Category: In the Media

  • France ‘will recognize’ Palestinian state

    08 December 2010 | PressTV France has declared that it will recognize a free and independent Palestinian state based on borders before the 1967 war, becoming the first European nation to do so. Bernard Valero, a spokesman for the French Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that Paris agrees with the formation of a Palestinian state based…

  • IDF resumes use of prohibited tear gas canisters

    8 December 2010 | Ha’aretz, Chaim Levinson   The canisters, which are used to disperse demonstrations in the West Bank, have been responsible for serious injuries and at least one death Israel Defense Forces soldiers recently resumed the use of prohibited tear gas canisters to disperse demonstrations in the West Bank. These tear gas grenades,…

  • Police exonerate Israeli officer who shot canister that hit U.S. activist’s eye

    28 November 2010 | Haaretz, Chaim Levinson Art student Emily Henochowicz was seriously injured during a protest against the IDF’s raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla in late May. The Judea and Samaria district police found no criminal wrongdoing in the actions of the Border Police soldiers who left an American art student without an…

  • Wave of demolitions in Jerusalem, Jordan Valley and South Hebron

    25 November 2010 | ICHAD & Al Jazeera Following the demolitions and evictions in East Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley yesterday, this morning the Civil Administration accompanied by large Army and Border Police forces demolished a mosque in the Jordan Valley and several structures in the South Hebron Hills. Yesterday the Ministry of Interior demolished…

  • Settlers move into house after Israeli police evict Palestinian family

    23 November 2010 | The Guardian Family of 14 driven out of house in Jabel Mukaber, an Arab neighbourhood targeted by ideologically motivated settler activists. Jewish settlers today moved into a house in East Jerusalem after Israeli police evicted a Palestinian family of 14 and removed all their possessions. The move will dismay US officials…