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Tag: Palestine
Palestinians Aren’t Surprised by US Jerusalem Move As World Already ‘Ignores Their Existence’
Israel Detains French Human Rights Worker Without Charge
Just Say No: UN Rejects White House Recognition of Jerusalem as Israeli Capital
“Jerusalem is a final status issue for which a comprehensive, just and lasting solution must be achieved through negotiations between the parties,”
Dozens of Protesters Wounded in Clashes With Israeli Forces (VIDEO)
Trump’s Jerusalem Announcement Has ‘Potential For Leading to Violence’
Palestinian Journalists Become First Targets of Controversial Cybercrime Law
(GVO) – Just a few weeks after it adopted a controversial cybercrime law, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has gone after five journalists alleging that they “leaked information to hostile entities.” The government did not identify the entities in question, but four of the journalists arrested work with…
Will Palestine’s New Cybercrime Law Pave the Way for More Rights Violations?
(GVO) – In a state of secrecy and lack of transparency, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas recently approved a new cybercrime law that further tightens the noose on Palestinians’ freedom of expression and privacy online. Palestinian media and civil society organizations have slammed the new law…
La ONU, la UE, y Rusia expresan su inquietud por la alta tensión en Jerusalén
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — El Cuarteto de mediadores internacionales para Oriente Próximo, conformado por la ONU, la Unión Europea, Rusia y EEUU, expresó su profunda preocupación por el agravamiento de la situación en la ciudad vieja de Jerusalén, según se desprende de…
Yet Another Military Trial in the Occupied Territories
(HRW) – Military trials held by the Israeli army – a defining feature of the 50-year occupation – have a near 100-percent conviction rate and fall well short of any standards of justice. I recently attended a hearing in the trial of Palestinian human rights…
Israeli Christian Accused of Murdering Daughter Over Muslim Boyfriend
(Sputnik) – A day after graduating from high school, 17-year-old Henriette Karra was found stabbed to death in the kitchen of her family’s home in Ramle, Israel. According to the indictment filed by Central District state prosecutors, the assailant is allegedly none other…
Besieged Gaza People Farming on Rooftops to Resist Blockade
GAZA CITY (Tasnim) – The besieged people of Gaza Strip, who have been under the Zionist regime’s sever sanctions for years, have resorted to rooftop agriculture to supply their families’ nutritional needs. According to Tasnim dispatches, the Gaza Strip is…
Israeli Forces Kill Gaza Fisherman at Sea
(HRW) – It is difficult to imagine the pain the Bakr family must have felt in July 2014, when an Israel Defense Force (IDF) missile killed four of their children, cousins Ismail, 9; Ahed, 10; Zakariya, 10; and Mohammad, 11, as…
Palestinian Children’s Lives Are Shaped By 50 Years of Military Occupation
(FPIF) – There are two places to visit if you want to know the human impact of Israel’s 50-year military occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territory: an Israeli military court and the sitting room of a Palestinian family. I have…
Israel: 50 Years of Occupation Abuses
Jerusalem (HRW) – Fifty years after Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip, it controls these areas through repression, institutionalized discrimination, and systematic abuses of the Palestinian population’s rights, Human Rights Watch said today. At least five categories of…