Ranah al-Hallaq, the mother of Iyad, the Palestinian man with autism who was killed by a Border Police officer, holds up a photo of her son, June 2, 2020.

Cop Killer of Autistic Palestinian to Be Charged with Reckless Homicide

The Israeli Border Police officer who shot and killed an autistic Palestinian man in Jerusalem’s Old City in late May could be tried for “reckless manslaughter,” pending a hearing, the Justice Ministry’s Police Internal Investigations Department (PIID) announced on Wednesday, October 21. The family of the victim, Iyad al-Hallaq, 32, criticized the decision, saying that it…

President of the State of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas met on Friday evening, August 7, in Ramallah with a delegation from Hadash that included MK Ayman Odeh (third from left), General Secretary of the Communist Party of Israel, Adel Amer (first from right), and Secretary General of Hadash, Mansour Dehamshe (first from left).

President Mahmoud Abbas Meets Hadash Delegation in Ramallah

The President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), received at his presidential headquarters in Ramallah, Friday evening, August 7, a delegation from the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (Hadash) headed by MK Ayman Odeh, leader of the Joint List and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Israel, Adel Amer. According…

MK Ayman Odeh participated in the demonstration at Jerusalem’s Paris Square Saturday night, August 1, near the official residence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu whose resignation the protestors called for. The printed red Hadash placard reads" When the government is against the people, the people are against the government." The hand-written sign held aloft by Odeh satirically synthesizes government pronouncements: "Current status: 16 year old leftist anarchist is spreading diseases."

Racist Netanyahu Incites against Hadash MK Odeh’s Part in Protests

Far-right Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Joint List leader, MK Ayman Odeh (Hadash) publicly exchanged personalized political acrimony on Sunday, August 2, over the latter’s participation in a mass anti-Netanyahu protest in Jerusalem, Saturday night, alongside Hadash MK Ofer Cassif (Joint List). Netanyahu, increasingly irritated by the demonstrations outside his residence, used the Hadash MK as…

Addameer Lawyer Salah Hamouri Conditionally Released by Court

Salah Hamouri, a lawyer for Adameer, the Palestinian Prisoner and Human Rights Association, was conditionally released from detention on Tuesday, July 8, by the Israeli Court of First Instance, after he had been arrested on June 30 in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem. On July 1, Hamouri’s detention was extended for another seven days,…