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Canadian Foreign Ministry issues warning to naturalized camel jockeys

Laurie King 31 October 2002


Following up on warnings issued yesterday to naturalized Canadian citizens born in Syria, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Pakistan concerning their possible harassment, arrest, detention or deportation should they enter the United States of America, the Canadian Foreign Ministry today issued the following helpful checklist. Officials strongly urge that all Canadians unfortunate enough to have begun their lives as towel heads or camel jockeys consult this list before finalizing travel plans to or through the United States of America. 

British solicitor instructed to pursue complaints, particularly against Shaul Mofaz

LAW and Palestinian Center for Human Rights 30 October 2002


LAW and PCHR acting on behalf of specific individuals and families in the West Bank and Gaza instructed British human rights solicitor Imran Khan to lodge complaints on behalf of their clients in relation to the perpetration of war crimes and crimes against humanity, in particular naming Shaul Mofaz, former Chief of Staff of the Israeli military as a potential defendant. 

Weekly report on human rights violations

Palestinian Center for Human Rights 31 October 2002

Israeli forces have perpetrated more human rights violations against Palestinian civilians, including willful killings, extra-judicial assassinations, shelling of, and incursion into Palestinian areas, and agricultural land leveling. This week, Israeli occupying forces killed 10 Palestinian civilians, including 6 children and an old man, and demolished 19 Palestinian houses in Rafah and in Beit Hanina, in occupied Jerusalem. 

Cross the Line

Marthame Sanders and Elizabeth Sanders Zababdeh 30 October 2002


For the past six months, people in the Jenin district have been struggling under curfews and closures with varying degrees of strictness. Today, like yesterday and the day before, was one of the stricter days. Marthame and Elizabeth Sanders report from nearby Zababdeh. 

Naboth had a Vineyard

Uri Avnery Havarah 26 October 2002

Had they been there last Saturday at sunset, most Israelis would not have believed their eyes. In the middle of Havarah, a small village south of Nablus, 63 Israelis, men and women, young and old, were standing together with dozens of Palestinian villagers. Jews and Arabs talked together, drank juice offered by the hosts, exchanged addresses and phone numbers. Uri Avnery writes. 

Israel's daily destruction of Gaza

Kristen Ess Gaza Strip 28 October 2002


In Namsawi, an area of Khan Younis refugee camp directly in the line of Israeli fire, displaced families live in buildings with holes the size of Volkswagen bugs. Apache missle fire and tank shelling have destroyed many areas of the camp made up of soccer fields and cement apartment buildings. There are children playing in the sandy dirt who scatter when shots are fired. Half the population is under 15. Kristen Ess reports from Gaza. 

PCHR position on collaborators

Palestinian Center for Human Rights 28 October 2002

In this position paper, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights tackles the thorny question of how one deals with traitors in wartime. PCHR concludes that suspected collaborators should be investigated and tried in accordance with international standards, including the rights to fair trial, not to be subjected to torture and ill treatment, right to legal counsel and others.