USA (The Inside Palestine)- Commenting on the violent settler attack on the occupied West Bank village of Huwara last week, Amnesty International has said that “impunity reigns for perpetrators of settler violence” against Palestinians. “Under Israel’s apartheid system, impunity reigns,” Amnesty International’s Director for the Middle East and North Africa, […]
Amnesty calls for ICC to investigate Israeli war crimes in Gaza
USA (The Inside Palestine) An International human rights group has urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) to look into potential war crimes following the “unlawful attacks” committed during Israel’s deadly assault on the Gaza Strip in August. Using photographs of weapons fragments, satellite imagery analysis, and testimony from dozens of […]
NGOs: Palestinian civil society must be protected against ‘rogue state Israel’
Occupied Palestine (The Inside Palestine)- The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) have gathered as a delegation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) to voice their support for Palestinian civil society and fight against Israel’s abusive and prolonged occupation, annexation, impunity and apartheid. […]
Amnesty calls on Biden to condemn Israel’s systematic human rights violations
Occupied Palestine (The Inside Palestine)- Amnesty International has called on US President Joe Biden to “fulfil his promise to put human rights at the centre of his first visit to the Middle East and North Africa since taking office and do everything in his power to press for immediate and […]
Amnesty demands ‘Israel’ to free human rights defender Salah Hammouri
Worldwide (The Inside Palestine)- Amnesty International has called on Israel to immediately release a human rights defender held under Tel Aviv’s administrative detention policy for another three months, Anadolu News Agency reports. “The Israeli authorities must immediately release Salah Hammouri,” Heba Morayef, Amnesty’s Regional Director for the Middle East and North […]
Amnesty welcomes ‘courageous’ protest by Palestinian administrative detainees in Israeli jails
Occupied Palestine (The Inside Palestine)-A protest by hundreds of Palestinian administrative detainees boycotting Israeli military courts is a “courageous” form of defiance against the “cruel and inhuman” detention practice, rights watchdog Amnesty International said on Monday. Nearly all the 500 Palestinians held in administrative detention completed 100 days of protest on Monday against Israel’s […]
‘Israel’ said to strip Amnesty’s tax-exempt status over apartheid report
Occupied Palestine (The Inside Palestine)- ‘Israel’ is edging towards stripping Amnesty International of its tax-exempt status following its new report on Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians. The Israeli occupation parliament’s Constitution, Law and Justice Committee is looking to consider rules that would strip Amnesty operations in Israel of tax-exempt status, according […]
‘Israel’ is an apartheid state. Many Israeli politicians agree, Amnesty says
Jerusalem- (The Inside Palestine) Who speaks for Israel? Rightwing lobby groups in Washington and US politicians would have Americans believe that it is them – and not Israel’s own former prime ministers and others who actually live in the Jewish state. Earlier this week Amnesty International released a report making a 280-page […]
Israeli regime slams Amnesty International report on Israeli apartheid as “anti-Semitic.”
Palestine (The Inside Palestine)-Mark Dubowitz, CEO of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a pro-Israel group, slammed Amnesty International’s new report on Israeli apartheid as “anti-Semitic.” No surprise there: He was echoing the line pushed by the Israeli government and its lobby for days. Dubowitz’s organization has worked closely with the Israeli government’s covert […]
Amnesty says ‘Israel’ imposing ‘apartheid’ on Palestinians
Occupied Palestine (The Inside Palestine)- ‘Israel’ is carrying out “the crime of apartheid against Palestinians” and must be held accountable for treating them as “an inferior racial group”, Amnesty International said in a new report. Released on Tuesday, the 25-page report by the leading rights group details how Israeli occupation […]