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(FILE) A photo taken on October 15, 2018. Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh takes a photo during the coverage of the closure of Lubban al-Sharqiya School south of Nablus city, in the West Bank. (Photo: Wajed Nobani/APA Images)

The Washington Post publishes a lengthy investigation bearing out what eyewitnesses said on May 11, an Israeli soldier killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in occupied territories. The Post openly disputes the shifting Israeli “claims” about who killed Abu Akleh, and all but accuses the Israeli army of withholding evidence from the public. The investigation will add pressure on Secretary of State Antony Blinken to actually demand an independent investigation and accountability for the Israelis.

The Palestinian towns of Iqrit and Birim in the Galilee were destroyed by the Israeli army in the 1950s so as to prevent Palestinian villagers from returning under a court order. The case haunts Israeli government to this day, as Rinawie Zoabi, a Palestinian lawmaker in Meretz, demands the return of the residents as a condition of her staying in the coalition. But Foreign Minister Yair Lapid is having none of it.

The new Legal Centre for Palestine (LCP) will counter the harassment and intimidation of Canada’s Palestinian community and its allies by pro-Israel organizations. “We defend the right of Palestinians to exist,” co-founder Emilio Dabed says. “Law, on its own, cannot liberate Palestinians or Palestine. Law is a complementary tool for a struggle that needs to combine grassroots organization and mobilization.”

What's the story?: Basil al-Adraa in Masafer Yatta

Journalist and activist Basil al-Adraa explains how a recent decision by Israel’s High Court to green light the destruction of eight villages in his home of Masafer Yatta, an area of 20 Palestinian communities in the West Bank’s South Hebron Hills, gives judicial consent to the violence Israeli forces and settlers have practiced for decades.