A Compendium of reports on the current War on Islam
- 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 […]
- 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 […]
- 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 […]
- By Al-Akhbar Palestinian hunger-striker Samer Issawi is on the verge of death according to a statement from his sister Shirine Issawi Thursday, a day after he decided to refuse both liquids and vitamins. The statement was given to the web magazine Palestine Online. Palestine’s prisoners’ rights group Addameer had reported Wednesday that Issawi was suffering from […]
MK Tibi: Settlers training dogs to attack Palestinians (Ma’an news) – By Ma’an news BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli Knesset member Ahmad Tibi on Monday alleged that settlers in the West Bank are training dogs to attack Palestinians. Tibi told Ma’an that he obtained a videotape which shows settlers training dogs to attack Palestinians who say Allahu […]
Al- Eesawy Refuses To Be Exiled In Exchange For His Release (IMEMC) – By Saed Bannoura, IMEMC & Agencies Lawyer Shireen Al-Eesawy, sister of hunger striking detainee Samer Al-Eesawy, from Al-Eesawiyya in occupied Jerusalem, stated that her brother refused an Israeli offer to force him into exile in exchange for his release. On her Facebook page, […]
- By Ma’an, Al-Akhbar Israeli forces on Saturday broke up a wedding procession organized at a West Bank checkpoint to challenge Israeli laws preventing Palestinians in the occupied territories from living with their spouses in the Jewish state. The incident was one of a wave of attacks against Palestinians with Israeli citizenship which have recently made […]
- By Maayan Lubell, Reuters (Reuters) – Palestinian children detained by the Israeli military are subject to widespread, systematic ill-treatment that violates international law, a UNICEF report said on Wednesday. The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) estimated that 700 Palestinian children aged 12-17, most of them boys, are arrested, interrogated and detained by the Israeli military, police […]
Israel launches Palestinian-only buses amid accusations of racial segregation (The Telegraph) Israel has been accused of encouraging racial segregation after a new Palestinian-only bus service was launched following objections by Jewish settlers who claimed Arab passengers were “a security risk”. – By Robert Tait From Monday Palestinians travelling to day jobs into central Israel from the West Bank will […]
- By Samer Issawi, The Guardian My story is no different from that of many other Palestinian young people who were born and have lived their whole lives under Israeli occupation. At 17, I was arrested for the first time, and jailed for two years. I was arrested again in my early 20s, at the height of […]
