5 January 09 - From PressTV Iran’s Security Council Chief, Saeed Jalili, told reporters late Saturday at a press conference in Beirut that those who currently describe themselves as supporters of human rights have maintained silence concerning the ongoing massacre in Gaza in spite of widespread (...) Read

1 January 09 - From The London Review of Books Sara Roy - Israel’s siege of Gaza began on 5 November, the day after an Israeli attack inside the strip, no doubt designed finally to undermine the truce between Israel and Hamas established last June. Although both sides had violated the agreement before, (...) Read

31 December 08 - Release from Human Rights Watch - Israel and Hamas both must respect the prohibition under the laws of war against deliberate and indiscriminate attacks on civilians, Human Rights Watch said today [30 December]. Human Rights Watch expressed grave concern about Israeli bombings in Gaza that (...) Read

30 December 08 - As a result of a major offensive on 27 December by Israel against Hamas, the Islamist movement that controls Gaza, a dire humanitarian situation looms, according to aid officials. Read

27 December 08 - From nytimes.com "Israeli aircraft attacked Hamas security compounds across Gaza on Saturday, causing widespread panic and confusion, according to Hamas and the Israeli military. In one of the compounds, the bodies of more than a dozen uniformed security officers were seen lying on the (...) Read

27 December 08 - The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay last week lambasted the Israeli government for detaining and expelling a human rights expert, Richard Falk, who was on a U.N.-mandated assignment to probe the human rights situation in the occupied (...) Read

26 December 08 - Interview by Victor Kattan/Electronic Intifada* - Earlier this month, Israeli authorities deported Professor Richard Falk, United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, who had arrived in the country to conduct his duties to investigate rights (...) Read

20 December 08 - The European Union has expressed its "deep concern" at the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, as a six-month truce between Israel and Hamas came to an end. Issam Younis, a prominent Gaza human rights campaigner trusted by Hamas and Fatah, tells (...) Read

16 December 08 - Ten days of intensive fighting broke out between Israel and the Islamic resistance organisation Hamas last month despite a ceasefire. Read

11 December 08 - Juan Gasparini/HRT The report on Israel’s human rights record almost had to be adopted by a vote on Tuesday 9th December, after Egypt demanded a review of a paragraph it considered too favourable to the Jewish State. The text was finally adopted after some verbal amendments were made to (...) Read