 Hello and welcome to the International Daily Roundup with People's Dispatch where we bring you some of the top stories from across the globe. Let's take a look at today's headlines. Hethian police state alleged assassins of women and boys have been killed in a gun battle. Israeli forces demolish Palestinian Bedouin homes in the West Bank. Lawmakers accuse U.S. military of underreporting overseas civilian casualties. Ex-IMF official appointed as governor of the Central Bank of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Hethian officials have stated that four alleged suspects in the assassination of Havana boys have been killed. Police chief Leon Charles announced late on July 7 that mercenaries had been killed in a gun battle. Two others have reportedly been captured. Charles made the announcement less than a day after Hethian's de facto President Moise was killed in his home. Heavy gunfire could be heard in the parallel five district of Port-au-Prince early morning on Wednesday while only a few details have been provided. The unidentified attacker spoke English or Spanish according to a statement released by the Prime Minister. They were also heavily armed and trained. Meanwhile interim Prime Minister Claudius Joseph has taken over as the acting head of state. This is despite the fact that less than a day before his death, Havana boys had appointed Ariel Henry as a new Prime Minister. Joseph has also imposed a counter-white state of siege for 15 days as per the country's 1987 constitution. Only the parliament has the authority to do so. However, Hethi has been without the parliament after the body was dissolved in 2020. The state of siege will now authorize police and security forces to enter homes. Meetings meant to excite or prepare for disorder have been prohibited. As reports by Hethi Libre, civilian courts will also be replaced by military courts. Security forces are now authorized to take all general measures that permit the arrest of the assassins. Meanwhile, Claudius Joseph has held meetings with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and the coal group. A private meeting of the UN Security Council was also held on July 8th. Israeli forces demolished homes of the Palestinian Bedouin community of Hamzah al-Baqai in the occupied West Bank on July 7th. As per the Norwegian Refugee Council, eight residential shelters for livelihood structures, water tanks and agricultural equipment were destroyed. Around 70 Palestinians, including 35 children, have now lost their homes. This is the seventh time that the Hamzah has been demolished since November 2020. At that time, Israel destroyed 83 structures in what is considered the largest single demolition incident in recent years. The Hamzah community is set in the path of two illegal Israeli settlements, Bekout and Roy. The Hamzah is located in Area C of the Jordan Valley which is placed under Israeli military control. The area has been designated as a firing zone for military training. 6,200 people or 38 Palestinian Bedouin communities are located in this zone. Access to water, sanitation, electricity and education is extremely limited. Israeli authorities have demolished or seized at least 421 Palestinian structures in the West Bank in 2021. The UN-OCHA has noted a 50% increase in the number of people displaced as compared to 2020. Meanwhile, Palestinians in the village of Bieta have continued to night confusion activities. This form of protest includes lighting fires and flashing lights began after an illegal Israeli outpost was set up on the Jabal Sabay mountain. Starting May protests spread in the area and were met with brutal repression, at least 5 Palestinians were killed and over 300 were injured. The Israeli military has now evacuated the settlement claiming that the land is state-owned. However, instead of returning it to the Palestinians, it is now being turned into a military base and religious school. Several civil society groups and lawmakers have accused the US military of underreporting civilian killings overseas. A Department of Defense report released in June states that the US was responsible for unintentionally killing 23 civilians. Another 10 had been injured. These figures were from overseas military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen and Nigeria in 2020. The numbers reported in the 2020 report are significantly lower than the 132 civilian killings recorded in 2019. Meanwhile, these figures are significantly lower than the casualties reported by other sources. According to monitoring group Air Wars, at least 102 civilians were killed in US operations last year. The United Nations Assistance Commission in Afghanistan reported the killings of at least 89 civilians. Another 31 were injured. Meanwhile, official records show only 20 casualties. One over the years Congress had approved a compensation of $3 million for affected families. The Department of Defense report shows that one single family has been compensated. In a letter made public this week, two lawmakers, Elizabeth Warren and Rokhanna, have asked defense officials to review the discrepancies according to the US government. 733 civilians have been killed and 335 have been injured in military operations since 2017. However, other sources, including the UN, place the number of casualties much higher. And for our final story, we go to the Democratic Republic of Congo. President Felix Chisikedi has appointed Malango Kabidi Mui to serve as governor of the Central Bank. She was previously an International Monetary Fund official and worked in other African countries, including Sierra Leone and Burkina Faso. She will be the first woman appointed to this post in the country. Kabidi Mui will now oversee a three-year $1.5 billion loan deal between the IMF and the DRC. Here is Kambali Musawili to talk about the concerns surrounding her appointment. I mean, the Brenton Wooder institutions in the DRC have a fascinating and devastating record. Remember in the 1980s, in the early 1980s, I'll say 1981, the IMF themselves actually audited the finance that were giving the president at the time. The president at the time was Mubutu. In their own audit, they discovered that the money that was being given to the country was being embezzled. Surprisingly, the year after, they continue to provide more and more funds to Mubutu. We can see with the structural adjustment program where they force the Congolese states back then as a year to pretty much privatize many of its sector to move money away from public education and focus more on mining and so on, how he had a devastating impact in the country. By the end of the 1980s, we saw a deterioration, a complete deterioration of the Zairean economy back then, and many African countries suffer from that. The same thing we continue to see in Congo, right in the 2000s, right during the war. We had Laurent Kabila took power, then later Joseph Kabila, after the death of Laurent Kabila in 2001. We continue to see that the World Bank funds projects in DRC while they see questions of corruption. There is another element that's also fascinating about these two institutions for the Brentwood World Bank and IMF. Many people do not know that in the early 2000s that the World Bank and IMF, they wrote the forestry laws of the Congo. They wrote the mining laws of the Congo, pretty much determining how mining will be done. Some of the laws pretty much gave control of the land to mining companies from the surface all the way to the magma for the exploitation. We had people such as a member of Ponyo Kalu Tundula who fought it. There were many others who mobilized to challenge some of the policies. We're still fighting to transform all of those things, but it's still ongoing. Now, to modern day, we are now, in the past two to three years, we've seen the World Bank literally giving away money that they know there's going to be misused. The World Bank knows that the money is being misused. So it's quite surprising that they continue to give money to the DRC. And what does that actually say? I mean, the history of the World Bank and IMF as I just listed in the past few years has been that they provide funds to African leaders who seem to be on the side of Washington. Even with the human rights abuses and corruption and any other issues that they may have, they continue to provide them with funds. And that is all we have for this episode of The International. We'll get on top of most of the stories and videos. Visit our website because there's a special ORG subscriber to our YouTube channel and visit us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Thank you for watching.