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3 weeks ago | 
johnmenadue.com | Mandy Turner
There are few UN positions that provoke as much scrutiny and criticism as the UN Special Rapporteur for the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. It plays an important role: it catalogues Israels violation of Palestinian human rights, provides factual information for advocates and activists, and helps to keep Palestine firmly on the agenda at the UN.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
johnmenadue.com | Mandy Turner |Sonia Boulos
There are few UN positions that provoke as much scrutiny and criticism as the UN Special Rapporteur for the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. It plays an important role: it catalogues Israel’s violation of Palestinian human rights, provides factual information for advocates and activists, and helps to keep Palestine firmly on the agenda at the UN.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
middleeasteye.net | Mera Aladam |Mandy Turner
Israeli forces have demolished 1,528 Palestinian-owned structures in the occupied West Bank since the start of the year, according to the latest figures published by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha). The UN data, published on 29 November, indicated that 3,637 Palestinians have been displaced as a result of an ongoing Israeli demolition campaign.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
middleeasteye.net | Mandy Turner |Hamza Yusuf
The Palestine Laboratory, a podcast by investigative journalist Antony Loewenstein available on Drop Site News, is an essential listen. Based on Loewenstein’s book of the same name, the podcast explores how Israel’s military and technological advancements are used to sustain the oppression of Palestinians, while simultaneously being commercialised for profit globally.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
tehrantimes.com | Mandy Turner
November 29 is the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. There is a long history of solidarity with Palestinians from countries and movements struggling against colonialism and oppression across the world - especially from Latin America, Africa, and Asia. The problem is that Palestinians did not achieve liberation during the high point of anti-colonial struggles.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
middleeasteye.net | Oren Ziv |Mandy Turner
After over two decades of struggle, the village was destroyed quietly. Last week, the people of Umm al-Hiran were expelled from their homes, but unlike most demolitions, everything proceeded without event. Residents of the Palestinian village in southern Israel’s Negev (Naqab) desert demolished their own houses, hoping to salvage some building materials, household belongings and animals. In 2017, things had been quite different.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
middleeasteye.net | Mandy Turner
Former Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon has stood by his comments that Israeli forces were committing war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza. Ya'alon faced criticism in Israel on Saturday after he said Israeli troops were carrying out a campaign of ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza. “There is no Beit Lahia, there is no Beit Hanoun.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
middleeasteye.net | Ahmed Aziz |Mandy Turner
Israeli air strikes killed at least 10 Palestinians seeking aid and three humanitarian workers in Gaza on Saturday. An Israeli air strike targeted a World Central Kitchen (WCK) vehicle as it transported food supplies along Salah al-Din Road in Khan Younis, eyewitnesses reported. The strike killed three workers from the international NGO, which had already seen seven aid workers - mostly foreign nationals - killed in an Israeli strike in April, drawing global condemnation.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
middleeasteye.net | Mandy Turner
Tens of thousands of people marched on the streets of London on Saturday to condemn Israel's continued assault on the Gaza Strip, which has killed nearly 45,000 people in the besieged enclave. Starting from Park Lane, marchers held Palestinian and Lebanese flags with signs that condemned the actions of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and called for his arrest following the International Criminal Court arrest warrant against him.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
middleeasteye.net | Mandy Turner
Today, 29 November, is the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. There is a long history of solidarity with Palestinians from countries and movements struggling against colonialism and oppression across the world - especially from Latin America, Africa, and Asia. The problem is that Palestinians did not achieve liberation during the high point of anti-colonial struggles.
