The law reflects the discriminatory nature of the Israeli apartheid regime, which only applies to Palestinians residing in areas under Israeli occupation, and not to Israelis convicted of the same “offenses”.

The massacre in Abiemnom County follows the unravelling of the 2018 peace agreement between President Salva Kiir and his former vice president Riek Machar last year, dragging the world’s youngest republic back toward civil war.

Haider Eid, professor of Cultural Studies at the Al-Aqsa University in Gaza, tells Peoples Dispatch that Palestinians in Gaza have to rely on the strength of people across the globe to put pressure on their governments to end the genocide

More than a dozen people—activists, judges, and journalists, among others—have been arrested over the past week. The UN has called on the Tunisian government to desist from cracking down on political opposition in the country and respect human rights and the rule of law