• Teen Shot in the Head in Nablus

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Nablus, West Bank According to Dr. Samir Abu Zarour, at the emergency room in Rafidia Hospital, a 17 year-old boy “has multiple skull fractures on the right side of his head. A rubber-coated metal bullet made a tract through brain tissue and is now lodged in the left side. There is a…

  • Excerpts from a review of Letters from Young Activists

    http://www.lettersfromyoungactivists.org by Elizabeth Wrigley-Field From Monthly Review For the complete review see http://www.monthlyreview.org/0406wrigley-field.htm …We may not have learned the lessons of the past, but among those are the lessons of defeat; the radicals among us still believe we can change the world. This is the spirit of the new collection Letters from Young Activists, edited…

  • Timline of a Nablus Invasion

    By Lee At approximately 11:00am the Army arrives at Tel street in Mafea Area of Nablus. Military Operation to search the 5 story Aljhe building, likely used by students at nearby al-Naija university, and possibly to arrest some occupants. Four jeeps in attendance. Soldiers arrived and used live ammunition from the start. Youth stone throwing…

  • Tel Rumeida Press Conference in Jerusalem

    Tel Rumeida International Human Rights Workers: “Our lives are in danger.” Wednesday, April 26, 2006 at 11:00 AM Alternative Information Center Office, Queen Shlomzion 4, Jerusalem In Tel Rumeida, Hebron, settlers are executing planned, violent attacks with alarming frequency. In the past month alone, two human rights workers required stitches to their heads after being…

  • Laila’s Journal: I don’t exist!

    By Laila el-Haddad I don’t exist! …well, at least not according to British Airways. I was attempting to enter in my “passenger details” and country of citizenship and residence on their website for a flight I have booked next month (from Cairo, 8 hours and a border crossing away, since the Gaza airport is incapacitated-much…