Israel orders evacuation of part of Gaza humanitarian zone
David Gritten & Rushdi Abualouf
The Israeli military has ordered civilians to temporarily evacuate from part of its designated humanitarian zone in southern Gaza ahead of what it called a “forceful operation” against Palestinian fighters who have apparently regrouped there.
The military said there had been “significant terrorist activity and rocket fire” from eastern neighbourhoods of the city of Khan Younis and told residents to head to the “adjusted” al-Mawasi humanitarian area.
The announcement was followed by intense Israeli strikes near Khan Younis, and video showed people running in panic with only a few bags.
Hong Kong is global trade hub for world’s most brutal regimes, report says
Pro-democracy campaign group finds exports of goods to Russia, vital to its war efforts, roughly doubled in a year
Hong Kong has become a global trade hub for “the world’s most brutal regimes”, according to a report examining the city’s role in facilitating the flow of goods to countries under sanctions by the west, including Russia, Iran and North Korea.
A report published on Monday by the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, a campaign group, found that between 2021 and 2022, exports of semiconductors from Hong Kong to Russia roughly doubled to $400m (£310m), second only to shipments from mainland China. Semiconductors are vital to Russia’s war effort as they are a component in weaponry such as drones and cruise missiles.
Russia jails US-Russian journalist Kurmasheva
Alsu Kurmasheva was sentenced to 6.5 years in prison after a secret trial, court records have shown. Russian authorities accused her of spreading false information about the military.
Alsu Kurmasheva, a US-Russian journalists, has been sentenced to 6 and a half years in prison after a secret trial, court officials said on Monday.
Kurmasheva, 47, who worked for the US government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) was accused of "spreading false information" about the Russian army due to her reporting on the invasion of Ukraine.
Her sentencing in the city of Kazan came just days after Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was convicted of espionage in Yekaterinburg. Gershkovich was give a 16-year jail term after a trail the US called politcally motivated.
West Bank village lives in constant fear of Israeli settler raids
The stress shows on the face of Samiha Ismail who since October 7 has been stuck in her home in an occupied West Bank village that lives in constant fear of attack by Israeli settlers.
The day after the Hamas raid into southern Israel, settlers entered Susya, a hilltop village in the south of the West Bank, vowing retribution and "humiliation", the 53-year-old Palestinian recalled.
More than nine months on, Ismail is among 450 inhabitants who spend most of the day indoors. Even their sheep are not allowed out of their sheds.
"Every time we take them to pasture, the settlers chase us," the panicked Ismail told AFP.
Instead, the sheep of Israeli settlers now dot the nearby hills.
VOX POPULI: IOC’s gender tests rooted in exclusion and outdated ideas
Vox Populi, Vox Dei is a daily column that runs on Page 1 of The Asahi Shimbun.
July 22, 2024 at 13:05 JST
Eighty-eight years ago, a leading British track and field athlete was issued a certificate by a doctor stating, “This is to certify that Mr. Mark Weston, who has always been brought up as a female, is a male, and should continue life as such.”
Weston (1905-1978), who was assigned a female sex at birth, identified as male and underwent sex-reassignment surgeries in 1936.
He reportedly said the certificate was the closest thing he had to an accurate identity document.
India court rules against dividing eateries by religion in BJP-ruled states
Supreme Court suspends order asking restaurants and roadside carts to display owners’ names in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand states.
India’s top court has ruled that restaurants cannot be forced to display the names of their owners, suspending police orders in two northern states that critics said could foment discrimination against Muslims.
Police in the two states, both ruled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), gave oral orders requiring restaurants and even roadside carts along a route taken each year by thousands of Hindu pilgrims to put the names of their owners on display boards.
Police said the move would help pilgrims who travel on foot to sacred sites during the holy month of Shravan, many of whom follow dietary restrictions, such as eating no meat during their journey.
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