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Again and again attempts have been made to indict Israeli soldiers and civilians as war criminals when their only crimes have been to thwart terrorist actions or punish those responsible for murder. Attempts to charge them with crimes against humanity have never been matched by calls to indict Palestinian terrorist chiefs. The bias is very clear, and it is inspired not by humanitarian concerns or a desire for justice but by political motives.
... by Ingrid Jaradat from the BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, whic...
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The Siege of Gaza One of the purposes of an Oct. 22 panel discussion at Columbia University on "The Siege of Gaza," sponsored by Adalah-NY and the Arab Student Association, was to support the Gaza Community Mental Health Program's international campaign to break that siege. Moreno also was the counsel of record in the federal indictment of the Muslim charity the Holy Land Foundation-another trial which failed to produce any guilty verdicts-and in the trial of the "Florida 7," whom the press characterized as Muslim terrorists who intended to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago.
..., he recalled, with thousands of Palestinians rushing to take flowers to the nearby Israeli mili...; Darryl Li of the Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights; and Toufic Haddad, co-editor wit...
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The future of a tiny Christian community in the Gaza Strip is in doubt after the takeover of Gaza by the militant Islamist group Hamas.
Recent attacks and threats against churches and institutions affiliated with the Christian community of about 2,000 have raised questions about the fate of minorities in the densely populated coastal strip of 1.5 million people now under Islamist control.
..., Jerusalem-based director of the Palestinian Bible Society. "The problem is the people who work... director of the Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights, said the group hasn't received a...
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israeli army bulldozers razed 35 homes in a Palestinian refugee camp Saturday, a U.N. official said, a day after a resident of a nearby Jewish settlement was killed by mortar fire from the area.
The army said most of the demolished structures in the Khan Younis camp were uninhabited and served as cover for militants shelling the nearby settlement of Neve Dekalim.
..., according to the Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights,. Israel does not provide its own...
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israeli army bulldozers razed 35 homes in a Palestinian refugee camp Saturday, a U.N. official said, a day after a resident of a nearby Jewish settlement was killed by mortar fire from the area.
The army said most of the demolished structures in the Khan Younis camp were uninhabited and served as cover for militants shelling the nearby settlement of Neve Dekalim.
..., according to the Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights. Israel does not provide its own ...
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Israeli army bulldozers razed 35 homes in a Palestinian refugee camp Saturday, a U.N. official said, a day after a resident of a nearby Jewish settlement was killed by mortar fire from the area.
The army said most of the demolished structures in the Khan Younis camp were uninhabited and served as cover for militants shelling the nearby settlement of Neve Dekalim.
..., according to the Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights,. Israel does not provide its own...
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... could not move forward because the Palestinian leadership was weak, governance was dysfunctional,...A survey conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (VSR, an organizati...
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S. intelligence agencies are investigating reports that al Qaeda-aligned groups played a key role in the deadly commando-style attack near the Israeli resort town of Eilat last week.
A U.S. government assessment of the incident Thursday concludes that either the Palestinian group Popular Resistance Committees or the Gaza-based Army of Islam (or Jaish al Islam), a Palestinian group sympathetic to al Qaeda, carried out the commando assault and bombing raid that emanated from the increasingly lawless Sinai Peninsula.
... who now is the president of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. "There have been al Qaeda affi...
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Hamas security arrested about 200 supporters of the rival Fatah group, hurled grenades at the home of a Fatah leader and set up checkpoints across Gaza on Saturday after a mysterious beachside blast that killed five Hamas members and a 6- year-old girl.
Hamas leaders blamed Fatah for Friday's explosion, and began the toughest crackdown against the rival group in recent months. A Gaza- based human rights group reported Hamas security officials arrested at least 160 Fatah loyalists, and some 40 institutions connected to the group were raided.
... in the blast, and an aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said the crackdown is redu...The Palestinian Center for Human Rights in Gaza reported that some 160 Fa...
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[...] there is a technical problem, he added, as two of Israel's main banks are no longer in contact with the Gaza banks. [...] they cannot send the money there/ Responding to Fitoussi's explanation, WAC director Avid noted that using noncommunication as an excuse in a nation noted for its technical communication abilities and skills serves to deflect rather than answer the question.
... ceased paying thousands of disabled Palestinian workers in the Gaza Strip their disability benefit...-based Israeli organization Workers Advice Center (WAC): "The workers, some of whom have up to 75 pe...