Category: In the Media

  • Veolia likely to abandon rail project

    Abbas Al Lawati | Gulf News 9 June 2009 Dubai: One of the two transport companies facing a lawsuit in France for their involvement in a controversial Israeli rail project in occupied East Jerusalem has reportedly planned to withdraw from the project. French company Veolia Transport is considering the sale of its five per cent…

  • Rights group warns of growing settler violence

    Efrat Weiss | YNet News 10 June 2009 Palestinian farmers in the West Bank are paying the price for the government’s efforts to evacuate illegal outpost in the region, data published by human rights group Yesh Din on Wednesday revealed. According to the organization, in recent weeks there has been an alarming rise in the…

  • Supermarkets may face action on Israeli labels, say lawyers

    Afua Hirsch | The Guardian 7 June 2009 Retailers including UK supermarkets may be at risk of prosecution for misleading consumers by selling goods from the Palestinian Territories under the label “West Bank”, lawyers have warned. Fruit, wine and cosmetics originating from illegal Israeli settlements are among the goods that lawyers representing Palestinian interests argue…