• Attack on water brings sanitation crisis

    Eva Bartlett | Inter Press Service 18 June 2009 While diminishing water resources are a global concern, in Palestine the struggle for water is not against global warming or multinational corporations, but for access to water, and against contamination of what precious resources there are. Mohamed Ahmed, director of the Water Control Department in the…

  • Prohibit live fire in circumstances that are not life-threatening in the West Bank

    B’Tselem 18 June 2009 On Friday, 5 June 2009, ‘Aqel Sror, 35, was killed when a border policeman fired a live, 0.22 inch caliber bullet at his chest during a demonstration held in Ni’lin. Four other demonstrators were injured by 0.22 bullets that day. One of them suffered a severe wound to the spinal cord,…

  • Independent Jewish Voices Canada joins BDS campaign

    Independent Jewish Voices Canada 16 June 2009 Independent Jewish Voices (Canada) voted to join the growing international campaign in support of the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel, at its first Annual General Meeting this past weekend. This decision makes IJV the first national Jewish organization in the world to do…

  • Viva Palestina: our convoy to Gaza

    George Galloway | Counter Punch 10 June 2009 “Where is the ummah; where is this Arab world they tell us about in school.” Those words will forever remain etched on my brain. They were spoken by a 10 year old girl in a bombed out ruin in Gaza in March. She had lost her almost…

  • No peace from Netanyahu

    Laila El-Haddad | The Guardian 16 June 2009 “Eight nos, but nothing new.” This is the reaction I hear over and over again from Palestinian refugees here in Lebanon’s Wavel Refugee Camp, where four generations wait to return to the homeland from which they were brutally evicted over 60 years ago, in response to Israeli…