Tag: Ha’aretz

  • UN’s Richard Falk: IDF seizure of Gaza-bound ship is ‘criminal’

    Ha’aretz 3 July 2009 A United Nations human rights investigator on Thursday called Israel’s seizure of a ship carrying relief aid for the Gaza Strip “unlawful” and said its blockade of the territory constituted a “continuing crime against humanity”. Israeli authorities on Tuesday intercepted the vessel, which was also carrying 21 pro-Palestinian activists, and said…

  • Oppose the state, not the people

    Yotam Feldman | Ha’aretz 2 July 2009 Ramallah’s intellectual elite, foreigners and curious spectators gathered last Saturday at the Friends School in Ramallah to hear writer and political activist Naomi Klein lecture to a packed auditorium. Following a musical interlude by a string quintet, one of whose members is blind, Klein took the stage. She…

  • Ha’aretz: ‘Court: IDF must toughen charges for shooting of bound Palestinian’

    Tomer Zarchin | Ha’aretz 1 July 2009 The High Court ordered the Military Advocate General on Wednesday to file harsher charges against an Israel Defense Forces officer who ordered a soldier to shoot a rubber-coated metal bullet at a bound Palestinian. Lt. Col. Omri Burberg, the officer, and Staff Sgt. L., the soldier, were formally…