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August 3, 2016

Bahrain really isn’t making ‘progress’ on human rights

Earlier this year Bahrain finally made it onto the “Priority Countries” list compiled by Britain’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) human rights project. The island state had managed to...

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August 3, 2016

Israeli soldiers confiscate Palestinian girl’s bike

Israeli soldiers confiscated the bicycle of a Palestinian girl in occupied Hebron and threw it in the bushes, a video by human rights organisation B’Tselem appears to show. The...

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August 3, 2016

Egypt obtains $77m grant from French aid organization

Egypt signed two agreements on Tuesday with Agence Française de Développement (AFD) under which it gets a grant worth €69 million ($77 million). The two agreements were signed...

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August 3, 2016

Palestinian banks refuse Qatari grant for Gaza employees

Palestinian banks have refused to receive the Qatari grant for Palestinian government employees recruited during Hamas’ rule of the Gaza Strip, Qatari Ambassador and Head of the Qatari Committee...

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August 3, 2016

Israeli newspaper: BDS achieved global successes

Refuting what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has previously claimed, Israeli newspaper Maariv said on Tuesday that the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement had achieved global successes, Al-Resalah...

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August 3, 2016

Iraqi officials banned from travel

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi issued a decree to temporarily ban a number of officials from travel until investigations into corruption are complete. During questioning in parliament on Monday, Iraqi Minister...

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August 3, 2016

Hanin Zoabi reprimanded by Knesset

Arab Member of the Kneset Hanin Zoabi has been reprimanded by the Knesset Ethics Committee after she said activists killed on the Mavi Marmara Freedom Flotilla were “murdered”, Quds...

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August 3, 2016

Rabbis use radio to influence Israeli soldiers

Rabbis from all Jewish religious movements are using Army Radio to get messages to soldiers, Arab48.com reported. The rabbis are worried about the army’s measures which force soldiers not...

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August 3, 2016

Israel to sign largest ever American military aid pact

The US and Israel are to sign the largest military aid deal, worth $40 billion over 10 years, “as soon as possible”, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said...

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August 3, 2016

574 Palestinians arrested in July

Some 574 Palestinians were arrested by Israeli occupation forces in July, a joint statement by human rights groups revealed yesterday. The Prisoners’ Affairs Commission, Palestinian Prisoners’ Society, Addameer Prisoner...

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