Tag: Jerusalem

  • 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 previous years. However, it was still a terrible year: 92 Palestinian children were killed (fortunately,…

  • 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, the bullet penetrated his nose, broke the bones in his nose, hit his eye and…

  • ILA leasing Arab-owned land in Jerusalem to Ateret Cohanim

    By Meron Rapoport, Haaretz Correspondent The Israel Lands Administration (ILA) is working together with the Ateret Cohanim association to wrest from Palestinian landowners control of 30 dunams (7.5 acres) of land in East Jerusalem and to transfer it to the association without a tender. Such is the claim outlined in a petition submitted two weeks…

  • Jerusalem: ICAHD Continues to Rebuild!

    July 17th, 2007. The below report was written by Summer Camp participant: P.R. The decision was made. We as the summer camp now officially have two houses to reconstruct. We all woke up this morning with a day of brick setting and cement pouring ahead of us. Some of us woke to the sound of…

  • Jerusalem: ICAHD Rebuilds!

    ICAHD BUILDING CAMP 2007: Day 1 (15.07.2007) I am an Israeli citizen and have never been to the West Bank before, but this morning I woke up in the West Bank, along with 25 strangers, with the goal of accomplishing something that I consider moral while my government considers illegal. Personally, I believe that people…