Israel targets aid supply in Gaza, dismisses ceasefire calls
Israel has refused to lift its month-long ban on the shipment of fuel and other essential commodities to Gaza, despite reports of hospitals shutting down and scarcity of life-saving goods and amenities for millions
Palestinian prisoner recaptured by Israel after Gilboa prison break goes on hunger strike
Israeli prison authorities have conducted an internal hearing and sentenced Mohammed Ardah to two weeks in solitary confinement and imposed various kinds of restrictions and punitive limits on him
Citing famine, UN urges reversal of terrorist designation for Yemen’s Houthis; US refuses
Mark Lowcock of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs warned that recent labeling of Houthis as a terrorist organization by the US would likely trigger a “famine on a scale we have not seen in 40 years
Human rights groups in Palestine call on Israel to release prisoners amid COVID-19 outbreak
Prisoners are at an increased risk of infection owing to overcrowded prison facilities, living in unsafe, unsanitary and disease-prone conditions
Israeli forces raid Samer Arbid’s home in Ramallah, attack protesters with teargas
The Palestinian prisoner, Samer Arbid, is reported to be in a critical condition in an Israeli hospital, after he was brutally tortured during interrogation by the Israeli intelligence agency Shin Bet
Palestinians denounce torture of prisoner Samer Arbid and demand his release
Samer Arbid was transferred to a hospital and remains in a critical condition after being tortured during interrogation by the Israeli intelligence service
