Human Rights

NOVANEWS Alison Weir CounterPunch March 17, 2011 US media widely and repeatedly reported on the horrific March 11th murder of three small Israeli children and their parents. While no one yet knows who committed this grotesque act, reports presume that the murderers were Palestinian, and for this reason the incident is receiving major attention. Various heads of state, including President Obama, have condemned it. If it turns out that the murderer or murderers were Israeli, as some previously presumed “terrorists” have turned out to be, or a foreign worker who had previously threatened the family over unpaid wages, as some reports from the area suggest, it is likely that coverage of the tragic incident will quickly vanish from U.S. headlines. For now, however, American news reports cont...

NOVANEWS   ZIO-NAZI GESTAPO INTERROGATED PALESTINIAN CHILDREN'S   The Nazi occupation authorities in Jerusalem interrogated 1,200 children the past year, detained 759, and submitted indictments against 226 of them, according to a report by an Israeli human rights organization. Despite Zio-Nazi law ??  prohibiting detaining children less than 12-years-old or detentions of minors at night, the report mentions many cases where children were forced out of their bedrooms and taken handcuffed to be interrogated, without being accompanied by their parents. The report mentioned that Jerusalem residents look to police as an enemy working for the interests of Jewish settlers there. The report stressed the “excessive use of force” by Zio-Nazi Gestapo's  in dispersing protests, launc...

NOVANEWS   Zio-Nazi Gestapo's have abducted 12 Palestinians, including two women, overnight during raids on six villages near the northern West Bank town of Jenin. Zio-Nazi Gestapo officer said in a statement on Tuesday that the detainees were senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad activists, Ma’an news agency reported. The Zio-Nazi Gestapo has also ordered the closure of Palestinian charity Al Bara’a, claiming its operations harm Zio-Nazi, according to the statement. Palestinian security officials said Arraba, Kafr Ra’i, Jaba, Az-Zababida, Anin and Silat Al-Harithiya villages were raided. Islamic Jihad said Nazi soldiers tried to detain the movement’s leader Khadir Adnan overnight, but he was not at home at the time of the attack. Meanwhile, Palestinian security sources said soldie...

NOVANEWS   My friend Aafke has created one of the most compelling videos bringing the plight of Manal Al-Sherif and for all Saudi women who simply wish to drive to the forefront.    

NOVANEWS   According to relatives’ account, the boy was arrested by Zio-Nazi Gestapo in East Jerusalem village of Silwan; Zio-Nazi: “We acted in accordance with the law”. Haaretz Jerusalem policemen arrested a Palestinian seven-year-old child, relatives said on Sunday, claiming that the boy was battered by police officers during his arrest. The boy’s parents, residents of the East Jerusalem village of Silwan, said they searched for their son for two hours at several police stations, without the police providing any information as to his whereabouts. According to family members, the second grader was arrested during play. His father, who noticed policemen arresting his son, attempted to intervene, and in the ensuing scuffle was sprayed in his face with pepper spray and was evacuate...

NOVANEWS   Zio-Nazi Gestapo  forced Mahmoud Aramin to demolish his house in East Jerusalem Sunday, or risk having it destroyed by an Nazi bulldozer, which would have resulted in an exorbitant fine. Aramin had already paid thousands of dollars in fines to the Jerusalem municipality in monthly installments, for having built an ‘unlicensed’ house in East Jerusalem. Palestinians who live in East Jerusalem have not been granted building permits since 1967, and face  demolitions of their homes by Zio-Nazi Gestapo. The forced demolition comes just days after the Zio-Nazi Gestapo  authorized the construction of a 50-unit Nazi settlement in the Ras al-Amoud neighborhood of East Jerusalem, not far from the home of Mahmoud Aramin. According to the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, ...

NOVANEWS   (Reported by Ali Samoudi, Jenin - Photos of May 28 prisoner support rally) May 28, 2011 - Ahmad Sa'adat, imprisoned Palestinian leader, member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, issued a statement from his isolation cell in Nafha prison on May 24, 2011. Sa'adat's letter marked the anniversary of the Nakba and sent condolences to the entire Palestinian people, and particularly the Palestinian community in exile and diaspora, for the "martyrs of Return" who gave their lives in Jerusalem, the occupied Syrian Golan, Lebanon and Gaza on May 15, 2011, when they were killed by Israeli occupation forces as they protested in mass actions commemorating the 63rd anniversary of the Nakba and demanding the ...

NOVANEWS   THE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM WHO ARE ThE PALESTINIAN PRISONERS? There are, today, approximately 5,600 Palestinian political prisoners. Palestinians, living under occupation and oppression for over 63 years, have been targetedrelentlessly for imprisonment and detention by the Israeli occupation. Nearly every Palestinian family has been touched by political imprisonment. Since the extension of the occupation of Palestine to the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 1967, over 650,000 Palestinians have been taken prisoner - one out of every four Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza. Forty percent of male Palestinians in the West Bank and Gazahave spent time in occupation jails. Palestinians’ arrest and detention are covered by Israeli military regulations; there are over 1500 of these r...

NOVANEWS Sa'adat salutes popular leadership in the Palestinian Movement + New Flyer for use by organizers!   The Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat has released a new flyer and factsheet for use by advocates and organizers in solidarity with Sa'adat and Palestinian political prisoners.  (Download PDF) The 2-sided flyer discusses the Palestinian prisoners, the situation of child prisoners, torture and abuse, and administrative detention, as well as the case of Ahmad Sa'adat, the use of isolation, and a quote from Sa'adat. Download the flyer for use in your own protests, meetings, events and activities! Following his continued isolation on May 3, 2011, Sa'adat has continued to be denied family visits and other basic rights. He met with attorney Buthaina Duqmaq on May 23, 2011, and se...

NOVANEWS   by Carol Tyx We start slowly, our delegation members, several men, a handful of women, a sprinkling of children. As we walk out of the Palestinian village of At-Tuwani the procession grows, women cutting across fields, children scrambling down hillsides.  Some of the boys carry hoes; the women swing buckets; a young child waves a Palestinian flag.  We are on our way to a small olive orchard in the valley to take part in a healing ritual, but the conversation, in Arabic, sounds chatty, neighbors exchanging the tidbits that make up daily life.  A few of the children try to bring us into the loop with their schoolroom English; we try a few Arabic phrases. When we reach the orchard, we pause.  I know in my head that Israeli settlers who live across the valley from At-Tuwani som...