19 August 2010 | Haaretz Humanitarian affairs office: Israel restricts entry to 17% of Gaza lands, 85% of beachfront zone, enforces restrictions with live fire. Over the last ten years, the Israel Defense Forces have increasingly restricted Palestinian access to ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »Food co-op in Rachel Corrie’s hometown boycotts Israeli goods
Natasha Mozgovaya | Ha’aretz 20 July 2010 Americans are far more supportive of Israel than Europeans, and most initiatives to boycott Israeli goods or to divest funds from companies working with Israel are unsuccessful in the United States. But such ...
Read More »ISM apartment in Hebron broken into – Israeli Intelligence Services suspected
International Solidarity Movement 3rd May 2010 In the early hours of the morning on Saturday 1st May, the International Solidarity Movement’s Hebron apartment was broken into. Laptops, video cameras, photo memory cards and USB flash drives were stolen. Cash and ...
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 »Are Israel and apartheid South Africa really different?
Akiva Eldar | Haaretz 4 January 2010 The day after the murder of the settler Meir Hai about 10 days ago, Major General (res.) Amos Gilad was asked to comment on the claim by settlers that the attack was able ...
Read More »Trapped in the land of Oz
Ofra Edelman | Haaretz 3 January 2010 A complaint to the court ombudsman against Jerusalem District Court Judge Yitzhak Milanov reveals cooperation of questionable legality between the police and Oz, the Interior Ministry unit that deals with illegal foreigners, in ...
Read More »28 kilometers of distilled apartheid
Gideon Levy | Haaretz 29 December 2009 This highway has told the whole story. They pave a road, expropriate Palestinian land and the High Court of Justice approves the expropriation, in its words, “provided that it is done for the ...
Read More »War on protest
Editorial | Haaretz 25 December 2009 The war the police and the Israel Defense Forces are openly waging against protests by left-wing and human rights activists has heated up in recent weeks. As a result, concern is growing over Israel’s ...
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 ...
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