Tag Archives: human rights

Hasbara = Israeli Zionist propaganda war: UNRWA’s @PKraehenbuehl doesn’t get it!

Aug 24, 2014 | by @occpal I wish I could see the sincerity in this call if it wasn’t so absurd and void of reality: Today Israel officially retracted its earlier claim that rocket was launched from or near @UNRWA school in #Gaza and has issued correction. — Pierre Krähenbühl (@PKraehenbuehl) August 23, 2014 We […]

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Israel Murders Journalists ~ by @StephenLendman

by Stephen Lendman | Stephen Lendman Blog | Aug 23, 2014   Israel threatens press freedom. Repressive Knesset legislation targets speech, assembly, association, and the right to dissent. So does Kafkaesque justice.   Military censorship bans, buries or sanitizes information about its crimes of war and against humanity it wants suppressed.   It willfully suppresses […]

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Israeli jailers storm Hadarim jail, intimidate Palestinian prisoners

[ PIC 21/08/2014 – 09:41 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Special Israeli units, escorted by large numbers of policemen, stormed on early Wednesday morning prison sections at Hadarim jail and launched a large-scale search campaign against Palestinian political prisoners, Palestinian human rights sources reported. Palestinian Prisoners Center for Studies said in a press statement, a state […]

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Deliberate medical negligence: Palestinian prisoner patients launch distress signal

[ PIC 20/08/2014 – 12:03 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Israeli prison authority has been dragging its feet vis-à-vis Palestinian prisoner patients held in al-Ramla prison clinic, denying them urgent medical check-ups and needed therapy. Prisoner Riyadh al-Amour, serving 11 back-to-back life sentences, said following a visit paid by lawyers at the Palestinian Prisoner Society: […]

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Shin Bet prevents thousands of Palestinians from traveling to Jordan

UDHR Art 13:2: “Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country” [ PIC 19/08/2014 – 12:11 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Israeli Shin Bet security service prevented thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank from entering Jordan through al- Karama border crossing since last month without […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | Gaza agriculture devastated by Israeli offensive – UN

Russia Today | August 15, 2014 07:45 AFP Photo / Said Khatib The Israeli military operation in Gaza has devastated the enclave’s food production process the UN has announced, warning that the lack of food will “severely” affect the local population and that recovery will need “significant external assistance.” “The recent fighting has resulted in […]

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Israeli special unit storms Naqab (Negev) prison

[ PIC 14/08/2014 – 12:11 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Israeli Special Forces stormed section 21 in Negev prison where they violently searched the prisoners’ rooms and significantly damaged their personal belongings. Palestinian Prisoners Society said that Israeli forces’ attack came shortly after breaking the prisoners’ beds and electronic appliances in room 12, in addition to […]

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PRESIDENT OF HRC APPOINTS MEMBERS OF COMMISSION OF INQUIRY UNDER HRC RESOLUTION S-21/1

11 August 2014 | UNOG The President of the Human Rights Council, Ambassador Baudelaire Ndong Ella (Gabon), announced today the appointment of Amal Alamuddin, Doudou Diène and William Schabas to serve as members of the independent, international commission of inquiry to investigate all violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law in the […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | Reporters Without Borders (@RSF_RWB): Journalist Death Toll in Gaza Reaches 13

  Thursday August 07, 2014 09:35 by Chris Carlson – 1 of International Middle East Media Center Editorial Group “As Israel announces the withdrawal of its troops from the Gaza Strip, Reporters Without Borders (RWB) reports that 12 Palestinian journalists and one media worker have been killed since the start of Operation Protective Edge on […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | Digital front line: How Israel is shutting down Gaza’s Twitter voices

RT.com | Published time: July 30, 2014 13:35 Get short URL Palestinian rescue workers carry the body of a member of the Duheir family after removing it from under the rubble of their home which was destroyed in an Israeli air strike the previous day in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip (AFP Photo / […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | ​‘No children left in Gaza!’ Right-wing Israeli mob mocks deaths in anti-Gaza chant (VIDEO)

Russia Today | Published time: July 29, 2014 15:49 Get short URL Screenshot from youtube video by Tali Shapiro A right-wing Israeli mob has been caught on film seemingly celebrating the deaths of Palestinian children in Operation Protective Edge. Over 1,200 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s latest offensive, including over 200 children. The video […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | Journalist Ezzat Dheir and His Family Killed By Israeli Missile In Rafah

Tuesday July 29, 2014 12:50 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Mayor of Al-Boreij Killed By Israeli Missile The Israeli army continued its illegitimate bombardment of Palestinian homes, and civilian property, and killed five family members of a Palestinian journalist, including two children in Gaza City. Media sources said the Israeli strikes also targeted […]

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