Posted on February 26th, 2010 by Marian Houk
The UN General Assembly has asked UNSG BAN Ki-Moon to report back in five months about Israeli and Palestinian progress in investigating concerns about war crimes during the IDF’s three-week Operation Cast Lead in Gaza last year.
That does not mean, however, that there is a five-month deadline for the completion of the investigations. [...]
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Posted on February 5th, 2010 by Marian Houk
UNSG BAN Ki-Moon transmitted the information he has received in the past week or so from (1) Israel, (2) the Palestinian Authority, and (3) Hamas, in response to a UN General Assembly resolution adopted last November calling on the three parties to establish credible independent and impartial investigations into the last winter’s Gaza war.
The UNSG [...]
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Posted on February 3rd, 2010 by Marian Houk
Somehow, the Jerusalem correspondent of the British newspaperThe Independent, Donald Macintyre, got ahold of an unpublished article written after what was clearly very extensive work by an Israeli journalist for Israel’s largest-circulation Hebrew-language newspaper (Yediot Ahronot).
Somehow — despite the immense pressure being exerted on Israeli soldiers not to talk about their experiences in Gaza a [...]
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Posted on January 17th, 2010 by Marian Houk
UN SG BAN Ki-Moon has confirmed — days after the event — the death of the head of the UN misson in Haiti, Hedi Annabi, following a devastating earthquake.
Photo from Matthew Lee’s Inner City Press here showing the collapsed hotel that the UN rented as its HQ in Haiti
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Posted on November 7th, 2009 by Marian Houk
The AP’s indefatigable Edith Lederer has reported that “Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said yesterday he will send a report calling for Israel and the Palestinians to investigate alleged war crimes during last winter’s conflict in Gaza to the UN Security Council ‘as soon as possible’.”
She added that “The 15 council members have already received copies of [...]
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Posted on October 24th, 2009 by Marian Houk
Israel’s Deputy Prime Minister Silvan Shalom called on UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at UNHQ in New York on Friday afternoon, and afterward told the Israeli Ynet media group that the Goldstone report on the Gaza war should be “buried”, according to a report on the YNet website.
According to Ynet, Shalom said, “I am more optimistic [...]
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Posted on October 2nd, 2009 by Marian Houk
The Palestinian decision to “withdraw” support for a resolution they were pushing in the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva remains unexplained — at least, to the Palestinian people — on Friday night.
The draft resolution would have called for support of the report submitted by South Africa’s Justice Richard Goldstone, who was appointed [...]
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Posted on June 7th, 2009 by Marian Houk
As part of a ten-day mission to the region, the UN SG’s Special Representative for Sports for development and peace, Wilfried Lemke of Germany, will visit Gaza today and tomorrow, and will enter Gaza via Israel’s Erez crossing, or “Border Terminal”.
UPDATE AND CORRECTION: According to information in a UN press release prepared by an information [...]
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Posted on June 2nd, 2009 by Marian Houk
This photo was published in the Israeli media – but it is not available on the UN photo site:
Whereas this is one of two UN photos, published on the UN website, showing Barak — standing alone: his preference? Or UN decision? — talking to journalists at a “stakeout” probably after the meeting:
UN Radio’s Diane Bailey [...]
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Posted on May 7th, 2009 by Marian Houk
It’s not the UN Secretary-General’s fault, according to Israel’s State President Shimon Peres, but Israel does not like the UN Board of Inquiry’s report on deaths, injuries, and damage to property at UN installations in Gaza caused during the IDF’s three-week Operation Cast Lead.
“We think it’s outrageous [the Board of Inquiry report on IDF damage [...]
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