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Israel/palestine : the black book / edited by Reporters Without Borders

Uniform Title
Israel/Palestine. English
Published
London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press in association with Reporters Without Borders, 2003.
Edition
1st English-language ed.
Physical Description
xii, 212 pages ; 22 cm
Additional Creators
Reporters sans frontières (Association)

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Language Note
Translated from the French.
Contents
Introduction / Jocelyn Grange -- Killings committed by Israelis / Amnesty International -- Excessive force by Israeli defence forces / B'Tselem -- House demolitions and destruction of agricultural land / B'Tselem -- Israeli violations of freedom of the press / Reporters Without Borders -- The heavy price of Israeli incursions / Amnesty International -- Operation Defensive Shield / International Federation of Human Rights Leagues -- Operation Defensive Shield, Jenin / Human Rights Watch -- The Israeli army turns on the media, 29 March-15 June 2002 / Reporters Without Borders -- Torture in Israel / Public Committee Against Torture in Israel -- The status of the Palestinian minority in Israel / International Federation of Human Rights Leagues (FIDH) -- Killings committed by Palestinians / Amnesty International -- Palestinian attacks on Israeli civilians / Amnesty International -- Shortcoming of the Palestinian justice system / Human Rights Watch -- The right to free expression in Palestine / Palestinian Centre for Human Rights -- The death penalty in Palestine / Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group -- Press freedom violations by the Palestinian Authority / Reporters Without Borders -- Appendix: Useful addresses.
Summary
In times of war, human rights violations often go unreported. In Israel and the Occupied Territories, where ongoing conflict has killed many thousands, abuses of human rights are commonplace, but these stories seldom reach the outside world. This book redresses that imbalance: taken from documents produced by international human rights groups - and assembled by the international journalists' organization Reporters sans Frontieres - it provides an authoritative account of human rights violations that have taken place on both sides of the conflict since the start of the second Intifada in September 2000. Unlike conventional reportage, these accounts are careful not to overdramatize the story. Instead, they offer as objective an account as possible of the degradations that both Israelis and Palestinians have suffered. The reports are taken from groups including Amnesty International, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group, Human Rights Watch, the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, B'Tselem and Reporters sans Frontieres. Bringing these abuses to public attention for the first time, this book is both an important historical document, and a sobering account of what is going on in Israel and Palestine, that will be of interest to politicians, NGOs, students and activists everywhere.
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ISBN
0745321429
9780745321424
0745321410 (pbk.)
9780745321417 (pbk.)
Note
Includes index.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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