Posted on April 1st, 2012 by Marian Houk
In an awful twist, Palestinian female prisoner Hana Shalabi is being sent to Gaza, as this post is being written, via Israel’s Erez Terminal, after a 43-day hunger strike that has put her life into danger. The International Committee of the Red Cross has reportedly made arrangements to bring her family — from the West [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Gaza, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Israel
Posted on March 30th, 2012 by Marian Houk
March 30 protests [in East Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza, as well as inside Israel and just outside its northern and eastern perimeters] marked the start of Year Two of Popular Protests against … continued Israeli occupation. It was, this year, a combination of the Global March to Jerusalem + Land Day. The day started [...]
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Posted on March 29th, 2012 by Marian Houk
Speaking in a television interview from Baghdad, where he is attending the Arab League summit, the man who holds all the reins of Palestinian political power, Mahmoud Abbas, said “unity” between Hamas and the rest of the Palestinian body politic, and therefore between Gaza and the West Bank, is “frozen”. His remarkable remarks — which [...]
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Posted on March 28th, 2012 by Marian Houk
A colleague called me today as he was leaving Erez “terminal”, just coming out of Gaza after two days there. The situation of the people who don’t have any electricity, or any fuel, is terrible, he said. He asked, “Whose fault do you think it is”? [He said he is leaning toward blaming Hamas...] But, [...]
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Posted on February 14th, 2012 by Marian Houk
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights [PCHR] in Gaza has offered a concise explanation of the complete and unconscionable mess that has been made in a complicated situation that resulted in today’s shut-down, once again, of the only power plant in Gaza, which supplies one-third of the electricity needed by some 1.5 million souls in [...]
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Posted on February 2nd, 2012 by Marian Houk
About the shoe-throwing [a now-comic sign of disrespect for the target]: the first report was from the Al-Arabiya correspondent travelling in the convoy of UN Secretary-General BAN Ki-Moon as it entered Gaza. Then, Ma’an News Agency did a story, saying that “Dozens of people threw shoes and stones at UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s convoy as [...]
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Posted on January 18th, 2012 by Marian Houk
The Israeli human rights information organization B’Tselem has reported that it received an update from the Israeli Military’s Attorney-General on the status of complaints [including some from B'Tselem] made into specific aspects of the Israeli military conduct of Operation Cast Lead in Gaza — 3 years ago [27 December 2008 to 18 January 2009]. But, [...]
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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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Posted on December 31st, 2011 by Marian Houk
The Israeli organization Zochrot [Remembrance] uploaded an extraordinary video on 27 December 2011 – the testimony of Amnon Neuman about the emptying of Palestinian villages and expelling the inhabitants to Gaza in the early years of the State of Israel, — which is posted here. Thanks to Adam Horowitz of Mondoweiss, who posted this video [...]
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Posted on December 27th, 2011 by Marian Houk
Today is the third Anniversary of the launch of the IDF’s Operation Cast Lead in Gaza. The 22-day operation was launched at 11:30 am or so, on 27 December 2008. In the first strikes, some 250 Hamas police were mowed down at their police academy graduation ceremony in Gaza City. The debate continues over whether [...]
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