The martyr Fadi al-Batsh as I knew him My daughter Duaa, this is your father… Dr. Sharif Abu Shammala Kuala Lumpur Dear Duaa, I know that my words are not enough to make up for your father’s absence, whose heart was overwhelmed with pure love to you and your siblings Aseel and…
Press release 25 April 2018 Carry out counter-espionage surveillance on Mossad and its allies Citizens International calls on the Minister of Home Affairs to direct the police to carry out a thorough and comprehensive investigation of the assassination of the Palestinian scientist Fadi al-Batsh by suspected Mossad agents. He was a member of Hamas who…
In justifying her decision to commit the UK to joining the US and France in the unilateral air strikes on Syria on 14 April, PM Theresa May said in Parliament on 16 April that a requirement for UN authorisation would effectively give Russia a veto on British foreign policy. Opposition Leader Jeremy Corbyn called for…
In socially conservative Gaza, women have been leading the Great Return March movement, uniting all Palestinians. Gaza Strip – On one side of the fence, dozens of Israeli soldiers lay positioned behind sand dunes, tracking the Palestinian demonstrators through the crosshairs of their snipers. On the other side, young women, with keffiyeh scarves covering half…
Israel knows it will get away with its crimes, and therefore it keeps on committing them The sickening video of an Israeli sniper apparently filming himself gunning down a Palestinian protester across the fence in Gaza then rejoicing and praising his “success” with other soldiers has been widely spread and condemned. A week before, another…
A video of Israeli soldiers cheering the killing of yet another unarmed protester has highlighted the chilling sentiments of a broad segment of the public For the last few weeks, Palestinians in Gaza have been marching every Friday towards the Israeli fence, and every Friday, they have been met with live fire from Israeli soldiers.…
In the last 10 years, Israel has launched three massive genocidal wars of aggression on the occupied Gaza Strip, many of our civilians were massacred by its indiscriminate bombing, condemned by UN experts and leading human rights organizations as war crimes and “possible” crimes against humanity. These assaults left over 3,800 Palestinians dead, predominantly civilians,…
12 April 2018 Rt Hon Patricia Scotland QC Commonwealth Secretariat Marlborough House Pall Mall London SW1Y 5HX Dear Baroness Scotland QC, Re: Sheikh Zakzaky We are writing to ask for your urgent intervention to allow illegally detained Sheikh Zakzaky and his wife leave Nigeria for urgent medical treatment due to their critically deteriorating life threatening…
None hurt in attempt to set mosque near Nablus in West Bank on fire ■ ‘Death’ and ‘Price tag’ daubed on external walls Unknown vandals attempted to set a West Bank mosque on fire overnight Thursday, in a possible hate crime against Palestinians. The incident took place in the village of Aqraba, north of Nablus,…
Public outcry results in arrest of Uttar Pradesh legislator facing charges of rape and abduction of teenaged girl. Indian police say a legislator from the governing BJP has been arrested on charges of abducting and raping a teenaged girl a year ago. Kuldeep Singh Sengar, 50, a member of the Uttar Pradesh state legislative assembly,…