Category: In the Media

  • ‘Charges toughened against IDF officer in shooting of bound Palestinian’

    Ha’aretz 21 July 2009 Israel’s Military Advocate General, Brig. Gen. Avichai Mandelblit, on Tuesday ordered tougher charges against an Israel Defense Forces officer who presided over the shooting of a bound and blindfolded Palestinian detainee. Lt. Col. Omri Borberg and his soldier, known as Staff Sgt. L., were formally charged with “improper conduct” over the…

  • Campaigners for evicted Palestinians call on Barack Obama to intervene

    Rachel Shabi | The Guardian 20 July 2009 Campaigners protesting at the eviction of two Palestinian families from their homes in East Jerusalem to make way for a Jewish development today appealed to President Barack Obama to stop the settlement going ahead. The families, who have lived in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood north of the…

  • Most Arabs can’t buy most homes in West Jerusalem

    Nir Hasson | Ha’aretz 21 July 2009 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed this week that Jerusalem is an “open city” that permits all its inhabitants, Jewish and Palestinian, to purchase homes in both its eastern and western parts. “Our policy is that Jerusalem residents can purchase apartments anywhere in the city. There is no ban…