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<font size=3 color="#FF0000"><b><i>TWO STORIES FOLLOW<br><br>
</i></b></font><font size=3>Israeli administration moves to sidestep war
crimes tribunals<br>
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</a>21.01.09 - 10:08 <br><br>
Bethlehem / PNN – Allegations of war crimes are being readied for
international courts, including from a group of lawyers in Brussels and
the United Nations that has just named five nominees to head its
investigation committee.<br><br>
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni has been called for immediate
arrest, as were the outgoing Prime Minister and Defense
Minister.<br><br>
Amnesty International’s field delegation said that the Israeli use of
white phosphorus bombs in Gaza City alone constitutes a war
crime.<br><br>
From the first week of more than three of attacks the Israeli military
and administration began to provide cover for itself.<br><br>
Now with the end of the major attacks, the Israeli military is taking
additional steps. The Israeli press reported this morning that they are
working to “protect the military officers who were involved in the recent
war on Gaza for fear of litigation against them abroad.”<br><br>
Steps include obscuring the identities of the Israeli officers who
participated in the attacks.<br>
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According to the Israeli newspaper, Ha'aretz, it was decided that to make
known the full names of military commanders of the units that
participated in the war on Gaza is forbidden. This is directly to
“prevent the possibility of prosecution for war crimes by Israeli
left-wing activists and international organizations.”<br><br>
Recent steps were taken by the military after Israeli human rights
activists established a website listing the names of officers in order to
charge them with war crimes and crimes against humanity. This applies to
both Israeli officials in the government and military.<br>
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The website,
<a href="http://english.pnn.ps/http://www.wanted.org.il/">
www.wanted.org.il</a>, contains notices with personal details of Ehud
Barak and Ehud Olmert, Tzipi Livni, Gabi Ashkenazi, and others. The site
also includes details of communications to the Israeli officials and with
the Supreme Court of Justice in The Hague against the alleged Israeli war
criminals. The time periods of travel outside Israeli boundaries are also
include.<br><br>
Initiators of the website say that among their objectives is to help lift
the media blackout and freedom of information freeze imposed by the
Israeli administration.<br><br>
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Bethlehem families sound call for legal justice<br><br>
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</a>21.01.09 - 17:16 <br><br>
Bethlehem / Najib Farrag – As part of the resistance, Palestinians are
again invoking international law by leading a global movement to try
Israeli leaders for war crimes.<br><br>
Director of the Palestinian Prisoners Society in Bethlehem, Abdullah
Zughari told a sit-in today in the West Bank city, “Israeli officials and
military leaders be prosecuted as war criminals...<br><br>
...by the International Criminal Court, charged with the massacres and
destruction in the Gaza Strip.”<br><br>
From the families of the 11,000 Palestinians in Israeli prisons came an
echo to the call moving toward The Hague. “One cannot allow the killing
of children and women, and the destroying of homes and use of
internationally prohibited weapons,” said a father who added a demand for
the release of political prisoners.<br><br>
Wednesday’s demonstration was held in front of the local headquarters of
the international Red Cross on Jamal Abdel Nasser Street. “We are here,”
said an organizer, “in solidarity with the people of Gaza and with the
political prisoners in Israeli jails. We are here in condemnation of the
war unleashed by Israel on the Strip.”<br>
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Parents held photos of their imprisoned children alongside those of the
victims of Gaza. Amid the call for a war crimes tribunal protestors threw
shoes at posters of Israeli officials Olmert and Livni placed on the
ground.<br><br>
PPS Director Zughari noted that Israeli forces “used internationally
prohibited weapons and white phosphorus in crowded spaces,” calling on
international jurists for follow-up.<br><br>
Of the some 250 Palestinians taken by Israeli forces during the attacks
on the Gaza Strip, Zughari demanded their immediate release along with
that of the approximately 11,000 held in prisons.<br><br>
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