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A recent delegation of International Government leaders went to Palestine last week and came back appalled at the conditions Israel has imposed on innocent people. Many Human Rights crimes and violations take place every day, slowly eliminating the people and possessing their land, illegally. A slow, and cowardly genocide. Here is the Governments story and website with contact info, feel free to email and show your support.
Demolition of Palestinian houses in East Jerusalem
Bern, 13.11.2008 - The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) is deeply concerned about the destruction of houses belonging to Palestinian families in East Jerusalem. It demands that the Israeli government immediately halt these so-called "administrative demolitions".
The FDFA is following the recent events in East Jerusalem and in the vicinity of Ramallah with increasing concern and regrets the continued house demolitions by the Israeli government. East Jerusalem is an integral part of the Occupied Palestinian Territory. According to international humanitarian law, Israel is under an obligation to ensure the protection of the civilian population. In spite of this, however, since 2000 more than 600 houses have been demolished in East Jerusalem and more than 1,600 in the West Bank as a whole.
The FDFA regards the recent incidents as violations of international humanitarian law, which forbids an occupying power from destroying property in an occupied territory. In this particular case there is no military need to justify the destruction of these houses.
The FDFA has initiated a demarche concerning this matter with the Israeli Foreign Ministry.
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Internet: http://www.eda.admin.ch/eda/en/home/recent/media.htmlA recent delegation of International Government leaders went to Palestine last week... more
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As images are rolling out of Lebanon of the funeral of the assassinated Hezbollah commander Imad Moughniyah, Hezbollah have declared that they are ready for 'open war' with Israel.
The people of Lebanon had already gathered in mass demonstrations to mark the third year since Lebanon's former Prime Minster was also killed in a car bomb. The anger and upset at this assassination is still something which the Lebanese grieve over, and something which many Lebanese think Syria was behind. Adding to the tension and upset was yesterdays news that a Hezbollah commander had been assassinated in a car bomb attack in Damascus in Syria. Iran, Syria and Hezbollah have accused Israel of the attack.
In front of the many people gathered to mark the death of their former PM and Hezbollah have made some very stark words towards Israel. The reports initially came through the BBC,
"Zionists, if you want this type of open war then let the whole world hear: let it be an open war,"
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Mr Brown told an audience of businessmen at Mansion House that he wanted "to work internationally for a ban on the use, production, transfer and stockpiling of those cluster munitions which cause unacceptable harm to civilians".
However, as he made the announcement, British officials were at the Convention on Conventional Weapons in Geneva, negotiating for the continued use of controversial Israeli-made M85 explosives.
The M85, a so-called smart-bomb that "self-destructs", has a failure record of between 1% and 2%, according to the government.
Cluster munitions are weapons that on impact disperse several hundred smaller munitions - also known as bomblets, similar to land mines - over areas the size of two or three football pitches.
The only organisation to attempt to measure the numbers injured by unexploded munitions is Handicap International, which estimates that 98% of the 13,000 recorded victims were civilians rather than military.
When Israeli forces dropped M85s during last summer's bombardment of southern Lebanon, the UN mine action coordination centre there said the failure rate was between 6% and 10%. Many parts of Lebanon remain littered with unexploded bomblets.
Steve Goose, the director of the arms division of Human Rights Watch, said: "Nobody like Brown, who wants to get rid of arms that cause unacceptable harm to civilians, would back the use of a weapon that has a 6-10% failure rate."
The British army used M85s in Basra, and Human Rights Watch fieldwork found cluster munitions aimed at military targets had killed civilians, with many failing to self-destruct at the time of attack.
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