• Balata Camp commemorates the Nakba

    14 May 2009 The Nakba Committee of Nablus organized a commemoration ceremony in Balata village. About 500 people from the area gathered to attend the event where various speeches were given by community officials such as the Mayor of Nablus and others. Some 500 Palestinians with flags and banners gathered in Balata village at the…

  • Norwegian MP: If investment in occupation acceptable, we must revise ethics guidelines

    Ma’an News Agency 15 May 2009 A Norwegian ethics committee is due to travel to Israel and the West Bank in two weeks to assess the investment of the world’s largest government pension fund, The Norwegian Government Pension Fund, in Africa Israel Investments. In advance of that visit, a delegation of seven members of the…

  • Israeli forces shoot young Palestinian girl in Ni’lin

    For Immediate Release: 4:30pm, 15 May 2009: A 12-year old girl has been shot with 0.22 calibre live ammunition in Ni’lin Summer Amira, was shot by Israeli forces as she was standing on the roof of her home. Amira was shot in her lower arm, near her elbow around 4:30pm. “Summer and I were standing…

  • Life among the ruins in Gaza

    Amira Hass | Ha’aretz 15 May 2009 Wadi Gaza is an agricultural region southeast of Gaza City. The ruins of Hussein al Aaidy’s family home are immediately apparent. The houses (and several other heaps of ruins) are scattered among budding hills, lazing goats and fields that have been plowed but not sown. Up until nine…

  • Israeli forces kidnap 2 farmers in Qalqiliya region

    11 May 2009 At 7 am Sunday morning, May 10, 2009, two farmers from Izbaht Tabib, Jaefar Tabib, 23, and Naem Tayayhe, 30, were arrested as they went out to work their land. They remain in custody. In the evening of the same day, a bus with about 60 settlers, accompanied by the Israeli army,…