Category: In the Media

  • Municipality of Jerusalem to ‘blow up’ houses

    Tsipi Malkuv | Yediot Yerushaliyim 6 April 2009 English Translation: Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions THERE WILL BE AS BLAST [or a political blow-up; its a play on words in Hebrew]  by Tsipi Malkuv [Subtitle] The policy of demolishing homes [in Jerusalem] will continue at an increased rate The Jerusalem municipality continues to demonstrate determination…

  • Lost in the Buffer Zone

    Eva Bartlett | Inter Press Service 6 April 2009 KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza – “They’re always shooting at us. Every day they shoot at us,” says Alaa Samour (19), pulling aside his shirt to show a scar on his shoulder. Samour said he was shot on Dec. 28 last year by Israeli soldiers positioned along the…

  • Thousands of dunums confiscated for Israeli settler road near Nablus

    Ma’an News Agency 2 April 2009 Israeli authorities issued orders to confiscate more than one thousand dunums of Palestinian lands of the village of Qaryut south of Nablus, head of the villages and municipal affairs office in Nablus Ghassan Daghlas said on Thursday. On the land a road will be constructed linking the three illegal…