Category: In the Media

  • Haaretz: Israel to bar pro-Palestinian activists from entering country

    By Amos Harel and Aluf Benn, Haaretz Correspondents and Agencies Israel will from now on bar pro-Palestinian activists from entering the country and will try to expel at least some of the dozens of activists who are already here, according a new plan drafted by the Israel Defense Forces and the foreign and defense ministries.…

  • Haaretz: ‘Dear IDF, Please meet us, allow an open dialogue’

    By Joseph Algazy Originally published by Haaretz The family of an international peace activist, felled by an IDF bullet, hope they can help promote an end to the conflict Tom Hurndall, a young Briton active in the International Solidarity movement, is lying unconscious at Soroka Medical Center in Be’er Sheva. Not long ago he was…

  • Haaretz: ‘It’s a terrible thing, living with the knowledge that you crushed our daughter’

    By Nathan Guttman Originally published by Haaretz WASHINGTON – Craig Corrie sent just one e-mail to his daughter during the seven weeks she spent in Rafah. She addressed most of her letters to her mother, Cindy, and Craig read them with concern. When he was a soldier serving in Vietnam, he would send his loved…

  • L.A. Times: In West Bank, a risky quest for peace

    Ruth Morris | Los Angeles Times Activists’ use of human shields is questioned after two members are killed by Israeli forces. TULKARM, West Bank – Wearing sandals and amber-colored earrings in a region where soldiers don bulletproof vests, Radhika Sainath stepped up to the driver’s side of an Israeli military jeep on the dilapidated outskirts…

  • CNN: Israeli bulldozer kills American protester

    RAFAH, Gaza (CNN) — An Israeli bulldozer killed an American woman Sunday who had been protesting its use to destroy Palestinian houses in Rafah. The woman, Rachel Corrie, 23, of Olympia, Washington, was taken to a hospital, where she died of her injuries. She was a senior at Evergreen State College in Olympia but was…