Tensions were running high in occupied East Jerusalem on Friday, July 21, as thousands of Palestinians marched towards the Old City to denounce increased Israeli security measures at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, which the cabinet decided to maintain earlier in the day, despite recommendations from the state’s own security agencies. Several Joint List MKs participated…
Rabbis for Human Rights are seeking action against signs posted without authorization on private Palestinian property as well as the unauthorized replacement of street signs in Arabic with others in Hebrew and English and which bear new names of streets where the majority of residents are Palestinians. The army has refused to act against this…
Israel’s far-right minister of defense, Avigdor Liberman, announced on Sunday, April 30, that Ahmad Dawabsheh, whose home in Duma near Nablus in the Palestinian occupied territories was destroyed in an arson attack by Israeli settlers two years ago, is not eligible to receive compensation from the state. Ahmad’s parents and younger brother died as a…
The Israeli NGO “Breaking the Silence” offers guided tours to Hebron and the South Hebron Hills in the Palestinian occupied West Bank, allowing an unmediated encounter with the reality of military occupation. The tour guides, all former combatants who served in these areas, share from their experiences to help illustrate the Israeli government’s policies enacted…
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) has expressed its deep concern following the decision by Israel’s Police Investigation Affairs Unit to close 5 out of 7 reported cases of attacks against paramedical teams serving residents of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. During the closing months of 2015, the safety of Palestinian paramedical personnel drew the…
Israel’s occupation army arrested 12 Israeli peace activists on Saturday afternoon, February 20, during a protest in Hebron to mark 22 years since the Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre. According to police, the arrests took place after the Israelis entered H1, the area of Hebron under the control of the Palestinian Authority, where Israelis cannot legally enter.…
Hadash Knesset Member Dov Khenin (Joint List) called on Israeli authorities on Thursday, January 21, to launch an investigation into the Samaria Residents Council for incitement to racism, demanding that the group’s state funding be cut off after it called for a boycott of Arab businesses in Israel. The statement came in reaction to the…
Ezra Nawi, an Israeli peace activist, was seized and arrested by police at Ben-Gurion airport on Monday, January 11, just days after he was shown in a television investigatory report broadcast by Channel 2. Nawi, an activist from an Israel-Palestinian peace group named Ta’ayush (Arabic for “Living Together”), was reportedly arrested by police for conspiring…
Footage broadcast on Israel’s Channel 10 News on Wednesday night, December 23, showing right-wing settler extremists at a wedding celebrating the killing of the Palestinian Dawabsha family has caused outrage among Hadash and Communist Party of Israel activists. The video from the celebration in Jerusalem shows dozens of wedding guests waving knives, Israeli military rifles,…
According to Al Ittihad, the daily Arabic-language newspaper of the Communist Party of Israel, the Dawabsheh family from the Palestinian West Bank village of Duma, the father, mother, and toddler son of which died as a result of an arson attack perpetrated by settlers at the end of July this year, will receive no compensation…