Category: In the Media

  • UN public hearing in Gaza broadcasts accounts of war victims

    Rory McCarthy | The Guardian 30 June 2009 The UN has held an unprecedented public hearing in Gaza to broadcast live witness accounts from Palestinians who described seeing their relatives killed and injured during Israel’s January war. One after another, they detailed Israeli rocket strikes and artillery shelling near a mosque, a UN school and…

  • Israeli soldiers scuffle with activists in WBank

    Reuters 27 June 2009 Several people were wounded on Saturday in scuffles between Israeli soldiers and peace activists accompanying Palestinians to agricultural fields in the occupied West Bank, witnesses said. Palestinian witnesses said several people, including a Reuters photographer, were treated for bruises and minor wounds. The scuffles erupted when soldiers tried to prevent Israeli…

  • Naomi Klein in Bil’in: boycott Israel

    Mondoweiss 26 June 2009 Naomi Klein visited the West Bank village of Bil’in today to voice her support for the weekly demonstrations against the Separation Wall, and to reiterate her support for boycotting Israel. Her visit it timed with the release of her best selling book, The Shock Doctrine, in Israel/Palestine where it is being…