Archive for December, 2008
UNRWA: Israel broke the truce
UNRWA chief Karan Abu Zayd:
“What we understood here (was) that there was a 48-hour lull to be called, and this was called by the Israelis,” Abu Zayd said. “They said they would wait 48 hours. That was on Friday morning, I believe, until Sunday morning, and that they were going to evaluate.”
“There was only one [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian | Closed
Tags: blitz, Cast Lead, ceasefire, Gaza, Hamas, truce, UNRWA, war crimes
Gaza massacre continues
The death toll is now at least 320, with over 1,000 people wounded. According to UNRWA at least 51 62 civilian women and children have been killed, an estimate that is “conservative and it is certainly rising”. In fact most of the casualities appear to be civilian police.
As the bombs continue to fall and the [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian | 5 Comments
Tags: blockade, Cast Lead, collective punishment, Gaza, Hamas, Human Rights, siege, war crimes
The air-strikes in Gaza continued through Saturday night and into today. The death toll is now at least 285, with more than 900 wounded. Hamas is still offering a ceasefire based on an end to the siege. Israel has rejected this in favour of the largest offensive in Gaza since 1967 and a possible ground invasion. [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian | 6 Comments
Tags: blitz, blockade, collective punishment, Gaza, Hamas, siege, UN, war crimes
A massive wave of Israeli air-strikes in Gaza has left at least 227 Palestinians dead and over 700 wounded. Dozens of targets are reported to have been hit within a matter of minutes, focusing on Hamas security compounds and government buildings. The first round of attacks occurred as Gazan children were leaving school, and the victims [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian | 5 Comments
Tags: ceasefire, collective punishment, Gaza, Hamas, Israel, shock and awe, siege, Terrorism
Just saw this on TV, and sure enough someone has uploaded it to YouTube:
Did ya get that? First he uses the shoe thrower as evidence of the ingratitude, “violence” and “irrational thinking” in the “Arab world”, before going to on discuss the “danger from the Muslim world” and whether torture is [...]
Filed under: Iraq, Media, Torture, US, Videos | 8 Comments
Tags: Bill O'Reilly, Bush, Islamophobia, Muntadar al-Zaidi, Racism, shoes, Torture
The war on Gaza’s children
Chris Hedges on the siege of Gaza:
“It is an unfolding humanitarian catastrophe that each day poses the entire 1.5 million Gazans to an unspeakable ordeal, to a struggle to survive in terms of their health,” [UN special rapporteur Richard] Falk said when I reached him by phone in California shortly before he left for Israel. “This [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian | 1 Comment
Tags: blockade, children, collective punishment, Gaza, Richard Falk, siege, war crimes
The Times:
“AS a convoy of blue-and-white United Nations trucks loaded with food waited last night for Israeli permission to enter Gaza, Jindiya Abu Amra and her 12-year-old daughter went scrounging for the wild grass their family now lives on.
“We had one meal today – khobbeizeh,” said Abu Amra, 43, showing the leaves of a plant [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian | 6 Comments
Tags: blockade, collective punishment, food, Gaza, siege, war crime
Media silence on Colombia abuses
Last Wednesday (December 10) the UN Human Rights Council convened to examine Colombia’s human rights record as part of the Universal Periodic Review. There, the “Israel of Latin America” received what by all accounts was a thrashing.
Far more damning than the delegates’ statements, though, were the submissions by numerous international and local human rights organisations.
Amnesty International [.pdf], [...]
Filed under: Latin America, Media, UK, Venezuela | Leave a Comment
Tags: Alvaro Uribe, Colombia, Human Rights Council, propaganda model, UN
UN special rapporteur for human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory Richard Falk on the Gaza blockade:
“Gaza: Silence is not an option
9 December 2008
The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights on Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Richard Falk, issued the following statement:
GENEVA — In recent days the desperate plight of the civilian population [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, UK | 3 Comments
Tags: blockade, Gaza, Human Rights, Human Rights Council, Richard Falk, siege, UN
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