• Haaretz: Officer to Pay for Killing West Bank Teen

    By Fadi Eyadat The Hadera Magistrate’s Court has ordered an Israel Defense Forces officer and the Defense Ministry to pay NIS 500,000 to a Palestinian family after the officer killed their 16-year-old son in 2002. The officer, Captain Tzvi Koretzky, who was convicted of negligent homicide by a military court, shot and killed Mohammed Zayid of the West Bank village of Nazlat Zeid. Koretzky thought Zeid and a relative standing next to him were egging on…

  • Teaching Under Apartheid in Palestine

    by: Lina When I first decided to go to Palestine to teach kids English and yoga my main concerns were managing the kids’ behavior, assessing their needs and maintaining their interest. After all, those are the most challenging issues I face everyday in my classroom in Philadelphia. In the US I rarely get through an entire unit and to actually teach without a behavior related incident interrupting class is a very rare event. I quickly found…

  • PCHR: Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations

    Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Continue Systematic Attacks on Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) * 16 Palestinians, including 3 children, were killed by IOF in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. * 10 of the victims were extra-judicially executed by IOF. * 18 Palestinians were wounded by IOF gunfire in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. * IOF conducted 30 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and two…

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