Category: In the Media

  • Haaretz: “West Bank heart surgeon faces possible deportation from Israel”

    by Reuters, January 27th One of the few open-heart surgeons based in the occupied West Bank said on Saturday he had been detained at Israel’s airport and faced possible deportation. After being detained for more than a day at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport, Israel granted Dirgham Abu Ramadan, a German cardiologist of Palestinian origin, a…

  • Channel 4: “Pushing the barrier”

    by Indigo Gilmore, January 25th One village spilt in two by Israel’s controversial wall has been staging a non-violent protest for two years. To Israel it is a security fence – the Palestinians call it the “apartheid wall”. It is more than three years since the Israelis began building a massive barrier – part fence,…

  • Haaretz: Twilight Zone / ‘I’ve lost my heart’

    by Gideon Levy, January 25th Was it the stun grenade that hit her head, the shock caused by its explosion or the rubber bullet fired by the Border Police? Does it make any difference? Did the Border Policeman intend to kill a child of 11 – or not? What difference does it make? The real…