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Over 50 bullets shot towards a fishing boat
ISM Gaza | Fishing Under Fire 21 June 2009 This video shows a Palestinian fishing boat attacked by the Israeli Navy BEFORE the recent massacres (December 2009, January 2009), that means during the 6 month “CEASEFIRE” (June – December 2008). Finally we counted more than 50 bulletholes! During the interview gunboats of the Israeli Navy…
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Hearing begins over Palestinian lawsuit against Quebec builders
CBC News 22 June 2009 A Palestinian village in the West Bank will argue Monday that a Quebec court should hear its lawsuit against two Canadian construction companies that it alleges illegally constructed buildings on Israeli-occupied territory. Bil’in, a community of about 1,700 inhabitants located northwest of Ramallah, is suing the Quebec-based companies for $2…
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Nonviolent resistance in the south Hebron hills
Joy Ellison | Electronic Intifada 18 June 2009 A couple of months ago I had the great pleasure of watching Palestinians successfully graze their sheep near Avigail settlement, on land where they are regularly attacked and harassed. The joy I felt in watching my friends and partners grazing their sheep on their ancestral lands was…
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Bat Ayin settlers uproot trees from Palestinian land
Ma’an News 22 June 2009 Israeli settlers uprooted more than 150 olive and grape trees from Palestinian-owned land in Wadi Abu Ar-Rish, near the settlement of Bat Ayin, south of Bethlehem, on Monday, witnesses said. Settlers from Bat Ayin also set fires in the same area. Witnesses said that the settlers carried out these attacks…
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Israel to investigate IndyMedia over photo with “Murderer” accusation
Rose Foran | The Media Line 22 June 2009 Israel’s Deputy State Prosecutor has launched a criminal investigation into a website that allegedly published a picture of an Israeli soldier with the word “Murderer” over his photograph. Indymedia Israel, a leftist news outlet, accused the soldier of killing a Palestinian protester with a gas canister…
