[ 11/08/2011 - 11:51 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Palestinian lawmaker Hasan Yousuf appealed to the international community to urgently move to defend the Palestinian MPs imprisoned in Israeli jails. MP Yousuf strongly denounced, in a press release distributed on Thursday by the international campaign for the release of detained lawmakers, Israel’s piracy and arrogance against [...]
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PA urges international community to protect prisoners’ rights
Published today 12:54 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The Palestinian Authority on Monday urged the international community to protect the rights of Palestinian prisoners, the government media center said. The PA referred to two incidents in which prisoners rights were violated. One case involved a decision by Israeli authorities to ban prisoners’ families from visiting them for [...]
#sep20 | Officials set date for “Palestine 194″ march
Mass rallies in support of Palestinian statehood bid at United Nations to begin on September 20 in occupied West Bank. 01 Aug 2011 | Al Jazeera Israel fears that masses of Palestinians could attempt to break down border fences in September [EPA] Palestinian officials have said they will begin mass marches against Israel’s occupation of [...]
Occupation Law and the One-State Reality
by Darryl Li | Aug 2, 2011 | Jadaliyya [Image from Gilai.com] For decades, the international law of occupation – a branch of the laws of war (or “international humanitarian law”) – has played a major role in structuring debates around Israel/Palestine. As applied to the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the law of occupation has [...]
Chutzpah! Hidden video camera inside Israeli prison – video
13 British people were stopped at Tel Aviv airport in July 2011. Five hours later they and 120 other people were in a high security prison in Israel. One woman managed to smuggle out this hidden recorded video of their six nights locked up in the high security prison in Israel.The video clips shows how [...]
Israel cuts electricity to the Negev desert prison as temperatures soar
Monday, 01 August 2011 15:15| MEMO The Ahrar Centre stressed that the Israeli government’s actions violate international law and conventions. The Ahrar Centre for Prisoners’ Studies and Human Rights has stated that the Israeli Prisons Service has cut power to the tents and cement rooms of the Negev desert prison. The Centre considered the [...]
Operational Update ICRC – Gaza: a never-ending effort to relieve suffering – Contact Details Included
28-07-2011 Operational Update For four years, Gazans have been living in a closed environment, in which the movement of goods and people are subject to severe restrictions. The ICRC is involved in an array of activities intended to ease their hardship. This is an update on its activities. All 1.6 million Gazans, packed in to [...]
Israel uses banned torture methods
PressTV – Thu Jul 28, 2011 2:9PM GMT A man looks at pictures of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails during a protest in the occupied East al-Quds (Jerusalem). (File photo) A Palestinian rights group says the Israeli Supreme Court has allowed Israeli interrogators to use banned methods of torture against Palestinian prisoners. On [...]
Five arrested, child and foreigner assaulted in West Bank attacks
[ 28/07/2011 - 09:24 AM ] WEST BANK, (PIC)– At least five Palestinians were arrested and others, including a small boy were assaulted in Israeli attacks across the West Bank early Thursday. Israeli occupation forces arrested this morning one man from Beit Awa in the southern province of Al-Khalil during an interrogation. Four others, most [...]
Rights group outlines torture in Israeli detention
Published today (updated) 28/07/2011 12:39 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestinian detainees face torture and inhumane treatment in Israeli jails, a report by the Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights said Thursday. In a publication documenting violations of human rights against Palestinians by the Israeli army over two years, the Gaza-based rights group outlined 85 cases of Palestinians [...]
European parliamentarians meet with health minister in Gaza
[ 28/07/2011 - 07:34 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– A high-profile delegation of parliamentarians from various European countries has met with Gaza Health Minister Bassem Na’im on a tour of the Gaza Strip. Minister Na’im briefed the delegation headed by British Labor party chairman Tony Lloyd on the effects the Israeli political and economic blockade has [...]
World parliamentarians say ‘appalled’ at Israel’s detention of PLC members
[ 27/07/2011 - 04:55 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Inter-Parliamentary Union said it was ”appalled” at Israel’s repeated detention of members of the Palestinian Legislative Council, calling it a violation of the Palestinians’ democratic rights. The condemnation came in a letter by the IPU Human Rights Committee directed at Palestinian MP Mushir al-Masri, who heads [...]
Israeli soldiers arrest five foreign solidarity activists
[ 27/07/2011 - 09:57 AM ] BETHLEHEM, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested seven participants in a peaceful protest march in Walaja village, west of Bethlehem, on Wednesday, local sources said. Member of the popular committee to resist the wall and settlement in the village Ala’a Al-Daras said that a massive march started from the [...]
Israel plows farms paving way for apartheid wall extension in Bethlehem village
[ 26/07/2011 - 05:01 PM ] BETHLEHEM, (PIC)– Israeli bulldozers began early Tuesday morning plowing through ”vast” Palestinian farmlands and uprooting olive trees to pave the way for an extension of the apartheid wall in Al-Walaja village in western Bethlehem province. Tensions envelop the village as Israeli soldiers have suppressed locals, reporters, and dozens of [...]
Israel Extends Family Unification Ban For A Year
Tuesday July 26, 2011 06:12 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies The Israeli Knesset approved a request by the government of Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to extend the ban on family reunification for an additional year prohibiting granting Israeli citizenship, or even residency, to Palestinians, Lebanese, Iraqis or Syrians married to Israeli [...]