Palestinian Centre for Human Rights

Israeli navy attacks international observers, injures Palestinian, on monitoring boat in Gaza waters

by SR Editor December 28, 2011

Israeli naval warship attacked the international observers and Palestinian captain of the Civil Peace Service Gaza (CPSGAZA) boat Oliva, injuring its captain in an apparent attempt to capsize it.

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Rep. Erik Paulsen Meets Israeli War Criminal [Satire]

by Mantiq al-Tayr August 30, 2011

Minnesota House member Erik Paulsen (Likud) continues his hasbara work on behalf of the State of Israel doing so via the funding of the AIEF which is a US tax-deductible arm of AIPAC.

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Violating Palestinian Rights

by Stephen Lendman June 26, 2011

Over the most recent seven day period, 33 residential buildings were demolished in Jordan Valley Fasayil, al-Hadidiyeh, and Yarza communities, as well as southern Hebron Hills Khirbet Bir al-’Id. As a result, 238 Palestinians, including 129 minors, lost homes.

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Revisiting Israel’s Terror War on Gaza

by Stephen Lendman April 4, 2011

Brazen crimes of war and against humanity were committed. No culpable officials were held responsible. Security Council no-fly zone protection wasn’t ordered. International community leaders approved or were silent. Washington was complicit by supplying Israel with weapons, munitions, and encouragement. Obama acts the same as Bush, waging a quartet of lawless wars and using proxies in others.

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Maybe Gaza should paddle its own canoe

by Stuart Littlewood February 15, 2011

As the prospects of a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict vanishes thanks to Israel’s land grabs and willful failure to honour agreements it has signed up to, Stuart Littlewood considers the possibility of what is to many Palestinians currently unthinkable: a Palestinian statelet in Gaza and a West Bank that is part of a single Palestinian-Israeli state.

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Abusing Palestinian Children

by Stephen Lendman February 1, 2011

Israel is an equal opportunity abuser, treating women, old men, invalids, and children like young adults because they’re Palestinians, not Jews, so they’re fair game, vilified as national security threats or terrorists for wanting freedom, equality, justice and peace.

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“War criminals” leak strikes at heart of Israeli society

by SR Editor November 26, 2010

Instead of asking why some groups or individuals in Israeli society are willing to take great risks to hold that society accountable for its actions, Israel prefers to blame the problem on treacherous, self-hating, anti-Semitic Jews, and to instill fear and hatred as the means for preventing Israelis from examining their consciences.

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Exposing Israel’s Fraudulent Third Periodic Report to the UN

by Stephen Lendman November 26, 2010

Submitting to the UN, Aharon Leshno Yaar, Israel’s Permanent Representative to Geneva said “Israel was proud of its long-lasting recognition of the inherent dignity and the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family,” omitting to explain he means only Jews, no others, especially Muslims. State belligerence for over six decades proves it. PCHR reviewed recent facts, documenting them in its report. Previous articles discussed them it detail, but they bear repeating. By so doing, peace and self-determination for a beleaguered people may come sooner.

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Stonewalling Goldstone

by Stephen Lendman November 19, 2010

Goldstone’s report isn’t dead, but it’s on life support. Nonetheless, HRC’s Committee of Experts remains active, headed by John Dugard, former UN Special Human Rights Rapporteur for Occupied Palestine. However, whether or not it will matter is worrisome, given forces for delay, obstruct and whitewash in control. Wresting it from them may prove insurmountable, but serious efforts must be made to try. Otherwise, predictable consequences will follow, assuring violence, unaccountability and injustice.

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Palestinian Authority Traitors Serving Israel

by Stephen Lendman October 20, 2010

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ duplicitous treachery exposes him as an enemy, not ally, of his people. An earlier article on him quoted Jeffrey Blankfort calling him a “double agent (serving) his Israeli and US masters in plain sight.” In June 2003, Edward Said called him “Israel’s sheriff,” saying he’s “colorless, moderately corrupt, and without any clear ideas of his own, except that he wants to please the white man,” his Washington and bosses.

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Palestinian Authority Recommends Whitewashing Gaza War Crimes

by Stephen Lendman October 1, 2010

By Stephen Lendman* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Who do they serve anyway? It’s clear from the sham peace talks and a new development. The Mahmoud Abbas-controlled Palestinian Authority (PA) wants Israel absolved of accountability for Cast Lead crimes of war and against humanity. No matter that conclusive evidence exposed them, the result of the [...]

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Committee of Independent Experts on Gaza War

by Stephen Lendman September 25, 2010

By Stephen Lendman* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz On September 21, the UN Human Rights Council’s independent fact finding Committee issued its report titled, “No Safe Place,” (Read report here) assessing “investigat(ions) and report(s) on violations of human rights law and international humanitarian law during” Operation Cast Lead. Its members included: Professor John Dugard, Chairman, [...]

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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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PCHR: Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations

by Haitham Sabbah August 25, 2007

Israeli Violations Documented during the Reporting Period (16 – 22 August 2007) Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Continue Systematic Attacks on Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) 16 Palestinians, including 3 children, were killed by IOF in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. 10 of the victims were extra-judicially executed by [...]

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Last week report on Israeli human rights violations in the Occupied Palestine

by Haitham Sabbah June 22, 2007

(Image by Abu Mahjoob) While brothers were killing each other, and President Abbas is packing his bags to go for a tan at Sharm El Sheikh resort along with his new old “buddy” Olmert, the Israeli occupation continued it’s terrorist crimes against Palestinian lives and land. Here is a summery of last week report of [...]

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