Al Jazeera 29 June 2009 A UN human rights mission on the Gaza conflict is hearing from a range of experts on the social and the psychological effect of Israel’s 22-day war on Gaza. On the second of the two-day ...
Read More »UN public hearing in Gaza broadcasts accounts of war victims
Rory McCarthy | The Guardian 30 June 2009 The UN has held an unprecedented public hearing in Gaza to broadcast live witness accounts from Palestinians who described seeing their relatives killed and injured during Israel’s January war. One after another, ...
Read More »UN’s Gaza war crimes investigation faces obstacles
YNet News 9 June 2009 After interviewing dozens of war victims and poring through the files of human rights groups, a veteran UN war crimes investigator acknowledged that his probe into possible crimes by Israel and Hamas is unlikely to ...
Read More »Open letter from Gaza to the government and people of Spain
30 May 2009 We write to you as Palestinians from Gaza to express our dismay at the proposal of the Spanish parliament to restrict the universal jurisdiction of Spain, particularly with regard to breaches of international humanitarian law. The proposal ...
Read More »Spain signals end to war crimes, genocide hunting
Ben Harding | Reuters 20 May 2009 Spanish judges who tried to extradite ex-Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and investigate Bush administration officials over Guantanamo will likely be barred from doing so again after a parliamentary vote on Tuesday. Under pressure ...
Read More »Spain to limit judges’ jurisdiction; includes probe against Israelis
The Jerusalem Post 20 May 2009 Spain’s congress on Tuesday reportedly passed a resolution to limit the jurisdiction of investigative judges. The move follows pressure from foreign governments such as the US, China and Israel, which has strongly criticized Judge ...
Read More »An independent fact-finding committee calls for the prosecution of Israeli political leaders and members of the military
30 May 2009 An independent fact-finding committee (IFFC) established by the League of Arab States (LAS) to investigate and report on violations of human rights and international humanitarian law arising out of Israel’s offensive in Gaza from 27 December 2008 ...
Read More »Goldstone’s UN inquiry team arrives in Gaza
BBC 1 June 2009 A UN team investigating possible war crimes in Gaza, led by Richard Goldstone, has arrived in the Strip on a week-long fact finding mission. The four-member team entered from Egypt after Israel failed to grant visas, ...
Read More »How ‘the busy one’ ekes out a living from the devastation of Gaza
Peter Beaumont | The Guardian 31 May 2009 Mahmoud Mohammed Imad sits in front of his curtain made of rubbish. The opening to his shop in the Jabaliya refugee camp could be a work of art. A single black army ...
Read More »Never Before Campaign: Palestine, what it’s all about
Never Before Campaign The Never Before Campaign has created videos as part of a larger communications campaign which was launched during the Gaza war. The campaign is based in Beirut and is expected to grow to encompass interested people and ...
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