Civil and Human Rights Looking Deeper into the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Israel is portrayed as a democracy that shares American values. Is this true? Do all its citizens enjoy the same civil rights before the law? What about the human rights of those under occupation?
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June 11, 2009
[RAMALLAH, 11 June 2009] � Today, DCI-Palestine is releasing a report which documents the widespread ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children at the hands of the Israeli army and police force � Palestinian Child Prisoners: The systematic and institutionalised ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children by Israeli authorities. The release of the report comes just days after an article was published in The Independent newspaper reporting the testimonies of two Israeli soldiers which detail the deliberate abuse of Palestinian children. One soldier is reported as saying that in an incident that occurred in a Palestinian village in March, he saw a lot of soldiers 'just knee (Palestinians) because it's boring, because you stand there for 10 hours, you�re not doing anything, so they beat people up.� The report published today contains the testimonies of 33 children, one as young as 10 years old, who bear witness to the abuse they received at the hands of soldiers from the moment of arrest through to an often violent interrogation. Most of these children were arrested from villages near the Wall and illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank. There is evidence that many children are painfully shackled for hours on end, kicked, beaten and threatened, some with death, until they provide confessions, some written in Hebrew, a language they do not speak or understand. ... |
Video: Gaza: No right to life | World news | guardian.co.uk
With the lack of medical services in Gaza, critically ill patients must travel into Israel for treatment. Many are asked to collaborate with Israeli intelligence services before they receive aid. It has been alleged that if they refuse to become informers they are refused medical treatment. Inigo Gilmore reports ...
Palestinian Foreign Minister Criticizes Israel's Racism in the Middle East
Geneva, April 21, (RHC).- Palestine criticized on Tuesday in Geneva the racism methods maintained by the Israeli occupation in Gaza and West Bank during a speech by its Foreign Minister Riyad Al Maliki at the UN Conference against Racism. ...
Despite the situation, the words of the Palestinian Foreign Minister served to expose with concrete examples the terrible panorama in the occupied territories.
Al Maliki recalled that Israel continues broadening the colonization of the occupied territories with Jewish settlements and changing the Arab parts of eastern Jerusalem in a clear violation of international resolutions.
He added that Israeli is stealing the water from the West Bank to re direct it to the Jewish settlements and isolating the Palestinian people of all the components of the area. ...
