{"id":5699,"date":"2009-01-23T10:38:52","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T17:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=5699"},"modified":"2009-01-23T10:38:52","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T17:38:52","slug":"human-rights-gaza-a-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2009\/01\/23\/human-rights-gaza-a-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights &#038; Gaza: A Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest012309\/2009_01_23_uprising.mp3\">Listen to  the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/www.abc.es\/nacional\/noticias\/200901\/19\/Media\/PALESTIN--253x190.JPG\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As a tenuous and temporary cease-fire holds in Gaza, the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday unanimously called for a lasting truce. In the wake of Israel\u2019s twenty-two day assault on the coastal strip, more than 1,300 Palestinians were killed and thousands more injured. Presented by France and Britain, the agreed upon press statement of the Security Council urged that a lasting halt to hostilities be grounded in efforts to open border crossings into Gaza while subsequently taking preventive measures against arms smuggling. Meanwhile, a senior Hamas official has reportedly rejected any notion of reconciliatory talks with Fatah and instead will send a delegation to Egypt this weekend to discuss the consolidation of the cease-fire in place since Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>Aside from diplomatic efforts seeking to secure a truce, the humanitarian crisis in Gaza continues. The U.N. has stated that preliminary efforts aimed at reconstructing the devastated coastal region will costs hundreds of millions of dollars while long term projects will most likely reach into the billions. Food, water, shelter, sanitation, fuel, electricity, and medical facilities suffered severely as two-thirds of Gaza\u2019s population was left without power and one-third without running water during the course of the assault. In addition, the U.N. will be launching a probe into weapons used by Israel as international criticisms accuse it of committing war crimes. The International Atomic Energy Agency will be investigating whether or not depleted uranium was added to munitions. The Israeli army is reportedly conducting an internal investigation into its use of white phosphorus, however, U.N. investigator Richard Falk has stated that an independent investigation is needed into the actions of Israel\u2019s military. <\/p>\n<p>Falk was also one of four panelists present at this week\u2019s Human Rights &#038; Gaza Symposium held at UCLA. The distinguished visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara joined Saree Makdisi, Lisa Hajjar, and Gabriel Piterberg in the event.Special thanks once more to Global Voices for Justice for making this recording of the symposium available.<\/p>\n<p><em>GUESTS: Richard Falk, professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University and distinguished visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, author of more than 20 books including his latest, \u201cThe Costs of War: International Law, the UN, and World Order after Iraq.\u201d Gabriel Piterberg, Associate Professor of History at UCLA, author of, \u201cThe Returns of Zionism.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a tenuous and temporary cease-fire holds in Gaza, the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday unanimously called for a lasting truce. In the wake of Israel\u2019s twenty-two day assault on the coastal strip, more than 1,300 Palestinians were killed and thousands more injured. Presented by France and Britain, the agreed upon press statement of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}