In today’s episode of the Daily Round-up we take a look at the ongoing repression of protests by Bedouin Palestinians in the Naqab (or Negev) desert against a forestation plan on their farming lands; a hunger strike by 200 people being detained at the Rikers Island jail complex in the US to protest the lack of basic and necessary services; the demolition of homes of the Muslim Gujjar-Bakarwal tribal community as part of an “anti-encroachment” drive in Jammu and Kashmir; and a one-day strike observed by tens of thousands of teachers across France against the government’s inadequate pandemic response.
Palestinians protest forestation plan amid violent Israeli repression and other stories
Today we look at protests by Bedouin Palestinians against Israeli encroachment in the Negev, a hunger strike at the Rikers Island jail complex in protest of inhuman conditions, and more