Human Rights

Cairo, Jul 9 (AP-PTI) The anti-poverty organisation Oxfam says 11 people die of hunger each minute and that the number facing famine-like conditions around the globe has increased six times over the last year.

In a report titled The Hunger Virus Multiplies," Oxfam said Thursday that the death toll from famine outpaces that of COVID-19, which kills around seven people per minute.

08 July 2021; MEMO: Palestinian citizens in Israel are planning to organise a Palestine Flag March on Friday in response to Israel's Flag March which is held annually in May.

08 July 2021; MEMO: Bulldozers belonging to the Israel Nature and Parks Authority stormed land owned by the Islamic Endowments in Al-Suwaneh neighbourhood, in the centre of occupied Jerusalem, yesterday and began bulldozing it.

Sources in Jerusalem reported that the land is at the Wadi Al-Joz junction, next to the Al-Jallad family's house, in an area close to the eastern wall of Al-Aqsa Mosque.

08 July 2021; MEMO: Israeli occupation forces this morning destroyed the house of Palestinian prisoner Muntaser Shalaby, in the village of Turmus Ayya in the northwest of Ramallah.

Eyewitnesses said a large number of Israeli occupation troops raided the village at night and an Israeli army engineering unit planted explosives in the house.

Following the demolition, scores of Palestinians protested against the presence and actions of occupation forces in the village.

08 July 2021; MEMO: The International Commission of Jurists has called for immediate action to stop politically motivated executions in Egypt, considering them invalid because of the lack of fair trials.

08 July 2021; MEMO: Italian activists have launched a campaign urging people not to go on holiday to Egypt in protest against the regime's unchecked, systematic forcible disappearance of dissidents.

In September last year the Egyptian Commission for Human Rights said that there had been some 2,723 forcible disappearances in just five years.

Kulgam, 08 July 2021: Four Kashmiris have been killed on Thursday by Indian security forces in Kulgam and Pulwama district of the Indian Administered Kashmir, Indian officials said.

07 July 2021; MEMO: Israeli authorities today ordered the demolition of Palestinian homes in the village of Hamsa Al-Fawqa in the northern Jordan Valley, northeast of the occupied West Bank.

Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Moataz Basharat, a senior official who monitors Israeli settlement activities, said occupation forces stormed Hamsa Al-Fawqa village and have so far demolished and confiscated three houses. The demolition process is ongoing.

07 July 2021; MEMO: Israeli authorities today demolished for the 190th time the Arab Bedouin village of Al-Araqeeb in the southern Negev region.

"The Israeli authorities demolished the Al-Araqeeb village for the 190th time," Aziz Al-Touri, a member of the Committee for the Defence of Al-Araqeeb, told Anadolu Agency. This is the eighth time the village has been levelled this year.

07 July 2021; MEMO: Israel yesterday renewed its condition that the reconstruction of Gaza will only take place following the release of four Israeli prisoners of war it believes are being held there, Anadolu reported.

"Rebuilding the Gaza Strip is conditioned on the release of four Israelis lost or detained in Gaza," Haim Regev, an official at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told the UN Ad Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC).