• Israeli human rights organizations to the EU: use Association Council meeting to stop settlements and open Gaza

    B’Tselem 15 June 2009 On the occasion of the 9th EU-Israel Association Council on June 15 2009, three prominent Israeli human rights organizations call upon the EU to link the upgrade of EU-Israel relations to respect for human rights and the rule of law. In their letter to the EU Foreign Ministers, the organizations emphasized…

  • Steadfastness and solidarity at the Rafah border

    16 June 2009 Under pressure from the Egyptian army and the police, the International Movement to Open the Rafah Border ( IMORB), is maintaining their camp at the Rafah Border. The group is growing; now 26 people from France, USA, Germany, Egypt, Belgium, and Sweden. Yesterday, our Italian friend left us for his job in…

  • Village sues Canada companies cashing in on occupation

    Deborah Guterman | Electronic Intifada 11 June 2009 The small Palestinian village of Bilin will face-off this month against two Canadian corporations accused of aiding and abetting the colonization of the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Bilin has charged Green Park International and Green Mount International with illegally constructing residential buildings and other settlement infrastructure on village…

  • Gaza’s hospitals short of surgeons and supplies

    Eva Bartlett | Electronic Intifada 11 June 2009 One of the most densely populated places on earth only has two cardiac surgeons to serve its entire population. According to Dr. Nasser Tatter, head of Shifa hospital’s cardiology unit, that only explains part of the medical crisis that exists in the Gaza Strip today. “We are…

  • Israeli bulldozers demolish 15 barns, three shacks in Jordan Valley

    Ma’an News 17 June 2009 Israeli bulldozers demolished 15 animal barns and 3 shacks owned by Palestinian residents of Ein Al-Hilwa neighborhood in the Jordan Valley near Israeli settlement of Masquin, eyewitnesses reported Wednesday morning. Palestinian Authority official Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors Israeli settlement activity in the northern West Bank, condemned the demolition describing it…