Category: Features

  • Israeli forces demolish tent of evicted family in Sheikh Jarrah

    28 October 2009 On Wednesday 28 October, around 50 armed police and border police cordoned off a road in the Palestinian neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem and, as ordered by the Jerusalem Municipality, demolished a tent, where the Gawi family has been living since they were forcibly evicted from their home on 2…

  • Israeli police arrest Greek diplomat in Sheikh Jarrah

    26 October 2006 On Monday 26 October 2009 at 4pm, a group of about 40 – 50 international and Israeli citizens, taking part in a tour organised by the Alternative Information Centre visited the Palestinian neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah. They gathered outside of the house of the Gawi family which was recently forcefully evicted from…

  • Israeli Forces kill Palestinian near Awarta

    23 October 2009 A 29 year old man was killed by the Israeli Occupation Forces yesterday, Thursday 22 October, outside Awarta village in the southern region of Nablus. Mohammad Abed Ar-Rahman Qawariq suffered a violent death when he was thrown from his car as it was rammed by a military jeep. Mohammad, 29 years old,…

  • Bil’in to welcome members of Shministim at Friday demonstration

    For Immediate Release: The West Bank village of Bil’in will hold a demonstration this Friday, 23 October 2009 at 12pm. Members of Shministim (Hebrew for high school seniors), the Israeli organization of teenagers who refuse to serve in the Israeli Army, will join the weekly Bil’in demonstration this Friday. According to members of the Shministim,…

  • Believing in the nonviolent struggle

    Jody McIntyre | Electronic Intifada 20 October 2009 The following is Palestinian nonviolent resistance activist Ahmed A. Khatib’s story as told to The Electronic Intifada contributor Jody McIntyre: My name is Ahmed A. Khatib, I am 32 years old, and married with four children. I live in the village of Bilin, where I work on…