By Rory McCarthy (for original article click here) Five years after their son was fatally shot by an Israeli soldier in Gaza, the parents of the British student Tom Hurndall are still pressing the Israeli government for compensation and a ...
Read More »Many injured in weekly demonstrations
Road 443 – IMEMC: Several injuries reported during a nonviolent protest near Kharabtha village (for original article click here) Palestinian sources reported on Friday that several residents were injured after the army fired at residents, Israeli and international peace activists ...
Read More »IMEMC: Israeli army prevents Israelis from joining non-violent demonstration in Al-Khader
For original article from IMEMC click here The Israeli army prevented a number of Israeli peace activists to join the Palestinian residents of Al-Khader in their weekly nonviolent protest against the construction of the separation wall on their land on ...
Read More »Israeli military attacks weekly Bil’in protest, 17 injured including 7 journalists
Original article found on IMEMC. For original article click here. On Friday March 28, 2008 scores of residents of Bil’in, a village near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, along with their international and Israeli supporters, took to the ...
Read More »Haaretz: High Court ruling closes off Route 443 to Palestinians
Original article printed in Haaretz on the 19th March 2008. For the original article click here The interim decision issued 10 days ago by the High Court of Justice on the use of Route 443 marks the first time the ...
Read More »The Jewish Advocate : This land was theirs
By Hannah Mermelstein – Sunday March 23 2008 On March 20, 1941, Yosef Weitz of the Jewish National Fund wrote: “The complete evacuation of the country from its other inhabitants and handing it over to the Jewish people is the ...
Read More »JPOST: PA urges Palestinians to ‘return’
Original article published in the Jerusalem Post on March 18th. For original article click here The Palestinian Authority is planning to mark Israel’s 60th anniversary by calling on all Palestinians living abroad to converge on Israel by land, sea and ...
Read More »Ma’an: Israeli police ordered to shoot Palestinian demonstrators along separation wall
For the original article click Ma’an – Israeli authorities have given new directive to border police operating along the Israeli separation wall surrounding Jerusalem enabling them to open fire directly on Palestinians who try to demonstrate near the barrier, the ...
Read More »5 years on, we remember Rachel Corrie
This article was originally published in The Observer newspaper on the 2nd March 2008 It is impossible to underestimate quite how much life for Rachel Corrie’s family has changed since she was killed by an Israeli army Caterpillar D9 bulldozer ...
Read More »Gaza’s ‘bigger holocaust’
By: Fida Qishta This article originally appeared on the website of the Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) Rafah, the Gaza Strip, 3 March – Israeli officials said today that they finished their military operation in the Gaza Strip, but ...
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