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Palmer Report Did Not Find Gaza Blockade Legal, Despite Media Headlines
The media has gone crazy these past couple of days announcing that the UN-appointed panel of inquiry into the flotilla raid last summer, known as the Palmer Commission, found that the Israeli imposed...
View ArticleEntire Blockade of Gaza Must Be Lifted
On September 6th, I posted a blog concerning what I considered bad reporting by many in the mainstream media, ‘Palmer Report Did Not Find Gaza Blockade Legal Despite Media Headlines’. Amnesty...
View ArticlePalestinian Statehood Bid at UN and Its Implications
As you may have heard, Palestinian authorities have embarked on a major diplomatic effort to secure wider recognition of a Palestinian state and an upgraded status at the United Nations. Palestinian...
View ArticleDoubts Cast in Gilad Shalit/Palestinian Prisoner Swap
Today, we woke up to find the exchange of Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, and 477 Palestinian prisoners. As news services around the world covering the exchange highlight Gilad Shalit’s ordeal of being...
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Israel's Actions in East Jerusalem May Constitute a War Crime
On Tuesday, Israel did not even try to hide the fact that their plans to accelerate the construction of 2,000 housing units in East Jerusalem – an area considered as ‘occupied’ by the international...
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Record Number of Palestinians Displaced by Unlawful Demolitions
There has been a sharp rise in demolitions of Palestinian homes in 2011 © Amnesty International Amnesty International, one member of a 20 member strong coalition of major international humanitarian and...
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Israel: Say No to Detention Without Charge or Trial
As Palestinian hunger striker Khader Adnan verged dangerously on the border between life and death, much of the world turned its collective gaze toward Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory....
View ArticleHamas Must End the Death Penalty
Trapped between a crushing Israeli blockade and human rights violations at home, the 1.6 million Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip face many challenges in their daily lives. In our 2012 Annual...
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Rachel Corrie, Michael J. Fox and the Right to Housing
The remains of a home in Gaza after it was demolished by Israeli authorities in 2002 A few weeks before she died, Rachel Corrie wrote to her mother from Rafah, Gaza. ‘I still really want to dance...
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Gaza Blockade: Still Operational, Still Violating Human Rights
One of our postcard actions in front of the White house This morning, Amnesty International USA delivered thousands of signed postcards to the White House. The postcards call on President Obama to...
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