Category: In the Media

  • Security forces use tear-gas canisters as weapons

    B’Tselem 18 March 2009 B’Tselem today requested the judge advocate general, Brig. Gen. Avichai Mandelblit, to immediately clarify to security forces in the Occupied Territories that it is absolutely forbidden to aim tear-gas canisters, including extended-range type canisters, directly at demonstrators in the West Bank. Firing of this kind has already resulted in injury, some…

  • Boycott Israel Action

    Palestine solidarity activists go boycott shopping in France and hold a teach-in on Israeli-made products. (Euro Palestine)

  • Electronic Intifada: Ensuring maximum casualties in Gaza

    Eva Bartlett | Electronic Intifada March 16th 2009 “We were still young and in love. We had all of our dreams,” Muhammad Abu Jerrad said, holding a photo of his wife by the sea. Wafa Abu Jerrad was one of at least six killed by three flechette bombs fired by Israeli tanks in the Ezbet…

  • Streets remain closed as army continues demolition attempts in Beit Safafa

    Ma’an News 17 March 2009 Israeli forces blocked off the Gilo road beside Bait Safafa Tuesday as soldiers prepared to destroy the sixth floor of a multi-family home in East Jerusalem. Demolition began in the late hours of the morning, with crews removing the tile roof of the building and knocking down walls on the…

  • Israeli soldiers reoccupy ‘House of Contention’ in Hebron

    17th March 2009 | Ma’an News Agency Hebron – Ma’an – Three months after Israel’s army evacuated settlers from the Ar-Rajabi building that was confiscated two years earlier, soldiers have returned to reoccupy it. Dubbed the Hebron-area House of Contention, the building is owned by a Palestinian family before it was taken over by Jewish…