Saturday, July 02, 2011
"What we in America concider terrorism."
"What we in America consider terrorism"..Would that be the promoted to power-Iranian regime targeting US troops in Iraq or the regime cooperating under the US Treasury department in crimes against Kurds, Baloch, Iranians, Afghans etc.. and every one inside or outside the Iranian borders, for decades in violation of Universal declarations of Human rights?
Would that be targeting US troops in Iraq, or the US, Israeli leaders, Bilderbergers, Jews, Britain, Germany and Turkey in cooperation with the Iranian regime in extermination, ongoing genocide, the most gross crimes and TERROR in violation of everything and anything ever written about Universal declarations of Human rights, International laws, the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide or any #¤¤ laws, staged, orchestrated, instigated and intended against a whole people going on for decades, in the region there between?
Or would it be like the Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne who for more than twelve years cooperated with Iranian authorities and received direct and indirect funding and support from the Iranian government for her efforts to supposedly provide humanitarian aide to refugees from Iraq who fled to Iran during the Iran-Iraq war. Only, the refugees mostly formed Iranian funded groups such as Hakim’s force, who took refuge in Iran and were trained and funded by Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps and the Iranian regime’s extra-territorial Qods Force, believed responsible for coordinating parts of the insurgency in Iraq?
Or where Iraqis have been tortured, killed and had their families threatened if they didn´t join the insurgency, just to give the US and allies pretext to bomb and counter it with countless of deaths as a result?
Would it be the promoted to power-Iranian regime targeting US troops in Iraq, or the regime cooperating under the US Treasury department in crimes against humanity in violation of Universal declarations of Human rights? Or what the hell is it really?
Nu jävlar tar det hus i helvete här asså..
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) is a multilateral treaty adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 16, 1966, and in force from March 23, 1976. It commits its parties to respect the civil and political rights of individuals, including the right to life, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, electoral rights and rights to due process and a fair trial. As of December 2010 update, the Covenant had 72 signatories and 167 parties.
The ICCPR is part of the International Bill of Human Rights, along with the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
The ICCPR is monitored by the Human Rights Committee (a separate body to the Human Rights Council), which reviews regular reports of States parties on how the rights are being implemented. States must report initially one year after acceding to the Covenant and then whenever the Committee requests (usually every four years). The Committee meets in Geneva or New York and normally holds three sessions per year.
The ICCPR has its roots in the same process that led to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. A "Declaration on the Essential Rights of Man" had been proposed at the 1945 San Francisco Conference which led to the founding of the United Nations, and the Economic and Social Council was given the task of drafting it.
Early on in the process, the document was split into a declaration setting forth general principles of human rights, and a convention or covenant containing binding commitments. The former evolved into the UDHR and was adopted on December 10, 1948.
The Covenant follows the structure of the UDHR and ICESCR, with a preamble and fifty-three articles, divided into six parts.
Part 1 , Article 1, recognises the right of all peoples to self-determination, including the right to "freely determine their political status", pursue their economic, social and cultural goals, and manage and dispose of their own resources.
It recognises a right of a people not to be deprived of its means of subsistence, and imposes an obligation on those parties still responsible for non-self governing and trust territories (colonies) to encourage and respect their self-determination.
Part 3, Articles 6 – 27, lists the rights themselves. These include rights to
physical integrity, in the form of the right to life and freedom from torture and slavery
Articles 6, 7, and 8; liberty and security of the person, in the form of freedom from arbitrary arrest and detention and the right to Habeas corpus
Articles 9 – 11; procedural fairness in law, in the form of rights to due process, a fair and impartial trial, the presumption of innocence, and recognition as a person before the law
Articles 14, 15, and 16; individual liberty, in the form of the freedoms of movement, thought, conscience and religion, speech, association and assembly, family rights, the right to a nationality, and the right to privacy
Articles 12, 13, 17 – 24; Prohibition of any propaganda for war as well as any avocacy of national or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence by law
Article 20; political participation, including the right to join a political party and the right to vote
Article 25; Non-discrimination, minority rights and equality before the law
Article 6 of the Covenant recognises the individual's "inherent right to life" and requires it to be protected by law. It is a "supreme right" from which no derogation can be permitted, and must be interpreted widely.
It therefore requires parties to take positive measures to reduce infant mortality and increase life expectancy, as well as forbidding arbitrary killings by security forces. While Article 6 does not prohibit the death penalty, it restricts its application to the "most serious crimes" and forbids it to be used in a manner contrary to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
Article 12 guarantees freedom of movement, including the right of persons to choose their residence and to leave a country. These rights apply to legal aliens as well as citizens of a state
Article 20 mandates sanctions against inciting hatred.
Articles 21 and 22 mandate freedom of association. These provisions guarantee the right to freedom of association, the right to trade unions and also defines the International Labour Organisation
Political rights
Article 3 provides an accessory non-discrimination principle. Accessory in the way that it cannot be used independently and can only be relied upon in relation to another right protected by the ICCPR.
In contrast, Article 26 contains a norm by providing an autonomous equality principle which is not dependant upon another right under the convention being infringed. This has the effect of widening the scope of the non-discrimination principle beyond the scope of ICCPR.
Prominent critics in the human rights community..
..such as Prof. Louis Henkin (non-self-execution declaration incompatible with the Supremacy Clause) and Prof. Jordan Paust: "Rarely has a treaty been so abused." Have denounced the United States' ratification subject to the non-self-execution declaration as a blatant fraud upon the international community, especially in light of its subsequent failure to conform domestic law to the minimum human rights standards as established in the Covenant over the last fifteen years. In 1994, the United Nations' Human Rights Committee expressed similar concerns.
From Wikipedia: International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Covenant_on_Civil_and_Political_Rights
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) is a multilateral treaty adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 16, 1966, and in force from March 23, 1976. It commits its parties to respect the civil and political rights of individuals, including the right to life, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, electoral rights and rights to due process and a fair trial. As of December 2010 update, the Covenant had 72 signatories and 167 parties.
The ICCPR is part of the International Bill of Human Rights, along with the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
The ICCPR is monitored by the Human Rights Committee (a separate body to the Human Rights Council), which reviews regular reports of States parties on how the rights are being implemented. States must report initially one year after acceding to the Covenant and then whenever the Committee requests (usually every four years). The Committee meets in Geneva or New York and normally holds three sessions per year.
The ICCPR has its roots in the same process that led to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. A "Declaration on the Essential Rights of Man" had been proposed at the 1945 San Francisco Conference which led to the founding of the United Nations, and the Economic and Social Council was given the task of drafting it.
Early on in the process, the document was split into a declaration setting forth general principles of human rights, and a convention or covenant containing binding commitments. The former evolved into the UDHR and was adopted on December 10, 1948.
The Covenant follows the structure of the UDHR and ICESCR, with a preamble and fifty-three articles, divided into six parts.
Part 1 , Article 1, recognises the right of all peoples to self-determination, including the right to "freely determine their political status", pursue their economic, social and cultural goals, and manage and dispose of their own resources.
It recognises a right of a people not to be deprived of its means of subsistence, and imposes an obligation on those parties still responsible for non-self governing and trust territories (colonies) to encourage and respect their self-determination.
Part 3, Articles 6 – 27, lists the rights themselves. These include rights to
physical integrity, in the form of the right to life and freedom from torture and slavery
Articles 6, 7, and 8; liberty and security of the person, in the form of freedom from arbitrary arrest and detention and the right to Habeas corpus
Articles 9 – 11; procedural fairness in law, in the form of rights to due process, a fair and impartial trial, the presumption of innocence, and recognition as a person before the law
Articles 14, 15, and 16; individual liberty, in the form of the freedoms of movement, thought, conscience and religion, speech, association and assembly, family rights, the right to a nationality, and the right to privacy
Articles 12, 13, 17 – 24; Prohibition of any propaganda for war as well as any avocacy of national or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence by law
Article 20; political participation, including the right to join a political party and the right to vote
Article 25; Non-discrimination, minority rights and equality before the law
Article 6 of the Covenant recognises the individual's "inherent right to life" and requires it to be protected by law. It is a "supreme right" from which no derogation can be permitted, and must be interpreted widely.
It therefore requires parties to take positive measures to reduce infant mortality and increase life expectancy, as well as forbidding arbitrary killings by security forces. While Article 6 does not prohibit the death penalty, it restricts its application to the "most serious crimes" and forbids it to be used in a manner contrary to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
Article 12 guarantees freedom of movement, including the right of persons to choose their residence and to leave a country. These rights apply to legal aliens as well as citizens of a state
Article 20 mandates sanctions against inciting hatred.
Articles 21 and 22 mandate freedom of association. These provisions guarantee the right to freedom of association, the right to trade unions and also defines the International Labour Organisation
Political rights
Article 3 provides an accessory non-discrimination principle. Accessory in the way that it cannot be used independently and can only be relied upon in relation to another right protected by the ICCPR.
In contrast, Article 26 contains a norm by providing an autonomous equality principle which is not dependant upon another right under the convention being infringed. This has the effect of widening the scope of the non-discrimination principle beyond the scope of ICCPR.
Prominent critics in the human rights community..
..such as Prof. Louis Henkin (non-self-execution declaration incompatible with the Supremacy Clause) and Prof. Jordan Paust: "Rarely has a treaty been so abused." Have denounced the United States' ratification subject to the non-self-execution declaration as a blatant fraud upon the international community, especially in light of its subsequent failure to conform domestic law to the minimum human rights standards as established in the Covenant over the last fifteen years. In 1994, the United Nations' Human Rights Committee expressed similar concerns.
From Wikipedia: International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Covenant_on_Civil_and_Political_Rights
Friday, July 01, 2011
Norwegian studen saw the mass killing in Iran, also a bus full of people that were burned
Shocking story from 2009 ashora: Translation of the Story can be found here http://freedomessenger.com/?p=19981
Norwegian student was arrested and kidnapped by militia in Iran and was forced to watch the mass killing. This interview was given to the Norwegian news paper, VG for the first time after the leaking report from Wikileaks.
The Norwegian student tells us that he was forced to look at mass murder and torture of demonstrators, carried out by Iranian militia.
- "The only thing I managed to eventually thought of was when they would start with me and how I was going to die", says the ethnic Norwegian student to VG.
His story is reproduced in a document in Wikileaks base, where the U.S. Embassy in Oslo, recounting the testimony they have received from the Norwegian Foreign Ministry. Therefore, the Norwegian student agreed to give his first interview with the media about what he experienced 27 December 2009, when he was arrested and transported to an intersection in central Tehran.
- As protesters die
- "I was an eyewitness to the fact that three people were killed by militiasmen. I also had to watch a bus full of people that were burned," says the Norwegian man.
It appears from a document in Wikileaks base as VG has been granted access. In a document that the U.S. Embassy in Oslo sent home to Washington, says that the Foreign Ministry considered his account credible, and the whole incident as “a testament to institutionalized perversion of Iran.”
Students have also told their story to Amnesty in Norway, which published parts of it in a critical report on Iran. In the Amnesty report is the student named as “Lars”. To VG clutching him also on his anonymity, for the sake of their own safety. “Lars”, says that he was a guest student at a university in Tehran.
27 December, on the religious holy day of Ashura, the demonstrations had earlier in the autumn flared up again. “Lars” sat in a public bus in downtown Tehran, when the driver stopped to pick up three female protesters, presumably to rescue them to safety, seconds later they were slammed into the windshield.
The bus was stormed by militia from the paramilitary Basij force, which turned loose on the passengers with iron rods and batons. "The blood flowed. As a foreigner, I was forced out of the bus," he said.
“Lars” got a hood over his head and was placed between two paramilitaries on a motorcycle who drove at high speed from the scene. When the cap was taken off, “Lars” was in an intersection where militiamen and demonstrators had bumped together.
The Square was full of militia, and was obviously a place where they brought prisoners to. There were also demonstrations in the vicinity. Garbage cans were on fire and Molotov cocktails were hurled.
A person with a ski mask, such as “Lars” perceived as a commander, handed control of his militia to younger members. He was placed on one of the pillars of a road bridge over the street crossing.
Three persons were taken prisoner and were followed up to me. They were laid down in front of me. One of the militias held my face firmly and said “here you should see how we treat the enemies of Allah”, and then stretching the legs out and smashed kneecaps on one of the demonstrators with batons. Another of them, a woman was stabbed in the stomach drawn, he says.
“Lars” is aware of the burning bus. He says he does not know who had set it on fire, but it was quickly done.
"There was a minibus full of people, I have no idea how many. But one person managed to escape through a window. The person tried to escape but was shot and fell." he says. At one point, someone enters a hood over his head again. In those minutes he perceives the sound of screams and cries for help, and the smell of burning human beings.
"It’s hard for me to set the time it happened, and the order in it. I was so scared that I lost the concept of time," he said.
“Lars”, says that he also witnessed two murders: one was a woman who was run over and got his head crushed by a military vehicle. The other was a young boy: He was standing inside the wall of the house and shouted “death to dictator” in Persian. A car with a bumper was driving against him and pushed him against the wall of the house, stepped back and crushed the boy against the wall. He collapsed on the bonnet.
“Lars” estimates that he was captured for about three hours by militias, before the commander came back, checked his identity papers, went through the pictures on his camera and waved him away with a brief order: “Go!”.
"They had no case on me, except that I had been in the wrong place at the wrong time. It would also lead to problems for them if something had happened to me, as a foreigner," he said.
And “Lars” went as fast as he could, away from the outdoor torture chamber. The same evening he called the Norwegian embassy’s emergency number. He went to the embassy, told his story, and asked for help to escape the country.
In a country like Iran, it is dangerous to talk about the episodes that “Lars” was witness to. I could not talk to anyone about what had happened. In late January, he got the passport back, and took over Vienna and Copenhagen to Oslo. Then he broke completely together.
General Secretary Baber of Amnesty Norway has also talked with “Lars”. "We attach the highest degree of trust in what he says. It coincides with things that happened that day, and we also know that the type of events have occurred, witnessed from multiple sources."
Original news: http://www.vg.no/nyheter/utenriks/wikileaks/artikkel.php?artid=10028247
Norwegian student was arrested and kidnapped by militia in Iran and was forced to watch the mass killing. This interview was given to the Norwegian news paper, VG for the first time after the leaking report from Wikileaks.
The Norwegian student tells us that he was forced to look at mass murder and torture of demonstrators, carried out by Iranian militia.
- "The only thing I managed to eventually thought of was when they would start with me and how I was going to die", says the ethnic Norwegian student to VG.
His story is reproduced in a document in Wikileaks base, where the U.S. Embassy in Oslo, recounting the testimony they have received from the Norwegian Foreign Ministry. Therefore, the Norwegian student agreed to give his first interview with the media about what he experienced 27 December 2009, when he was arrested and transported to an intersection in central Tehran.
- As protesters die
- "I was an eyewitness to the fact that three people were killed by militiasmen. I also had to watch a bus full of people that were burned," says the Norwegian man.
It appears from a document in Wikileaks base as VG has been granted access. In a document that the U.S. Embassy in Oslo sent home to Washington, says that the Foreign Ministry considered his account credible, and the whole incident as “a testament to institutionalized perversion of Iran.”
Students have also told their story to Amnesty in Norway, which published parts of it in a critical report on Iran. In the Amnesty report is the student named as “Lars”. To VG clutching him also on his anonymity, for the sake of their own safety. “Lars”, says that he was a guest student at a university in Tehran.
27 December, on the religious holy day of Ashura, the demonstrations had earlier in the autumn flared up again. “Lars” sat in a public bus in downtown Tehran, when the driver stopped to pick up three female protesters, presumably to rescue them to safety, seconds later they were slammed into the windshield.
The bus was stormed by militia from the paramilitary Basij force, which turned loose on the passengers with iron rods and batons. "The blood flowed. As a foreigner, I was forced out of the bus," he said.
“Lars” got a hood over his head and was placed between two paramilitaries on a motorcycle who drove at high speed from the scene. When the cap was taken off, “Lars” was in an intersection where militiamen and demonstrators had bumped together.
The Square was full of militia, and was obviously a place where they brought prisoners to. There were also demonstrations in the vicinity. Garbage cans were on fire and Molotov cocktails were hurled.
A person with a ski mask, such as “Lars” perceived as a commander, handed control of his militia to younger members. He was placed on one of the pillars of a road bridge over the street crossing.
Three persons were taken prisoner and were followed up to me. They were laid down in front of me. One of the militias held my face firmly and said “here you should see how we treat the enemies of Allah”, and then stretching the legs out and smashed kneecaps on one of the demonstrators with batons. Another of them, a woman was stabbed in the stomach drawn, he says.
“Lars” is aware of the burning bus. He says he does not know who had set it on fire, but it was quickly done.
"There was a minibus full of people, I have no idea how many. But one person managed to escape through a window. The person tried to escape but was shot and fell." he says. At one point, someone enters a hood over his head again. In those minutes he perceives the sound of screams and cries for help, and the smell of burning human beings.
"It’s hard for me to set the time it happened, and the order in it. I was so scared that I lost the concept of time," he said.
“Lars”, says that he also witnessed two murders: one was a woman who was run over and got his head crushed by a military vehicle. The other was a young boy: He was standing inside the wall of the house and shouted “death to dictator” in Persian. A car with a bumper was driving against him and pushed him against the wall of the house, stepped back and crushed the boy against the wall. He collapsed on the bonnet.
“Lars” estimates that he was captured for about three hours by militias, before the commander came back, checked his identity papers, went through the pictures on his camera and waved him away with a brief order: “Go!”.
"They had no case on me, except that I had been in the wrong place at the wrong time. It would also lead to problems for them if something had happened to me, as a foreigner," he said.
And “Lars” went as fast as he could, away from the outdoor torture chamber. The same evening he called the Norwegian embassy’s emergency number. He went to the embassy, told his story, and asked for help to escape the country.
In a country like Iran, it is dangerous to talk about the episodes that “Lars” was witness to. I could not talk to anyone about what had happened. In late January, he got the passport back, and took over Vienna and Copenhagen to Oslo. Then he broke completely together.
General Secretary Baber of Amnesty Norway has also talked with “Lars”. "We attach the highest degree of trust in what he says. It coincides with things that happened that day, and we also know that the type of events have occurred, witnessed from multiple sources."
Original news: http://www.vg.no/nyheter/utenriks/wikileaks/artikkel.php?artid=10028247
Yeah..This world is going to throw up on the Anglo-Jewish-American-Israeli-Turkish-Azeri Turkic-Pakistani. Ink
US 'extends drone strikes to Somalia' First such attack reported in east African nation reportedly wounds two leaders of anti-government group al-Shabab.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/06/201163018229379353.html
Concern over journalists' arrest in Ethiopia. Amnesty International says government using laws on reporting of counter-terrorism as pretext to silence dissent.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/06/2011630165542923490.html
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/06/201163018229379353.html
Concern over journalists' arrest in Ethiopia. Amnesty International says government using laws on reporting of counter-terrorism as pretext to silence dissent.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/06/2011630165542923490.html
Abbas urges Israel to reciprocate recognition
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- President Mahmoud Abbas said Thursday that Israel should recognize a Palestinian state "in response to our people's recognition of Israel's right to exist," the official Palestinian Authority news agency Wafa reported.
In a speech to the Dutch parliament, Abbas reiterated his commitment to the two-state solution, which he said must be achieved through talks and not violence.
"To accomplish this goal I am calling on the Israeli government to accept the references for talks including the principles that were set by US President Barack Obama."
Abbas added: "Our main objective is to hold talks with Israel to reach peace."
The president urged Israel to recognize a Palestinian state on land occupied in 1967, noting that Palestinians had already recognized Israel's right to exist.
Palestinians were not trying to isolate or delegitimize Israel, Abbas said.
"On the contrary. Because we did not get the approval of the Israeli government on the references of the peace process and to stop settlement building, we will continue with our attempt to gain recognition of a Palestinian state as a member of the United Nations."
The president said 117 countries had recognized Palestine as an independent state, and urged those who had not "to do so as soon as possible."
The Palestinian leadership is committed to democracy, transparency, accountability, human rights and freedom of expression, he added. Abbas also reiterated his commitment to previously signed agreements with Israel.
Regarding the reconciliation agreement recently signed between Hamas and Fatah, Abbas said national unity was the "sole path to the two-state solution." However the Palestine Liberation Organization was the body authorized to negotiate with Israel, not the government, he noted.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/Default.aspx
In a speech to the Dutch parliament, Abbas reiterated his commitment to the two-state solution, which he said must be achieved through talks and not violence.
"To accomplish this goal I am calling on the Israeli government to accept the references for talks including the principles that were set by US President Barack Obama."
Abbas added: "Our main objective is to hold talks with Israel to reach peace."
The president urged Israel to recognize a Palestinian state on land occupied in 1967, noting that Palestinians had already recognized Israel's right to exist.
Palestinians were not trying to isolate or delegitimize Israel, Abbas said.
"On the contrary. Because we did not get the approval of the Israeli government on the references of the peace process and to stop settlement building, we will continue with our attempt to gain recognition of a Palestinian state as a member of the United Nations."
The president said 117 countries had recognized Palestine as an independent state, and urged those who had not "to do so as soon as possible."
The Palestinian leadership is committed to democracy, transparency, accountability, human rights and freedom of expression, he added. Abbas also reiterated his commitment to previously signed agreements with Israel.
Regarding the reconciliation agreement recently signed between Hamas and Fatah, Abbas said national unity was the "sole path to the two-state solution." However the Palestine Liberation Organization was the body authorized to negotiate with Israel, not the government, he noted.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/Default.aspx
The focus on humanitarian aid by flotilla organizers is misleading and neglects the real obstacles to development in the Gaza Strip
30/06/2011, Israeli authorities handed military orders Thursday to a resident of Nabi Samwil, northwest of Jerusalem, ordering him to uproot 100 trees on his land, a Palestinian Authority statement said.
Israeli authorities say that the land is part of 1,100 dunums declared as a national park, despite the farmer claiming ownership, the PA said. In April, Jerusalem's District Committee for Planning and Construction approved a new plan to establish national park on lands belonging to Isawiya village in East Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma'an) -- The focus on humanitarian aid by flotilla organizers is misleading and neglects the real obstacles to development in the Gaza Strip, Israeli organization Gisha said Wednesday in a statement.
"The problem in Gaza is not a shortage of food but rather a violation of the right to productive, dignified work" executive director of Gisha Sari Bashi said.
"There is just one solution that will respect the rights of Gaza residents to freedom of movement and livelihood while protecting Israel's legitimate security interests: Israel must lift the ban on construction materials, exit of goods and travel between Gaza and the West Bank."
The statement reported that at least 83 percent of factories in Gaza remain either closed or working at a capacity of 50 percent or less. The continued ban on exports, construction materials, and travel between Gaza and the West Bank also contradicts the 2010 Israeli government decision to facilitate economic recovery in Gaza, Gisha said.
The manufacturing sector has not been given a chance to recover under Israeli restrictions, with the report noting that not a single truck had been allowed to leave Gaza since May 12.
Even during the winter agricultural season, when Israel allowed the export of agricultural produce, the quantities were economically negligible; an average of two trucks per day, compared to the 400 trucks a day agreed upon in the 2005 Agreement on Movement and Access, according to Gisha.
Israel has completely banned goods destined for Israel and the West Bank, even though prior to 2007, 85% of the goods leaving Gaza were sold to Israel and the West Bank.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/Default.aspx
Israeli authorities say that the land is part of 1,100 dunums declared as a national park, despite the farmer claiming ownership, the PA said. In April, Jerusalem's District Committee for Planning and Construction approved a new plan to establish national park on lands belonging to Isawiya village in East Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma'an) -- The focus on humanitarian aid by flotilla organizers is misleading and neglects the real obstacles to development in the Gaza Strip, Israeli organization Gisha said Wednesday in a statement.
"The problem in Gaza is not a shortage of food but rather a violation of the right to productive, dignified work" executive director of Gisha Sari Bashi said.
"There is just one solution that will respect the rights of Gaza residents to freedom of movement and livelihood while protecting Israel's legitimate security interests: Israel must lift the ban on construction materials, exit of goods and travel between Gaza and the West Bank."
The statement reported that at least 83 percent of factories in Gaza remain either closed or working at a capacity of 50 percent or less. The continued ban on exports, construction materials, and travel between Gaza and the West Bank also contradicts the 2010 Israeli government decision to facilitate economic recovery in Gaza, Gisha said.
The manufacturing sector has not been given a chance to recover under Israeli restrictions, with the report noting that not a single truck had been allowed to leave Gaza since May 12.
Even during the winter agricultural season, when Israel allowed the export of agricultural produce, the quantities were economically negligible; an average of two trucks per day, compared to the 400 trucks a day agreed upon in the 2005 Agreement on Movement and Access, according to Gisha.
Israel has completely banned goods destined for Israel and the West Bank, even though prior to 2007, 85% of the goods leaving Gaza were sold to Israel and the West Bank.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/Default.aspx
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