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#GazaUnderAttack | @Amnesty and @HRW say Israel and Egypt bar their entry to Gaza

[ PIC 19/08/2014 – 02:56 PM ] WASHINGTON, (PIC)– Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) said the Israeli and Egyptian authorities obstruct their efforts to investigate allegations of war crimes and human rights violations in the Gaza Strip. Representatives from the two organizations have failed to get official permissions to enter Gaza from Israel […]

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Israel bans Amnesty, HRW from entering Gaza Strip

  PressTV | Mon Aug 18, 2014 4:17PM GMT Israel has banned Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) representatives from entering the besieged Gaza Strip in order to launch their investigations into the Israeli onslaught on the coastal enclave. Media reports said on Monday that both human rights organizations have been trying to obtain […]

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Mounting evidence of deliberate attacks on Gaza health workers by Israeli army ~ by @Amnesty

There has been mounting evidence that the Israel Defense Forces launched apparently deliberate attacks against hospitals and health professionals in Gaza. © EPA/OLIVER WEIKEN Amnesty International | Aug 7, 2014 “ The harrowing descriptions by ambulance drivers and other medics of the utterly impossible situation in which they have to work, with bombs and bullets […]

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Israeli forces raid home of recently released Palestinian prisoner

Ma’an News Agency |  (updated) 22/11/2013 22:55 (MaanImages/file) HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli forces raided al-Arrub refugee camp north of Hebron on Friday and handed a notification to a former prisoner, Najeh Mohammad Mikbel, 54, demanding he meet with Israeli intelligence forces. Najeh Mohammad Mikbel spent 24 years in the Israeli jails, and was only released […]

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@Amnesty: Israel must drop charges against Anas Bargouthi

Al Qassam Website | 26-10-2013,09:17 Gaza – The Israeli authorities must drop all charges against a Palestinian human rights lawyer released on bail last night, Amnesty International said. A military judge at Ofer Military Court ordered the release of Anas Bargouthi on bail because confessions from other detainees submitted as evidence failed to prove he […]

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VIDEO | Evict them in 5 easy steps ~ by @Amnesty

Published on Oct 3, 2013 by AmnestyInternational In every part of the world people are forced out of their homes without warning or consultation, without access to justice and without compensation. These forced evictions often involve violence. They destroy livelihoods and social networks, and drive people deeper into poverty often resulting in many becoming homeless […]

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Israeli occupation forces soldiers arrest liberated prisoner Yusri Joulani

Note from occpal: Previously by Israel released prisoners received a Presidential Pardon of Peres. Also called Amnesty or Clemency by law to restore ones civil rights and being totally pardoned for the (alleged) crimes if even in the case of Palestinians’ ever charged before at all. Re-arresting pardoned prisoners (also from the Wafa al Ahrar […]

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Amnesty: Demolitions of Bedouin Homes in Negev Desert Must End Immediately

DRAH July 21, 2013 Gaza,(DRAH.ps)– Israel must immediately halt all demolitions of Arab Bedouin homes in communities in the Negev/Naqab desert which the government has refused to officially recognize,” Amnesty International said in a press statement Thursday, following news that the village of al-‘Araqib was once again razed by land authorities. “The Israeli authorities must […]

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Israeli pressures on EU countries to deny entry to liberated prisoner Sarsak

Note from occpal: Previously by Israel released prisoners received a Presidential Pardon of Peres. Also called Amnesty or Clemency by law to restore ones civil rights and being totally pardoned for the (alleged) crimes if even in the case of Palestinians’ ever charged before at all. Re-arresting pardoned prisoners (also from the Wafa al Ahrar […]

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Israeli occupation soldiers storm workshops in Jenin, interrogate liberated prisoner

Note from occpal: Previously by Israel released prisoners received a Presidential Pardon of Peres. Also called Amnesty or Clemency by law to restore ones civil rights and being totally pardoned for the (alleged) crimes if even in the case of Palestinians’ ever charged before at all. Re-arresting pardoned prisoners (also from the Wafa al Ahrar […]

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Amnesty urges Israel to free prisoner of conscience Bassem Tamimi | #NabiSaleh

Maan News Agency | Nov 28, 2012   BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Amnesty International on Wednesday urged Israel to release a non-violent demonstrator who was detained in mid-November in the occupied West Bank. The group expressed concern for Nabi Saleh’s Bassem Tamimi, “a prisoner of conscience, detained solely for the peaceful exercise of his right to […]

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Amnesty International calls on #Israel to free Palestinian prisoner Bassem Tamimi

Bassem Tamimi (file photo) PressTV | Thu Nov 8, 2012 3:34AM GMT Amnesty International (AI) has called on Israel to free a Palestinian activist, who was handed down a four-month prison sentence for participating in a demonstration against illegal Israeli settlements. On Tuesday, a military court in Israel sentenced Bassem Tamimi and fined him 5,000 […]

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Amnesty: Israel must release Bassem Tamimi

Maan News Agency | Nov 1, 2012 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities must end the harassment, intimidation and arbitrary detention of Palestinian activist Bassem Tamimi, Amnesty International said Thursday. Tamimi was detained on Oct. 24 during a protest at an Israeli supermarket in a Jewish settlement near Ramallah. The non-violence leader from Nabi Saleh — […]

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Prisoners center denounces banning of liberated prisoners from going for Hajj

Note from occpal: Previously by Israel released prisoners received a Presidential Pardon of Peres. Also called Amnesty or Clemency by law to restore ones civil rights and being totally pardoned for the (alleged) crimes if even in the case of Palestinians’ ever charged before at all. Re-arresting pardoned prisoners without any charge is a severe […]

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PA: 7 prisoners held under order canceling amnesty

Note from occpal: Previously by Israel released prisoners received a Presidential Pardon of Peres. Also called Amnesty or Clemency by law to restore ones civil rights and being totally pardoned for the (alleged) crimes if even in the case of Palestinians’ ever charged before at all. Re-arresting pardoned prisoners without any charge is a severe […]

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