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Former South African judge Navi Pillay was the UN High Commissioner for human rights between 2008 and 2014. (Photo: Courtesy Eric Bridiers, Wikimedia Commons) The President of the UN Human Rights Council, Shameem Khan, has announced the appointment of three members of the Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, to investigate “alleged violations” in international humanitarian and human rights law since April. The commission has been formed according to the Human Rights Council resolution dated May 27. The resolution was issued at an emergency special session in response to the Israeli violence that saw scores of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces throughout the occupied territories, including occupied East Jerusale...

"The signing of the US-UNRWA Framework and additional support demonstrates we once again have an ongoing partner in the United States that understands the need to provide critical assistance to some of the region's most vulnerable refugees," UNRWA's Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini stated. US aid to UNRWA was given against a commitment by the agency to abide by conditions such as "communicating any serious neutrality violations" to the US. "Like all UN agencies, UNRWA and its staff cannot take sides in hostilities or engage in controversies of a political, racial, religious or ideological nature," the agreement partly reads. UNRWA has been called out by Israel on several occasions, accused of enabling terror incitement through the Palestinian Authority's curriculum textbo...

Abdo al-Tamimi victim of Nazi Police Nazi OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, A Palestinian young man was pronounced dead on Wednesday evening by the Nazi occupation police at the Moskobiya Nazi detention and interrogation centre in west Jerusalem. According to the Palestinian Commission for Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs, 43-year-old Abdo al-Tamimi, a resident of Shuafat refugee camp in Jerusalem, died while being held at the Moskobiya center. Tamimi was arrested last Sunday over a traffic violation. Spokesman for the Commission Hasan Abd Rabo held the Nazi occupation authority in Nazi Occupied Jerusalem fully responsible for his death. Tamimi’s family, for its part, accused the Nazi police of killing him, affirming that he suffered from a heart attack after he was severely be...

Nazi JEWISH colonialist settlers attacked, on Wednesday at dawn, a Palestinian car near Ramallah, in central West Bank, wounding a father and his son, in addition to causing damage. Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian Authority official who monitors Nazi JEWISH’s illegal colonialist activities in the northern West Bank, said the colonists came from the illegal Nazi JEWISH Shilu colony, which was installed on stolen Palestinian lands. He added that the Nazi JEWISH colonists hurled stones at a Palestinian car, wounding the driver, Dawsam Rabi, and his son, Mohammad, in addition to causing damage to their car. The two Palestinians are from Tulkarem, in northern West Bank, and were rushed to a Palestinian hospital in Ramallah.

Joint militias: How settlers and soldiers teamed up to kill four Palestinians A Local Call investigation reveals how on a single day in May, Israeli settlers and soldiers cooperated in attacks that left four Palestinians dead. The unprecedented spate of joint assaults has inaugurated a new era of terror. By Yuval Abraham for +972 Magazine Nidal Safadi was a quiet man, his neighbors said. He lived in Urif, a Palestinian village of several thousand people in the West Bank. Just 25, Safadi had three children with his wife and a fourth, a girl, on the way. Urif is not always quiet. With the Palestinian city of Nablus less than 10 miles away, the occupying Israeli military established a base on a nearby hilltop in 1983. A year later, it was turned over to civilia...

Silwan: A silent war for Jerusalem’s soul By Latifeh Abdellatif , Huthifa Fayyad for Middle East Eye Since the Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem in 1967, Silwan has been the target of ongoing illegal Israeli settlement activity. Qutaiba Odeh is one of thousands of Palestinians in the ancient town fighting home demolitions and evictions to remain in their homes. Transcribed by IMEMC Qutaiba Odeh: “We live in a silent war. It’s a war you don’t hear or see, but as Palestinians in Jerusalem, we live it around the clock. There is not a house in Silwan today that does not have a story or a hardship. Either they have someone in prison, someone wounded or martyred, a child or a young man detained, a house threatened with demolition by the [Israeli] muni...

A Jewish Reflection on Israel’s Crimes and Israeli Hubris IFAMERICANSKNEW Lesher sees an “avalanche of blended viciousness and self-pity by which “religious” Jewish media insists on its victimhood while celebrating slaughter.” Jewish author Michael Lesher – who blogs for the Times of Israel, among other outlets – muses on many Jewish leaders’ responses to the recent attack on Gaza: “trust in God and believe in Jewish infallibility.” Lesher suggests that instead, they should “devote their efforts toward restraining the Israeli war machine,” and consider the consequences of “[building a] future on a foundation of stolen property and murdered children.” by Michael Lesher, reposted from off-guardian.org, May 22, 2021 “A spirit [of piety] is characterized not only ...