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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Filed under: Gaza, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
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 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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Posted on December 23rd, 2011 by Marian Houk
Because my Israeli Government Press Office [GPO] has not been renewed [wrongly, I am claiming] since 2010, I have been unable to travel to Gaza the way all accredited journalists here can travel, via Israel’s Erez crossing, or “terminal”. Therefore, I have only read about the relatively new phenomena of Hamas press cards. I first [...]
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Posted on October 18th, 2011 by Marian Houk
23:55 pm: A Tweet from Turkish journalist @MahirZeynalov says that 11, not 10, Palestinian released prisoners has arrived in Ankara: “11 released Palestinian prisoners make sajdah right after they leave the plane in Ankara’s airport. Palestinian Amb. to Turkey met them”. UPDATE: The additional person appears to be a woman — perhaps the one [or [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Egypt, Gaza, Human Rights, International Committee of the Red Cross - ICRC, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Palestine & Palestinians, Turkey
Posted on October 17th, 2011 by Marian Houk
According to a report in Haaretz, here, Hamas political leader Khaled Meshal and deputy leader Moussa Abu Marzouk “are expected in Egypt later Monday, to welcome the 40 prisoners whose release Israel has conditioned upon deportation from the Palestinian territories“. Earalier, Haaretz reported in another story that “the spokesperson for the military wing of Hamas, [...]
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Posted on October 17th, 2011 by Marian Houk
The prisoner exchange in which Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, captured in late June 2006, by Palestinian fighters from Gaza in a cross-border raid near the Kerem Shalom crossing, and presumably held in Gaza since then, is to be exchanged for some 1027 Palestinian prisoners in two installments, with the first group of 477 of what [...]
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Posted on September 1st, 2011 by Marian Houk
The New York Times has posted a leaked, advance copy of the “Final” Report commissioned by the UN Secretary-General on how to avoid a repetition of the mayhem and deaths that occurred during the Israeli naval interception on the high seas of a Freedom Flotilla aiming to break the Israeli siege on Gaza. During the [...]
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Posted on August 20th, 2011 by Marian Houk
Israel launched reprisal attacks on Gaza within hours of the Eilat-area attacks on Thursday 18 August. Not too long afterwards, Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu went on Israeli television and told his country and the world that the PRC, a small resistance group in Gaza, was responsible — and that Popular Resistance Committee [PRC] leaders [...]
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