by Amos Harel, December 14th The High Court of Justice on Thursday ordered the Israel Defense Forces to dismantle a small barrier that runs along 41 km in the southern West Bank, following a petition submitted by Palestinian residents and ...
Read More »Postcards from the Edge
by Victoria Macchi, Skin Magazine Katie Miranda’s “postcards” create visual dispatches to the American people of life, death, and innocence demolished in Palestine Two young men, backs turned, wrists bound, heads hanging – paired with anger, a mouth stretched wide ...
Read More »Maariv: “There are some who understand that Palestinians are human”
Translation from original Hebrew by Rann Bar-on Waji Burnat, whose son was injured six years ago from Israeli army fire and has since been confined to a wheelchair, welcomed the Supreme Court’s decision. Now he’s considering suing for compensation. “Any ...
Read More »Amnesty International Secretary-General visits Tel Rumeida
Ma’an News: Amnesty International’s secretary-general visits Hebron, meets Old City family besieged by settlers December 7th, The secretary-general of Amnesty International is currently in the occupied Palestinian territories on a special tour to assess the human rights situation in light ...
Read More »Palestine News Network: “Settlements further encroaching into Tubas; major loss imminent”
by Ali Samoudi, December 10th The northern West Bank’s Tubas is under imminent threat by Israeli settlers who have long had their eye on the Palestinian town’s agricultural lands. The settlements are already encroaching onto the land with continual expansion. ...
Read More »Amnesty International Calls For Human Rights Monitors in Palestine
by Amnesty International, December 10th Open Letter from Amnesty International’s Secretary General to European Union leaders on human rights crisis in Israel and the Occupied Territories Amnesty International’s Secretary General Irene Khan today called on European Union Heads of State ...
Read More »Haaretz: “Elbow to Elbow, like Cattle”
by Gideon Levy, December 10th Laila El-Haddad spent the last three weeks in a dismal apartment she was forced to rent in El Arish, Egypt, together with her son Yusuf, who is two years and nine months old. Every few ...
Read More »Black Agenda Report: The Niggerization of Palestine
By Jonathan Scott | Black Agenda Report The situation of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza has become so bad that even the pro-Israeli New York Times is reporting on some of the more revolting developments. For instance, on ...
Read More »WAC: “Beit Hanoun’s wounded at Ichilov Hospital”
by Nir Nader, Workers Advice Centre Imad Abu Amara leads me through the corridors of the Ted Arison Tower of Ichilov Hospital, to the wounded victims of the massacre at Beit Hanoun. Imad, 50, is not among Beit Hanoun’s wounded. ...
Read More »The Guardian: “There has to be equality”
by Ismail Patel, December 5th The Arab-Israeli conflict is unlike any other regional conflict. As the UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, put it: “No other conflict carries such a powerful symbolic and emotional charge among people far removed from the ...
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