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PA slammed for bumping Goldstone draft

Source: Jerusalem Post

Ramallah : Palestine | 2 months ago

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The Palestinian Authority has come under heavy criticism for agreeing to defer the draft proposal at the Human Rights Council endorsing all recommendations of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission regarding Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip. Some Palestinians went as far as accusing the PA...

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GAZA: Israel has released six members of the Palestinian parliament affiliated to the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) who were jailed after resistance fighters seized Gilad Shalit in a 2006 cross-border raid. The freed lawmakers were identified as Ahmad Attoun and Wael Al-Husseini from Jerusalem Al-Quds, Khalil Ar-Rabai, Samir Al-...

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Turkey-Israel diplomatic relation after cancelation air military ...

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Israeli Planes Strike Targets In Gaza

By: WashingtonTimes

GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli planes carried out air strikes against targets in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, injuring seven Palestinians, Palestinian medical workers said. An army spokesman said the strikes, which occurred after a rocket fired from the http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizati

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Peace Talks in Israel fail again

By: northsunm32

Abbas is supposed to have agreed to defer any action on the Goldstone report partly because the US promised a renewal of peace talks. But as this article points out special envoy George Mitchell has achieved precisely nothing in nine visits. The media has always suggested that Obama might be tested by his enemies but in this ...

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Palestinians angry as Abbas drops war crimes case

News Source: Seattle Times | 2 months ago

West Bank — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas faced growing outrage at home Sunday over his decision to withdraw support for a U.N. report that alleged Israel and Hamas committed war crimes in last winter's Gaza war. Abbas' reversal came as a...
Palestinian anger as Abbas drops war crimes case

News Source: Gulf News | 2 months ago

The report will now lie dormant for at least six months instead of being moved up through the UN hierarchy with a possible recommendation for war crimes tribunals. The report describes actions in Israel's Gaza war last winter. Leading members of the...
Palestinian economy minister resigns: source

News Source: Zawya Political | 2 months ago

Palestinian economy minister Bassem Khuri resigned on Saturday, an official close to him said, becoming the first minister to step down since the government was formed earlier this year. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, declined to...
Minister quits over request to defer UN vote

News Source: Arab News | 2 months ago

Several Palestinian political factions and human rights organizations on Saturday harshly criticized the Palestinian Authority’s request to defer a UN Human Rights Council vote on a resolution that would have condemned Israel’s failure to...
Abbas denies scuttling action

News Source: Gulf News | 2 months ago

Abbas said the Palestinians had accepted to defer a vote in the UN Human Rights Council on passing the report to the General Assembly for further action after all states had accepted a proposal by the US, Europe, Russia and China to delay. "The...
Amnesty raps UN over vote deferral

News Source: Gulf News | 2 months ago

The international human rights organisation based in London called on the UN Secretary General to refer the report to the UN Security Council for immediate action...This deferral indicates a lack of political will to deal robustly with issues of...