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Civil Administration backtracks on granting Palestinians access to Bir el-Eid
Amira Hass | Haaretz 6 January 2009 The Civil Administration ordered Palestinian residents of the West Bank this week to stop erecting tents and building animal enclosures in the Bir el-Eid area – even though the state allowed them access to the site only two months ago, after a 10-year enforced absence and a protracted […]
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Candlelight demonstration remembers the martyrs of Nablus and Gaza
2 January 2010 A demonstration was held in the northern West Bank city of Nablus last night to mark the anniversary of the 3-week assault launched on Gaza one year ago that left over 1,400 Palestinians dead, and to mourn the assassination of 3 men by Israeli soldiers in Nablus last week. Demonstrators filled Nablus’ […]
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Unbreakable in Cairo
Dana Elborno | The Electronic Intifada 4 January 2010 Though I have lived most of my life in and around Chicago, it has never been my complete home. My sisters and I were born as first-generation Palestinian-Americans coming from Kuwait and for this reason our lives in Chicago always felt temporary — we were only […]
