• Free Gaza–and Palestine

    Huwaida Arraf | The Nation 17 July 2009 Last month I led a group of twenty-one human rights workers on a boat from Cyprus to challenge Israel’s naval blockade of the Gaza Strip. We carried toys, medicine, olive tree saplings, toolkits, a fifty-kilo bag of cement and school supplies on our small converted ferry boat.…

  • Bil’in under fire: peaceful resistance meets assailment

    Jennifer Urgilez | MIFTAH 15 July 2009 The systematic arrest of Bil’in activists begins with the covert intrusion of Israeli soldiers into Bil’in at the stroke of midnight. From the west, soldiers cross the Separation Wall in military vehicles concealed under a blanket of darkness, each entering one by one in 10 minute intervals dropping…

  • Battle of Bil’in

    Stefan Christof | Hour 16 July 2009 Palestinian activists from Bil’in village say the Israeli military has raided their village almost daily this week. They claim the early morning raids are linked to a recent lawsuit filed by the village in the Quebec Superior Court. Last month Bil’in launched the lawsuit against two Montreal-based companies,…

  • HeidelbergCement tries to sell West Bank mines as legal, boycott pressures grow

    Adri Nieuwhof | Electronic Intifada 13 July 2009 HeidelbergCement, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of building materials, has become the target of legal action in Israel because of its activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). The company’s subsidiary, Hanson Israel, manufactures ready-made cement, aggregates and asphalt for Israel’s construction industry and operates a…

  • Malnutrition begins to bite

    Eva Bartlett | Inter Press Service 15 July 2009 “There are some people who buy frozen meat, because it’s much cheaper: 20 shekels (five dollars) per kilo versus 60 shekels for fresh beef.” According to the 45-year-old father of ten, while business is in general terrible, the better days are early in the month, when…