Posted on July 1st, 2008 by Marian Houk
On Tuesday evening, at almost the very last minute, I received a press invitation to attend a reading
by the enormously important and iconic Palestinian poets, Mahmoud Darwish, in Ramallah.
I had just returned from Ramallah — and experienced the worst traffic situation I had ever been in, around the fortress Qalandia checkpoint which Israel now describes [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Register of damages due to The Wall
Posted on June 28th, 2008 by Marian Houk
“Tensions may be heating up again about Israeli reconstruction plans for a damaged ramp leading from the Western Wall Plaza in the Old City of Jerusalem, where Jewish worshippers pray at Judaism’s most sacred and revered site, up to the Mughrabi Gate entrance to the Haram as-Sharif mosque esplanade, the third holiest site of Islam. [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, Uncategorized
Posted on June 20th, 2008 by Marian Houk
From Haaretz today, this headline and sub-head: “UNICEF severs ties with Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev: UN children’s fund says company owned by mogul has been involved in building settlements in W. Bank“.
And from the text of the story: “UNICEF decided to review its relationship with Leviev after a campaign by Adalah-NY and found ‘at [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Millennium Goals, Palestine & Palestinians, Register of damages due to The Wall, Sanctions, UN Administration
Posted on June 19th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Peace appears to be breaking out all over, after one of the gloomiest recent periods in the region, during which speculation about imminent war has been nearly non-stop .
The truce or calm (“tahdiya”) between Israel and Hamas – which the parties say they hope will last at least an initial six months — started at [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Gaza, Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Sanctions, Shebaa Farms
Posted on June 18th, 2008 by Marian Houk
“The human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory remains grave”, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour informed the members of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva this week.
Three new reports on the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory were discussed at the Human Rights Council in [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Gaza, Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Kofi Annan, Middle East Peace Process, NGOs, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on June 6th, 2008 by Marian Houk
A three-judge panel of the Israeli Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a renewed appeal by a group of Israeli and Palestinian human rights groups to interfere in the military-administered fuel cuts to Gaza.
On 27 January, the Court rejected a first petition that was originally brought in late October, after the Israeli military made it clear [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Gaza, Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Quartet, Sanctions, UN Secretary-General
Posted on June 2nd, 2008 by Marian Houk
UN Secretary BAN Ki-Moon said, in a statement issued by his spokesman, that he was “deeply concerned at the recent announcement by the Israeli government to invite new tenders for construction in Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem … The Government of Israel’s continued construction in settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory is contrary to international [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, International Law, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, USA, United Nations
Posted on May 3rd, 2008 by Marian Houk
Haaretz reported Friday, with some surprise, that Gaza sewage has been pumped straight into the Mediterranean since last January, when the Gaza power plant last had to shut down for lack of fuel, and it was feared that sudden electricity outages could cause catastrophic sewage flooding in Gaza that might even threaten human life (as [...]
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Filed under: Environment, Gaza, International Law, Israel, Law of the Sea Convention, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Sanctions
Posted on April 17th, 2008 by Marian Houk
This photo ran in the NY Times — I noticed it thanks to Angry Arab:
NYT photo caption: “Wounded Palestinians [n.b. - these are children] lay near the car of Fadel Shana, a cameraman for Reuters who died in a missile attack on Wednesday in Gaza”. According to Reuters, they also died.
UPDATE: AP says that [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, International Law, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on April 17th, 2008 by Marian Houk
A GUEST POST FROM ALETHEIA KALLOS/MD:
With a later UPDATE from the comment below by ALETHEIA KALLOS/ MD to clarify — i repeat the actual iranian position was in iranian territorial waters by any reckoning & it seems to me the mod should still like to know the real truth of this
rather than just the latest [...]
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Filed under: International Law, Iran, Law of the Sea Convention
