Another 'friend' state of the USA
https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/09/15/egypt-us-provide-security-assistance-despite-repression
Egypt extends crackdown on Gaza activism with student arrests
Egypt has detained several students who were trying to promote pro-Palestinian boycotts of Israeli companies and solidarity campaigns.
The students are among dozens of people held in connection with protests against Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, some of them detained in October when state-sanctioned rallies spilled over to unauthorised sites, including Cairo’s Tahrir Square.
According to the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, an independent Cairo-based group, at least 125 people have been arrested since the Gaza war began in October. Ninety-five are still being held in pre-trial detention on charges including membership in a banned group and spreading false news.
Three students were arrested this month over their attempt to create a group called Students for Palestine, according to Nabeh el-Ganadi, a human rights lawyer. They include Ziad Bassiouny, 22, a student at an arts institute in Giza.
About 40 members of Egypt’s security forces were deployed to arrest Bassiouny at his apartment on May 9, his mother, Fayza Hendawy, said.
‘Rewards terror’: Israel’s Gantz questions France’s barring of Israeli delegation
Israeli war cabinet member Benny Gantz says he has spoken to French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal about Paris’s decision to bar an Israeli delegation from participating in the Eurosatory Security Fair.
“I emphasised to him the decision ultimately rewards terror, and asked that France re-consider the decision,” he said in post on X.
Earlier, we reported organisers of the event confirmed Israel will not have a stand at the annual exhibition.
The EU is deeply concerned about discussions in the Israeli Knesset on measures against @UNRWA & by the Land Authority order to UNRWA to vacate its Jerusalem premises in 1 month. We condemn any attempts to label a UN agency as a terrorist organisation. 1/2https://t.co/efwnTw9Bfy
— Josep Borrell Fontelles (@JosepBorrellF) May 31, 2024
Countries urge WHO action on ‘wanton destruction of health facilities’
World Health Organization member states have overwhelmingly voted for a resolution calling for a donor conference to fund the vast health needs in the occupied Palestinian territory.
It also demanded more reporting on the “catastrophic” situation in Gaza and Israel’s “wanton destruction of health facilities”. The vote went through after Israel ensured the text was expanded to include a call for the release of all captives held in Gaza.
Any decision “that does not demand the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages is an unforgivable moral failure”, Israeli Ambassador Meirav Eilon Shahar said at the World Health Assembly, the annual gathering in Geneva of the WHO’s 194 member states.
After days of diplomatic wrangling and mutual accusations of politicisation of what was meant to be a technical text, the amended resolution was approved by a key assembly committee with 102 votes in favour. Only six countries, including Israel and the US, opposed the resolution while 69 countries with voting rights abstained or were absent.
