03 Dec 2022; MEMO: Outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid has stated that he would not take lessons on democracy from Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli media reported on Friday.
"Mr Netanyahu, I will not take lessons in democracy from you. Not from someone who runs a foreign-funded poison machine that deals in slander and defamation of the lowest kind," Lapid posted on Facebook.
03 Dec 2022; MEMO: Israeli occupation authorities are deciding whether to bar Francesca Albanese, the special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied Since 1967, from entering occupied lands, Israeli media revealed on Friday.
03 Dec 2022; MEMO: The Sidi M'Hamed Court in Algiers has issued a ten-year enforceable imprisonment and a fine of one million Algerian dinars (about $7,000) against Arezki Berraki, the former minister of water resources. The sentence is the first conviction of an official who served in the government of President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, although it relates to a period preceding his government work.
03 Dec 2022; MEMO: The number of deaths among political prisoners inside the Badr Prison Complex in Cairo has risen to four, just a few months after opening the huge complex. This follows the death of detainee Hassan Diab Hassan inside his cell in Badr 3 Prison due to medical negligence.
04 Dec 2022; MEMO: EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has condemned the shooting of a young Palestinian by an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank, reports Anadolu Agency.
On Friday, Palestinian activists shared a video on social media of an Israeli soldier while scuffling with a young man in Huwara town, south of Nablus city.
As the young man, who was identified as Ammar Mefleh, tried to escape, the Israeli soldier shot him at point blank, leaving him badly injured. The Palestinian was later pronounced dead.
04 Dec 2022; MEMO: The Israeli army bombed two sites Sunday belonging to the Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip with no casualties reported, according to an Israeli official, reports Anadolu Agency.
"The warplanes attacked a weapons workshop, which is a significant center where rockets belonging to the Hamas are produced," Army spokesman Avichay Adraee wrote on Twitter.
Warplanes also targeted a tunnel belonging to Hamas in southern Gaza, said Adraee.
04 Dec 2022; MEMO: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has rejected efforts by his Russian allies to arrange a meeting with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, refusing to give him leverage in next year's upcoming elections in Turkiye.
According to an anonymous source with knowledge of the Syrian regime's thinking, cited by the Reuters news agency, Assad fears that accepting a meeting with Erdogan would only hand the Turkish leader another achievement in time for the country's elections in June next year.
RAMALLAH, Dec 3 (NNN-WAFA) – Palestinian Prime Minister, Mohammed Ishtaye, yesterday called on the United Nations, to present an initiative for peace in the Middle East, to end the conflict with Israel.
Ishtaye made the remarks during a virtual meeting, organised by the UN Economic and Social Commission for West Asia (ESCWA), at the UN headquarters in New York, to mark the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
ADEN, Dec 3 (NNN-YPA) – A senior official of Yemen’s security forces was killed in a bomb blast, in the country’s turbulent southern province of Abyan yesterday, a government official said.
“Nader Nisri, the emergency operations commander, of the security forces in Abyan, was killed in a blast, caused by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED), in Al Mahfid district of Abyan,” the local government source said, on condition of anonymity.
Dec 3 (Reuters) - President Ebrahim Raisi on Saturday hailed Iran's Islamic Republic as a guarantor of rights and freedoms, defending the the ruling system amid a crackdown on anti-government protests that the United Nations says has cost more than 300 lives.
A top state security body meanwhile said that 200 people, including members of the security forces, had lost their lives in the unrest, a figure significantly lower than that given by the world body and rights groups.
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