PCHR, Ref: 57/2006 PCHR strongly condemns acts of retaliation and collective punishment by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) against the Palestinian civilian population in the Gaza Strip, including the destruction of civilian facilities. PCHR also condemns killings committed by IOF in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. PCHR calls upon the international community, particularly the [...]
Genevieve Cora Fraser, Ramallah Online "The IDF has the firepower To wipe out an entire population If we wanted," Benjamin Netanyahu Former Israeli prime Minister recently bragged Before the 35th Zionist Congress in Jerusalem. “We could wipe out All of Gaza But we are not doing this.” Yet -
Genevieve Cora Fraser, Ramallah Online Each week the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights posts a summary of events for the preceding week. For the week of June 8 – 14, there were 28 Palestinians, including 7 children, killed by Israeli Occupation Forces. Seven of the victims were members of the Ghalya family who were picnicking [...]
Sonia Nettnin, Ramallah Online The documentary, "Visit Palestine" takes viewers through the Palestinian refugee camp of Jenin, West Bank with international peace activist Caoimhe Butterly. With blue eyes, long, red hair and red lipstick, Butterly, who is over six-feet-tall stands out in Jenin, also known as the camp of endurance. For over a year Butterly [...]
Open Bethlehem, http://www.openbethlehem.org In response to Texas congressman Michael McCaul’s resolution on the plight of Palestinian Christians, Open Bethlehem’s chief executive Leila Sansour, a Christian from Bethlehem, has sent a letter to congress expressing her community’s shock at the gross misrepresentation of the real threat facing Christians of the Holy Land and has urged congress [...]
Carol Rae Bradford, Ramallah Online Ever since 9/11, and almost immediately, there has been a distinct overflow of anti-Muslim writings in the American media, and a rich nest of this type of breeding can be found at the Boston Globe by writers like Jeff Jacoby, a committed pro-Israeli writer, Cathy Young, a Russian and pro-Israeli [...]
Tanya Reinhart, Ramallah Online In Israeli discourse, Israel is always the side exercising restraint in its conflict with the Palestinians. This was true again for the events of the past week: As the Qassam rockets were falling on the Southern Israeli town of Sderot, it was “leaked” that the Israeli Minister of Defense had directed [...]
War on Want, Media Center Waters moved today’s concert from Hayarkon Park outside Tel Aviv after discussions with Palestinian artists, as well as Israeli refuseniks, who called on him to use the gig as a platform to build solidarity with those fighting the injustices of Israeli foreign policy.
On June 13, 2006 3-year-old Isra’a El Batsh and her mother Dalal arrived in San Francisco airport from Palestine to begin treatment for the girl, who lost her eye from an Israeli air raid in Gaza on March 6, 2006 in which Isra’a’s two small cousins were killed and her 10-year-old brother Mohammed was injured [...]
Hesham Tillawi and Mark Glenn It is just another example of the fact that in America freedom of speech has its limits, and particularly when the topic of discussion happens to be Israel. Fall on the ‘wrong side’ of the truth, and a person can lose his job or his platform for speaking his mind. [...]
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