UN official: Human rights situation in occupied Palestinian territories ‘disastrous’
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, described the human rights situation in occupied Palestinian territory as disastrous. Faraan: As she was briefing the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, on Tuesday, in Geneva, she argued: “This clearly also has damaging impact on prospects for peace and…
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UN decries “disastrous” human rights for Palestinians
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has strongly condemned Israeli violations of Palestinian rights, describing their situation as disastrous, with severe infringements occurring that are affecting the lives of millions of Palestinians living under Israeli military occupation. Michelle Bachelet was briefing the UN Committee on the Exercise of Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People…
Saudi-led military aggression, siege have left over 2,400 Yemeni women dead: Rights group
A human rights group says more than 2,400 Yemeni women have lost their lives ever since Saudi Arabia and its regional allies launched a bloody military onslaught against the crisis-stricken Arab country roughly seven years ago. Faraan: The Sana’a-based Entesaf Organization for Women and Child Rights, in a report released on Thursday, announced that 2,412…
US gov’t needs nuclear deal more than Iran
The continued failure of the United States to reach a direct agreement poses a challenge to the US government, which has been one of the foundations of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. While a new round of nuclear talks resumed in Vienna last week after a few months-long hiatus, many experts believe that developments in…
Israel is ignoring citizenship applications of Jewish converts, defying Supreme Court
The Israeli government is failing to approve the citizenship applications of almost 80 converts to Judaism, nine months after the regime’s Supreme Court announced its recognition of conversions for the purpose of citizenship. Faraan: In March this year, the Israeli Supreme Court approved a landmark decision that conversions to non-Orthodox Jewish denominations would enable foreigners…
Israel poll: Bennett’s government largely unpopular
The Israeli coalition government led by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is largely unpopular by the electorate, a recent poll has found. Faraan: Conducted to mark six months since the formation of the government and published by N12, Channel 12’s news website, the poll found that 45 per cent of respondents want former Prime Minister and…
Yemeni official says defining moment of Ma’rib battle close as sources talk of full liberation in a few days
A member of the political bureau of Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement says the defining moment of the battle of Ma’rib is “close,” as sources says the province will be fully liberated in the near future. Faraan: Muhammed al-Bukhaiti told Lebanon’s al-Mayadeen news network on Wednesday that “the defining hours are close in Ma’rib.” Al-Bukhaiti noted…
Palestinian teenage arrested by Zionists in al-Quds
Israeli regime forces have arrested a Palestinian teenage girl in al-Quds over a retaliatory stabbing attack against an illegal Zionist settler. Faraan: According to reports, the Zionist regime claimed in a statement that an illegal settler was stabbed in the back and lightly wounded at the entrance to the flashpoint Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in al-Quds…
Palestine urges probe into Israel’s burial of radioactive waste in West Bank
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has called on the international community to launch an investigation into the issue of the illegal Zionist entity’s burial of nuclear, chemical and solid waste in the West Bank, citing increasing cancer rates in the occupied territory. Faraan: Speaking at a conference on climate change in the city of Ramallah…
Three civilians killed as Saudi Arabia increases strikes on various Yemeni regions
Saudi Arabia has accelerated it deadly airstrikes on the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, and elsewhere in the country, as Yemeni army troops and fighters from allied Popular Committees continue to advance in the strategic province of Ma’rib. Faraan: Saudi fighter jets struck an area in the Sahar district of Yemen’s mountainous northwestern province of Sa’ada late…