• Organizer admits City of David endangers Arab homes

    Akiva Eldar | Ha’aretz 5 October 2009 A video tape made during a guided tour of the archaeological excavations at Silwan (the City of David) near Jerusalem’s Old City walls reveals how Elad, the association that runs the dig, works together with the Israel Antiquities Authority, the Israel Nature and Parks Authority and the Jerusalem municipality to dig under the homes of Arab residents. In the tape, made a year ago, the founding head of Elad,…

  • UN must immediately adopt and act on Goldstone report

    Omar Barghouti | ZNet 5 October 2009 Palestinian civil society has strongly and almost unanimously condemned the Palestinian Authority’s latest decision to delay adoption by the UN Human Rights Council of the report prepared by the UN Fact-Finding Mission, headed by justice Richard Goldstone, into the recent Israeli war of aggression against the Palestinian people in the occupied Gaza Strip. A common demand in almost all Palestinian statements issued in this respect was for the UN…

  • Ni’lin residents demonstrate against Apartheid Wall

    2 October 2009 Today about 70 people protested against the illegal Wall in Ni’lin. Less people than normal participated in the demonstration because of the olive harvest season. The demonstrators were attacked by the Israeli armed forces with a severe amount of tear gas, sound bombs and ‘skunk’ water.  The majority of the tear gas canisters were aimed directly at the body of the protesters and several were hit but luckily nobody was seriously injured. The…

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