Category: In the Media

  • Settlers occupy and damage Sheikh Jarrah home

    Ma’an News 26 July 2009 Residents on Sunday tried unsuccessfully to prevent Israeli settlers and police from reaching a home owned by Palestinians in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem. During the incident former Minister of Jerusalem Affairs Hatim Abdul Qader was detained, apparently while trying to block more attacks on a home that…

  • Israel pushes Dutch to freeze funds for group exposing ‘IDF crimes in Gaza’

    Barak Ravid | Ha’aretz 26 July 2009 Following protests by Israel, the Netherlands will reevaluate its funding of an organization that alleged that Israeli troops used Palestinians as human shields in Gaza. Acting on instructions from the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, the Israeli ambassador to the Netherlands, Harry Knei-Tal, met last week with the director-general…

  • U.S. warns Israel: Don’t build up West Bank corridor

    Aluf Benn | Ha’aretz 24 July 2009 The U.S. administration has issued a stiff warning to Israel not to build in the area known as E-1, which lies between Jerusalem and the West Bank settlement of Ma’aleh Adumim. Any change in the status quo in E-1 would be “extremely damaging,” even “corrosive,” the message said.…