Aaron Lakoff is an independent journalist from Montreal, Canada. He is currently volunteering with the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, in Beit Sahour, Palestine. He previous reports can be found on his blog Ashraf is from Tulkarem, Palestine. He ...
Read More »Harassment and murder during invasions in Qabatiya, near Jenin
The West Bank town of Qabatiya, just south of Jenin, is home to over 20,000 people. According to local residents the Israeli army invade the town every night from their base in Salem. As they invade, usually very early in ...
Read More »Ha’aretz: Twilight Zone – The children of 5767
By: Gideon Levy September 28th, 2007 It was a pretty quiet year, relatively speaking. Only 457 Palestinians and 10 Israelis were killed, according to the B’Tselem human rights organization, including the victims of Qassam rockets. Fewer casualties than in many ...
Read More »Ha’aretz: IDF brings peace activist back to Jenin
By Meron Rapaport Early Wednesday morning, a convoy of armored personnel carriers and four Israel Defense Forces jeeps entered Jenin – not an unusual event, but one of the armored jeeps had four very unusual passengers. The four foreigners had ...
Read More »Peace Activist Wounded by IOF Fire Returns to Sue
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On the night of April 5th, 2003, in the west bank city of Jenin, Brian Avery from North Carolina was shot in the face by machine-gun fire from an approaching Israeli Army APC. He did not die, ...
Read More »Almost Another Massacre in Jenin
Jenin, September 11th In the early morning hours one of the biggest Israeli invasions since weeks occurred in the refugee camp of Jenin. It was also close to becoming one of the biggest massacres. At around 7:30am this morning, nine ...
Read More »Salamat Sahbi Akram
It was meant to become one of those reports about these surrealities, you probably only can find in Palestine. About the tension of a nightly visit to an internet cafe, which ended up surrounded by security forces. A story about ...
Read More »ISM-Member Akram killed during clashes in Jenin
6th September 2007 Akram Ibrahim Abu Sba’, member of the ISM regional committee Jenin and co-founder of one of ISM’s first permanent presences was killed by members of Islamic Jihad in the north Palestinian city of Jenin. Akram was killed ...
Read More »Two schoolkids injured, one men abducted by Israeli Military in Jenin
6th September 2007 In the early morning hours two Palestinian children were injured by Israeli gunfire in Jenin. Eye witnesses and the Palestinian police reported that approximately at 3 o”clock am the Israeli Army, coming from Naaser street, entered the ...
Read More »Humanism or Collaboration? Palestinian Police Saves Israeli Soldier In Jenin
27th August 2007 In the early afternoon the Palestinian security forces returned an Israeli soldier who is understood to have become lost in the streets of Jenin. At about 1.30 pm a single Israeli soldier, coming from Nasser street, entered ...
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