Category: In the Media

  • Israel demolishes Palestinian house on Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives

    Ma’an News 30 June 2009 Two women were hospitalized after Israel’s Jerusalem Municipality demolished a house on the Mount of Olives in occupied East Jerusalem on Monday morning. During the demolition Israeli police clashed with inhabitants of the house, bruising nine of them. The destruction came a day after the municipality declared that it would…

  • UN assesses trauma of Gaza conflict

    Al Jazeera 29 June 2009 A UN human rights mission on the Gaza conflict is hearing from a range of experts on the social and the psychological effect of Israel’s 22-day war on Gaza. On the second of the two-day inquiry on Monday, a child psychologist told the panel that an estimated 20 per cent…

  • The Nation: ‘Israel’s man of conscience ‘

    Ezra Nawi | The Nation 29 June 2009 My name is Ezra Nawi. I am a Jewish citizen of Israel. I will be sentenced on the first of July after being found guilty of assaulting two police officers in 2007 while struggling against the demolition of a Palestinian house in Um El Hir, located in…