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‘You’re not allowed to use public transportation at all’: A report from Israel’s segregated buses
Bus 286 is a segregated Israeli bus in the occupied territories, serving Israelis only as an Israeli soldier makes clear to Palestinian workers on their way home from jobs inside Israel who are taken off the bus: “You’re not allowed to be on Highway 5 . . . You’re not allowed to use public transportation at all.” Above, Palestinians are forced to sit on the ground while they wait for an Israeli soldier to check their work papers.
Preliminary Arafat Jaradat autopsy report: ‘Reason of Death: nervous shock as a result of extreme pain from the intensity of the injuries described above, which resulted from multiple direct and extensive acts of torture’
Read an unofficial English translation of the preliminary autopsy report on Arafat Jaradat.
After a week of protests, conditions are ripe for a popular uprising across the West Bank
Allison Deger reports from the West Bank as demonstrations grow in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners. Israel has attempted to crack down on protests with force, and appease Palestinians by releasing long withheld tax revenues, but there is no end in sight as the popular resistance spreads.
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Notes from an illegal military court in Israel
James Elliott reports from Hassan Karajah’s trial before a military court in Israel on Sunday, February 24th. Karajah, a Youth Organiser for the Stop the Wall campaign, was arrested over a month ago when the Israeli military raided his house in the middle of the night and is yet to be charged with any criminal offense. Elliott writes: “Hassan’s story is one of many, in fact one of thousands. Israel’s violation of Hassan Karajah’s fundamental human rights in its system of unjustifiable military courts is one of the many ways the Israeli occupation attempts to break the will of the Palestinian people.”
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To the holy land we belong and to Jerusalem we will return
“Shocked” is a word that describes that feeling I had when I read about the Islamic buildings recently demolished on the northern side of Buraq Square by Israeli occupation authorities just meters away of the Aqsa Mosque.
Palestinian citizens of Israel represent a core issue of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Discrimination against Palestinian citizens of Israel is in large part due to the self-proclaimed double definition of the State as “Jewish and democratic” and the absence of a written constitution or bill of rights. According to Israeli law, Israel is “Jewish and democratic,” yet the development and current structure of Israel is characterized as a Jewish state that privileges its Jewish majority over its non-Jewish minority through state policies, legislative measures, court decisions and official institutions. The Jewish character of the State continues to be emphasized, to the detriment of its democratic character, thereby jeopardizing the status of citizenship within Israel and the safeguarding of equal civil and political rights.
In pictures: Farmers rally for Israeli agriculture boycott in Gaza ‘buffer zone’
Hundreds of Palestinian farmers marched to the Gaza Strip’s Israel-imposed “buffer zone” this morning, where they rallied and planted olive trees. The demonstration, organized by theUnion of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC), was part of a global day of action for boycotts of Israeli agricultural companies organized by UAWC, other Palestinian agricultural organizations, and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) National Committee.
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Life under the F16s in Gaza
Rawan Yaghi describes life in Gaza under the constant threat of Israeli F16s: I was fourteen when the AbuSelmeyyas’ house was attacked by an F16 air strike. My body shivers as I write this. The attack killed the father and mother and seven of their children, Nasrallah 4, Aya 7, Yahya 9, Eman 12, Huda 14 who was my classmate in primary school. I wasn’t allowed to see any news about the attack. I heard from my brother that day that the bomb was directly dropped on the room where the mother and the children were. I also heard about their body parts being found in the buildings next to their house. I was only fourteen. What did I know.
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Samer Issawi is like an olive tree; his head reaches the sky and nobody can uproot him
The detainee’s minister in the PA, Issa Qaraqe’, says that the Palestinian hunger striker Samer Issawi is living his last hours inside the Israeli prison hospitals after 195 days on hunger strike for freedom.
Al-Manatir: the protest village in occupied territory that was destroyed before it was built
The Israeli military works with hilltop settlers in occupied lands outside Nablus to destroy the Palestinian protest encampment of al-Manatir in Burin
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Students suffer as Israel denies Palestinian freedom of movement and education in the occupied territories
How long does it typically take university students to get to their morning lectures where you live? It might just be a matter of whether they decide to walk, cycle or take the bus. Unfortunately, this isn’t the case for Palestinian students in the West Bank who continue to face incredible difficulties in accessing education because of the movement restrictions of the Israeli occupation.
‘Palestine Through Graphics’: Program teaches Palestinian youth to tell their story through graphic novels
A report from a workshop in Jenin with the ‘Palestine Through Graphics’ program which teaches Palestinian youth skills to tell their story through comics.
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Election Day in Jerusalem: Deciding to vote, boycott or rebel
Israelis and Palestinians from the left struggled with how to vote in the recent Israeli elections, and if they should vote at all.
Report from Beit Lahiya: Israel continues to break the ceasefire in Gaza
A ceasefire was announced on November 21st, ending eight days of horrific bloodshed in Gaza. Has the delicate truce held over the past two months? It depends who you ask. While there has not been a single report of a rocket fired out of Gaza since the ceasefire went into effect, four Palestinians have lost their lives and over 80 have been injured by Israeli forces in that time period. Above, Abdullah Marouf, 18, was shot in the right leg by Israeli forces on Monday, fracturing both his tibia and fibula.
Palestinian Authority police use live fire inside of al-Amari refugee camp
On Sunday night, Palestinian police fired live rounds at demonstrators in the al-Amari refugee camp near Ramallah in the roughest encounter between security forces and West Bank Palestinians to date.
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In Budrus, grief stings
The funeral of Sameer Awad from Budrus ends with tear gas in the village and over the deceased’s grave site.
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Samer Issawi is dying in jail as he is held without charge
Today, an Israeli magistrate court rejected Palestinian hunger striker Samer Issawi’s appeal. Issawi will have to wait another 20 days to face the Ofer military court on February 5th where the court will decide either to release him or keep him in prison.
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Activists steadfast as Bab al-Shams violently evicted by Israeli soldiers – ‘We will not remain silent as Israel continues to build Jewish-only colonies on our land’
Last night, shortly before 3 a.m. local time, hundreds of Israeli soldiers and police officers raided the Palestinian protest encampment of Bab al-Shams (Gate of the Sun), and violently evicted its 150 inhabitants. The massive police force began by removing journalists and proceeded to drag people away, beating some of them. Six Palestinians required medical care at the Ramallah Hospital.
On foot through the hills of E1 — Palestinians join Bab al-Shams protest village
Allison Deger travels with dozens of Palestinians as they evade Israeli soldiers in the hills of Jerusalem to reach the new protest village of Bab al-Shams in E1.
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Palestinians establish new village– Bab al-Shams, ‘Gate of the Sun’– in Occupied E1
The Israel government today vowed to evict a Palestinian village established in a crucial strip of occupied land, E1. The “sons and daughters of Palestine” — a group numbering 250– set up tents near the village of Za’I'm in E1 and said they are prepared to stay indefinitely
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Roots of Resistance: Memories of Nablus
In 1989, Michael Lynk left his job as a lawyer and joined UNRWA to serve as a refugee affairs officer in Jerusalem. Here he describes experiencing the intifada in the Balata, Askar and Am’ari refugee camps. This post is part of the series “Roots of Resistance: 25 year retrospective on the first intifada.”
Settlers stage new year’s attack on West Bank village of Qusra
While people around the world were celebrating the start of a new year the Palestinian town of Qusra in the West Bank was under attack. Around midnight December 31st 1settlers entered the agricultural outskirts of the town, uprooting approximately 250 trees. Reports from some of the villagers spoke of the Israeli Army lighting parachute flares over the olive groves to assist the vandals.
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Palestine wishes you a happy new year
Nour O. El Borno recalls new year in 2009 as Israel bombarded Gaza during Operation Cast Lead and wonders if 2013 will only bring more Israeli violence.
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Scene on an Israeli bus
David Sheen reports on a Jewish Israeli man attacking a Palestinian citizen of Israel on a bus in Jaffa.
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The birth of Jesus– and the mythological birth of a Palestinian state
As tourists celebrated Christmas in Manger Square in Bethlehem, shop owners were working. Despite its widely-hailed new UN Observer state status, the West Bank is in economic decline.
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