by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Sep 9, 2024 | Palestine Updates
Senior Israeli military officers have accused the country’s political leadership of inciting escalation in the occupied West Bank, Anadolu reports. The officers said far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich are...
by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Sep 9, 2024 | Palestine Updates
Israeli forces rounded up at least 35 more Palestinians in military raids in the occupied West Bank, according to prisoners’ affairs groups on Sunday, Anadolu reports. The detainees were taken into custody in raids carried out in most cities of the occupied...
by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Sep 9, 2024 | Palestine Updates
The Palestinian territories have seen an 85% drop in illiteracy rates in the last two decades, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics said on Sunday, Anadolu Agency reports. In a statement marking World Literacy Day, the bureau said the illiteracy rate...
by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Sep 9, 2024 | Palestine Updates
Sudan has rejected a report from the UN Fact-Finding Mission, which accused warring factions in the country of committing severe human rights violations that could amount to war crimes, Anadolu reports. In a statement released late Saturday, the Foreign Ministry...
by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Sep 9, 2024 | Palestine Updates
In his first major television interview since entering 10 Downing Street, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer appeared on the BBC to discuss a range of pressing issues, including the rise of far-right extremism and this summer’s riots, Anadolu Agency reports. In an...
by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Sep 9, 2024 | Palestine Updates
The Qatar Red Crescent and the UN agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) signed an agreement on Sunday, with $4.5 million from a Qatari state development fund, to aid more than 4,400 stranded Palestinian workers and patients from Gaza in the West Bank, Reuters reports....