Israels Netanyahu Criticizes Upcoming UN Report On Gaza.
But this time around, the stakes are higher. The Palestinians have joined the International Criminal Court and are pursuing war crimes charges against Israel. The councils new report, expected as soon as this week, could��.
News Roundup and Notes: June 12, 2015
The Israeli military has closed its inquiry into the death of the four Palestinian boys after an IDF strike hit a Gaza beach during last summers war. According to the findings, no domestic or international laws were violated. Three new investigations.
Israel Braces for War Crimes Inquiries on Gaza
Named for Richard Goldstone, the South African jurist who led that inquiry, the report said it found evidence of potential war crimes committed by both Israel and Hamas. It accused Israel of intentionally targeting civilians in Gaza as a matter of.
UN Names US Judge to Lead War Crimes Inquiry Into 2014 Gaza Conflict
GENEVA ��� The United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday picked an American judge serving on an inquiry into possible war crimes in Gaza to lead its work to completion a day after the inquirys chairman resigned after Israel accused him of a.
Inhuman shield: How The New York Times protects US elites
Though Israel has slaughtered over 1000 Palestinian civilians in Gaza and only three civilians have been killed in Israel, in The Times upside down world, every Palestinian weapon is a major threat, while Israeli weapons are either defensive or non-existent.. The New York Times has taken on the role of comforting powerful Israeli and US elites, while afflicting the comparatively powerless and brutalized Palestinian people, and obfuscated Israeli war crimes.
Security Council: children and armed conflict
NEW YORK, 18 June 2015 / PRN Africa / ��� BAN KI-MOON, Secretary-General of the United Nations, said, ���My report outlines the enormous challenges we face in upholding the fundamental rights of tens of millions of children.��� He pointed to grave.. They.
Goldstones Gaza - Opinionator - The New York Times
They include recent posts that invoke the new, controversial report from the UN Commission that Goldstone headed, which charges Israel and Hamas with war crimes and possibly even crimes against humanity.. is devoted to allegations against Israel, he engineered the even-handed headline he needed to maintain his credibility: ���There is evidence that both Israeli and Palestinian forces committed war crimes in the recent Gaza conflict, the official UN report says.���.
Amnesty International Sees Evidence of Palestinian War Crimes in 2014 Gaza.
The 63-page report came a week before a formal Palestinian accession to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, due to take effect on April 1. Palestinian officials have said that they plan to file a complaint against Israel for alleged war.
Gaza War (2008���09) - Wikispooks
In September 2009, a UN special mission, headed by Justice Richard Goldstone, produced a report accusing both Palestinian militants and Israeli Defense Forces of war crimes and possible crimes against humanity, and recommended bringing those responsible to justice. Israel rejected the. The Mission finds that there is no evidence that the Legislative Council building and the Gaza main prison made an effective contribution to military action. On the information��.
Zeid highlights pressing human rights concerns in opening speech to the UN.
Political turbulence, repression, violence and war have become so widespread that they impel millions of the worlds people to risk their lives to find a place of relative safety. Migration is the symptom; the cause is despair, after repeated human.
Palestinians Join International Criminal Court, but Tread Cautiously at First
RAMALLAH, West Bank ��� The Palestinians became members of the International Criminal Court on Wednesday, cementing the most significant and contentious step so far in their new strategy of seeking statehood through international forums. Palestinians.
Amnesty International Says Israel Showed Callous Indifference in Gaza
JERUSALEM ��� Amnesty International published a report early Wednesday accusing Israel of war crimes in its 50-day war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip this summer, saying its military showed ���callous indifference��� to civilians in airstrikes on homes that.
Israel Is Targeting CIVILIANS In Gaza - Washingtons Blog
[The Israeli soldiers] use, for example���The New York Times did an interesting study yesterday���heavy artillery, 155-millimeter artillery, which is utterly inappropriate in a densely populated area, because this kind of artillery is. According to the report, another alleged war crime committed by IDF include ���wanton��� destruction of food production, water and sewerage facilities; the report also asserts that some attacks, which were supposedly aimed to kill small number of��.
Justice Richard Goldstone: Israeli war crimes in Gaza
Justice Richard Goldstone: Israeli war crimes in Gaza. From: The New York Times online, Sept. 15, 2009. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/16/world/middleeast/16gaza.html?hp. A United Nations fact-finding mission��.
UN Report on Gaza Finds Evidence of War Crimes by Israel and Palestinian.
JERUSALEM ��� A United Nations investigation has found ���serious violations of international humanitarian law��� that ���may amount to war crimes��� by both Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip during their bloody battle last summer. A report.
Israelis Go on Offensive Ahead of UN Report
JERUSALEM ��� Israel on Sunday launched a pre-emptive assault on an upcoming U.N. report into last years war in the Gaza Strip, saying the report is unfairly biased and issuing its own report that blames Gazas Hamas militant rulers for the heavy.
Gaza: Killing Gets Easier
Israelis like to think that their army holds to high moral standards, and they react badly to hard evidence that shows this is not the case. There has been particular outrage at the suggestion that there is anything wrong about the new ���Gaza rules��� and.
Palestinians build tunnel to attack Israeli kindergarten.
Yesterday Israels prime minister tweeted more cartoon evidence of alleged war crimes by Gazan militants.. Last year the New York Timess Isabel Kershner dutifully passed along the Israeli claim that one Gaza tunnel was ���about a mile long.��� I live in New York, where it is taking years to tunnel 1.7 miles from 63rd to 96th St to extend the subway on the East Side��� and youre going to tell me the Palestinians tunnel for one mile and the New York Times swallows it?
Jerusalem - PM Netanyahu Criticizes Upcoming UN Report.
Jerusalem - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday criticized an upcoming United Nations report into last years war in the Gaza Strip, calling it a waste of time. Instead, he said. Palestinians have said that the Israeli army violated the rules of war, which include giving adequate warning to civilians, using proportionate force and distinguishing between civilians and combatants.. Saranac, NY - Police: No New Leads In Manhunt For Escaped Prisoners��.
Gaza and the Bipartisan War on Human Rights - FPIF
During and after Israels war on Gaza, bipartisan congressional majorities have worked to undermine war crimes investigations by the United Nations and human rights groups.. No eyewitnesses in the Gaza Strip during the war found any evidence of this, however. For example, in late July, New York Times reporters in Gaza noted, ���There is no evidence that Hamas and other militants force civilians to stay in areas that are under attack.��� Likewise, Jeremy Bowen of��.
Netanyahu at Risk of Isolating Israel, Palestinian Envoy to UN Warns
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is putting Israel on a collision course with its allies, the Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations said Wednesday, warning that if Mr. Netanyahu succeeded in forming a new government, he would further isolate.
Goldstone op-ed praises Israeli investigation of Gaza war.
Judge Richard Goldstone has a confusing and potentially damaging op-ed in todays Washington Post titled ���Reconsidering the Goldstone Report on Israel and war crimes.��� Confusing, in that it directly. In his article he refers to the U.N. committee of independent experts (led by former New York judge Mary McGowan Davis) which was charged with following the Israeli and Palestinian investigations following the Goldstone report. The committee of independent��.
In NY, a Palestinian and Israeli detail forgotten war in Gaza.
Last Thursday the New America Foundation hosted a remarkable event: a Palestinian photographer and Israeli human rights worker detailing war crimes during the forgotten war of Gaza last summer.. under international law and were borne out by Gvaryahus statement that in adopting the scorched-earth Dahiya doctrine as policy Israel shot 20,000 ���exploding artillery shells��� during this operation, seven times as many as it did in.. Thanks for this report on the event.
Israel uses Palestinians as human shields but US.
But even The New York Times has conceded that ���There is no evidence that Hamas and other militants force civilians to stay in areas that are under attack.��� The BBCs Middle East editor, Jeremy Bowen, similarly declared,��.
UN Report on Gaza War Crimes to Be Deferred.
A statement released by the Schabas commission said it needed more time to consider evidence received from Israelis and Palestinians. The teams report was originally scheduled to be presented to the. of media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? 5. Heartbreak in Gaza: a Lesson in Non-Investigative Journalism: In a guest post, an award-winning Canadian journalist takes New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof to task for lazy reporting from Gaza. 6.
Gaza crisis: a closer look at Israeli strikes on UNRWA schools
. the circumstances of each strike. The numbers of dead and wounded were gathered from Guardian reports, the United Nations, the Gaza Ministry of Health, the New York Times and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights.
Palestinian-Israeli Showdown Looms at War Crimes Court
RAMALLAH, West Bank ��� The U.N. has accepted a request by observer state Palestine to join the International Criminal Court, clearing the way for possible war crimes complaints against Israel. Palestinians hope the tribunal will give them more leverage.
Statement by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Political turbulence, repression, violence and war have become so widespread that they impel millions of the worlds people to risk their lives to find a place of relative safety. Migration is the symptom; the cause is despair, after repeated human.
���Scientific Facts��� Concerning Israeli War Crimes in Gaza.
We wanted to share our knowledge of the accumulating scientific and clinical evidence of the effects that war and post-war environmental conditions pose on peoples physical and mental health, while very few in-depth studies or... It has also refused entry in Gaza for the second time to Makarim Wibisono, the UNs special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, who is supposed to report to the UN Human Rights Council on 29th June.
Walking the Green Line: 48 years of occupation
Accompanied by a photographer, filmmaker and a desire to hear the voices that are not normally featured in the media, award-winning novelist Nir Baram journeyed extensively around Israel and the West Bank during the past year. The 10. Baram was in.
Israel: Schabas resignation cannot whitewash bias in UN war
Since last August when professor of international law William Schabas was appointed as the head of a United Nations war crimes inquiry into violations committed in Gaza over the summer, Israel has repeatedly sought to remove him. Last week. Two weeks ago, Israel won. Schabas stepped down from the inquiry amid allegations of bias in a favor of the Palestinian government. He has been replaced by New York state Supreme Court Justice Mary McGowan Davis.
Your Monday Briefing
(Want to get this briefing by email? Heres the sign-up.) Good morning. Heres what you need to know: ��� Politics of Charleston, S.C.. The Confederate battle flag that flies on the grounds of the South Carolina Capitol is in the sights of some.