By: LUISA MORGANTINI Vice President of he European Parliament (GUE/NGL) Brussels 11th October 2007, In a resolution voted today in the Parliament, MEPs, called on Israeli Government for the lifting of the blockade of the Gaza Strip and to fulfill ...
Read More »Ha’aretz: Twilight Zone – The children of 5767
By: Gideon Levy September 28th, 2007 It was a pretty quiet year, relatively speaking. Only 457 Palestinians and 10 Israelis were killed, according to the B’Tselem human rights organization, including the victims of Qassam rockets. Fewer casualties than in many ...
Read More »Guardian: Life behind the wire
By: Chris Doyle September 24, 2007 Imagine if, after an IRA bombing, a British prime minister declared Catholic areas in Northern Ireland to be hostile territory, and threatened to reduce or cut off goods, water, fuel and electricity supplies. It ...
Read More »Ha’aretz: Listen as the silence breaks
by Dalia Karpel September 21st, 2007. A NEW ISRAELI STUDY CONFIRMS OUR WORST FEARS. “We – Israeli Soldiers – were put there to punish the Palestinians”, says Ilan Vilenda, an Israeli soldier who served in Rafah during the first Intifada. ...
Read More »Broad Coalition of Human Rights groups speak out against the collective punishment of Gaza
B’Tselem: The Israeli Information Center for Human Right in the Occupied Territories Gisha: Legal Center for Freedom of Movement Association for Civil Rights in Israel Physicians for Human Rights Public Committee against Torture in Israel HaMoked: Center for the Defence ...
Read More »ICAHD: GAZA; A CALL FOR URGENT ACTION
The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) deplores the unanimous decision by the Israeli cabinet to impose sanctions on supplies of electricity, fuel and other basic goods and services to the civilian population of Gaza, and calls upon the international ...
Read More »Gaza Residents Tell of Demeaning Questioning by Shin Bet
By Amira Hass In the most recent Israel Defense Forces raids in the Gaza Strip, during which dozens of people were detained for interrogation by the Shin Bet, the security service adopted a procedure unknown in recent years: The detainees ...
Read More »Press Release: Open Rafah Now!
Joint call by Israeli, Palestinian and European human rights organizations: The Rafah border crossing must be opened; The residents are not pawns in the struggle for control of the Gaza Strip Israeli, Palestinian and European human rights organizations today issued ...
Read More »El-Farra: Palestinians must have hope to move forward
by: Mona El-Farra, SPECIAL CONTRIBUTOR As a physician from Gaza, I have treated far too many Palestinians wounded by Israeli troops. Now a day has come that I thought I would never see. Throughout our 59-year struggle to obtain our ...
Read More »The Crisis in Gaza: Made in Israel
by Michael Warschawski, ICAHD The old dream of Ariel Sharon is becoming a reality: Palestinians are killing Palestinians, and Israel is counting the number of victims with great satisfaction. The tears of Israeli leaders are crocodile tears, and their claims ...
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