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UN slams Israel for abusing Palestinians’ human rights
The UN Human Rights Committee has slammed Israel for violating the rights of Palestinians and the maltreatment of Palestinian prisoners.
The committee published conclusions on Thursday from its review earlier this month of the Israeli regime’s human rights record.
The report expressed grief over Israel’s continued destruction of Palestinian houses in the occupied West Bank, censuring the ongoing “confiscation and expropriation of Palestinian land and restrictions on access of Palestinians” in the occupied territories including East al-Quds (Jerusalem).
The committee also condemned reports on the use of torture by Israeli prison authorities and maltreatment of Palestinians, including children, in Israeli detention facilities.
Elsewhere it expressed concern over human rights abuses committed during three Israeli wars on the besieged Gaza Strip since late 2008, including the latest military aggression of summer 2014 that left nearly 2,200 Palestinians dead.
The Geneva-based committee emphasized in its conclusions that Israel should make sure that all human rights violations carried out during “its military operations in the Gaza Strip in 2008-2009, 2012 and 2014 are thoroughly, effectively, independently and impartially investigated.”
The perpetrators must be prosecuted and the victims and their families must receive effective remedies, the report stated.
The UN committee slammed Israel’s ongoing blockade of Gaza, saying the siege continues to “negatively impact Palestinians’ access to all basic and life-saving services such as food, health, electricity, water and sanitation.”
The Gaza Strip has been under the Israeli blockade since June 2007, a situation that has caused a decline in the standards of living and poverty in the Palestinian territory.
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Source : Press TV
Palestinian Children in the Israeli Military Detention System
Palestinian children testify about cruel treatment by Israeli soldiers
Submitted by Adri Nieuwhof 2012 .
Newly released today, Defence for Children International-Palestine Section (DCI) has produced this short film about Israel’s ill-treatment of Palestinian children during their arrest, transfer and detention.
Alone: Palestinian Children in the Israeli Military Detention System contains images of children who found the courage to talk about the appalling treatment.
Since 2000, around 7,500 Palestinian children from the occupied Palestinian territories have been detained, interrogated and imprisoned within the Israeli military law system. The film also presents basic information and the impact of their arrest and detention on families.
In 75 procent of the cases documented by DCI, child detainees suffered some form of physical violence during arrest, transfer and interrogation.
The suffering starts the moment a child is arrested and continues throughout interrogation and court sessions, explains DCI lawyer Iyad Misk. Children are often physically, verbally abused, insulted by soldiers during transport in the jeep. The abuse continues during the interrogation.
Children are also often enticed with offers of immediate release in exchange for confessions. However, what normally happens is just the opposite. Once a child confesses, he is sent to prison and his file is sent to the court. Interrogations are set up to terrorize, says Misk.
Nader Abu Amsha of the East Jerusalem YMCA Rehabilitation Programme says that the purpose of the raids, arrests and interrogations is more than getting information. It is to break the will and spirit of a generation. The purpose is to break the children and make them live in fear and confusion so they become an inactive, unproductive generation.
Monday, December 22, 2014
Israeli Soldiers Arrest a Mother in Front of Her Children
A mother been abused and arrested by a group of IsraHelli soldiers in front of her children (02.11.2012). This happens everyday......
Palestinian girl chasing after the occupation soldiers who arrested her mother and baby brother, Tamimi. They are the sons as Tamimi and prisoner freed prisoner. Nariman Tamimi today is in the village of Nabi Saleh.
Palestinian girl chasing after the occupation soldiers who arrested her mother and baby brother, Tamimi. They are the sons as Tamimi and prisoner freed prisoner. Nariman Tamimi today is in the village of Nabi Saleh.
PA Rejects Kerry's Proposal to Delay Palestinian State Resolution Bid
PNN/ Bethlehem
Published on Monday, 22 December 2014
Palestine foreign minister, Dr. Riad Malki, said that the Palestinian leadership rejected US State of Secretary, John Kerry's proposal of pushing the Palestinian Statehood resolution bid until after the Israeli elections in March.
Malki said that Kerry tried to convince Palestinian leaders during talks last week, to delay presenting state resolution proposal before the International security council, saying that it would harm the Israeli elections.
Senior PA officials over the weekend said that they were under heavy pressure not to request a vote on the Palestinian resolution presented last week to the United Nations Security Council.
On the other hand, previous Justice minister and Israeli chief negotiator, Tzipi Livni asked Kerry, to delay the Palestinian UN bid for statehood, as it supports the right.
Occupation foreign policy reported that Livni had made the recommendation along with former president Shimon Peres, AFP says.
However, Right-wing politicians, Netanyahu and Bennett on Saturday fiercely blasted Livni for asking Kerry to delay the Palestinian UN bid for statehood.
PM Benjamin's Netanyahu's office accused Livni, and Hertzong of being two-faced and cared for their own interest.
On the other hand, Palestinian leadership on Monday announced making changes to the Palestinian statehood bid, including East Jerusalem being its fundamental capital, and setting state on the 1967 occupied borders.
Changes included halting any Israeli provocative actions including successive attacks on AlAqsa mosque compund and descerating Christian and Muslim holy sanctities.
Adjusments also included lands under threaten of Israeli occupation seizure or attacks.
Japan Provides Emergency Funding for Rubble Removal in Gaza Through UNDP
PNN/ Jerusalem
UNDP's Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People (PAPP) has been entrusted with a USD500,000 contribution from The Government of Japan to remove rubble and debris in the Gaza Strip.
With the Government of Japan's contribution, around 30,000 tonnes of rubble will be removed over the period of 10 months, generating approximately 5,400 workdays.
UNDP will move rapidly in clearing the rubble in order to provide more than 187,000 people residing in the Middle Area of the Gaza Strip with access to basic services, reduce the risk of collapsing buildings and the threat of UXOs and other remnants of war. The rubble, once crushed, will be recycled and used for road rehabilitation.
UNDP estimates that around two million tonnes of rubble have been generated during the 51 day Israeli military operation on Gaza, which is three times more than the amount of rubble generated during 2008-09 Gaza conflict.
It is worth noting that the Government of Japan's contribution will bring the total amount of funding for UNDP's Emergency Rubble Removal Programme to USD 13.7 million out of approximately USD 20 million.
UNDP's Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People is responding to the Gaza crisis by enhancing livelihoods through emergency employment, rubble removal, repairing essential infrastructure, restoring solid waste services and providing institutional support towards a unified civil service and institutional harmonization.
UN Votes for Palestinian Permanent Sovereignty Over National Resources
PNN/New York
Published on Saturday, 20 December 2014
The UN General Assembly on Friday adopted a resolution that provide permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian territories as well as the sovereignty of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources.
The resolution was adopted by voting 165 states in favor, 6 states against (Israel, US, Canada, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau), while 9 states abstained.
The resolution asserted the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people and the people of of the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources, including land, water and energy resources, and demanded that 'Israel' cease the exploitation, damage, cause of loss or depletion and endangerment of the natural resources in the occupied Palestinian territory.
It also called upon Israel, the occupying Power, to bring a halt to all actions, including those perpetrated by Israeli settlers, harming the environment, including the dumping of all kinds of waste materials, in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan, which gravely threaten their natural resources, namely water and land resources, and which pose an environmental, sanitation and health threat to the civilian populations.
Also, the General Assembly nearly approved a resolution urging Israel to pay Lebanon compensation to cover the clean-up cost of an oil spill caused in 2006 by the Israeli air attacks on oil storage tanks during the war with Hezbollah.
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