• Israel phone firm’s West Bank wall gag fails to amuse

    Allyn Fisher-Ilan & Alastair Macdonald | The Washington Post 12 July 2009 A television advert for an Israeli cellphone firm showing soldiers playing soccer over the West Bank barrier has sparked cries of bad taste and prompted Arab lawmakers on Sunday to demand it be taken off air. The jaunty commercial for Israel’s biggest mobile…

  • International activists continue protests at Rafah border

    International Campaign to Open the Rafah Border 12 July 2009 We are actually 16 people in our camp with mainly Egyptian activists. Yesterday afternoon, the Egyptian authorities put barbed wire at the door of the bathroom and cut the water, so now, we have no more access to the bathroom. Chris says : “Fortunately, I…

  • Transportation Ministry to Hebraize road signs

    Udi Etzion | YNet News 13 July 2009 Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz recently ordered a change in roadside signs across Israel’s highways so that the all names appearing on them in English and Arabic would be a direct transliteration of Hebrew. For example, the sign directing drivers to Jerusalem would read Yerushalayim, Nazareth will become…

  • U.K. hits Israel with partial arms embargo over Gaza war

    Barak Ravid | Ha’aretz 13 July 2009 Britain has slapped a partial arms embargo on Israel, refusing to supply replacement parts and other equipment for Sa’ar 4.5 gunships because they participated in Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip earlier this year. Britain’s Foreign Office informed Israel’s embassy in London of the sanctions a few…

  • Palestinians organize a picnic protest near Susiya outpost

    11 July 2009 On Saturday the 11th of July, solidarity activists of Ta’ayush and inhabitants of Susiya (South Hebron Hills) organized a picnic of resistance next to the outpost of the settlement of Susiya. Activists from the ISM, Tayyoush and Palestinian residents gathered to non-violently protest the illegal outpost. The action was planned for 8am,…