Posted on August 27th, 2008 by Marian Houk
There is still NO INFORMATION at all about what is happening at the gap in The Wall (between what will be the West Bank and northern Jerusalem) at Dahiet al-Bariid. There are only rumors.
Maybe it will be closed before Ramadan (which will start on 1 September). Maybe it will be closed at some [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, IT and the UN, International Law, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Register of damages due to The Wall
Posted on August 26th, 2008 by Marian Houk
The Free Gaza media team reported today that “The SS Free Gaza and SS Liberty will leave Gaza for Cyprus on Thursday morning at 9:00 am. Several Palestinian students who have been denied exit visas by Israel will travel to Cyprus on the boats”.
The Free Gaza expedition also reported, separately, that Jeff Halper — [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Sanctions
Posted on August 25th, 2008 by Marian Houk
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights issued this statement today from Geneva:
“The landing of two wooden boats carrying 46 human rights activists in Gaza this past weekend is an important symbolic victory said Richard Falk, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories.
“This [...]
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Posted on August 24th, 2008 by Marian Houk
We will probably soon learn that top Israeli officials decided to let the two ships in the Free Gaza expedition land unmolested in Gaza because stopping them would make the Palestinian Authority look bad, for multiple reasons, including the terms of the 1994 and 1995 Oslo Accords which give Israel total security control over Gaza’s [...]
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Posted on August 23rd, 2008 by Marian Houk
Here is an excerpt from the message signed by a journalist on board one of the two boats in the Free Gaza expedition heading to Gaza: “We’ve entered Gazan waters. We’re flying the Palestinian flag, and we now believe that we’re going to reach the shores of Gaza very soon” …
The message is signed [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Gaza, Human Rights, International Law, Journalism and Journalists, Law of the Sea Convention, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on August 22nd, 2008 by Marian Houk
The Free Gaza expedition of two ships that left Cyprus Friday morning heading for the Gaza Strip is now reporting that electronic jamming measures have started, directed apparently against them.
A statement reports that “At 10am this morning, the Cyprus team of the Free Gaza Movement was able to briefly speak with our people on board [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Law of the Sea Convention, Palestine & Palestinians, UN Secretary-General
Posted on August 21st, 2008 by Marian Houk
The Free Gaza expedition’s two ships, the SS Free Gaza and SS Liberty, have set sail at 9:06 am this morning towards Gaza, according to the group’s website.
A group of 46 activists from around the world are said to be on board.
The trip has been in preparation for over a year. The stated [...]
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Filed under: Cyprus, Gaza, Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Law of the Sea Convention, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on August 14th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Why were we so surprised that the IDF concluded, after a lengthy and thorough investigation, that it did everything right, that it went by the book, when it fired shells from a tank and killed a Palestinian cameraman working for Reuters in Gaza.
At least one of the tank shells the IDF used were [...]
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Posted on August 13th, 2008 by Marian Houk
To listen to a clip from Marcel Khalife’s song, Passport, based on the poem by Mahmoud Darwish, click here .
Mahmoud Darwish’s final journey took him from the United States, where he died in a hospital in Texas apparently following complications after his third heart surgery, to Ramallah via Amman.
That made it possible for Lebanese [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on August 7th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Daily Press Briefing
Gonzalo R. Gallegos, Acting Deputy Spokesman
Washington, DC
August 6, 2008
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MR. GALLEGOS: Yes.
QUESTION: Do you have some (inaudible) additional information for revoking the visas of the three Gaza students? What is the information? What is the additional information? Were they told what it is? And if they aren’t aware, how can they reapply again for [...]
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Filed under: Academic studies and research, Gaza, Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, USA
