Posted on March 27th, 2011 by Marian Houk
The Israeli military today deployed the “Iron Dome” missile defense shield in Beersheva (in Israel’s Negev Desert) today. It will use missiles to shoot down incoming missiles… UPDATE: Nine days later, on 4 April, the IDF announced it was deplo yinga second Iron Dome battery, to protect the Israeli coastal cities of Ashkelon and Ashdod. [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Gaza, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on March 24th, 2011 by Marian Houk
Haarez’s Yossi Melman reported tonight that a Petah Tikvah court judge has ordered that Gaza Power Plant’s Deputy Director of Operations, Dirar Abu Sisi, to remain in jail another seven days (at least) — at the request of the Israeli General Security Service (Shin Bet – responsible for intelligence about internal security in Israel) and [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Boundaries & Borders, Gaza, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on March 23rd, 2011 by Marian Houk
Just when everybody’s nerves are stretched as taut as they could be, the terrible news arrived this afternoon about a blast at a bus stop in central West Jerusalem, near the central bus station, the International Convention Center, and then entrance to Jerusalem from the highway to Tel Aviv. The cause turned out, after initial [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, Israel
Posted on March 23rd, 2011 by Marian Houk
What is the worth, the value, of assigning blame here? It doesn’t change anything. It doesn’t stop anything. This weekend, Hamas went crazy, and Israel too. There. Now, what? It’s simply no longer possible to say who went crazy first, or who went crazy more. This discussion is sickening. Israel attacked and killed people in [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Gaza, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on March 22nd, 2011 by Marian Houk
The Petah Tikva Court that last week ordered a partial lifting of the gag order that prohibited publication in Israel of news about the imprisonment — in Israel — of Gaza Power Plant’s Deputy Director of Operations, Dirar Abu Sisi, ordered today that he be held for (at least) another two days. The hearing was [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Gaza, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel
Posted on March 21st, 2011 by Marian Houk
The Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) reported today that a PCHR-retained lawyer met Derar Abu Sisi, the kidnapped Gaza Power Plant’s Director of Operations, yesterday for the first time in an Israeli prison in Ashkelon. The PCHR said that Abu Sisi was kidnapped by Israel’s national intelligence agency, Mossad, on 18 or 19 [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Gaza, Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on March 19th, 2011 by Marian Houk
In a silly but revealing interview with CNN’s Piers Morgan, Israel’s Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu made several noteworthy quotes. The choice, for our Quote of the Day series, however, will go to his remarks explicitly saying that “several Palestinian terrorists” are responsible — though no one has yet been charged, much less tried or convicted [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, Iran, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Lebanon, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on March 18th, 2011 by Marian Houk
The UN Security Council acted overnight to authorize — some say, belatedly — international action to protection of civilians and areas of civilian population that are under threat of attack in Libya, by adopting UNSC Resolution 1973. It began by calling for an immediate cease-fire. The text explicitly mentions Benghazi, which is was under imminent [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, Libya, UN Secretary-General, UN Security Council
Posted on March 18th, 2011 by Marian Houk
This picture — of young men cleaning up Ramallah’s central Manara Square after sunrise this Friday morning – was just Tweeted – thanks to @PalYouthVoice. which also Tweeted that some 50 people slept there overnight to maintain the vigil for political reform (starting with unity, continuing to representation) in very political Palestine: @PalYouthVoice also tweeted, [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on March 16th, 2011 by Marian Houk
The anticipated March 15 protests, called by a number of Palestinian youth groups in the West Bank and Gaza, went on for most of the day in Ramallah, and have been extended into March 16. Some of the organizers were disappointed by the turn-out in Ramallah and various other cities in the West Bank — [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Egypt, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
