In the Media

from Haaretz, September 16th, by Gitit Ginat Imagine a person. He might be a man over 40 years old, married, with children. Or he might be a teenager, who until recently was in school. Now perch him on top of ...

AL-HAQ PRESS RELEASE One year ago, on 12 September 2005, Israel completed its unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip under the ‘Disengagement Plan’. In the year that followed, the Gaza Strip endured military incursions, shelling, attacks on infrastructure, targeted assassinations, ...

A British newspaper, The Independent is trying to launch a campaign to bring the world’s attention to what is happening in Gaza – they need strong letters of support and encouragement for this. Otherwise the momentum will not build and ...

by Avi Issacharoff, from Ha’aretz, 11th September 2006. Followed by a collection of links to ISM reports on complaints to the Israeli police from which nothing has come. A total of 90 percent of the complaints filed by Palestinians in ...

Interview from community radio of RMIT university, Melbourne, Australia A former RMIT University lecturer has become a volunteer peacekeeper on a Middle East frontline – at 75. Mary Baxter, who lectured in statistics and mathematics from 1968 to 1996, is ...

A Missing Link in Support for Palestinian Human Rights From Bil’in to Birmingham By DAVE HIMMELSTEIN One of the latest in the long series of unpublicized Israeli attacks on civilians took place on August 25 in the West Bank village ...

By Patrick Cockburn in Gaza Gaza is dying. The Israeli siege of the Palestinian enclave is so tight that its people are on the edge of starvation. Here on the shores of the Mediterranean a great tragedy is taking place ...

Credit: Maureen Clare Murphy More than 70 journalists, activists, and members of the diplomatic corps met on September 6th at the Ambassador Hotel in Jerusalem for a press conference regarding the Campaign for the Right of Entry/Re-Entry to the occupied ...

by Dalia Karpel for Haaretz On Friday, August 11th, when the end of the Lebanon War was on the horizon, after several weeks in which no more than token protests had taken place in Bil’in, the weekly demonstration against the ...

An Interview with Muhammad Khatib, Jonathan Pollak and Elad Orian, Middle East Report Beginning in December 2004, and then every Friday since February 2005, Palestinians, Israelis and internationals have converged on the West Bank village of Bil‘in to demonstrate against ...