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McCollum Introduces Legislation to Promote Human Rights for Palestinian Children | | Betty McCollum -
Press Release
"An estimated 10,000 Palestinian children have been detained by
Israeli security forces and prosecuted in the Israeli military court
system since 2000. Independent monitors such as Human Rights Watch
have documented that these children are subject to abuse and, in
some cases, torture — specifically citing the use of chokeholds,
beatings, and coercive interrogation on children between the ages of
11 and 15. In addition, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
has found that Palestinian children are frequently held for extended
periods without access to either their parents or attorneys...The
legislation has been endorsed by the American Friends Service
Committee, Amnesty International USA, Center for Constitutional
Rights, Churches for Middle East Peace, Defense for Children
International - Palestine, Friends Committee on National
Legislation, Global Ministries of the Christian Church (Disciples of
Christ) and United Church of Christ, Jewish Voice for Peace,
Mennonite Central Committee, Presbyterian Church (USA), the U.S.
Campaign for Palestinian Rights, United Methodists for Kairos
Response (UMKR), and United Methodist General Board of Church and
Society." ca | 18/11/2017 |
... |
Arab-Israelis fear new bill to increase security guards` powers | | Shlomi Eldar - Al-Monitor - Next week, the Knesset`s Interior
Committee will debate a proposed piece of legislation by Minister for
Public Security Gilad Erdan, which would expand the authority of
civilian security guards. According to the proposal, security guards
will be given powers similar to the police in that they will have the
right to detain suspects, demand that they identify themselves and
even use force to prevent them from entering crowded spaces such as
shopping malls and public transportation. Erdan claims that the
purpose of the law is to increase civilians` sense of safety in
recreation centers and offices that provide services to citizens.-rh
| 15/11/2017 |
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Cambridge slammed for `censoring` Palestine BDS event 11 NOVEMBER 2017 | | Shafik Mandhai - Aljazeera - Ruba Salih from the School of African and
Oriental Studies (SOAS) was set to oversee Wednesday`s event featuring
Palestinian BDS activist, Omar Barghouti, but organisers say they were
forced to cancel her participation hours before it was due to start
after the university intervened citing concerns over her neutrality.
Palestinian activists say the incident highlights the increasingly
restrictive atmosphere for critics of Israel on campuses across the
UK.-rh
| 15/11/2017 |
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Military Court Watch: Newsletter - October 2017 | | Military Court Watch - Detention figures: The Israeli Prison Service
(IPS) continues to experience difficulties in providing accurate and
timely information regarding the number of Palestinian children in its
detention facilities in accordance with an outstanding Freedom of
Information application (FOI application). According to the IPS, as of
30 June 2017, 318 Palestinian children were held as "security
prisoners" in Israeli detention facilities. This represents a 4
percent decrease compared with the previous month and an annual
decrease of 17 percent compared with 2016. Out of 318 children, 10
were girls, representing 3 percent. There is currently no available
data relating to age breakdown, administrative detention or the
percentage of children transferred to prisons inside Israel in
violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention.-rh | 15/11/2017 |
... |
Gaza Kids Live in Hell: A Psychologist Tells of Rampant Sexual Abuse, Drugs and Despair | | Ayelett Shani - Middle East Transparent - Mohammed Mansour, who treats
Gaza victims of sexual assault, describes the dystopian nightmare that
Palestinians are living.-rh | 15/11/2017 |
... |
Palestinian human rights bill on child imprisonment introduced in United States Congress | | Samidoun - Washington, D.C., November 14, 2017—Members of Congress on
Tuesday introduced a bill prohibiting U.S. financial support of abuses
against Palestinian children in the Israeli military detention system,
putting violations under the magnifying glass of U.S. taxpayers.-rh | 15/11/2017 |
... |
Raed Jarrar`s detention by Israel raises alarm | | Dalia Hatuqa - Aljazeera - Middle East and North Africa division of
Amnesty International USA, was stopped at the Allenby crossing between
Jordan and the West Bank while on a personal visit to his family
following his father`s death. Jarrar, who is an American citizen of
Palestinian origin, was detained and questioned for hours before being
denied entry into the West Bank.-rh
| 8/11/2017 |
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The most disputed land on earth: How Greek Orthodox church sold off Palestinian plots | | Jihad Abu Raya - Middle East Eye - Triggered by the summer
revelations, Palestinian Orthodox protesters have demanded not only to
manage the church’s properties and for existing suspicious deals to be
annulled, but also for the appointment of a Palestinian patriarch and
church representative. It would signal end to what many see as the
Greek colonisation of the Palestinian Orthodox church.-rh | 1/11/2017 |
... |
One state for all citizens | | Daoud Kuttab - Arabic Media Internet Network - bbas then said that in
regard to his people, there are two choices: “It will either be the
independence of the state of Palestine, living side by side in peace
and security with the state of Israel on the 1967 borders, or equal
rights for all of the inhabitants of the land of historic Palestine
from the river to the sea.”
The idea that Abbas would legitimise the one-state option took some by
surprise. Was it simply a tactic to get Israelis and Americans to
double up support for the two-state solution or is the Palestinian
president truly willing to entertain the concept of a single bi-
national state?-rh | 1/11/2017 |
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Recognise Palestine to mark Balfour centenary, says Emily Thornberry | | Peter Beaumont - The Guardian - The shadow foreign secretary, Emily
Thornberry, is calling on the UK to mark the centenary of the Balfour
declaration – which called for the creation of a Jewish national
homeland – with a formal British recognition of the state of Palestine.-
rh | 1/11/2017 |
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Balfour Declaration: How Britain broke its Feeble Promise to the Palestinians | | Jonathan Cook - Dissident Voice - Palestinian objections to the 1917
document are well-known. Britain’s Lord Balfour had no right to promise
a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine, on the land of
another people. But Israelis have been taught a different history in
which they, not the Palestinians, were betrayed.-rh | 1/11/2017 |
... |
100 years on: The Balfour Declaration explained | | Zena Tahhan - Aljazeera - It is regarded as one of the most
controversial and contested documents in the modern history of the Arab
world and has puzzled historians for decades.-rh | 1/11/2017 |
... |
Is Israel really implementing economic aid to Palestinians? | | Shlomi Eldar - Al-Monitor - Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon traveled to
the seat of the Palestinian government in the West Bank city of
Ramallah on Oct. 29 to meet with Palestinian Prime Minister Rami
Hamdallah. According to reports of the meeting, the two discussed
advancing civic administration and economic measures and Israeli-
Palestinian cooperation. This is the second time within five months
that Kahlon has gone to Palestinian Authority (PA) territory to meet
with Hamdallah, and this time, too, the meeting was the result of US
pressure on Israel to offer the Palestinians goodwill economic
gestures.-rh
| 1/11/2017 |
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Breaking the Silence releases video corroborating claims that their spokesman beat Palestinian | | Breaking the Silence released video footage Monday showing the aftermath of an arrest in which the organization’s spokesman claims to have beaten a Palestinian.
It was the most recent attempt by the group to disprove assertions by the authorities that the assault never happened in a tangled story that has confounded the country in which a human rights activist claims personal wrongdoing and right-wing government officials and the police say it did not happen and have used the episode to question the honesty of the organization as a whole. [ak]
| 21/11/2017 |
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