Page 18 - Seth Binder News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Jehad Abusalim (American Friends Service Committee) In this session we examined the situation in the Gaza Strip, including how the Gaza Strip came to be isolated from the West Bank and besieged by Israel, the role of Hamas and related Palestinian political dynamics, and the humanitarian situation in light of repeated Israeli military campaigns, more than a decade of blockade, and now COVID. Part 5 – Palestinian Refugees and the Role of UNRWA Featuring:  Gwyn Lewis (UNRWA),  Diba Abu Nejila (humanitarian professional) In this session we focused on Palestinian refugees – one of the cor...

Saudi Arabia’s Yemen blockade is starving millions. Democrats want Biden to stop it. Vox.com 1 day ago Alex Ward © Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images A sick Yemeni child lies on her mother as they wait to give her medical treatment over a lack of health services and supplies due to the ongoing Yemen war and blockade at a hospital on March 31, 2018, in Sana’a. Saudi Arabia is continuing its six-year air and sea blockade of Yemen, starving millions of Yemenis and deepening the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Anger from Democrats and progressives in the US isn’t just d...

Less than two weeks after the release of an unclassified US intelligence report on the 2018 killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, pressure continues to build in Washington for President Joe Biden to hold Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) accountable. The widely anticipated report confirmed what many human rights groups, United Nations experts and US lawmakers had long argued: the crown prince approved the operation to “capture or kill” Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. But the Biden administration has said it would not directly sanction or impose a travel ban...

US president has chosen to ‘recalibrate’ relations with Saudi Arabia, but some feel a rupture is required

US must hold Mohammed bin Salman accountable for Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, rights groups say Representatives of Human Rights First, PEN America, POMED, CPJ and others gather in front of the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington, DC, 2 October 2019, to remember Jamal Khashoggi, OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images In response to the release of a U.S. congressional report identifying Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as having ordered the operation against journalist Jamal Khashoggi, rights groups call on the Biden administration t...