Monthly Archives: February 2015

B’Tselem’s casualty figures based largely on phone interviews

The UN relies mainly for information on casualties in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) on the NGO Protection Cluster framework which in turn is linked to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian...

Assad Launches Offensive In South

The Syrian Army has launched a major offensive against U.S.-backed rebels in the south. Opposition sources said the Syrian Army has joined Hizbullah and other Iranian-backed forces for attacks on rebel strongholds in the southern...

News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Overview Israel's south remains quiet. In Judea, Samaria and east Jerusalem violence and terrorism continue in the so-called "popular resistance." In the "popular resistance" riot held in Kafr Qadoum, the secretary general of Fatah in Nablus threw...

Report – Proportionality in the Gaza War: What Do Death Tolls and Missile Attacks...

To: UN Independent Commission of Inquiry on 2014 Gaza Conflict Dear Sirs We enclose our Report-- Proportionality in the Gaza War: What Do Death Tolls and Missile Attacks in Gaza and Israel Tell Us: An Epidemiologic...

The stamp Canada issued

Canada is the only country in the world to do this so far.

Iran Becoming “A Very Successful Regional Power”

Last Friday, Iran-backed Shiite Houthi rebels dissolved Yemen’s parliament and set up a five-member presidential council to form a transitional government to govern Yemen for the next two years. The steps were taken to fill...

Response to UK Faculty of Public Health Interim Statement Concerning The Summer 2014 ...

Palestinian health issueDr.Elihu D Richter MD MPH Ms.Tamar Pileggi Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Public Health and Community Medicine And Jerusalem Center for Genocide Prevention Table of Contents: Executive Summary Perspective The Regional Context of Operation Protective Edge The Conduct of the...

The UN Commission of Inquiry on the Gaza Conflict: A Clear Violation of All...

Vol. 15, No. 4       February 5, 2015 William Schabas, Chair of the UN Gaza Inquiry, resigned from his post this week. His glaring anti-Israel bias was demonstrated in statements made by him over...

Jihadist porn and Jordanian planes

When the video of Jordanian pilot Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh being burned alive in a cage appeared on the Internet on Tuesday, Jordanian King Abdullah II happened to be in Washington on a previously scheduled...

Silencing Justice: The Murder of Alberto Nisman

Alberto Nisman, the lead prosecutor who had been investigating Iran's role in the 1994 Hezbollah bombing of a Jewish center of Buenos Aires, was found dead in his bathroom, with a bullet fired into...