Goldstone Report

IN JUNE, Israel agreed a six-month ceasefire with Hamas. Until December 27th, no Israeli, civilian or military, was killed as a result of rocket or mortar fire from Gaza.

CNN Confirms Israel Broke Ceasefire First http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KntmpoRXFX4&feature=player_embedded

A four-month ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza was in jeopardy today after Israeli troops killed six Hamas gunmen in a raid into the territory. Hamas responded by firing a wave of rockets into southern Israel, although no one was injured. The violence represented the most s…

A new UN report exposes a bit of misinformation peddled by the US and Israel and shatters the Zionist illusion that the Gaza war was legal. The report, prepared by human rights investigator Richard Falk, confirms that Tel Aviv was indeed the party that violated the Egyptian-brokered six-month truce …

Israel started to implement a very suffocating collective punishment policy against Palestinians in the occupied lands long ago. As Hamas movement came to office early in 2005; Israelis started to impose a siege  by financial boycott then total closure that prevented the basics into Gaza. Gaza Stri…

At the edge of the Khan Yunus refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip, crumbling refugee homes face off with the red-roofed seafront villas of the Neve Dekalim settlement. The settlement, one of 21 chosen for evacuation in coming months, has been the source of much grief - and now speculation - for …

NEW YORK -- The Israeli government's plan to remove troops and Jewish settlements from the Gaza Strip would not end Israel's occupation of the territory, Human Rights Watch said today. As an occupying power, Israel will retain responsibility for the welfare of Gaza's civilian population. Under the …

Israel will in law remain an Occupying Power still subject to obligations under the Fourth Geneva Convention, wrote UN Special Rapporteur John Dugard in his most recent report to the UN Human Rights Commission. In his report (E/CN.4/2005/29) to the Commission, Dugard said that Israel does not plan t…

Israel has cut off the Gaza Strip from the rest of the world to such an extent that it is easier for Palestinians in Israel or the West Bank to visit relatives in prison than visit a relative in Gaza. This is one conclusion of the 100-page report that B�Tselem and HaMoked publish today. One Big Pri…

Israel's unilateral disengagement (withdrawal) plan was a proposal by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, adopted by the government on June 6, 2004 and enacted in August 2005, to evict all Illegal settlers from the Gaza Strip as they were occupying around 60% while 1.5 million live in 40% only. The…