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Settler stabs B’Tselem worker in Susiya
B’Tselem 10 August 2009 This morning [Monday, 10 August], at about 7:30, I heard voices and shouting coming from the direction of the wadi near our village, Khirbet Susiya. I got up and took my stills camera and ran toward where the voices were coming from. On the way, I looked behind me and saw two others from our village running behind me. They apparently also heard the shouting. I got there quickly. I saw Jaziya…
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Naomi Klein shows you can boycott Israel without cutting off dialogue over Palestine
Cecilie Surasky | AlterNet 1 September 2009 Few global-justice campaigns are more polarizing, even explosive, than the effort to use international boycotts, divestment and sanctions to pressure Israel to end its 42-year occupation of the Palestinian territories. Just ask Neve Gordon. Recently, Gordon, head of the political science department at Ben-Gurion University and a longtime peace activist, published a wrenching op-ed in the Los Angeles Times endorsing the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS).…
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IOF willfully kill a Palestinian child in al-Jalazoun refugee camp, north of Ramallah
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) 1 September 2009 The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns the willful killing of a 15-year-old Palestinian child by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF). The attack occurred yesterday, 31 August 2009, near the entrance of al-Jalazoun refugee camp, north of Ramallah. According to investigations conduced by PCHR, at approximately 21:30 on Monday, 31 August 2009, IOF troops stationed at a military observation tower inside “Beit Eil” settlement, north…
