11 April 2022; MEMO: A leading Egyptian pro-democracy activist who has been imprisoned for more than 3 1/2 years has obtained a British passport, his family announced Monday. The move is likely meant to pressure Egyptian authorities to release him, reports AP.
12 April 2022; MEMO: The Follow-up Committee of National and Islamic Factions in Gaza warned Israel on Monday about its "ongoing crimes" in the occupied West Bank, especially in the city of Jenin.
12 April 2022; MEMO: Israel is seeking to increase the number of Israelis who carry arms in the streets across the country, Arab48 reported yesterday.
Reporting Israeli officials, the Arabic news website said that the number of Israelis applying for arms licenses has risen sharply.
According to the Israeli Public Broadcaster, Kan, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett had ordered Internal Security Minister Omer Bar-Lev to study the possibility of increasing the number of Israelis who are licensed to carry arms in Israel.
12 April 2022; MEMO: Old plastic bottles and other waste are being collected in Gaza and treated to use to make rugs.
Once collected, the plastic is treated, shredded and turned into small granules which are washed, dyed and dissolved to transform them into the necessary shape to allow for them to be woven into mats and rugs. The mats are then used in mosques, outdoor spaces and in people's homes.
11 April 2022; MEMO: Until a few years ago, farming in southern Iraq was "as lucrative as oil", Qasim Abdul Wahad remembers, and his one-hectare farm plot in the Governorate of Basra produced enough to feed his family of eight. Now dust kicks up under his feet as he walks through his land, after worsening extreme heat and drought linked to climate change killed 90 per cent of his winter crops, including all of his okra and eggplant.
11 April 2022; MEMO: OPEC told the European Union on Monday that current and future sanctions on Russia could create one of the worst ever oil supply shocks and it would be impossible to replace those volumes, and signalled it would not pump more, Reuters reports.
European Union officials held talks in Vienna with representatives of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries amid calls for the group to increase output and as the EU considers potential sanctions on Russian oil.
DAMASCUS, Apr 10 (NNN-SANA) – Israel carried out missile strikes against Syrian military sites, yesterday.
The missile strike was initiated from the airspace of Lebanon, targeting military sites in central Syria, a military source was quoted as saying.
The Syrian air defences intercepted most missiles, it said, adding, the attack left damage only.
It’s the latest Israeli strike to hit Syrian sites in Syria.
RAMALLAH, Apr 11 (NNN-WAFA) – A Palestinian woman was killed by Israeli soldiers yesterday, in the town of Husan, near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, the health ministry and eyewitnesses said.
Ghada Sbateen, 47, was critically injured, after she was shot with live bullets by Israeli soldiers, and died later at Beit Jala Hospital because of bleeding from a severe cut in her thigh’s artery, the Palestinian health ministry said.
BEIRUT, Apr 11 (NNN-NNA) – The World Food Programme (WFP), will increase its food rations distributed to the Lebanese, amid deteriorating food insecurity in the country, Abdallah Al-Wardat, the country director and representative of WFP in Lebanon, said yesterday.
“We are in a very difficult situation and the rate of food insecurity is on the rise. We are providing the Lebanese with financial aid and will increase food rations for the population,” local TV channel, MTV quoted al-Wadat as saying.
BEIRUT (AP) — A delegation from the European Union election observers on Monday wrapped up a six-day visit to Lebanon during which they discussed the deployment of observers ahead of the upcoming May 15 parliamentary elections in the crisis-hit country.
The observer mission said it will start deploying 30 observers throughout Lebanon later this week, with their numbers reaching more than 150 from 27 EU member states, Switzerland and Norway on the day of the vote.
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