UN urges UK to repeal ‘disproportionate’ Palestine Action ban
Volker Turk, the UN human rights chief, has criticised Britain’s ban on the activist group Palestine Action as a “disturbing” misuse of UK “counterterrorism” legislation and urged the government to rescind its decision.
“The decision appears disproportionate and unnecessary,” he said in a statement. “It limits the rights of many people involved with and supportive of Palestine Action who have not themselves engaged in any underlying criminal activity but rather exercised their rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association.”
Iran suggests Israel’s starvation of Gaza ‘premeditated’
The spokesman of Iran’s Foreign Ministry has pointed out that only the US and Israel voted against a landmark UN resolution in late 2021 that recognised access to food as a protected basic human right.
“The world stood united, and the Right to Food Resolution was endorsed by the whole UN membership while these two rejected it outright,” Esmaeil Baghaei wrote in a post on X, adding that the resolution explicitly prohibited starvation as a method of warfare.
“Didn’t their opposition to that resolution indicate a premeditated policy of using food as a weapon of war?”
Number of Palestinians starved to death in Gaza rises to 122: Ministry
Gaza hospitals have recorded nine new deaths due to famine and malnutrition over the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.
The count brings the total number of people who have starved to death during Israel’s war on Gaza to 122, including 83 children, the ministry statement said on Telegram.
