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Israeli Forces Execute Palestinian Civilian at Point-Blank Range in al-Far’ah Refugee Camp | Palestinian Center for Human Rights
Israeli Forces Execute Palestinian Civilian at Point-Blank Range in al-Far’ah Refugee Camp | Palestinian Center for Human Rights – According to PCHR’s investigations and the mother’s testimony, Fawziyah Mahmoud Khamis Salhi (67) said to PCHR’s fieldworker that at approximately 02:00 on the abovementioned day, Israeli forces moved into al-Far’ah refugee camp, south of Tubas. They […]
Israeli Intelligence Minister Demands That U.S. Agree to Spying Limits, Saying “We Don’t Spy on U.S. President” – Matthew Aid
The U.S. National Security Agency targeted e-mail accounts used by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his defense minister, Ehud Barak, while they were in office, The Guardian newspaper reported Friday. It cited documents provided by Edward Snowden, a former NSA employer who fled the U.S. in May and is now living in Russia.“The […]
Racist ringleaders 2013: Israel’s war on Africans intensifies | The Electronic Intifada
There is no shortage of Israeli journalists who couch their reporting on African asylum-seekers in derogatory terms, vilifying them in the eyes of the Israeli public. In June, top Israel Army Radio reporter Hadas Steif employed racist tropes traditionally used to dehumanize Africans, saying that an African man suspected of snatching the wallet […]
In Israel, Canada embraces the racism it abolished at home | The Electronic Intifada
Six decades after the Supreme Court delivered this blow to racist property covenants, our Prime Minister Stephen Harper will be promoting a charity that discriminates in land use.A 1998 United Nations Human Rights Council report found that the JNF systematically discriminates against Arab citizens of Israel — who make up about 20 percent of the country’s […]
Released asylum seekers banned from working in TA, Eilat – Israel News, Ynetnews
The Population and Immigration Authority stated that, \”The State has the authority and the right to set conditions to the release of infiltrators. The policy is to prevent the entrance of further infiltrators to cities that harbor large populations of infiltrators, thereby avoiding any further burden, as much as possible, to local population.\” It is important […]
WikiLeaks: Israel aimed to keep Gaza economy on brink of collapse Israel News | Haaretz
Three cables cited by the Aftenposten newspaper, which has said it has all 250,000 U.S. cables leaked to WikiLeaks, showed that Israel kept the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv briefed on its internationally criticized blockade of the Gaza Strip.The territory, home to 1.3 million Palestinians, is run by the Islamist Hamas group, which is […]
PressTV – Israel to build synagogue at al-Aqsa Mosque
“They will use these plans in an attempt to unify secular Jews, who are in dispute about demolishing al-Aqsa Mosque. It is also very unlikely that Arab states will intervene while they are dealing with their revolutions and internal issues,” the analyst pointed out.Over the past decades, Israel has tried to change demographic makeup of […]
Israel stockpiled chemical weapons decades ago – CIA document — RT News
Israel is believed to have secretly built up its own stockpile of chemical and biological weapons decades ago, reports Foreign Policy, citing a recently unearthed CIA document.American surveillance satellites uncovered in 1982 “a probable CW [chemical weapon] nerve agent production facility and a storage facility… at the Dimona Sensitive Storage Area in the Negev Desert,” […]
4th World Radyo: Democratic Fascism in Occupied Palestine
Summary: Journalist David Sheen joins 4th World Radyo to discuss the recent elections in the State of Israel/Occupied Palestine and what this means to Indigenous Arab Palestinians, African immigrants and to the ever-changing politics of the region. David Sheen is a reporter and content editor at Haaretz.com. Originally from Toronto, Canada, Sheen has blogged online since he […]
Israeli leftist activists: We are being sexually harassed in the West Bank – Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
“Hi everyone, I’m writing this here because I’m not really sure when the next meeting will be. At the demonstration today (February 10, 2012) in Kfar a-Dik, I noticed looks and finger pointing from the shabab (nickname for young Palestinians) that made me feel some discomfort. They talked amongst themselves, and not with me, but […]
Report: “Israel Kidnapped 380 Palestinians In February” – International Middle East Media Center
In a press release, Al-Ashqar said that among the kidnapped Palestinians in February were 54 children and six women, including one female detainee who was released under the Prisoner Swap deal.He said that 14 residents were kidnapped while working in their lands, close to the Israeli “security fence” along the border between Gaza and Israel. […]
ynet הפלסטינים: צעיר נהרג מאש צה”ל בקלנדיה – חדשות
ynet הפלסטינים: צעיר נהרג מאש צה”ל בקלנדיה – חדשות. 25 Palestinians Killed by IDF gunfire during a demonstration near Kalandia. The evening he died of his wounds. An initial investigation revealed that the IDF shot dead at close range fireworks at a group of soldiers. Soldiers who felt danger to their lives fired at him […]
Cassandra Wilson cancels Holon concert, joining artistic boycott of Israel – Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
“Her first explanation was that she read recently about Israel’s intention to attack Iran and she feared for her safety and the safety of her people,” said Telem. He recommended she speak with official agencies in Israel and the United States to inquire about whether there were any official travel warnings, rather than relying on […]
Palestinian Prisoner Khader Adnan to be Released from Israeli Jail After 66-Day Hunger Strike
Israel’s Justice Ministry says that the authorities will not renew the detention of Khader Adnan, a Palestinian prisoner who has been on a hunger strike for 66 days. He is being held in Israel without charge or trial. Under the deal, Adnan will be released on April 17. Doctors previously said Adnan was at immediate […]