PNI Secretary General, Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi MP, speaking at a debate with Dr. Ilan Pappe and Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht in Brussels on 14 November 2007.

Footage captured by an independent American filmmaker on Wednesday 15 August, showing Israeli soldiers beating, spitting on and throwing stones at three Palestinian children offers yet further proof that Israel's 543 permanent and 610 'flying' checkpoints "are sites of systematic torture and human rights violations against Palestinian civilians", said veteran human rights activist, Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi MP at press conference held in Ramallah today.

The Israeli government has once again returned to its oft-repeated "anti-Israel" refrain in attempting to undermine a seminar being held in Brussels from 30-31 August by the United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People at the premises of the European Parliament.