GenevaLunch » Israel http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Sun, 27 May 2012 07:22:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no ICRC concerned about Palestinian hunger strikershttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/10/icrc-concerned-about-palestinian-hunger-strikers/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/10/icrc-concerned-about-palestinian-hunger-strikers/#comments Thu, 10 May 2012 07:02:50 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=70098 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The International Red Cross in Geneva says that it is “extremely concerned about the deteriorating health condition of six Palestinian detainees who have been on hunger strike for between 47 and 71 days.” More than 1,600 people being held in what is called “administrative detention: by Israeli authorities have been on a [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/10/icrc-concerned-about-palestinian-hunger-strikers/feed/ 0 Israel’s split from Human Rights Council caps weeks of growing dissenthttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/27/israels-split-from-human-rights-council-caps-weeks-of-growing-dissent/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/27/israels-split-from-human-rights-council-caps-weeks-of-growing-dissent/#comments Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:01:52 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=68261 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Israel’s announcement Monday that it is suspending all relations with the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva came just after the 19th session of the Council ended in Geneva, Friday 23 March. The decision capped a divisive debate towards the end of the session that once again pitted Israel and the United [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/27/israels-split-from-human-rights-council-caps-weeks-of-growing-dissent/feed/ 0 Boy killed in Gaza reportedly 17th death in 2 dayshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/11/boy-killed-in-gaza-reportedly-17th-death-in-2-days/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/11/boy-killed-in-gaza-reportedly-17th-death-in-2-days/#comments Sun, 11 Mar 2012 09:07:19 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=67492 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Israeli forces “continued to target terrorists in the Gaza Strip Sunday morning after Palestinians continued to fire rockets at towns in southern Israel,” the Jerusalem Post reports 11 March, while the death toll is reported by CNN, citing Palestinian medical sources, to have risen to 17 in just two days. A 12-year-old [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/11/boy-killed-in-gaza-reportedly-17th-death-in-2-days/feed/ 0 Iran vs Israel: the stakes are raised with 2 attacks Mondayhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/13/iran-vs-israel-the-stakes-are-raised-with-2-attacks-monday/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/13/iran-vs-israel-the-stakes-are-raised-with-2-attacks-monday/#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:42:42 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66560 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Tensions are rising globally over push and shove tactics by Iran and Israel that may involve the US. Two attacks on Israelis Monday 13 February, one in India and the other in Georgia, were blamed by Israel on Iran, while Iran says its staged them to smear its name. Four people were [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/13/iran-vs-israel-the-stakes-are-raised-with-2-attacks-monday/feed/ 0 Demining funds maintained despite world economic woeshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/02/demining-funds-maintained-despite-world-economic-woes/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/02/demining-funds-maintained-despite-world-economic-woes/#comments Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:55:42 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64357 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Efforts to get rid of landmines are making good progress in many countries and funding is being maintained despite government budget constraints, a key meeting in Cambodia that closed 2 December shows. But work remains, with 4,000 new victims of landmines each year: six people died in Pursat Province, Cambodia, which hosted [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/02/demining-funds-maintained-despite-world-economic-woes/feed/ 0 Mine Ban Monitor lauds progress but 12 states still produce, 3 laid new mineshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/24/mine-ban-monitor-lauds-progress-but-12-states-still-produce-3-laid-new-mines/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/24/mine-ban-monitor-lauds-progress-but-12-states-still-produce-3-laid-new-mines/#comments Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:00:39 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=63948 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – There is some good  news on the landmine front, the “Landmine & Cluster Munitions Monitor 2011″ (full report online), issued 23 November reports, but it is dampened by news that three countries laid landmines this year, with two of them, Israel and Libya confirmed. Myanmar is the third suspect, and four non-state [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/24/mine-ban-monitor-lauds-progress-but-12-states-still-produce-3-laid-new-mines/feed/ 0 Iran says US creating “collision course”http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/04/iran-says-us-creating-collision-course/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/04/iran-says-us-creating-collision-course/#comments Fri, 04 Nov 2011 05:38:27 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=63213 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Iran Friday 4 November suggested the US is setting the countries on a collision course, as the US and Britain “advance contingency plans”, according to the Guardian, for an attack on Iran, should new fighting break out in the Middle East. Tensions are rising in the US and the UK over Iran’s [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/04/iran-says-us-creating-collision-course/feed/ 0 Swiss condemn Israel for measures against Palestinehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/02/swiss-condemn-israel-for-measures-against-palestine/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/02/swiss-condemn-israel-for-measures-against-palestine/#comments Wed, 02 Nov 2011 22:06:07 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=63131 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss government said Wednesday night 2 November that it condemns Israel for two new measures, voted by the Israeli cabinet Tuesday, shortly after Unesco admitted Palestine as a member. Bern stopped short of calling the measures retaliatory, but it notes that the decision by Tel Aviv to “speed up construction of [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/02/swiss-condemn-israel-for-measures-against-palestine/feed/ 0 Shalit and 477 others head home: Israeli-Hamas swap underway (update)http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/18/shalit-and-477-others-head-home-israeli-hamas-swap-underway-update/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/18/shalit-and-477-others-head-home-israeli-hamas-swap-underway-update/#comments Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:16:21 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=62544 GenevaLunch.com Palestinian envoy raises ire of Canadian gov’t Egyptian TV’s interview with Shalit shocks some as exploitation GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – It is not being hailed as a gesture with implications for Middle East peace, but there is widespread relief over the release of Israeli prisoner Galid Shalit by Palestine’s Hamas after five years, and 477 Palestinians [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/18/shalit-and-477-others-head-home-israeli-hamas-swap-underway-update/feed/ 0 Ban pressures UN to move on Palestinian state demandhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/21/ban-pressures-un-to-move-on-palestinian-state-demand/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/21/ban-pressures-un-to-move-on-palestinian-state-demand/#comments Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:49:05 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=61703 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Ban Ki-moon, UN secretary-general, opened the UN General Assembly in New York Wednesday with a plea to resolve the Israeli-Palestine impasse, saying that while Israel needs security, Palestine needs statehood. The remarks were made in the presence of US President Obama and Palestine’s President Mahmoud Abbas. The US insists that Palestinian membership [...]

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