Video: Gazan child recounts horrors of Israeli war
AlJazeera.net
| Aid agencies say the psychological effects of the Israeli offensive on Gaza have been heavy, particularly on children. The scale of destruction is immense and for the most part reconstruction is impossible. There are countless stories of suffering and despair. Al Jazeera’s Jonah Hull talks to one nine-year-old boy about his experiences and how he is dealing with them…
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US labor supports boycott of Israeli cargo
Labor for Palestine
| We salute the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) in Durban, and Western Australian dock worker members of the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA), for refusing to handle Israeli cargo. Theirs is a courageous response to Israel’s attack on Palestinians in Gaza that, since 27 December alone, have left some 1,400 dead and 5,000 wounded — nearly all of them civilians. This action is in the best tradition of dock workers in Denmark and Sweden (1963), the San Francisco Bay area (1984) and Liverpool (1988), who refused to handle shipping for apartheid South Africa; Oakland dock workers’ refusal to load bombs for the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile (1978); and West Coast dock workers’ strike against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (2008)…
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Carleton U. Bans Israeli Apartheid Week Poster – Call to Action
Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW)
| On February 8, Students Against Israeli Apartheid at Carleton University put up 100 posters for “Israeli Apartheid Week”, a series of lectures and public events that will occur on campuses in over 40 cities around the world. On February 9, these posters were taken down at the request of Carleton’s Equity Services, under the rationale that the posters “could be seen to incite others to infringe rights protected in the Ontario Human Rights code” and are “insensitive to the norms of civil discourse in a free and democratic society” The poster was created by noted cartoonist Carlos Latuff and depicts a situation – a child being killed by aerial bombardment that occurred over 430 times in Israel’s latest attack on Gaza according to United Nations reports…
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Amnesty calls on US to suspend arms sales to Israel
Hellfire missiles and white phosphorus artillery shells among weapons used in ‘indiscriminate’ attacks on civilians, says human rights group
Rory McCarthy, The Guardian
| Detailed evidence has emerged of Israel’s extensive use of US-made weaponry during its war in Gaza last month, including white phosphorus artillery shells, 500lb bombs and Hellfire missiles. In a report released today, Amnesty International listed the weapons used and called for an immediate ar ms embargo on Israel and all Palestinian armed groups. It called on the US president, Barack Obama, to suspend military aid to Israel. The human rights group said those arming both sides in the conflict “will have been well aware of a pattern of repeated misuse of weapons by both parties and must therefore take responsibility for the violations perpetrated”. The US has long been the largest arms supplier to Israel; under a 10-year agreement negotiated by the Bush administration the US will provide $30bn (£21bn) in military aid to Israel…
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Gaza children “afraid to return to school”
IRIN News
| School-children in the Gaza Strip face psychological trauma and lack facilities after schools were badly damaged or destroyed during Israel’s three-week assault on the enclave that began in December. Primary and secondary schools in Gaza run by the government and the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) report a shortage of drinking water and textbooks for students, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Restrictions on the amount and type of materials being allowed into Gaza by Israeli authorities are hindering the education system. Many parents and children say they were afraid to return to school after the war. The first attack hit Gaza on a morning while school was in session…
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More prisons, more war crimes, more ethnic cleansing
Body on the Line
| Ot is important to reflect on the meaning of the constant state of refugeedom that palestinians are subjected to because of zionist terrorism and their american, and often european and arab, allies. I think it is important because while we must still keep the focus on Gaza, so as not to let israeli terrorist war criminals off the hook, we must remember, always, the root of the problem: ethnic cleansing and expulsion and the right of return of those who were forcibly removed from their land….
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Revealed: full horror of Gitmo inmate’s beatings
Mark Townsend, The Observer
| Binyam Mohamed will return to Britain suffering from a huge range of injuries after being beaten by US guards right up to the point of his departure from Guantánamo Bay, according to the first detailed accounts of his treatment inside the camp. Mohamed will arrive back tomorrow in the UK, where he was a British resident between 1984 and 2002. During medical examinations last week, doctors discovered injuries and ailments resulting from apparently brutal treatment in detention. Mohamed was found to be suffering from bruising, organ damage, stomach complaints, malnutrition, sores to feet and hands, severe damage to ligaments as well as profound emotional and psychological problems which have been exacerbated by the refusal of Guantánamo’s guards to give him counselling…
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B’Tselem: If Israel has nothing to hide, let us into Gaza
Ma’an news
| Israel is preventing independent human rights monitors from entering Gaza, Human Rights Watch and B’Tselem said Sunday. “Israel continues to obstruct independent investigations into allegations of laws of war violations by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Hamas military forces in Gaza,” the groups said in a joint statement to Ma’an. After submitting applications for permission to enter via the Erez crossing in January 2009, the groups faced continued delays from the military unit reviewing the applications. In February, the army told Human Rights Watch that it had rejected its application. The Israeli military denied B’Tselem’s first request to enter Gaza and has failed to respond to a second…
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Cairo dialogue on thin ice as row erupts over Fatah delegate
Ma’an news
| After a positive atmosphere of optimism prevailed between Palestinian rivals of Fatah and Hamas in advance of talks in Cairo, Hamas responded sharply to a televised interview on Palestine TV with Fatah leader Samir Mashharawi. Hamas considers Mashharawi one of its opponents in Gaza. Responding to Hamas reservations about his role in the Fatah delegation to Cairo talks, Samir Mashharawi said on Sunday that he is prepared to withdraw from the delegation if his membership impedes dialogue. But he said that “Hamas or others don’t have the right to intervene in the formation of Fatah’s delegation.”…
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Cancer patient dies bringing number of Gaza siege victims to 287
Palestinian Information Center
| A Palestinian cancer patient died on Sunday in Gaza after efforts to secure his treatment abroad failed, the PA health ministry in Gaza announced. It said that 31-year-old Shadi Hillis had all necessary papers that facilitated his travel abroad but due to the siege he died in Gaza where there is no advanced treatment for cancer patients. The ministry noted in a statement that the number of victims of the siege thus rose to 287 with 12 of them dying in February so far, warning that the number could increase any time due to the presence of tens of patients in intensive care units waiting for opening of crossings especially the Rafah border terminal with Egypt to enable them travel for treatment abroad…
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Shoes thrown at Israeli military spokesperson in Amsterdam
Ma’an news
| Four shoes were thrown at an Israeli army spokesperson on Sunday night in Amsterdam, according to a Dutch news agency. Three members of the country’s International Socialists (IS) threw four shoes at Israeli army spokesperson Ron Edelheit, who was speaking at the city’s Apollo Hotel on Sunday. About 50 protestors demonstrated against the event outside the hotel, the IS announced. The shoe-throwers, students from Groningen and Leiden, have been arrested, according to the Nieuws Uit Amsterdam news agency…
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