Category: In the Media

By Jonathan Lis July 4th http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/595276.html A Border Policeman died yesterday after suddenly collapsing while policing the separation fence near Har Adar, outside Jerusalem. Police initially said that Natan Yasais, 21, of Lod had been hit by a rock thrown by a Palestinian. However, hospital officials said they saw no signs of him having been…

By Meron Rapaport July 4th http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/595280.html An Israel Defense Forces deputy brigade commander confiscated the Government Press Office-issued press card of an Israeli journalist, informing him that he was revoking his card and ordering that he be arrested for terming him “insolent.” The director of the Association of Israeli Journalists, Yossi Bar-Moha, defined the incident…

By Meron Rapaport July 4th http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/595283.html Are the demonstrations in Bili’in against the separation fence really non-violent, as claimed by their Palestinian and Israeli organizers, or are they in fact violent protests involving the throwing of stones, as charged by the Israel Defense Forces? As expected, ever since the demonstrations there began, both sides have…

By Laila El-Haddad in Gaza Published at AlJazeera.net “You can’t just come storming in here,” barks Neta Golan to foreign activists who walk casually into her kitchen during their lunch break. “This is someone’s house you know – there’s a kitchen in the other apartment,” she tells them. “They don’t understand it’s rude to just…