Israel has Crossed the Rubicon

Lynda Brayer is an Israeli lawyer who I met in my homeland in Palestine. She was the lawyer who defended me between 1993 – 1994 against the criminal Israeli soldiers who were hindering my journalistic work, stealing my films, assaulting and detaining me in my own homeland Palestine. Specially when I filmed them torturing Palestinian youth near the so called checkpoints, news which spread to all corners in the occupied territories. Today Linda sent me an article which I found interesting. Her article follows below.

Israel has crossed the Rubicon – by Lynda Brayer – May 31, 2010 – The full extent of the murder on the Gaza-bound flotilla of boats by the Israeli Navy is not yet known. Israeli forces attacked the boats in the open seas this morning in an attempt to halt their efforts to break the blockade on the beleaguered population. The latest figures indicate that fifteen people have been murdered with more than thirty wounded, including Internationals, Palestinian Arabs and Jews.

It is quite clear that unarmed civilians, carrying food, medicine, and building supplies intended for civilian use, were attacked by Israeli forces without any provocation whatsoever. The boats were in the open seas sailing to Gaza to deliver these goods, a perfectly normal venture in normal times. The Israeli land and sea blockade of Gaza is illegal in international law and therefore, despite Israeli protests to the contrary – as always and as expected – any attribution of illegality or “provocation” to the flotilla belongs to the realm of agit-prop! The criminal actors guilty of illegality in this affair are the Israeli forces who have violated international public law and the humanitarian laws or laws of war. The PLO hijacking of the Achille Lauro in 1986 in an attempt to free Palestinian political prisoners held illegally in Israeli prisons is held up as an act of terrorism. However, it can be argued, and correctly in my legal opinion, that the actual and continuing occupation and colonization of Palestine itself is the original and continuing crime. Resistance to conquest is not, and cannot be defined, as criminal. However, if the West considered that it was an act of terrorism, how should we now describe this latest Israeli attack? It can, and should, be defined as the very epitome of a double terrorism: the first act of terror is the use of military force on the high seas, while the second act of terror is the use of this illegitimate force against hors de combat (unarmed civilians) (*)! Will this put the Israel Defense Forces on a list of illegal terrorist organizations?

The cold-blooded murder of unarmed civilians by government forces is the most damning of government actions. It is not only a crime, or an atrocity, or a massacre – which is bad enough in itself – but carries with it the irremovable mark of Cain, the mark of murder! Government murder, of necessity, contaminates a political system that practices it, and inextricably and inevitably causes political delegitimization of such a government. The reason for this is that it is the equivalent of an act of war against parties who, by definition, are not and cannot be parties to a war, and in many cases are members of the same body politic as the offending government!

This is why when governments act this way they attempt do so covertly, although this is becoming increasingly difficult. Amongst the most glaring examples of such actions, are the massacres carried out by police during protests against the racist apartheid government of South Africa in Sharpeville in 1960 and Soweto in1976. Unarmed civilians were mowed down for protesting against the continuing actions of the white-only government intended to weaken and fracture the Black community. Both events were strongly condemned by the politically unrepresented Black majority and the local white opposition, as well as the international community, thus contributing to the increased tarnishing of the apartheid regime and its inherent illegitimacy. It was precisely just such government actions that ultimately led to the suspension by the United Nations of South Africa, and the worldwide boycott and sanctions against it.

These actions might not have collapsed the regime in and of themselves, but they weakened that most precious yet amorphous, but vitally necessary component of any government: the assent of the governed and their uncoerced cooperation. The Black community of South Africa withdrew its cooperation with the government from that point forward. The response of the government was further and widening repression, which people knew was an expression of its growing weakness in the face of this non-cooperation and resistance. In the end, the South African racist regime could not hold out and lost the battles and the war!

In the present instance, it is obvious that the Israeli regime found itself between the Scylla of having the blockade broken and the Charybdis of negative world public opinion following an attack on the flotilla. They did not want to set an unacceptable precedent because of the ramifications concerning the unqualified rights of maritime traffic into and out of Gaza, the rights of Gazans to have and develop their fishing industry, and the rights of Palestine to all the natural gas and oil in its territorial waters, etc. I have no doubt that they did not want to kill anyone, if only because of the bad publicity such killing generates, and not necessarily out of any moral considerations, but the situation was such that there was no other way to offset the resistance of peoples’ bodies. Given what they have just done at this time of this writing, I have no doubt that the situation will worsen over the next few hours, days, and weeks. No amount of artificial Islamophobia and “security” propaganda will be able to erase the blame for bloodshed that now attaches to the Israeli government. Furthermore, what exacerbates the image problem for the Israeli government is that it is no longer Arab blood that has been spilt, but nice “white” or “European” blood that, in the West, is different from Arab or Muslim blood. The international reverberations and the trial against Israeli officials in the case of Rachel Corrie, who was deliberately murdered by an Israeli bulldozer driver for attempting to stop the demolition of a Palestinian home, should have provided sufficient warning to the Israeli regime of what is now about to unfold. Having chosen to confront the flotilla, it has now fallen into the proverbial biblical pit of its own making!

It is my assessment that this latest attack, with its future political reverberations, is the equivalent of Israel’s crossing the Rubicon. It is not “just” the use of force against hors de combat (civilians) (*)― something which it has been doing for decades ― but the murder and use of force against non-Arab and non-Palestinian internationals, people who are completely external to the Jewish-Palestinian conflict. In addition, the attack took place on the high seas and not within Israeli territorial waters, thereby violating international norms in the international arena, beyond the boundaries of Occupied Palestine.

This event therefore marks not merely a quantitative increase in the number of non-Palestinians killed by Israel within the framework of the Palestinian struggle, but it also marks a qualitative change in the nature of the resistance, a change that I predict will and should become much more pronounced in the very near future. Since today, we have a growing list of foreign martyrs murdered by the Israelis in the non-violent struggle for the Palestinian cause. We are also witnessing an increased number of people from Israel taking part in this particular struggle. An Israeli member of Knesset, Hanin Zoobi, and the universally respected leader of the Northern Islamic movement, Sheikh Raad Salah, were on board. The latest news is that the Sheikh has been seriously wounded, and if this is the case, then I predict that this will lead to non-cooperation and resistance on the part of the Palestinian Arab community of Israel and their Jewish allies, paralleling the situation in the last stages of apartheid Africa.

This latest action carries within it the seeds of future joint International, Palestinian and Jewish cooperation in the Palestinian struggle. Future attempts to break the illegal blockade by the sailing of unarmed vessels will provide a unique opportunity to engage in non-violent resistance to tyranny. It is my hope that what is happening today is only the beginning of a groundswell of cooperative resistance in which we will find more and more Jewish Israelis who are prepared to confront their own government in such actions.

Lynda Brayer is a human rights lawyer living in Haifa, Palestine, who is an active participant in the One State in Palestine movement and supports the Return of Palestinian Refugees to Palestine. She can be reached at lyndabrayer [at] yahoo [dot] com

(*) hors de combat is the term used in the Geneva Conventions of 1948, signed and ratified by Israel, to describe non-combatants.

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EU and US Are Involved in the Torture of Palestinians

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Sunday, March 14 2010 – The European Union, US war criminal General Keith Dayton, the Egyptian and the Jordanian regimes, are all jointly responsible for the torture of Palestinian prisoners at the PA jails. Dayton is the de-facto head of the corrupt PA repression system; his forces taught the PA thugs numerous kinds of torture and how to violate the rights of political detainees.

US agents are complicit together with Palestinian officers at the PA jails in these criminal activities; also, the EU has trained the corrupt police forces of the PA on how to arrest and torture political opponents. Britain, the US and the EU have invested hundreds of millions of pounds, dollars and Euros, respectively, to support the corrupt regime of the PA in the occupied West Bank. These funds were used to rebuild the corrupt PA repression system, not to help the people in any way or fashion. Recently, over 1200 political prisoners were jailed by the PA. Among them are teachers, engineers, students and … union leaders, etc. The PA also recently kicked out over 2000 teachers from the ministry of education in the West Bank from their jobs; many of them have been jailed, interrogated and tortured by the Dayton thugs at the PA jails.

The Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR) in Britain confirmed that the PA did not stop for one moment in the practice of torture in its prisons, since it declared a cessation of torture in the beginning of October 2009. The organization said in a report issued on Tuesday, in addressing the conduct of security services after the announcement to stop torture in its prisons, “The Palestinian Authority is using new methods in the torture which are more severe in addition to the old methods.” And the number of new techniques in the torture report exhibited greater severity along with the older methods and basic treatment for many Palestinian victims of this torture.

The (AOHR) indicated in its report, that they sent letters to the Prime Minister of the caretaker government in Ramallah, Salam Fayyad, in order to allow a delegation from the organization to visit detention centers in the territory of the Palestinian Authority, but they never received a response.

It is understood concerning the Palestinians in the West Bank under the occupation, who are protected by the Geneva Conventions and rule of international law, that any attack on any of their rights and particularly the right to life, liberty and physical integrity is a breach of international law.

The group said that the occupation authorities are guilty, on a daily basis, of dozens of violations of law against the Palestinian citizens including: murders, arrests, torture, confiscation of land and demolition of houses, and the security services of the Palestinian Authority are complicit with these violations, including: arrest, torture and abuse of civil institutions and public freedoms, all clearly with the criminal aim to destroy the morale of the people and its legitimate resistance undertaken for the sake of freedom and self-determination.

They emphasized that the Palestinian Authority security services’ cooperation with the Israeli authorities reached an unimaginable level of criminality at the expense of the dignity and life and freedom of the Palestinian citizens, adding that the Palestinian Authority’s security services – led by Dayton and connivance from the European Union and the CIA – whose agendas and policies were implemented purely for Israeli motives, transformed the lives of the Palestinian citizens into a living hell.

The (AOHR) also confirmed that the West Bank has become a springboard for the activities of foreign intelligence agencies through which to provide espionage support and logistical support to security agencies for the implementation of external operations against Palestinian militants by unlawful operations outside the occupied territories.

They stressed that the file of human rights violations in the Palestinian Authority territory are under close scrutiny as also the response of the decision makers in the European Union, and that this file will take the direction of more in depth revelation than that of those responsible for these violations of international justice.

The organization pointed out that the Director of General Intelligence, Major General Majed Faraj and military intelligence official, Brigadier General Abu Nidal and the head of Preventive Security, General Ziyad Hab al-Rih, are directly responsible for the arrest of citizens and torture of Palestinians in centers located outside the control of the law. The organization considers that every officer or soldier of various ranks carried out torture or illegal detention and are responsible for their actions as perpetrators of crimes against humanity. Nor is the top leadership exempt from this.

The organization pointed that President Mahmoud Abbas, as president of the Authority, is directly responsible for the acts of its employees and the General Intelligence and Preventive Security is responsible for serious violations of the law that are committed against Palestinian civilians.

The human rights organization pointed out that the Jordanian Government is also responsible for serious violations committed by the Palestinian Authority security services, where the government trained elements of these services in all the tactics and security thereof and provided the necessary equipment for them. The organization called on the Jordanian government to immediately stop the training of Palestinian security services.

The file follows the arrest and torture, movement by movement, in Palestinian prisons, and demands the Authority Stop the Torture Involved and the deception carried on to divert the world’s attention from what is going on in the detention centers.

The organization called on the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Luis Ocampo, to move immediately and prosecute for the aggravated suffering of the Palestinians under occupation, whether or not in detention, for torture and humiliation. Also, that these crimes be declared as crimes against humanity and violations of the Fourth Geneva Convention and within the jurisdiction of the Court.

The European Union demanded an end of support for the security services until it is resolved and consolidation of a police based on the Palestinian citizens’ rights and which do not serve other agendas is brought about.

The organization also called upon the Presidency to set up a committee of legal experts and specialists in the field of Human Rights to investigate human rights violations in the territory of the Palestinian Authority and to work hard to stop Torture and Unlawful Arrests. In addition, the organization called upon the European Police Mission to withdraw from the territory of the Palestinian Authority.

The organization called on U.S. President Barack Obama to withdraw Gen. Keith Dayton, and end the mission of American Intelligence in the territory of the Palestinian Authority, and to bring the perpetrators of human rights violations to justice.

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The Berlin Wall in Palestine

German, Auf Deutsch

On the ninth of November 2009 hundreds of thousands of Germans celebrated the twentieth anniversary of removing the wall of shame in Berlin, which was razed in 1989.
Many leaders of the EU and the rest of the world, as well as many representatives of religious communities, of social, governmental and non-governmental institutions were seen among the Germans celebrators.

These leaders are the same politicians who supported the Zionists in building the apartheid wall on Palestinian land, ignoring in that the decision of the International Tribunal, which confirmed the illegality of the wall and demanded that Israel dismantle it. These same “leaders” have sold at a discount or even gifted the terrorist and criminal organization “State of Israel” with modern weapons while at the same time the citizens of their countries descend into abject misery.

Those leaders who stood celebrating the anniversary of the removal of the Berlin Wall are the same leaders who signed several economic and political agreements with Israel, treaties which violate international laws and the most basic tenets of human morality. These hypocrites used, before that, the economic and political power in overt and covert wars against the Arab states like Iraq, which was speciously accused of violating international laws and accords.

While these hypocrites spoke their unctuous words to celebrate the fall of the wall of Berlin and the triumph of humanity over dictatorship, German courts of justice routinely look away when it comes to prosecuting the crimes of German citizens against Palestinians, and German authorities conveniently forget to implement the international treaties which they have signed, and even their own laws.

On the anniversary of the removal of the Berlin Wall, hundreds of Palestinians demonstrated in protest and condemnation of the zionist apartheid wall built on their agricultural land. Tens of those demonstrators gathered their effort and removed one stone of the zionists apartheid wall, which is built on their private land, before their houses. In memory of the removal of the Berlin wall, the jewish zionist organization continues building its apartheid wall to “protect” the jewish squatter colonies built in the occupied territories in the West Bank, on terrain stolen from many towns and villages.

The zionists apartheid wall separates between Palestinian citizens, cities, villages, lands, but also it separates between the father and his sons, the farmer and his land, the students and their schools and universities, the patients and health institutions, between markets and customers …

On the ninth of November 2009, Palestinians celebrated the fall of the Berlin wall, but in their own way, as you can see in the video below. The Palestinians who you see in this short video were demonstrating on their own land in front of their own houses, which the apartheid wall has separated from each other. They were not in Israel, but the Israeli criminal zionists soldiers came and shot at them in their lands. Dozens of these demonstrators were wounded. According to the international laws and the Geneva convention, the presence of IDF soldiers on Palestinian territory in the borders of 1967 is a war crime and a clear violation of the international law. Please see the video, which the International broadcasting agencies and the European media did not show you.

• Imagine if you wake up tomorrow morning and you find that a criminal has built a wall in your own garden, separating between you and your swimming pool, the street, flowers, fruit trees, school, university, hospital and … would you feel happy about that?
• Would you accept the criminal theft of your garden? Would you accept the thief to become your “lovely” neighbor?
• Would you congratulate the thief for staying in your own garden? Would you believe in any kind of peace like that, a “peace” which violates your own peace?

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Israel Persecutes Israeli Arab MK

The Israeli Public Prosecution in the Magistrate’s Court of Tel Aviv – Jaffa imposed a serious indictment against the Israeli MK (member of the Knesset), Mohammad Barakeh, a Hadash representative. The court accused Barakeh of assaulting police and soldiers on four different occasions over a period of two years since 2005. The indictment was signed by 21 officers, among them Druze Officer Joseph Hammoud from Israeli Al-Morouj police station, who gave testimony against MK Barakeh in the court which is expected to sentence the Arab-Israeli MK to prison if he is found guilty. “Click on the pictures to see them bigger.”

The Israeli criminal authorities have trumped up the following charges against MK Mohammed Barakeh:

The first accusation: attacking, in April 2005, an Israeli criminal soldier from the “Metsada” death squad unit, who was holding an automatic machine gun, trying to strangle him from behind and preventing him from arresting a Palestinian peace demonstrator who was standing in his own land in the village of Bilin, which Israel has declared as a closed military zone after they stole most of it’s lands for building the ILLEGAL APARTHEID WALL, which the UN has declared as illegal and must be removed, the wall which has turned the life of the Palestinian citizens who live in this village in the occupied territories into a complete disaster.

According the trumped up charges of the Israeli authorities, Barakeh participated in a protest against the “security barrier” which means the ILLEGAL APARTHEID WALL at Bil’in on April 28, 2005. When a soldier arrested one of the demonstrators, Barakeh allegedly choked him with his right hand and struck the soldier’s hands with his left, and shouted to nearby demonstrators, “free him, free him.”

Under the Israeli criminal laws, assaulting a soldier performing his “duty or function”, carries a maximum sentence of five years.

“According to the international laws, treaties and the Geneva Conventions, of which Israel is a signatory in bad faith, the practices of the IDF soldiers at Bilin are war crimes perpetrated in the context of a genocide.”

The second accusation: MK Barakeh is accused of insulting a police officer by shouting: “you are violent and you will pay dearly for this” while he was trying to arrest his son, a minor, during their participation in a demonstration against the second Lebanon war in Tel Aviv, on August 5 2006.

For this one SILLY accusation this so-called a democratic country, the penal laws could put Barakeh six months in jail.

“Notice that the IDF soldiers and Israeli Police call Palestinian women and men with obscene words, like “mother fucker”, “whore” and etc, they spit in the face of Palestinians, urinate over their heads at the checkpoints of harassments “military checkpoints”. In many cases the Palestinians are forced to drink the IDF urine under sever torture.”

The third accusation: MK Barakeh is accused of assaulting a right-wing Israeli activist photographer, Yitzhak Hananya and striking him in the ribs and shoulder after Hananya insulted left-wing activist Uri Avnery On July 22 2006, while taking part in a PEACE demonstration against the criminal war in Lebanon. Barakeh said that he ORALLY asked the right-wing extremist to stop his provocations toward the demonstrators, and he did not use aggression or exercise violence towards him.

For this accusation the Israeli laws could sentence Barakeh to two years in jail.

“Notice that the IDF has murdered many Palestinian detainees, the same like what happened during the last IDF criminal attack in Gaza, where hundreds of detainees where murdered by the IDF after they were captured alive.”

The fourth accusation: the Israeli prosecutor accused Barakeh of obstructing the work of an Israeli police and trying to prevent the arrest of the Secretary General of the Democratic Front, the lawyer Ayman Odeh, during a demonstration in Nazareth, in July 2007. The demonstrators were protesting against the visit of war criminal “Defense Minister” Ehud Barak.

Barakeh is also accused of throwing (ORALLY) insults at a police officer and calling him the “MAD”, “CARAZY you idiot. What are you doing?” and preventing him to do his duty, (of arresting a LAWYER). These charges are very serious in the so called Israeli laws.

For this accusation, the Israeli laws could sentence Barakeh of three years.

Adalah, the Legal Center in Israel, as well as 200 Arab lawyers who volunteered to defend the MK Mohammad Barakeh, are going to send a message to the world that the accusations against Barakeh are all of a political nature.
Another eight international delegations, representing the communist parties in France, Greece, Cuba, China and other countries, went to Israel in order to coordinate an international campaign of solidarity from around the world in condemnation of the Israeli repression and it’s political trial against the MK Barakeh.

MK Barakeh sees the indictments as fabrications against him. They are all planned in advance, in an attempt to neutralize him after his political field actions to protect the rights of Arabs in Israel disturbed them.

Barakeh stated that that the indictment was politically motivated and that the Israelis wanted to criminalize purely him for political and legitimate events. Barakeh added that his political participation and activities are part of his duties as a representative of the public in Israel. He stressed that the Israeli police were the aggressors against the demonstrators in all cases, “the habitual use of excessive force by the Israeli police and military is known, the scenes of Israeli-initiated brutality when the demonstrators are Arab citizens are nothing new, and this aggression is even more frequent and brutal when the peace demonstrators are in the occupied territories.

Barakeh said that the Israeli authorities portray him as a “RAMBO” in front of their large army, in order to enlarge the lies. He added: “I am ready for that, I am ready to go to jail, and I will not hide myself behind parliamentary immunity. I am not afraid of prison, and life behind bars is included in my calculations”.

“Notice that “Israel”, the Zionist organization, jailed hundreds of thousands of Arabs and Palestinians in their jails since 1948 and until today, among them minors, women, elderly, disabled. They also jailed hundreds of Palestinian bodies after they stole and harvested their organs.”

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Urgent Call: A Minor Abused Sexually in Jail

Urgent Call: A Minor Abused Sexually in Jail

Sep 19th, 2009 by kawther.salam

The lawyer of the Women’s Organization for Political Prisoners (WOFPP), Taghreed Jahshan, is appealing to everybody from the international community, the European Union, Parliament members, governments, courts, judges, journalists, human rights organizations, peace activists, to rescue the life of a Palestinian girl who was abused SEXUALLY SEVERAL TIMES by an IDF jailer, a warden from the inhuman military jail of Hasharon. lawyer Jahshan stated that the victim is a minor and that the she lives under severe punishment in an isolation cell. Jahshan expressed her great concern after the victim was transferred to an unhealthy isolation cell after she complained formally against the sexual abuse by the warden. She said that the jailer spread the victims cell with poisonous chemicals and locked the door of the cell after five minutes.

The health of the minor is deteriorated after breathing the chemicals. She is vomiting and suffering of constant headache. The inhuman situation and ill treatment which the minor suffers is a clear violation of the duties contracted by Israel by signing the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and other treaties of international humanitarian law. The incarceration of this minor is equally a violation of obligations acquired by Israel to protect civilians, as she is incarcerated and mistreated by Israel solely for being a Palestinian.

Read further information’s published by Women’s Organization for Political Prisoners (WOFPP) in English, Arabic as PDF, and Hebrew as PDFPDF.

19 Septmber 2009

Since the last month WOFPP has accompanied, with deep concern, the minor political prisoner who complained of sexual harassment by one of the guards in Hasharon Prison where she was held.

WOFPP’s lawyer, Taghreed Jahshan, visited the prisoner many times during the recent period and has sent a very urgent letter, on 6 September 2009, to the Prisons Service Commissioner, with copies to the Central Area’s Commander and other persons of the Service Prison staff and to the Chairman of the Bar Association’s Prisons Committee.

Since there was no reply, another urgent letter was sent on 14 September, and again it had not been answered in writing.

The letter raised serious claims of the prisoner – verified by affidavit – according to which, following the complaint she has submitted, the Prisons Service harassed the prisoner, by transferring her to another prison to the isolation/separation wing in which criminal prisoners are being held, without any legal basis, and holding her in inhuman conditions: a stuffy, very damp cell, without any sunlight, without TV, ventilator, books (except one book she brought with her) and without handicraft materials. The prison authorities also had taken from the prisoner her head coverings. In addition, there were many ants in the cell that disturbed her sleep at night. In fact, the prisoner sat about 24 hours a day facing the walls without anything to occupy herself with.

All these details were reported in a letter to the Prisons Service Commissioner; however he did not see fit to reply in writing concerning these claims. Even worse, probably following the letter, insecticide was sprayed in the wing. The prisoner was taken out of her cell for a few minutes and, immediately after the spraying, she was returned. As a result, she was overcome by feelings of suffocation and dizziness for some hours, and she continued to feel chest pain.

Only on 15/9/09, after a month during which the prisoner was held in the conditions described above, she was transferred to a cell with reasonable conditions, but still in the same isolation/separation wing.

These last days, staff members in charge at the prison where the prisoner is detained, made telephone contact with attorney Jahshan and told her that the most senior ranks handle the matter of the prisoner, aiming to find a solution for her by transferring her from the wing which she is held in.

Our position is clear in this matter: a political prisoner should be in a political prisoners’ wing – there is no other solution.

The same staff members promised attorney Jahshan to update her on Monday 21 September 2009. If the decision that will be taken will not meet the required objective, a plea in the prisoner’s name will immediately be submitted to the court.

Regarding the prisoner’s complaint against sexual harassment (attorney Jahshan represents her also in this matter): The prisoner says that she will continue to fight until the guard will get the punishment he deserves.

It should be noted that WOFPP is in close and continuous contact with the prisoner’s family which is updated on every detail.

The minor prisoner has been held in isolation/separation for over a month and probably will have to spend the holiday of Eid-elFiter alone.

Isolation/separation is a kind of torture

Please write letters of protest to the Israel Prisons Service:

Prisons Service Commissioner
P.O. Box 81
Ramle 72100
Israel
Fax: +972-8-9193800

And to the Israeli embassy in your country.

The Execution of a Palestinian Journalist

The Execution of a Palestinian Journalist

Sep 17th, 2009 by kawther.salam

Last Wednsday, August 26 2009, the criminal Israeli occupation forces shot the Palestinian journalist Ubayda Maher Al-Qudsi, aged 25, while he was walking on Al-Shuhada Street in the heart of the occupied city of Hebron.
To justify the murder, the IDF murderers claimed that Al-Dweik had attempted to attack an IDF soldier with a knife. No knife and no injured soldier were found where Al-Dweik was shot, and the things happened very differently from the usual lies of the IDF.

The Palestinians who witnessed the crime stated that the soldiers stopped Al-Qudsi and were searching him, all the while mistreating and humiliating him. One of the jewish soldiers not involved in the search shot Al-Dweik in cold blood five times. After that, one group of soldiers dragged Al-Dweik like a sack for what was described as several hundred meters, then threw him violently into the back of their jeep and proceeded to beat him with extreme violence. Another group of soldiers present during the crime attacked the Palestinians present in the area, and arrested many children and youth who had witnessed the crime. The soldiers finally declared the crime scene a “military zone”. A Red Cross ambulance was not allowed to reach the victim, and the medical team of the ambulance was attacked by the soldiers. Instead, Al-Dweik was later delivered to the Shaare Tzedek hospital in Jerusalem, where he was held detained by military.

According to the Palestinian Prisoners Society, neither the family nor the lawyer of Al-Dweik were allowed to visit him. Instead, he was severely tortured by the jews in the hospital, until they finally executed him deliberately on Sunday 13 September 2009.
Ubayda Maher Abed Al-Muti Al-Dweik Al-Qudsi was buried in Hebron yesterday, 14 September 2009, in Hebron. His brother Moataz al-Qudsi demanded that human rights organizations investigate the death of his brother, who was shot in Al-Shuhada Street at the western entrance to the center of Hebron. He also denied the IDF allegations that his brother was trying to stab the soldiers.

Ubayda Al-Qudsi was a student of journalism in Malaysia, having completed the first two years. Before his murder, Ubayda had finished the necessary preparations to travel to Malaysia and to complete his study of journalism, where he wanted to receive a master’s degree in journalism, but the IDF shot him five bullets before he could achieve his dream.

The Palestinian Ministry of information stated that Ubayda had been a victim of journalism. They stated that Ubaya’s murder was one more addition to the long list of Israeli crimes which target Palestinian journalists since 1967. The Ministry of informations demanded that journalists expose the real reasons behind murdering the incipient journalist Al-Dweik, and to stop repeating the false allegations and outright lies of the IDF after they murder Palestinians.

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The IDF soldiers continuously cause horrible troubles for the Palestinians who walk on Al-Shuhada Street, which has been converted into a military base. Al-Shuhada Street once was the main street in the commercial center of trade, economy, transportation and tourism which was the city of Hebron. This is the street which links between the center, north and south of the city of Hebron. Gradually, the street was closed down by the Israeli occupation since 1994, after the terrorist massacre committed in Hebron by the crazed Zionist and IDF officer Baruch Goldstein, a US citizen and a member of the Kach terrorist cell.

In this massacre, Goldstein murdered 29 Palestinians and wounded hundreds, among them dozens who were left permanently paralyzed. As usual, when jews commit atrocities, Palestinians are punished. In the year 2000 the street was closed completely by the “civil administration” in the Israeli army headquarters, after all the shops on the street had successively been closed by military orders, and the Palestinians who lived in the street were forced to leave their houses. The street is now used only by the jewish squatter colonists. The legal adviser of the army stated that the street had been closed “by mistake” and there was no legal justification for doing that, and that the movement of Palestinians should not be prevented in the street. Even the attorney general of Israel decided that the closure of the street was illegal, but until now the Israeli army continues preventing Palestinians from walking in Al Shuhada Street.

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This disgusting crime against a Palestinian journalist took place in Hebron under Udin ben Muha the war criminal Lt. Col. Udi ben Moha, a.k.a. Udi ben Mocha, a.k.a Udi ben Muha, and his fellows the head of DCL Lt. Colonel Aviv Feigel and liaison officer Lt. Barak Morag. Ben Moha is the current Israeli brigade commander for Hebron, the other two are the heads of the occupation office. These crimes must be submitted to the International criminal court (ICC); perhaps one day, sooner or later we will be able to not only sue the criminal commanders of the Israeli IDF for all their crimes against humanity, but to also see them rotting in jail.

It is interesting to note that the head of mission of the Temporary International Presence in Hebron “TIPH”, Britt Tove Berg Brestrup, who is apparently a jewish woman from Norway, fraternizes with Ben Moha and the other abject war criminals from the occupying forces.

Tove Berg is demanded to stop fraternizing in any way with the israeli criminals in the headquarters of the TIPH in Hebron, people who are personally culpable of many horrible crimes against Palestinians, like murders, detentions and executions of children, vandalism against Palestinian property and wanton violence against civilians.

Is fraternizing with war criminals, holding lunches together, inviting them to parties in the west of occupied Jerusalem, part of the duties of their presence in Palestine under the original agreement? Or is it rather so that TIPH officers would do better in avoiding criminals like Lt. Col. Udi Ben Muha, Lt. Colonel Aviv Feigel, Lt. Barak Morag, and all other israeli personnel present in the West Bank, or at least to meet these thugs in a discrete way so as to not offend us Palestinians?

Lt. Col. Ben Muha is a war criminal with a long history of committing crimes against humanity. He contributed to the ethnic cleansing of the north of Gaza and along the Palestinian-Egyptian border, and he implemented other measures which correspond to the definition of genocide and crimes against humanity in the Geneva conventions and the Rome Statute of the ICC. Since he was appointed as a commander of the IDF in Hebron, he aids and abets to a continuous string of crimes against the Palestinians of the city and surroundings, which are all war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.

Lt. Col. Ben Moha and Another Premeditated Murder in Cold Blood

On Tuesday, January 13 2009, IDF soldiers executed in cold blood Yasser Saqer Al-Tmeizy, age of 35, a member of the Palestinian People’s Party, one of the main wings of the Palestinian National Authority. He was a peace activist who had no history of violence against Israel, he hold a permit issued by the military command of the IDF to work in Israel for six-months. Al-Tmeizy was kidnapped from his farm near Tarqumiya west of Hebron. He was caught by four Israeli soldiers while he was working in his field together with his oldest child Firas, aged seven.

The IDF soldiers found the victim alone in his farm and beat him seriously, blindfolded his eyes, cuffed his hands and took him into their military vehicle. His child was also forced to leave the field. The soldiers threatened to shoot him if he insisted in looking at his father, who was blindfolded and handcuffed while being pushed violently to the military vehicle.

The IDF soldiers later executed Al-Tmeizy. They shot him several times in cold blood while he was still blindfolded and cuffed. This is a gratuitous murder is a crass crime against humanity which colonel Lt. Col. Udi ben Moha has tried to cover up and which he possibly ordered personally.

The criminal “State of Israel” and the IDF have never respected human rights, the laws and international treaties and the Geneva Convention of 1949. The IDF always finds Palestinian civilians guilty, and shoots them for whatever reasons. The army has never filed charges against the soldier, and has never investigated the soldiers involved in the whole incident. Always the IDF commanders cover the crimes. The IDF spokesperson always accuses the victim of “stabbing” or “attacking” the IDF soldiers, and all what he does after each crime is to change the date of statement and the name of the victim. This is a disgusting farce which occurs every day in Palestine. It is time to deal with these crimes in accordance with international laws, and all governments should open the doors of their courts to the victims. It is long past time that everybody learns how to respect the legal treaties and conventions which they signed, and by this I mean the jews of Israel.

Everyone must denounce the crimes of Israel, and deal with them like criminals are treated everywhere. It is no longer acceptable to remain silent about these crimes, and it will no longer be useful, because from now on anybody standing with Israel will be unmasked as somebody of sick mind who stands with criminals of the worst kind. The world has entered the era of technological revolution in communications, in which no states or censorship laws can silence the voice of truth and hinder the dissemination of first-hand information about the crimes of Israel. Israel is a state of occupation since 42 years, and it is enough of covering up the Israeli crimes.

Here is a Murder Committed Under the Previous Military Commander of Hebron Lt. Col. Yehuda Fox, a.k.a. Yehuda Fuchs

On February 14 2005, the child Sabri Al-Rajoub, age 14 years from Hebron, was executed in cold blood by an IDF officer near the Abraham mosque. It was the first visit of the child to Abraham mosque. He went to see the holy place which he heard about it in the school. All the students in Europe visit the holy places, the churches, the mosques and the museums freely; no soldiers or police shoot and murder them. Why is it forbidden to go freely to the holy places in Palestine?

Why is the IDF murdering, executing and sniping the children of Palestine with impunity? The child Sabri Al-Rajoub was murdered while he was is about six meters from the IDF officer who shot him. The officer also went to child after he died and shot him with another three bullets from the distance of one meter. This was what human rights organizations reported about murder in cold blood of the child Sabri, and that is the truth which the world must hear.

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The IV Geneva Convention of 12 August 1949, which is pertinent, and which was signed by Israel on 6 July 1951, reads (excerpt)

Art. 2. In addition to the provisions which shall be implemented in peace-time, the present Convention shall apply to all cases of declared war or of any other armed conflict which may arise between two or more of the High Contracting Parties, even if the state of war is not recognized by one of them.

The Convention shall also apply to all cases of partial or total occupation of the territory of a High Contracting Party, even if the said occupation meets with no armed resistance.

Although one of the Powers in conflict may not be a party to the present Convention, the Powers who are parties thereto shall remain bound by it in their mutual relations. They shall furthermore be bound by the Convention in relation to the said Power, if the latter accepts and applies the provisions thereof.

Art. 3. In the case of armed conflict not of an international character occurring in the territory of one of the High Contracting Parties, each Party to the conflict shall be bound to apply, as a minimum, the following
provisions:

(1) Persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause, shall in all circumstances be treated humanely, without any adverse distinction founded on race, color, religion or faith, sex, birth or wealth, or any other similar criteria.

To this end the following acts are and shall remain prohibited at any time and in any place whatsoever with respect to the above-mentioned persons:
(a) Violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture;
(b) Taking of hostages;
(c) Outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment;
(d) The passing of sentences and the carrying out of executions without previous judgement pronounced by a regularly constituted court, affording all the judicial guarantees which are recognized as indispensable by civilized peoples.

(2) The wounded and sick shall be collected and cared for.

Full text of the convention is here.

EU-Israel and The Loss of The Human Rights

EU-Israel and The Loss of The Human Rights

Sep 9th, 2009 by kawther.salam

Where are the human rights in the European-Israeli agreements? Is the Israeli occupation human?

Are crass daily violations of human rights in Palestine, the blockade, siege, starvation, murders, incarcerations, demolitions, the construction of squatter colonies, the theft of the dead and their organs, the jailing of their bodies, human?

Are the Israeli practices in the Gaza Strip, in Jerusalem, Hebron and in each other city, town and village in Palestine not crass violations of the human rights, and the EU-Israel agreements, which explicitly names human rights as a condition for its continued existence?

Which are the guarantees adopted by the European signatories to this agreement with Israel? Where is the Israeli compliance with the terms of this agreement?

Is the sale of products from squatter colonies populated by deranged criminals, which explicitly contravenes the spirit and letter of the EU-Israel agreement, human?

It is a shame and utter disgrace that Europe keeps quiet about the violations of the human rights in Palestine, of the crass violation and disrespect shown by Israel for all national and common laws in Europe. I think that Europeans deserve politicians who enforce their own Laws and Agreements, people who do not allow criminals to dictate to them how to manage their own affairs.

Below is what the European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza sent me by e-mail about the Legal Action to enforce Human Rights Conditions in EU-Israel Association Agreement.

See the European Convention On Human Rights. Please right for the European Union and ask them where are the human rights which are mentioned in their convention.

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Legal Action to enforce Human Rights Conditions in EU-Israel Association Agreement

Clare Short MP and the European Campaign to End the Siege of Gaza have launched a legal action to require the European Union to uphold the human rights conditions entrenched in the EU-Israel Association Agreement.

The action was launched in a letter sent to President Barroso and Javier Solana, the High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, spelling out the way in which the Treaty conditions are being breached and the way in which international law applies. The case is being taken forward on behalf of the complainants by Public Interest Lawyers of 8 Hylton Street, Birmingham.

The Commission has been given 28 days to reply to the detailed case outlined in a 15 page letter which spells out the fact that under the EU-Israel Association Agreement, the EU has clear obligations in the light of Israel’s violations of international human rights and humanitarian law in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The case made is that the EU is failing to meet these obligations.

In the letter it is argued that ‘Palestinian, Israeli and International Human Rights organizations have concluded in numerous reports and studies that Israel’s actions in Operation Cast Lead intentionally and systematically disregarded and violated both international humanitarian law and international human rights law.

Furthermore ‘the combined reports delivered to the UN including that of Richard Falk, charged with investigating the human rights situation in Palestine found several breaches of law in Operation Cast Lead. The Special Rapporteur on Poverty discussed reports that during the military intervention Israel deliberately obstructed the work of humanitarian personnel leaving the poor without basic medical, food and other services in violation of both international humanitarian law and human rights law.

The case presented outlines the position of the International Court of Justice and the UN with respect to the countless violations, amongst which include the acquisition of territory by force, obstructing the self determination of the Palestinian People and many other peremptory norms.

In pointing to EU’s obligation in the face of so many reports and statements of the highest authority in international law, it states that ‘Under the Geneva convention The EU must not only insure that its own comply with human rights: it also requires it to base its relations with Israel on the mutual respect for human rights . Thus where Israel persistently violates human rights and the EU does not take appropriate steps against Israel it will be in breach of article 2 of the Geneva Convention.

Maintaining the status quo in the EU-Israeli Association Agreement, which makes Israel, EU’s biggest trading partner is improper and more importantly it is justiciable. The letter points towards specific steps which the European Community is required to take under the agreement where Israel is in breach of Article 2 of the Geneva Convention.

In recognition of its obligations it calls upon the Commissioner to meet its obligations and further provide detailed description of its actions in fulfilling its obligations.

Clare Short said today “I and many others have tried through our parliaments to require our governments to comply with international law, without success. We now hope legal action will require compliance. It is my firm belief that the only way to peace is to require Israel to comply with international law and that this is in the interests of all parties. The European Commission and member states are failing in their duty to uphold the conditions of our own treaty with Israel and to use these requirements to obtain long term peace and justice.”

Tags: EU-Israel Association Agreement, European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza, European Commission, European Convention On Human Rights, Geneva-Conventions, humanitarian law, International Court of Justice, israeli occupation, Javier Solana, Operation Cast Lead, Palestine, UN

Palestinian Organs for Sale and Experiments

Palestinian Organs for Sale and Experiments

Sep 6th, 2009 by kawther.salam

“Many Palestinian bodies which had their organs removed are still in the refrigerators of the Israeli jails and hospitals, and many Palestinian bodies (about 300) which had their organs removed are still in secret and cemeteries with numbered graves. Israel is the only State in the world which continues holding the bodies of Palestinian victims and pursues it’s criminal policies as a cover for concealing up the proof of the theft of Palestinian organs. Since the seventies, Israel refuses to give these bodies back to their families in a clear violation to basic norms of human behavior, Israeli laws, the Geneva conventions and other international treaties”. (Click on pictures to see them bigger).

The body of Martyr Mahmoud Touman, one of several people who carried out an operation against Israel in 1994, was returned to his family a month after the operation. His family stated that all the internal organs of their son had been purloined, and the family has pictures which prove the Israeli crime.

The body of the Palestinian woman Daren Abu Eisha, who was killed by the Israelis on 27/2/2002 near a military checkpoint in the West Bank, is still held in Israel. Her mother wishes that the Israelis give her back the body of her daughter, so that she can bury it properly before her own death.

There are crimes, there are criminals who benefit from the crimes, and the purloined bodies of murdered Palestinians are used for experiments as the reports go, yet another crime. All of this is going on since the seventies. All the beneficiaries of these crimes in the State of Israel, the IDF, the israeli hospitals and elsewhere have exercised their filthy roles in a wide conspiracy, a criminal network, as a part of their everyday work. Their crimes have accrued them fat gains besides their official salaries – the israeli version of “fringe benefits”. Their roles and activities within this criminal network was and is a lucrative and profitable business.

The Israeli army murders the Palestinians, kidnapped the bodies and sends them to Abu Kabir, Tel HaShomer, and other “hospitals” to be butchered. These are the central places of the criminal network, where the booty for the criminal network is taken. At these indecent places, the butcheries of Abu Kabir, Tel HaShomer and elsewhere, the bodies are “autopsied”, organs stolen, research and studies of likely questionable scientific value conducted, organs given to others for equally questionable research which all serve the military experiments of the IDF in Palestine, and complex deals which generate huge profits for everyone are arranged.

All this happens with full knowledge of the State of Israeli, under their occupation which cover it’s crimes against humanity buy using the ridiculous saying “anti-Semitism” and the Holocaust to stick everybody opens his mouth over the head.

Is the Israeli interest in autopsies Palestinian bodies, in stealing and selling their organs to educational institutions, universities … or is the Israeli interest in the bodies and organs to research on the type of ammunition which the IDF used to murder the Palestinians, or are both these possibilities of interest to Israel?

The scandal which erupted around the theft and harvesting of organs and bodies of Palestinians has forced the Palestinian Authority (the PA) to say and to do something. On September 3 2009, the PA announced the establishment of an inquiry commission to investigate the issue of theft of organs of Palestinian martyrs by the Israelis at various locations. Prime Minster Salam Fayyad demanded that Dr. Riyad Al-Maliki, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Said Abu Ali, Interior Minister, and Dr. Fathi Abu Mgali, health minister, should investigate all the facts related to theft by the Israeli occupation of the organs of Palestinian martyrs whose bodies were purloined or kidnapped by the IDF and transferred to the butchery at Abu Kabir in the south of Tel Aviv. According to the results of the investigation commission, the PA will decide whether or not to pursue action against Israel. He added: “all possibilities are open, and our attitude will be unequivocal, if the suspicions of theft by the Israeli occupation of the organs from the bodies of the martyrs are proven”.

Prime Minister Fayyad added that organ theft is not only a violation of human rights, it’s a clear violation of international treaties, the Geneva convention and the Rome statute of the ICC, and that it goes against all values and creeds. According to the results of the work of this committee, the PA will adopt a position before moving on various levels legally and internationally.

Dr. Hanna Issa, a legal advisor of the PA, teacher of international law, PA-Ministry of Justice, said “the international prosecutor is entitled to open an investigation on the Israeli occupation and their stealing organs from the bodies of Palestinian who were killed, during the autopsies in Israeli hospitals”.

Israel has been suspected since the early seventies of stealing the organs of the Palestinian bodies autopsied at the butchery of Abu Kabir in the south of Tel Aviv. All the Palestinian bodies purloined and kidnapped by IDF soldiers and transferred to Abu Kabir were autopsied, stuffed with cotton and sewn up in disrespectful way before being sent back to their families. These bodies were buried without being re-opened by their relatives to reveal which of their organs had been stolen in the Israeli hospitals. Nobody could imagine that the organs of their loved ones would be stolen, but everybody knew that bodies had been autopsied. They were all forced to accept the crime as a normal part of their daily life under the criminal Israeli occupation and it’s military laws.

According to the Muslim tradition “Islam forbids the autopsy of the deceased, and considers it as a humiliation for the dead person. Muslims believe in the dignity of the deceased and that their burial must happen in a speedy fashion”.

Whatever happened, whatever Israel did to the bodies of the Palestinian victims of the IDF, the IDF and the Israeli State are guilty of stealing and harvesting the victims (or as Israel calls them, enemies) organs. Simply, we say it frankly and with a LOUD voice:

• Israel is guilty of murdering Palestinians who are civilians protected under international laws and treaties, which Israeli has signed, and under them Israel as the occupier is responsible for the security and safety of all Palestinians in their persons and belongings.
• Israel is guilty of the theft of the organs of many dozens of Palestinian martyrs who were wounded, and who were abducted by Israeli personnel from emergency wards, from ambulances, from hospitals. Israel later announced their deaths, and their bodies were not handed back to their families.
• Israel is guilty and of kidnapping and purloining the bodies of Palestinians and autopsying them against the will of the their families, or without informing them, and without the presence of an Arab or Palestinian doctor.
• Israel is guilty and suspected of stealing the organs of Palestinians and selling them to hospitals, educational institutions, and individuals, for financial gain.
• Israel is guilty of using Palestinian bodies for dissections to train students. Read the full article of the Palestinian Information center: ”Israeli doctors conduct surgery on Palestinian prisoner without their consent”.
• Israel is guilty of stealing organs of hundreds of Palestinian who they murdered during clashes and at peace demonstrations, and whose bodies were kept by the Israelis for several days or weeks, and then returned after autopsies performed without allowing Palestinian physicians to supervise or take. The families of these victims were forced to sign documents stating that they had received the bodies and that they were buried in difficult circumstances and under military supervision. Often the families were forced to sign documents in Hebrew, which they did not understand, in order to get back the bodies of their beloved ones.
• Israel is guilty of hiding the bodies of hundreds of Palestinians and Arabs who were declared as “missing”, and it insists on the denying knowledge about their fate. Israel is responsible hiding all these people, of murdering them and stealing their organs.
• Israel is guilty of stealing the organs of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of detainees, who were deliberately murdered by the IDF after their capture, since 1967. Some of them were taken out of their cells alive and driven to unknown places. The death of such people was later announced, and their bodies were never returned to their relatives.
• Israel is accused of carrying out tests of weapons used to murder Palestinians. Israel is accused of murdering Palestinians and using the bodies to conduct experiments which serve the Israeli army.
• Israel is guilty of violating the sanctity of the deceased, and of the desecration of bodies of people for the only reason that they believe in another religion.
• Israel is accused of purloining the organs of all victims of traffic accidents, Arabs or Jews, as their organs are always removed, with or without the consent of the deceased or their families.
• Israel is guilty for violating international agreements based on the provisions of Article 147 of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, as well as the Rome statute of the ICC of 1998.

It is clear that a State which commits all these crimes and arouses so many suspicions and accusations, is not innocent, can not be innocent – where there is smoke, there is fire. There are benefits from the crimes and experiments against the Palestinian bodies, the bodies of “the enemies”.

If there was no benefit in kidnapping the Palestinian bodies and autopsying them, then Israel would never accept to transfer even one body to their so-called hospitals, or rather, butcheries. An autopsy is not fun, it is work, personnel, time, equipments, etc. what all costs money. Too perform autopsies of “enemies bodies” would never be done by the israelis if there were no benefits, money, research results, and military experiments, involved.

The director of Abu Kabir, Dr. Yehuda Hiss, has been accused of stealing the organs of dead Jews and selling them. Such a State which does not even respect it’s own dead Jews and allows and encourages the harvesting of their organs would never be honest and respectful while autopsying the bodies of its victims (their Palestinian enemies), and, they are known to do everything possible to serve the interests of the IDF, which are the interests of the state of israel.

IsraeliNationalNews.com: Infamous Chief Pathologist to Once Again Evade Punishment, by Ezra HaLevi: “According to the arrangement, the prosecution will request that Prof. Hiss receive only a reprimand for his involvement in the unauthorized removal of parts from 125 bodies. In exchange, Hiss will admit to the acts. The plea bargain is subject to the approval of the court. In all of the 125 cases, Dr. Hiss and his subordinates removed organs, bones and tissue without the permission of, and in many cases, against the expressed wishes of the families of the deceased. Read the article.

“IsraeliNationalNews.com, Sunday, May 25, 2003, State Attorney General Elyakim Rubinstein ordered police to launch an investigation against Prof. Yehuda Hiss, the nation’s senior pathologist and director of the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute. Read the article.

On January31 2006, the Israeli Ynetnews.com reported Dozens of ultra-Orthodox men riot in Institute for Forensic Medicine in Tel Aviv in protest of autopsy carried out on body of haredi woman, … “The problem is that during an autopsy parts of the body that are taken out are not buried; however, if the case involves disease or murder, then rabbis permit an autopsy.” Read the article and see the Video.

In conclusion, I would ask Israel to put an end to all their crimes, to apologize for all what they did, like Germany, Austria, Europe apologized for the holocaust, and to invite a team composed of international investigators from courts of other countries, among them investigators from ICC, doctors and journalists, human rights organizations, and the Red Cross and Red Crescent, to see all the bodies still in the refrigerators of the Israeli jails, hospitals, and in secret cemeteries, so that they can see whether these accusations against the innocent State of Israel are unjustified, or if the State of Israel actually continues violating international humanitarian laws and customs and is keeping these bodies from the families of the victims in order to hide these crimes and their theft of organs.