• Rachel Corrie: Answers needed

    The family of English peace activist Tom Hurndall is experiencing the cold comfort of justice at last. Hurndall, 22, was shot in the head by an Israeli sniper in Rafah about two years ago while moving Palestinian children out of the line of fire. He remained in a coma for nine months before he died.…

  • Threats and worry in al-Asa’asa on the eve of Israeli disengagement

    by Lee Al-Asa’asa is a village of 500 situated right next to the settlement of SaNur. Radical anti disengagement settlers from all over the West Bank, many from Hebron, have camped out at SaNur, surrounding the small military settlement with tents. Worry and anxiety about what these 280 settlers are planning to do is growing…

  • In Gaza, we don’t yet see the peace that’s supposed to be in the plan

    by Khaled Nasrallah If you asked me about the withdraw from Gaza, I would tell you that sure, it’s a step ahead. That is, if it really is something that is a start toward real peace. Is it? Real peace is something we’ve not yet seen. We are tired of the images on television depicting…

  • The Gaza Disengagement Plan’s Impact on the West Bank

    by the Palestine Center staff It is difficult to imagine a situation more terrifying and bleak. Isolated and without any means to determine their own destiny, Palestinians will soon be forced to live their lives as prisoners in a cell. The jail keeper: Israel. Read the rest at The Council for National Interest site

  • Settlers hold Palestinians hostage as Northern West Bank pullout deadline looms

    Hundreds of pro-settlement Israelis have flocked to the area around Jenin to protest the dismantling of four small settlements scheduled to be part of Israel’s disengagement plan for the northern part of the West Bank. Not exactly what you’d call a peaceful demonstration. The group, numbering in the hundreds are flocking to settlements that have…