• Gaza: Israeli shelling leaves Palestinian worker dead

    05 April 2011 | Palestine News Network One man was killed when tanks bombarded a group of Palestinian workers as they collected construction materials near the northern Gaza Strip’s border with Israel. Palestinian medics announced that Mohamed Shalha, 21, was killed when tank shells landed near him. Shalha and another worker were injured earlier on Tuesday midday but medics were unable to reach them because of the Israeli shelling. The fate of the other injured worker…

  • Israel okays 942 new settler homes in East Jerusalem

    5th April 2011 | Ma’an News Agency Jerusalem city council on Monday approved the construction of 942 new Jewish-only homes in Gilo settlement in occupied East Jersualem, a councillor told AFP. Elisha Peleg, from the right-wing Likud party, confirmed that the new construction in Gilo, close to the West Bank city of Bethlehem, had been approved during an afternoon session of the district planning council. “Of course we approved it, it is only the first step,”…

  • PCHR highlights key issues relating to report of UN fact-finding mission on Gaza conflict (the ‘Goldstone Report’)

    4 April 2011 | Palestinian Centre for Human Rights In light of the media debate and confusion triggered by Justice Richard Goldstone’s 1 April opinion piece in the Washington Post, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) wishes to highlight a few key issues regarding the current status of the UN Fact-Finding Mission’s Report, and the search for accountability in the aftermath of Israel’s 27 December 2008 – 18 January 2009 offensive on the Gaza Strip.…

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