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Targeting of children and monitoring Israel’s investigation into its military’s use of force at the Gaza protests

Date

2nd May 2018

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Rt Hon Alistair Burt MP, Minister of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

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Airbnb settlements disengagement decision shows the way forward for companies in the emerging context of business and human rights compliance
21st November 2018

[This blog has been published by the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre]

Earlier this week, the San Francisco-based company, Airbnb, announced that it will remove from its popular accommodation bookings website all properties (currently around 200 Airbnb listings) in illegal Israeli settlements built in the occupied West Bank. This positive development is a demonstration of the necessary disengagement action that responsible companies should be taking so as to comply with their business and human rights responsibilities in the context of settlement-related activities in the occupied Palestinian territory. (more…)
LPHR and Al Mezan’s significant new report on the systemic denial of justice for Gaza human shield survivors
5th September 2018

In the summer of 2014, during the military offensive on Gaza that Israel code-named ‘Operation Protective Edge’, at least five Palestinians in Gaza, including a child, had their lives endangered when used as human shields by Israel’s military forces. (more…)
A humanitarian crisis in Gaza: connecting the tightened closure with the flawed Gaza Reconstruction Mechanism
18th July 2018

At the start of last week, the Government of Israel imposed a series of severe restrictions on the movement of goods through Kerem Shalom, the main commercial crossing to and from the occupied Gaza Strip, which will remain in place until further notice.

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The Israeli government is moving to institutionalise the application of Israeli domestic law in the occupied West Bank with disturbing consequences
26th June 2018

The United States NGO, Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP), has detailed the recent steps taken by the Israeli government to systematically apply Israeli domestic law to illegal settlements. These developments critically build upon practices already in existence that are raising deep concerns, as summed up in a statement on 1 June by the UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, that Israel’s ‘illegal settlement activity promotes the de facto annexation of the West Bank’.

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Twitter

RT @ochaopt Demolition reported this morning in Jabal al Mukabbir, #EastJerusalem pic.twitter.com/rkwastXO2w

Yesterday

RT @OmarSShakir Reports that @Airbnb has reversed its decision to stop listing in illegal Israeli settlements are inaccurate. Statement from the company below. pic.twitter.com/QWWCzGycRm

Yesterday

RT @jamiemcgoldric8 I am deeply concerned by the escalation of violence in the #WestBank, including #EastJerusalem, which is continuing yet again today. Read my full statement: ochaopt.org/content/humani… pic.twitter.com/oMfPTqVWbO

About 2 days ago

Ministerial Committee for Legislation approves advancement of a bill that would authorize more than 60 Israeli outposts and settlement neighborhoods built in the West Bank over the last 20 years haaretz.com/israel-news/.p…

About 2 days ago

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2nd May 2018

Rt Hon Alistair Burt MP, Minister of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

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