Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 10 December 2009 As part of a recent escalation of political arrests in Bil’in, Abdallah Abu Rahmah, a school teacher and coordinator of the Bil’in Popular Committee was arrested by Israeli soldiers At exactly 2 AM ...
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High Court: Gaza student cannot complete studies in West Bank
Amira Hass | Haaretz 9 December 2009 The High Court of Justice ruled on Wednesday to deny a Palestinian student from Gaza who has been studying in Bethlehem permission to complete her university degree in the West Bank. Berlanty Azzam, ...
Read More »Israeli forces arrest four prominent grassroots activists during Nablus night raid
9 December 2009 The Israeli military kidnapped nine Palestinians from the Nablus region in the early hours of Tuesday, 9 December 2009, including four leading civil society activists. The Israeli army in the force of 200 armed soldiers invaded several ...
Read More »Settlers occupying al-Kurd house in Sheikh Jarrah continue to harass evicted Palestinian families
8 December 2009 Settlers, who have since August 2009 taken over three houses in the Palestinian neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah in occupied East Jerusalem, have, after a series of violent attacks, initiated a number of actions this week with the ...
Read More »The US cash behind extremist settlers
Andrew Kadi and Aaron Levitt | guardian.co.uk 8 December 2009 The Hebron Fund is raising vast sums for Israeli settlements that violate the Geneva convention, with little scrutiny Last month, a Brooklyn-based non-profit organisation called the Hebron Fund, which supports ...
Read More »A portrait of nonviolent resistance in one Palestinian village
Ellen Cantarow | Huffington Post 8 December 2009 At no time since its 1967 West Bank occupation have Israel’s seizures of Palestinian land and water resources seemed as shocking as the ones attending its construction of “the wall,” begun in ...
Read More »Peace must begin with the plight of Palestine’s refugees
Karen AbuZayd | guardian.co.uk 8 December 2009 Sixty years after the UN moved to address the fate of the dispossessed, we need to accept that the injustice endures Sixty years ago today the United Nations general assembly voted into existence ...
Read More »Palestinian reflections on American political ideology
Haider Eid | Palestine Chronicle 3 December 2009 The Palestinians have ‘realized,’ thanks to Hilary Clinton, that the US is biased towards Israel. According to the American Secretary of State, negotiations between “the two parties” should resume without preconditions. The ...
Read More »Settlers from Yitzhar burn Palestinian family’s house and cars near Nablus
6 December 2009 In the village ‘Einabus south of Nablus, three settlers caused severe damage to Palestinian property, setting a Palestinian house and several cars on fire in the early hours of Sunday, 6 December. In total two tractors were ...
Read More »Letter to family and friends: Bir el-Eid, West Bank
I have now been in the village of Bir el-Eid for three weeks. This has been a great time of connecting with the people here, helping with chores with the sheep, going out in the hills with the sheep, and ...
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