Human Rights

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Doron Zahavi (aka Captain George), a suspected Israeli torturer gets key police job in Jerusalem

by Jonathan Cook August 8, 2010

Doron Zahavi accused of running Israel’s Abu Ghraib By Jonathan Cook * | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz A police officer known as “Major George” who is accused of torturing Arab prisoners in his previous role as chief interrogator in a secret military jail has been appointed to oversee relations with Jerusalem’s Palestinian population, it has [...]

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America’s “Dog in the Fight” – by Franklin Lamb

by Franklin Lamb August 2, 2010

Will Hezbollah leash ‘NABI’ ? By Franklin Lamb* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz For months as Lebanon’s historic debate over basic civil rights for Palestinian refugees has unfolded, the Obama administration has watched idly along the sidelines. As hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees cough and slow-bake while inhaling rancid camp air in Lebanon’s sweltering [...]

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Lebanon wins economically if Palestinians are granted the right to work – by Franklin Lamb

by Franklin Lamb July 2, 2010

By Franklin Lamb* (Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp, Beirut) | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz “These are humanitarian, social and ethical duties, and the Lebanese state must assume the responsibility of providing them to our Palestinian brothers and sisters. Lebanon will not dodge these duties, which must be crystal-clear, and not be subject to any misinterpretation. The [...]

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Palestinian Centre for Human Rights 2009 Annual Report – by Stephen Lendman

by Stephen Lendman June 28, 2010

By Stephen Lendman* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Each year, PCHR publishes its annual report on Occupied Palestine, this year’s a detailed 250 page (PDF file) review of the past year, including the first days of Israel’s war on Gaza, Operation Cast Lead, “the major issue in the record of human rights and international humanitarian [...]

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Red Cross – Gaza closure: not another year!

by Haitham Sabbah June 15, 2010

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) – The hardship faced by Gaza’s 1.5 million people cannot be addressed by providing humanitarian aid. The only sustainable solution is to lift the closure. The serious incidents that took place on 31 May between Israeli forces and activists on a flotilla heading for Gaza once again put [...]

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B’tselem: Gaza, 95% of factories are closed, 93% of water is polluted

by Haitham Sabbah June 14, 2010

Most of Gaza’s factories have closed and its water is polluted as a result of Israel’s siege policy, according to a new report being released today by the Israeli Human Rights group – B’tselem. The siege policy has “led to economic collapse in Gaza,” B’tselem noted in a 44-page report (PDF) that looked at Gaza, [...]

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Will Hezbollah support the right to work for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon?

by Franklin Lamb May 14, 2010

Local political pressures are mounting on the Party of God Part IV of a series concerning the international campaign to legislate civil rights for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon By Franklin Lamb* (Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp, Beirut) | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz The current relationship between the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and Hezbollah is not as [...]

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Ireland must oppose Israel’s membership of the OECD

by SR Editor May 4, 2010

By Dr David Morrison* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz In a written answer to Sinn Fein Deputy, Aengus Ó Snodaigh, Foreign Minister, Micheál Martin, told the Dáil on 21 April 2010 that “it is expected that Ireland will join with the other 29 members of the OECD to formally invite Israel to become a member” [...]

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Lebanon’s Merry Month of May

by Franklin Lamb May 4, 2010

In Lebanon this month, like spring flowers, proposals to give Palestinians the right to work are bursting out all over Part III of a six part series on securing Palestinian Civil Rights in Lebanon By Franklin Lamb* (Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp, Beirut) | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz This year, the Merry Month of May in [...]

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Rabbinical cowardice

by Debbie Menon April 26, 2010

Supporting Goldstone without repudiating Israel, Zionism and Jewish collusion is cowardly By Debbie Menon* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz This is a beautifully written and sympathetic letter addressed to Justice Richard Goldstone, from 25 souls out of a few million, and I am sure Dr Goldstone appreciates their sympathy. Dear Judge Goldstone, As rabbis from [...]

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The West Hypocrisy

by SR Editor April 24, 2010

By Dr. Sami Alrabaa* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz The Holocaust Hypocrisy Undoubtedly, the “Holocaust” which was inflicted on the Jews before the II World War was a crime against humanity; it was an egregious genocide, like several other genocides inflicted on the Native Americans, African Americans, and the Armenians, for instance. But as far [...]

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Nahr Al-Bared Refugees Camp: Checkpoints and more [Video]

by Haitham Sabbah April 21, 2010

Nahr al-bared refugee camp has still not recovered from the devastating war in 2007 during which it was destroyed. The Lebanese army has been keeping a tight grip on the camp and the 20.000 displaced Palestinians that have returned so far. The army’s siege seriously hampers the camp’s economic recovery, as access is restricted and [...]

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The Case for Palestinian Rights in Lebanon

by Franklin Lamb April 21, 2010

What are the Odds? By Franklin Lamb* (Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp, Beirut) | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz As of mid-April 2010 there are no fewer than six draft laws, half of them ‘embargoed for now’ being circulated and debated in Lebanon, any one of which if adopted by Parliament, would grant Lebanon’s Palestinians, for the [...]

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Pitch black under siege

by SR Editor April 19, 2010

By Saleh Al-Naami | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Dr Moawya Hassanein, head of Emergency Medicine at the Palestinian Ministry of Health, warns that the lives of thousands of patients with kidney failure who require dialysis three times a week are at risk because of power failures. “There is little we can do at hospitals for [...]

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Deporting Gandhi from Palestine

by SR Editor April 19, 2010

By Jamal Dajani* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz The Israeli government’s recent announcement of Army order No. 1,650 was just the latest act of provocation in a series of calculated measures to derail any possible resumption of peace negotiations. Under this new draconian measure, anyone who doesn’t have a “permit” to be in the West [...]

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