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Khaleej Times
29-04-2025
- Politics
- Khaleej Times
Israel carried out 'live-streamed genocide' against Gaza Palestinians, says Amnesty International
Amnesty International on Tuesday accused Israel of committing a "live-streamed genocide" against Palestinians in Gaza by forcibly displacing most of the population and deliberately creating a humanitarian catastrophe. In its annual report, Amnesty charged that Israel had acted with "specific intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza, thus committing genocide". Israel has rejected accusations of "genocide" from Amnesty, other rights groups and some states in its war in Gaza. Israel launched a relentless bombardment of the Gaza Strip and a ground operation that has left at least 52,243 dead, according to the health ministry in Gaza. Stay up to date with the latest news. Follow KT on WhatsApp Channels. The conflict erupted after Hamas's October 7, 2023 attacks inside Israel that resulted in the deaths of 1,218 people on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures. Militants also abducted 251 people, 58 of whom are still held in Gaza, including 34 the Israeli military says are dead. "Since October 7, when Hamas perpetrated horrific crimes against Israeli citizens and others and captured more than 250 hostages, the world has been made audience to a live-streamed genocide," Amnesty's secretary general Agnes Callamard said in the introduction to the report. "States watched on as if powerless, as Israel killed thousands upon thousands of Palestinians, wiping out entire multigenerational families, destroying homes, livelihoods, hospitals and schools," she added. 'Extreme levels of suffering' Amnesty's report said the Israeli campaign had left most of the Palestinians of Gaza "displaced, homeless, hungry, at risk of life-threatening diseases and unable to access medical care, power or clean water". Amnesty said that throughout 2024 it had "documented multiple war crimes by Israel, including direct attacks on civilians and civilian objects, and indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks". It said Israel's actions forcibly displaced 1.9 million Palestinians, around 90 percent of Gaza's population, and "deliberately engineered an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe". Even as protesters hit the streets in Western capitals, "the world's governments individually and multilaterally failed repeatedly to take meaningful action to end the atrocities and were slow even in calling for a ceasefire". Meanwhile, Amnesty also sounded alarm over Israeli actions in the occupied Palestinian territory of the West Bank, and repeated an accusation that Israel was employing a system of "apartheid". "Israel's system of apartheid became increasingly violent in the occupied West Bank, marked by a sharp increase in unlawful killings and state-backed attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinian civilians," it said. Heba Morayef, Amnesty director for the Middle East and North Africa region, denounced "the extreme levels of suffering that Palestinians in Gaza have been forced to endure on a daily basis over the past year" as well as "the world's complete inability or lack of political will to put a stop to it".
Time of India
24-04-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Amnesty denounces Algeria over 'alarming' crackdown
AP file photo TUNIS: Amnesty International on Thursday denounced what it called a "crackdown on peaceful dissent " in Algeria in response to an online protest campaign. "Algerian authorities have intensified their relentless clampdown on peaceful dissent through arbitrary arrests and unjust prosecutions leading to lengthy prison sentences," the rights group said in a statement. It said the authorities have arrested and sentenced at least 23 activists and journalists over their purported support for an online protest movement dubbed Manich Radi (which loosely translates as "I do not agree"). The campaign, Amnesty said, was launched in December 2024 "to denounce restrictions on human rights and difficult socioeconomic conditions in the country". by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Google Brain Co-Founder Andrew Ng, Recommends: Read These 5 Books And Turn Your Life Around Blinkist: Andrew Ng's Reading List Undo Amnesty said the 23 were detained "solely for the peaceful exercise of their human rights". Its regional director for the Middle East and North Africa Heba Morayef said: "The trajectory of suffocating online activism pursued by the Algerian authorities is alarming and must be reversed. "Nothing can justify detaining and jailing people solely for having expressed dissatisfaction about political and socioeconomic conditions," she added. The crackdown coincided with the lead-up to the sixth anniversary in February of the pro-democracy Hirak movement. Amnesty singled out accelerated judicial procedures, which it said did not give several detainees time for adequate defence. Among several cases, it cited the March sentencing of activists Soheib Debbaghi and Mahdi Bazizi to 18-month jail terms for their ties to the "Manich Radi" movement. Debbaghi was convicted of "publishing content harmful to national interest", Amnesty said. It urged the authorities in Algeria to "end their crackdown on peaceful dissent and stop punishing the legitimate exercise of the right to freedom of expression".
Arab News
24-04-2025
- Politics
- Arab News
Amnesty denounces Algeria over ‘alarming' crackdown
TUNIS: Amnesty International on Thursday denounced what it called a 'crackdown on peaceful dissent' in Algeria in response to an online protest campaign.'Algerian authorities have intensified their relentless clampdown on peaceful dissent through arbitrary arrests and unjust prosecutions leading to lengthy prison sentences,' the rights group said in a said the authorities have arrested and sentenced at least 23 activists and journalists over their purported support for an online protest movement dubbed Manich Radi (which loosely translates as 'I do not agree').The campaign, Amnesty said, was launched in December 2024 'to denounce restrictions on human rights and difficult socioeconomic conditions in the country.'Amnesty said the 23 were detained 'solely for the peaceful exercise of their human rights.'Its regional director for the Middle East and North Africa Heba Morayef said: 'The trajectory of suffocating online activism pursued by the Algerian authorities is alarming and must be reversed.'Nothing can justify detaining and jailing people solely for having expressed dissatisfaction about political and socioeconomic conditions,' she crackdown coincided with the lead-up to the sixth anniversary in February of the pro-democracy Hirak singled out accelerated judicial procedures, which it said did not give several detainees time for adequate several cases, it cited the March sentencing of activists Soheib Debbaghi and Mahdi Bazizi to 18-month jail terms for their ties to the 'Manich Radi' was convicted of 'publishing content harmful to national interest,' Amnesty urged the authorities in Algeria to 'end their crackdown on peaceful dissent and stop punishing the legitimate exercise of the right to freedom of expression.'
Saba Yemen
10-03-2025
- Politics
- Saba Yemen
Under flimsy pretexts, excuses.. Takfiri groups in Syria commit sectarian massacres against civilians: Report
Sana'a-Saba: In the past few days, Takfiri armed groups in Syria have committed heinous crimes of genocide and horrific massacres against defenseless civilians in the Syrian coastal areas under flimsy pretexts and excuses and with the support and funding of normalization countries. The Takfiri groups incited their followers from foreign militants and mercenaries to commit massacres against civilians, which led to the martyrdom of hundreds of them in painful and harsh incidents that contain a lot of ugliness, which confirms the brutality and barbarism of these groups. According to media sources, Syria has witnessed the worst wave of violence since the fall of the regime late last year. The UK-based independent human rights monitoring group, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR), said at least hundreds of people have been killed in the recent violence, including dozens of civilians who were victims of widespread summary executions by forces affiliated with the Ministry of Defense of the ruling Takfiri groups there, against young men and adults, on sectarian grounds. Given the horrific nature of these crimes, Amnesty International urged the authorities there on Monday to allow independent local and international investigators to investigate the facts in the west of the country, after the crimes claimed the lives of more than a thousand civilians, the overwhelming majority of whom were Alawites, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. 'The authorities must grant independent local and international investigators access to Syria, including coastal areas, so they can investigate the facts for themselves,' Heba Morayef, Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa Regional Director, said in a statement. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the Syrian coast and the Latakia Mountains witnessed liquidation operations on a 'sectarian and regional basis,' which claimed the lives of hundreds of civilians from the Alawite sect in Syria. According to the Observatory, the number of 'massacres' on the Syrian coast has reached dozens since the escalation broke out on March 6, after attacks carried out by fighters who said they belonged to the 'Coast Shield' against forces affiliated with the new regime in Syria, to respond to the new government forces consisting of dozens of armed Takfiri factions by carrying out field executions and ethnic cleansing operations against unarmed civilians, which began on March 7 and are still ongoing. According to the same source, the number of civilian victims has exceeded the threshold of a thousand, distributed across the governorates of Latakia, Tartous, Hama, and Homs. The Syrian Observatory also recorded new 'massacres' in the Quneitra neighborhood in Tartous, the city of Baniyas, and the Al-Datour neighborhood in Latakia, and the villages of Al-Ramliyeh and Al-Rasafa in the Masyaf countryside. In order to accept the American, Turkish and Israeli occupation of areas in Syria, the Takfiri groups present the enemies as protectors and saviors of the Syrian people and Syria. The leader of the revolution, Mr. Abdul-Malik Badr al-Din al-Houthi, said, "The crimes of the Takfiri groups in Syria are extremely horrific, very brutal and hideous in every sense of the word." He added: "Everyone should have a clear position that condemns and disavows these crimes in Syria and also seeks to pressure to stop them. He explained that "there are new names for the Takfiri groups that do not change the truth about their reality." He said: "The satellite channels that transmit the facts to the people should make an effort to transmit the true image to the peoples of our nation so that they know the evil of what these groups are doing." He continued: "The criminal behavior and behavioral pattern that the Takfiri groups follow from the Zionists shows the extent of their connection to them and their criminal approach." He added: "The regional sponsors of the Takfiri groups could have contacted them or directed their representatives in Syria to stop what is happening, but it appears that they did not do so." He pointed out that "the scenes of crimes in Syria are extremely horrific and a great crime and they reflect that these actions are not individual at all." The Leader of the Revolution said: "I advise all the peoples of our nation not to rely on the media outlets affiliated with the regional sponsors of these Takfiri groups regarding what is happening in Syria". He considered "the attempt to cover up crimes in Syria is a crime in itself and a cover-up for genocide and an attempt to deny the clear and known facts". The Leader of the Revolution stated that "the Takfiri groups, after taking control of Syria, did not fire a single bullet against the Israeli enemy despite its invasion of southern Syria". Mr. Abdul-Malik al-Houthi stressed that "what is happening in Syria is very unfortunate, and the Arabs and Muslims are silent so that the Americans, Europeans and the Israeli enemy can present themselves as protectors of the people". Since last December, when the Takfiri groups, or what is known as Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, entered Damascus, these groups have ignited an unprecedented wave of violence in Syria in terms of killing, torture, persecution, arrests, enforced disappearances and brutal acts of burning homes and killing innocent people. Human rights organizations reported dozens of revenge killings targeting the Alawite sect by Takfiri groups and foreign mercenaries. Who are the dead? Most of the martyrs were from the Alawite sect, which is concentrated in the coastal provinces, including the cities of Latakia and Tartous. Human rights organizations estimate that hundreds of civilians have been killed by Takfiri groups and foreign mercenaries. Syria is currently under the rule of a transitional government controlled by Takfiri groups headed by Ahmed al-Sharaa, nicknamed 'al-Julani,' a former leader of the so-called 'Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.' Targeting Alawites Residents of the coastal area said that many Alawite family homes were looted and burned. They spoke from their hiding places on condition of anonymity, fearing for their lives. For its part, the current regime in Syria has blamed what it called 'individual actions' for the widespread violence against civilians, claiming that government security forces were responding to militants loyal to the former government. Whatsapp Telegram Email Print
