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Lib Dems should take stronger stand after reports of human rights abuses of Palestinian detainees

ed1 — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 16:13:54 +0000

A state with any respect for international law ought to impose sanctions on sales of arms to Israel, and the UK has a legal obligation to do this, not merely to impose a ban on future licences.

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Update 30 Jan 2024

ed1 — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 14:55:00 +0000

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling on South Africa’s case for genocide A brief summary A link to the ICJ ruling in more detail is here https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20240126-sum-01-00-en.pdf The interim judgement from the ICJ on Friday looked like good news, but it had little immediate effect apart from prompting denials and obfuscations. The statement from the Council for Arab-British […]

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Update 7 Jan 2024

ed1 — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 15:00:00 +0000

The intensity of Israel’s bombing of Gaza is unprecedented this century. One child is killed every ten mins, and more than 20,000 Palestinians are known to have been killed, with several more thousands missing presumed dead. For those that remain alive, nowhere is safe.

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Breast cancer is bad enough – imagine enduring it in Gaza

Site Administrator — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 13:30:56 +0000

Twenty-five years ago, during the first intifada, I was working as a volunteer surgeon with Medical Aid for Palestinians in al-Ahli hospital in Gaza when the Madrid peace conference led to the Oslo agreement and the supposed roadmap to peace between Israel and Palestine. I returned to Palestine a few […]

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In Gaza, nothing is just an accident

Site Administrator — Sun, 29 May 2016 10:00:10 +0000

When a candle caused a fire that killed three young children at a house in Gaza, it seemed like the kind of horrible misfortune that could happen anywhere writes Hamza Abu Eltarabesh But candles in Beach refugee camp, where the recent fire occurred, are lit not for mood but necessity. And in Gaza, where rolling power […]

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