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Palestine : Human Rights:
B’TSELEM: 373 PALESTINIANS KILLED BY ISRAELI FORCES IN 2007 Report, B’Tselem, 31 December 2007
B’Tselem today releases its year-end report. According to B’Tselem data, the number of Israelis and Palestinians killed in clashes in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip dropped. However, there has been deterioration in many other measures of the human rights situation in the occupied territories. The primary one is the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, which has declined to an all time low, following Israel’s siege on the area.
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Palestine : Opinion/Editorial:
DEMOCRACY: AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT? By Ali Abunimah and Omar Barghouti, The Electronic Intifada, 30 December 2007
As two of the authors of a recent document advocating a one-state solution to the Arab-Israeli colonial conflict we emphatically intended to generate debate. Predictably, Zionists decried the proclamation as yet another proof of the unwavering devotion of Palestinian — and some radical Israeli — intellectuals to the “destruction of Israel.” Some pro-Palestinian activists accused us of forsaking immediate and critical Palestinian rights in the quest of a “utopian” dream. Ali Abunimah and Omar Barghouti comment.
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Palestine : Human Rights:
PALESTINIAN DIES IN ISRAELI DETENTION Report, PCHR, 30 December 2007
Palestinian prisoner Fadi Abd al-Latif Abu al-Rob (21) from the town of Qabatia near Jenin died in the Israeli prison of Jalbou’ on the evening of 28 December 2007. The prisoner was a member of Islamic Jihad detained on 29 June 2007. According to information gathered by PCHR, Fadi suffered an illness on the morning of the day he died. He was transferred to the prison clinic. However, his condition deteriorated and the Israeli Prisons Authority announced his death in the evening without specifying the cause.
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Lebanon : Human Rights/Development:
ISRAELI MILITARY CLEARS ITSELF OF CLUSTER BOMB MISUSE IN LEBANON Report, Electronic Lebanon, 30 December 2007
JERUSALEM, 28 December (IRIN) – Israel’s military advocate-general, Brig-Gen Avihai Mendelblit, has said the military’s use of cluster munitions during the conflict in Lebanon in 2006 was in accordance with international humanitarian law. Human rights groups and the UN had previously condemned the use of the bombs. In a statement issued on 24 December, the Israeli military said it used cluster munitions to fight Hizballah, the Lebanese Shia militant group, which had “heavily camouflaged” its launching sites for firing rockets at Israel.
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