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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »Danger: Popular struggle
Amira Hass | Haaretz 23 December 2009 There is an internal document that has not been leaked, or perhaps has not even been written, but all the forces are acting according to its inspiration: the Shin Bet, Israel Defense Forces, ...
Read More »Family who lost 29 members in Gaza war: We envy the dead
Amira Hass | Ha’aretz 18 October 2009 Richard Goldstone visited the Gaza City neighborhood of Zaytoun in late June to tour the compound of the extended Samouni family, the subject of coverage here in recent weeks (“‘I fed him like ...
Read More »How does Israel decide who gets a visa to Ramallah?
Amira Hass | Ha’aretz 8 September 2009 Sven Ouzman, a 39-year-old archaeologist from South Africa, violated the terms of his “Palestinian Authority only” visa six times, when unintentionally and for lack of choice, he drove on roads under full Israeli ...
Read More »Israel toughens entry for foreigners with West Bank ties
Amira Hass | Ha’aretz 13 August 2009 Israel has recently been putting up more obstacles for foreign nationals who enter the country if they have family, work, business or academic ties in the West Bank. It now restricts their movements ...
Read More »Norway examines the ethics of its Israel investments
Amira Hass | Ha’aretz 28 July 2009 Norway is reexamining its investments in several Israeli companies, in particular Elbit Systems. Two representatives of the Council on Ethics of the Norwegian finance ministry visited Israel at the beginning of June, in ...
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