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Khader Adnan, a Palestinian prisoner who had been on a hunger strike in an Israeli prison for 87 days to protest his detention, died early Tuesday, according to his lawyer and Palestinian and Israeli officials.It was Mr. Adnan, 44, who helped usher in the practice of individual hunger strikes by Palestinian prisoners, conducting a 66-day strike in 2011 that inspired others to use it as a means of protesting Israel's incarceration of Palestinians, especially the practice of administrative detention.

An empty classroom is seen in a school in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Tuesday, March.28, 2023.Palestinian public schools across the occupied West Bank have been shuttered since Feb. 5, in one of the longest teachers' strikes in recent memory against the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority.(APPhoto/Mahmoud Illean)AL-AZZA REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank - In schools across the world, children are halfway into their second semester.

Amnesty International publishes annual report highlighting the state of human rights in more than 150 countries.The invasion of Ukraine has exposed the double standards of human rights internationally, a new Amnesty International report has said, with the West adopting a tough response to Russia's war of aggression while also maintaining a deafening silence on rights abuses around the world.

A picture taken from the Palestinian village of Aqraba shows the Israeli settlement outpost of Gevat Arnon, near Nablus city in the southern occupied West Bank.Jaafar Ashitiyeh/AFP via Getty Images In a rare move, key European allies France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom joined the U.S. on Tuesday in condemning Israel's plans to build 10,000 more housing units in existing settlements in the occupied West Bank.

Ammar Demadi stands in his burned house the day after settlers set houses and cars on fire in the village of Hawara, Palestine, on February 26, 2023.Amir Levy / Getty Images Israeli settlers tore through the occupied West Bank on Sunday, violently attacking Palestinians and setting fire to their cars, houses, and businesses in what one rights group called a "pogrom" sanctioned by the far-right government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Over the past year, imprisonment of journalists and violence against media professionals have spiked.In every corner of the world, journalists are intimidated and locked up at distressing rates and far too many are killed just for doing their jobs.On this World Press Freedom Day, there is much to be concerned about given the threats that journalists are facing daily.

To mark World Press Freedom Day, Al Jazeera looks at where the media is most restricted around the globe.Every year on May 3, UNESCO commemorates World Press Freedom Day.To mark 30 years since the United Nations General Assembly designated the day, a special event will be held at the UN headquarters in New York.

Israeli security forces said on Wednesday that they had shot dead a man they accused of planting a bomb in northern Israel after he had probably infiltrated the country from southern Lebanon, in one of the most unusual security incidents along the border in years.The military did not reveal details about the man killed but said that they were investigating whether he had been connected to Hezbollah, an Islamist militia and political movement that has long fought Israel and has a stronghold in southern Lebanon.

A Reporters Without Borders report says the last two decades have been especially deadly' for journalists.Nearly 1,700 journalists have been killed worldwide over the past 20 years, an average of more than 80 a year, according to an analysis published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF).The two decades between 2003 and 2022 were especially deadly decades for those in the service of the right to inform, said the Paris-based media rights campaigners.

"We want there to be accountability.We want there to be justice," Shireen's niece Lina Abu Akleh says.More than six months since the Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed while reporting in the occupied West Bank, "there is still no accountability in what happened," says journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous.

Israel's far-right governing coalition sped up its efforts on Sunday to enact the first part of its contentious judicial overhaul, despite a plea from the country's defense minister to delay the bill because the turmoil caused by the plan had threatened the country's national security.In chaotic scenes in Parliament, lawmakers raced to finalize the text of a proposed law that the coalition hopes to present for a final vote early this week.

"Antisemitism, unfortunately, is thriving again in the world," says Dani Dayan.For the past year and a half, the 67-year-old has been chairman of Yad Vashem, the world's most important Holocaust memorial, located on the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem.The growing hatred of Jews worldwide, Dayan told DW's Rebecca Ritters, is what prompts him to warn every world leader who visits Yad Vashem, "When you see antisemitism, act immediately, don't wait.

"Antisemitism, unfortunately, is thriving again in the world," says Dani Dayan.For the past year and a half, the 67-year-old has been chairman of Yad Vashem, the world's most important Holocaust memorial, located on the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem.The growing hatred of Jews worldwide, Dayan told DW's Rebecca Ritters, is what prompts him to warn every world leader who visits Yad Vashem, "When you see antisemitism, act immediately, don't wait.