Ben Lynfield | The Independent 1 October 2009 Israel is threatening to kill off a crucial West Bank economic project unless the Palestinian Authority withdraws a request to the International Criminal Court to investigate alleged Israeli crimes during last winter’s ...
Read More »PCHR report on the gender-specific impact and consequences of Operation Cast Lead
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) 28 September 2009 In conjunction with the presentation of the UN Fact Finding Mission’s report to the Human Rights Council on 29 September, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) release “Through Women’s Eyes: ...
Read More »Israel demands PA drop war crimes suit at The Hague
Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff | Ha’aretz 27 September 2009 Tensions are mounting between Israel and the Palestinian Authority following Ramallah’s call on the International Court at The Hague to examine claims of “war crimes” that the IDF allegedly committed ...
Read More »ICC may try IDF officer in wake of Goldstone Gaza report
Yotam Feldman | Ha’aretz 24 September 2009 A senior prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in The Hague said Monday that he is considering opening an investigation into whether Lt. Col. David Benjamin, an Israel Defense Forces reserve officer, allowed ...
Read More »CODEPINK women for peace & the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement
Code Pink 23 September 2009 The Israeli assault on Gaza at the end of December 2008 and into January 2009 was a tipping point for many with regard to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. For CODEPINK it no longer felt possible to ...
Read More »Widows and Children Begin to Beg
Eva Bartlett | Inter Press Service 21 September 2009 There are few parks and green spaces in Gaza, and those that exist are crowded with people hungry for nature. Day and night, people of all ages flock to the Joondi, ...
Read More »Israel’s Gaza blockade crippling reconstruction
Rory McCarthy | The Guardian 18 September 2009 A leaked UN report has warned that Israel’s continued economic blockade of Gaza and lengthy delays in delivering humanitarian aid are “devastating livelihoods” and causing gradual “de-development”. For more than two years, ...
Read More »Popular resistance lives on in Gaza
Eva Bartlett | In Gaza 19 September 2009 On 15 September, we join farmers and residents, including a contingent of women, youths and men, in a non-violent walk to the border region east of Beit Hanoun in the north of ...
Read More »East Khouzaa destruction & buffer zone
ISM Gaza | Farming Under Fire 17 September 2009 Interview with Dr. Qudeh from the “Brilliant Tomorrow For Homes Sons Society” about the destruction of East Khouzaa during the December 2008 – January 2009 Israeli onslaught on Gaza and the ...
Read More »Treading the borders between life and death
Ewa Jasiewicz | The Palestine Telegraph 16 September 2009 It happened at 2:30am, Wednesday, December 31 2008. Israeli helicopter gunships and warplanes had been bombing the length of the Gaza Strip. In Eastern Jabaliya, white phosphorous had been exploding over ...
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