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Concern mounts for three remaining hunger strikers

Posted on: July 31, 2012
Concern mounts for three remaining hunger strikers

30 July 2012 | Addameer, Al Haq, PHR-Israel

Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Al-Haq and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-IL) are gravely concerned for the life and health of the three remaining Palestinian hunger strikers held by Israel. Of utmost concern is the health and life of administrative detainees Samer Al-Barq, today on his 70th day of renewed hunger strike, and Hassan Safadi who is on his 40th day of renewed hunger strike. Samer, whose current strike follows his previous 28-day strike and whose health continues to deteriorate rapidly, is only taking salts and vitamins and he … Continue reading


Updated on July 31, 2012
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‘Palestinians for Dignity’ rejects EU hypocrisy in upgrading its relations with the Israeli Occupation

Posted on: July 31, 2012

30 July 2012 | Palestinians for Dignity, Occupied Ramallah

It has come to light over the last week that the European Union (EU) has decided to upgrade its trade and diplomatic relations with the state of Israel despite the latter’s intensification of its occupation, colonization and apartheid against the Palestinian people. The new deal will reportedly offer Israel upgraded trade and diplomatic relations in more than 60 areas, effectively reversing the freeze that was imposed after the vicious assault of the Israeli Occupation Forces on the Gaza Strip in December 2008 – January 2009.

This latest move by the EU is nothing … Continue reading


Updated on July 31, 2012
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URGENT APPEAL from Al-Aqaba Village

Posted on: July 25, 2012
The destruction of Al-Salam street in Aqaba

To the embassies, consulates, and international, Arab, and Islamic representative offices;
To domestic and international humanitarian and human rights organizations;
To all domestic and international media outlets that have visited the steadfast village of Aqaba, and to those that have not visited;
To Israeli humanitarian and human rights organizations;
Al-Salam (Peace) Street remains closed before your eyes,
And to the residents of Al-Aqaba village since 18 April 2012…

The destruction of Al-Salam street in Al-Aqaba
The people of Al-Aqaba village call upon you to intervene to open Al-Salam Street, … Continue reading


Updated on July 30, 2012
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Israel refuses to investigate death of slain Palestinian protester from Bil’in

Posted on: July 20, 2012

18 July 2012 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee
Jawaher Abu Rahmah from the West Bank village of Bil’in village, died of cardiac arrest caused by inhalation of excessive amounts of tear gas. The Israeli High Court laid the onus of collecting evidence to justify an investigation on the family, instead of police.
Israeli High Court judges ruled today that the family of the late Jawaher Abu Rahmah and the Bil’in Popular Committee should submit documents and testimonies indicating that Abu Rahmah’s death was caused by tear-gas inhalation to the Israeli Judge Advocate General (JAG) until September 1st. … Continue reading


Updated on July 20, 2012
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Akram Rikhawi and the Saga of Palestinian Hunger Strikes

Posted on: July 17, 2012
Akram Rikhawi and the Saga of Palestinian Hunger Strikes

By Richard Falk

9 July 2012 | Richard Falk WordPress

The persistence of Palestinian hunger strikes shocks me for two reasons: that these extreme expressions of moral freedom alert all who choose to expose their consciousness to such realities of the severely abusive arrest, detention, and interrogation procedures that many Palestinians living under Israeli occupation must endure; that the world’s media, foreign governments, the UN, the Arab League barely acknowledge such events, which if they occurred in other countries would generate outpourings of outrage and sympathy, and depending on the … Continue reading


Updated on July 25, 2012
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BDS at 7! – Celebrating, reflecting and further mainstreaming

Posted on: July 17, 2012
BDS at 7! – Celebrating, reflecting and further mainstreaming

9 July 2012 | Palestinian BDS National Committee, Occupied Palestine

Seven years after the Palestinian civil society call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel was launched, the global BDS campaign has become stronger, more widespread, more effective and certainly more diverse than ever—a true cause for celebration by all those groups and conscientious citizens of the world who contributed to this success. However, Israel’s intensifying violations of international law and basic Palestinian rights, the direct threat Israel poses to the freedom of peoples across the region, and … Continue reading


Updated on July 17, 2012
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Israel treats every Palestinian child as “potential terrorist”: government-backed UK study

Posted on: July 4, 2012
The number of Palestinian children in Israeli detention has increased 40 percent since last September.

By Asa Winstanley

28 June 2012 | Electronic Intifada, London

A new report funded and supported by the UK government that accuses Israel of violating international law with its treatment of Palestinian child detainees was launched in London by a high-profile group of human rights lawyers on Tuesday.

The report says Israel is in violation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) on at least six counts and of the Fourth Geneva Convention on at least two … Continue reading


Updated on July 4, 2012
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On the sixth day of Israeli attacks on Gaza

Posted on: July 4, 2012
5 and a half year old Ali Moutaz al Shawaf was killed by an Israeli shell - click to see more photos

By Rosa Schiano

23 June 2012 | il Blog di Olivia, Gaza

The sixth day of Israeli attacks on Gaza.

Today we have arrived at 16 deaths, including a child of 5 and a half years, and over 60 injured individuals. This morning in Khan Younis of the southern Gaza Strip an Israeli tank fired an artillery shell and killed a child of 5 and a half years, and wounding his father and 3 other people. I went to the morgue of the hospital and I saw the lifeless body of a child.

Ali Al Moutaz Shawat was 5 and a half … Continue reading


Updated on May 16, 2013
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Remembering Mamoun, killed by an Israeli missile as he played football

Posted on: June 23, 2012
Muhammed al-Dam grieves over the body of his son, Mamoun, who was killed on Wednesday from an Israeli airstrike. (Ashraf Amra / APA images)

By Rami Almeghari
22 June 2012 | The Electronic Intifada, Gaza City

“I can never forget his image with blood all over his little body and both his legs badly injured,” Umm Mamoun Hassouna told The Electronic Intifada as she sat at a relative’s house in Gaza City. “I am a preacher at a local mosque and used to preach against harming innocent Israeli children, women or the elderly, and even cutting down a tree,” she said.


“After I have seen my son killed by an Israeli … Continue reading


Updated on June 23, 2012
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20 Palestinian detained children started a hunger strike in Hasharon prison

Posted on: June 16, 2012
20 Palestinian detained children started a hunger strike in Hasharon prison

13 June 2012 | Palestinian Information Center, Gaza
Twenty Palestinian children, detained in Hasharon prison, launched on Tuesday June 12, an open hunger strike protesting the harsh prison conditions and the prison administration’s neglect of their demands.
A 17-years-old child Ahmed Lafi, who was one of the strikers, told the Ministry of the prisoners in Gaza that 20 detained children started an open hunger strike to protest the bad and deteriorating living conditions in the prison, where they are not allowed to visit each other and are deprived … Continue reading


Updated on June 16, 2012
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