Posted on September 2nd, 2010 by Marian Houk
As the principals were in Washington for the re-launch of Israeli-Palestinian direct talks, a third nighttime attack on Israeli settlers driving in the West Bank occurred at around 9pm on Thursday night, in the northern West Bank near the large settement of Ariel. A 12-year-old girl was moderately wounded by stone-throwing when the car in [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on September 1st, 2010 by Marian Houk
Palestinian groups — mainly left-wing “factions” — are holding a demonstration now in the center of Ramallah, at Manara Square, to protest the Palestinian leadership’s decision to accept a U.S. invitation to resume direct talks with Israel today and tomorrow in Washington.
UPDATE: About 300 people were at the demonstration and — as [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on August 30th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Now, at last, at long last, the U.S. government has spoken out, and called incitement, “incitement”.
And it was on a Sunday, too, a day on which Washington is normally quiet.
The U.S. went further, and said that the remarks made by Rabbi Ovadia Yosef in a sermon in a Jerusalem synagogue over [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, USA
Posted on August 27th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Haaretz has published a lengthy look into the background of the situation at one of the unrecognized Bedouin villages in the Negev, Al-Arakib, that has been demolished four times in recent weeks by Israeli bulldozers protected by Israeli forces, but documented by Israeli human rights activists, as we have reported previously here.
Here are some extended [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Israel
Posted on August 25th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Human rights group Yesh Din asked the Israeli High Court of Justice today to order the IDF Military Attorney-General to open an investigation into the killing of Mohammed Faisal Mahmoud Qawariq and Salah Mohammed Kamal Qawariq, two Palestinian 19-year old teens, who were cousins, shot to death by IDF forces five months ago while working [...]
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Posted on August 25th, 2010 by Marian Houk
On Tuesday, the Israeli military court in Ofer Prison, between Jerusalem and Ramallah, decided to convict Abdallah Abu Rahma, coordinator since its founding in 2005 of the Popular Committee Against the Wall in Bil’in.
He has been held in jail since last December. He will be sentenced in September.
The Stop the Wall campaign [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, European Union, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on August 24th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Two Israeli human rights organizations — the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) and Ir Amim — have issued a new study reporting that, “due to bias”, there is a “severe deficicit” of classrooms for Palestinian children in East Jerusalem — a state of affairs for which, the two groups said, Israeli [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on August 17th, 2010 by Marian Houk
There is so much more to say, or to write, and so little time … These are just a few drops in the bucket:
On Monday, A Jerusalem court held the state responsible in a civil suit backed by Yesh Din for shooting, with a rubber bullet — and killing — a 10-year-old Palestinian girl walking [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on August 17th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Al-Araqib [or Al-Arakib] — an “unrecognized” village in Israel [meaning it has no regular electricity, water, sewage and other nice infrastructure] inhabited by Beduins with Israeli nationality — was destroyed by the IDF — for a fourth time — today.
Apparently, the demolition orders have been given because the land is slated to become a forest [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, Israel
Posted on August 14th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Since The Wall became a massive presence in the Palestinian West Bank a few years ago, and since Qalandia Checkpoint between Jerusalem and Ramallah (and the rest of the central and northern West Bank) grew to large proportions, it has become a major center of human activity on Fridays during the month of Ramadan, when [...]
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