One year after two separate cease-fires (Israel’s, and Hamas’) ended 22 terrible days of an IDF military operation supposedly directed against Hamas, where are things? How is the situation?
Worse than ever.
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Filed under: Gaza, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, United Nations Agencies and Programmes
This, Madame Secretary [Hilary Clinton], is positive reinforcement: when the IDF, exceptionally, schedules over 200 truckloads of what they call “humanitarian aid” — really, the most basic goods — to enter Gaza, it is worth writing about.
This is the third time in the past two weeks that we’ve had such an astonishing development. It is [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Gaza, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, International Humanitarian Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
This is news. For months, the Israeli Ministry of Defense’s “Coordinator of [Israeli] Government Activities in the Territories” or COGAT, has been putting Gazans on a very strict “diet”. Only when a high-level American delegation was in town, or maybe Tony Blair, were there even 100 to a max of 112 or [...]
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Basem (Correction from comment below: Bassim) Khoury won a lot of admiration and respect when he reportedly resigned, at the beginning of October, in protest of the (later reversed) Palestinian decision to withdraw support from a resolution they (the Palestinians) had been drafting in the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva in support of the [...]
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Filed under: Donors, Gaza, Humanitarian Aid, Journalism and Journalists, Palestine & Palestinians
“Donor countries will have to keep giving large amounts of aid to the Palestinian government in the foreseeable future, unless Israel eases access of Palestinian goods to Israeli and world markets, the World Bank said in a report Friday”, according to a story published by Israel’s YNet on Friday. YNEt added that “The [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Donors, Gaza, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, Sanctions
Just in time for consideration by the UN Human Rights Council’s Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, headed by South Africa’s Justice Richard Goldstone, is the release by the Israeli organization of soldiers and former soldiers called Breaking the Silence.
Acting out of concern for the deterioration in military observance of Jewish moral values, Breaking the [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Gaza, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, United Nations
For those who follow what is happening in and to Gaza, there is an interesting article in the Jerusalem Post that reported “Reeling from four damning reports in one week from human rights organizations about the IDF’s conduct in Operation Cast Lead, the sense among senior defense officials is that the ‘legal front’ against [...]
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Filed under: Academic studies and research, Boundaries & Borders, Gaza, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, Sanctions
The Israeli Defense Forces Spokespersons Unit (Spox) yesterday modified its tone in response to Amnesty International’s just-published comprehensive report on the IDF’s Operation Cast Lead, which we reported on yesterday here.
After a long list of criticisms and and justifications (which have all been previously reported here and elsewhere), the IDF statement then concludes with these [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Amnesty International, in a major new report, documents Israel’s use of battlefield weapons against a civilian population trapped in Gaza, with no means of escape.
The report presents evidence gathered by Amnesty International delegates, including a military expert, during field research in Gaza and southern Israel in January and February.
The report is designed, in part, to [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Gaza, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, Sanctions
The Jerusalem Post reported yesterday that “The Cypriot Embassy in Tel Aviv issued a statement following the incident, saying ‘The Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus in Israel would like to inform that the “Spirit of Humanity” boat, sponsored by the Free Gaza Movement, that attempted in the early hours today to reach Gaza was [...]
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Filed under: Ambassadors and other diplomats, Boundaries & Borders, Cyprus, Egypt, Gaza, Humanitarian Aid, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Law of the Sea Convention, Palestine & Palestinians, Sanctions