Posted on January 25th, 2009 by Marian Houk
The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) allowed the foreign press access to Gaza via the Erez crossing starting last Friday — perhaps in anticipation of a ruling by the Israeli Supreme Court that was handed down today. (The Erez crossing was then closed for the Jewish Shabat on Friday at 2 pm until Sunday at 8 [...]
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Posted on January 25th, 2009 by Marian Houk
The Israeli Ministry of Defense has announced that “a Jordanian military field hospital has been coordinated between Israel and the Jordanian authorities and is scheduled to arrive tomorrow at the Gaza Strip. Some 33 trucks, with approximately 210 medical staff and equipment, will access the region at Allenby Bridge and make their way to the [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, International Humanitarian Law, Iran, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, UN Secretary-General, UN Security Council
Posted on January 25th, 2009 by Marian Houk
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said at the start of his weekly cabinet meeting today that “Now, as a result of unavoidable self-defense actions during which – to our regret – civilians were also hit, they are trying to turn what happened on its face and stick IDF soldiers and commanders – and not those [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, Humanitarian Aid, International Humanitarian Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on January 24th, 2009 by Marian Houk
To members of the Shashi Tharoor fan club — don’t even bother to bombard me with your insincere comments saying how great he is, how he is nearly a saint, and how he is one of the best people ever to have passed through the United Nations.
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Posted on January 24th, 2009 by Marian Houk
AIDA (the Association of International Development Agencies), a membership body and coordination forum of international non-governmental and non-profit organizations (INGOs) that share a common interest in promoting appropriate development and humanitarian programs in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), has today issued a press statement calling for full access to the Gaza Strip. “In the aftermath [...]
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Posted on January 23rd, 2009 by Marian Houk
Foreign journalists entered Gaza for the first time in many weeks without restrictions — at least, there were no restrictions either on their numbers, or where they go inside Gaza. The international press core based in Israel had fought for this right for months. They wrote to the authorities. They petitioned the Israeli Supreme Court. [...]
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Posted on January 22nd, 2009 by Marian Houk
The UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the occupied Palestinian territory said in a telephone interview arranged by the UN in Geneva that “the entire Gaza population, which had been trapped in a war zone with no possibility to leave as refugees, may be mentally scarred for life. If so, the definition of casualty [...]
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Posted on January 21st, 2009 by Marian Houk
The Israeli Defense Force has announced that it has established an investigative team to look into reports of the use of white phosphorous shells during its just-concluded three-week military offensive in Gaza. Haaretz reported on Wednesday that the inquiry is focusing on “one problematic incident” where reserve paratroop brigades fired about twenty 120-mm phosphorous shells [...]
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Posted on January 20th, 2009 by Marian Houk
UN SG BAN Ki-Moon entered the Gaza Strip from Israel on Tuesday in a convoy of armored UN vehicles flying the UN flag, and urged both Israel and Hamas to exercise restraint amidst uncertainty about the solidity of a two-day old cease-fire that ended 22 days of unprecedented Israeli attacks on Gaza. At the infamous [...]
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Posted on January 19th, 2009 by Marian Houk
Is Israel complying, now, with the at least one of Hamas’ conditions for a cease-fire? Hamas said that IDF troops must withdraw, and the borders in and out of Gaza must be open. Israeli officials initially said, when they announced their unilateral cease-fire, that their troops would stay until the firing stopped from Gaza. Half [...]
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