 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. Israeli government blocks COVID-19 vaccine transfers to Gaza. Catalonian police forcefully arrests rapper and poet Pablo Hassel. Filipino security forces raid sanctuary schools for displaced indigenous peoples. Delhi police arrests 21-year-old climate activist over farmers' protest toolkit conspiracy. The Israeli government has blocked a transfer of COVID-19 vaccines to Gaza. Palestinian Health Minister May Al-Qaeda issued a statement notifying the action on Feb. 15. Al-Qaeda stated that the arbitrary procedure was in violation of all international agreements and norms. Israeli officials have reportedly announced that the permission to transfer vaccines to Gaza is pending a court political decision from higher authorities. The Palestinian Authority government had announced earlier this month that it would transfer 2,000 doses of the Russian Sputnik 5 vaccine to Gaza. As per the health ministry, the doses were meant for frontline health workers and medical staff working in designated COVID-19 intensive care units. Gaza is home to over 1.9 million Palestinians and has recorded over 53,000 COVID-19 cases so far. The densely populated region has been under brutal Israeli land, sea, and air blockades since 2006. Israel has only provided 5,000 doses of vaccines to the Palestinians so far. Being an occupying power, it has also denied responsibility towards the health infrastructure in Palestine. Israel has claimed that as per the Oslo Accord, the responsibility lies with the Palestinian government. However, these claims have been refuted by the UN and the WHO. Israel's exclusion of Palestinians from its vaccination campaign has been denounced as medical or vaccine apartheid. The Palestinian government received 10,000 doses of the Sputnik 5 vaccine on February 5th. It plans to vaccinate 70% of the Palestinian population and is now expecting to receive 240,000 doses under the International Covax Initiative. Catalonian police forces arrested Spanish rapper Edward Pablo Hussal on February 16th. Hussal had barricaded himself inside the University of Leda and was being protected by his supporters. Hussal is facing imprisonment on charges related to glorifying terrorism and insulting the crown and state institutions. The Spanish National Court had issued a notice to Hussal on January 27th, giving him 10 days to surrender. Hussal's legal name is Pablo Rivadio Aduro. It's popular for his songs and poems which are critical of government authorities and the right wing. He was accused in several cases for allegedly praising so-called terrorist groups as well as communist leaders. The highest criminal court in Spain ruled in 2018 that Hussal's comments and lyrics were expressions of court hatred and attacks on honor. He was subsequently sentenced to two years in prison and fined 24,300 euros. The prison sentence was later reduced to nine months after an appeal. Hussal has stated that he would not surrender himself and that the police would have forcefully arrested him. According to the BBC, Hussal declared that they will never silence us, death to the fascist state as he was being arrested. He was then taken to the nearby Pondent Prison where he will reportedly serve his sentence. Hussal's arrest has been widely denounced by progressive organizations within Spain and across the world. 26 persons were arrested by the Philippines National Police from a sanctuary school for the displaced indigenous Lumad community. Police forces conducted a raid on the school located in Cebu City on February 15th. Filipino news portal Rappler reported that the police had undertaken a joint raid along with the Department of Social Welfare and Development and the Armed Forces of the Philippines. The raid had been officially termed as a rescue operation. Local authorities claim that children in the Lumad sanctuary schools were being given court warfare training. The school is located on the Talamban campus of the Catholic Run University of San Carlos. The National Union of People's Lawyers or NUPL confirmed that teacher students and community elders had been arrested. The arrest included 21 students out of which 19 were reportedly underage. Footage of the raid posted by the Cebu Schools or SOS Network showed children crying as they were being dragged by security forces. Local media organization Bulatlath has reported an NUPL lawyer stating that the exact whereabouts of around 16 minors and three adult students are unknown as of February 16th. Seven people have also reportedly been put in jail. The SOS Network which advocates for Lumad Schools has reported that at least 178 such sanctuary schools have been shut down since 2016. Schools are shut down due to attacks related to the practice of red tagging or under government orders. Indigenous communities, activists and universities have been relentlessly persecuted and labeled as supporters of bad new people's army. The network has also documented over 584 cases of attacks including school related extradition killings and sexual harassment between May 2017 and July 2019. The Lumad indigenous peoples of southern Philippines have continued to suffer violence and displacement under the government's supposed counter-insurgency programs. For a final story, we go to India where a 21-year-old climate activist has been remanded to five days in police custody. Disha Ravi was arrested by Delhi police on February 14th in relation to the so-called toolkit conspiracy. The toolkit refers to a public document activists had created detailing peaceful means of protest in solidarity with India's farmers. The toolkit was also shared by prominent Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg on Twitter. The Delhi police has named Ravi a key conspirator in the formulation and dissemination of the toolkit. The police have also launched a first information report against Ravi on charges related to sedition, criminal conspiracy and promotion of communal hatred. Ravi was remanded to custody by the Delhi court without legal counsel present to represent her. She was also brought from the city of Bangalore to the capital without a mandatory transit remand. Here is Supreme Court Advocate Colin Gonzales to talk about the latest developments in this case. When there is no evidence shown to the court of her involvement in any crime, no evidence I said, not just a story. A police may give you any story that they want to give you about Kalistan and all that, but it is the duty of the remand magistrate to ask do you have anything with you today apart from your general theories and your general fairy tales so to speak. What is the evidence you have today? And remand magistrates are routinely making this mistake. You must insist to see the evidence before you remand a person. I'll explain this a little bit. You see all over the world and in India as well you conduct an investigation. The police does that. No problem. The police could have conducted an investigation against her but they only arrest when they have a good enough docket of documents, proof, evidence that she is involved in some criminal activity of a serious kind. Now this guy is this remand magistrate is going in the reverse direction. He's accepting the story and he's presuming that after 90 days when the police file the charges then some evidence will come up but then if evidence is going to come up then you can't arrest now so it's a it's a totally legal arrest without any evidence requiring the custody of the freedom of a person to be killed. I want to tell all young people in the country take this as a super opportunity super opportunity because they've got no case against her. Shameful. No case against her. Take it as an opportunity and challenge the government that toolkit. This is what I'm using and this is and throughout the country take the opportunity and chance today for peaceful democratic secular protests. Spread it. This atrocious government this very autocratic and pernicious government has given us a chance by making the toolkit the center of their attack. So we'll make it the center of our counter attack everybody use the toolkit not for violence not for something undemocratic but for democratic peaceful protest everybody use the toolkit. Let's see who will survive. Will the attacks survive or the counter attacks survive. So young people throughout the country don't be afraid. Don't go on the back full. Don't feel you know bullied and threatened. On the contrary take this as a unique historical chance a once in a lifetime chance in India. Go on the attack and say we are not going to be bullied. We are not going to be threatened. We are not going to back down. This is a new India. And this is all the time we have in this episode of the International Daily Roundup for more such stories and videos visit our website people. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Thank you for watching.