Human Rights

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NOVANEWS Spokesman for UN High Commissioner for Human Rights says attacks since beginning of September show upsurge of violence in West Bank. The United Nations human rights office urged Israel on Tuesday to stop Zio-Nazi extremists from attacking Palestinian civilians in the West Bank. Rupert Colville, spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, told reporters in Geneva that IsraHell has a legal obligation “to protect Palestinian civilians and property in the occupied Palestinian territory.” Colville said that the wave of attacks occurring since September must be properly investigated and victims compensated, adding that they were “emblematic of the phenomenon of settler violence throughout the West Bank.” Colevile specifically cited the uprooting of 200 olive trees in th...

NOVANEWS Zio-Nazi army hands body over body of Hafez Abu Zant to Palestinian Authority due to Supreme Court ruling. Zio-Nazi Defense Forces spokesman said Sunday that the army has returned the remains of a Palestinian militant to the West Bank 35 years after he was killed. Maj. Guy Inbar said Hafez Abu Zant belonged to an armed group. IsraHelli forces killed him in 1976 during an exchange of fire, and his remains were buried in an IsraHelli cemetery for enemy casualties. Acting on a ruling by Zionist Supreme Court, the army handed the body over to the Palestinian Authority on Sunday. Palestinian Authority officials say Abu Zant will be buried in an official funeral in the West Bank. They say more than 300 Palestinian militants are buried in Zionist military cemeteries. The officials say...

NOVANEWS ed note–anyone thinking that Israel is worried that her “good” relations with certain Arab countries like Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia are in danger needs to check back into the Hotel Reality. Right now, Israel–through various means, including but not limited to the “Arab Spring” revolts, is working behind the scenes to create a situation between herself and the Arabs where war between them breaks out so that she has an excuse to push the Palestinians out of her beloved ‘Jewish state’ while at the same time expanding her borders to include all the land she considers to be “Jewish” by virtue of ‘the biblical mandate’ found in the Old Testament.  The once nomadic Muslim tribesmen here helped defend early Jewish settlements in the area during the Arab revolt of the 1930s, loc...

NOVANEWS Zio-Nazi police have arrested a suspect in the arson attack on a mosque in northern IsraHell, a spokesman said after a gag order on details of his detention was lifted. The suspect, who was arrested on Monday just hours after the attack, appeared before a district court for a remand hearing on Thursday, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said, without giving any details about his identity or place of residence. Photos of the suspect outside the court showed a young man in casual clothing, with long sidelocks and glasses, wearing a large white crocheted skullcap. Earlier in the day, police arrested seven more people suspected of joining violent protests in Tuba Zangaria village in the northern Galilee region, which erupted just hours after the arson attack was discovered on Mo...

Today, USA Today published an editorial 'Abbas bid for statehood will hurt Palestinians' (9/23) and an opposing viewpoint by Rashid Khalidi 'Palestinians need an honest broker' (9/23). Khalidi explains what the 'peace process' has meant to Palestinians in terms of expanding settlements, the restriction of movement, and even the possibility that the two state solution is no longer possible. He maintains that a major obstacle to resolving the conflict has been the failure of the US play an honest broker and its disregard for international law - as clearly evident with President Obama's recent UN speech. Khalidi sees the Palestinian UN bid as an effort to alter the dynamic of the conflict and the one-sided US role. In contrast, the USA Today editorial opposed the Palestinian UN statehood bid...

Almost three months after initially coming to Britain for a one week speaking tour, Shaykh Raed Salah is still here. Three days into his tour, which included addressing audiences at the House of Lords, Shaykh Salah was arrested by Border Police at the request of the Home Secretary, Theresa May. After spending over two weeks in prison, his appeal for bail was granted by the High Court on 15th July. Since then Shaykh Raed has been waiting for a Tribunal Hearing to challenge the false accusations made against him. It has been confirmed that the Tribunal Hearing will take place next week. Ismail Patel, Chair of Friends of Al Aqsa, said ‘We ask everyone for their prayers in support of Shaykh Raed. We are confident that the hearing will clear him of all charges so that he can return home to ...

NOVANEWS Jillian Kestler-D'Amours  The Electronic Intifada  Palestinian activists in the West Bank are organizing to document and prevent settler violence. JERUSALEM (IPS) - Amid reports that the Israeli military is arming and training Israeli settlers in advance of a United Nations vote on Palestinian statehoodlater this week, Palestinian activists in the West Bank have organized emergency response teams to document Israeli settler attacks and prevent more from taking place. “This project came from the continuous and frequent attacks by the settlers in the last days. The settlers have many plans to attack Palestinian houses and lands and they announced that they will make the Palestinians suffer as a punishment for going to get full membership in the United Nations,” Iss...

NOVANEWS The Electronic Intifada    Palestinians demand release of loved ones held in Israeli jail The latest Israeli administrative detention order against Palestinian nurse and ambulance officer Ayed Dudeen — issued only two months after Dudeen was released from almost four years spent in Israeli custody without charge — has once again highlighted the destructive and harmful impact that this Israeli policy has on Palestinian families. “It is horrible because you don’t know your head from your toes,” said 20-year-old Hamza Ayed Muhammad Dudeen, Ayed’s eldest child. “At the beginning our hope rises that at any minute he will be released, but this hope fades away when the number of consecutive extensions [of administrative detention] reaches ten or 11.” Administrative...