Month: October 2008

Israeli forces confiscated a large piece of construction equipment from Zidan Issa Shawahi while he was working the fields near Umm Lasafa a village south of Hebron. Eyewitnesses said Israeli forces assaulted Zidan before confiscating […]

Lawyers for Mr Al-Shami filed a case in the Dutch court of appeal at The Hague on Monday, requesting an order for Dutch prosecution to begin criminal investigations into Ayalon and an extradition order to […]

The Occupation has confiscated 180 dunums of agricultural land from the villages of Deir Sharaf and Qusin, northwest of Nablus, for use as a trash dump – the official sanctioning of a practice that has […]

"It  is not taught in Israeli schools but most of the early Zionist leaders, including David Ben Gurion [Israel’s first prime minister], believed that the Palestinians were the descendants of the area’s original Jews. They […]

The general promised “disproportionate” force to destroy entire villages identified as sources of Hizbullah rocket fire, the reasoning being that they are “not civilian villages” but rather “military bases” – the kind of reasoning that […]

Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen said: ‘The shocking truth is that Israeli soldiers kill civilians in Gaza with near-total impunity, week in week out. Tom Hurndall’s family have fought hard to achieve justice over […]

Israel bars Canadian from seeing dying father A Canadian woman and her two teenage daughters are surviving on handouts and sleeping on the floor of Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque because Israeli authorities won’t let them enter […]

Siboni: Destroy Lebanon in Case of New War Israeli reserve Brigadier General Gabriel Siboni called for striking Lebanon’s infrastructure in case of a new war. In an article published on the Israeli Institute for National […]

Shepherd boy executed by Israeli settlers while tending flock near Nablus (28 Sept) Nablus – Ma’an – Israeli settlers executed an 18-year-old shepherd boy in the fields outside Aqraba, a town in the Nablus district […]

Israel closes off Palestinian territories for Jewish holiday   Israeli forces announced that the West Bank will be held under complete closure from today through Wednesday. It is the end of Ramadan, and Eid al-Fitr […]