collective punishment
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Israel’s Brutality Draws on British Rule
Britain’s “mandate” over Palestine from 1920-48 left an apparatus of repression which Israel inherited and still uses today in its ferocious war on Palestinians, writes A. Bustos. Continue reading
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Israel tightens Gaza chokehold
Gaza siege,closure,collective punishment,Bassam al-Saadi,Islamic Jihad,Gaza health care system,Gaza power plant Continue reading
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“Deep concern” won’t halt Jerusalem evictions
The state’s authorities said they were investigating the death of Said Yousef Muhammad Odeh, a Palestinian boy who was shot in the back by Israeli soldiers earlier this week. Continue reading
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Israel bans Palestinian exports in cruel and merciless ‘final nail’ policy
It appears that for Israel, that cutting off the supply of clean drinking water is not enough. It is not enough that water-borne diseases are spiking or that health and emergency services are breaking down. It is not enough that fresh food is unavailable because of a lack of refrigeration as electricity is only available… Continue reading
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100 Palestinian prisoners injured in Israeli attacks
Israeli forces injured more than 100 Palestinian prisoners at Israel’s Ofer military prison near the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah in a series of raids since Sunday. Several Israeli military units raided two other prisons since then, Nafha prison in the Naqab region in southern Israel and Gilboa prison in the north, after allegedly… Continue reading
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A village under occupation By Seth Herald
For the residents of Issawiyeh, a Palestinian village of some 20,000, surveillance, military raids and building demolitions are a daily reality. The village has seen its lands gradually disappear. Before Israel occupied the area in 1967, the village included some 12,500 dunams (1 dunam = 1,000 square meters) of land. Continue reading
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Media: While Attacks in Israel Make Headlines, Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza Ignored
The recent acute humanitarian crisis in Gaza—on top of the routine humanitarian crisis that defines everyday existence there—has gotten sparse coverage in US media over the past three weeks. Israeli officials have cut off electricity to almost 2 million Gazans for all but three or four hours a day—in conjunction with nominal Palestinian leader Mahmoud… Continue reading
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Gaza in Crisis: Israel launches wave after wave of bombings and artillery attacks
Last night and while Israeli army forces launched military attacks all over Gaza, by sea, air and artillery shelling, hundreds of thousands of children were unable to sleep inside their roof tinned homes, clinging to their parents, crying, terrified. The shelling of last night was so strong and went through the tiny strip from north… Continue reading
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The Plot Thickens: Gaza is Flooded with Sewage and Conspiracies By Ramzy Baroud
The latest punishment of Gaza may seem like another familiar plot to humiliate the strip to the satisfaction of Israel, Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority, and the military-controlled Egyptian government. But something far more sinister is brewing. This time, the collective punishment of Gaza arrives in the form of raw sewage that is flooding many neighborhoods… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks for 14 June 2011
14 June 2011 — williambowles.info LIVE: Canada backs Libyan opposition, as MPs debate mission CBC.ca By Laura Payton, CBC News Minister of Foreign Affairs John Baird delivers a speech during the debate on the mission in Libya in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, June 14, 2011. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Continue reading
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Western Libya Portrait is not What is being Painted by Mainstream Media By Wayne Madsen
Western media reports continue to indicate that Libyan rebels trying to oust Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi from power, backed by daily NATO air strikes, are gaining ground in western Libya but during a six-hour drive from the Tunisian border to Tripoli, the Libyan capital, this reporter saw no signs of Libyan rebel successes in western… Continue reading
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In a new 100-pages report PCHR details the collective punishment of the population of Gaza
The absolute closure of Gaza was imposed by Israel following the Hamas takeover in June 2007. For more than three years and a half, this most extreme form of closure has been continuously applied to the so-called “hostile entity” that is the Gaza Strip, cutting off 1.7 million individuals from the outside world. Continue reading
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Sonja Karkar: Gaza`s Death Throes
What kind of government seals a heavily populated territory of 1.5 million people so that no person can enter or leave without permission, fishermen cannot fish in their own waters, and world food aid cannot be delivered to the starving population? Continue reading
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Palestine: Collectively Punished by Israel and Collectively Punished by the media By William Bowles
22 January 2008 “No general penalty, pecuniary or otherwise, shall be inflicted upon the population on account of the acts of individuals for which they cannot be regarded as jointly and severally responsible.” — Laws and Customs of War on Land (Hague IV); October 18, 1907, Article 50″ Continue reading
The New Dark Age 