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Occupied Jerusalem/PNN/ Since the first day of the holy month of Ramadan, the Israeli occupying authorities have been intensifying their restrictive and oppressive policies against the Palestinians in occupied Jerusalem as part of their continuous attempts to ultimately alter the Arab and Palestinian character of the city in defiance of international legitimacy. Such cruel acts are part and parcel of Israel’s illegal policies and practices, mainly it’s colonial- settlement expansion, home demolitions, and forced evictions of Palestinian families, including in Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan, in ...

0 shares The Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations Room of the Palace of Nations, in Geneva. The room is the meeting place of the U.N. Human Rights Council. (Photo by Ludovic Courtès via Wikimedia Commons via JNS) The Israeli government and watchdog group NGO Monitor criticized a forthcoming report from Human Rights Watch that accuses Israel of apartheid and calls for an international legal campaign against it. On Tuesday, Human Rights Watch released a report titled “A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution.” NGO Monitor, which recei...

Russian President Putin signals that he is open for a meeting with Ukraine's Vladimir Zelensky, while stressing that the protocols of the Minsk agreement are...

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New York-based Human Rights Watch says “Israeli authorities have deprived millions of people of their basic rights by virtue of their identity as Palestinians”. Conversely they “methodically privilege” Jewish Israelis, including settlers on the West Bank.  And so Israel has violated both the 1973 International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid (“Apartheid Convention”) and the 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Human Rights Watch concludes in a detailed 217-page report, titled A Threshold Crossed; Israeli Authorities and the...