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December 1, 2016

Rights group criticises Morocco police’s use of force

The Moroccan Human Rights Organisation criticised Morocco’s police for using allegedly excessive force yesterday, claiming that its use of live fire against suspects who attacked members of the security...

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December 1, 2016

Egypt: 39% of women sexually abused by relatives

As many as two fifths of women in Egypt were sexually harassed by a male relative, a new study has found. The study conducted by Professor Madiha Obada of...

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December 1, 2016

Morocco PM slams the Syrian regime’s crimes in Aleppo

Moroccan Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane said the ongoing military escalation by the Syrian regime and its allies in Aleppo is beyond comprehension. “I feel that the world has died...

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December 1, 2016

Dispossession by the law: How the Israeli judicial system utilises Ottoman land law to expel and dispossess the Palestinian Bedouin

Much has been said about the role that the Israeli Supreme Court and the judiciary generally have played in Judaising the Palestinian space, by confirming Israeli governmental practices of...

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December 1, 2016

Syria opposition creates ‘Army of Aleppo’ to fight Assad regime

All the armed Syrian opposition factions in the besieged districts of opposition-held eastern Aleppo have decided to dissolve their individual organisations, and will now instead reform as a newly...

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December 1, 2016

Purported international solidarity is devaluating Palestine

Another symbolic international day for Palestinian rights has degenerated into the usual stale observations and recommendations that do little other than try to impart a semblance of balance between...

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December 1, 2016

French FM: World must wake up to ‘tragedy’ taking place in Syria

France will not remain “complacent” as “a tragedy is taking place” in Syria under the rule of President Bashar Al-Assad, the country’s Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said yesterday. “I...

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December 1, 2016

Israel allows one export shipment of Gaza strawberries to Europe

A Palestinian agriculture ministry official Tahsin Al-Saqqa said that the Israel allowed for the exportation of the first strawberry shipment from Gaza to Europe, the Palestinian Alresalah news site...

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December 1, 2016

Israeli bills to legalise Jewish outposts and ban call to prayer ‘postponed’

The Israeli parliament, the Knesset, has postponed voting on the bill to legalise Jewish settler outposts built on privately-owned Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank, local media outlets...

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December 1, 2016

Turkey will not tolerate any change to Jerusalem’s identity

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Wednesday that his country would never tolerate any change in the identity of the city of Jerusalem, Anadolu news agency has reported....

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