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A Normal Day in the Lives of My Palestinian Neighbors

Paulette S. | Christian Peacemaker Team Our neighbor Haniya shrugged her shoulders as she spoke in a disheartened way: “This is all normal for us now. What can we do anyway?” Yet, when I see armed Israeli soldiers on the rooftops, and when I witness Palestinians going through checkpoints to go to the Mosque, I […]

January 31, 2011
Palestinian human rights activist jailed in Israel

30 January 2011 | Amnesty International Amnesty International has urged the Israeli authorities to end their harassment of Palestinian human rights activists after a well-known campaigner in Haifa was jailed for nine years and given an additional one-year suspended sentence earlier today. Ameer Makhoul, a longstanding Palestinian activist, was convicted on various counts of having […]

January 30, 2011
Beit Ommar youth brain-dead in hospital after being shot by settlers

29 January 2011 | Palestine Solidarity Project Earlier today, Yousef Fakhri Ikhlayl, a 17-year-old youth from Beit Ommar who has worked very closely with PSP over the years, was shot in the head by settlers and he is currently brain-dead in Hebron hospital. Yousef attended nearly every unarmed Saturday demonstration, was frequently around the PSP […]

January 29, 2011