Posts Tagged palestine
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
October 16, 2009
PressTv- The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has adopted a resolution, endorsing the Goldstone report on the Gaza war, despite efforts by Israeli leaders to block the motion.
On Friday, 25 member-states of the council voted for the resolution, six voted against and 11 abstained. The “draft resolution … is therefore adopted,” UNHRC President [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
UNITED NATIONS (CNN) — A United Nations report issued Tuesday says both Israel and the Palestinians committed actions amounting to war crimes during Israel’s military incursion into Gaza from December 27 to January 18.
Although the U.N. investigation found that Palestinian militants also committed war crimes, the overwhelming majority of the criticism in a summary of [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
August 18th, 2009
BY MORTEN BERTHELSEN
Haaretz.com
A leading Swedish newspaper reported this week that Israeli soldiers are abducting Palestinians in order to steal their organs, a claim that prompted furious condemnation and accusations of anti-Semitic blood libel from a rival publication.
“They plunder the organs of our sons,” read the headline in Sweden’s largest daily newspaper, the left-leaning [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
GAZA CITY (AFP) – Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter on Tuesday met Hamas leader Ismail Haniya in the Gaza Strip, where he called for a lifting of Israel’s merciless blockade, saying Palestinians are being treated “like animals.”
Following the talks, Carter called for an end of “all violence” against the Palestinians.
“This is holy land for [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Barack Obama has repeated his call for Israel to stop settlement construction after holding talks with Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president.
Declaring that Washington was a “stalwart ally” of Israel, the US president nonetheless said that “stopping settlements” was part of Israel’s responsibility under the 2003 “road map” peace plan.
He also reiterated his commitment to a [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
In a small anonymous home in the West Bank, a Palestinian academic has set up a project which is almost unheard of in the Occupied Territories.
Hassan Musa is the curator of a museum exhibition dedicated to the Jewish Holocaust in Europe.
The cracked white walls of this makeshift museum in the village of Ni’lin are covered [...]