{"id":84498,"date":"2021-07-05T04:41:55","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T09:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=84498"},"modified":"2021-07-05T04:43:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T09:43:01","slug":"news-and-analysis-7-5-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=84498","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis 7\/5\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>35 year old Najlaa Zaitoun was assaulted and chased by PA security forces while covering the Ramallah protests. The security forces &#8220;violently attacked her with a truncheon&#8221; and further went on to &#8220;threaten her with rape&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/palestine-women-journalists-speak-up-pa-attacks\">Palestinian Women Journalists Speak Out Against &#8216;Deliberate&#8217; Attacks by PA Forces<\/a> (Middle East Eye)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Taliban now controls a third of Afghanistan after capturing several districts following &#8220;the retreat of Afghan government forces&#8221; into the neighboring state of Tajikistan:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/7\/4\/taliban-seizes-key-districts-in-afghanistan-as-govt-forces-flee\">Taliban Seizes Key Districts in Afghanistan as Gov\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Forces Flee<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-59 Component-p-0-2-50\">The Independent Commission for Human Rights said today that Palestinian lawyer Farid al-Atrash was detained at an Israeli checkpoint &#8220;while returning from a protest against the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/7\/4\/israel-arrests-palestinian-rights-lawyer-after-anti-abbas-protest\">Israel Arrests Palestinian Rights Lawyer After Anti-Abbas Protest<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Saudi Arabia&#8217;s deliberate attempt &#8220;to replace immigrant workers with Saudi nationals&#8221; is forcing Yemenis to look for work elsewhere as their home country is left in shambles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/djibouti-yemen-destination-saudi-arabia-migration-war\">Yemenis Forced Out of Saudi Arabia Find a New Refuge in Djibouti<\/a> (Middle East Eye)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>21 year old Mohammad Hassan was shot three times by Israeli occupation forces after throwing rocks at the &#8220;dozens of settlers who were stoning him and his property from every direction&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/palestine-israel-west-bank-qusra-soldiers-kill-palestinian-attacked-settlers\">West Bank: Israeli Soldiers Kill Palestinian Being Attacked by Settlers<\/a> (Middle East Eye)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Amidst the shadow war that continues to brew between Iran and Israel, Israeli defense officials stated that &#8220;they believe Iran was behind the attack on the ship&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/israel-iran-indian-ocean-attack-cargo-ship-saudi-arabia-uae-1.9965857\">Israeli Officials Say Iran Behind Indian Ocean Attack on Cargo Ship<\/a> (Haaretz)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On Saturday night, Israeli aircrafts bombed several targets across the Gaza Strip. This follows 11 days of bombing last month where &#8220;occupation forces killed nearly 260 Palestinians, including 66 children, and forced tens of thousands to flee their homes&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palestinechronicle.com\/watch-israeli-army-bombs-gaza-violating-ceasefire-for-fourth-time\/\">Israeli Army Bombs Gaza, Violating Ceasefire for Fourth Time<\/a> (Palestine Chronicle)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>China&#8217;s foreign minister Wang Yi accused the United States of being &#8220;the source of conflicts&#8221; across the world after listing a series of international conflicts for which many believe the US is responsible:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3139708\/china-blames-us-conflicts-afghanistan-iran\">China Blames US For Conflicts From Afghanistan to Iran<\/a> (South China Morning Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>35 year old Najlaa Zaitoun was assaulted and chased by PA security forces while covering the Ramallah protests. The security forces &#8220;violently attacked her with a truncheon&#8221; and further went on to &#8220;threaten her with rape&#8221;: Palestinian Women Journalists Speak Out Against &#8216;Deliberate&#8217; Attacks by PA Forces (Middle East Eye) Taliban now controls a third [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/158132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84498"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84502,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84498\/revisions\/84502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}