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Efrat Weiss | YNet News 3 August 2009 Some 200 leftists, including Arabs and Jews, protested the eviction of Palestinian families from their homes in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in the early hours of Sunday morning. Clashes ...
Read More »Israel evicts Palestinian families
Al Jazeera 2 August 2009 Israeli security forces have forcibily evicted two Palestinian families from their homes in East Jerusalem after a court rejected an appeal against their eviction. The al-Ghawi and al-Hanoun families who were evicted on Sunday have ...
Read More »Israel evicts Palestinians from Jerusalem homes
Charly Wegman | AFP 2 August 2009 Israeli riot police wielding clubs kicked out two Palestinian families from their homes in occupied east Jerusalem on Sunday, defying international protests over Jewish settlement activity in the area. Clashes erupted after police ...
Read More »Israel asks Spain to stop funding group that reported IDF ‘crimes’ in Gaza
Barak Ravid | Ha’aretz 02 August 2009 Israel on Thursday asked the government of Spain to halt its funding for the human rights group Breaking the Silence, which has been critical of the Israel Defense Forces’ conduct during January’s Operation ...
Read More »Bil’in under attack
Alternative Information Center (AIC) 30 July 2009 Five years ago the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued its advisory opinion declaring that the Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory is illegal and should be dismantled. After five years of silence ...
Read More »International movements breaking the siege on Gaza
Suzanne Morrison | Common Dreams 28 July 2009 Since June 2007 the Israeli government has imposed almost complete closure over the Gaza Strip. The siege prevents nearly all movement of people or goods to and from the coastal region with ...
Read More »Militant Jewish settlers set up 11 outposts in the occupied West Bank
Rachel Shabi | The Guardian 28 July 2009 Israeli settler groups have set up 11 new outposts in the occupied West Bank, in a direct rebuttal of mounting US calls to freeze settlement activity. Young Jewish groups are reported to ...
Read More »Israel pays NIS 3.25 million to protester shot by Border Police
Ofra Edelman | Ha’aretz 28 July 2009 The Defense Ministry has recently paid NIS 3.25 million in compensation to Limor Goldstein, 31, who was shot in the head by Border Policemen during an anti-separation fence protest in the West Bank ...
Read More »Five years after ICJ ruling, Israel expands its illegal Wall onto more Palestinian land
Ben White | Media Monitors Network 28 July 2009 “The wall has changed not just the lives of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, but also the dynamic of the Palestinian struggle. The reality created inside the occupied territories (a process ...
Read More »UN: Israel must allow building supplies to Gaza
Rizek Abdel Jawas | Associated Press 28 July 2009 U.N. agencies and two dozen international aid groups urged Israel on Tuesday to lift its blockade of Gaza or at least allow in construction materials to repair war-damaged schools. Out of ...
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