Jonathan Cook | Middle East Online 12 February 2010 The Israeli courts ordered the release this week of two foreign women arrested by the army in the West Bank in what human-rights lawyers warn has become a wide-ranging clampdown by ...
Read More »An unacceptable fight against protest
Ha’aretz 12 February 2010 Israeli security forces have recently intensified their fight against peace activists from here and abroad who seek to protest against the occupation and identify with the Palestinian inhabitants. This week, Israeli soldiers raided the Ramallah offices ...
Read More »IDF twice raids Ramallah office of pro-Palestinian group
Nir Hasson | Ha’aretz 11 February 2010 Israel Defense Forces soldiers raided the International Solidarity Movement’s Ramallah office Wednesday for the second time this week, confiscating computers, T-shirts and bracelets engraved with the word “Palestine.” On Sunday, soldiers arrested Ariadna ...
Read More »Israeli forces arrest two foreigners in West Bank
Reuters 7 February 2010 Palestinian government spokesman Ghassan Khatib said the arrest of Spaniard Ariadna Jove Marti and Australian Bridgette Chappell in the city of Ramallah violated interim peace accords that gave Palestinians self-rule in parts of the West Bank. ...
Read More »Attorney Sfard: Israeli police investigation of shooting of Tristan Anderson “gravely negligent”
Alternative Information Center 1 February 2010 Yesterday’s announcement by the Israeli Ministry of Justice not to indict anyone in the March 2009 shooting and critically injuring of American activist Tristan Anderson at a non-violent demonstration in the West Bank village ...
Read More »“Together we can end this occupation”
Jody McIntyre | The Electronic Intifada 29 January 2010 The Israeli military recently dropped hundreds of leaflets warning Palestinian residents from the village of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip not to travel within 300 meters of the border ...
Read More »Israel signals tougher line on West Bank protests
Isabel Kershner | The New York Times 28 January 2010 Apparently concerned that the protests could spread, the Israeli Army and security forces have recently begun clamping down, arresting scores of local organizers and activists here and conducting nighttime raids ...
Read More »Israel Expels Top Ma’an Journalist
Ma’an News Agency January 21, 2010 Bethlehem – Ma’an – A week after he was detained and then questioned over news stories criticizing Israel, a top Ma’an journalist was deported on Wednesday. Jared Malsin, chief English editor at the Bethlehem-based ...
Read More »Shahar Peer relieved as threats of Pro-Palestinian protesters dissipate
Uzi Dann | Ha’aretz 21 January 2009 Shahar Peer’s first-round match at the Australian Open passed without incident Wednesday despite threats of a pro-Palestinian protest. Israel’s top tennis talent woke up to headlines in Melbourne’s The Age newspaper claiming that ...
Read More »Israel withholding NGO employees’ work permits
Amira Hass | Ha’aretz 20 January 2010 The Interior Ministry has stopped granting work permits to foreign nationals working in most international nongovernmental organizations operating in the Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem, Haaretz has learned. In an apparent overhaul of ...
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