Posted on December 30th, 2009 by Marian Houk
According to an SMS received this morning (from the Jerusalem Media Communications Center, or JMCC), the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics reports that there are now 10.9 million Palestinians in this world — 4 million live in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, the SMS says, and 1.25 million live inside Israel (or, 5.25 million [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on December 29th, 2009 by Marian Houk
As settlers continue to take revenge from Palestinians for the murder of an Israeli settler in the West Bank near Nablus last Thursday, after which the Israeli Defense Forces shot three Palestinian men who are members of the Fatah movement headed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, tensions continue among Palestinians about the measures taken. [...]
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Filed under: Academic studies and research, Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on December 28th, 2009 by Marian Houk
What upset the Palestinian Authority officials after the IDF raids on Nablus in which three “suspected” or “wanted” Palestinian men, all members of President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party, were shot in what not only Palestinians but also some Israelis (such as the human rights organization B’Tselem) say were “extrajudicial killings”?
Haaretz tells us that “The PA [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on December 27th, 2009 by Marian Houk
An Israeli settler living in the Israeli settlement of Shavei Shomron deep in the West Bank, territory occupied by Israel in June 1967 (and claimed by the Palestine Liberation Organization for the future Palestinian state) was shot and killed on Thursday while driving on a road near where he has made his home.
The next day, [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on December 22nd, 2009 by Marian Houk
Yes, free Gilad Shalit — for God’s sake, for his (Gilad Shalit’s) sake, for the sake of the people of Gaza …
At the same time, free Palestinian prisoners, too. The fate of some 1,000 to 1,400 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails is also now under discussion, according to various media reports. There are [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on December 21st, 2009 by Marian Houk
Deportation — which Israeli officials including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are still trying to make a condition for the release of certain Palestinian prisoners being held by Israel, in exchange for IDF Corporal Gilad Shalit, who has been held by Palestinians since the end of June 2006 — is a violation of the Road Map.
The [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on December 18th, 2009 by Marian Houk
On 18 December 2008, Hamas made an official statement ending its unofficial cease-fire with Israel.
Granted, there had been provocation (from both sides…)…
But, this Hamas statement opened the door wide to what happened nine days later — the launch of Israel’s Operation Cast Lead against Hamas in Gaza, which lasted three awful weeks, and from which [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on December 18th, 2009 by Marian Houk
After voluntarily checking herself into the hospital on Thursday morning, Haidar was allowed to return home to Laayoune in the Western Sahara Thursday evening.
The BBC reported Today that “It now appears that frantic multi-country talks were under way to seek a resolution … [but ] details of how a deal was finally reached were not [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, Journalism and Journalists, United Nations, Western Sahara
Posted on December 18th, 2009 by Marian Houk
Yasuf Mosque, in Salfit Governorate of the northern West Bank, was attacked last week by Israeli settlers.
(The Israeli political establishment and major international players all expressed shock and denounced the attack. It seems that attacking a mosque is worse, and taken more seriously, than attacking anything else. Certainly there are fears that it is more [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on December 17th, 2009 by Marian Houk
Akiva Eldar has reported in Haaretz that the new European Union High Representative for Foreign Policy and Security Affairs, Baroness Catherine Ashton of Upholland (who has replaced Javier Solana), said in an address to members of the European Parliament in Strasbourg that “she had spoken with Israelis, Palestinians and the U.S. Secretary of State about [...]
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Filed under: Ambassadors and other diplomats, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Quartet
