Jewish atrocities at Palestinian village of Deir Yassin, 65 years ago…and today Omid Safi President Obama’s visit to Israel reaffirmed the close political bond between American and Israel, and even affirmed the right of Israel to exist as a “Jewish nation”, whatever that means to the non-Jewish indigenous population of the region, i.e., the Palestinian people. […]
Palestine: Israel launches airstrikes on Gaza | A list of ceasefire violations by Israel since November 21, 2012.
April 3, 2013 By
Israel has launched fresh air strikes on the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the first such attack since the November ceasefire between the Hamas and Israel. Israel has been continuously violating the ceasefire since November with the first violation coming on the very second day after the agreement. The Jerusalem Fund has published an extensive list of […]
Palestine: 64 year old prisoner Maysara Abuhamdia dies.
April 2, 2013 By
Prisoner Maysara Abuhamdia dies; son accuses PA of betrayal (The Electronic Intifada) – By Linah Alsaafin Maysara Abuhamdia has died, shackled to his bed in Saroka Hospital. He was 64 years old. This marks the second time in less than two months that a Palestinian prisoner has died in custody. Arafat Jaradat was tortured to death in Megiddo […]
Israeli forces attack annual “Land Day” protests
March 31, 2013 By
- By Ma’an, WAFA Israeli forces fired tear gas and rubber coated bullets at Palestinians marking the annual Land Day in towns across the West Bank and Gaza on Saturday, local media reported. Eyewitnesses told Ma’an News Agency that hundreds of Palestinians gathered in agricultural lands near the West Bank village of Jayyus to plant trees […]
Hunger Striking Prisoner at Risk of Death Due to Significant Drop in his Heart Beat
March 27, 2013 By
- By Palestine News Network On Monday 25th March, Palestinian Minister of Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs, Issa Qaraqe, said that the health condition of hunger striking prisoner Samer Issawi is very critical; his heart beat has dropped significantly and his blood sugar was also down. Israeli physicians at Kaplan hospital, where Samer Issawi is getting treatment, […]
“Castrate them!” “Burn them!” “Bullet in the head!”: Facebook Israelis react to photo of Palestinian kids
March 24, 2013 By
- By Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada Having regularly documented the horrifying racism and violent fantasies frequently expressed by Israelis on Facebook or Instagram, I thought I had seen everything. But this may be the worst yet. On Wednesday, the picture above of three Palestinian boys in a tent was posted on a popular Facebook page titled in Hebrew “We are all […]
Gaza on Brink of Water Crisis
March 22, 2013 By
- By Hazem Balousha, Al-Monitor Palestine Pulse According to figures issued by public and private institutions, the Gaza Strip is in imminent danger of a water crisis. Fresh water for domestic and agricultural use has become scarce. Moreover, 95% of underground water for domestic consumption is contaminated to varying degrees, which portends the spread of diseases […]
Israeli Police Kidnap Two Children In Jerusalem
March 22, 2013 By
- By IMEMC News Monday March 18, 2013, Two children identified as Deena Morad Jweiles, 14, and her brother Mohammad, 12, have been kidnapped by the Israeli Police after being attacked and harassed by an Israeli settler in Wadi Hilweh, in Silwan, in occupied East Jerusalem, the Wadi Hilweh Information Center reported. The center said […]
IDF round up Palestinian children in Hebron, Obama meets Israeli children in Jerusalem
March 21, 2013 By
Video: Israeli soldiers round up children in Hebron (Ma’an News) – By Ma’an News Agency BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli rights group B’Tselem on Wednesday said Israel’s mass arrest of children in Hebron was “unacceptable,” and released a video of the detentions. The video shows soldiers forcefully arresting schoolchildren, one of whom is dragged along the […]
Israel releases hunger striker Ayman Sharawneh, arrests his brother
March 19, 2013 By
- By Ma’an, WAFA, Al-Akhbar Israel arrested the brother of former-Palestinian prisoner Ayman Sharawneh in the West Bank early Monday just hours after the long-term hunger striker was released from Israeli prison and deported to the Gaza Strip, Ma’an News Agency reported. Israeli forces raided the home of Jihad Sharawneh, 24, at dawn Monday in Deir […]
