When will the world start to fully and duly respond to Israel's continued breaches of international law, inhuman treatment of Palestinians in the occupied territories and Gaza, the discrimination of its Palestinian citizens [some 20% of the population] the flouting of UN Resolutions and plain lawless conduct?
The latest infraction of international law by the Israelis is reported in the UN News Centre:
"An independent United Nations human rights expert today denounced what he described as “the unlawful naval seizure” by an Israeli gunboat of a ship carrying medicine and reconstruction material for the people of Gaza.
Richard Falk, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, said the Israeli action “implements its cruel blockade of the entire Palestinian population of Gaza.”
It also violates Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which prohibits any form of collective punishment directed at an occupied people, he stated.
A news release issued from his office in Geneva says the boat had been inspected in response to Israeli demands before departure by the port authorities in Cyprus to determine whether there were weapons on board. None were found, and Israeli authorities were so informed.
“Nonetheless, the 21 peace activists on the boat were arrested, held in captivity, and have been charged with ‘illegal entry’ to Israel even though they had no intention of going to Israel,” the release states."
Over at Information Clearing House [go here] there is the following - "Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire and Cynthia McKinney speak from an Israeli Jail Cell".
The latest infraction of international law by the Israelis is reported in the UN News Centre:
"An independent United Nations human rights expert today denounced what he described as “the unlawful naval seizure” by an Israeli gunboat of a ship carrying medicine and reconstruction material for the people of Gaza.
Richard Falk, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, said the Israeli action “implements its cruel blockade of the entire Palestinian population of Gaza.”
It also violates Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which prohibits any form of collective punishment directed at an occupied people, he stated.
A news release issued from his office in Geneva says the boat had been inspected in response to Israeli demands before departure by the port authorities in Cyprus to determine whether there were weapons on board. None were found, and Israeli authorities were so informed.
“Nonetheless, the 21 peace activists on the boat were arrested, held in captivity, and have been charged with ‘illegal entry’ to Israel even though they had no intention of going to Israel,” the release states."
Over at Information Clearing House [go here] there is the following - "Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire and Cynthia McKinney speak from an Israeli Jail Cell".
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