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AMNESTY: Israel carried out indiscriminate attacks during the Gaza war Jul 02 09 Red Cross: 'Gazans still living in despair, unable to rebuild their ho... Jul 01 09 Red Cross: '1.5 Million Palestinians living in despair in Gaza' Jun 29 09 Latest News ArticlesIsraeli sub crosses the Egyptian Suez Peninsula. 11:01 Sat 04 Jul Bahraini officials arrive in Israel to take five Bahraini nationals back home 10:24 Sat 04 Jul Israel cuts off water to Arab Druze towns on hottest day of year 01:49 Sat 04 Jul Israel pledges to compensate UN for shelling its facilities in Gaza 23:53 Fri 03 Jul Three children diagnosed with swine-flu 23:31 Fri 03 Jul Soldiers attack the Nil'in weekly Protest 17:26 Fri 03 Jul Three Injured during the weekly Bil'in protest 16:13 Fri 03 Jul Israeli Housing Minister Concerned over increasing Arab population 11:32 Fri 03 Jul Soldiers wound a Palestinian woman at a roadblock in the Jordan valley 08:04 Fri 03 Jul Soldiers break into the Al Aqsa Mosque yard, kidnap three Palestinians 05:37 Fri 03 Jul Full StoryB`Tselem slams Israeli Supreme Courts delay in decision to allow reduction of fuel supplies to Gaza Tuesday December 04, 2007 12:23 by Ameen Abu Wardeh - IMEMC News
B'Tselem called on the Israeli government to take charge of their responsibilities to the people of the Gaza strip. These responsibilities stem from Israel's full control of Gazas borders and so in turn they must allow for Gaza to be supplied with power and fuel as well as other basic needs,. B'Tselem asserted there should be questions asked regarding the courts unwillingness to intervene in what amounts to collective punishment. They also pointed out that the court has postponed the decision regarding Israels plan to reduce the fuel supplies to Gaza for two weeks as it was supposed to be given on the 2nd of December
The purpose of suspending it is to gather additional information and facts regarding the Israeli plan and its consequences to Gazans. Thereafter, Judge Dorit Beinisch, President of the Supreme Court of Israel and justices Hayut and Eilon declared there had been no objection to starting the immediate implementation of the plan for reducing the fuel supply. The decision of the court was made in the wake of the petition directed to the court by residents from Gaza and Israeli and Palestinian human rights organizations including B'Tselem. The petition demanded, among other things, that the court strike down the Israeli resolution as it might result in a catastrophic humanitarian situation for the inhabitants of the Gaza strip, affecting hospitals as well as water and sewage treatments. The petition also requested that any intentional attacks against infrastructure in the Gaza Strip would be considered illegal as international law does not allow the collective punishment of civilians.
Translated by Nisreen Qumsieh - IMEMC News. |
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