As depositary of the Geneva Conventions, the government of Switzerland has called a conference of High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention to meet in Geneva on 5 December 2001 to...
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OPT: Law society condemns Israeli troops' incursion into al Nabi Saleh
Early Sunday morning, January 25, 2004 Israeli troops positioned at a watchtower and a gate near the Palestinian village of al Nabi Saleh raided the village and forced its 500 residents out of their...
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The Israeli apartheid wall: 400 Palestinian students lose their right to education
Palestinian residents in Beit Oar al Fuqa received with much detestation news of the Israeli arbitrary decision to confiscate approximately 10 acres of their agricultural land for the building of the...
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Israeli troops raid a school in Ramallah; kill a schoolchild and a taxi driver
Today, Thursday, April 24, 2003, Israeli troops raided Qarawat Bani Zeid High School in Qarawat Bani Zeid in Ramallah district, killed a schoolchild and a taxi driver and wounded a schoolchild. The...
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LAW fears more human rights violations during a war on Iraq
In these nervous few hours before a war is announced on Iraq, LAW looks to the Occupied Palestinian Territories and fears more of the same human rights violations will be carried out by Israel as...
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Israeli forces rampant in Nablus' Old City
Sunday, February 23, 2003 For the fifth day in a row, Israeli forces have attacked Nablus' old city. Until the time of this information release, seven people, including three children have been...
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OPT: Annexation of more land in Bethlehem for apartheid wall
Israel's military commander for the West Bank, Moshe Kaplinski on Monday (February 17) issued a military directive to annex 14 dunums of land, including 40 homes, in Bethlehem for Israel's Apartheid...
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OPT: LAW challenges Israel's arbitrary destruction of land
Jamal Shamasni has delicate Ottoman papers over a hundred years old, proving that his grandfather's family owned a field of olives near his village of Qatlana in the Ramallah district. Those papers...
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OPT: LAW challenges Israel's RJ/5 and S/15
Israel's Orwellian 'Civil Administration,' which deals with zoning and planning laws in Area C, covering 73% of the West Bank, tends to sit side-by-side with the municipal borders of Palestinian...
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Pre-election battles, 15 Palestinians killed on Friday and Saturday
Saturday According to information gathered by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights in Gaza (PCHR), at around 10:20pm on Saturday, Israeli forces covered by helicopters, entered Hayy al-Zaytoun,...
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Mentally disabled man and children killed; homes sealed and demolished in Jerusalem
Two youths from Tulkarem and a mentally disabled man from Qabatiyya were killed today. A home was demolished in Qabatiyya; another in Jerusalem and three others sealed in Silwan. Tulkarem - Child...
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Israel closes Palestinian educational institutions in Hebron
Israeli military forces yesterday evening (Tuesday, January 14) issued a military order to close two educational institutions in Hebron, Hebron University, and the Palestinian Polytechnic for...
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OPT: Appeal to temporarily halt construction of apartheid wall denied
LAW today received a decision on an appeal filed on September 12 on behalf of four residents of Kufr Aqab in East Jerusalem to temporarily halt construction of a 3.8 km section of Israel's 'security...
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OPT: Eight houses and seventeen stores threatened with demolition
The ever-present Israeli planning and building administration, belonging to the Israeli Civil Administration (which oversees the Israeli occupation of the 1967 West Bank Occupied Territories) has...
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British citizen and Palestinian child killed in Jenin on 22 Nov 02
On Friday (November 22) Israeli forces attacked Jenin refugee camp, killed a Palestinian child and British engineer Ian Hook (50). According to information gathered by LAW, at around 8:45am Friday,...
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Israel's Apartheid Wall: we are here and they are there
Introduction On 23 June 2002, the Israeli government authorized a plan to build a ‘security wall’ running the full length of the West Bank, expected to be completed by June 2003. The apartheid wall...
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Punitive punishments: Israel destroys homes in Jenin refugee camp
Today, Thursday October 31, at around 2:40 am, Israeli forces surrounded the houses of four families from the Jenin refugee camp. Without giving them any opportunity to gather their belongings,...
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Palestinians forbidden from picking olives
The Israeli army today issued a new directive forbidding Palestinians from picking olives in the West Bank. October and November are the main months for olive harvesting. The Israeli newspaper...
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OPT: Civilian killed in failed extra-judicial assassination
In a failed assassination attempt targeting Riyad 'Abd al-Ghani (30) from Saida village in Tulkarem yesterday, Sunday November 17, 'Abd al-Ghani's brother Mohammad was killed instead. According to...
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Gaza: Extra-judicial killing attempt kills two Palestinians
Yesterday, Thursday September 26, Israeli forces attempted to assassinate Mohammad Dayf (36), who Israel claims is one of their most wanted men. The Israeli assault killed 'Abd al-Rahim Hamdan (40)...