Rights advocates contrast ICRC’s silence on Palestinian prisoners with swift response to the alleged kidnapping of three Israeli settlers. Read more about Palestinian anger grows at Red Cross silence on hunger strikers, killings and arrests
Supposedly neutral organization shows double standard with immediate call for settlers’ release. Read more about Red Cross refuses to call on Israel to release Palestinian children held by army
This is likely to set off further alarm bells among Israelis who fear the days of freely colonizing Palestinians while enjoying fully normal relations are coming to an end. Read more about Israeli banks may lose access to large loans under new EU rule on occupied lands
Protesters aimed “to challenge Olmert and interrupt the Wilson Center’s complicity with the ongoing normalization of Israeli occupation, settler colonialism and apartheid.” Read more about Video: Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert called “war criminal” in heart of Washington establishment
Palestinian human rights advocates fear that the Palestinian Authority is about to help bury a UN report on Israeli settlements that could lead to sanctions on Israel. Read more about Goldstone again? Source: rights groups fear Palestinian cave-in at UN could scuttle action on settlements
The International Criminal Court (ICC) “was a hoax from the start.” So said Michael Mandel, a professor at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University in Toronto, in response to the ICC Prosecutor’s shocking decision yesterday to refuse jurisdiction over Gaza war crimes without even referring the matter to judges. Read more about "ICC was a hoax from the start": How the rules were broken to deny justice to Israel's victims in Gaza
Amnesty International today condemned a declaration by the office of International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor that it cannot pursue allegations of war crimes related to Israel’s December 2008 - January 2009 “Operation Cast Lead” attack on Gaza. Read more about ICC decision not to pursue justice for victims of Israel war crimes "dangerous" and "political" says Amnesty
In every video you would see a brutal act by an Israeli soldier that requires accountability, but typically the act passes away at the end of the day without any of the soldiers being held accountable for their crimes Read more about Despite video evidence, Israeli soldiers are never held accountable for their crimes
Israeli courts have begun to impose a NIS 20,000 ($5,200) “guarantee” on Palestinian victims who have brought cases related to “Operation Cast Lead,” Israel’s 27 December 2008 - 18 January 2009 offensive on the Gaza Strip which killed 1,400 people and injured and displaced thousands of others. Read more about Israeli courts impose $5,200 "guarantee," blocking cases by victims of Gaza massacre
As children in Gaza break numerous world records, UNRWA, the UN agency that serves them, appears to be taking a more forthright approach toward Israel’s “collective punishment.” Read more about In notable shift, UNRWA takes more forceful line on Israel's "collective punishment"