Posted on February 1st, 2012 by Marian Houk
UN Secretary-General BAN Ki-Moon met Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem today, then Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah. After both meetings, there was a press conference. In Jerusalem with Netanyahu, BAN said “Settlements do not help the peace process… I told the prime minister that he should refrain from future construction”. [Just future construction? [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Boundaries & Borders, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, UN Secretary-General, UN Security Council, United Nations
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 26th, 2012 by Marian Houk
Jeff Halper, the American-Israeli director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions [ICAHD] called it a “war crime” — the 5th demolition of Beit Arabiya in Anata on Monday night. The demolition order was issued by the Israeli military on Thursday. The bulldozers arrived on Monday night. Jeff Halper + ICAHD have rebuilt this house [...]
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Posted on January 25th, 2012 by Marian Houk
This report is presented as part of our series on: What is the Occupation? At the beginning of January, according to an eyewitness — who was an involuntary participant — Israeli soldiers pulled over selected cars exiting the main Israeli military checkpoint at the northern entrance of Bethlehem, known as Bethlehem 300 [or, sometimes, as [...]
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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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Filed under: Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, International Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
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 20th, 2012 by Marian Houk
Yesterday, Thursday 19 January, I had no water. None. No hot water, no cold water. I discovered this only when I turned the tap on just after noon. There was still no water when I went to sleep after 3 am. I called the landlord by 1pm Thursday, and he said he would come to [...]
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Posted on January 19th, 2012 by Marian Houk
Today, we were advised that the IDF has in recent months broken up a major Islamic Jihad operation in the northern West Bank. Haaretz reported here that: “In a joint operation between the IDF and the Shin Bet, 10 Islamic Jihad militants were arrested near Jenin in recent months. According to the investigation, the military [...]
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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
