Tag: The Guardian

  • Guardian: Parents of critically injured US peace activist demand justice from Israel

    Rory McCarthy | The Guardian Peace campaigner was struck in head with teargas grenade during demo in occupied West Bank The parents of an American peace activist who was severely injured by Israeli forces at a demonstration in the occupied West Bank called on the Israeli government today to take “full responsibility” for the shooting.…

  • Guardian: Israelis ‘firing live rounds’ at West Bank protesters

    Peter Beaumont | The Guardian Israeli armed forces and border police used the cover of the war against Hamas in Gaza to reintroduce the firing of .22 rifle bullets – as well as the extensive use of a new model of tear-gas canister – against unarmed demonstrators in the Occupied West Bank protesting at the…

  • European Union: Israel annexing East Jerusalem

    Rory McCarthy | The Guardian 7 March 2009 A confidential EU report accuses the Israeli government of using settlement expansion, house demolitions, discriminatory housing policies and the West Bank barrier as a way of “actively pursuing the illegal annexation” of East Jerusalem. The document says Israel has accelerated its plans for East Jerusalem, and is…