Human Rights
EI's Human Rights section offers reports and news about human rights violations on the ground, bringing you feature articles, statements from international bodies, and reports from local and international human rights organisations, including the Weekly report on human rights violations from the Palestinian Center for Human Rights in Gaza. Quality submissions are welcomed.
Rachel Corrie's family takes Israel to court
Jonathan Cook, The Electronic Intifada, 10 March 2010
Seven years after Rachel Corrie, a US peace activist, was killed by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza, her family was to put the Israeli government in the dock today. A judge in the northern Israeli city of Haifa was due to be presented with evidence that 23-year-old Corrie was killed unlawfully as she stood in the path of the bulldozer, trying to prevent it from demolishing Palestinian homes in Rafah. Jonathan Cook reports. [MORE]
Interview with Gaza rights defender: "Siege began in 1967"
David Cronin, The Electronic Intifada, 9 March 2010
BRUSSELS (IPS) - For the first time since September 2006, Mahmoud Abu Rahma, a leading figure in the Palestinian human rights group Al Mezan, has been granted permission to travel outside Gaza. More than 30 applications to leave the Strip had previously been turned down by the Israeli authorities and it was not until German diplomats made representations on his behalf that he was finally allowed to visit Europe. [MORE]
The sounds of piano in Gaza
Pam Rasmussen, The Electronic Intifada, 4 March 2010
GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) - At 14, Nour plays the piano, and she knows the facts around her. That the average age for marriage is 18, likely to a man found by parents, her place would be within that home, and a woman has on average 6.5 children. She goes to a United Nations agency for Palestine refugees school in Gaza City, and loves journalism, inspired by her older sister, who works at a radio station. [MORE]
Picking pebbles to survive in Gaza
Eva Bartlett, The Electronic Intifada, 3 March 2010
GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) - They come by the hundreds every day to sand dunes and rubble sites to sift for pebbles, stones and sand that can be used in making concrete blocks. They lean into trash bins across the Gaza Strip, and wade through piles of rubbish scavenging for plastics, metals and any bits worth reselling. [MORE]
Rights group: Israeli forces responsible for settlers' provocation at al-Aqsa
Press Release, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, 2 March 2010
In the early morning of Sunday, 28 February 2010, Israeli forces closed all roads leading to the al-Aqsa Mosque and established barriers at the entrances of the old city of Jerusalem, denying Palestinian civilians access to it. A few hours later, at least 200 Israeli police and security officers entered the yard of the al-Aqsa Mosque and besieged dozens of Palestinian worshippers. [MORE]
Palestinians excluded from bulk of occupied West Bank
Mel Frykberg, The Electronic Intifada, 2 March 2010
IDNA, occupied West Bank (IPS) - Israel's illegal occupation and continued expropriation of Palestinian land in the West Bank has left 2.5 million Palestinians living there with effectively less than 40 percent of the territory. Muhammad al-Bedan, 55, a vegetable farmer with 14 children, struggles to support his family on just over $600 dollars a month. [MORE]
Egyptian opposition grows against government's Gaza barrier
Adam Morrow and Khaled al-Omrani, The Electronic Intifada, 24 February 2010
CAIRO (IPS) - Activists and opposition groups are stepping up pressure on the Egyptian government to stop constructing a barrier along the border with the Gaza Strip. Officials say the barrier will prevent cross-border smuggling, but critics say it will seal the fate of the people on the Gaza Strip. On 13 February, hundreds of activists from across the political spectrum convened in downtown Cairo to protest construction of the barrier. [MORE]
Israel subjecting rights groups to "McCarthy techniques"
Jonathan Cook, The Electronic Intifada, 22 February 2010
The Israeli government and its right-wing supporters have been waging a "McCarthyite" campaign against human rights groups by blaming them for the barrage of international criticism that has followed Israel's attack on Gaza a year ago, critics say. Jonathan Cook reports. [MORE]
Jerusalem families come out against museum built on ancestors' graves
Marian Houk, The Electronic Intifada, 19 February 2010
Members of prominent Palestinian families from Jerusalem came out last week in protest against plans by the Simon Wiesenthal Center to build a Museum of Tolerance on top of part of the ancient Mamilla Cemetery where their ancestors are buried. One family member behind the initiative said it is not just symbolic, but instead a full-blown campaign. Marian Houk reports for The Electronic Intifada. [MORE]
Palestinians fight Jewish-only housing in Jaffa
Jonathan Cook, The Electronic Intifada, 16 February 2010
Over the past few days graffiti scrawled on walls around the mixed Jewish and Arab town of Jaffa in central Israel exclaims: "Settlers, keep out" and "Jaffa is not Hebron." Although Jaffa is only a stone's throw from the bustling coastal metropolis of Tel Aviv, Arab residents say their neighborhood has become the unlikely battleground for an attempted takeover by extremist Jews more familiar from West Bank settlements. Jonathan Cook reports. [MORE]
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