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Israel Persecutes Israeli Arab MK

By Kawther Salam • Nov 9th, 2009 • Category: Kawther's Choice

The Israeli Public Prosecution in the Magistrate's Court of Tel Aviv – Jaffa imposed a serious indictment against the Israeli MK (member of the Knesset), Mohammad Barakeh, a Hadash representative. The court accused Barakeh of assaulting police and soldiers on four different occasions over a period of two years since 2005. The indictment was signed [...]



EU and The Israeli War Crimes in Gaza

By Kawther Salam • Nov 4th, 2009 • Category: Kawther's Choice

The 25th annual conference of the Arab medical doctors in Europe and the 21st annual conference of the Union of the Austro-Arab medical doctors and pharmacists, held at the Modul Hotel in Vienna, was turned to a political demonstration against the Israeli occupation and its criminal policies against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on [...]



Palestinian Protester to Blair: You are a Terrorist

By Kawther Salam • Oct 23rd, 2009 • Category: Kawther's Choice

“You are a terrorist, you are not welcome in the land of Palestine”. A Palestinian from the Hamdan family shouted these words in the face of Tony Blair, Quartet Representative for “Peace” in the Middle East, when he arrived at the Iron Cage at the entrance of the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron. A bodyguard of [...]



UN: US Block on Goldstone Report Must Not Defer Justice

By Kawther Salam • Oct 12th, 2009 • Category: Features, Human Rights

Push Israel and Hamas to Investigate War Crimes
October 2, 2009
Human Rights Watch
(Geneva) – The decision at the UN Human Rights Council to defer a vote on the Goldstone Gaza report until March 2010 obliges the United States and other governments blocking action at the council to press Israel and Hamas to commence credible investigations, Human [...]



UNRWA in the Focus of Accusations

By Kawther Salam • Oct 11th, 2009 • Category: Kawther's Choice

On Friday October 9 2009, the Palestinian daily newspaper Al-Quds published a statement of the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine (UNRWA), Karen Koning AbuZayed in which she announced the discontinuation of some important activities of the UNRWA, such as scholarships for Palestinian students.
According to Al-Quds, the statement of Koning [...]



Decision of Collaborators Furthers Palestinian Genocide

By Kawther Salam • Oct 3rd, 2009 • Category: Human Rights

Addameer, Al Haq, Al Mezan, Badil, Civic Coalition for Jerusalem, DCI- Palestine. NSAN Centre, Independent Commission for Human Rights, Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Centre, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, Ramallah Centre for Human Rights Studies, Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counseling, wrote a statement:
Justice Delayed is Justice Denied, Decision of Palestinian Leadership [...]



Flashback: Homo IDF Officer Rapes Teenager, Everybody Tries to Cover Up

By Kawther Salam • Oct 3rd, 2009 • Category: Children's Corner

In Palestine, under the Israeli occupation and the boundless criminal practices of the IDF, every unimaginable and never heard of horror is possible, while outside, most people never know or even  imagines these things to be possible. In Palestine it is not enough to steal the land, to build colonies for Jewish squatters, an apartheid [...]



Israeli Army Terrorizes Teenagers inside a School

By Kawther Salam • Oct 1st, 2009 • Category: Kawther's Choice

Austria/ Palestine/ Occupied Territories:
At around 11AM, Fuad Mahmoud Nayef Turkman, aged 17, was killed before the eyes of his brother, relatives and colleagues inside the schoolyard of the “Izz al-Din al-Qassam” school in Yabad, after an Israeli military jeep broke into the school shooting tear gas and then proceeded to deliberately run over one of [...]



Malformed Babies Resulting From Israeli Banned Weapons

By Kawther Salam • Sep 29th, 2009 • Category: Human Rights

Since the end of criminal Israeli operation "Cast Lead" in Gaza Strip last January, more than five cases of birth have been registered which show babies who have a deformed and not fully formed heart. These births came as an effect of the use of internationally banned weapons of phosphor and uranium by the Israeli [...]



Two Hundred Soldiers to Snatch a Boy and 30 Dollars

By Kawther Salam • Sep 25th, 2009 • Category: Kawther's Choice

Without preconditions, the Israeli central command Gadi Shamni is demanded to return the stolen 30 dollar which one of the coward thieves under his command stole from the wallet of Ru'a Osama Al-Ayasa, the daughter of my colleague Osama Al-Ayasa.
On August 15 2008, Gadi Shamni sent a heavily armed military contingent consisting of an [...]