Category: In the Media
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Haaretz: The ebb, the tide, the sighs’
By Gideon Levy The young fisherman is now in hospital, feeble and pale, one leg in a cast held in place by iron screws. He is awash with pain. His mother does not leave his bedside. A blind Palestinian physician takes him for a brief physiotherapy session in the corridor. Mohammed Masalah leans on a…
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The Guardian: Israeli police evict Palestinian couple from home of 52 years
By Rory McCarthy To view original article, published by The Guardian on the 10th November, click here Israeli police have evicted a disabled Palestinian man and his wife from the home where they had lived for 52 years, in a Palestinian district of east Jerusalem which is now surrounded by hardline Jewish settlers. The eviction…
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Haaretz: Elderly Palestinian couple evicted from East Jerusalem home despite U.S. protest
By Michael Bahl To view original article, published by Haaretz on the 9th November, click here In a pre-dawn operation in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of predominantly Arab East Jerusalem, scores of police officers and IDF troops Sunday evicted an elderly Palestinian couple from their home, despite protests by the United States, other countries, and…
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AFP: Palestinian family evicted from emblematic Jerusalem home
To view original article, published by AFP on the 9th November, click here JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israeli police evicted a Palestinian family from their east Jerusalem home at dawn on Sunday in the wake of a prolonged court battle with Jewish settlers and just two days before municipal elections. Armed security forces surrounded the al-Kurd…
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Maan: Third Free Gaza voyage successfully anchors in Gaza port
To view original article, published by Maan News Agency on the 8th November, click here The third Free Gaza ship, the SS Dignity, anchored in the Gaza harbor on Saturday morning after setting sail from Cyprus Friday evening. Aboard were several European Parliamentarians from England, Italy and Switzerland as well as several Arab leaders, Human…