08 December 2010 | PressTV France has declared that it will recognize a free and independent Palestinian state based on borders before the 1967 war, becoming the first European nation to do so. Bernard Valero, a spokesman for the French ...
Read More »IDF resumes use of prohibited tear gas canisters
8 December 2010 | Ha’aretz, Chaim Levinson The canisters, which are used to disperse demonstrations in the West Bank, have been responsible for serious injuries and at least one death Israel Defense Forces soldiers recently resumed the use of ...
Read More »Police exonerate Israeli officer who shot canister that hit U.S. activist’s eye
28 November 2010 | Haaretz, Chaim Levinson Art student Emily Henochowicz was seriously injured during a protest against the IDF’s raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla in late May. The Judea and Samaria district police found no criminal wrongdoing in ...
Read More »Wave of demolitions in Jerusalem, Jordan Valley and South Hebron
25 November 2010 | ICHAD & Al Jazeera Following the demolitions and evictions in East Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley yesterday, this morning the Civil Administration accompanied by large Army and Border Police forces demolished a mosque in the Jordan ...
Read More »Settlers move into house after Israeli police evict Palestinian family
23 November 2010 | The Guardian Family of 14 driven out of house in Jabel Mukaber, an Arab neighbourhood targeted by ideologically motivated settler activists. Jewish settlers today moved into a house in East Jerusalem after Israeli police evicted a ...
Read More »Economic prison zones
21 November 2010 | Sam Bahour, Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) Sam Bahour is a Palestinian business management consultant living in Ramallah. This essay was made possible with partial support from the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. When a project mixes ...
Read More »Israeli planes hit Gaza targets after rocket fire
19 November 2010 | Reuters Israeli warplanes struck three targets in the Gaza Strip Friday in response to militant rocket and mortar fire, the Israeli army said. At least four people, three women and a boy, were hurt in one ...
Read More »U.S. offers Israel warplanes in return for new settlement freeze
13 November|Haaretz Netanyahu presents security cabinet with Clinton’s incentive of 20 F-35 fighter planes and security guarantees in exchange for 90-day West Bank building moratorium. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s seven-member inner cabinet discussed Saturday an offer by the United States ...
Read More »Army Raids Bil’in for Fifth Time in 24 Hours
11 November 2010 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee At 2 AM, soldiers returned to Bil’in in another failed attempt to arrest anti-Wall activist Ashraf Khatib, beating a local photographer and international activists. The jeeps returned to the village once more ...
Read More »The Palestinians of Israel are poised to take centre stage
11 November 2010 | Seumas Milne, The Guardian In a quiet street in the Sheikh Jarrah district of occupied East Jerusalem 88-year-old Rifka al-Kurd is explaining how she came to live in the house she and her husband built as ...
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