• Palestinians rebuild with mud

    Eva Bartlett | Inter Press Service 7 May 2009 Jihad el-Shaar is pleased with his mud-brick house in the Moraj district of Gaza. The 80-square metre home is a basic one-storey, two-bedroom design, with a small kitchen, bathroom and sitting room, made mostly with mud and straw. “My wife and our four daughters and I…

  • International Human Rights Workers to accompany Palestinian farmers near buffer zone in Gaza Strip

    For Immediate Release: 8am, Thursday 7 May 2009: Six International Human Rights Workers will be accompanying 12 Palestinian farmers Laytamaat area near Khoza’a, east of Khan Younis, in the south of the Gaza strip, as they harvest crops several hundred metres from the Green Line. Farmers and international accompaniers were last fired upon in Beit…

  • Villages and organizations ask Norway to divest from Leviev’s Africa-Israel over settlements

    Adalah-NY 6 May 2009 The West Bank Palestinian villages of Bil’in and Jayyous and 11 national and international networks from Europe, Palestine, Israel and the US have sent letters calling on Norway to comply with its ethical guidelines and divest from its pension fund holdings in the company Africa-Israel, owned by the controversial diamond magnate…

  • UN demand for IDF compensation in Gaza could reach $11m

    Barak Ravid, Amos Harel & AP | Ha’aretz 6 May 2009 A United Nations demand for financial compensation for Israeli strikes on UN facilities in Gaza could come to $11 million, a government official in Jerusalem said Tuesday in response to a UN report that criticized Israel for the attacks. The incidents occurred during Operation…

  • Israeli soldiers break Hebron resident’s arm, enter two shops

    4 May 2009 On Monday, the 4th of May, a Hebron resident’s arm was broken by two soldiers in the old city.  49-year-old Mohammad Hashem Borqan was on his way to pray at the Ibrahimi Mosque at around 5:30am.  As he went through the checkpoint at the entrance to the mosque, two soldiers started beating…