Category: In the Media

  • Al Jazeera: “Israel introduces new travel restrictions”

    by Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank for Al Jazeera.net, Sunday 11 June 2006 Palestinian families have accused Israel of taking draconian measures, further restricting their freedom of movement. According to Palestinian human rights organisations, the new restrictions involve barring Palestinians carrying foreign passports, including those married to a Palestinian spouse, from re-entering the West…

  • Ha’aretz: “20 Hebron settlers arrested for violently harassing Palestinians”

    by Amos Harel, Eli Ashkenzi, Haaretz Correspondent and Itim. 13/06/2006 Police on Tuesday detained 20 settlers in the West Bank city of Hebron after they hurled rocks, bricks and glass bottles at Israel Defense Forces soldiers and police. A policeman was lightly wounded in the riot. The rioting took place next to a Palestinian house…

  • Ha’aretz: “Arrest of the Piano Tuner”

    By No’am Ben Ze’ev, Ha’aretz Gallery, 12th June 2006. Translation by Rann. Paul Larudee, an American who came to tune pianos in Ramallah and Jenin, refused to board a plane against his will and is now waiting for a court decision regarding him. For a week now, the American piano tuner Paul Larudee has been…

  • Amnesty International: “Israel must end unlawful killings of Palestinians and stop reckless shelling”

    Public Statement, 12 June 2006 Amnesty International is calling on Israel to end immediately its reckless shelling and air strikes against the Gaza Strip, which have killed and injured scores of unarmed Palestinians, including several women and children, in recent months. In the latest such attack on the afternoon of 9 June 2006, seven members…

  • Al-Jazeera: “Protests against Gaza beach killings”

    By Khaled Amayreh, Al-Jazeera, Sunday 11 June 2006 Credit: ISM Hundreds of Palestinians, Israeli and international peace activists have protested against the killing of eight Palestinians while they picnicked on a Gaza beach. Wearing white T-shirts dyed in red to signify Friday’s killings, protesters lay on the ground at an Israeli checkpoint at Kalandia, 10km…