Israeli raid on Gaza’s Indonesian hospital kills at least 29
Today's headlines: Hong Kong court rejects the appeal of Ma Chun-man, an activist detained for secession. Japan’s Chugoku Electric Power company restarts the Shimane nuclear reactor, which was shut down in 2011. Myanmar releases four Thai fishermen who were detained following an incident at sea last week. Anti-government protests continue in Tbilisi and in other major Georgian cities.
ISRAEL – GAZA
Israeli forces raided Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza, and expelled staff, including the Indonesian emergency surgery team, patients and displaced persons. The action, which resulted in the deaths of at least 29 Palestinians, began with a series of airstrikes on the western and northern sides of Kamal Adwan, hospital director Hussam Abu Safiya told Reuters.
HONG KONG
A Hong Kong court has rejected the appeal by an activist jailed for secession. Ma Chun-man, who was convicted in 2020, was the first defendant to file an appeal against the new national security law passed this year, which gives the city's chief correctional services the right to refuse early release from prison for good behaviour of inmates who have committed national security offences.
JAPAN
After 13 years, Chugoku Electric Power has restarted the Shimane nuclear power plant in western Japan, which was closed shortly after the 2011 Fukushima accident. The long-delayed restart of the plant's 820 megawatts (MW) No. 2 reactor, which was shut down in January 2012, brings the number of operating reactors in Japan to 14, with a total capacity of 13,253 MW.
MYANMAR – THAILAND
Four Thai fishermen detained by Myanmar have been released and are expected to return home soon. This follows last weekend's incident in which the Myanmar Navy fired at a group of Thai fishing boats. One fisherman drowned and two others were injured in the incident. Myanmar’s navy arrested 31 crew members, including four Thai nationals.
GEORGIA
There is no end to street protests in Tbilisi and in other major Georgian cities, led mostly by young and very young people, unafraid of police repression. Even though all former presidents of Georgia support the protests, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze reiterated that "there will be no negotiation with opposition representatives”.
INDIA
A Muslim couple has been forced to abandon their newly purchased house in TDI City, an upscale residential neighbourhood in the northern city of Moradabad, because of protests by Hindu neighbours after news of the sale became public. "We cannot tolerate a Muslim family living right in front of our local temple,” one resident said. “This is also a question of the safety of our women,” she added.
RUSSIA
Vladimir Putin has appointed Alexander Malkevich to Russia’s Presidential Human Rights Council. Malkevich, who was the main propagandist for the late Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of the Wagner Group, worked for USA Really, a news website spreading pro-Kremlin information in occupied Ukraine; for this reason, he is under US sanctions.
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