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Israeli government prepared to return land annexed from Iraq Burin
2 October 2009 Iraq Burin has re-commenced its lively weekly demonstrations after a month-long Ramadan hiatus, with approximately 150 villagers and internationals joining forces on Friday, the 25th of September, to protest the occupation. The village’s return to form was welcomed by the Israeli Occupation Forces with standard fare “crowd dispersal” techniques. In the following […]
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Israeli forces kill Palestinian youth in Yabad
3 October 2009 On Wednesday, 30 September 2009, the Israeli army murdered a Palestinian youth outside his school, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam high school in Yabad village, west of Jenin. This school had been closed from 2001-2006. Around 11:35am, a military jeep with the license plate number 655474 left the main road to turn into […]
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Palestinians cry ‘blackmail’ over Israel phone service threat
Ben Lynfield | The Independent 1 October 2009 Israel is threatening to kill off a crucial West Bank economic project unless the Palestinian Authority withdraws a request to the International Criminal Court to investigate alleged Israeli crimes during last winter’s Gaza war. Shalom Kital, an aide to defence minister Ehud Barak, said today that Israel […]