Posted on February 16th, 2012 by Marian Houk
With all the international attention now coming to the 61-Day Hunger Strike being carried out by Khader Adnan after he was seized from his home on December 17 in a village near Jenin in a pre-dawn raid that in which he and his terrified pregnant wife and two daughters were abused, is his treatment getting [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on February 15th, 2012 by Marian Houk
Khader Adnan’s family were permitted to visit him in Ziv hospital in Safed today, Day 60 of his hunger strike against an Israeli military court’s sentence of Administrative Detention — a process in which the details of charges as well as all evidence is kept secret from the accused and from his/her lawyer, so no [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on February 13th, 2012 by Marian Houk
NGO Monitor today said that the use of the term “Judaization” yesterday by Raquel Rolnik, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, to describe Israeli housing policies, was “antisemitic” and “immoral”, and called for her immediate resignation. The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights earlier posted a press release [...]
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Posted on February 13th, 2012 by Marian Houk
As Palestinian protestors outside Ofer Prison were surrounded by tear gas and hit by rubber bullets fired by Israeli soldiers [at "Beitunia Checkpoint"] today [the second such demonstration in three days], an Israeli military court inside Ofer affirmed the 4-month sentence of Administrative Detention that was imposed on Khader Adnan on January 8. UPDATE: Addameer [...]
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Posted on February 12th, 2012 by Marian Houk
Israeli policies on housing have been — and continue in new ways to be — discriminatory, according to the UN Human Rights Council’s Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, Raquel Rolnik. Rolnik concluded a 12-day official visit to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory [oPt, in UN terminology] on Sunday, and discussed her [...]
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Posted on January 30th, 2012 by Marian Houk
This is an interesting case that puts the ambiguities of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank under the microscope, if not under the spotlight. The Israeli human rights organization Yesh Din on Sunday submitted — in support of its own request on 10 January — an “expert opinion supporting its motion for an en [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2012 by Marian Houk
This extraordinarily powerful film, showing Israeli military court judges at work in the northern West Bank of Nablus during the first Palestinian intifada [circa 1988 + 1989] — and today, now in their retirement years, perhaps on Israel’s comfortable coastal plain, reflecting on what they did and how they did it — is being screened [...]
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Posted on January 23rd, 2012 by Marian Houk
The answer is obvious, but the question is not rhetorical. There has been a great deal [well, ok, an unusual amount] of mobilization at official levels concerning the Israeli military’s detention of Aziz Dweik [see our earlier post here] at Jaba’a Checkpoint last Thursday. UPDATE: On Tuesday 24 January, Aziz Dweik was sentenced at Ofer [...]
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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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Filed under: Gaza, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on January 16th, 2012 by Marian Houk
This is another of our posts in our Do not say you didn’t know series … [Most of our posts are actually in the series...]: Filmed by a member of the World Council of Churches current team of Ecumenical Accompaniers in Israel and Palestine [EAPPI], here is Taybeh checkpoint last week at 4:00 am… Palestinians [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, Register of damages due to The Wall
