From SchNEWS number 544 The remnants of Palestinian civil society, brutalized by the occupation and ongoing encirclement by the apartheid wall, is now reeling under the shock of the sudden removal of all US and EU aid. Their crime? To ...

1. Ezra’s Car 2. Medical Workers Targeted by Israeli Army in Raid in Nablus 3. Israeli Occupation Forces Violently Suppress Peacefull Protest Over Right to Worship 4. Bil’in Protest: Journalists Targeted, Many Injured 5. The “Only Democracy in the Middle ...

by Ronnie Kasrils and Victoria Brittain. The Guardian, Friday May 19, 2006. The Palestine crisis is now more dramatic even than apartheid, but it is the victims who are punished. Western leaders are frustrating democratic elections in Palestine by withholding ...

1. Free Adnan Nimar 2. Declared Innocent 3. International Peace Activists Released from Hospital 4. A New Petition by the People of Bil’in: Cancel the Declaration of Their Lands as State Property 5. Hearing of the Petition Against the wall ...

The judges, Barak, Prokachia, and Rivlin, presiding over the court case protesting the route of the wall in Bil’in village have not yet reached a decision. In the last hearing, which took place May 14, 2006, the applicant, Bil’in village ...

1.Mohammed Saqer Escapes Death 2. Shofat Camp Non violent action for Right to Worship Successful 3. Bil’in: Un-cage Palestine! 4.Border Police Lash Out 5. Police probe building of West Bank settlement neighborhood 6. Tel Rumeida Journal 7. At last, a ...

Larry Derfner, Jerusalem Post, 4th May 2006 The violence typically begins as hundreds of protesters advance on lines of badly outmanned troops trying to block the way to the village’s land, which lies on the other side of the fence. ...

1. Lauren’s Journal: Shaheid means Martyr 2. Teen Shot in the Head in Nablus 3. Timeline of a Nablus Invasion 4. Human Rights Workers’ Press Conference: Escalating Settler Violence in Hebron and Open Letter to the Israeli Military and Police ...

By Asafa Peled – Yedioth Aharonot 14/4/2006 Translation: Adam Keller The Separation Fence is closing in upon more and more Palestinian villages. Their inhabitants are cut off from sources of livelihood. Some Israelis are not willing to remain silent. Matan ...

Our group was tired out after the large settler attack yesterday and apprehensive about what might happen over the coming week. We were hoping for a quiet day, and we got that. So here’s a description of a quiet day ...