Hebron Palestinians protest closures.

  
Westbank clashes  | February 25, 2010Clashes erupted between Israeli soldiers and dozens of stone-throwing Palestinian youths in the biblical West Bank town of Hebron.

Israel rebuffs France over possible Palestine recognition.

Palestinians are seeking an independent state by 2011.

Sun, 21 Feb 2010  |  PressTV

Israel has rejected the idea of foreign countries recognizing a Palestinian state, after France suggested the recognition could soon take place.

"Imposing this kind of semblance of a partial solution from outside goes against the very idea of peace," AFP quoted a senior Israeli official as saying on condition of anonymity.

Face to Face: Lauren Booth meets Baroness Jenny Tonge.

February 16, 2010  |  The show was broadcast on February 2010 from Press TV

Host: Lauren Booth

Face to Face is a Press TV programme

Baroness Tonge. (Dr Jenny Tonge)

· Jenny Tonge was elected to the UK House of Commons in 1997.

· She was made Shadow Secretary of State for International Development the same year.

· She was elevated to the UK House of Lords in 2005, where she is a front bench speaker on health matters.

· She first visited Israel, the West bank and Gaza in 2003 and has been an outspoken critic of the state of Israel ever since.

Bilin marks five years of West Bank barrier protest

By Heather Sharp | BBC News, Bilin, West Bank- Friday 19 Feb 2010

Despite the barrages of Israeli tear gas, sound grenades, foul-smelling spray and sometimes bullets - rubber coated and occasionally live - the protesters at the Palestinian village of Bilin keep going back for more.

And as they mark five years since their first protest against the barrier Israel has built on their doorstep in the occupied West Bank, they seem as determined as ever.

The villagers - together with Israeli and international activists - see their weekly Friday demonstrations as a leading example of Palestinian non-violent, grassroots protest.

Israeli apartheid

The Real news | February 14, 2010 - Michael Ratner reports on his recent visit to the West Bank - Vid 1

February 16, 2010 | Ratner: Building settlements in occupied territories with US support is illegal and unacceptable - Vid 2

Israel rejects UN demands over Gaza war report

Fri, 12 Feb 2010  |  PressTV

Israel has rejected United Nations demands of an independent probe into its last year war on the Gaza Strip which claimed the lives of more than 1,400 Palestinians.


A senior official in the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said on Friday that the report Israel gave UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on the investigations it is conducting into Operation Cast Lead earlier this month is sufficient.

The Goldstone report returns

Israel, Palestinians conduct "disappointing" investigations of Gaza war crimes allegations, UN responds.

Israel: Military Investigations Fail Gaza War Victims.

Independent Investigation Remains Essential | February 7, 2010

HRW | Israel has failed to demonstrate that it will conduct thorough and impartial investigations into alleged laws-of-war violations by its forces during last year's Gaza conflict, Human Rights Watch said today. An independent investigation is needed if perpetrators of abuse, including senior military and political officials who set policies that violated the laws of war, are to be held accountable, Human Rights Watch said.

On February 4, 2010, Human Rights Watch met with military lawyers from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to discuss the investigations. While the military is conducting ongoing investigations, officials did not provide information showing that these will be thorough and impartial or that they will address the broader policy and command decisions that led to unlawful civilian deaths, Human Rights Watch said.

Israel stole $2bn from Palestinian workers.

Sunday, February 07, 2010 | (Jerusalem) -- Over the past four decades Israel has defrauded Palestinians working inside Israel of more than $2 billion by deducting from their salaries contributions for welfare benefits to which they were never entitled, Israeli economists have revealed.

A new report, “State Robbery”, to be published later this month, says the “theft” continued even after the Palestinian Authority was established in 1994 and part of the money was supposed to be transferred to a special fund on behalf of the workers.

Deaths in Pakistan 'drone' attack

Aljazeera English 03 Feb 2010  |  Missiles fired by suspected US drones have killed at least 17 people and wounded many more in Pakistan, residents and security officials say. 

Officials said the missiles rained down on Dattakhel village in the Degan area of North Waziristan, part of Pakistan's semi-autonomous tribal region near the Afghan border, on Tuesday.
 

They said the missiles struck suspected fighters' hideouts and a training centre.

Israel admits War Crimes

February 02, 2010 - BBC | Israel has revealed it has reprimanded two top army officers for using white phosphorus shells during an attack on a UN compound in Gaza last year.

The admission is contained in the Israeli response to the UN's Goldstone report, which concluded both Israel and Hamas had committed war crimes.

Both officers have retained their ranks, according to reports.

Until now the Israeli army has denied breaking the rules of engagement over the use of white phosphorus.

Iraq war inquiry 'exceeds expectations'?

Feb 02, 2010 | John Cooper, a human rights lawyer, gives his view on Britain's latest public inquiry into the Iraq war.

Will the results be turn into a brave and bold judgment.

The British - Iraq War Inquiry

Israeli Assassination - Press TV , News Analysis

Assassins hid in Israeli minister convoy: Hamas

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:00:05 GMT

Hamas says the assassins of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, one of the Palestinian resistance movement's senior figures, could have used an Israeli ministerial convoy as a cover.

Commenting on the last week assassination of the 50-year-old co-founder of Hamas' armed wing Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades in Dubai, senior member of the Hamas leadership Mahmoud al-Zahar said the perpetrators could have accompanied Infrastructure Minister Uzi Landau's convoy into the United Arab Emirates.

Israeli Admitted - The Use Of White Phosphorus on Gaza.

February 01, 2010 BBC World | VID 1 : Israeli Officers "Disciplined" Over The Use Of White Phosphorus (on Schools & Hospitals)

February 02, 2010 France24English | VID 2: ISRAEL - Two army officers reprimanded for Gaza attack With our correspondent in Jerusalem. "The two men were disciplined for excessive shelling, but not white phosphorous" 

Hamas calls for legal action against Israel at ICC

Inside Israeli land grabs

TRNN speaks to settlers, Palestinians, and experts to understand the process of land confiscation in Occupied Palestinian Territory.