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Ynet: UN rights chief calls for end to Gaza blockade
‘Palestinians forcibly deprived of their most basic human rights for months,’ UN High Commissioner for Human Rights says By Hanan Greenberg and AP To view original article, published by Ynet on the 18th November, click here The UN’s top human rights official has called on Israel to end its blockade of the Gaza Strip, saying…
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Ynet: NY – Rights groups protest Hebron settlement fundraiser
Adalah-NY, Brooklyn for Peace rally outside Marriott Marquis hotel against fundraiser held there by settlement group, chant ‘Hebron’s settlers, Klu Klux Klan, racist groups go hand in hand’ To view original article, published by Ynet on the 18th November, click here Thirty-five rights advocates from Adalah-NY and Brooklyn for Peace rallied Monday evening outside the…
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Palestinian fishermen still being held by Israeli authorities, three internationals fighting deportation with at least one engaging in a hunger-strike
18th November – British politicians, MP Clare Short and Baronness Jenny Tonge, both issue statements regarding the arrests made by Israeli forces today The fifteen Palestinian fishermen abducted from Palestinian waters this morning (10am 18th November) are still being held by Israeli authorities in Ashdod, while their boats have been confiscated. Legal proceedings were initiated…
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Fifteen Palestinian fishermen and three internationals abducted from Palestinian waters off the coast of Gaza
Gaza City, 10 a.m.- Fifteen Palestinian fishermen and 3 international Human Rights Observers (HRO’s) were surrounded by the Israeli Navy and taken from their boats 7 miles off the coast of Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip. The fishermen and the HRO’s were transferred from 3 separate boats to the Israeli warships. Other Palestinian fishermen reported…
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Weed pulling threatens armed Israeli soldiers
By Donna Wallach Al-Faraheen, Abasan Al-Kabeera, Gaza Strip, Palestine, 12th November 2008 On Wednesday 12th November, five international volunteer Human Rights Observers, most of them members of ISM Gaza Strip, went to Al-Faraheen, east of Khan Younis to pull weeds in the radish garden at the farm of Jaber Abu-Rageliyah and Leila Abu-Daga and their…
