Diplomats from France, Britain, Spain, Ireland, Australia and the EU’s political office converged on the village of Makhul in the West Bank to deliver tents to Bedouins whose homes had been destroyed by the government of Israel. The Israeli High Court had determined that the Bedouins lacked proper building permits for their buildings and therefore the government of Israel had the right to remove the edifices. The Israeli Army had earlier refused to allow the Red Cross to deliver tents to the same people. Demolition of property by an Occupying Power is prohibited by the Fourth Geneva Convention, which reads: “Any destruction by the Occupying Power of real or personal property belonging individually or collectively to private persons … is prohibited, except where such destruction is rendered absolutely necessary by military operations.”
39 people were killed in an attack on a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya. The Somali militant group al-Shabab has taken credit for the attack, which signals a widening of the violence in East Africa. There are about 4,000 Kenyan troops in Somalia who are trying to bring order to a very violence-prone country, and al-Shahbab claims that it is merely responding to the Kenyan intervention. al-Shabab has been trying to establish an Islamic state in Somalia for many years.
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons at The Hague announced on Friday that it has received a list of Chemical weapons sites from the Syiran government and that it was going over the list to check for accuracy. The Syrian government has therefore met the first requirement of the US-Russian agreement on Syrian chemical weapons. The next step is for the government to allow inspectors into the country to verify the list within 30 days.
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