Posted on February 1st, 2012 by Marian Houk
UN Secretary-General BAN Ki-Moon met Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem today, then Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah. After both meetings, there was a press conference. In Jerusalem with Netanyahu, BAN said “Settlements do not help the peace process… I told the prime minister that he should refrain from future construction”. [Just future construction? [...]
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Posted on January 30th, 2012 by Marian Houk
This is an interesting case that puts the ambiguities of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank under the microscope, if not under the spotlight. The Israeli human rights organization Yesh Din on Sunday submitted — in support of its own request on 10 January — an “expert opinion supporting its motion for an en [...]
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Posted on January 26th, 2012 by Marian Houk
Jeff Halper, the American-Israeli director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions [ICAHD] called it a “war crime” — the 5th demolition of Beit Arabiya in Anata on Monday night. The demolition order was issued by the Israeli military on Thursday. The bulldozers arrived on Monday night. Jeff Halper + ICAHD have rebuilt this house [...]
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Posted on January 23rd, 2012 by Marian Houk
The answer is obvious, but the question is not rhetorical. There has been a great deal [well, ok, an unusual amount] of mobilization at official levels concerning the Israeli military’s detention of Aziz Dweik [see our earlier post here] at Jaba’a Checkpoint last Thursday. UPDATE: On Tuesday 24 January, Aziz Dweik was sentenced at Ofer [...]
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Posted on January 20th, 2012 by Marian Houk
Yesterday, Thursday 19 January, I had no water. None. No hot water, no cold water. I discovered this only when I turned the tap on just after noon. There was still no water when I went to sleep after 3 am. I called the landlord by 1pm Thursday, and he said he would come to [...]
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Posted on January 19th, 2012 by Marian Houk
Today, we were advised that the IDF has in recent months broken up a major Islamic Jihad operation in the northern West Bank. Haaretz reported here that: “In a joint operation between the IDF and the Shin Bet, 10 Islamic Jihad militants were arrested near Jenin in recent months. According to the investigation, the military [...]
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Posted on January 16th, 2012 by Marian Houk
This is another of our posts in our Do not say you didn’t know series … [Most of our posts are actually in the series...]: Filmed by a member of the World Council of Churches current team of Ecumenical Accompaniers in Israel and Palestine [EAPPI], here is Taybeh checkpoint last week at 4:00 am… Palestinians [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, Register of damages due to The Wall
Posted on January 14th, 2012 by Marian Houk
About ten days ago, Sari Bashi [Executive Director of the Israeli human rights organization GISHA, which was founded to advocate for Palestinian freedom of movement. wrote [in Hebrew] about one application of the Israeli military’s use of secret evidence against Palestinian detainees. Bashi wrote that: “In the six years in which Gisha has been providing [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Gaza, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on January 13th, 2012 by Marian Houk
Here is an interesting film critical of the role that donor funding has played in making and keeping Palestinians aid-dependent in the occupied West Bank, Donor Opium: It was produced by Palestinians in the West Bank with funding from the German Rosa Luxemburg Foundation [named after a committed 19th Marxist who starved CORR: see above,
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Posted on January 12th, 2012 by Marian Houk
The Israeli human rights organization Yesh Din has just filed a petition with Israel’s Supreme Court [High Court of Justice] asking for a further hearing in the case of Israeli-owned stone quarries operating in the West Bank. Yesh Din first challenged the legality of Israeli quarrying activities in the occupied West Bank in a petition [...]
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