Human Rights

NEW YORK, July 14 (Xinhua) -- For entrenched elites in Washington, using taxpayer money to shred the bodies of children and other civilians isn't a big deal when there's serious geopolitical work to be done, said an article published by U.S.-based news website Common Dreams on Thursday.

13 July 2023; MEMO: The United States has sent military and logistic reinforcements to its bases in Syria's north-eastern Al-Hasakah province.

Local sources said two convoys of military vehicles entered Al-Hasakah on Tuesday, after crossing into Syria through Al-Waleed border terminal with Iraq.

13 July 2023; MEMO: The Palestinian Bedouin community of Humsa Al-Bqai'a have been forced to relocate after Israeli settlers set fire to a tent on Monday with two people still inside, Wafa has reported.

The community of 36 Palestinians, including 20 children, is based in the north of the occupied Jordan Valley. They have attempted to resist the settlers ever since the Israeli Jews stormed into the village and built an illegal settlement outpost last month.

13 July 2023; MEMO: Democratic US lawmaker, Ilhan Omar, has announced she will not be attending Israeli President Isaac Herzog's address to a joint session of Congress, condemning the state's 2019 decision banning her and Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib from entering Israel.

13 July 2023; MEMO: Israeli occupation forces yesterday stormed the house of Sheikh Najeh Bkeerat, chief guard of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and detained him, Quds Press reported.

Bkeerat's house is located in Sur Baher, south of the occupied holy city of Jerusalem.

On 20 June, the Israeli occupation authorities ordered Bkeerat not to go to Al-Aqsa, giving him 72 hours to implement it.

11 July 2023; MEMO: A new bill introduced by the UK government, which is designed to shield Israel from boycotts, will have damaging consequences for the UK if the legislation went ahead in its current form, Number 10 was warned in a special legal advice.

Britain will not only find itself in breach of its international commitments, the advice warned, efforts to grant Israel special protection will also give Russia "ammunition" to accuse the UK of hypocrisy.

11 July 2023; MEMO: A new investigation by the Guardian and others has found that attempts by the Greek coastguard in June to tow a boat carrying roughly 750 refugees which capsized leaving only 104 survivors may have caused the vessel to sink.

Most of the passengers were from Egypt, Syria, Palestine and Pakistan. Nine of the survivors have been arrested on charges of involuntary manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and migrant smuggling and have denied the charges.

11 July 2023; MEMO: "Things are going off the rails," in Israel, outgoing US Ambassador to Tel Aviv, Tom Nides, said yesterday in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. Nides will be stepping down from his post after nearly two years as Washington's envoy. Before departing, he sent a parting message about Israel, where he expressed concerns over the planned judicial overhaul and its divisive impact.

11 July 2023; MEMO: Israel has turned Palestine into an "open-air prison" where Palestinians, including tens of thousands of children, are "constantly confined, surveilled and disciplined," according to Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territories.

11 July 2023; MEMO: The French-inspired campaign with Britain to overthrow Colonel Gaddafi in 2011 was a disastrous error, according to France's spy chief in Libya at the time, the Times reports.

According to the report, the story of the secret operations to bring down the Libyan dictator has been told by Jean-Francois Lhuillier, a former Tripoli station chief of the Directorate General for External Security (DGSE). His book has angered the Secret Service, where he worked for 27 years.