Link: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/20/israel-and-hamas-annouce-gaza-ceasefire After 11 days of fighting in which 232 Palestinians in Gaza and 12 people in Israel were killed, Israel and Hamas have announced a ceasefire. Israel’s security cabinet started on Thursday that it voted unanimously in favor of a “mutual and unconditional” Gaza truce but added that the hour of implementation had yet to be agreed upon. The… Read more »
Link: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/20/hundreds-of-children-stranded-at-spanish-enclave-of-ceuta Last week, the border between Ceuta, Spain and Morocco had finally been taken under control after a mass crossing of migrants and refugees from Morocco piled at the border. This resulted in a plight of hundreds of unaccompanied children stranded in and outside of the Spanish enclave. Those hundreds of unaccompanied children were crammed into a charity-run warehouse… Read more »
Link: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/7/two-palestinians-killed-by-army-base-israeli-media Two Palestinians were killed and a third critically wounded after an alleged attack on an Israeli military base in the northern occupied west bank. The Palestinians approached the Salem military base near the city of Jenin with homemade submachine guns. Israeli police said that the three Palestinians fired the weapons at the base’s main gate. Border police and… Read more »
Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-56817706 Four of the world’s five top executioners in 2020 were Middle East states, Amnesty International says. Iran, Egypt, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia accounted for 88% of the 483 reported executions worldwide, according to a report by the human rights group. While the rest of the world was focused on saving people’s lives from a lethal virus, it accuses… Read more »
Link: https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/.premium-the-next-middle-east-crisis-will-be-rising-food-prices-1.9737325 The UN food and agriculture organizations’ food index rose to 118.5 in March, its highest level since 2014 and a 24% increase over the past year. Increases like these can’t be readily absorbed by average citizens trying to make ends meet in developing countries. While there is little consensus about what sparked the wave of demonstrations that shook the… Read more »
Link: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/14/un-experts-highlight-rise-in-israeli-settler-against-palestinians The UN rights experts have warned that violence, including assaults and property destruction, by Israeli settlers against Palestinian civilians in the occupied west bank has been on the rise in recent months. In a statement told on Wednesday, UN experts from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) documented 771 incidents on settler violence… Read more »
