• UN demand for IDF compensation in Gaza could reach $11m

    Barak Ravid, Amos Harel & AP | Ha’aretz 6 May 2009 A United Nations demand for financial compensation for Israeli strikes on UN facilities in Gaza could come to $11 million, a government official in Jerusalem said Tuesday in response to a UN report that criticized Israel for the attacks. The incidents occurred during Operation Cast Lead in January. The official said Israel would begin negotiations with the UN on this and other matters in the…

  • Israeli soldiers break Hebron resident’s arm, enter two shops

    4 May 2009 On Monday, the 4th of May, a Hebron resident’s arm was broken by two soldiers in the old city.  49-year-old Mohammad Hashem Borqan was on his way to pray at the Ibrahimi Mosque at around 5:30am.  As he went through the checkpoint at the entrance to the mosque, two soldiers started beating and kicking him.  Mohammad fell to the ground, breaking his arm.  After the beating the soldiers ordered him to leave the…

  • UN accuses Israel of Gaza ‘negligence or recklessness’

    Rory McCarthy & Ed Pilkington | The Guardian 5 May 2009 A United Nations inquiry today accused the Israeli military of “negligence or recklessness” in its conduct of the January war in Gaza and said the organisation should press claims for reparations for deaths and damage. The first investigation into the three-week war by anyone other than human rights researchers and journalists held the Israeli government responsible in seven separate cases in which UN property was…

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