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Sat Jul 4

• Israel uses electric shock torture against children.: The Palestinian prisoner club accused the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) of committing new crimes of corporal torture against children through giving them electric shocks and beating them severely. The club said that Palestinian child Hamza Al-Za?aol, who was kidnapped on the fourth of May on a charge of throwing stones, told club lawyers that Israeli occupation forces (IOF) used electric shocks against him in Etzion prison while another child detained on the same day called Ismail Al-Za?aol said he was severely beaten especially in his broken leg. The club revealed that the number of children kidnapped during the first quarter of 2009 rose to 443 prisoners after kidnapping 14 minors this year. In another related context, the popular committee against torture said in a report issued that the IOF troops and the Shin Bet security service deliberately tortured Palestinian detainees through handcuffing them in a painful manner contrary to international law.

Fri Jul 3

• Israeli doctors colluding in torture ? while world?s medical ethics chief turns blind eye by Jonathan Cook: Israel?s watchdog body on medical ethics has failed to investigate evidence that doctors working in detention facilities are turning a blind eye to cases of torture, according to Israeli human rights groups. The Israeli Medical Association (IMA) has ignored repeated requests to examine such evidence, the rights groups say, even though it has been presented with examples of Israeli doctors who have broken their legal and ethical duty towards Palestinians in their care. The accusations will add fuel to a campaign backed by hundreds of doctors from around the world to force Yoram Blachar, who heads the IMA, to step down from his recent appointment as president of the World Medical Association (WMA). More than 700 doctors have signed a petition arguing that Dr Blachar has disqualified himself from leadership of the WMA, the profession?s governing ethical body, by effectively condoning torture in Israel.
• Hamas: Amnesty report accusing us of war crimes is 'unfair' - Haaretz - Israel News: Hamas criticized a report issued by global human rights group Amnesty International, which accuses both Israel and Hamas of committing war crimes in Gaza. Hamas said in response that the report was "imbalanc ed and unfair" In its first in-depth human rights report on the recent Israeli offensive in Gaza, Amnesty International accused both Israel and Hamas of committing war crimes during the fighting earlier this year. The group charged that the IDF killed hundreds of Palestinian civilians and destroyed thousands of Gaza Strip homes in attacks that amounted to war crimes, and denounced Hamas for firing rockets into civilian areas of southern Israel. In response, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said that "instead of wasting time with reports, Israeli murderers should be put on trial," Army Radio reported. The Hamas spokesman "They didn't check their facts with any Hamas leader," he accused the human rights group.

Mon Jun 29

• Afghan president accuses US-trained guards of killing police chief Hamid Karzai demands that coalition forces hand over guards but US military says shooting was 'Afghan-on-Afg han': Karzai accused Afghan guards working for US coalition forces of killing a provincial police chief and at least four other security officers during a gun battle outside a government office. In a harshly worded statement, Karzai demanded that coalition forces hand over the guards involved. But the governor of Kandahar later said that 41 US-trained private security guards had been disarmed and arrested by Afghan authorities. US military said it was not involved in shooting, calling it an "Afghan-o n-Afghan incident" . Karzai's statement suggested that the guards sought refuge in a US coalition base after the killings, and he "demanded that coalition forces prevent such incidents, which weaken the government&quo t;. The situation lays bare the often testy relations between Karzai and US officials. His accusations come as US marines and soldiers are deployed across southern Afghanistan, the Taliban's stronghold and a region where Karzai is seeking votes ahead of presidential election

Sat Jun 27

• Israel envoy blasts UN report on Palestinians as 'biased'. The Israeli ambassador to the UN blasted a report on Israel's conduct vis-a-vis the Palestinians, put together by the UN Humanitarian Affairs chief John Holmes.: In a strident letter addressed to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Gabriela Shalev accused the UN of political bias, ahead of a special Security Council session devoted to "the protection of civilians in armed conflicts.&quo t; "I sincerely hope that future reports in the name of the secretary general will avoid politically-ch arged semantics, accusations and omissions,&quo t; she wrote. Holmes' report is likely to be discussed in great detail during the Security Council session. The report implicitly accused Israel of human rights violations, and blasted the impact of Israel's policy on the Palestinian civilian population.
• IAF pilot says 2nd in command stole glory in 1981 Iraq strike. The Air Force F-16 pilot who led the attack on Iraq's nuclear reactor 28 years ago has for the first time publicly accused his second-in-comm and of cutting in front of him to be first to bo...: Colonel (res.) Ze'ev Raz says that the account of the historic Operation Opera, in June 1981, as told by the number two, General Amos Yadlin, now Military Intelligence chief, is distorted and misleading. Some of the pilots who participated in the operation, disagree with Raz and say Yadlin's maneuver was justified. Raz commanded Squadron 117, the first to receive F-16 fighter planes, and led the IAF's first delegation sent to the US to study the new fighter planes before they arrived in Israel. When the IAF started planning the operation to bomb the Osirak reactor, Raz was one of the first to know about it and took an active part in the planning process. The attack was carried out by 8 airplanes and Amos Yadlin, then a captain and one of Raz's deputies, was supposed to fly alongside him. Former senior Air Force officers say Raz and Yadlin had a history of rivalry and grudges. Aerial photographs of the attack area, which were used to plan the mission,

Mon Jun 22

• Padilla v. Yoo The man once accused of being a 'dirty bomber' is cleared to sue a key player in George W. Bush's 'war on terror.': JOHN YOO provided key -- and, we believe, wrong -- legal advice that gave the Bush administration cover for many of its dubious "war on terror" policies. But a judge's decision to allow accused "dirty-bo mber" Jose Padilla to proceed with a lawsuit against Yoo is troubling. Padilla, a U.S. citizen, was detained in 2002 after law-enforcemen t officials suspected him of plotting to detonate a radiological "dirty bomb" in the US Padilla was never tried for this alleged offense; he was instead labeled an enemy combatant and imprisoned in a South Carolina brig without access to counsel or any semblance of due process. Padilla alleges in his lawsuit that he was subjected to harsh treatment -- from extreme temperatures to sleep and sensory deprivation to solitary confinement -- that violated his constitutional rights and amounted to torture. Padilla claims that Yoo should be held personally liable Padilla is seeking $1 in damages

Fri Jun 12

• 'Jesus' brother's tomb' seller: I never faked any antiquity. An Israeli antiquities collector accused of faking the burial box of Jesus' brother and other priceless historical items says he is confident that new scientific evidence will prove that he ...: Oded Golan, 58, has been on trial at the District Court in Jerusalem for the past four years, charged with forging an inscription on a Roman-era burial box or ossuary that says it contained the bones of "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus." The discovery caused a sensation when it was first announced in 2002 and displayed at the Royal Ontario Museum. But on its return to Israel, the ossuary was seized by Israeli police and Golan was arrested. He was accused of faking the ossuary and other items in order to trap gullible collectors. In Dec 2004, he was indicted with four other defendants and accused of being at the centre of an international antiquities forgery ring. "They took original antiquities and added inscriptions and decorations, which turned the artifact into something valuable - and some of the antiquities we're talking about are worth millions of dollars. One example is the ossuary of Jesus' brother," said Commander Shaul Naim of the Jerusalem police.

Mon May 25

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Thu May 21

• Group linked to Israeli lobby, neocons releases another Islamophobic film. A new documentary from a shadowy non-profit, the Clarion Fund, has ties to groups widely accused of Islamophobia.: The Third Jihad purports to educate US citizens about the threat of a "cultural Jihad" by the country's own Muslim-America n population. The film goes to great lengths to define itself as an expose of radical Muslim elements, not the faith at large. But a group called the International Free Press Society (IFPS), which attended the Washington premiere of the film and documented the screening on behalf of the production company on a social media website, has some dubious affiliations. 2 months ago, IFPS heavily promoted Dutch parliamentaria n Geert Wilders, a widely-known Islamophobe who has been tied to far-right European political parties. An IPS investigation linked both Wilders and some of his US and international supporters, including members of IFPS, with the Vlaams Belang (VB), or Flemish Interest. Vlaams Belang is a nationalist Flemish party that has demanded amnesty for Nazi collaborators in Belgium.

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