A young Palestinian man, was shot and killed by Israeli police in Shufat Refugee Camp, North West of Jerusalem, at 4 am Monday, after he was out shopping for groceries, Maan News reports. Mustafa Nimir, 27, was – according to his mother – had been buying baby clothes and food for the family, was killed …
Category: Violations
Young migrants in Greece feel camp like ‘prison’
“We have no permission for go out. Now we are prison [sic],” a 17-year-old Pakistani migrant texted, along with a sad emoji face, locked inside a refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. Just under a hundred minors aged 12 to 17 find shelter in the rooms reserved for them. “We have beds, air …
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Israeli army shoots 13-year-old Palestinian girl at checkpoint
Israeli troops shot an unarmed 13-year-old Palestinian girl at an occupation checkpoint in the West Bank on Wednesday. Israel claims she continued to walk toward the checkpoint after soldiers ordered her to stop. The girl, identified as Baraa Ramadan Issawi, was shot in her legs, according to Israeli media. Israeli media first reported that soldiers …
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White supremacist runs over, kills black teenager in Oregon
A white supremacist mowed down an African-American teenager with his car and smashed youth’s head into the window of a convenience store as his girlfriend cheered him on. Both have been indicted for murder. Larnell Malik Bruce, 19, was charging his phone outside a 7-Eleven in Gresham, Oregon, just before midnight on August 10, a …
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Israel blocking travel out of Gaza for thousands, as siege tightens
Israel is blocking travel out of the Gaza Strip for thousands of Palestinians on the grounds of unspecified “security preclusions”. This represents a significant tightening of the blockade, despite claims by Israeli officials that restrictions are actually being eased. The data was released by Israeli NGO Gisha in a new factsheet published yesterday. Gisha expressed …
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Iran religious leader issued a fatwa forbidding women from cycling in public
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, issued a fatwa on women riding bicycles, but that hasn’t stopped a bunch of defiant women from doing it anyway. Women in Iran have been posting photos on social media of themselves riding bicycles, defying a fatwa forbidding them from cycling in public. Iranian women have been using social …
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PKK, labeled terror group by EU’s top diplomat, holds rally in Cologne
The same day Federica Mogherini, the high representative of the European Union for foreign affairs and security policy, unequivocally declared that the PKK was a terrorist group for the EU and all its members, tens of thousands of supporters of the PKK and its Syrian wing the Democratic Union Party (PYD) gathered in Cologne, chanting …
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Elderly man found badly beaten outside mosque in north London
The London Evening Standard reports on a suspected assault on an elderly man outside a mosque in north London. The paper reports a man in his 70s was found injured in the street outside the UK Albanian Muslim Community and Cultural Centre on Rupert Road, in south Kilburn, at around 3.40am on Saturday 24 September. …
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Children risk lives ‘everyday’ as UK builds Calais wall
Under European asylum rules known as Dublin III, migrants must make their asylum claim in the first safe country they reach, although children are permitted to transfer to another country if they have family members living there. But according to Britain’s anti-slavery Commissioner Kevin Hyland, children in the camp are risking their lives every day …
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A Russian airstrike hit and destroyed the hospital in Idlib province
Local sources reported that a russian airstrike hit and destroyed the “Shifa” hospital in Idlib province, Syria. As a result of this attack, hospital building suffered extensive damage and become dysfuctional. Russia continues to bomb schools, hospitals and bazaars under the control of opposition groups since the 30 September 2015 as beginning of Russian intervention …
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