• Air strike in south east Gaza City: “For the West, you have abandoned us to death”

    Air strike in south east Gaza City: “For the West, you have abandoned us to death”

    by Rosa Schiano 15 February 2012 | il Blog di Oliva Saturday night Israeli F-16’s bombed civilian targets in several areas of the Gaza strip. One of these strikes killed a man and injured his son in the neighborhood of al-Zaytoon, south-east Gaza city. An F-16 dropped a bomb on a farm just before midnight. The watchman of the farm, Abed Alkareem Alzaitooni, 71 years old, was killed. He was sitting in a steel shed next to the animal…

  • Golani Brigade Report: Incidences in which Golani soldiers arbitrarily detained Palestinians and/or denied them access to roads or walkways.

    14 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement and Christian Peacemaker Teams Since the arrival of the Golani Brigade in Hebron on December 27th, international accompaniment organizations (Christian Peacemaker Teams, International Solidarity Movement, and others) have documented an increase in the number of serious human rights violations against the Palestinian people, particularly youth and children in the Old City and Tel Rumeida. All recorded incidences have been documented through first-hand observation and/or the victims’ testimony. The following report…

  • Al Ma’asara: House on the seam of looming Apartheid Wall becomes center for peaceful resistance

    Al Ma’asara: House on the seam of looming Apartheid Wall becomes center for peaceful resistance

    by Aaron 14 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank There is a place where a ground-level concrete line runs beside a country road through olive orchards, grape vines, blossoming almond trees, and homes—all Palestinian. This is the projected path of a new segment of Israeli Apartheid Wall through Al-Ma’sara, a small village 13 km south of Bethlehem in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Since 2006, protesters have held weekly demonstrations opposing the Wall’s construction—which was…

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