{"id":84525,"date":"2021-07-13T14:27:22","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T19:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=84525"},"modified":"2021-07-13T14:27:22","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T19:27:22","slug":"news-and-analysis-7-13-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=84525","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis 7\/13\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel&#8217;s increasingly frequent demolitions in Silwan are linked with plans to &#8220;build the City of David, a pseudo-archaeological theme park run by settlers&#8221; with the hidden intent of &#8220;bolstering Jewish presence and expelling the Palestinian population&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/blogs\/tamara-nassar\/why-israel-trying-steal-silwan-palestinians\">Why Israel is Trying to Steal Silwan From Palestinians<\/a> (Electronic Intifada)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Michael Lynk, a &#8220;UN special rapporteur on human rights&#8221; in the occupied Palestinian territories, made a &#8220;strong case for illegal settlements to be classified as war crimes&#8221; in his report addressed to the UN Human Rights Council on Friday:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palestinechronicle.com\/settlements-are-war-crimes-time-to-hold-south-africas-world-zionist-organization-accountable\/\">Settlements are War Crimes: Time to Hold South Africa\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s World Zionist Organization Accountable<\/a> (Palestine Chronicle)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Facebook deems it a violation of community standards to &#8220;praise or support &#8230; [a] non-state actor that engages in or advocates, or lends substantial support to purposive and planned acts of violence,&#8221; but has no qualms about supporters of states that do the same thing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/palestine-facebook-blocks-gaza-shehab-news-agency\">Facebook Blocks Gaza&#8217;s Shehab News Agency from Its Platform<\/a> (Middle East Eye)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Israel will &#8220;withhold $180 million in tax transfers&#8221; to the Palestinian Authority (PA) to offset money transfers going to families of Palestinians imprisoned or murdered by Israeli state terrorism in 2020:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/israel-withhold-180-million-palestinian-funds-over-militant-stipends-2021-07-11\/\">Israel to Withhold $180 Million in Palestinian Funds over Militant Stipends<\/a> (Reuters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Recent reports indicate that the Indian government is invoking &#8220;strict provisions of the anti-terror law&#8221; to charge and incarcerate minors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kmsnews.org\/kms\/2021\/07\/13\/feature-growing-use-of-anti-terror-law-against-children-in-kashmir.html\">\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcGrowing Use\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 of Anti-Terror Law Against Children in Kashmir<\/a> (Kashmir Media Service)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Following the Taliban&#8217;s rapid expansion in Afghanistan, senior Afghan leaders will fly to Doha for talks with the militant group this week, despite having taken a &#8220;hard stance on negotiations&#8221; in the past:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/middle-east-qatar-taliban-b8e4bb0d99c95299e3ce9b9180ffb9a9\">Officials: Afghan Delegation, Taliban to Talk Peace in Qatar<\/a> (Associated Press)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"bz li fn lj ky lk ll lm la lb ln lo lp lc ld le fz ga\" data-test=\"articleHeader\">\n<p>Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s government spokesman said Tuesday that talks with the United States &#8220;about a prisoner exchange&#8221; are still ongoing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/iran-says-it-is-holding-talks-prisoner-exchanges-with-us-2021-07-13\/\">Iran Says It Is Holding Talks on Prisoner Exchanges with U.S.<\/a> (Reuters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mb mc md me mf mg\" data-test=\"articleHeaderSubtitle\">On Tuesday, Israel refused to let 58 year old Khalida Jarrar, who is serving a two-year sentence for being a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, to attend the funeral of her daughter &#8220;who died of a cardiac arrest&#8221;:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/israel-faces-calls-let-jailed-083921966.html\">Israel Faces Calls to Let Jailed Palestinian Attend Funeral<\/a> (Yahoo News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the governing union&#8217;s &#8220;CoWIN website for vaccination&#8221; registered a Kashmiri man, whose family stated he died six decades ago, as one &#8220;who has received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/asia\/india\/covid-fake-vaccine-srinagar-cowin-b1882462.html\">Kashmir Man Who Has Been Dead For Sixty Years \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcReceives Both Doses\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 of Covid-19 Vaccine<\/a> (The Independent)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel&#8217;s increasingly frequent demolitions in Silwan are linked with plans to &#8220;build the City of David, a pseudo-archaeological theme park run by settlers&#8221; with the hidden intent of &#8220;bolstering Jewish presence and expelling the Palestinian population&#8221;: Why Israel is Trying to Steal Silwan From Palestinians (Electronic Intifada) Michael Lynk, a &#8220;UN special rapporteur on human [&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-84525","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\/84525","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=84525"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84531,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84525\/revisions\/84531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}