Category: In the Media

  • Apartheid wall legitimized by Israeli supreme court

    Haaretz: “Court rejects petition to change route of J’lem envelope fence” by Yuval Yoaz, November 26th An expanded panel of nine High Court of Justice judges, headed by retired Supreme Court president Aharon Barak, on Sunday rejected petitions claiming the route of the West Bank separation fence near the village of Bir Naballah, north of…

  • Ynet: “Politics of uncertainty”

    by Laila al-Hadad, November 27th, Hope gives way to disappointment as Palestinians wait for crossing to open My family and I are on our way back to Gaza from the US. We flew in to Cairo last week, and from there embarked on a five hour taxi ride to the border town of al-Arish, 50…

  • Apartheid travel ban on Palestinians in Israeli cars

    Three stories from Israeli and international press follow: Haaretz: “No more hitching in the West Bank” by Amira Hass, November 23rd The O.C. Central Command, Yair Naveh, dropped a cluster bomb early this week. He signed an order barring Israeli citizens from taking Palestinian passengers in their Israeli vehicles within the West Bank. The order…

  • Haaretz: Military probe ordered in 2003 shooting of American in Nablus

    by Yuval Yoaz, November 26th The Military Advocate General, Brigadier General Avihai Mandelblit, has instructed military police investigators to open a probe into the question of whether Israel Defense Force soldiers bear criminal responsibility in the shooting of a 24-year-old American citizen and leftist activist in the Jenin refugee camp in April 2003. The investigation…

  • Amnesty International: “Israel: Fear for Safety”

    23 November 2006, PUBLIC AI Index: MDE 15/092/2006 — UA 315/06 Fear for safety URGENT ACTION, ISRAEL/OT: Human rights defenders in the Occupied Territories Human rights defenders working in the Occupied Territories are at risk of attack by Israeli settlers. Amnesty International is concerned at the latest such attack against those who seek through their…