Tag: Geneva Conventions
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End the Assault on Gaza: joint statement Gazan civil groups
23 June 2012 | Besieged Gaza, Occupied Palestine We condemn in the strongest possible terms the latest Israeli war crimes committed against our people in the Gaza Strip. We call on the international community and the Arab and Islamic worlds, to take up their responsibility to protect the Palestinian people from this heinous aggression and…
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London joins International Day of Action Against Ahava
ISM London 19 December 2009 Ahava, an Israeli beauty product company that operates on stolen Palestinian land, was the target of protest on Saturday by approximately 20 pro-Palestine activists. With Dead Sea mud covering their faces and dressed in bath robes on a freezing cold day, the protesters set out to highlight the complicity of…
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Gaza must be rebuilt now
Jimmy Carter | The Guardian 19 December 2009 It is generally recognised that the Middle East peace process is in the doldrums, almost moribund. Israeli settlement expansion within Palestine continues, and PLO leaders refuse to join in renewed peace talks without a settlement freeze, knowing that no Arab or Islamic nation will accept any comprehensive…
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Israel accused of war crimes over 12-hour assault on Gaza village
Fida Qishta in Khuza’a and Peter Beaumont in London | The Observer White flags ignored and houses bulldozed with families inside, claim residents Israel stands accused of perpetrating a series of war crimes during a sustained 12-hour assault on a village in southern Gaza last week in which 14 people died. In testimony collected from…