Tag: United Nations

  • Israeli forces arrest Palestinian on his return from testifying to the UN in Geneva

    Update: According to his legal representation, Mohammad Srour will be released on bail. For Immediate Release: 22 July 2009: Israeli forces arrest Palestinian on his return from testifying to the United Nations in Geneva. Mohammad Srour was arrested on 20 July 2009 while crossing the Allenby Bridge from Jordan. Srour and Jonathan Pollack, an Israeli…

  • Ni’lin demonstrators testify at the United Nations

    6 July 2009 The West Bank village of Ni’lin has been demonstrating since the Israeli government began for a second time to construct the Apartheid Wall on village lands in May 2008. To date, Israeli forces have killed 5 residents of Ni’lin and critically injured 1 American solidarity activist. According to local medics who volunteer…

  • UN: Israel must tear down West Bank barrier

    Associated Press 8 July 2009 Israel must tear down its West Bank separation barrier, a senior U.N. official said Wednesday, marking five years since the International Court of Justice declared the barrier illegal and a violation of Palestinian rights. The barrier separates Israel from the West Bank and in places cuts into Palestinian territory. Israel…

  • Israeli to UN: Palestinian detainees kept in ditches

    Daniel Edelson | YNet News 7 July 2009 A member of the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) testified in Geneva on Tuesday before a United Nations investigation team looking into the Israeli offensive in Gaza about half a year ago. Attorney Majd Bader, an Arab Israeli, told the committee that Palestinians detained by…

  • 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…