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.
Israeli forces kill Gaza mother in front of her children
Report, PCHR, 8 May 2008
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns the killing of a mother in front of her children yesterday, during an Israeli incursion into New Abasan town, east of Khan Younes. PCHR investigations indicate that at approximately 14:30pm on Wednesday, 7 May, Israeli Occupation Forces troops raided the house of Majdi Abd al-Raziq al-Daghma during an incursion into New Abasan. [MORE]
Gaza improvises under siege
Report, The Electronic Intifada, 7 May 2008
JERUSALEM/GAZA, 6 May (IRIN) - Intense political divisions in the Gaza Strip have split people on most issues, except one: the situation has never been worse, nearly everyone agrees. "I never remember Gaza being this bad," said one man in his early 40s. "Living here has become a game of survival." With fuel supplies nearly dry, many people no longer have cooking gas in their homes, leading some to search for alternative methods to make a meal. [MORE]
Gaza death toll, humanitarian crisis escalates
Report, Al Mezan, 6 May 2008
According to Al Mezan's statistics, 69 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in the Gaza Strip since the start of April 2008. Of them, 20 were children and one was a woman. This brings the toll of Gazans killed by the IOF since the beginning of 2008 to 316, including 62 children and 16 women. [MORE]
West Bank village faces slow death
Report, The Electronic Intifada, 4 May 2008
AQABA, WEST BANK, 4 May (IRIN) - At the entrance to the small village, laborers continued to work on a cement divider, creating two lanes to make the road safer, while in a side room next to the village kindergarten, Haj Sami Sadiq, the head of the local council, carried on sorting out agricultural development projects for his residents. Sadiq pretends it is "business as usual," but he knows that at any moment Israeli troops can arrive and begin demolishing most of the village's structures and even some of the streets. [MORE]
Gaza resident dies awaiting permission for cancer treatment
Report, PHR-Israel, 2 May 2008
Mohammed al-Hurani, a 33-year-old resident of Gaza, died 30 April 2008 of cancer while waiting for a reply from the Israel General Security Service to a request from Physicians for Human Rights-Israel. Although al-Hurani was in a grave condition, confined to a bed in hospital, the GSS demanded that the patient come for security questioning at Erez Crossing on 27 April. [MORE]
Rare Israeli conviction in 2002 killing of Palestinian
Report, B'Tselem, 2 May 2008
On 28 April, Israel's Jerusalem District Court sentenced border policeman Yanai Lazla to six years' imprisonment for the killing, in 2002, of 'Amran Abu Hamdiya, 18, from the West Bank town of Hebron. Lazla and three other policemen threw Abu Hamdiya from a jeep moving at high speed after they had abducted, beaten and abused him. His head struck the pavement with great force, killing him. [MORE]
Gaza food distribution halted, cooking gas running out
Report, IRIN, 29 April 2008
JERUSALEM/GAZA, 28 April (IRIN) - The UN has stopped distributing food in the Gaza Strip as its main agencies have run out of fuel for vehicles. To make matters worse, many bakeries in the enclave were closed on 28 April as they had run out of gas. The World Food Program and the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA confirmed they had not delivered food aid since 26 April. [MORE]
Mother, four children amongst victims of Israeli Gaza strike
Report, Al Mezan, 28 April 2008
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) killed four children and their mother when they shelled their home in Ezbet Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip today. Another man was killed in the attack which occurred during an IOF incursion in different parts of the town of Beit Hanoun. Al Mezan Center for Human Rights' monitoring finds that the IOF stepped up their aggression on Gaza. [MORE]
West Bank farmers face ruin after trees uprooted
Report, The Electronic Intifada, 28 April 2008
JEET, WEST BANK, 27 April (IRIN) - It was difficult for 87-year-old Jamil Khader to discover that nearly all of the 1,400 olive trees his extended family planted in February had suddenly gone missing, having been uprooted and stolen. "He became very ill when I told him. He was hospitalized and was in bed for a week," his son Khalil, from the small town of Jeet in the northern West Bank, told IRIN. [MORE]
Israel suspends family visits to prisoners
Report, The Electronic Intifada, 24 April 2008
JERUSALEM/GAZA, 22 April (IRIN) - For families in the Gaza Strip with sons or daughters in Israeli jails, the past 11 months have been especially hard, as they could no longer visit their imprisoned relatives and have only had contact through brief written messages. "This issue is a humanitarian concern for us, for the families and the prisoners," said Katharina Ritz, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Jerusalem.
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