• Settlers torch Palestinian car in Tel Rumeida, Soldiers block Palestinian fire trucks

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 5 April 2007 Palestinian resident in Tel Rumeida: “Settlers have set my car on fire” The Israeli police: “We don’t speak Arabic”. Soldiers prevent fire trucks from accessing the burning car. Last night, Hani Abu Haikal parked his car at 20:30 and walked the 10 minute route to his house through the…

  • ei: Torture: Read it in the Israeli Press

    by Miko Peled | Electronic Intifada Thanks to the Israeli press, people in Israel are informed regularly about their government’s mistreatment of the 4.5 million Palestinians under their rule. Most of the information regarding the occupation of Palestine and the oppression of its people is well documented and accurately reported in the Israeli press. But…

  • Palestinian Christians and the effects of Israeli Apartheid

    Palestinian Chrisitians prevented from reaching Bethlehem on Palm Sunday by Snyder, 4 April 2007 As hordes of tourists flocked to the holy sites of Jerusalem to carry Palm leaves through the Old City, hundreds of Palestinian Christians were prevented from passing through the Bethlehem terminal. On the evening before Palm Sunday, I passed through the…

  • “Martyr Palestine,” A new play in an old Israeli prison

    The first of its kind: Palestinians prepare art demonstration in old Israeli prison by Jameel al-Husni, 4 April 2007 Defying the traditional Palestinian method of denying expressions of the occupation, Wasfi Tayeh, the leader of a local theatre group in al-Far’a refugee camp in the northern West Bank, is preparing a new show. The show,…

  • Incurion and Arrests in Tubas

    Incursion and Arrests in Tubas from Brighton Palestine, 4 April 2007 On Monday April 2nd the IDF entered the town of Tubas (in Area A – the ‘Palestinian controlled’ area of the occupied West Bank). Around 40 soldiers and several vehicles surrounded the home of Ibrahim and Hamid Daragmeh and told the family that they…