Category: In the Media
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LA Times: A West Bank struggle rooted in land
A Palestinian fights in court for a hill his family has held since 1916. But Jewish neighbors say the farm should be theirs. By Richard Boudreaux December 27, 2007 NAHALIN, WEST BANK — From his hilltop farm, Daoud Nassar can see the sun rise over the Jordan Valley and set in the Mediterranean, an arc…
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Palestine Chronicle: A Son’s Spleen and Mother’s Lungs
By: Eva Bartlett Mohammed, a youth of 16 from Azzoun village near the West Bank city of Qalqilya, has returned from his week-long stay in the hospital. He can move around more than one would expect for someone who was just 8 days ago shot by the Israeli army during one of its regular invasions…
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Al-Arabiya: Israel decides “not to build new settlements”
Israel has given new assurances to the United States on Jewish settlement activity in the occupied West Bank ahead of a first visit to the region by President George W. Bush next month, army radio reported on Friday. Orders have been given to halt construction activity in the settlements of Maale Adumim, east of Jerusalem,…