 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. New report confirms evidence of extrajudicial execution of Palestinian man by Israeli forces. Bus drivers in London go on strike to demand fair pay and compensation. Biden administration reopens detention facilities for unaccompanied migrant children. And report reveals deaths of over 6,500 migrant workers in Qatar over a decade. El Salvador faces worsening institutional and economic challenges ahead of legislative elections. A report released on February 23rd has confirmed evidence that the killing of a 26-year-old Palestinian man by Israeli forces was an extrajudicial execution. London-based research group Forensic Architecture confirmed that Ahmed Erakat had not posed any threat to Israeli forces of property when he was killed in June 2020. Erakat was killed on June 23rd by Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. He was going to pick up his family members from a beauty salon on the day of his sister's wedding. Video footage from the checkpoint used for the report showed Erakat's car veering into a booth and hitting a soldier. Forensic Architecture has shown that Erakat did not accelerate his car to hit the booth and has disputed claims made by the Israeli military that the crash was intentional. After the crash, Erakat left his vehicle and moved away while raising his hands in the ear. Israeli soldiers proceeded to shoot Erakat six times with three shots fired after he had already fallen to the ground. This directly contradicted the Israeli military's claims that Erakat had run towards the soldiers and also violated Israel's open fire regulations. Videos from the scene also show that a Palestinian ambulance was not allowed to reach him. He was left lying on the ground for nearly two hours before an Israeli ambulance finally took him away. During this time, all of his clothes were removed and photographs of the scene were taken by Israeli personnel. Forensic Architecture has termed this denial of immediate medical attention, killing by time. Israeli authorities have refused to release an autopsy report with details of his death. They have also refused to hand over his body to his family for a proper burial. Erakat is among 70 Palestinians whose bodies have been confiscated by Israeli authorities in violation of international humanitarian law. Forensic Architecture has called this a practice of collective punishment. Around 2,200 bus drivers from the United Union concluded the first round of the strike action on February 24. Drivers employed by the French-owned RATP Group went on strike on February 22 to demand fair pay and compensation. The RATP has been accused of attempting to use the pandemic as a smokescreen to implement pay cuts. The attempted cuts will leave drivers with a pay decrease of up to 2,500 pounds per year. The night regional officer, Michelle Brayboy, has stated that these permanent changes will lead to workers suffering a substantial financial loss. A dispute over zero contract hours has reportedly also not been resolved. Workers at the other two RATP subsidiaries also went on strike this week. Workers at Quality Line based in Surrey went on strike on February 22 and 23. Drivers at London Sovereign, which operates in northwest London, went on strike on February 22. They have reportedly also planned strikes on March 1 and March 3. Workouts in other RATP subsidiaries will also be held next week. The United Union has stressed that the workers have been left with no choice but to resort to strikes as the RATP has refused to listen to reason and continue negotiations. As reported by the Surrey Comet, some workers were reportedly offered a raise of only seven pens, which they rejected. The Biden administration has started reopening detention facilities for unaccompanied immigrant children. On 23rd February, it was reported that a Trump-era homestead temporary shelter for unaccompanied children is being reopened. The facility, which was run by a for-profit organization, was shut down in August 2019 following protests by rights groups joined by several members of the Democratic Party. The facility has reportedly been reopened after being renamed as the Biscayne Influx Care facility in the state of Florida. Another Trump-era detention facility to hold around 700 immigrant children was also opened at Carrizo Springs in the state of Texas on February 22. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki has claimed that the reopening of these facilities are a temporary measure to comply with COVID-19 protocols. Activists have criticized the decision as the United States continues to detain unaccompanied children crossing international borders. President Joe Biden has promised to take steps to undo the anti-immigrant policies of his predecessors and Donald Trump. However, the reopening of detention facilities has been announced as a continuation of Trump-era policies. Over 6,500 South Asian migrant workers have died in Qatar since it won the right to host the FIFA World Cup in 2010. The figures were published by The Guardian on February 23 after compiling Kerm and data from five South Asian countries. These include India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. 5,927 workers from India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka died in Qatar between 2011 and 2020. 69% of these deaths were categorized as natural in official records. However, such rulings are often done without an autopsy or forensic investigations. Other causes of death listed in official data include blunt injuries sustained after falling from a height, asphyxia due to hanging and undetermined causes. The Guardian had previously also reported that severe heat in Qatar was a likely factor in a significant number of deaths. Qatar has in today undertaken large-scale infrastructure projects in preparation for the 2022 Football World Cup. According to local advocacy group Fair Square Projects, it is likely that many of the workers who have died in the country were employed in these projects. The Guardian reports that 37 deaths have been of workers directly linked to the construction of World Cup stadiums. 34 out of these have been classified as non-work related by the tournament's organizing committee. However, experts have contested this term as it includes deaths that have occurred at the work site. The Guardian's report has revealed discrepancies and lack of transparency in the recording of deaths, of workers' deaths in Qatar. Several rights groups have also urged the Qatar government to amend laws to mandate forensic investigations in cases of sudden deaths. For our final story of the day, we go to El Salvador, which is set to hold its legislative elections on February 28th. The country is facing a health crisis and worsening economic conditions under the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, the administration of President Naib Bukhwile has been accused of pursuing an increasingly authoritarian political agenda. Here is Victor Swazer from the Progressive Farabundo-Marthi National Liberation Front to talk more about the current scenario and the challenges facing the incoming legislative assembly. Mr. Naib Bukhwile has taken advantage of this crisis to increase his authoritarian policies that had already been initiated even before the pandemic. However, the product of this national emergency has been seen to have increased the violations of human rights and the violation of the State of Rights and even the Constitution. We have seen with concern that the budget has been doubled in armed forces despite the fact that our Constitution delimits very well the functions of the armed forces to protect the national territory and the national sovereignty and is using this armed force politically and in the same way to the national civil police and has put them to the service of their new political party and have left them to be at the service of the population. The main challenge is to take care of democracy, to fight against authoritarianism and to defend the institutions that have been created and that has also implied that Salvador has a serious crisis in terms of public finances since the government has been fulfilling a law of fiscal responsibility and we have had a high public budget, zero transparency and this has implied that already organisms such as the International Monetary Fund are talking and there are some agreements that the government intends to apply after the elections that we have this February 28th agreements that imply a fiscal adjustment of three points per cent of GDP and are prevented from massive demands, cut off social spending and increase indirect taxes as is the case of IVA that comes to affect the poorest so we have to be very aware of this type of situation. And that is all the time we have for this episode of the International Daily Roundup. 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