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Israeli ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children - a report

If you want to be notified the next time I write something, sign up for FREE email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!DCI-Palestine* released a report which documents the widespread ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children at the hands of the Israeli army and police force - Palestinian Child Prisoners: The [...]

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2009 06 27 Haitham Sabbah Human Rights
Israel
Palestine
War Crimes
West Bank
Zionism Comments (2)

Video: Two years under siege

Two years after the outbreak of the war in Nahr Al-Bared, the camp's fate remains unclear. the reconstruction of the official camp might start soon, but the army keeps its tight grip on the camp. Several checkpoints, barbed wire and military posts cut Nahr Al-Bared off from its surroundings.
Nahr Al-Bared camp used to be a [...]

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2009 06 24 Haitham Sabbah Economics
Human Rights
Lebanon
Palestine
Videos
War Comments (0)

Der Spiegel's tale of Hezbollah's direct involvement in the Hariri assassination irresponsible

By Franklin Lamb, Beirut
Time for transparency at Der Spiegel?
"We don't know where the Der Spiegel magazine did get their information from and we don't know where they brought this story from. No one in the prosecutor's office has spoken to the German magazine about anything. We have a clear policy of not leaking any information [...]

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2009 05 26 Guest Post Featured Articles
Lebanon
Media
Middle East
Terrorism Comments (0)

Aid Rots Outside Gaza

Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of aid intended for the Gaza Strip is piling up in cities across Egypt's North Sinai region, despite recent calls from the United Nations to ease aid flow restrictions to the embattled territory in the wake of Operation Cast Lead.
Food, medicine, blankets, infant food and other supplies for Gaza's 1.5 [...]

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2009 04 17 Haitham Sabbah Egypt
Gaza
Palestine Comments (0)

Israeli army refuses to escort Palestinian school children past settlers

[Note: According to the Geneva Conventions, the International Court of Justice in the Hague, and numerous United Nations resolutions, all Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories are illegal. Most settlement outposts are considered illegal under Israeli law.]
The Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) in Hebron issued a press release on Monday accusing Israeli soldiers of not [...]

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2009 03 25 Haitham Sabbah Failures
Human Rights
Israel
Palestine
War Crimes
West Bank
Zionism Comments (1)

Israel denies Gaza access to clean water

Israel has refused to allow a French-made water purification system into Gaza amid a drinking water crisis in the Palestinian strip.
The French Foreign Ministry said Friday that Tel Aviv had blocked the entry of a much-needed water purification station into Gaza and had forced its repatriation.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Eric Chevallier said the move [...]

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2009 02 01 Haitham Sabbah Asides
Gaza
Human Rights
Israel
Palestine
War Crimes Comments (4)

Financed by the British taxpayer, brutal torturers of the West Bank

The horrific torture of hundreds of people by Palestinian security forces in the West Bank is being funded by British taxpayers.
An investigation by The Mail on Sunday has found that the forces responsible get £20million a year from the UK.
The victims – some left maimed – are rounded up for alleged involvement with the militant [...]

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2009 02 01 Haitham Sabbah Asides
Failures
Palestine
UK
West Bank Comments (0)

Gaza sewage plant designed to save lives, paid for by "Quartet" hit by Israel

Hey, it's only lives of Palestinians…. and it's only taxpayer money, thank God Blair will still get his fabulous salary for the wonderful job he's doing…. and oh yea, Israel is sorry…. Ehud Olmert is CRYING for the pain he caused. So it Tsipi Livni. (CNN and BBC are also sorry for not [...]

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2009 01 28 Haitham Sabbah Asides
Gaza
Israel
Palestine Comments (0)

Stars' Photos Removed from Leviev Website as Celebs Seek Distance from Rights Abuser

After letters from Adalah-NY to Eight Stars, Leviev Removes Celebrity Photos
New York, NY, December 19, 2008 - Following complaints by at least four major Hollywood stars whose photos were posted on Israel diamond mogul Lev Leviev's website, Leviev staff removed the entire celebrity photo section from his website www.leviev.com this week. The photos' removal came [...]

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2008 12 19 Haitham Sabbah Breaking News
Good News
Grassroots Activism
Israel
Saudi Arabia
Zionism Comments (0)

The Israelis Attack us Every Day

[From: Narratives Under Siege]
"I've been a fisherman for fifteen years now, ever since I was fifteen years old. My father was a fisherman and so was my grandfather. I have spent half my life at sea. But every day we face problems from the Israeli gunboats: they follow us, and then they start shooting at [...]

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2008 12 04 Haitham Sabbah Gaza
Palestine
War Crimes Comments (0)

Muslim Kids Gassed at Dayton Mosque After Obsession DVD

by Chris Rodda
On Friday, September 26, the end of a week in which thousands of copies of Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West — the fear-mongering, anti-Muslim documentary being distributed by the millions in swing states via DVDs inserted in major newspapers and through the U.S. mail — were distributed by mail in Ohio, [...]

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2008 09 30 Haitham Sabbah Featured Articles
Islam
Racism
Religion
USA Comments (4)

EU dropped ICAHD funding

This urgent message was received today from the Israel Committee Against House Demolition, the ICAHD. The ICAHD has worked for over two decades on behalf of human rights in the case of the plight of the Palestinian people, in particular, the Palestinian families who have had their homes demolished in the name of Zionist colonialism [...]

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2008 09 14 Haitham Sabbah Asides
EU
Failures
Human Rights
Palestine Comments (0)

ACTION ALERT - Keep in Touch With Free Gaza Ships

A storm has delayed two boats, carrying 40 pro-Palestinian activists, from sailing to Gaza according to the Free Gaza Movement, which organized the vessels. The ships left Nicosia, Cyprus on August 7 and arrived in Chania, Crete, on Saturday, August 9,
The activists (now waiting for clear weather to set sail) and their families back home, [...]

2008 08 20 Haitham Sabbah Action
Gaza
Israel
Palestine Comments (1)

The Worlds Worst Prison State

Guess who?

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the United States of America is The Worlds Worst Prison State:
"In 2004, nearly 7 million people were on probation, in jail or prison, or on parole at yearend 2004 — 3.2% of all U.S. adult residents or 1 in every 31 adults." - U.S. Department of [...]

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2008 06 13 Haitham Sabbah Noteworthy
USA Comments (1)

Shameless in Ramallah

In order to obtain a certificate of good conduct from Israel and her guardian-ally, the United States, the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority (PA) is betraying the very people it claims to represent and its enduring national cause in ways unprecedented in living memory.
This scandalous betrayal assumes many forms, including brazen "security coordination" with the [...]

2008 06 03 Khalid Amayreh Israel
News You Can Do Without
Palestine Comments (5)