Posted on September 28th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Here we go again - received by email from the Israel Defense Forces:
“General Closure of Judea and Samaria Region [the West Bank] during the Jewish New Year“
“In accordance with Ministry of Defense directives and in light of security assessments, a general closure of Judea and Samaria will commence tonight, September 28th, 2008 at midnight. The [...]
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Posted on September 27th, 2008 by Marian Houk
A friend, who took these pictures, wrote me that “I can estimate more than 500,000 [people -- possibly a record] were there tonight, from all over the country, even from Jordan. Everybody was extremely happy to be there, people would share the checkpoint experience but overall are happy to make it to the mosque. [...]
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Posted on September 21st, 2008 by Marian Houk
Next week [26 September], the Quartet will meet at the United Nations in New York. Will they discuss this just-issued UN-OCHA (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs report)???
Even the Jerusalem Post writes this: “The IDF has increased the number of West Bank roadblocks by three percent in the last six months, according [...]
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Posted on September 20th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Now we’re entering the period of the last ten days of the month of Ramadan - a time of heightened spirituality, combined with intensive preparations for the three-day feast at the end of the month, Eid al-Fitr.
There are definitely many more Ramadan lights than last year, and than past years — it seems the lights [...]
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Posted on September 19th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Mercifully, there were reportedly no “disturbances” on the third Friday in Ramadan, as some 150,000 (according to the Jerusalem Post) to 200,000 souls (according to Ma’an News Agency) managed to make their way to Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of East Jerusalem for prayers. They came from East Jerusalem itself, from the Arab [...]
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Posted on September 19th, 2008 by Marian Houk
As he was presenting his final report on killing of 19 Palestinian civilians by Israeli mortar shelling in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza, in November 2006, Archbishop Desmond Tutu told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Thursday that “What we saw in Gaza shocked us…the psychological injuries are more than the physical”.
Tutu also said [...]
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Posted on September 16th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Israel on three occasions over nearly two years declined to give a visa for the mission authorized by the United Nations Human Rights Council to investigate the civilian deaths caused, the Israeli military says, by “technical error” in the IDF’s November 2006 shelling of the northern town of Beit Hanoun.
So, now let’s look at what [...]
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Posted on September 15th, 2008 by Marian Houk
“The mission wishes to underline the importance of its travelling to Beit Hanoun to witness first-hand the situation of victims and survivors of the shelling, in particular to comprehend the deep distress of the victims of the shelling and of the population generated by the ongoing blockade. This depth of human suffering is only partially [...]
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Posted on September 12th, 2008 by Marian Houk
There were eight Israeli snipers aiming the barrels of their weapons at the crowd trying to enter the major Qalandia “border crossing” between Ramallah and Jerusalem on the second Friday in Ramadan in order to perform Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. And there were more Palestinians hoping to get through than on [...]
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Posted on September 10th, 2008 by Marian Houk
A vigilant friend and colleague in Geneva has sent this translation by UNRIC’s Desk Officer for Spain of
the article that appeared in El Pais on Sunday, saying “the translation is not perfect but tells you what John Carlin [and Spain’s prominent newspaper El Pais! says about Ban Ki-moon:.
FEATURE ARTICLE: THE UN, THE BIG ABSENT
DOES SOMEONE [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Palestine & Palestinians, UN History, UN Secretary-General, UN Security Council, United Nations, Zimbabwe
