Category: In the Media

  • UN: Israel must tear down West Bank barrier

    Associated Press 8 July 2009 Israel must tear down its West Bank separation barrier, a senior U.N. official said Wednesday, marking five years since the International Court of Justice declared the barrier illegal and a violation of Palestinian rights. The barrier separates Israel from the West Bank and in places cuts into Palestinian territory. Israel…

  • Fmr. Congressmember Cynthia McKinney back in U.S. after being detained and deported from Israel

    Democracy Now 8 July 2009 Guests: Cynthia McKinney, former U.S. Congresswoman and the 2008 Green Party presidential candidate. Adam Shapiro, documentary filmmaker, human rights activist and Palestinian rights activist. Adam was a co-founder of the ISM in Palestine. He was filming the voyage of the Arion for the Free Gaza Movement last week. AMY GOODMAN:…

  • Israel criticised for thwarting medical mission to Palestinian territories

    Vikram Dodd | The Guardian 7 July 2009 Israel was yesterday criticised after it refused to allow a group of doctors on a humanitarian mission organised by the French government to enter Gaza. The team, including three British medics, was turned back by Israeli border guards on Sunday and Monday. They say their mission is…

  • Israeli to UN: Palestinian detainees kept in ditches

    Daniel Edelson | YNet News 7 July 2009 A member of the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) testified in Geneva on Tuesday before a United Nations investigation team looking into the Israeli offensive in Gaza about half a year ago. Attorney Majd Bader, an Arab Israeli, told the committee that Palestinians detained by…

  • US activists at Rafah, request to cross into Gaza with 1 million in supplies

    Ma’an News 7 July 2009 At least 100 Americans arrived in Egypt Sunday and made their way up to the Egypt-Gaza border at Rafah with a rumored 1 million US dollars in medical supplies for the besieged Strip. Less than a week after Israeli naval boats seized and boarded the Free Gaza ship, the Spirit…