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Category Archives: Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territories
A West Bank village in protest against Israel’s military occupation
by Lamri Chirouf, Amnesty International’s delegate in the Occupied Palestinian Territories Last month we drove northwest from Ramallah to visit the small village of Budrus, which gained international attention a decade ago when residents started protesting against the fence/wall erected … Continue reading
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One Palestinian village Obama should visit
Sunjeev Bery, Amnesty International’s USA advocacy director for the Middle East and North Africa. Yesterday morning, US President Barack Obama arrived in Israel to much fanfare. He has said that he has come to listen. One place he should start … Continue reading
The Universal Periodic Review, human rights, and Israel: What’s at stake
By Peter Splinter, Amnesty International’s Representative to the United Nations in Geneva If the Israeli government is not careful, it will ruin an important global human rights process for everybody. The Universal Periodic Review, a process to examine states’ human … Continue reading
Challenging Israel’s occupation, Palestinians create ‘Gate of the Sun’ village
By Amnesty International Campaigner Saleh Hijazi In the small hours of Sunday, more than 500 Israeli police surrounded around 130 Palestinian activists at a protest camp on the hills opposite the illegal Israeli settlement of Ma’ale Adumim, east of Jerusalem … Continue reading
Investigating rocket attacks in Israel
By Ann Harrison, Deputy Director of Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa Programme It was dawn when we arrived in Israel to begin our investigation into rocket attacks from Gaza which by the end of the latest flare in … Continue reading