Category: In the Media

  • The New Refugees

    By Amira Hass for Haaretz Until Enaya Samara, who has been living in forced exile for the past eight months returns to her village near Ramallah, and until Someida Abbas, who was banished from his home 10 months ago accompanies his children to kindergarten again, it will not be possible to believe the defense establishment’s…

  • Haaretz: “IDF probing accusations troops destroyed Palestinian property”

    by Mijal Grinberg, December 24th The Israel Defense Forces’ Investigations Military Police have opened a probe into claims that IDF troops committed a series of offensives against Palestinian residents of the Hebron area, including throwing stones, destruction of private property, damaging vehicles and unlawful detention. The investigation was opened after a human rights group filed…

  • Transcript of BBC World Servce interview with Mary Baxter

    This BBC interview relates to Mary’s arrest in Tel Rumeida on December 17th Mary: On this occasion some children who were going up at the very top of Tel Rumeida were being stopped from going home from school. For some reason at the top of the hill on private Palestinian land there were a whole…

  • IHT: “To live and let live, among the olive groves”

    by Firas Aridah, December 22nd ABOUD, West Bank: For the 39th consecutive year, Palestinian Christians in towns and villages like Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Ramallah and Aboud will celebrate Christmas under Israeli military occupation. In Aboud, our hardships increased in October 2005, when the Israeli military issued confiscation orders to seize land owned by village residents to…

  • Enclosing the village of ‘Azzun ‘Atmah and separating its residents from their farmland

    by B’Tselem, December 19th ‘Azzun ‘Atmah, a village with 1,800 residents located southeast of Qalqiliya, lies three kilometers from the Green Line (Israel’s 1967 border). The settlement Sha’are Tikva was built just east of it, on lands belonging to residents of the village. The settlement breaks the territorial contiguity between the village and two neighboring…