Tag: Amira Hass

  • Haaretz: Eight Palestinian youths and the crime they didn’t commit

    Amira Hass, Haaretz After two years, a case against Palestinian teenagers accused of throwing stones was overturned when the military prosecution backed out. The suspects pleaded innocent all along, saying they’d been in school Eight Palestinian teenagers were tried in the court of military judge Lt. Col. Menashe Vahnish on November 11, 2008. Referring to…

  • IDF order will enable mass deportation from West Bank

    Amira Hass | Ha’aretz 11 April 2010 A new military order aimed at preventing infiltration will come into force this week, enabling the deportation of tens of thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank, or their indictment on charges carrying prison terms of up to seven years. When the order comes into effect, tens of…

  • Israel withholding NGO employees’ work permits

    Amira Hass | Ha’aretz 20 January 2010 The Interior Ministry has stopped granting work permits to foreign nationals working in most international nongovernmental organizations operating in the Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem, Haaretz has learned. In an apparent overhaul of regulations that have been in place since 1967, the ministry is now granting the NGO…

  • Israel restricts Palestinian lawyers’ access to West Bank detainees

    Amira Hass | Haaretz 14 January 2010 Israel is prohibiting Palestinian lawyers and the relatives of Palestinian detainees from reaching a military tribunal via the Beitunia checkpoint west of Ramallah. The prohibition, which has been in effect for the past three days, means that Israeli police are requiring Palestinians to use the Qalandiyah crossing 20…

  • For Palestinians, possession of used IDF arms is now a crime

    Amira Hass | Haaretz 24 December 2009 The Israel Defense Forces consider it a crime punishable by imprisonment for a Palestinian to possess used IDF weapons, according to an indictment filed by the military prosecutor against Abdullah Abu Rahma of the West Bank town of Bil’in. Abu Rahma, 39, is coordinator of the Bil’in Popular…