PCHR Weekly Report: 3 Palestinians killed, including 2 children, 11 injured this week
Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News
According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, during the week of 16 – 22 April 2009, 3 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank, including 2 children. Eleven people were injured, three of them children. One Japanese humanitarian aid worker was wounded in the Gaza Strip. 15 Palestinians, including 3 children, were abducted by Israeli forces during 27 invasions in the West Bank. In Gaza , Israeli forces abducted 2 fishermen…
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Khoza’a after the destruction
Eva Bartlett, In Gaza
As we drive through Khoza’a village, east of Khan Younis, en route to the border area (“buffer zone”) farmland we will accompany farmers onto, OJ narrates what happened to this village during Israel’s bloody war on Gaza. On January 12, Israel began to seriously work on Khoza’a, ramping up the shelling, shooting and bulldozing of homes on January 13. OJ points out a square of weedy land where Iman –one of our farmers and a Khoza’a resident fleeing the Israeli bulldozers demolishing her and neighbouring homes –and a reported 200 other village residents crammed into the space seeking safety from the Israeli forces’ shooting…
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Reflections on Racism
The Real Heroes of Durban
By NADIA HIJAB
…Prison would be a good place to start working on shared solidarity. The United States has the world’s largest prison population — over 2.3 million people are in jail. Black Americans account for a disproportionate number of prisoners: one of every 15 Black adults is in jail. Palestinians could certainly resonate to these data. Some 11,000 Palestinian prisoners are in Israeli jails. It is said that nearly a quarter of the population has been jail ed by Israel during its 42-year occupation. As both communities know to their cost, the larger the number of the people oppressed, the more invisible they are. Many people know the name of Israel’s sole prisoner in Palestinian hands; hardly anyone outside of their families can name one of the 11,000 Palestinian prisoners. And people find it far easier to blame the victim than the perpetrators or the conditions that create victim hood. Racist explanations abound as to why so many Black Americans are in jail. Discussions of race and oppression are often divisive and disruptive, but the road to freedom and real equality begins there. The Obama administration, which speaks so often of seeking justice at home and abroad, has set us all back with the roadblock it erected on the road to the Durban review conference. The real heroes of Durban are the South African dockworkers…
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Convoy Update: Ambulances and Medical Aids to Gaza
The European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza
As part of its activities, The European Campaign to End the Siege in Gaza (ECESG), is restlessly preparing, in race against time, a convoy of medical aid to Gaza. A convoy of tens of trucks, which has been widely received, will be going to Gaza to support the besieged people. Several European NGO’s, MPs and individuals announced they are going to participate in “Hope For Gaza Convoy” Khaled yousef, representative of the convo y in Sweden said that some Arabic and Islamic associations donated several trucks containing wheelchairs and medical equipments for the People of Gaza, along with 2 ambulances…
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Appoint a Special Prosecutor
The Torture Commission Trap
By MICHAEL RATNER
Today I awoke to read that a number of human rights type groups have called on President Obama to create a commission of accountability to investigate and report publicly on torture and the cruel and inhumane treatment of detainees. There is not a word in the petition about criminal prosecutions of the torture team. Yet, I know that some of these groups would say they still want prosecutions. Sadly, this call and a commission if se t up, would almost guarantee that prosecutions won’t happen…
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Notes From Underground: Prosecution, Power and the Poison Chalice
Chris Floyd
…In any case, by going to CIA headquarters and making a very public avowal that no one there would have to face justice for the “mistakes” of the past, it seems to me that Obama is very clearly exerting pressure on the decision-making process. The White House is also telling the New York Times that prosecutions against the instigators of the torture system will not be pursued. …
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