Category: In the Media

  • Jerusalem Post: “Non-residents in territories threaten to sue Israeli gov’t”

    by Dan Izenberg, December 3rd Foreign passport holders married to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza and those of Palestinian descent who want to visit their extended families in the territories are considering filing a class action suit against the Israeli government for refusing to grant them visitors’ visas, a Palestinian spokesman has told…

  • Newbury News: “Peace worker’s tales of war”

    by Neil Welch, December 1st Human rights worker teams up with Newbury shop owner to raise funds for the woman who saved her life A HUMAN rights worker who spent last Christmas in an Israeli jail has visited Newbury to help raise money for the woman who saved her life. Sharon, 33, won’t give out…

  • Humanity lost

    by Laila El-Haddad, November 29th We stood and we waited and we cried and we returned back to Egypt yesterday, and again today. Us and thousands of others. It was anguish. Anguish and misery and desperation personfied in every woman, man and child. One hour turned into two, then three, then five, as we stood…

  • Palestininan youth worker to be detained without charge for another six months

    By the Alternative Information Centre An Israeli military court has approved the extension of Ahmad Abu Hannya’s administration detention until May 14, 2007. By the of this period Ahmad, an Alternative Information Center (AIC) staff member, will have been imprisoned for two years. Ahmad, coordinator of the AIC youth group in Bethlehem, was detained at…

  • Baltimore Chronicle: “Refugees are the key”

    by Sam Bahour, November 27th Israel should admit its historical responsibility to the Palestinian people and recognize the rights of the refugees The Bush Administration’s insistence that the Hamas-led government of the Palestinian Authority recognize Israel’s existence may seek to achieve a moderate Palestinian leadership to enable a peaceful political process between the sides, but…