Palestinian women sit among the ruins of the Al-Nada towers after they were destroyed by Israeli strikes in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip, August 4, 2014. The towers had 90 flats. So far, Israeli attacks have killed at least 1,870 Palestinians, and injured 9,470 since the beginning of the Israeli offensive (Photo: Activestills)

The Long Road to Gaza

Practically everywhere around the globe, it is not possible to read the newspapers or watch the news without witnessing – either briefly or at great detail – the human tragedy in Gaza. The unjust war launched by the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu, has resulted in vast destruction in one of the most densely populated…

Palestinian activists confront Israeli soldiers during the weekly demonstration against the Israeli separation barrier in the West Bank village of Al Ma'sara, June 6, 2014. The separation barrier would cut off the village from its agricultural lands if it is built as planned (Photo: Activestills)

B’Tselem: A 47-year-long temporary occupation

At times the occupation seems to be a thing of the past. Women in labor detained at checkpoints for so long that they end up giving birth there are no longer a common occurrence; there are fewer incidents of killings, violence and destruction. Israel is no longer involved in determining the scholastic curricula for Palestinian…

A member of the Swetti family checks the faucet, East Jerusalem, March 15, 2014. The family of nine, living in the Ras Shehada neighborhood, has been going several days without running water (Photo: Activestills)

3 month without regular running water

In early March 2014 Hagihon, Jerusalem’s water utility company, stopped the regular supply of running water to several neighborhoods in north-east Jerusalem, namely: Shu’fat Refugee Camp, Ras Khamis, Ras Sh’hadeh and Dahiyat a-Salam (literally: Neighborhood of Peace), which have all been isolated from the rest of Jerusalem by the Separation Barrier. Some homes in these…

A Palestinian worker makes fishing hooks by hand to sell to other fishermen in Gaza port (Photo: Activestills

Unemployment in Gaza: highest since 2009

Seven months after the Israeli Ministry of Defense imposed new restrictions on the sale of construction materials to the Gaza Strip – adding to the near total halt in tunnel activity by the Egyptian military last summer – Gaza’s unemployment rate spikes to 40.8%. According to figures published by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics,…

May Day 2014 in Tel-Aviv: Raise the minimum wage to 30 shekels an hour (Photo: Galit)

Worker exploitation: How the state supports businesses

More than 120 years have passed since May Day was first celebrated as the workers’ struggle day. Despite significant progress that has been made in the past century, such as the inclusion of workers’ rights into the public discourse and protests, and progressive labor law legislation, many employers continue to overwork and underpay their workers,…

MK Dov Khenin during a protest meeting in front the Holyland Project in Jerusalem (Photo: The Association for the Defense of Nature)

MK Khenin on Olmert’s verdict: “We need to move in the opposite direction of Netanyahu’s neo-liberal reforms”

MK Dov Khenin (Hadash) reacted Tuesday afternoon to the sentencing of former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Olmert was handed a six-year prison sentence Tuesday, and will apparently be the first Prime Minister to be incarcerated in Israeli history. “Olmert’s sentence joins the parade of shame bourgeois politicians into the walls of the prison and is…