#Gaza | @HRW calls for accountability after Gaza violence

Maan News Agency | Nov 23, 2012 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Human Rights Watch on Friday urged Israel and Hamas to address the ongoing human rights abuses and impunity for violations of the laws of war, after a ceasefire deal ended eight days of deadly fighting. “Israeli attacks on presumptively civilian structures, including media buildings, civilian […]

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Israeli Crimes Without Punishment ~ by Stephen Lendman

October 13, 2012 at 13:38:36 – Stephen Lendman |  OpEdNews Israel literally gets away with murder. by Stephen Lendman Serial criminality against humanity is official Israeli policy. Punishment never follows. Ruthlessness best describes these type abuses. Committing them without accountability is unconscionable. It goes on daily. Western media scoundrels ignore it. Too few people understand […]

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Absence of accountability encourages Israeli soldiers to kill Palestinians

MEMO – March 21, 2012 An Israeli human rights group has concluded that the absence of accountability “encourages soldiers to kill Palestinian civilians”. In its annual report published this week, the Israeli Information Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, B’Tselem, said, “From the start of the second intifada in the year 2000 […]

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Arab League Council discusses Israeli accountability for ‘crimes’ in Gaza

Related: Gaza Under Attack – in pictures Monday, 22 August 2011 13:30| MEMO The Arab League’s General Secretariat held an emergency meeting on Sunday, 21 August, to discuss the consequences of Israel’s on-going attacks on the Gaza Strip. The meeting, headed by Oman and attended by Arab League Secretary General Nabil El Arabi, was held […]

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Amnesty International:Israeli campaign to avoid accountability for Gaza war crimes must be rejected

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENT Index: MDE 15/023/2011, 5 April 2011 Israeli campaign to avoid accountability for Gaza war crimes must be rejected Recent Israeli government calls for the UN to retract the 2009 report of its Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict are a cynical attempt to avoid accountability for war crimes and deny both […]

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