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Press freedom organizations and human rights groups collectively called on the EU in a letter on Monday to take action against Israeli authorities’ media freedom violations. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), alongside 59 other signatories, including Human Rights Watch, petitioned European leaders to “take action against the Israeli authorities’ unprecedented killing of journalists and [...]

French police arrested a man suspected of attempting to set fire to a synagogue in the southern city of La Grande-Motte on Saturday, according to Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin. The suspect, whose identity has not been officially disclosed, was apprehended in Nîmes after a dramatic confrontation with law enforcement. Reports indicate that the individual, believed [...]

Police forces across Canada on Wednesday responded to a series of identical bomb threats sent via email to over 100 Jewish organizations, including synagogues and hospitals, with the nature of the threats prompting a coordinated response by several law enforcement agencies. The threats were disseminated via email around 5 am EST targeting a wide range [...]

A coalition of pro-Palestine protesters demonstrated outside of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago on Monday. Their main demand is to “end U.S. aid to Israel,” calling the current Democratic Party “progressive except for Palestine.” The coalition of protesters represents over one-hundred different progressive groups, ranging from large groups like Black Lives Matter Chicago to [...]

Human Rights Watch released a report Monday saying Israel’s “indiscriminate and disproportionate” July airstrikes on Yemen’s Hodeidah port violated laws of war. Yemeni civilians depend on receiving food and humanitarian aid at Yemen’s Hodeidah port in the city of Al Hudaydah, located on the Red Sea coast in western Yemen. On July 20, 2024, Israel [...]

The United Nations (UN) on Monday condemned the “unacceptable” record-high level of violence against humanitarian workers. The statement noted that 280 aid workers were killed last year in 33 countries. “The normalization of violence against aid workers and the lack of accountability are unacceptable, unconscionable and enormously harmful for aid operations everywhere,” Joyce Msuya, Acting [...]

In legend, Achilles, Greek warrior and hero of the Trojan War, fought Trojan prince Hector to avenge the death of his friend Patroclus. Hector had killed Patroclus, and he planned to cut off Patroclus’ head and give his body to the dogs for food. Before the fight, Hector waits for Achilles and then proposes that [...]

UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Friday urgently called for a humanitarian pause in the Gaza conflict to facilitate a crucial polio vaccination campaign. Guterres said that while the “ultimate vaccine for polio is peace and an immediate humanitarian ceasefire,” a pause to safely vaccinate children was a “must” for the people of Gaza. He added, [...]

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, condemned the storming of the UN Human Rights office in Yemen in a press release on Tuesday. The office in Sana’a, the capital city of Yemen, was stormed on August 3rd, after an earlier storming in June, resulting in the detainment of 11 UN personnel, [...]

Authorities in Jordan are using a Cybercrimes law to suppress online criticism of government policies and practices in contravention of international human rights law, Amnesty International stated on Tuesday.  Despite widespread concerns, the Cybercrimes Law 2015 was revised on August 13, 2023, by Cybercrime Law No. 173 to bring sweeping changes to the scope of [...]