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Thursday, March 11, 2010 11:15

Commentary

Andrew Gilligan, Dispatches and "Islamic terrorism"

Gilligan’s Island" was a sixties sitcom with an eponymous hero who was "bumbling, dim-witted [and] accident-prone". Andrew Gilligan had nothing to do with that programme, but one can’t help thinking about him as he seems to be everywhere at the moment; the London Evening Standard, the Daily Telegraph and, this week, Channel 4’s Dispatches.

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News Flash

The Goldstone recommendations on Israel/Palestine have been adopted by the European Parliament today on March 10 2009. The resolution was adopted with 335 votes in favour, 287 against and 43 abstentions and the following recommendations were agreed on:

1. All parties should respect human rights
2. Independent and impartial investigations within the next five months should take place within the next five months
3. The Goldstone recommendations should be implemented and monitored
4. There should be no restriction of NGO activities and the authorities should stop refraining their activities

In Pictures

AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (MIDDLE EAST)

Indirect Israel talks 'called off'
Arab League chief conveys Palestinian decision after Israel unveils plan for 1,600 new settler homes.
US family seeks Israeli damages
Case concerns Rachel Corrie's death during protest against Palestinian home demolitions.
Al-Azhar head dies in Saudi Arabia
Tantawi, Sunni Islam's most senior religious figure, stirred controversy with ban on niqab.

Open Letter to Prime Minister Gordon Brown | Israel "blackmails Gaza’s patients to turn them into collaborators" | Official calls for Egyptian gas to run Gaza’s power plant instead of Israeli diesel More peaceful demonstrations in the Gaza Strip

Israeli occupation releases Gazan after serving 22-year prison sentence

Tuesday, 17 November 2009 13:27

The Israeli occupation authorities released, on Sunday, Nov. 15, one of its longest serving prisoners, Younis Hussein, 45 years, from the Gaza Strip, after serving a 22-years sentence.

Hundreds of citizens and relatives of Hussein were waiting for him at Beit Hanoun "Erez Crossing" in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, where the Israeli authorities released him. He was then escorted in a mass rally to his house in the central Gaza Strip at the Zawaida district.

Hussein was arrested by the occupation authorities when he was single on December 31, 1987, three weeks after the first intifada eruption, on charges of belonging to "Fatah" Movement and resisting the occupation when he got a 22-year jail sentence which he fully served.