22 August 2022; MEMO: Israel's domestic spy agency, Shin Bet, has ordered the directors of two Palestinian rights groups to stop their work and sever their connections with their organisations, Haaretz has reported.
21 August 2022; MEMO: More than 100 days after Shireen Abu Akleh was murdered in Jenin, hundreds of Palestinians and supporters gathered in Ramallah to unveil a street named after the Palestinian veteran journalist.
The street is on the way that Abu Akleh used to travel daily to get to work at the Al-Jazeera network office in Ramallah and where she was reporting live coverage of incidents in Palestine.
22 August 2022; MEMO: Former presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh has said that he is "subject to slow death" in an Egyptian prison, news agencies reported on Sunday.
According to his son, Hothaifa, Aboul Fotouh added that, "The administration in Al-Mazraa Prison refuses to carry out a medical examination despite several health crises, strokes and blood clots."
22 August 2022; MEMO: Calls for justice are mounting after a Palestinian-American teenager was brutally beaten by US Police at a traffic stop last month near Chicago.
On 28 July, a video filmed by a bystander went viral showing two police officers in Oak Lawn, Illinois, on top of the teen, 17-year-old Hadi Abuatelah, beating him before a third officer is seen briefly placing his knee on the child's head or neck. Hadi is then handcuffed by the officers.
22 August 2022; MEMO: Kuwait has announced that it will lay off 250,000 Egyptian workers next month and suspend all contracts with non-nationals.
Some 500,000 further Egyptian workers will lose their jobs over the next year as the Gulf country seeks to remove all expatriate workers across sectors.
Egyptians make up around 24 per cent of the total workforce in Kuwait, the Kuwait Times said in February, making them the largest expatriate group in the country.
21 August 2022; MEMO: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is set to arrive in Turkiye on Monday for a three-day official visit, the state news agency Wafa reported.
Abbas will meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for talks on bilateral relations, Palestinian Ambassador Fa'ed Mustafa said in statements cited by Wafa.
The discussions between the two leaders will also take up developments and regional and international issues of mutual concern, he added.
22 August 2022; MEMO: The Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) yesterday announced that it had opened its offices as temporary headquarters for the seven rights groups closed by Israel, the PLO's Human Rights Department said.
Following an emergency meeting held in Ramallah, the PLO's Human Rights Department said that its decision comes in response to the Israeli decision to close the Palestinian rights groups.
RAMALLAH, Aug 21 (NNN-WAFA) – Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, yesterday, condemned Israel’s closure of seven Palestinian non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the West Bank.
Abbas made the remarks in a meeting with the NGOs’ representatives and directors.
On Thursday, the Israeli army stormed the West Bank city of Ramallah and closed these Palestinian NGOs.
Israel has outlawed six of these NGOs, which were labelled as “terrorist” organisations, in Oct, 2021.
KHARTOUM/ABU DHABI, Aug 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed ordered $6.8 million (AED 25 million) of humanitarian aid to Sudan after floods killed at least 79 and destroyed over 14,500 houses.
“The directives of President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed to provide such assistance are an expression of the solidarity of the UAE and its people with the Sudanese people in such dire circumstances,” Emirates News Agency (WAM) reported on Saturday.
The aid is expected to alleviate the suffering of those who were displaced by the floods.
KERBALA, Iraq, Aug 21 (Reuters) - At least four people were killed after a landslide demolished a Shi'ite Muslim shrine in the central Iraqi province of Kerbala, the health ministry said on Sunday.
Rescue workers pulled out six survivors from the rubble after the landslide, which occurred on Saturday, the statement said. The search and rescue operation was continuing in case more people remained buried under the rubble, it said.
The Qattarat al-Imam Ali shrine is located in the western desert, about 28 km (17 miles) from the centre of the holy city of Kerbala.
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