Category: In the Media
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Israeli troops kill a Palestinian youth; Injures and arrest another
by Ghassan Bannoura 8 March 2012 | International Middle East Media Center Twenty-two years old Zakariay Abu Iram was killed while Mohamed Rashid, 18, was injured and arrested by Israeli troops as they attacked the southern West Bank village of Yatta on Thursday afternoon. Residents told IMEMC that Israeli troops stormed the village and tried…
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Gaza rally for Hana Shalabi on International Women’s Day
by Joe Catron 8 March 2012 | Mondoweiss Hundreds of Palestinian women filled the street outside Gaza’s International Committee of the Red Cross this morning, marking International Women’s Day by demanding the release of administrative detainee Hana Shalabi on the 22nd day of her open hunger strike. The rally contained Palestinian women of every age,…
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Red flags over Gaza: Palestinian leftists rally for Hana Shalabi
by Joe Catron 5 March 2012 | Mondoweiss Hundreds of Palestinians, mainly from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the Palestinian People’s Party (PPP), the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), and other leftist factions, rallied for administrative detainee Hana Shalabi, now on her 19th day of an open hunger…
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Make some noise: Malcolm X in Gaza
by Joe Catron 29 February 2012 | Alresalah Press At the end of the United States’ Black History Month, one week after the 47th anniversary of Malcolm X’s assassination in New York’s Audubon Ballroom, and another week shy of my first year in Gaza, I attended a talk on X at Gaza’s Centre for Political and…
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Israel raids Ramallah TV stations
29 February 2012 | Ma’an News Israeli forces raided two Palestinian television networks early Wednesday in Ramallah and briefly detained four employees, journalists said.Soldiers confiscated computers used by editors and reporters in Watan TV’s newsroom and general offices as well as administrative and financial files, the network said. Troops also raided Al-Quds Educational TV in…