Citizens International

July 4, 2018

Gaza family mourns slain son, 11: ‘Not last child to be killed’

by Maram Humaid & Linah Alsaafin The 11-year-old was killed by Israeli forces on the 14th Friday protest in the Gaza Strip [Photo courtesy of the Abu al-Naja family/Al Jazeera] On Friday afternoon, as Israeli soldiers from the other side of the fence were firing tear gas, rubber-coated steel bullets and live ammunition, Yaser Abu […]

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‘275 victims of extra-judicial killings and custodial deaths, 427 women raped in 6 months’

The overall human rights situation in Bangladesh remained at an alarming level in the first six months of 2018 due to a sharp rise in cases of extra-judicial killings and custodial deaths, and a high number of cases of rapes and sexual assault of women across the country, a rights body said in its report.

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‘Jordan, Palestine and Saudi Arabia warn Israel against Turkey’

Israeli daily Haaretz alleges the three Arab states have warned Israel of creeping Turkish influence in East Jerusalem. Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Palestine have warned Israel on separate occasions about Turkey’s creeping influence in occupied East Jerusalem, according to a report by Israeli newspaper Haaretz. The report notes that senior officials from the three Arab countries told Israel that Turkey was “extending its

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