Trump's "Wrecking Ball" on Israel's Golan Heights Occupation: Daily Brief
Expected US policy shift on Israel's occupation of Golan Heights would disregard international law that protects Syrian residents; rocket fired from Gaza into Israel wounds six people; the UAE's unjust state security apparatus strikes again; massacre in Mali kills 130 villagers; baseless charges over landmark 2013 protests in Turkey; and "the slaves of modern Asia"...
President Trump appears "poised to drive a wrecking ball through the international law" that protects the population of the occupied Golan Heights, HRW said today of an imminent US policy decision to consider the Golan Heights – a region of Syria occupied by Israel during the June 1967 war – lawfully part of Israel.
Staying with Israel, a long-range rocket launched from the Gaza Strip struck a house in central Israel today, wounding six people. The early morning attack on Mishmeret, a town north of Tel Aviv, came at a time of high tension ahead of the anniversary of Gaza border protests at the weekend.
Authorities in the UAE have detained eight Lebanese nationals for more than a year without charge in an unknown location, ill-treating them and denying them their due process rights, HRW confirmed today.
Mali’s government has announced the sacking of senior military officers and the dissolution of a militia, a day after the massacre of more than 130 people, including women and children. The attack on Saturday saw some 134 people killed with guns and machetes, and took place as UN ambassadors gathered in Mali to discuss increased violence.
An indictment accusing the civic leader Osman Kavala and 15 others of financing and organizing mass protests in Turkey in 2013 in an attempt to overthrow the government provides no credible evidence of criminal activity.
And domestic workers in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia are "the slaves of modern Asia", it's been claimed, amid reports that migrant women there face abuse and racial discrimination, with some living in slave-like conditions.