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Rights and Accountability

News about work to enforce human rights and international law

Children beaten and blindfolded by Israeli troops

Submitted by Adri Nieuwhof on Wed, 04/03/2013 - 08:58
More evidence has emerged to show that Israel is abusing Palestinian boys, as young as nine.

Israeli soldiers force nine-year-old to act as human shield

Submitted by Adri Nieuwhof on Fri, 03/29/2013 - 15:25
Some 236 Palestinian children were held in Israeli detention during February — a considerable increase from previous months.

No Mothers' Day for women held in G4S-equipped prisons

Submitted by Adri Nieuwhof on Fri, 03/22/2013 - 09:57
Twelve Palestinian female prisoners are imprisoned inside Israel.

Goldstone again? Source: rights groups fear Palestinian cave-in at UN could scuttle action on settlements

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Thu, 03/21/2013 - 17:17

Palestinian human rights advocates fear that the Palestinian Authority is about to help bury a UN report on Israeli settlements that could lead to sanctions on Israel.

Watch: Palestinian couple divulge psychological impact of Israeli imprisonment in short video

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Wed, 03/13/2013 - 19:32
Former prisoner starts to become acquainted with his wife only to be arrested once more.

Israel interrogates, expels well-known South African academic Salim Vally, invited to lecture in Palestine

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Tue, 03/12/2013 - 21:21

Israel continues to severely restrict academic and other contacts between Palestinians and the outside world while complaining that it is being unjustly targeted by academic and cultural boycott.

Fighting for freedom: eight Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike right now

Submitted by Adri Nieuwhof on Tue, 03/12/2013 - 12:43
The eight prisoners are on hunger strike, most fighting the policy of administrative detention.

Israel marks International Women's Day with violent assault on worshippers at Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Fri, 03/08/2013 - 20:03

Tensions are mounting in Jerusalem amid constant provocations by settlers, whom Palestinians fear intend to seize al-Aqsa.

Veteran prisoner Maher Younis goes on hunger strike

Submitted by Adri Nieuwhof on Wed, 03/06/2013 - 08:48
Maher Younis has been in prison for 31 years; in a message from Gilboa jail, his fellow detainees are demanding his release.

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