In the Media

By Amira Hass for Haaretz Until Enaya Samara, who has been living in forced exile for the past eight months returns to her village near Ramallah, and until Someida Abbas, who was banished from his home 10 months ago accompanies ...

by Mijal Grinberg, December 24th The Israel Defense Forces’ Investigations Military Police have opened a probe into claims that IDF troops committed a series of offensives against Palestinian residents of the Hebron area, including throwing stones, destruction of private property, ...

This BBC interview relates to Mary’s arrest in Tel Rumeida on December 17th Mary: On this occasion some children who were going up at the very top of Tel Rumeida were being stopped from going home from school. For some ...

by Firas Aridah, December 22nd ABOUD, West Bank: For the 39th consecutive year, Palestinian Christians in towns and villages like Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Ramallah and Aboud will celebrate Christmas under Israeli military occupation. In Aboud, our hardships increased in October 2005, ...

by B’Tselem, December 19th ‘Azzun ‘Atmah, a village with 1,800 residents located southeast of Qalqiliya, lies three kilometers from the Green Line (Israel’s 1967 border). The settlement Sha’are Tikva was built just east of it, on lands belonging to residents ...

by Asa Winstanley, December 18th The demonstration is small but feisty. Accompanied by around 15 international supporters and a few Israeli stalwarts, the inhabitants of Bil’in, a village in the West Bank near Ramallah, voice their protest against the Israeli ...

by Ali Samoudi, December 20th On Wednesday Israeli forces occupying Al Hamra Checkpoint in Jenin confiscated the identity cards of hundreds of Palestinians, detaining them for five hours. While the soldiers were confiscating identification and detaining citizens, a young man ...

by Ali Waked, December 19th Resident of Palestinian village forced to empty his home to accommodate over 20 soldiers for some 15 hours supposedly to carry out observation. Palestinian claims soldiers ‘just went to sleep’ A resident of the Palestinian ...

by Gideon Levy, December 17th The juggler from the palace of justice has struck again. In a single week, retired Supreme Court president Justice Aharon Barak proved his impressive acrobatic talents. In his last rulings, all of them having to ...

by Johann Hari, December 15th There are many things you expect to find in the cratered, cramped heart of Gaza City, but a group of proto-Germaine Greers and Betty Friedans would be low on the list. Yet, I am sitting ...