Posted on June 30th, 2011 by Marian Houk
Actually, Fayyad steals a couple of lines, in an interview this week with AP’s Karin Laub in Ramallah. The first is the one about not being an ATM machine [Fayyad did not, however, say "unfeeling ATM machine"]. Fayyad told AP, according to Laub’s report, published here, that “he would not serve as finance minister under [...]
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Posted on June 23rd, 2011 by Marian Houk
In its own special way, the ICRC has gone public with criticism of Israeli policy that has prevented family visits — for fully the past four years — to Palestinian detainees from Gaza being held in Israel prisons. A media announcement has been released (this is going public) and a somewhat stilted video has been [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Gaza, Human Rights, International Committee of the Red Cross - ICRC, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on June 20th, 2011 by Marian Houk
There are a couple of ways to approach this story. One is to explain that Hussam Khader, a well-known Fatah activist, who was taken into custody by a very large group of masked IDF forces who raided his home at 2am the very beginning of June, was brought yesterday to Ofer Prison along Road 443 [...]
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Posted on June 18th, 2011 by Marian Houk
Hussam Khader, a Fatah activist who was arrested in a 2am Israeli military raid on his home in Balata Refugee Camp on the outskirts of Nablus, in early June, faces an Israeli military court Sunday morning in Ofer Prison, located on Road 443 outside Jerusalem. An Israeli military judge is expected to decide whether or [...]
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Posted on June 17th, 2011 by Marian Houk
The UN Secretary-General’s new report raises more questions than answers about two protests that turned deadly in the Golan Heights in the past month in which people who the UN report identified as “civilians”, and “largely young unarmed Palestinians” overran Syrian, UN, and Israeli lines — in an attempt to enter an area under Israeli [...]
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Posted on June 16th, 2011 by Marian Houk
AFP has written a story from UNHQ/NY, based on an as-yet-unpublished UN report, that apparently says that Palestinian and Syrian demonstrators coming from Syria crossed an “unmarked minefield” in the Golan Heights on May 15 — the day that Israeli forces were surprised by the breach. From the AFP story, published here, it is not [...]
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Posted on June 12th, 2011 by Marian Houk
The ICRC Spokesperson in Tel Aviv Ran Goldstein informed me by email, in response to my query days ago, about Israeli media reports of newly-laid IDF minefields in the Golan planted in the weeks between May15 and June5 demonstrations, that: “We are closely following the events that are taking place in the Golan. The organization [...]
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Posted on June 12th, 2011 by Marian Houk
Though it’s what all the savvy and not-so-savvy, and all the well-informed and not-so-well-informed, have been saying in Ramallah for weeks, now it seems to be almost official: the Associated Press (AP) is reporting that Fatah met on Saturday [in Ramallah, of course] “to finalize a proposed list of candidates for Cabinet positions. A Fatah [...]
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Posted on June 11th, 2011 by Marian Houk
Amira Hass has written a new article reporting that Jenin Camp residents — and PA care not to antagonize some of them — are partly responsible for blocking the investigation in the assassination of Juliano Mer-Khamis in Jenin Refugee Camp two months ago. Her reportage, in Haaretz, is posted here. But, she wrote, there appear [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Corruption, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on June 10th, 2011 by Marian Houk
There was a “book discussion” Thursday evening at the American Colony Hotel in East Jerusalem. The book is almost unimportant, by comparison with the discussion. In addition to the author [a young German], there were two panelists: Dr. Mahdi Abdel Hadi [PASSIA] and Amira Hass [journalist for Haaretz]. Abdel Hadi said, at the end of [...]
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