IMEMC, 2/13/14 – Israeli soldiers attacked and fired gas bombs at dozens of schoolchildren in Silwan town, in occupied East Jerusalem, leading to dozens of injuries, Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan has reported. The Center said that the soldiers invaded Schools Street, in the Ras al-Amoud neighborhood, in Silwan, and attacked children who were walking […]
IMEMC, 2/13/14 – Palestinian medical sources have reported that one Palestinian was killed, and another wounded by Israeli military fire in the al-Mintar area, east of the Ash-Shujaeyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City. Dr. Ashraf Al-Qodra, spokesperson of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, stated that resident Ibrahim Suleiman Mansur, 26 years of age, was […]
By Stuart Littlewood. Redress, 2/12/14 – The head of the Holocaust Educational Trust, Karen Pollock, has once again succeeded in wringing an apology from a British MP for remarks about what happened to Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe and what is happening now to Palestinians in Israeli-occupied Gaza and the West Bank. “Offensive” truth During the same parliamentary debate in which Sir […]
By Ramah Kudaimi. End the Occupation, 2/14/14 – American television network NBC is cooperating with Israeli authorities and the Keshet Media Group, an Israeli media company, to produce a new action series that will be set and shot in occupied East Jerusalem. The series, DIG, will be aired later this year on the USA cable channel. Nir […]
Nawal Jabarin wants to be a doctor when she grows up. For now, she lives in a cave with 14 siblings, in constant fear of military raids. We meet the Palestinian children living under Israeli occupation By Harriet Sherwood. The Guardian, 2/7/14 – The rough track is an unmarked turning across a primeval landscape of rock […]
B’Tselem, 2/9/14 – Gaza’s main water source is the coastal aquifer, which is also used by Israel and Egypt. It has been continuously over-pumped for decades, even prior to Israel’s occupation in 1967. At present, the Palestinian Water Authority pumps some 180 million cubic meters (mcm) a year from the aquifer in Gaza, although its […]
By Allan C. Brownfeld. In a thoughtful new study guide issued by the Israel/Palestine Mission of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), a question is asked which few have thus far been willing to pose: “Given the liberal values shared by many American Jews and the long, proud tradition of Jewish participation in the struggle for human […]
IRmep, 2/12/14 – For several years, IRmep’s Israel Lobby Archive has been trying to obtain and publish FBI files (PDF) about Israel’s Mossad intelligence and covert operations service. Our key argument for release is that the FBI routinely releases files about Russian and Chinese spies, including interview transcripts and surveillance video. Appeals of FBI denials to the […]
AntiWar.com, 2/10/14 – It may seem like an incredibly lazy and not particularly inventive strategy, but Israel is willing to bet that, amid threats of a new push for boycott and divestment from the settlements, they can slander boycott advocates into silence. Israel held a whole special “ministerial meeting” on the matter recently, according to the […]
IMEMC, 2/12/14 – A group of Israeli colonial settlers, on Tuesday, cut down 150 grape trees in the region of Ayn Alqisis, to the south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem. “The aggressive settlers of Sidi Boez settlement, built on Palestinians lands, cut down the aged grape trees that belong to Ayman salah, age […]
