Posted on March 25th, 2009 by Marian Houk
One of the interesting parts of the Human Rights Watch report on the IDF’s use of White Phosphorus, entitled “Rain of Fire: Israel’s Unlawful Use of White Phosphorus in Gaza”, is the discussion of what the IDF had to say about it. The HRW report refutes the repeated Israeli claim that the International Committee of [...]
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Posted on March 25th, 2009 by Marian Houk
Here are Human Rights Watch’s Recommendations upon publication of its report on the use of White Phosphorus during Operation Cast Lead: “To the Government of Israel * Immediately appoint an independent commission of inquiry to investigate all credible allegations of serious violations of international humanitarian law by Israeli forces in Gaza between December 27 and [...]
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Posted on March 25th, 2009 by Marian Houk
Fred Abrahams, the senior emergencies researcher for Human Rights Watch (HRW), and one of the co-authors of the report on Israel’s use of White Phosphorus in Gaza during the recent 22-day military operation, Cast Lead, said this afternoon in Jerusalem that the embargo was being lifted this afternoon, due to numerous leaks, already published in [...]
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Posted on March 25th, 2009 by Marian Houk
Human Rights Watch (HRW) will launch on Thursday its report on the conduct of Israel’s 22-day Operation Cast Lead in Gaza. There is apparently going to be a press conference in Jerusalem, which I am trying to find out about… Meanwhile, HRW has recently sent a letter to European Union Foreign Ministers, in which it [...]
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Posted on March 24th, 2009 by Marian Houk
The U.S. State Department spokesman told journalists on Monday that the current official U.S. position is that the views of the UN Human Rights Council’s Special Rapporteur on the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory, U.S. Professor Richard Falk, are “not fair”, and are in fact “biased”. But, the State Department spokesman said, the U.S. [...]
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Posted on March 24th, 2009 by Marian Houk
In an interview last week published by the Alternative Information Center in Jerusalem, Richard Falk, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights Situation in Gaza, summed up his view of whether or not war crimes, and crimes against humanity, had been committed by the IDF in its recent operation in Gaza. Falk said: “I [...]
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Posted on March 23rd, 2009 by Marian Houk
The Geneva-Based UN Human Rights Council (HRC) is today discussing the report it requested on the IDF Operation Cast Lead in Gaza from U.S. Professor Richard Falk, the HRC’s Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the occupied Palestinian territory. In an “advanced unedited” copy of the report, dated 17 March 2008, Falk took issue with [...]
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Posted on March 21st, 2009 by Marian Houk
A legal analysis by Michael Sfard, legal counsel for Yesh Din (Volunteers for Human Rights), quoted here extensively with his permission, puts into context the revelations by Israeli soldiers published in the Israeli media in about their “permissive rules of engagement”. This analysis also sets the stage for the United Nations Human Rights Council’s consideration, [...]
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Posted on March 21st, 2009 by Marian Houk
The weekend edition of Haaretz contains a fuller account of what Israeli soldiers and pilots say they actually did in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead. Amos Harel wrote in a long article, entitled “Shooting and Crying“, giving greater details than previously published on statements made at a meeting attended by dozens of combat soldiers and [...]
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Posted on March 20th, 2009 by Marian Houk
This photo is published today in Haaretz, accompanying a long article about special t-shirts commissioned by members of IDF units, and approved by their commanders. The caption reads: “A T-shirt printed at the request of an IDF soldier in the sniper unit reading ‘One shot, two kills’.” The bulls-eye is over the abdomen of a [...]
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