In the Media

report from B’Tselem, 20th July 2006 B’Tselem’s initial investigation indicates that, during an incursion by Israeli forces into Beit Hanun, in the northern Gaza Strip, on 17 July 2006, soldiers seized control of two buildings in the town and used ...

By Tanya Reinhart In Israeli discourse, Israel is always the side exercising restraint in its conflict with the Palestinians. This was true again for the events of the past week: As the Qassam rockets were falling on the Southern Israeli ...

by Greta Berlin, 12th July Every Friday, after noon prayers, the people of Bilin prepare to peacefully demonstrate against the Israeli theft of their land. Israel insists it has the right to take over 50 per cent of the land ...

by Sandy Tolan, TomDispatch.com, July 10th, 2006 As 1.5 million Gazans suffer for one Israeli, Palestinians remember five July days in 1948 when they lost everything – and the world didn’t care. Under the pretext of forcing the release of ...

from the South African Broadcasting Corporation, July 10th The “apartheid Israel state” is worse than the apartheid that was conducted in South Africa, Willie Madisha, the Congress of SA Trade Unions president, said today. He said Palestinians were being attacked ...

by Mona El-Farra, July 10, 2006 The irony is almost beyond belief. Since the capture of an Israeli soldier on June 25, the Gaza Strip has been subjected to a large-scale military operation, what Israel calls “Summer Rain.” Because Israel ...

by Amira Hass, Ha’aretz, 10th July 2006 For the first time since 1967, Israel is preventing the entry of Palestinians with foreign citizenship, most of them Americans. Most of those refused entry are arriving from abroad, but have lived and ...

by Sid Ryan, [Canadian] Globe & Mail, July 7th When our union recently passed a resolution critical of policies of the government of Israel, it was savagely attacked in several quarters and labelled by many as anti-Semitic. When the Toronto ...

July 8th: In response to the incursion in the Gaza Strip, many national and international organizations have condemned Israel’s violence. This release is intended to highlight some of the entities speaking out in support of the Palestinian people and in ...

by Dan Keinan, Ha’aretz, 6th July Border Police forces evacuated left-wing activists and three Palestinian families from the West Bank village of Bil’in who occupied a building Thursday in the Matityahu East neighborhood of the Jewish settlement of Upper Modi’in. ...