Posted on April 20th, 2008 by Marian Houk
The IDF has announced it will conduct a “field investigation” into the killing by an IDF tank shell filled with “flechettes” of a Reuters cameraman working in Gaza on 9 April. Actually, what the announcement says is that it will “look into the claims regarding the circumstances“. Here’s the full text: “Following the fighting in [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Palestine & Palestinians, Uncategorized
Posted on April 18th, 2008 by Marian Houk
This time, for once, we knew about it in advance. But, it doesn’t make it any easier — and, please not there is no definitive ending date indicated. It could be at midnight on the 26th, or at midnight on the 27th, after a special sub-holiday particular to Jewish citizens of Moroccan origin in Jerusalem, [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on April 18th, 2008 by Marian Houk
This comment, giving links to some very interesting articles about the UN, the U.S., and Rwanda, came in this week from johnjohn — it was attached to one of our posts from 2007 here , and it reads: “re: Louise Arbour & War crimes (hers), http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041708D.shtml” So, turning to the link mentioned, here , we [...]
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Filed under: International Tribunals, Rwanda, United Nations Agencies and Programmes
Posted on April 17th, 2008 by Marian Houk
This photo ran in the NY Times — I noticed it thanks to Angry Arab: NYT photo caption: “Wounded Palestinians [n.b. - these are children] lay near the car of Fadel Shana, a cameraman for Reuters who died in a missile attack on Wednesday in Gaza”. According to Reuters, they also died. UPDATE: AP says [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, International Law, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on April 17th, 2008 by Marian Houk
A GUEST POST FROM ALETHEIA KALLOS/MD: With a later UPDATE from the comment below by ALETHEIA KALLOS/ MD to clarify — i repeat the actual iranian position was in iranian territorial waters by any reckoning & it seems to me the mod should still like to know the real truth of this rather than just [...]
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Filed under: International Law, Iran, Law of the Sea Convention
Posted on April 16th, 2008 by Marian Houk
No fuel is arriving in Gaza today, Dr. Rafiq Maliha, Director of Contracts at Gaza’s sole power plant in Gaza City just said. “If fuel were entering Gaza, I would be receiving it now”, Maliha said. “But there is not even any coordination at the crossing”. To try to cope, Maliha said, “We reduced the [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, Sanctions
Posted on April 15th, 2008 by Marian Houk
At one minute after ten o’clock on Tuesday, the seven RAM-FM radio staff members arrested in a police raid on their Jerusalem studio a week ago were released from “house arrest” which confined them to Jerusalem — even if their houses were not in Jerusalem — by order of Jerusalem District Court. But they remain [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on April 15th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Israeli Minister of Defense Ehud Barak announced on Monday that he would authorize resumption of Israeli transfers of the industrial diesel fuel needed to operate Gaza’s power plant – on Wednesday. In the statement, Barak said that he would only allow the transfer of this type of industrial diesel fuel that is used only for [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, Sanctions
Posted on April 14th, 2008 by Marian Houk
On Monday, Dr. Rafiq Maliha again reported by telephone from Gaza that there had been no delivery of fuel. The Gaza power plant faces another critical situation, he indicated earlier, and may be forced to shut down completely by sometime on Tuesday, if Israeli fuel deliveries are not resumed. “I do not want to give [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Sanctions
Posted on April 14th, 2008 by Marian Houk
A guest post by Aletheia Kallos/MD: i see ban [UNSG BAN Ki-Moon] has cut out the indignation & bluster & is reduced to issuing warnings of the dangers of an improbable war & the uncertainty of the fate of unmee has been institutionalized & extended to fill out the present 6 month mandate ending in [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Eritrea, Ethiopia, UN Peacekeeping, UN Security Council
