Showing posts with label Israel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Israel. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Chris Hedges speaks about the genocide in Gaza
Chris Hedges, author, spoke at a Revolution Books Town Hall Meeting at Ethical Culture Society January 13, 2009 condemning Israel and US complicity in Israel's murderous destruction of Gaza.
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Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Soldiers Kill Palestinian Demonstrator in Bil’in Basim
Bassem Ibrahim Abu Rahmeh (a.k.a. Phil), a 30 year-old Bil’in resident, was killed this Friday during a demonstration against the wall, after Israeli soldiers shot a high-velocity teargas projectile directly at him. As can be seen in the video above, Bassem was standing on a hill alongside several journalists, removed from the main body of the demonstration, when he was hit in his chest by the special, “extended range” teargas projectile, which was fired without provocation from a distance of about 40 meters by troops positioned behind concrete blocks and on the other side of the separation barrier. Seconds before the shooting, Bassem had been pleading with the soldiers to hold their fire, shouting “we are in a nonviolent protest, there are kids and internationals...”. He was shot before he could finish the sentence.
According to eyewitnesses, the impact from the projectile knocked him over and left a gaping hole in his chest. As there was no ambulance at the scene, he was driven to a Ramallah hospital in a private car, but died less than halfway there from the injury, blood flooding his lungs. News of his death reached the village just as the last of the demonstrators were leaving the site of the protest, next to the separation barrier.
The teargas projectile in question is the same kind that critically injured American national Tristan Anderson at a demonstration in Ni’lin on the 13th of March, after he was hit in the head from approx. 60 meters. Tristan remains hospitalized in Tel HaShomer hospital in Tel Aviv.
Bassem Abu Rahmeh, a well-known and frequent participant in the village’s four year long battle against the Wall, is the first Bil’in resident and the 18th Palestinian in total to be shot dead during a demonstration against the Apartheid Wall. His funeral took place on Saturday afternoon, after his body was carried on a cloth stretcher all the way from a Ramallah hospital to his village of Bil'in, accompanied by hundreds of mourners. The funeral itself was attended by over a thousand people, including Palestinians from neighboring villages as well as international and Israeli friends and activists.
On Saturday evening, over 400 protesters took to the streets in Tel Aviv, accusing Israeli soldiers of murdering demonstrators and calling for an end to the occupation and the Apartheid Wall. Protesters gathered at the central Ben-Tzion Boulevard and marched towards the Kirya, an area which serves as the headquarters of the IDF's General Staff and where various government structures are situated, including the main Israeli army base and the Ministry of Defense. Protesters held a short rally in memory of Bassem Abu Rahmeh and all the victims of Israeli military violence, dispersing without incident.
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According to eyewitnesses, the impact from the projectile knocked him over and left a gaping hole in his chest. As there was no ambulance at the scene, he was driven to a Ramallah hospital in a private car, but died less than halfway there from the injury, blood flooding his lungs. News of his death reached the village just as the last of the demonstrators were leaving the site of the protest, next to the separation barrier.
The teargas projectile in question is the same kind that critically injured American national Tristan Anderson at a demonstration in Ni’lin on the 13th of March, after he was hit in the head from approx. 60 meters. Tristan remains hospitalized in Tel HaShomer hospital in Tel Aviv.
Bassem Abu Rahmeh, a well-known and frequent participant in the village’s four year long battle against the Wall, is the first Bil’in resident and the 18th Palestinian in total to be shot dead during a demonstration against the Apartheid Wall. His funeral took place on Saturday afternoon, after his body was carried on a cloth stretcher all the way from a Ramallah hospital to his village of Bil'in, accompanied by hundreds of mourners. The funeral itself was attended by over a thousand people, including Palestinians from neighboring villages as well as international and Israeli friends and activists.
On Saturday evening, over 400 protesters took to the streets in Tel Aviv, accusing Israeli soldiers of murdering demonstrators and calling for an end to the occupation and the Apartheid Wall. Protesters gathered at the central Ben-Tzion Boulevard and marched towards the Kirya, an area which serves as the headquarters of the IDF's General Staff and where various government structures are situated, including the main Israeli army base and the Ministry of Defense. Protesters held a short rally in memory of Bassem Abu Rahmeh and all the victims of Israeli military violence, dispersing without incident.
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Israel shoots an Irish Nobel Peace Prize winner
Irish Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Maguire has been shot with a rubber[-coated metal] bullet by the Israeli military while taking part in a nonviolent civil rights protest organised by Palestinians and Israelis.
The incident took place on Friday 20 April, and Ms Maguire, famed for her work for reconcilition in Northern Ireland, has now returned home.
She won her Nobel Laureate for galvanizing popular demands for a just peace and opposition to both military and paramilitary acivities during 'the troubles'.
She said yesterday: “I was invited with my friend to attend a nonviolent conference in Bilin, a village outside Ramallah [in the West Bank], and to give a talk there, which I did. At the end of the conference, we were invited to participate in a nonviolent demonstration with some of the Palestinian members of parliament and Israeli peace activists and local villagers and international visitors.
“We walked along to try to walk up toward the separation wall, and it was a totally nonviolent protest. And we were viciously attacked by the Israeli military. They threw gas canisters into the peace walkers, and they also fired rubber-covered steel bullets."More
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The incident took place on Friday 20 April, and Ms Maguire, famed for her work for reconcilition in Northern Ireland, has now returned home.
She won her Nobel Laureate for galvanizing popular demands for a just peace and opposition to both military and paramilitary acivities during 'the troubles'.
She said yesterday: “I was invited with my friend to attend a nonviolent conference in Bilin, a village outside Ramallah [in the West Bank], and to give a talk there, which I did. At the end of the conference, we were invited to participate in a nonviolent demonstration with some of the Palestinian members of parliament and Israeli peace activists and local villagers and international visitors.
“We walked along to try to walk up toward the separation wall, and it was a totally nonviolent protest. And we were viciously attacked by the Israeli military. They threw gas canisters into the peace walkers, and they also fired rubber-covered steel bullets."More
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Monday, March 16, 2009
The massacre of Jenine refugees camp
The massacre of Jenine refugees camp - 12.04.2002
The Battle of Jenin took place in April 2002 in Jenin's Palestinian refugee camp as part of Operation Defensive Shield, a large-scale military operation conducted by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), the largest conducted in the West Bank since the 1967 Six-Day War. The battle attracted widespread international attention because journalists, particularly in the UK, reported that a massacre of Palestinians had taken place during the fighting, and that hundreds, or even thousands, of bodies had been secretly buried in mass graves by the IDF.
The United Nations (UN) report said that the number of Palestinians killed was at least 52, 22 of whom were civilians, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW). 23 Israeli soldiers were killed. A section of the camp was destroyed during the fighting.
An UNRWA administrated refugee camp near Jenin was entered by Israeli forces in early April 2002, an operation the IDF described as intending "to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure operating out of the P.A.-controlled areas". Over the next few days a battle took place between the IDF and Palestinians. According to the IDF, Israel chose not to bomb the spots of resistance using aircraft as it entered, but rather to take hold of the city using infantry, although there appears to have been a limited use of helicopters.
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The Battle of Jenin took place in April 2002 in Jenin's Palestinian refugee camp as part of Operation Defensive Shield, a large-scale military operation conducted by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), the largest conducted in the West Bank since the 1967 Six-Day War. The battle attracted widespread international attention because journalists, particularly in the UK, reported that a massacre of Palestinians had taken place during the fighting, and that hundreds, or even thousands, of bodies had been secretly buried in mass graves by the IDF.
The United Nations (UN) report said that the number of Palestinians killed was at least 52, 22 of whom were civilians, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW). 23 Israeli soldiers were killed. A section of the camp was destroyed during the fighting.
An UNRWA administrated refugee camp near Jenin was entered by Israeli forces in early April 2002, an operation the IDF described as intending "to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure operating out of the P.A.-controlled areas". Over the next few days a battle took place between the IDF and Palestinians. According to the IDF, Israel chose not to bomb the spots of resistance using aircraft as it entered, but rather to take hold of the city using infantry, although there appears to have been a limited use of helicopters.
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Israel imprisoned Students for refusing to serve in an army that occupies the Palestinian Territories
The Shministim are Israeli high school students who have been imprisoned for refusing to serve in an army that occupies the Palestinian Territories. December 18 marks the launch date of a global campaign to release them from jail. Join over 20,000 people including American conscientious objectors,Ronnie Gilbert, Adrienne Rich, Robert Meeropol, Adam Hochschild, Rabbi Lynn Gottleib, Howard Zinn, Rela Mazali, Debra Chasnoff, Ed Asner and Aurora Levins-Morales and show your support by contacting the Israeli Minister of Defense using the form below.
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Monday, February 23, 2009
Gaza Massacre
The Death of the people of Gaza will haunt the Zionist till their end Days InshAllah. ALLAH AKBAR.
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People and The Land- Video about the occupation of palestine
People and The Land airdrops viewers into the universe of an occupied people, unreeling images of a new form of apartheid based on ethnicity. Challenging U.S. foreign policy and the conventions of the documentary form itself, People and The Land examines the concrete realities of Israel's conduct in the West Bank and Gaza, the level of U.S. support for that conduct through foreign aid, and the human cost of that aid in Palestine and the U.S
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Israel admits using cluster bombs
The recent testimonies of IDF officials come as the Israeli Chief of Staff, General Halutz, recently initiated probes into the use of such weapons. After a year-long enquiry, the appointed Military Advocate General, Avihai Mandelbit, has now cleared the airforce of the charge but stated that the artillery and rocket batteries did deploy cluster bombs into populated areas. However, the probe concluded that such use in civilian areas was “as an immediate defense response to rocket attacks by Hizbullah,” and a “military necessity” and so did not constitute a criminal violation of international law. The IDF Spokesman’s Office stated that “International law does not include a sweeping prohibition of the use of cluster bombs. The convention on conventional weaponry does not declare a prohibition on [phosphorous weapons], rather, on principles regulating the use of such weapons.”
While International Law does not forbid the use of cluster bombs and phosphorous shells per se, many legal experts maintain that their usage is covered within prohibitions against targeting of civilian populations and causing “excessive injury and unnecessary suffering.” According to Amnesty International, cluster munitions may be classed as such because they “present a high risk of violating the prohibition of indiscriminate attack, because of the wide area covered by the numerous bomblets released and the danger posed to all those, including civilians, who come into contact with the unexploded bomblets.”
Both UN findings and IDF admissions reveal that, as the final wrinkles of ceasefire were being ironed out on the ground, built-up areas across southern Lebanon were decimated by cluster munitions. UN Relief Coordinator, Jan Egland, stated at war’s end that “it is an outrage that we have 100 000 bombs among where children, women, shopkeepers and farmers are now going to tread.”
General Mandelbit’s conclusions also admitted the IDF fired phosphorus shells but deemed this legal under international law. In 2006, Israeli Cabinet Minister, Jacob Edery, admitted that “the IDF made use of phosphorous shells during the war against Hezbollah in attacks against military targets in open ground.” While the location and type of targets were not specified, various hospital reports during the 2006 war indicated severe chemical burns from phosphorous shells suffered by civilians.
White phosphorous shells, often used to raze buildings, cause horrific burning when they come into contact with skin. Unless deprived of oxygen, the body will be in flames until the flesh is cremated to the bone. Prior to the 2006 war, it was most recently used in November 2004 by the US army in Fallujah, Iraq.
The International Red Cross considers both cluster munitions and phosphorus shells to be violations of International Humanitarian Law and the Geneva Conventions and has called for their complete ban. General Mandelbit’s verdict however, will neither force lay-off nor any disciplinary charge on IDF personnel that ordered the use of either cluster bombs or phosphorus shells in residential areas.
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While International Law does not forbid the use of cluster bombs and phosphorous shells per se, many legal experts maintain that their usage is covered within prohibitions against targeting of civilian populations and causing “excessive injury and unnecessary suffering.” According to Amnesty International, cluster munitions may be classed as such because they “present a high risk of violating the prohibition of indiscriminate attack, because of the wide area covered by the numerous bomblets released and the danger posed to all those, including civilians, who come into contact with the unexploded bomblets.”
Both UN findings and IDF admissions reveal that, as the final wrinkles of ceasefire were being ironed out on the ground, built-up areas across southern Lebanon were decimated by cluster munitions. UN Relief Coordinator, Jan Egland, stated at war’s end that “it is an outrage that we have 100 000 bombs among where children, women, shopkeepers and farmers are now going to tread.”
General Mandelbit’s conclusions also admitted the IDF fired phosphorus shells but deemed this legal under international law. In 2006, Israeli Cabinet Minister, Jacob Edery, admitted that “the IDF made use of phosphorous shells during the war against Hezbollah in attacks against military targets in open ground.” While the location and type of targets were not specified, various hospital reports during the 2006 war indicated severe chemical burns from phosphorous shells suffered by civilians.
White phosphorous shells, often used to raze buildings, cause horrific burning when they come into contact with skin. Unless deprived of oxygen, the body will be in flames until the flesh is cremated to the bone. Prior to the 2006 war, it was most recently used in November 2004 by the US army in Fallujah, Iraq.
The International Red Cross considers both cluster munitions and phosphorus shells to be violations of International Humanitarian Law and the Geneva Conventions and has called for their complete ban. General Mandelbit’s verdict however, will neither force lay-off nor any disciplinary charge on IDF personnel that ordered the use of either cluster bombs or phosphorus shells in residential areas.
Full Article here
Israeli Spokesman Gets Told By News Reporter
Alex Thompson from Channel 4 news (London), scolds Israel for the humanitarian crisis.
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