Tag Archives: Israel-Palestine conflict

Former UN rights chief to lead probe into Israel’s latest bombing of Gaza

Israel’s bombing of the Gaza Strip in May killed 248 Palestinians, including 66 children (Reuters/File photo)   Navi Pillay will investigate possible violations committed by both Israel and Hamas in the occupied West Bank, Gaza and Israel   The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has chosen former rights chief Navi Pillay to head an international inquiry into alleged war crimes committed during Israel’s May …

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Germany: An enduring enemy of the Palestinian struggle by Joseph Massad

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier meets Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in Jerusalem on 1 July 2021 (AFP)   Germany’s contribution to the colonisation of Palestine over the years has been ideological, financial, physical and military German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier visited Israel two weeks ago and met Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, whose American parents came from San Francisco to colonise Palestine in July 1967. Bennett has boasted: …

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The EU’s shameless complicity in Israel’s crimes by David Hearst

A Palestinian woman outside the house of Montaser Shalabi after it was demolished by Israeli forces in the village of Turmus’ayya near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, 8 July 2021 (AFP)   Israel works actively, day and night, to quash all forms of resistance and bury the dream of a Palestinian state Two months after Palestinians rose to defend al-Aqsa …

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UN special rapporteur says Israeli settlements ‘amount to war crime,’ drawing ire from Tel Aviv

FILE PHOTO: A view shows the Jewish settlement of Maale Adumim in the Israeli-occupied West Bank,on June 30, 2020. ©  Reuters / Ammar Awad The world should finally hold Israel accountable for its continuous settlement policy in the occupied Palestinian territories, a UN human rights rapporteur has said, provoking criticism from Jewish officials and activists. Israel can no longer be allowed to …

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Israel settlements amount to war crime, UN rights expert says

A general view of Ma’ale Adumim, an illegal Israeli settlement in Jerusalem on 16 March 2021 [Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu Agency] Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank amount to a war crime, a UN human rights investigator said today, calling on countries to make clear to Israel that its “illegal occupation” cannot be cost-free, Reuters reported. Michael Lynk, UN special rapporteur on human …

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