22 April 2009 April 11th 2009 marked the 6th anniversary of the shooting of British ISM activist Tom Hurndall by Israeli occupation soldiers that lead to his death 9 months later. It wasn’t possible for ISM volunteers to enter the ...
Read More »Amnesty International urges Obama to halt further exports to Israel
Ma’an News Agency 11 April 2009 The United States sent a massive new shipment of arms to Israel despite evidence that US weapons were misused against civilians in the Gaza attacks, Amnesty International revealed on 1 April. The human rights ...
Read More »Amnesty: Evidence of misuse of US-weapons reinforces need for arms embargo
Amnesty International Both Israel and Hamas used weapons supplied from abroad to carry out attacks on civilians, Amnesty International said today as it released fresh evidence on the munitions used during the three-week conflict in Gaza and southern Israel and ...
Read More »Palestininan youth worker to be detained without charge for another six months
By the Alternative Information Centre An Israeli military court has approved the extension of Ahmad Abu Hannya’s administration detention until May 14, 2007. By the of this period Ahmad, an Alternative Information Center (AIC) staff member, will have been imprisoned ...
Read More »Israel/Occupied Territories: High Court decision institutionalizes racial discrimination
By Amnesty International The decision by the Israeli High Court of Justice on 14 May to uphold a law which explicitly denies family rights on the basis of ethnicity or national origins is a step further in the institutionalization of ...
Read More »Stop the bombing of Gaza! Prevent a humanitarian crisis!
UPDATE: Since this Action Alert was posted, the shelling of Gaza has continued almost non-stop. Eight days [now 17 days] and thousands of shells later, the assault on Gaza continues. Israel has vowed that it will continue to intensify the ...
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