• Five Palestinian farmers and two internationals detained while trying to work lands near Israeli military camp

    30 April 2009 On the 30th of April, five farmers from the village of Asira ash-Shamaliya and two international solidarity activists were detained while trying to farm their lands close to an Israeli military camp.  Asira ash-Shamaliya is a Palestinian village north of the city of Nablus.  An Israeli military camp was built more than…

  • Palestinian youth shot by Israeli settlers while working his land

    27 April 2009 On Monday, the 27th of April, 17-year-old Mohammad Farraj was shot by Israeli settlers while working his lands in Madama, southeast of the city of Nablus.  At around 12:00pm, Mohammad was alone picking almonds on his land near the illegal Israeli settlement of Yizhar.  At least one settler drove up along the…

  • Seven arrested during non-violent demonstration in Umm Salamouna

    For Immediate Release: 1 May 2009 Residents gathered at 1.30 pm for a weekly demonstration near the village of Al-Ma’sara in protest of the Apartheid Wall that was built on Palestinian land in the villages of Al-Ma’sara, Um Salamouna, Jourat Ash-Sham’ah and Mrah Mu’ala. Israeli forces began to throw sound and tear-gas grenades at the…

  • The complicit silence continues

    Haidar Eid | The Palestine Telegraph 1 May 2009 Millions of people looked forward to Barack Obama’s presidency with a sense of pride and hope. But Obama’s first 100 days have raised critical questions about the limits of what we can expect from a Democrat in the White House–and what it will take to get…

  • Palestine’s Holocaust museum

    Dania Yousef | Al Jazeera 30 April 2009 In a small anonymous home in the West Bank, a Palestinian academic has set up a project which is almost unheard of in the Occupied Territories. Hassan Musa is the curator of a museum exhibition dedicated to the Jewish Holocaust in Europe. The cracked white walls of…