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Urgent Call: A Girl Abused Sexually in Jail

By Kawther Salam • Sep 20th, 2009 • Category: Children's Corner

The lawyer of the Women's Organization for Political Prisoners (WOFPP), Taghreed Jahshan, is appealing to everybody from the international community, the European Union, Parliament members, governments, courts, judges, journalists, human rights organizations, peace activists, to rescue the life of a Palestinian girl who was abused SEXUALLY SEVERAL TIMES by an IDF jailer, a warden from [...]



The Execution of a Palestinian Journalist

By Kawther Salam • Sep 19th, 2009 • Category: Kawther's Choice

Last Wednsday, August 26 2009, the criminal Israeli occupation forces shot the Palestinian journalist Ubayda Maher  Al-Qudsi, aged 25, while he was walking on Al-Shuhada Street in the heart of the occupied city of Hebron.
To justify the murder, the IDF murderers claimed that Al-Dweik had attempted to attack an IDF soldier with a knife. [...]



A Thief Resigned From the Jewish Community in Hungary

By Kawther Salam • Sep 18th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Human Rights, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Zionism

Friday, September 18th 2009
Budapest – According to German news Agency “dpa”, the deputy leader of the largest Jewish organization in Hungary has announced his resignation after being arrested because of the theft of wallet at a gas station. The incident was confirmed on Thursday.
Budapest (dpa) – The deputy leader of the largest Jewish organization in [...]



International Law From the Perspective of War Criminals

By Kawther Salam • Sep 15th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Biography, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Documents, Human Rights, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Uprooted Palestinians' Testimonies, Zionism

On Thursday Sep. 10 2009, GOC Central Command Gadi Shamni said during the mock trial of First Lt. Adam Malul of the Kfir gang, one of the IDF criminals who smashed, tortured and hit a Palestinian victim while he was under arrest, which was held for the media, that “the IDF soldiers were not authorized [...]



From War Criminal in Israel to Coffee Salesman

By Kawther Salam • Sep 13th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Biography, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Israel, Kawther's Choice, Newswire, Palestine, Uprooted Palestinians' Testimonies, War, Zionism

If the past is associated with war crimes and crimes against humanity and injustice, then the history of the perpetrators is the history of criminals and their crimes, and the victims must never forget, never forgive, lest the perpetrators continue on their path of crimes. Nobody can ask from perpetrators to take responsibility for their crimes, because if they were responsible, or even capable of responsibility, to begin with, they would not engage in acts understood as reprehensible by the vast majority of humanity. The victims, on the other hand, have the responsibility not only to take care of ourselves, but to do everything in our power to stop the perpetrators, and to warn others about them.



Kawther Salam – Palestinian Organs for Sale and Experiments

By Kawther Salam • Sep 6th, 2009 • Category: Kawther's Choice

Many Palestinian bodies which had their organs removed are still in the refrigerators of the Israeli jails and hospitals, and many Palestinian bodies (about 300) which had their organs removed are still in secret and cemeteries with numbered graves. Israel is the only State in the world which continues holding the bodies of Palestinian victims [...]



Kawther Salam – Palestinian-Arabs: Wave of Racism in Israel: GENERAL STRIKE

By Kawther Salam • Sep 3rd, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Culture and Heritage, Human Rights, Ideas and Projects, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Zionism

“We want to live as equal citizens in our country while maintaining our national character, our heritage, our civilization and our memories, including the Nakba, which will remain in our memory and in the memory of our sons, and which no one can erase”, said in a sharp protest and with angry voice the Palestinian-Arab [...]



Kawther Salam – A Palestinian Child Against Israel at the ICC

By Kawther Salam • Sep 2nd, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Biography, Children's Corner, Israel, Nakba and Right of Return, Newswire, Palestine, Petitions, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War

Netherlands/ The Hague, Amira Al-Qirim, a Palestinian girl aged 15, a victim and survivor of the Israeli massacre in Gaza last January, held a press conference together with her lawyer Gilles Devers in The Hague, in front of the building of the International Criminal Court, ICC, during which she stated: “I am here to present [...]



Kawther Salam – Fancy Title People and the IDF against Journalists

By Kawther Salam • Aug 28th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Biography, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Documents, Grassroots Activism, Israel, Nakba and Right of Return, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Uprooted Palestinians' Testimonies, Zionism

I strongly reject and condemn the “work” of the Israeli military censorship imposed on the work of journalists and the publications of the Palestinian in the West Bank. I also strongly condemn the continuous restrictions which the Israeli military censorship imposes on the foreign journalists, monitoring their reports, banning and censoring them in the office of [...]



Kawther Salam – Night of Israeli Horror in Jerusalem Hospital

By Kawther Salam • Aug 27th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Children's Corner, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Human Rights, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

The roots and the horror of this crime date back to June 2, 1994, when the Israeli Special Forces and other IDF soldiers stormed the surgery, maternity and pediatric wards of the Palestinian hospital Augusta Victoria (generally known as “al-Motala”) in Jerusalem while they were looking for the BODY of a Palestinian who they mistakenly [...]