• Left-wing activists evacuated from tent built opposite outpost

    Anat Shalev | YNet News 6 June 2009 IDF troops forcibly removed dozens of left-wing and Palestinian activists who were trying to erect a tent in South Mt. Hebron with a Palestinian family claiming ownership of the land. The family says that it owns the land near the Susya settlement on which an illegal outpost…

  • Funeral for Yousef ‘Akil’ Srour held in Ni’lin

    6 June 2009 The funeral for Yousef Tzadik ‘Akil’ Srour was held in Ni’lin on Saturday, 6 June 2009. Srour was murdered by Israeli forces on Friday, 5 June 2009, during a demonstration against the construction of the Apartheid Wall on Ni’lin’s land. Akil frequently participated in the unarmed demonstrations against the construction of the…

  • War crimes in Gaza: Palestinian lawyers take on Israel

    Juliane von Mittelstaedt | Der Spiegel 5 June 2009 Four months after the war in Gaza, Palestinian lawyers have prepared 936 lawsuits against the Israeli military over alleged war crimes. Some of the cases could soon be tried at Spain’s National Court under universal jurisdiction. Four months after the war in Gaza, Palestinian lawyers have…

  • Settlers attack Palestinian vehicle with rocks, wounding four, and set fire to land in Qalqiliya district

    International Women’s Peace Service 1 June 2009 On Monday, June 1st, settlers from the Havat Gilad settler outpost in the Qalqiliya district of the West Bank reportedly attacked a minibus transporting 17 Palestinians to their jobs in Israel, critically injuring one. The settlers later burned an estimated 100 dunams of Palestinian land, leaving scorched earth…

  • Prevent Alstom from building the Haramain Express Railway

    Saudi Arabia awarded French company Alstom a multi-million dollar contract for the construction of Haramain Express Railway, to link the holy cities of Makkah and Madina. Alstom is in violation of international law for its part in the construction of the Jerusalem Light Rail, which will link illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory…