisoners on Wednesday and confiscated their property, Sama has reported.

According to reports, the bank account of freed prisoner Mohammad Dirbas from Jerusalem was seized and both his money and car were confiscated.

Freed prisoner Ayoub Afanah, also from Jerusalem, had all of his money taken from his bank account.

28 Feb 2023; MEMO: The United Nations Human Rights Committee will hold a two-day session this week to examine the Egyptian government's implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

The ICCPR is an international human rights treaty ratified by Egypt in 1982 which commits states to respecting civil and political rights of individuals, including the right to life, freedom of religion, speech, assembly, elections and due process.

28 Feb 2023; MEMO: Israeli opposition leader, Yair Lapid, on Tuesday called for sacking Knesset member, Zvika Fogel, for inciting terrorism over his call for burning a Palestinian village.

28 Feb 2023; MEMO: Sameh Aktash, a Palestinian who recently helped victims of the 6 February quakes in Turkiye, faced his fate on returning to his country — getting killed by Israeli gunfire in the Occupied West Bank.

Aktash, 37, whose family says he "loved life and helped others in his hometown and in Turkiye, which he adored", was shot in the abdomen.

28 Feb 2023; MEMO: The Israeli National Security Minister, Itamar Ben Gvir of the far-right Otzma Yehudit party called, Monday, for a return to the policy of assassinations and the "elimination" of the Palestinian factions' leaders who, according to him, "incite against Israel".

This came during a visit to an illegal outpost built on Palestinian land in Beita village near the city of Nablus, in the northern Occupied West Bank, before completing its evacuation process.

28 Feb 2023; MEMO: An Israeli court rejected an appeal today against the demolition of a Palestinian primary school in the southern occupied West Bank governorate of Bethlehem, reported Wafa news agency.

Submitted by the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission and the Society of St. Yves, a Catholic human rights organisation, the appeal was against a previous court order to demolish Al-Tahadi School 5 in Beit Taamir.

28 Feb 2023; MEMO: Israeli municipal authorities demolished a Palestinian-owned home in Occupied East Jerusalem on Tuesday, according to family members, Anadolu News Agency reports.

Hani Al-Hussaini said Israeli authorities cited lack of a building permit for bringing down the house in Jabel Mukaber neighbourhood, south of East Jerusalem.

"The building was constructed about six years ago and was inhabited by a 4-member family," he told Anadolu.