14 July 2009 On Monday the 13th of July around 4:30 pm Jamil (age 16) was stopped by four soldiers of the Israeli Occupation Forces approximately 150 meter from his house. The soldiers commanded him to show his identity papers ...

Akiva Eldar, Barak Ravid & Jack Khoury | Ha’aretz 20 July 2009 The United States views East Jerusalem as no different than an illegal West Bank outpost with regard to its demand for a freeze on settlement construction, American sources ...

Dear friends, Please take a few minutes on Monday to call the Egyptian embassy in your country to demand the Rafah border be opened! Since June 13, when International Movement to Open the Rafah Border members set their sit-in at ...

Ronen Medzini | YNet News 19 July 2009 Maher Hanoun, a resident of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in east Jerusalem, has been ordered by court to vacate his home. Dozens of the neighborhood’s residents, as well as Jewish and Arab ...

19 July 2009 At 5:30am, shortly after the Palestinian and international solidarity activists returned to their houses after patrolling the village all night, villagers gave the alert that four Israeli military jeeps were driving toward the village. Shortly thereafter, Israeli ...

Mairav Zonszein, Antony Loewenstein & Joseph Dana | Mondoweiss 18 July 2009 The occupation can seem predictably mundane from a distance. To most Israelis the settlement project is seen as a problem, but a problem happening “over there” and utterly ...

Adam Shapiro | Huffington Post 17 July 2009 I departed Cyprus with 20 others on June 29 in a converted ferry carrying humanitarian provisions intended for Palestinians in Gaza cut off from the world by the Israeli military siege. Our ...

9 July 2009 In the early morning of July 8th, Israeli soldiers raided three houses in the city of Tarqumia to arrest three boys. All three are currently in their last year of school. It is very likely that the ...

Jonathan Cook | Counterpunch 18 July 2009 Thousands of road signs are the latest front in Israel’s battle to erase Arab heritage from much of the Holy Land. Israel Katz, the transport minister, announced this week that signs on all ...

ISM Gaza | Farming Under Fire 18 July 2009 Interview with a 16 year old Palestinian farmer who got injured by shrapnel, above his eye, on the 15th of July while working about 500 meters from the Green Line between ...