The blockade imposed by Israel on the Gaza Strip over a year ago has
left the population of 1.5 million Palestinians trapped with
dwindling resources and an economy in ruins.
Amnesty International has described as scandalous the Israeli army's
account of firing a tank shell that killed Reuters cameraman Fadel
Shana as a "sound" decision.
In a Memorandum sent to the Internal Affairs and Environment Committee of the Israeli Knesset (parliament) Amnesty International urged legislators to reject a proposed law that imposes lengthy prison sentences on asylum-seekers and irregular migrants, disregarding their reasons for entering the country, and allowing for their immediate deportation, without regard for their possible ill-treatment or persecution to which they may be subject upon their return. The Committee is meeting on 24 June to discuss the draft “Prevention of Infiltration Law – 2008”.
At least 18 Palestinians, including children and other unarmed
civilians, were killed by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip on
Wednesday.
The Israeli government should immediately order a full and independent investigation into yesterday’s killings of Palestinian civilians by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip, Amnesty International said today.
Mobile homes for an illegal Israeli settlement in the Occupied
Palestinian Territories got the go-ahead within a week of Israeli
bulldozers demolishing Palestinian homes and property in the area.
The Israeli army must allow chronically ill cancer patient Karima Abu Dalal to leave the Gaza Strip and obtain desperately needed medical care in Israel, Amnesty International said today.
The Israeli army demolished more homes in Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday morning.
Amnesty International today condemned the killing of eight Israeli civilians, four of them children, in a shooting attack by a Palestinian on a Yeshiva school in Jerusalem.
Israeli military air strikes and artillery attacks on the Gaza Strip
during the last few days have killed over 100 Palestinians, including
dozens of children and other civilian bystanders.
