Human Rights

NOVANEWS Bisan Al Sallaq, an 11-year-old girl from Gaza, cannot wait to see her friend Oday Al Jamal at a Dubai hospital today. by Maey El Shoush Oday, also 11, underwent four hours of orthopaedic surgery yesterday to treat injuries from a Gaza bombing in 2005. “I was very worried about him and so I am happy he is OK,” said Bisan. It was Oday’s fourth operation after a blast tore off his right leg and left him with severe abdominal burns and a scarred and injured left leg. Volunteer surgeons operated on both legs and fitted a prosthetic. The procedure was co-ordinated in conjunction with the Dubai charity Little Wings Foundation. Oday, who was operated on by Dr Marc Sinclair of Little Wings who performed the procedure for free, is recovering well but his leg will remain in a plaster c...

NOVANEWS [newprofile message:4379] Open Letter Concerning the Increase in Settler Violence... TO: 1 recipient CC: 1 recipient Show Details Message Body http://www.alhaq.org/etemplate.php?id=621  JOINT OPEN LETTER  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: 19 September 2011 REF.: 290/2011 Dear High Contracting Parties of the Four Geneva Conventions and EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, As organisations dedicated to the protection and promotion of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), the Palestinian Council of Human Rights Organisations (PCHRO) would like to raise concerns about the recent escalation in violent attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Since 12 August 2011, field rese...

NOVANEWS   Media Advisory Wednesday, 19 Septemeber 2011 Trial of West Bank Protest Organizer, Bassem Tamimi, to Resume Wednesday After being three times postponed, the session on Wednesday will see prosecution witnesses take the stand for the first time. Among them the main witness, 14 year-old Islam Dar Ayyoub, who incriminated Tamimi after being unlawfully interrogated. When: Wednesday, September 21th, 2011 at 1:30 PM Where: Ofer Military Court* * Entry to the military court must be coordinated with the Israeli army's spokesperson's office in advance. Media contact: Jonathan Pollak +972-54-632-7736 After telling the judge that he does not recognize the legitimacy of the court and of military law during his arraignment on June 5th, Bassem Tamimi's trial is expected to open this co...

NOVANEWS Show Details Message Body Jenin Jenin www.youtube.com Jenin Jenin. Film by Mohamed Bakri. Jenin Jenin, directed and co-produced by Palestinian actor and director Mohamed Bakri, includes testimony from Jenin resi... Jenin Jenin By abumiz| 1 video Watch All

Palestinian child- listen to what she says. Show Details Message Body http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKpIRKqsrt4&feature=related It doesn't matter how many times you watch this, it makes you want to weep. Heartbreaking Palestinian Girl | طفلة فلسطينية تقطّع القلب www.youtube.com this video will make you cry :( مقطع من برنامج وثائقي بريطاني عن غزة . - روس كيمب - زار غزة بعد مرور عام على الحرب الصهيونية على شعب غزة .. وشهد بعينه آثار ا... Heartbreaking Palestinian Girl | طفلة فلسطينية ... By amenoz| 1 video Watch All

NOVANEWS Submitted by maureen Amnesty International is calling for urgent action after an Israeli military commander renewed the administrative detention order against Ahmad Qatamesh by another six months last week. The Palestinian writer and academic has been held without charge since 21 April, when Israeli soldiers raided his family’s home, holding his family members hostage at gunpoint until Qatamesh, who was not home at the time, surrendered himself. Ahmad’s daughter, Hanin Ahmad Qatamesh, describes in an article for The Electronic Intifada how Israeli soldiers invaded her family’s home in the middle of the night: They pointed their machine guns at us and told us they wanted to search the house. My 14-year-old cousin, Nai, and 69-year-old aunt were sleeping inside. Without thin...

NOVANEWS by Alice Walker I was injured as a child; my brother shot me in the eye with a pellet gun, causing disfigurement and loss of sight.  The incident itself, as well as the trauma surrounding it: my father was unable to flag down a white driver (cars among black people were rare) to take me to a doctor, left me despairing and contributed to severe depressions that lasted for many years.  What helped?  I was able to get my hands on paper and pencil and began to write – not about what had happened to me – but about whatever arose from my melancholy, death-leaning imagination.  These early “poems” I was encouraged to share; so I showed them, albeit with head hanging low, to members of my family and to anyone I trusted who came to visit.  I am convinced this process of creating and sharin...

NOVANEWS   Oakland Children’s Museum Cancels Palestinian Children’s Art Exhibit Under Pressure from Local Jewish Groups More Recent Articles Search MuzzleWatch Prior Mailing Archive Oakland Children’s Museum Cancels Palestinian Children’s Art Exhibit Under Pressure from Local Jewish Groups Berkeley, CA’s Middle East Children’s Alliance broke the news yesterday that the exhibit of children’s artwork from Gaza that they had worked on for months with Oakland’s Children’s Museum of Art was suddenly canceled by the board before the planned September 24 opening reception. The show featured drawings by children about Israel’s infamous Operation Cast Lead, the military assault of December 2008-January 2009 that led to the deaths of some 1,400 Palestinians, over 300 of t...

Friends, I've signed this important letter.  Please consider joining me and inviting your friends and associates to join us, as well.   Anne Dear Friend, You are invited to be a early signer to the letter below, so your name will be listed when the invitation to prospective signers is broadcast more widely. (Information about the genesis of the letter is pasted at the end of this message.) To add your name and city to the list of signers, please reply to me at martha@martinreese.com. Your organizational affiliation is optional. You may forward this message to your friends and associates who might like to sign. Thank you! Martha Reese OPEN LETTER TO THE MUSEUM OF CHILDREN'S ART, OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA Hilmon Sorey, Board President Masako Kalbach, Interim Executive Director ______________...

Dear All, Click here to stand up for freedom for Ibrahim Srour The village of Ni'ilin has been hit strong and hard by the Israeli attempts to suppress the unarmed demonstrations against the construction of the Wall. Since May 2008, when demonstrations against the Wall began in the village, hundreds have been injured and hundreds more were arrested. Five , including a ten year-old boy, were killed by Israeli bullets. Other punitive measures included withdrawal of work permits and the blocking of entrances to the village for large periods of time. The Wall in Ni'ilin, now complete, leaves roughly a third of the village's lands sequestered behind it. Despite the repression, as land theft continues, so do demonstrations in Ni'ilin and many other Palestinian villages. Please fo...