Richard Hardigan reports, “Murad Shteiwi and his family live in Kufr Qaddum, a small village located in the northern half of the Israeli-occupied West Bank. He is the head of the Kufr Qaddum Popular Committee and a chief protest organizer. His village is surrounded by Israeli settlements, for whose benefit much of Kufr Qaddum’s land has been confiscated. Shteiwi told the Electronic Intifada in 2011 that he estimated 58 percent of the village’s land had been appropriated by Kedumim, the closest settlement.

Richard Hardigan reports from Nabi Saleh, “Israel is the only country in the world that automatically prosecutes children in military courts that lack basic and fundamental fair trial guarantees. Since 2000, at least 8,000 Palestinian children have been arrested and prosecuted in an Israeli military detention system notorious for the systematic ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children.
Nabi Saleh is no exception in this regard. Since the demonstrations began, there have been 220 arrests, of which roughly 100 have been of minors and, perhaps even more disturbing, there have been 15 arrests of children under the age of 15. One of the latter is Mohammed Fadal Tamimi, aged 14, who is currently in prison.”

A dark anniversary: Israel invaded Lebanon in June 1982 to drive out the PLO, and in September it handed over control of Palestinian refugee camps Sabra and Shatila in western Beirut to Christian Phalange militias, which carried out a massacre of about 3000 residents over three days in mid-September.

When Iyad Hamed, 38, a father of four, got confused near an Israeli checkpoint last month and started to run, he was shot and killed– and labeled a terrorist. But he had a mental disability and had just bought candy for his children. His killing highlights the special vulnerability of disabled Palestinians under occupation,