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Palestinian Authority

Head of state Mahmoud Abbas
Head of government Salam Fayyad
Death penalty retentionist
Population 4.1 million
Life expectancy 72.9 years
Under-5 mortality (m/f) 22/17 per 1,000
Adult literacy 92.4 per cent

Inter-factional tension remained high between the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority (PA) caretaker government of Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, appointed by President Mahmoud Abbas of the Fatah party, and the Hamas de facto administration in the Gaza Strip. Both the PA security forces in the West Bank and Hamas security forces and militias in Gaza arbitrarily detained hundreds of members or sympathizers of rival factions without charge or trial and often tortured and otherwise ill-treated detainees. Both security forces used excessive force against demonstrators. Hamas security forces in Gaza killed 24 members of armed clans. During the military offensive launched by Israeli forces on 27 December, Hamas forces and militias abducted political opponents and former detainees alleged to have “collaborated” with Israeli intelligence services; some were summarily killed, others were beaten or shot in the legs. The PA in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza continued to clamp down on freedom of expression. Military courts in the West Bank and Gaza sentenced nine people to death; no executions were carried out. Palestinian armed groups in Gaza indiscriminately attacked towns and villages in southern Israel, killing seven Israeli civilians and two Palestinian civilians. Palestinian armed groups and individuals from the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, killed 16 Israeli civilians.

Background

Reconciliation negotiations between the PA caretaker government and the Hamas de facto administration in Gaza, which were mediated by Egypt and aimed at forming a unity government, continued without reaching agreement. Most donor countries refused to provide aid to the Hamas de facto administration, but gave more than US$1.3 billion to the PA government in the West Bank with very limited aid allocated to emergency projects in Gaza. The Hamas de facto administration and Israel agreed a six-month ceasefire on 19 June, which broke down on 4 November after Israeli forces killed six Palestinian militants.

The Israeli government maintained a tight blockade of the Gaza Strip, a form of collective punishment of its 1.5 million population, for the continuing detention there of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. The inhabitants of Gaza became increasingly dependent on food, fuel and other goods smuggled into Gaza from Egypt through dangerous underground tunnels. At least 50 Palestinians were killed when tunnels collapsed. In October, the Hamas de facto administration took steps to regulate use of the tunnels. Conditions worsened further when Israeli forces launched the military offensive on 27 December in response to continued indiscriminate rocket attacks on population areas in southern Israel by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups in Gaza.

"Palestinian armed groups in Gaza frequently launched indiscriminate rocket attacks against civilian areas in southern Israel"

Even before the December offensive, more than 1 million Palestinians faced deepening poverty, food insecurity and lack of access to adequate health care because of the Israeli blockade on Gaza and Israeli military checkpoints and barriers in the West Bank, including a 700km fence/wall (see Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories entry).

Arbitrary arrests and detentions

In the West Bank, PA security forces arrested hundreds of people, mostly Hamas supporters, and held them often without access to due legal process. More than 100 were detained after Hamas detained Fatah supporters in Gaza in July, but waves of arrests of Hamas sympathizers continued through 2008. Members of Fatah’s armed groups were also held in prolonged detention without charge or trial at the request of the Israeli army.

In Gaza, security forces of the Hamas de facto administration detained hundreds of suspected supporters of Fatah, including more than 200 arrested after bomb attacks in July targeted Hamas members. The security forces were sometimes supported by Hamas’ armed militia, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades. Such militia have no legal authority to arrest or detain people; those taken into their custody were handed over to the security forces or held by the Brigades in secret locations.

Both PA and Hamas forces rarely complied with Palestinian laws requiring that detentions be reviewed by a prosecutor within 24 hours and by a judge within 72 hours. Detainees’ right to prompt access to legal counsel was routinely ignored. Most political detainees were released after a few days but some remained in detention for weeks or even months.

In both the West Bank and Gaza, detainees were allowed access to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR), but often only after 10 or more days. In December, Israeli forces bombed and destroyed all Gaza’s prisons and detention centres, and most police stations. Some detainees were killed or injured in the bombardments, but most escaped unharmed.

Justice system

The judicial systems in the West Bank and Gaza remained highly dysfunctional. The PA continued to forbid former members of the judiciary and security forces from working for the Hamas de facto administration in Gaza, and to pay them for not working. Hamas continued to use alternative prosecutors and judges who often lacked training and qualifications. Rulings made by the Palestinian High Court of Justice were frequently not implemented.

Torture and other ill-treatment

In the West Bank, detainees complained that they had been tortured or otherwise ill-treated by the PA’s General Intelligence and Preventive Security services, apparently to make them confess involvement with Hamas’ armed wing. Methods alleged included beatings, suspension, and forcing detainees to sit or stand for prolonged periods in painful positions (shabeh).

Majd al-Barghouthi, imam of a mosque in Kobar near Ramallah, was detained by the General Intelligence on 14 February and died eight days later. The PA stated that he had a heart attack, but fellow detainees said they had seen him being beaten and suspended by a chain from the ceiling of his cell. A fact-finding committee set up by members of the Palestinian Legislative Council found that Majd al-Barghouthi had been tortured; photographs of his body substantiated their findings.
In Gaza, allegations of severe beatings and other torture of detainees by Hamas forces and militias were widespread. After the Israeli military offensive began in December, Hamas forces and militias sharply increased their attacks on political opponents, former members of the security forces in the PA government and former detainees alleged to have “collaborated” with Israeli intelligence services. Some were summarily killed, others were shot in the legs or severely beaten.

Taleb Mohammed Abu Sitta, 72, was detained in al-Zawaida on 26 June following the arrest of his son for an alleged drugs offence. He was reported to have been severely beaten and taken the following morning to hospital in Deir al-Balah, where he was declared dead on arrival. The Interior Ministry announced an inquiry and several police officers were reported to have been suspended from duty, but no one was known to have been tried.
Neither the PA in the West Bank nor Hamas in Gaza took any credible measures to end impunity for torture and other ill-treatment of detainees or for excessive and unwarranted use of force by security forces against demonstrators.

Freedom of expression

Both the PA in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza suppressed freedom of expression, closing media outlets affiliated to or accused of supporting the rival party. Journalists were frequently detained, often several times and for long periods. At least 15 media workers were detained by the PA, which also closed media such as the pro-Hamas al-Aqsa TV station. Hamas suspended the distribution of newspapers such as al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida, detaining and putting on trial their directors in Gaza.

PA security forces detained Mustafa Sabri, a freelance journalist and member of Qalqiliya municipal council affiliated to Hamas, at least three times during the year.

Excessive use of force

PA security forces in the West Bank used excessive force against demonstrators. For example, they fired live ammunition against demonstrators throwing stones in the village of Beit Furik near Nablus on 1 June, causing gunshot injuries to seven people, including two children.

Hamas security forces in Gaza frequently used excessive force against demonstrators and suspected opposition supporters attending public meetings.

Palestinian police and Hamas activists in civilian clothes used force to disperse a peaceful demonstration in Rafah commemorating the death of a Fatah activist in inter-factional fighting the previous year.
A committee of inquiry set up by the Interior Ministry of the Hamas de facto administration in Gaza into the killing of six demonstrators in November 2007 issued a report in April, but it was seriously flawed. The committee, which was not independent, concluded that Fatah supporters had carried out most of the shooting despite eyewitness testimony to the contrary and even though the people killed were Fatah supporters.

In August and September Hamas security forces in Gaza killed 24 members of armed clans linked to Fatah and Jaysh al-Islam (Army of Islam), including three children, when an attempt to arrest clan members turned into armed clashes. Several members of the Hamas security forces were killed by armed clan members.

Death penalty

In the West Bank, PA military courts sentenced four people, all civilians, to death after convicting them in summary trials of collaborating with Israeli intelligence. Two others, both security officers, were sentenced to death for murder. In Gaza, a Hamas military court sentenced one person to death for murder and two for collaborating with Israeli intelligence, after unfair trials. No executions were carried out.

Right to health

The dire situation caused by the Israeli blockade, which prevented hundreds of critically ill patients from leaving Gaza to obtain medical treatment unavailable in local hospitals (see Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories entry), was exacerbated by a strike of some 30 per cent of health workers in Gaza’s hospitals and clinics. The strike, which lasted for the last four months of the year, was called by the Palestinian Union of Health Professionals in protest at the removal or transfer of health managers and hospital directors by the Hamas de facto administration in Gaza. Hamas claimed that the strike was politically motivated and carried out at the behest of the West Bank-based PA caretaker government. The strike in Gaza was supported by the West Bank-based PA Ministry of Health.

Abuses by armed groups

Palestinian armed groups in Gaza frequently launched indiscriminate rocket attacks against civilian areas in southern Israel. From the beginning of the year until the ceasefire in June, Palestinian armed groups in Gaza, including groups affiliated to Hamas and Fatah, fired more than 2,000 rockets and mortars against nearby Israeli towns and villages. These indiscriminate attacks killed seven Israeli and two Palestinian civilians, and wounded several other Israeli civilians. After the breakdown of the ceasefire in November, rocket attacks by Palestinian armed groups in Gaza against Israel resumed but did not result in further deaths of Israeli civilians until after the onset of the 27 December offensive by Israeli forces.

Roni Yihya was killed in Sapir College near Sderot in Israel and 10 others were injured on 27 February when Palestinian armed groups fired more than 50 “qassam” rockets and dozens of mortar rounds at the towns of Sderot and Ashkelon.
Malak Yunes al-Kafarneh, a three-year-old Palestinian girl, was killed on 1 March by a “qassam” rocket fired by an armed group towards Israel. The rocket fell short and hit her home in Beit Hanun, Gaza.
Palestinian armed groups and individuals from the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, killed 16 Israeli civilians.

On 6 March an armed Palestinian killed eight students, including four children, in the library of a yeshiva (religious school) in Jerusalem. He was not known to be affiliated to any armed group, although several groups, including the previously unknown group Ahrar al-Jalil (Free People of Galilee), claimed responsibility.
Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier captured by Palestinian armed groups in June 2006, continued to be held in an unknown place in Gaza without access to the ICRC. His family received two letters from him and he reportedly received a letter from his family.

Violence against women and girls

At least three women were killed in alleged “honour killings” in the West Bank and Gaza.

In June Khouloud Mohammed al-Najjar was beaten to death in the southern Gaza Strip by members of her family who accused her of “immoral behaviour”. Her father was detained.
In July the PA police in the West Bank town of Hebron said they had detained a man accused of killing his sister for “family honour”. The police did not divulge the names of those involved.

Fonte: http://report2009.amnesty.org/en/region ... -authority

Pois então, agora corroboramos pelo reporte da Anistia Internacional o ponto de vista q sempre defendi: radicalismo dos dois lados...

Obama blocks AH-64s for Israel

The Obama administration has blocked Israel's request for advanced U.S.-origin attack helicopters.
Government sources said the administration has held up Israel's request for the AH-64D Apache Longbow attack helicopter. The sources said the request was undergoing an interagency review to determine whether additional Longbow helicopters would threaten Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip. "During the recent war, Israel made considerable use of the Longbow, and there were high civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip," a source close to the administration said.

The Israel Air Force has also requested U.S. permission to integrate the Spike extended-range anti-tank missile into the AH-64D. Spike ER, developed by the state-owned Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, has a range of eight kilometers and was installed on the Eurocopter Tiger and AgustaWestland A129 helicopters.
The sources said the deployment of Spike would require integration into the Longbow's millimeter-wave fire control and acquisition system. They said this would require permission from both Boeing and the U.S. government.

Gostaria que os colegas dessem comentários sobre esse vídeo, de um debate antigo no Sintusp, o Sindicato dos Funcionários da USP, que por sinal, esta universidade é a minha atual e digníssima casa.

olha aí, os grandes "civilizados"....


Settlers burn Palestinian fields after outpost removal

Jewish settlers set fire to Palestinian fields and scuffled with Israeli security forces in the occupied West Bank on Monday after Israel removed an unauthorised settler outpost.

Defying the United States, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeated before a parliamentary committee that Israel would continue to build within Jewish settlements to accommodate the "natural growth" of families who live there.

In a nod to Washington, however, Israeli authorities moved against one of the dozens of outposts settlers have erected in the West Bank without government permission, taking away three caravans from a site near the Palestinian city of Nablus.

Settlers responded by gathering at an intersection near the Jewish settlement of Yitzhar, where they blocked the road and scuffled with Israeli paramilitary border policemen.

Dozens of settlers later burned fields outside three Palestinian villages near Nablus, according to a Reuters television cameraman at the scene.

Speaking to parliament's Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee in Jerusalem, Netanyahu called for "reason and logic" in dealing with settlements Israel has built in the West Bank, territory it captured in a 1967 war.

U.S. President Barack Obama has called for a full settlement freeze, under a 2003 peace "road map" that also obliges Palestinians to rein in militants. The World Court has described all Israeli settlements on occupied land as illegal.

"You can't freeze life" in the settlements," an Israeli official quoted Netanyahu as telling the committee in comments that echoed statements the prime minister made last week. "Freezing life would not be reasonable."

OBAMA SPEECH

Obama is to address Muslim nations in a speech in Egypt on Thursday that will be watched carefully in Israel and the Arab world for signs of pressure on the settlement issue that is at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

A senior Israeli official said Netanyahu's government hoped to sidestep U.S. pressure by committing to uproot smaller hilltop outposts built without authorisation, a step also set by the road map.

Two weeks ago, Israel flattened a small outpost near the Palestinian city of Ramallah but residents returned to rebuild.

Half a million Jews live in settlement blocs and smaller outposts built in the West Bank and Arab East Jerusalem. Palestinians hope to create a state in those areas, as well as in the Gaza Strip now controlled by Hamas Islamists.

In other violence in the West Bank on Monday, settlers threw stones at a Palestinian car, injuring six people, medics said.

Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said he was not aware of casualties among Palestinians. He said an Israeli motorist, who was an Arab, was slightly hurt after settlers stoned his car. Police were searching for the assailants.

Israeli police regularly report Palestinians throwing stones and petrol bombs at Israeli-registered vehicles in the West Bank. One motorist was shot dead last year. Attacks by settlers on Palestinians are less frequently recorded.


http://in.news.yahoo.com/137/20090601/7 ... s-aft.html

Gostaria que os colegas dessem comentários sobre esse vídeo, de um debate antigo no Sintusp, o Sindicato dos Funcionários da USP, que por sinal, esta universidade é a minha atual e digníssima casa.

Então a vitória do hezbolah vai ajudar os metalúrgicos da VW!!?? E esse gordinho falando em revolução comunista? Devia começar comendo menos e distribuindo o excesso entre os irmãos do proletariado...

Bolovo escreveu:Gostaria que os colegas dessem comentários sobre esse vídeo, de um debate antigo no Sintusp, o Sindicato dos Funcionários da USP, que por sinal, esta universidade é a minha atual e digníssima casa.

e eu q acha q o Sindicato de funcionários da UFRGS eram radicais de esquerda... Não passam de um bando de neoliberais ...

Discurso tão consistente quanto poeira, cheio de clichês típicos de afeitos a pouca leitura, quem dirá estudo... . Pseudo-marxistas, q provavelmente nunca leram uma obra, apenas resuminhos sentenciosos de quinta mão... Assim como na UFRGS, na USP muito provavelmente os mais "politizados" são também os maiores matadores de aula, principalmente de teoria e metodolgia. São os marxistas de RU (restaurante universitário) como dizemos aqui...
Serão talvez, a pau e corda, marxistas "intelectuais" q ao contrário dos intelectuais marxistas tenta moldar a realidade a teoria...

Sabe com é pior de tudo? No senso comum muitas vezes é essa imagem q se tem dos estudantes de humanas. Apesar de nunca ter sido marxista, muitas vezes as pessoas se espantavam quando percebiam q não é só de cabeludos e barbudos com estrelas, boinas, bandeiras e pseudo-intelectualismo q se faz um curso de sociologia, história, filosofia ou geografia...

rodrigo escreveu:

Gostaria que os colegas dessem comentários sobre esse vídeo, de um debate antigo no Sintusp, o Sindicato dos Funcionários da USP, que por sinal, esta universidade é a minha atual e digníssima casa.

Então a vitória do hezbolah vai ajudar os metalúrgicos da VW!!?? E esse gordinho falando em revolução comunista? Devia começar comendo menos e distribuindo o excesso entre os irmãos do proletariado...

Aí é q está meu velho, esse tipo só quer o "socialismo" para os outros... não passa de mais um oportunista q será o primeiro a querer a sua parte. Infelizmente é quem tem visibilidade... No entanto, nunca deve-se colocar todo mundo no mesmo balaio. Realmente existem pessoas dedicadas e sinceramente comprometidas com a defesa da universalização dos benefícios sociais; são as pessoas q estão fazendo a "revolução" agora... Não trata-se de altruísmo ou utopia, mas princípios...

02/06/2009 - 05h24

Israelense mata árabe a tiros na Cidade Velha de Jerusalém

da Efe, em Jerusalém

Um árabe foi morto e um israelense ficou ferido nesta segunda-feira, nos arredores da Cidade Velha de Jerusalém. Um israelense de 48 anos foi preso e confessou os crimes.

De acordo com a polícia, o homem fazia meditação em um templo da Cidade Velha quando um árabe se aproximou. O israelense disse ter pensado que seria atacado, sacou a arma e atirou. O árabe morreu no local.

O porta-voz da polícia em Jerusalém, Shmuel Ben Robi, afirmou que o suspeito ainda atirou em outro israelense, que foi internado com ferimentos graves. "Pouco depois, encontrou outros dois homens judeus que lhe pediram um cigarro e, segundo ele, também pensou que seria atacado e baleou um deles".

Os primeiros disparos aconteceram durante a madrugada na praça Tzahal, enquanto o segundo ataque ocorreu na rua de Hanevim, na região central. A polícia investiga o que levou o homem a reagir de forma desmedida à aproximação dos estranhos.

A polícia considera a mais provável a hipótese de que o autor do assassinato "sofra de problemas mentais". De acordo com o porta-voz policial, será pedida uma análise do estado de saúde mental do acusado.

http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/mund ... 5206.shtml

Esses judeus ortodoxos são fogo (rá! olha o trocadilho!)



Extremist settlers rioted on Monday in various parts of the northern West Bank. They were protesting the Israeli government's recent actions against some tiny outposts, including their possible evacuation.



Palestinians tried to extinguish fires allegedly set by Israeli settlers.



Israeli soldiers and Palestinian firefighters assisted a Palestinian firefighter who was injured while trying to put out fires set by settlers.



Jewish settlers at a West Bank outpost near Nablus.



The Maoz Esther outpost near the Jewish settlement of Kokhav Hashahar in the West Bank.



The son of Jewish settler who was evacuated with his family sits in a synagogue that was rebuilt at the Maoz Esther outpost.



"This is our land from the beginning of days," said Aviva Herzlich, 67, most of whose 10 children and more than 40 grandchildren live in and around the settlement. "We do not have anywhere else".



A Jewish settler at the Shvut Ami outpost, which was demolished by Israeli forces earlier this week.

Nukualofa77 escreveu:

Bolovo escreveu:Gostaria que os colegas dessem comentários sobre esse vídeo, de um debate antigo no Sintusp, o Sindicato dos Funcionários da USP, que por sinal, esta universidade é a minha atual e digníssima casa.

e eu q acha q o Sindicato de funcionários da UFRGS eram radicais de esquerda... Não passam de um bando de neoliberais ...

Discurso tão consistente quanto poeira, cheio de clichês típicos de afeitos a pouca leitura, quem dirá estudo... . Pseudo-marxistas, q provavelmente nunca leram uma obra, apenas resuminhos sentenciosos de quinta mão... Assim como na UFRGS, na USP muito provavelmente os mais "politizados" são também os maiores matadores de aula, principalmente de teoria e metodolgia. São os marxistas de RU (restaurante universitário) como dizemos aqui...
Serão talvez, a pau e corda, marxistas "intelectuais" q ao contrário dos intelectuais marxistas tenta moldar a realidade a teoria...

Sabe com é pior de tudo? No senso comum muitas vezes é essa imagem q se tem dos estudantes de humanas. Apesar de nunca ter sido marxista, muitas vezes as pessoas se espantavam quando percebiam q não é só de cabeludos e barbudos com estrelas, boinas, bandeiras e pseudo-intelectualismo q se faz um curso de sociologia, história, filosofia ou geografia...

Eu perdi a conta de quantas vezes vi a revolução ser feita na mesa do bar...
O engraçado é que em geral, eu era o único a me preocupar em como pagar as cervejas...

Pois bem, bem-vindos a USP, a maior universidade do Hemisfério Sul!!!

A atual greve dos funcionários, que teve até tropa de choque segunda-feira (eu fui lá ver, queria ver gás lacrimogênio, cassetada hahaha pena que teve nada), é uma maGavilha revolucionária e democrática. E o legal é que um motivos da greve foi a demissão do Brandão, esse gordão aí que quer a 'destruição dos Estados burgueses'. Badernista da porra. E o legal é que foi aparecer a PM, pronto, a ditadura voltou. E os alunos (os sérios), querendo ter aula, ficam sem circular, sem internet, sem computador, sem bandejão, sem porra alguma. As vezes dá até vergonha da minha unidade, a lendária FFLCH ô lugar maluco...

Pra continuar o offtopic, um video famoso aqui na USP sobre a greve de 2005.




E viva o Hezbollah

Israel declara "zona militar fechada" região em torno de Nablus

O Exército israelense declarou "zona militar fechada" a região em torno da cidade de Nablus, na Cisjordânia, para impedir a entrada de ativistas de esquerda, informou a rádio militar israelense.
Nenhum israelense poderá chegar ao lugar pelos postos de controle de Hawara, Beit Furik e Awarta, explicou um porta-voz militar.

A medida foi adotada pelo responsável do comando central geral, Gadi Shamni, após receber reclamações de soldados de que ativistas interferiam em sua tarefa de inspeção nos postos militares de controle da zona, disse o porta-voz.

O Exército indica os membros da ONG israelense Majsom Watch, formada por mulheres mais velhas que controlam a atividade nos postos militares de controle para reportar abusos, informa a imprensa local.

A porta-voz da Majsom Watch, Raia Yaron, rejeitou a acusação de interferências e lembrou que muitos de seus membros têm "filhos e netos" no Exército, e por isso têm "empatia" pelos "soldados obrigados a lidar com problemas alheios".

"Nos limitamos a testemunhar a situação e como os palestinos são tratados nos postos de controle. Isso é tudo", ressaltou Yaron à Agência Efe.

A ONG israelense de direitos humanos Iesh Din foi mais dura nas críticas, e disse que "somente os regimes totalitários proíbem o acesso de organizações humanitárias a locais onde há interação com a população civil".

"A medida tem como objetivo esconder as ações criminosas realizadas nos postos de controle. Não nos surpreenderia que o próximo passo seja proibir páginas da internet, como na China", ressaltou a Iesh Din.

EFE - Agência EFE

izaias freitas maia escreveu:Israel declara "zona militar fechada" região em torno de Nablus

O Exército israelense declarou "zona militar fechada" a região em torno da cidade de Nablus, na Cisjordânia, para impedir a entrada de ativistas de esquerda, informou a rádio militar israelense.
Nenhum israelense poderá chegar ao lugar pelos postos de controle de Hawara, Beit Furik e Awarta, explicou um porta-voz militar.

A medida foi adotada pelo responsável do comando central geral, Gadi Shamni, após receber reclamações de soldados de que ativistas interferiam em sua tarefa de inspeção nos postos militares de controle da zona, disse o porta-voz.

O Exército indica os membros da ONG israelense Majsom Watch, formada por mulheres mais velhas que controlam a atividade nos postos militares de controle para reportar abusos, informa a imprensa local.

A porta-voz da Majsom Watch, Raia Yaron, rejeitou a acusação de interferências e lembrou que muitos de seus membros têm "filhos e netos" no Exército, e por isso têm "empatia" pelos "soldados obrigados a lidar com problemas alheios".

"Nos limitamos a testemunhar a situação e como os palestinos são tratados nos postos de controle. Isso é tudo", ressaltou Yaron à Agência Efe.

A ONG israelense de direitos humanos Iesh Din foi mais dura nas críticas, e disse que "somente os regimes totalitários proíbem o acesso de organizações humanitárias a locais onde há interação com a população civil".

"A medida tem como objetivo esconder as ações criminosas realizadas nos postos de controle. Não nos surpreenderia que o próximo passo seja proibir páginas da internet, como na China", ressaltou a Iesh Din.

EFE - Agência EFE

Que bela democracia é Israel, liberdade de imprensa inigualável!

Hamas dá boas-vindas a Obama e o convida a visitar Gaza

O Movimento de Resistência Islâmica Hamas, que controla a Faixa de Gaza, deu as boas-vindas à região ao presidente americano, Barack Obama, e o convidou a visitar o território palestino.
O Ministério de Assuntos Exteriores do Governo do Hamas em Gaza enviou uma carta aberta a Obama, que pronunciará hoje no Cairo um esperado discurso no qual mostrará as linhas de sua política de aproximação ao mundo árabe e muçulmano.

Ahmed Yousef, diretor-geral desse Ministério do Hamas, enviou a carta a um grupo de seis intelectuais, acadêmicos e personalidades dos EUA que visitou a Faixa de Gaza e parte hoje em direção à capital egípcia.

A carta, publicada pela agência palestina independente "Ma''an", pede que Obama ajude a acabar com o bloqueio de três anos à faixa e com a atividade nos assentamentos judaicos, e apela ao presidente americano que inicie um diálogo direto com o Hamas.

Estes três pontos, aponta Yousef, "serão uma oportunidade de demonstrar a boa disposição da Administração americana".

"A resolução da causa palestina será a introdução a qualquer relação positiva e séria entre a América e o mundo árabe e muçulmano", afirma o dirigente do Hamas.

O movimento islamita Hamas figura na lista de organizações terroristas para os Estados Unidos.

"Damos as boas-vindas a sua visita ao mundo árabe e à iniciativa de sua Administração, que tem como objetivo estreitar os laços com o mundo islâmico. Um dos pontos de maior tensão entre EUA e esta parte do mundo é o fracasso para encontrar uma solução ao conflito israelense-palestino", diz a carta.

"É triste que (Obama) não visite Gaza e escute nosso ponto de vista como parte de sua visita ao Oriente Médio", acrescenta.

O presidente americano também não visitará Israel em seu primeiro giro pelo Oriente Médio desde que assumiu o poder.

O Hamas afirmou ainda "estar preparado para se comunicar com todas as partes", e disse que o povo palestino deseja ver "uma mudança real que não consista unicamente no fim do bloqueio de Gaza ou dos assentamentos, mas na adoção de uma política equilibrada e justa, e o respeito à lei e convenções internacionais".

EFE - Agência EFE