Category: Reports

  • The Gaza Disengagement Plan’s Impact on the West Bank

    by the Palestine Center staff It is difficult to imagine a situation more terrifying and bleak. Isolated and without any means to determine their own destiny, Palestinians will soon be forced to live their lives as prisoners in a cell. The jail keeper: Israel. Read the rest at The Council for National Interest site

  • Settlers hold Palestinians hostage as Northern West Bank pullout deadline looms

    Hundreds of pro-settlement Israelis have flocked to the area around Jenin to protest the dismantling of four small settlements scheduled to be part of Israel’s disengagement plan for the northern part of the West Bank. Not exactly what you’d call a peaceful demonstration. The group, numbering in the hundreds are flocking to settlements that have…

  • Soldier joins Bil’in protest

    A wall moves through Bil’in A woman who showed up in her military uniform along with protesters in Bil’in was quickly arrested by soldiers and transferred to IDF investigators for questioning. About 100 or so peace activsits carried their own version of Israeli’s annexation wall that is being built through villages like Bil’in. Soldiers detained…

  • 10 Palestinians injured by Israeli soldiers in Liban Al-Gharbi

    This morning, ten Palestinians were injured when soldiers opened fire in Liban Al-Gharbi, near Rantis – 15 km south of Qalqilya. The conflict began six days ago, when a group of 25 settlers and soldiers brought heavy machinery onto a piece of land that belongs to the village. They began digging and excavating the land,…

  • Hundreds trapped in Ramallah as all exit points closed for afternoon

    Soldiers set up a “flying checkpoint” outside Ramallah, near the village of Surda on Sunday. By Sarita and Andrew Ambulances, commerce, people traveling to work or heading home were all brought to a halt Sunday in Ramallah as Israeli soldiers closed all exit and entry points to the city following a shooting by Al Aqsa…