France was the only G7 member to vote in favour of a UN General Assembly resolution last month seeking an immediate "humanitarian truce". The United States voted against while Japan, Britain, Italy, Germany and Canada all abstained.
Home Secretary Suella Braverman said Wagner "has been involved in looting, torture and barbarous murders. Its operations in Ukraine, the Middle East and Africa are a threat to global security."
That puts the EU on track to receive more than one million asylum-seekers this year, the biggest number since 2015-2016, when it saw a huge influx, mainly Syrians fleeing the war in their country.
On the streets of Tripoli and its suburbs, protests erupted Sunday evening to signify a refusal of normalisation with Israel. The protests spread to other cities where young people blocked roads, burned tyres and waved the Palestinian flag.
According to UN data, the exodus from al-Qabun, a small Bedouin village northeast of the city of Ramallah that numbered 89 people before the evacuation, represents the third case over four months in which a Palestinian community emptied out.
Meanwhile, Israeli forces claimed on Tuesday they had arrested two Palestinians suspected of shooting dead an illegal Israeli settler near Hebron in the occupied West Bank.
The rights group cited eyewitness reports of attacks by troops and images that showed dead bodies and burial sites on migrant routes, saying the death toll could even be "possibly thousands."
