“I only hope that Biden will, on this occasion, stand up for justice.” SCHEERPOST, By Phyllis Bennis / In These Times, 28 Jan 24 Friday morning’s much-anticipated decision by the International Court of Justice “marks the greatest moment in the history of the [court],” says Richard Falk, a noted international law professor and former United Nations Special Rapporteur on…
The most recent group of Palestinian children, freed by Israel as part of the truce agreement with Hamas, have shared their accounts in Israeli prisons recounting instances of physical assault, torture, mistreatment, deliberate starvation, and purposeful isolation from news about events outside the confines of the prison.
The deprivation of the citizens of the Gaza Strip of water, food and medicine is unacceptable, and all those violating the internal law must be punished, Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said on Wednesday.