Ehud Olmert could face war crimes arrest if he visits UK
28 October 2009
The Guardian - Ehud Olmert, Israel's prime minister during the Gaza war, would probably face arrest on war crimes charges if he visited Britain, according to a UK lawyer...
Israeli policies displacing children in rural areas
27 October 2009
Maan News - Intolerable living conditions in the West Bank and Gaza are driving families to abandon their land and homes, displacing children and resulting in low-quality living situations,...
Damaged Gaza schools need windows before winter
27 October 2009
Reuters - Gaza schools damaged by Israeli bombing will be exposed to the cold and rain this winter unless Israel relaxes its blockade to permit the import of windows,...
Israel 'cuts Palestinians water'
27 October 2009
BBC - Israel is denying Palestinians access to even the basic minimum of clean, safe water, Amnesty International says.
In a report, the human rights group says Israeli water restrictions...
Gaza: A Prison by the Sea
26 October 2009
The U.S.-Israel-Egypt blockade forced on Gazans has turned it into-what AntiWar Radio host Scott Horton calls-"a prison by the sea". This documentary for al Jazeera (AJE), Locked In: Life...
UNRWA official: Israeli refusal to allow stationary into Gaza illogical
26 October 2009
GAZA, (PIC)-- An UNRWA official in Gaza criticised the Israeli occupation for not allowing stationary and textbooks into the Gaza Strip describing this action as illogical and unacceptable.
Adnan Abu...
Amira Hass on Democracy Now
23 October 2009
Amira Hass is a regular columnist with Israel's Ha'aretz newspaper and the only Israeli journalist to have spent several years living in and reporting from Gaza and the West...
Quartet envoy's eight-year-old niece sees the real Palestine
22 October 2009
Bethlehem - Ma'an - Eight-year-old Alexandra Darby, the niece of Quartet Envoy Tony Blair, toured the West Bank this week on a bicycle, peddling an estimated 200 kilometers from...
Child died in Gaza due to the siege, death toll reaches 360
21 October 2009
IMEMC - A Palestinian child was announced dead on Tuesday as he was prevented from leaving the Gaza Strip to get life saving medical care he needed.
Doctors reported that...
Israel to allow coffee, tea into Gaza
21 October 2009
Ma'an - Israel has decided to allow coffee and tea into the besieged Gaza Strip starting on Thursday, a Palestinian official said.
Nasser As-Sarraj, undersecretary of the Ministry of National...
Goldstone rejects Israel protests
20 October 2009
BBC - UN human rights investigator Richard Goldstone has rejected Israel's claim that the peace process would be harmed by his report on the offensive in Gaza.
Judge Goldstone said...
Human Rights Council divisions must not obstruct Gaza accountability
20 October 2009
Amnesty - The political divisions surrounding the adoption of today's Human Rights Council resolution on the human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories must not become an obstacle...
Actress Mia Farrow speaks out for Gaza's children
19 October 2009
JERUSALEM - Actress Mia Farrow headed back to the United States on Sunday haunted by the image of a young girl who spoke in a tiny voice of the...
Locked in: Life in Gaza
19 October 2009
Al Jazeera - Munzer al-Dayyeh is a 40-year-old mechanic living in Gaza. In a land of ruin and disrepair, Munzer is kept busy fixing generators and repairing motorbikes.
In June...
UN votes to endorse Gaza report
16 October 2009
BBC - The UN Human Rights Council has backed a report into the Israeli offensive in Gaza that accuses both Israel and Palestinian militants of war crimes.
The report by...
Gaza in dire need of aid, UNWRA official says
16 October 2009
WASHINGTON (JTA) -- The Gaza Strip is in dire need of humanitarian aid, according to the director of operations in Gaza for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency.
John...
UN body to vote on Gaza report
16 October 2009
The UN Human Rights Council is due to vote on whether to endorse a report which accuses both Israel and Hamas of war crimes in Gaza.
Israel has campaigned intensively...
Despite promises to Obama, construction continues in dozens of W. Bank settlements
16 October 2009
Haaretz - Human rights activists monitoring the West Bank report that despite commitments Israel made to President Barack Obama's administration last month, widespread building activity commenced three weeks ago...
UN human rights chief endorses Goldstone Gaza report
15 October 2009
Haaretz - The United Nation's top human rights official backed a report Thursday accusing Israel and Hamas militants of war crimes during their conflict in Gaza last winter.
Navi Pillay's...
Israel 'must answer' for Gaza war
15 October 2009
BBC - The Palestinians have urged the UN to act to punish Israel for its offensive in the Gaza Strip last winter.
The move reverses a Palestinian decision to defer...
