Nour Odeh; 19/11/09; (2 Items)
Products from illegal Israeli settlements are ending up on Palestinian shelves and Palestinians are inadvertently contributing to the growth of their industries and the settlements themselves. They are illegal, a contravention of the Fourth Geneva Convention, “dangerous”, “concerning”; they are Israel’s illegal settlements, built forcefully on occupied and mostly privately-owned Palestinian land. The Israeli settlement regime has occupied forty per cent and counting of the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Successive Israeli governments have offered Israeli settlers financial, logistical, and security support to create this reality that has now driven Palestinians to the brink of despair. Over half a million Israelis now live in approximately 200 Israeli settlements in Palestinians’ midst, prospering and ever-growing while Palestinians suffer increasing restrictions to protect these settlements. These restrictions include banning thousands of Palestinian farmers from accessing their farms and lands because of their proximity to the settlements; confiscating lands and property privately owned by Palestinians; banning Palestinians from travelling on what became Israeli-only roads; and according to the UN, the list goes on.
See: http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2009/11/19/combating-israeli-settlements-supermarkets; Lifting the lid on UK’s Israel lobby; Neil Berry; See: http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=128630&d=20&m=11&y=2009; Churches criticise expansion plan; http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=21765; Churches criticise expansion plan; http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=21765
423 Palestinian kids suffering in Israeli jails
Mohammed Mar’i; 20/11/09
Palestinian Minister of Social Affairs Majidah Al-Masri said on Thursday that 423 Palestinian children are currently living in what she described as “difficult and painful circumstances” in Israeli prisons. Accusing Israeli jailers of committing acts of psychological abuse and molestation, Al-Masri said that in addition to the strife of the children of Gaza, “the children in the West Bank are deprived from having a safe life due to the Israeli policy of uprooting and Judaisation.” Her remarks came during a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child that prohibits the kind of punitive treatment Israelis have been accused of by human rights groups.
See: http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=128624&d=20&m=11&y=2009
USA, Israel, UK, WCC, Terrorism, Children, Human Rights
Tags: Children, Human Rights, Israel, Terrorism, UK, USA, WCC