Human Rights

NOVANEWS   Independent – How Israel takes its revenge on boys who throw stones The boy, small and frail, is struggling to stay awake. His head lolls to the side, at one point slumping on to his chest. "Lift up your head! Lift it up!" shouts one of his interrogators, slapping him. But the boy by now is past caring, for he has been awake for at least 12 hours since he was separated at gunpoint from his parents at two that morning. "I wish you'd let me go," the boy whimpers, "just so I can get some sleep." During the nearly six-hour video, 14-year-old Palestinian Islam Tamimi, exhausted and scared, is steadily broken to the point where he starts to incriminate men from his village and weave fantastic tales that he believes his tormentors want to hear. This rarely seen footage seen by...

NOVANEWS Video seen by Catrina Stewart reveals the brutal interrogation of young Palestinians The Independent The boy, small and frail, is struggling to stay awake. His head lolls to the side, at one point slumping on to his chest. “Lift up your head! Lift it up!” shouts one of his interrogators, slapping him. But the boy by now is past caring, for he has been awake for at least 12 hours since he was separated at gunpoint from his parents at two that morning. “I wish you’d let me go,” the boy whimpers, “just so I can get some sleep.” During the nearly six-hour video, 14-year-old Palestinian Islam Tamimi, exhausted and scared, is steadily broken to the point where he starts to incriminate men from his village and weave fantastic tales that he believes his tormentors want to hear. This r...

NOVANEWS Inhuman and immoral - the cesspit of 'humanity' funded by the US taxpayer ...Please see & share Oh My GOD !!!! ..... The whole world should see this .... Thanks to Khaled Bushnaq for posting   http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php? v=10150212621565736&comments   Zio-Nazi War Crimes in Gaza Souce of photographs: Rafah Today        

NOVANEWS PALESTINE TELEGRAPH Gaza, (Pal Telegraph) – Many media outlets adopt the Israeli accounts without making sure about its validity.  The attack in Eilat which claimed the lives of 7 Israelis was vivid that it has targeted armed soldiers. Yet, Israeli media outlets led by Haaretz said “People” were killed, afterwards we have seen photos of the scene where military bags indicate it was a military target. Sadly, all professional media outlets circulated that one side of the story without carrying out any journalistic efforts. BBC, CNN, AFP, Reuters and the key outlets said that civilians were attacked in Israeli resort in Eilat. Shortly, contradictions started to arise as Israeli army released photos of some of the killed soldiers.  Haaretz, published a piece of news showing Israeli...

PCHR PDate: 20 August 2011alestinian Centre for Human RightsPress Release Time: 12:20 GMT    IOF Continue Their Offensive on the Gaza Strip; 6 Palestinians Killed and 9 Others Wounded   Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have continued their offensive on the Gaza Strip for the third consecutive day.  They have escalated attacks against civilian targets and have targeted a number of activists of the Palestinian resistance.  As a result of attacks by IOF in the past 24 hours, 6 Palestinians, including a physician and a child, have been killed, and 8 civilians, including two children and a woman, and a resistance activist have been wounded.  Thus, the number of Palestinians who have been killed by IOF since Thursday evening, 18 August 2011, have mounted to 12, while 32 others, incl...

NOVANEWS Why has Amnesty International been silent in the last few months when Israel has been killing Palestinian civilians?  "Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups must refrain from indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks harming civ Amnesty: Israelis, Palestinians must refrain from harming civilians  BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups must refrain from indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks harming civilians, Amnesty International said Friday. "The civilian deaths and injuries over the last two days in Israel and Gaza are deeply alarming and the escalating attacks underline the need for both sides to the conflict to take all feasible precautions to avoid civilian casualties," said Malcolm Smart, director of Amnesty's Mideast program. "Palest...

NOVANEWS Nazi Defense Minister Ehud Barak okays largest housing project in single settlement since establishment of the Naziyahu government. Haaretz Defense Minister Ehud Barak has approved the building of 277 apartments the West Bank settlement of Ariel, defying U.S. criticism of continued settlement construction. Barak authorized the construction in Ariel, the core of the settlement bloc deepest inside the West Bank. One hundred of the apartments will house Israelis evacuated in 2005 from a Gaza Strip settlement. The new housing units are set to be built in Ariel’s Noyman neighborhood. 100 homes are intended for evacuees of the Gaza settlement of Netzarim, while the rest of the housing units are set to be sold freely. The building permits for the homes were handed out a while ago, bu...

NOVANEWS Colonel Itai Virov, former commander of Kfir brigade, to be promoted to brigadier-general, will be head commander for infantry soldiers and paratroopers. Zio-Nazi Defense Forces Chief of Staff Benny Gantz and the General Staff have recently decided to appoint several Nazi officers to senior field positions, among them a colonel who in the past justified hitting Palestinian detainees. Nazi Colonel Itai Virov, former commander of the Kfir brigade, is to be promoted to brigadier-general and will be a head commander for infantry soldiers and paratroopers. Virov was reprimanded in the past for justifying hitting Palestinian detainees under certain circumstances. Virov made his comments during the trial of one of his soldiers, who was accused of hitting a Palestinian during an arres...

NOVANEWS UNRWA calls for accountability and an end to discriminatory practices Jerusalem Statement by UNRWA spokesperson, Chris Gunness A boy from the Bedouin community of Khan Al Ahmar stands in the yard of his demolition-threatened school. Demolitions by the Israeli authorities in the West Bank have escalated alarmingly. Figures released today by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) show that 700 people were displaced in the first six months of 2011 (excluding July), compared with 594 in the whole of 2010. UNRWA is concerned that 15 per cent of those displaced are Palestine refugees. The vast majority of demolitions have been carried out in Area C, the 60 per cent of the West Bank that is under full Israeli control for security, planning and building. June an...

NOVANEWS By Johnny Barber 'Dear Johnny: 'While you are in Gaza, please visit Gilad Shalit. He is the Israeli soldier who was kidnapped from outside Gaza 5 years ago, and has been held by Hamas without visits by anyone, including the Red Cross or Red Crescent, in violation of international law. I trust you are committed to human rights for all, and this small gesture should be quite easy to do as compared with the magnitude of arranging your flotilla. I look forward to seeing your video or photos or voice recording evidencing that Gilad is being treated well and is in good health.' I thought about Shalit quite often as I traveled around Gaza. Though the writer of the email assumed I was unaware of the prisoner or his circumstance, it was not true. I knew he was just a teenager when captured...