The Israeli blockade of Gaza is creating a health crisis amongst Palestinian children. Mothers are bringing infants suffering from malnutrition to the Ard al-Insan Child Nutrition Centre in Gaza- By British Journalist Lauren
Date: 22 / 09 / 2008 Time: 09:37 تكبير الخط تصغير الخ
Bethlehem – Ma’an – A mentally disabled Palestinian child was injured Monday morning by Israeli gunfire near Bethlehem, according to Palestinian sources.
The 10-year-old Muhammad Abu Dayyah from Beit Ummar, a village between Bethlehem and Hebron, sustained wounds after Israeli soldiers opened fire on him. He was in the area around Safa, a village south of Bethlehem, near the illegal Israeli settlement Kefar Etzion.
No further details about his injury have been released.
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Last update - 15:04 19/09/2008
Twilight Zone
By Gideon Levy
Nothing helped. Not the pleas, not the cries of the woman in labor, not the father's explanations in excellent Hebrew, nor the blood that flowed in the car. The commander of the checkpoint, a fine Israeli who had completed an officers' course, heard the cries, saw the women writhing in pain in the back seat of the car, listened to the father's heartrending pleas and was unmoved. The heart of the Israeli officer was indifferent and cruel. For over an hour, he would not let the car with the young woman in labor pass through the Hawara checkpoint on the way to the hospital in Nablus. Not to Tel Aviv; but to Nablus; not for shopping, not for work; but to get to the hospital in an emergency. Nothing helped.
Nahil Abu-Rada is not the first woman to lose her baby this way because of the occupation, and she won't be the last. At least a half-dozen checkpoint births that ended in death have been documented here over the years, and nothing has changed. No punishments, no lessons, not even a request for forgiveness from parents who lose their children because of the coldheartedness of soldiers.
The occupation kills - never has this slogan sounded so true as on that night, two weeks ago, at the Hawara checkpoint south of Nablus. No convoluted excuse or explanation from the Israel Defense Forces spokesman (military sources were quoted the day after the incident, making this outrageous comment: "This baby would have died anyway") can erase the simple, chilling fact that for officers and soldiers in the occupation army we have established, human feeling has become alien, at least when it comes to Palestinians. Or the fact that there are still officers and soldiers in the IDF who behave with such lack of feeling toward a woman in labor who is about to lose her child.
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Child pulled from rubble after airstrike on alleged insurgents, military says
The Associated Press
updated 5:23 a.m. MT, Fri., Sept. 19, 2008
BAGHDAD - The U.S. military says seven Iraqis have been killed in a raid by American troops backed by attack aircraft targeting al-Qaida in Iraq.
A military statement says those killed Friday in the Sunni town of Adwar include four suspected insurgents and three women. It says a child has been pulled from the rubble and is being treated at a nearby U.S. base.
The military says the U.S. troops were targeting a man believed to be the leader of a bombing network in an area north of Baghdad.
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Homeland Security, Sesame Style
By Jeff Dufour and Patrick GavinPOSTED September 18, 2008 | 7:30 AM
(Above: Rosita and Meryl Chertoff)
When it comes to securing the homeland, who better to help you sleep at night than various characters from the popular children’s show, “Sesame Street" ... ?!?
Seriously.
In a move that will make Bush administration detractors bring back those duct tape jokes again, the Department of Homeland Security has partnered up with the famous children’s show.
“We all want our children to feel safe in this world,” said Meryl Chertoff, wife of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, at a ceremony held at the John Tyler Elementary School to announce the partnership. "And who better to do that than our Sesame Street friends, Grover and Rosita!”
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Date: 13 / 09 / 2008 Time: 12:25
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Hebron – Ma’an – Five-year-old Mahran Al-Ja’bari from Hebron was hospitalized on Saturday after an Israeli military vehicle ran him over near his home.
The area where Mahran lives in Hebron is under strict Israeli security control. It is the only area in the West Bank where Israeli settlers have occupied Palestinian homes in the center of the city, resulting in a huge Israeli military presence in the city on a permanent basis.
Palestinian medical sources said the boy sustained critical wounds. He was sent to the emergency unit at Hebron Hospital.
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| Palestinian infant dies at Israeli roadblock Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:51:27 GMT | |
The Israeli army said the woman and her husband were rushing to a local hospital in Nablus in the northern part of the West Bank and were stopped at a military roadblock. She was barred from crossing the checkpoint even though she had gone into labor. The couple were forced to remain at the roadblock for approximately 50 minutes and when a Palestinian ambulance arrived, the medics declared the baby dead. --MORE-- |
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 | The Strange and Terrible Case of Aafia Siddiqui |
| By JOANNE MARINER | |
| Monday, Sept. 08, 2008 |
Everyone agrees that she's a 36-year-old mother of three young children. But while the New York Post calls her the "Al Qaeda mom," and federal prosecutors claim that when she was arrested in July she was carrying a bag packed with chemicals and handwritten notes about a "mass casualty attack," Aafia Siddiqui's lawyers say she's a victim.
"This woman has been tortured and she needs help," explained Elizabeth Fink, one of her defense counsel, at an August 11 court hearing.
Siddiqui disappeared in Pakistan in March 2003. Together with her three children - then aged 6 years, 5 years, and 6 months - she reportedly left her parents' home in Karachi to visit her uncle in Islamabad, but never arrived. Last July, more than five years later, she mysteriously reappeared in US custody in Afghanistan. Based on their interviews with her, and a pattern of similar cases, her lawyers claim that she has spent the last five years as a secret captive of Pakistani or American authorities.
Siddiqui's oldest child, Ahmed, was found with her in Afghanistan. The whereabouts of her two younger children are unknown.
Published: 09/09/2008
Following the filing of criminal charges against Agriprocessors, the Orthodox Union may withdraw its kosher certification of the company.
On Tuesday, the O.U. announced it would withdraw certification from the kosher meat company, the nation's largest, unless new management is hired.
The announcement came just hours after Iowa's attorney general filed criminal charges against Agriprocessors and its owner, Aaron Rubashkin, for child-labor violations.
"Within the coming days, or lets say a week or two, we will suspend our supervision unless there's new management in place," said Rabbi Menachem Genack, the O.U.'s head of kosher supervision.
On Tuesday, the attorney general's office charged Rubashkin, his son Sholom, and three human resources employees with more than 9,000 violations of Iowa's Child Labor law, according to a statement from the attorney general's office.
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This is one of two videos obtained by AP that appear to show the bodies of children and adults covered in blankets and white shrouds lend weight to Afghan and U.N. allegations that a U.S.-led raid killed scores of civilians last month. (Sept. 8)
Monday, September 8, 2008
Palestinian students on the first day of the school year in Gaza, at the end of August. Photograph: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/ReutersPalestinian students on the first day of the school year in Gaza, at the end of August. Photograph: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters
ISRAEL: Palestinian education is ruptured by the conflict with Israel and between Hamas and Fatah, writes Michael Jansen
ALMOST 1.1 million Palestinian students went back to school at the end of last month, eager to see their friends and return to class. But Palestinian students face unique risks and challenges.
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Inmates tell of sexual abuse and beatings in Iraq's overcrowded juvenile prison system
· Children as young as nine held in sweltering cells
· No money to improve conditions, says ministry
- The Guardian,
- Monday September 8 2008
Karkh juvenile prison in 2004. The prison currently holds 315 children, while its capacity is 250. Photograph: Marwan Naamani/AFP
Hundreds of children, some as young as nine, are being held in appalling conditions in Baghdad's prisons, sleeping in sweltering temperatures in overcrowded cells without working fans, no daily access to showers, and subject to frequent sexual abuse by guards, current and former prisoners say.
At Karkh juvenile prison, Omar Ali, a 16-year-old who has spent more than three years there, showed the multiple skin sores he and many other fellow inmates have contracted through lying on thin, sweat-soaked mattresses night after night.
"The electricity comes from a generator and it's only switched on during the two-hour weekly session when visitors come in, and for two or three hours in the evening. We are convinced the guards sell the generator fuel on the black market," he said.
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Councils are using anti-terrorism laws to spy on residents and tackle barking dogs and noisy children.
By Chris Hastings, Public Affairs Editor
Last Updated: 10:40PM BST 06 Sep 2008
An investigation by The Sunday Telegraph found that three quarters of local authorities have used the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) 2000 over the past year.
The Act gives councils the right to place residents and businesses under surveillance, trace telephone and email accounts and even send staff on undercover missions.
The findings alarmed civil liberties campaigners. Shami Chakrabarti, the director of Liberty, said: "Councils do a grave disservice to professional policing by using serious surveillance against litterbugs instead of terrorists."
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Last update - 03:54 05/09/2008
By Amira Hass
One man gives another man an improvised notebook of a child's drawings (A3-sized pages, stapled together).
Man No. 1: a schoolteacher, Mohammed Amira
Man No. 2: David Reeb
The place: The village of Na'alin
The time: August 7, just before the regular demonstration against the separation fence
The time: Shortly before Israeli soldiers arrest Mohammed Amira
The time: A week before Amira was released from jail (August 14)
The child: Ahmed Moussa
Age: 11. That is, was 11. Was? He died. Died? Was killed (if an 11-year-old child had been killed by an armed Palestinian, he would have been "murdered").
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September 03, 2008
A lawsuit was filed yesterday in an Alaska superior court seeking to stop the de facto forced medication of children under the state's care (foster kids, juvenile detainees) and children covered under state health programs with psychiatric medications. Named as defendants were the State of Alaska, Gov. Sarah Palin and a host of officials with various state agencies. The suit was filed by Psych Rights, the Alaska-based mental health law project, which has vigorously fought the forced drugging of adults in the state's psychiatric hospital. Jim Gottstein, the president of the group, was instrumental two years ago in ensuring that the leaked Zyprexa court documents reached the public. A press release from Psych Rights can be found here.
The lawsuit is sweeping and seeks to go after the age-old practice of giving psych meds to children and teens in the custody or care of various state programs, at times without the knowledge of the children's parents (if there are any) and without the informed consent of the child or teen. Gottstein argues in his filing (2.2 MB .pdf here) that such practices violate the constitutional rights of children. I'm not going to put on a law class here (to the degree that I could), but here are some snippets from the suit.
Gottstein wrote to Gov. Palin in February 2008:
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August 28, 2008
Joel Gulledge /
Special to The Clarion-Ledger
I left my home in the United States to spend the summer in the West Bank, where I was attacked by Israeli settlers late last month. As a member of the Christian Peacemaker Team, I went to the South Hebron Hills to help keep young Palestinian children safe from Israeli settlers intent on hurting Palestinians. Armed only with a video camera, it was my job to escort the children back and forth from school and summer camp.
On July 27, the children and I were walking home when a group of Israeli settlers assaulted us from a hilltop with fist-sized stones. Some narrowly missed my head. Focusing my video camera, I recorded an Israeli settler flinging stones at the children from his long-range slingshot. When he saw that I was filming him, he struck me in the leg with a rock. He chased me, kicked me and screamed that he was going to kill me. Wrestling the video camera from my hand, he then repeatedly struck me in the face and upper body with a stone.
After the assault, I was helped by Palestinians to reach a hospital where I was treated for my injuries.
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On Thursday morning Occupation forces stormed the town in an attempt to suppress protests and intimidate the people of Ni'lin. The military gathered close to the girls' secondary school and fired tear gas and sound bombs, terrifying the the children. They fired on various homes and directly into the home of Said Salim Khawaje, whose 4 month old baby suffered from the suffocating gas. They later attacked a Bedouin family who lives close to the path of the Apartheid Wall outside the village.
However, the attacks did not block the protests from taking place. The Popular Committee Against the Apartheid Wall called for a commercial strike lasting three hours, and around 3 pm the villagers began marching to their lands which are slated for destruction. The Occupation forces shot at the protesters with live rounds, rubber coated bullets and tear gas. Nonetheless, the people reached the construction site. The military intensified their brutality and injured Khalil Riziq Nafie in the chest and Ayub Surur (9 years) in the head with rubber coated bullets. Both were taken to a hospital in Ramallah. Several others sustained injuries treated in the local clinic.
The following day at the weekly Friday demonstration, Ni'lin was tense with the pain and rage the villagers felt for the wounded children.
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August 30, 2008
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Houses, spaces raided throughout the Twin Cities
Five-year-old child handcuffed and terrorized; activists allege program of intimidation
MINNEAPOLIS — In an outrageous series of state-sanctioned actions, police raided an activist “Convergence Space” and several homes in the past 24 hours, detaining multiple people on extraordinarily flimsy pretences, arresting several, confiscating computers and laptops, and even handcuffing a small child.
Beginning at 9:17 p.m. last night, with the raid on the St. Paul Convergence Space, and continuing throughout the day today, police harassment and brutality towards the local community has proceeded at an alarming pace. At least five separate raids have been reported throughout the Twin Cities, with the primary focus appearing to be the confiscation of computers and personal affects.
“These actions are clearly intended to have a chilling effect on dissent prior to the launch of the Republican National Convention,” said Natalia, a local activist and mother of two, who asked that her surname be withheld. “The message being conveyed is: ‘If need be, we will terrorize your children to dissuade you from voicing your opinion.’”
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