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Open Democracy
April 21, 2018
BDS activists in France and abroad see the campaign as a necessary tool to end a “regime of apartheid” enforced by Israel and resulting in the racial segregation of Palestinians. BDS activists often call on people not to buy Israeli products by organizing peaceful actions in front of retailers. They also call onÃâà...
Haaretz
April 21, 2018
The report details human rights violations in the West Bank and Gaza, conducted both by the Israeli military and by the Palestinian Authority and Hamas. ... the report stated that "terrorist organizations and militant factions in Gaza launched rocket and mortar attacks against civilian targets in Israel, and theyÃâà...
Al-Monitor
April 20, 2018
Millions of Palestinians caged in Gaza by his government's policies, without any hope of a better life, can attest to his “extraordinary dedication to building a better world,” as can Israeli human rights activists, Israel's Arab citizens — the ones “flocking in droves to the ballot boxes” as Netanyahu warned onÃâà...
Haaretz
March 31, 2018
An Israeli Arab human rights organization condemned Israel's action on the Gaza border as 'unlawful' on Saturday, alerting Attorney General Avichay Mendelblit that Israel was in breach of international law. In a statement released Saturday, The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, Adalah, saidÃâà...
Al-Monitor
March 23, 2018
Recently, the Civil Administration in the West Bank sent a warning to human rights groups in Israel, demanding that they follow its latest instructions to the letter when ... He came to Tel Aviv as part of a tour organized by various Israeli human rights organizations for Palestinians from the West Bank.
Forward
March 19, 2018
In 2013 she hosted an event for T'ruah, a leftist rabbinic human rights organization. ... West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday criticized U.S. ambassador to Israel David Friedman for his support of Israeli settlers in the West Bank, calling the envoy a “son of a dog.”.
ReliefWeb
March 19, 2018
Human Rights Council holds interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 ... others questioned the credibility of the Special Rapporteur, stating that he had links to terrorist organizations and was biased against Israel.
International Middle East Media Center
March 19, 2018
Palestinian and International Activists Plant Olive Saplings on Village Land Ordered for Confiscation by Israel in Burin ... of International Solidarity Movement activists Rachel Corrie, Tom Hurndall and Vittorio Arrigoni In order to protect human rights and justice against imperialism, Zionism and colonialism.”.
Mondoweiss
March 19, 2018
Israel's military appeals court ruled on Monday against an appeal by 17-year-old Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi and her defense team to hold the ... saying “the continuing presence of international and Israeli human rights activists at any court hearing for Palestinian political prisoners has been vital as aÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 15, 2018
"As a member of the Mennonite Church USA, and a person concerned with the human rights of all people - and specifically the ongoing violations of Palestinians' human rights in Israel and Palestine - I choose to boycott consumer goods made by Israeli and international companies that profit from theÃâà...
International Middle East Media Center
March 15, 2018
As part of restricting the Palestinian organizations' activities on 08 March 2018, the Israeli forces moved into “Rivoli” Hotel on Salah al-Deen Street in the centre of occupied East Jerusalem, and banned an activity for “Women for Life and Democracy” Society on the occasion of 8th of March “the InternationalÃâà...
Haaretz
March 15, 2018
The court order came in response to a petition submitted by human rights activists against the government's plan to deport some 40,000 African asylum ... “third countries” that they made any agreement with Israel to take in asylum seekers who'd left Israel involuntarily could be a problem for the deportees.
Haaretz
March 15, 2018
In a senseless act, Israel Defense Forces soldiers, using live ammunition, shot him in the chest from a range of 20 meters, killing him. .... a field researcher for the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem, who investigated the incident, only Mohammed and another three or four young people confrontedÃâà...
Mondoweiss
March 15, 2018
Students from across the Universities of California call on regents to divest from Israeli human rights abuses ... The UCs are invested in the following corporations profiting from rights abuses, as documented by reputable human rights organizations: Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Boeing,Ãâà...
+972 Magazine
March 15, 2018
The second is that of Ismail Abu Riale, an 18-year-old fisherman from Gaza who was shot to death by the Israeli navy and whose body was held by Israel for 12 days. According to Palestinian human rights organizations, Israel has killed 213 prisoners since 1967, including 72 prisoners who died of injuriesÃâà...
+972 Magazine
March 13, 2018
A petition on behalf of 119 human rights activists to Israel's High Court of Justice is the most serious challenge yet to the Israeli government's plan to deport ... The deportation plan is based on an agreement between Israel and Rwanda, which Israel insists must remain secret and which Rwanda has deniedÃâà...
Palestine News Network
March 12, 2018
Israel's Ofer military court on Monday has sentenced leading activist and head of the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee (PSCC), Munther Amira, after over three months of detention. Ghassan Amira, the activist's brother, said that the court sentenced Munther Amira to six months in prison, a five-yearÃâà...
Mondoweiss
March 12, 2018
European banks continue their business relations with Israeli banks, despite the latter's pivotal role in financing, providing services to, or otherwise supporting Israel's illegal settlements. A recent report by Human Rights Watch concludes that “businesses cannot fulfill their human rights responsibilities if theyÃâà...
International Middle East Media Center
March 12, 2018
It argues that Israel's insular political discourse, and the increasing alignment of Israeli center left parties with the right wing camp, requires a major shake-up ... Israeli officials have threatened and demonized human rights organizations and dissident voices, including Jewish citizens, as threats to the state.
ReliefWeb
March 11, 2018
The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 34/27, adopted on 24 March 2017, in which the Council called upon Israel, the occupying Power, to comply with the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly, the Security Council and the Human Rights Council. The CouncilÃâà...
Middle East Eye
March 10, 2018
When pro-Israel activist Chloe Valdary accused Tamimi of belonging to a "notorious terrorist-supporting family", Silverman replied: "Ok, friend. ... Palestinian human rights defenders and activists praised Silverman for her brave and defiant stand against those who seek only to whitewash Israel's crimesÃâà...
World Israel News
February 28, 2018
The numerous foreign funded “human rights” organizations who operate in Israel do not actually care about human rights. ... was responsible for the kidnapping, torture and murder of dozens of suspected Arab “collaborators” within Israel, several of them with Israeli citizenship, between 1995 and 2002.
The Muslim News
February 25, 2018
The watchtower is 300 meters west of the border fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel, east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. On the .... On 20 February 2018, settlers broke the windshield of a car belonging to human rights activist in The Israeli Rabbis for Human Rights organization, ZakariahÃâà...
Haaretz
February 22, 2018
Israel violated human rights in various ways last year, including the detention of Palestinians without trial, illegal interrogation methods, illegal construction in the ... Amnesty says the Israeli security forces employed unreasonable and sometimes lethal force using live ammunition and rubber bullets againstÃâà...
+972 Magazine
December 31, 1999
After three weeks in which Israeli army snipers have killed dozens and wounded well over 1,200 protesters inside the Gaza Strip, four prominent human rights organizations petitioned Israel's High Court of Justice on Sunday, demanding that the court order the state to revoke the rules of engagement thatÃâà...
WAFA
December 31, 1999
The activist filed a complaint with the Israeli police against the extremist settler. Settlers violence against Palestinians and their property is routine in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities. According to the Israeli rights group B'Tselem, “As the occupying force, Israel must protect theÃâà...
WAFA
December 31, 1999
Human rights organizations have long denounced mistreatment of Palestinian detainees, including children, by Israeli forces. According to a report by the Military Court Watch (MCW) based on testimonies from 127 children detained by Israel in 2016, 94 percent reported being hand tied, 81 percent ofÃâà...
