Tag Archives: human rights watch

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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HRW: Israel’s killing of civilian escapees “war crime”

[ 05/08/2014 – 09:16 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Human Rights Watch organization has charged the Israeli occupation army of murdering Palestinian civilians while they were trying to flee the wave of shelling that rocked southern Gaza Strip, saying this is a war crime by all standards. A report issued by the New-York based Human […]

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HRW: “Israel Violated International Law During Gaza War”

 Thursday February 14, 2013 23:08 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported that Israel’s airstrikes against the Gaza Strip in the most recent war on Gaza in November of last year violated International laws of war, as the Israeli army bombarded areas that had no “legitimate military targets”. Child Killed During […]

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Open Letter of Response to CRIF (Counsèil Représentif des Institutions juives de France) ~ by Prof. Em. Richard Falk

Richard Falk Weblog | Dec 30, 2012 An Open Letter of Response to CRIF (Counsèil Représentif des Institutions juives de France) I am shocked and saddened that your organization would label me as an anti-Semite and self-hating Jew. It is utterly defamatory, and such allegations are entirely based on distortions of what I believe and […]

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Abu Mujahed: “Human Rights Watch” is blatantly biased in favor of Israel

[ 25/12/2012 – 01:47 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Spokesman for the Palestinian resistance committees Abu Mujahed condemned the report of the human rights watch on the resistance rocket attacks on Israeli targets as blatantly biased in favor of the Israeli regime. In a press release on Tuesday, Abu Mujahed said that the human rights watch […]

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My “2 Cents” on HRW’s condemnation of Gaza’s resistance

Dec 24, 2012 by occpal | Updated May 4, 2013 Apparently nothing has changed a lot since HRW trolled around to extract money in a corrupt fundraiser to “relieve” potential Saudi donors including a Royal member of the Shura Council of their oil-dollars by bragging about the group’s “battles” with the “pro-Israel pressure groups while serving […]

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Human Rights Watch: Unlawful Israeli Attacks on Palestinian Media

Also available in:  العربية Missiles Kill Two Media Workers, Toddler; 10 Wounded December 20, 2012 | Human Rights Watch The deputy manager of al-Aqsa TV, Mohamed Abou Oun, inspects the car that two al-Aqsa cameraman were riding in when an Israeli missile struck them in Gaza City on November 20, 2012. The Israeli military said […]

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#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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Human Rights Watch | Israel: Hunger Striker’s Life at Risk – Charge or Release Detainee in 8th Week Without Eating

Related: WE WILL NOT LET YOU DOWN KHADER! ~ Photos & Action Alert February 11, 2012 | Human Rights Watch | Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch Israel should immediately end its unlawful administrative detention of Adnan and charge or release him. He may be approaching death from his hunger strike, […]

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Israel: Halt Home Demolitions | Human Rights Watch

  Compensate Scores of People Displaced in West Bank Communities June 21, 2011 | Human Rights Watch Residents of the West Bank Bedouin community of Fasayil al-Wusta built makeshift shelters after Israeli forces demolished homes and other structures on June 14, 2011. © 2011 Itay Epshtain Israeli forces demolished homes and other structures in the […]

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West Bank protest organizer, Bassem Tamimi, to Judge: “Your military laws are non-legit. Our peaceful protest is just”

06 June 2011 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Bassem Tamimi Tamimi, who has been held in custody for over two months, pleaded not guilty to the charges against him and held a defiant speech explaining his motivation for organizing civil resistance to the Occupation. See his full statement below.After more than two months in custody, […]

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Erasing Links to the Land in the Negev

Human Rights Watch by Noga Malkin Published in:Foreign Policy | March 11, 2011 Hiding in the cemetery where her parents are buried, Hakma al-Turi, an Israeli citizen, has watched bulldozers demolish her village — al-Araqib — more than 20 times. The Israel Land Administration first demolished the 45 structures on this patch of land in […]

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