In the Media

Ali Waked | YNet News 4 June 2009 A 13-year-old boy suffered a rubber-bullet head injury Thursday, during an anti-security fence rally in the Palestinian village of Bil’in, located near the West Bank city of Ramallah. The boy was rushed ...

Ma’an News Agency Israel’s military “buffer zone” along the eastern and northern edge of the Gaza Strip eats up 30% of the territory’s arable land, the United Nations said this week. Fieldworkers with the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization ...

Al Jazeera 3 June 2009 The small village of Bil’in is trying to regain land lost to the Separation Wall and an encroaching Jewish settlement through ‘legal resistance’. As their victory in the Israeli Supreme Court continues to be ignored, ...

Max Blumenthal | Mondoweiss 2 June 2009 The Israeli government has repeatedly announced plans to forge ahead with plans to expand settlements in the occupied West Bank in direct opposition to President Barack Obama’s demand for an absolute settlement freeze. ...

Hanan Greenberg | YNet News 2 June 2009 Israel Defense Forces soldier Taysir Hayb, who was convicted of the manslaughter of British peace activist Tom Hurndall in Gaza in 2003, will remain in jail despite having served two-thirds of his ...

CBC Canada 2 June 2009 Two representatives of a small West Bank Palestinian village will tour Canada this month, as they prepare a lawsuit against two Quebec-based companies for allegedly violating international law by building Israeli settlements on occupied territory. ...

Ben Harding | Reuters 20 May 2009 Spanish judges who tried to extradite ex-Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and investigate Bush administration officials over Guantanamo will likely be barred from doing so again after a parliamentary vote on Tuesday. Under pressure ...

The Jerusalem Post 20 May 2009 Spain’s congress on Tuesday reportedly passed a resolution to limit the jurisdiction of investigative judges. The move follows pressure from foreign governments such as the US, China and Israel, which has strongly criticized Judge ...

Akiva Eldar | Ha’aretz 2 June 2009 Washington is furious over the Interior Ministry’s anticipated approval of a plan to build a new hotel in East Jerusalem, just 100 meters from the Old City’s walls. The plan, which would see ...

BBC 1 June 2009 A UN team investigating possible war crimes in Gaza, led by Richard Goldstone, has arrived in the Strip on a week-long fact finding mission. The four-member team entered from Egypt after Israel failed to grant visas, ...