Palestine-Isreal: human rights abuses of Palestinians crossing army and border police checkpoints
Author: Womens UN Report Network
Date: January 15, 2006
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Machsom Watch was founded in January 2001 in response to repeated reports in the press about human rights abuses of Palestinians crossing army and border police checkpoints. The excessive Israeli response to the El Aksa Intifada, the prolonged closure and siege of villages and towns on the West Bank provided the stimulus and the motivation for what at first seemed an impossible mission. The initiative of three women – Ronnee Jaeger, a long time activist with experience of human rights work in Guatemala and Mexico, Adi Kuntsman a feminist scholar who emigrated from the former Soviet Union in 1990 and veteran activist Yehudit Keshet, an orthodox Jewess – Machsom Watch now boasts 400 women all over the country. The goals of the group are 1. To monitor the behaviour of soldiers and police at 2. To ensure that the human and civil rights of 3. To record Machsom Watch is open exclusively to women. Our, quiet but Machsomwatchers |
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