Category: In the Media

  • Army Raids Bil’in for Fifth Time in 24 Hours

    11 November 2010 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee At 2 AM, soldiers returned to Bil’in in another failed attempt to arrest anti-Wall activist Ashraf Khatib, beating a local photographer and international activists. The jeeps returned to the village once more at noon, arresting a resident suffering from Down’s syndrome. Five military jeeps drove into the…

  • The Palestinians of Israel are poised to take centre stage

    11 November 2010 | Seumas Milne, The Guardian In a quiet street in the Sheikh Jarrah district of occupied East Jerusalem 88-year-old Rifka al-Kurd is explaining how she came to live in the house she and her husband built as Palestinian refugees in the 1950s. As she speaks, three young ultra-orthodox Jewish settlers swagger in…

  • For family of slain activist, no end in sight for case

    7 November 2010 | Ethan Bronner, New York Times HAIFA, Israel — Seven years after an American student, Rachel Corrie, was killed in Gaza by an Israeli military bulldozer she tried to block, becoming a global symbol of the Palestinian struggle, her parents and her older sister sit in an Israeli court in this northern city…