After Beit Hanoun report, Archbishop Desmond Tutu to receive Fulbright Prize for International Understanding at U.S. State Department

Posted on November 19th, 2008 by Marian Houk

There is a message here.
Just about a month after delivering his final report — from the heart — to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on the Israeli shelling of Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza that killed 19 Palestinian civilians in November 2006, an announcement has come from the U.S. State Department saying that [...]

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Filed under: Gaza, Human Rights, International Law, Palestine & Palestinians, USA

Protest tent detroyed following earlier house eviction in East Jerusalem

Posted on November 19th, 2008 by Marian Houk

On 9 November, the Al-Kurd family was evicted at dawn from a house they had lived in for over 50 years on Nablus Road, clinging to the slopes of Wadi Joze in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem.
The legal case is complicated — the Israeli Supreme Court (also known as the High Court of [...]

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Filed under: International Law, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians