Efrat Weiss | YNet News 1 July 2009 Israel is planning to deport within the next few days the 21 peace activists who arrived on a boat from Cyprus with the intention of entering the Gaza Strip. An Israeli Navy ...
Read More »Ha’aretz: ‘Court: IDF must toughen charges for shooting of bound Palestinian’
Tomer Zarchin | Ha’aretz 1 July 2009 The High Court ordered the Military Advocate General on Wednesday to file harsher charges against an Israel Defense Forces officer who ordered a soldier to shoot a rubber-coated metal bullet at a bound ...
Read More »Finding fish, but Israelis too
Eva Bartlett | Inter Press Service 1 July 2009 At 6am on Jun. 16, Sadallah and his brother Abdel Hadi Sadallah, in their early twenties, went roughly 400 metres out to sea off the coast of Sudaniya in Gaza’s northwest. ...
Read More »In the West Bank, suburb or settlement?
Howard Schneider | The Washington Post 29 June 2009 Chaim Hanfling knows a lot about this settlement’s population boom. Six of his 11 siblings have moved here from Jerusalem in recent years to take advantage of the lower land prices, ...
Read More »Israeli Navy takes control of aid boat headed for Gaza
Ali Waked & Anat Shalev | YNet News 30 June 2009 At around noon Tuesday the Israeli Navy intercepted and took control of a boat that had set sail for the Gaza Strip with three tons of medical supplies, Palestinian ...
Read More »YNet News: ‘Palestinians: IDF sanctions land theft’
Aviad Glickman | YNet News 30 June 2009 Two residents of the West Bank Palestinian village of Qadum filed a High Court petition against the Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday asking that it overturn a military appellate board decision and ...
Read More »Israel demolishes Palestinian house on Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives
Ma’an News 30 June 2009 Two women were hospitalized after Israel’s Jerusalem Municipality demolished a house on the Mount of Olives in occupied East Jerusalem on Monday morning. During the demolition Israeli police clashed with inhabitants of the house, bruising ...
Read More »UN assesses trauma of Gaza conflict
Al Jazeera 29 June 2009 A UN human rights mission on the Gaza conflict is hearing from a range of experts on the social and the psychological effect of Israel’s 22-day war on Gaza. On the second of the two-day ...
Read More »The Nation: ‘Israel’s man of conscience ‘
Ezra Nawi | The Nation 29 June 2009 My name is Ezra Nawi. I am a Jewish citizen of Israel. I will be sentenced on the first of July after being found guilty of assaulting two police officers in 2007 ...
Read More »This is what occupation looks like: Bil’in invaded by Israeli soldiers
Mondoweiss 29 June 2009 We give a lot of attention to the weekly nonviolent protests in the village of Bil’in as they are an inspiring example of popular resistance in the face of Israeli repression. But the truth is that ...
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