* Richard Falk: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Report to the UN General Assembly, 30. August 2010, sec.

In December 2008 Israel detained Richard Falk, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, and denied him transit to West Bank on his official mission.

Richard Falk, United Nations special rapporteur on Palestinian human rights, has stated that in the media-distorted picture surrounding the Middle East, those who reports honestly and factually are accused of bias, whereas pro-Israel bias is perceived as mainstream.

Falk has stated that because the media don't adequately report violations of international law by Israel, " the American public isn't aware of the behavior of Israel or the victimization of the Palestinian people.

* " Disputed Palestinian Territories ", Mr. Richard Falk ( United States );

The Palestinian Authority has informally asked Falk to resign, among other reasons due to viewing him as " a partisan of Hamas.

# Providing substantive and administrative support to human rights fact-finding and investigatory mechanisms, such as special rapporteurs, representatives and experts and working groups mandated by the Commission on Human Rights and / or the Economic and Social Council to deal with specific country situations or phenomena of human rights violations worldwide, as well as the General Assembly's Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories ;

The Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator in the Occupied Territories ( UNSCO ) estimates the damage done to the Palestinian economy at over 1. 1 billion dollars in the first quarter of 2002, compared to an annual GDP of 4. 5 billion dollars.

The UN Special Rapporteur concludes that this " general structure of apartheid that exists in the Occupied Palestinian Territories ... makes the allegation increasingly credible despite the differences between the specific characteristics of South African apartheid and that of the Occupied Palestinian Territories regime ".

He briefly served as the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Planning and Cooperation of Norway in the Jagland cabinet in 1996, and returned to the United Nations, where he again became an Under-Secretary-General, serving as the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Personal Representative of the Secretary-General to the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority from 1999 to 2004.

* The Leading Palestinian Terrorist Organizations ( August 2004 ) from the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Center for Special Studies ( C. S. S )

Special commemorative activities are organized by the Division for Palestinian Rights of the United Nations Secretariat, in consultation with the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People.

The mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territories was hopelessly unbalanced.

Mohammad Abu-Koash ( Palestinian representative ) said " It was ironic that Israel which claimed to be representing Jews everywhere was campaigning against a Jewish professor who had been nominated for the post of Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

In August 2004, Ittijah achieved Special Consultative status from the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, the first Palestinian NGO within Israel to gain consultative status with a United Nations council.

DSS Special Agents protect such dignitaries as Prince Charles, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, Prince Harry of Wales, the 14th Dalai Lama, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and has protected Princess Diana, Yasser Arafat, Zalmay Khalilzad and Boris Yeltsin ( in the days preceding the dissolution of the Soviet Union ).

# Special security arrangements would apply adjacent to the areas under the security responsibility of Israel and in the area between the Palestinian police checkpoints.

Haviva Reick ( alternately, Havivah Reich or Chaviva Reich ) ( 1914 – 1944 ) was one of 32 or 33 Palestinian Jewish parachutists sent by the Jewish Agency and Britain's Special Operations Executive ( SOE ) on military missions in Nazi-occupied Europe.

* 2003 – U. S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner the in 1985.

He was born while his father was on crusade, attempting to create the County of Tripoli on the Palestinian coast.

On December 21, 1995, Israeli troops withdrew from Bethlehem, and three days later the city came under the complete administration and military control of the Palestinian National Authority in conformance with the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in 1995.

A study done on Israeli and Palestinian students in Israel found that RWA scores of right-wing party supporters were significantly higher than those of left-wing party supporters.

* 1987 – An Israeli army tank transporter kills four Palestinian refugees and injures seven others during a traffic accident at the Erez Crossing on the Israel – Gaza Strip border, sparking the First Intifada.

The PDFLP soon gained a reputation as the most intellectual of the Palestinian fedayeen groups, and drew heavily on Marxist-Leninist theory to explain the situation in the Middle East.

The PDFLP's original political orientation was based on the view that Palestinian national goals could be achieved only through revolution of the masses and " people's war ".

Inspired by the USSR's Glasnost and the fall of the Berlin Wall, this group also favored a new political orientation, focused less on Marxism and armed struggle, and more on the democratisation of Palestinian society.

In a meeting with 8 Jewish and 8 Protestant Dutch leaders in Israel in May 2011, a statement of cooperation was issued, indicating, for the most part, that the Protestant Church recognizes the issues involved with the Palestinian Christians and that this is sometimes at odds with support for the State of Israel, but standing up for the rights of the Palestinians does not detract from the emphasis on the safety of the State of Israel and vice versa.

The Egyptian Chief of Intelligence, General Omar Suleiman, has played a substantial role in negotiations between the Israeli and Palestinian sides and is highly respected on both sides.

Despite this, the government officially recognised the Palestinian state on 25 August.

Though it is on the left wing of Palestinian politics, its character is primarily nationalist rather than social democratic.

However, he added that there was no other way but to sit down and strike a deal, calling on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to enter negotiations.

Officials on the third day of the Fatah convention in Bethlehem unanimously accepted the proposal put forth by the chairman of the Araft Institute stating that Israel had been behind the " assassination " of the late Palestinian Authority Chairman and affirmed Fatah's request for international aid to probe the issue.

These included strikes against leading Jordanian politicians, as a means of exacting vengeance and raising the price for attacking the Palestinian movement ; and also, most controversially, for " international operations " ( e. g. the Munich Olympics attack ), intended both to put pressure on the US, European countries and Israel, and to raise the visibility of the Palestinian cause, and to upstage radical rivals such as the PFLP.

The Israel-PLO Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements ( the DOP, better known as the Oslo accords ), signed in Washington on 13 September 1993, provided for a transitional period not exceeding five years of Palestinian interim self-government in sections of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

The US granted a request from the Palestinian National Authority for recognition of the West Bank and Gaza as a Country in view of developments including the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements.

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki claimed that official recognition would be announced by the Honduran Foreign Ministry on 20 August following the summit of the Central American Integration System ( SICA ) on 18 August.

Despite this, Honduras and El Salvador both officially recognised the Palestinian state on 26 August.

It pledged itself to remedy " backwardness ", take an active role in the Palestinian Arab cause, promote Arab unity, and encourage domestic policies based on social justice, non-exploitation, and an equitable distribution of wealth.

Also, he supports the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of the State of Israel, backed by many intellectuals in Palestinian civil society, including writers, filmmakers, students, trade unions and human rights groups.

For over a decade the PA has violated Palestinian human rights and civil liberties by routinely killing civilians — including collaborators, demonstrators, journalists, and others — without charge or fair trial.

Bové joined with members of the then newly-established International Solidarity Movement ( ISM ), who were at the time maintaining an ongoing presence at the Palestinian Presidential Compound as " human shields " to deter the army from breaking in.

In October 2010 an Israeli military tribunal convicted two Israel Defense Forces soldiers of using an 11-year-old Palestinian child as a human shield during Operation Cast Lead.

The Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment was " dedicated to preserving human rights through legal advocacy.

They also defend victims of alleged human rights abuses in both Israeli and Palestinian courts.

Some ISM volunteers object to the use of the term human shield to describe their work because, they argue, in a Palestinian context the expression more usually refers to forced use of captive Palestinians by the Israel Defense Forces ( IDF ) when searching Palestinian neighborhoods.

Consisting of Articles XVII-XXI: The scope of the Palestinian Council's authority and jurisdiction and the resolution of conflicts, the legislative powers of the Council, that " Israel and the Council shall exercise their powers and responsibilities ... with due regard to internationally-accepted norms and principles of human rights and the rule of law ", the various rights, liabilities and obligations with the transfer of powers and responsibilities from the Israeli military government and its civil administration to the Palestinian Council, dealing with financial claims, and the settlement of differences and disputes.

He has campaigned for Palestinian human rights and in support of an independent Palestinian state.

It “ monitors the situation in Hebron and records breaches of international humanitarian law, the agreements on Hebron between Israel and the Palestinian authority and human rights, in accordance with internationally recognized standards ".

The nascent Palestinian state should respect the principles of democracy, human rights and the rule of law.

She also advocated greater respect for international law and human rights in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, criticising Ariel Sharon's government in Israel, but also condemning Palestinian suicide bombings as " atrocities ".

Steel is a Palestinian human rights activist, having been a member of the British-based ENOUGH!

According to the human rights organization Freemuse, Palestinian musicians feared the same was going to happen in the Palestinian territories where Islamic fundamentalists have become increasingly assertive since the militant Hamas group scored political gains in the Palestinian Authority local elections of 2005.

... in an appalling breach of its own principles and procedures, the UN Human Rights Council has institutionalised a permanent agenda item indicting one member state -- agenda item No 7, which speaks of " Israeli human rights violations in the occupied Palestinian territories " -- while agenda item No 8 speaks of " human rights violations in the rest of the world ".