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Posts Tagged ‘Geneva-Conventions’

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 [...]



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. [...]



Francis Boyle – The United States Promotes Israeli Genocide Against the Palestinians

By Guest Post • Jan 10th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Human Rights, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, War, Zionism

As long ago as October 19, 2000, the then United Nations Human Rights Commission (now Council) condemned Israel for inflicting "war crimes" and "crimes against humanity" upon the Palestinian people, most of whom are Muslims. The reader has a general idea of what a war crime is, so I am not going to elaborate upon [...]



Kawther Salam – Human Rights: Nails in the Coffin of Israel

By Kawther Salam • Dec 19th, 2008 • Category: Human Rights, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

The Jewish State of Israel considers itself above the laws and has imposed a blockade on any criticism against its violations of the International laws, of its barbaric Apartheid regime and of its many crimes against humanity, by the UN human rights organizations and members of the International community.
The representatives of this so-called "state" lose [...]