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Rights and Accountability

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Video: Israeli occupation forces demolish homes and mosque, arrest girls near Hebron

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 00:25

On 24 November Israeli occupation forces demolished two homes, a mosque and a barn, killing livestock, and arrested two young women in the village of Umm Fagarah, in the South Hebron Hills in the occupied West Bank.

Ali, released after 23 years in Israeli jails: “I have to learn life”

Submitted by Adri Nieuwhof on Sat, 11/26/2011 - 15:20
Ali, Palestinian political prisoner from Israel, has spent 23 years in Israeli jails. Following his release in the prisoner exchange deal, the Israeli internal security service ordered him not to leave the country for 17 years.

Video: Israeli forces violently ethnically cleanse Bedouin homes in Beit Hanina

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 13:22

A video taken today by Palestinian photojournalist Fadi Arouri shows Israeli occupation forces demolishing the homes of Palestinians in the village of Beit Hanina north of occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank.

Zionist tourists harass Palestinian residents in Hebron

Submitted by Rana Baker on Mon, 11/21/2011 - 00:03
If you’re beaten up, harassed, or verbally attacked for no reason, know that you’re in an area under Israeli colonial control. Indeed, one must find this irrational. Physics suggest that “to every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction.” This could apply to most life cases too. When you’re in the Occupied Palestinian Territories or Israel, however, you obviously “provoke” a reaction by simply being Palestinian.

Despite their release, their freedom remains incomplete

Submitted by Shahd Abusalama on Sat, 11/19/2011 - 22:28
Loai Odeh is a former prisoner who is forced to accept their fate to be deported far away from their land and families. It’s true that those former prisoners, including Loai, are now out of Israeli prisons, but still their freedom is conditional and incomplete.

“Only one half of me is free...”

Submitted by Shahd Abusalama on Tue, 11/15/2011 - 21:31
A story of the amazing friendship of Chris Al-Bandak, the only Christian released in the prisoner swap, who was deported to Gaza. According to Chris, “Only one half of me is free, but the other half is still there, locked up behind Israeli bars.”

Jury declares Israel an apartheid state at Russell Tribunal meeting in Cape Town

Submitted by Adri Nieuwhof on Mon, 11/14/2011 - 17:45
The Russell Tribunal on Palestine concludes that Israel imposes a system of systematic, institutional apartheid against the Palestinian people. It also finds that Israel is involved in persecution of the Palestinian people which is a separate crime against of humanity.

Israel's cruel practice of isolation of prisoners should be banned

Submitted by Adri Nieuwhof on Mon, 10/31/2011 - 20:34
Solitary confinement should be banned says UN Special Rapporteur on torture. Israeli continues this cruel practice.

Finland foreign minister condemns Israeli "apartheid" but will he act?

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 07:42

Finland’s Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja has strongly criticized Israel’s practices against Palestinians and declared that “No apartheid state is justified or sustainable.” But will Finland take action to end its arms trade with Israel?

Israel censors Palestinian textbooks in East Jerusalem

Submitted by Jalal Abukhater on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 04:27

In this article previously published on +972 magazine, I discuss the censorship of material in Palestinian textbooks in East Jerusalem schools — a clearly illegal and dangerous move by the Jerusalem Education Adminstration (JEA).

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