• Goldstone’s UN inquiry team arrives in Gaza

    BBC 1 June 2009 A UN team investigating possible war crimes in Gaza, led by Richard Goldstone, has arrived in the Strip on a week-long fact finding mission. The four-member team entered from Egypt after Israel failed to grant visas, despite repeated requests by the UN. The UN wants to investigate whether Israel and Hamas committed war crimes during Israel’s three-week operation in Gaza in December and January. Israel accuses the UN branch carrying out the…

  • Settlements continue to expand in Hebron

    25 May 2009 North of Hebron, in a Palestinian village named Al Bueire, settlers had built an outpost over one and a half months ago. When Israeli forces finally removed the illegal outpost on 25 May 2009, settlers coordinated attacks on the Palestinian residents. Around 4pm, settlers began to throw stones at the house of the Palestinian resident who owns the land upon which the outpost was built. Several Israeli solidarity activists were present at the…

  • Ni’lin demonstrates against construction of the Apartheid Wall

    29 May 2009 Palestinian residents, alongside international and Israeli solidarity activists, gathered to protest construction of the Apartheid Wall in Ni’lin on Friday, 29 May 2009 at 12:30pm. After a prayer on their land, residents and activists marched towards the construction site chanting slogans against the Occupation. Demonstrators were able to reach the Wall and spent most of the demonstration in their olive groves. Upon reaching the barbed wire that separates Ni’lin from much of their…

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