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Policy that cleansed 140,000 Palestinians from W. Bank still imposed on Jerusalemites

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 21:07

An Israeli legal advisor has admitted that the state stripped residency rights from more than 140,000 Palestinians between 1967-1994, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported today.

Amnesty International: Ahmad Qatamesh a prisoner of conscience

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Sun, 05/08/2011 - 19:03

Amnesty International released an urgent action alert on Friday following Israel’s imposition on an administrative detention order on Palestinian writer and activist Ahmad Qatamesh. Amnesty writes:

Palestinian academic and writer Ahmad Qatamesh is being held as an administrative detainee, which allows the Israeli authorities to detain him indefinitely without charge and denies him any real opportunity to challenge the detention order.

Palestinian rights group submits petition to Israeli High Court to reverse "Nakba Law"

Submitted by Nora Barrows-Fr... on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 16:48

Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel has submitted a petition to the Israeli High Court demanding that the government overturn its recent decision to criminalize commemoration of the Nakba — the ethnic cleansing and expulsion of 800,000 Palestinians before, during and after Israel declared itself a state in 1948.

As feared, Israel issues administrative detention order against Qatamesh

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 16:42
The Palestinian human rights group Addameer issued an urgent appeal today (full text below), one day after Israeli military authorities issued an administrative detention order against Ahmad Qatamesh, the Palestinian writer and political activist.

Israeli high court decision a serious setback for Gaza war crimes victims

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Mon, 05/02/2011 - 18:32

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights issued the following press release on Saturday, 30 April following the Israel high court’s rejection of an appeal to extend the two-year statute of limitations imposed on filing compensation cases.  According to PCHR, this ruling “epresents a serious setback for the victims, and their legitimate quest for accountability and redress.”

Israel’s High Court of Justice Dismisses Petition Filed on Behalf of More Than 1,000 Victims of Operation Cast Lead

Long struggle ahead for Palestinian workers

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Mon, 05/02/2011 - 17:15

Yesterday marked International Workers’ Day, also known as May Day and Labor Day. The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights has issued two statements related to this annual commemoration. The first outlines Israel’s violations of Palestinians’ right to work, and the other condemns the Interior Ministry in Gaza’s banning of an assembly of workers to mark International Workers’ Day.

 

On Israel’s labor rights violations:

Qatamesh's detention extended despite insufficient evidence

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 00:09

Ma’an News Agency reported today that the Palestinian prisoner rights group Addameer is condemning the extended detention of Palestinian write and political activist Ahmad Qatamesh. The Electronic Intifada published a report on Qatamesh’s arrest yesterday; his wife told EI that Israeli soldiers raided their family home in al-Bireh, near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, on 21 April.

Will political arrest of Palestinian writer Ahmad Qatamesh be protested?

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Tue, 04/26/2011 - 23:40

The Alternative Information Center reports that writer Ahmad Qatamesh was arrested in his family’s Ramallah home by Israeli occupation forces and transferred to the Ofer detention center in Beitunia in the occupied West Bank:

New report by Al-Haq documents collective punishment in Awarta village

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Fri, 04/22/2011 - 17:08
The Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq released a report today examining the measures taken by the Israeli army in ‘Awarta under international humanitarian and human rights law, on the basis of the documentation collected by Al-Haq’s field researchers.

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