News Highlights:
- Israeli human rights groups confirm that Palestinian detainees are tortured by Israel, in defiance of rulings by the Israeli Supreme Court.
- Israeli soldiers are smashing down doors to homes and harassing school children in the Qalqiya area, all without making any arrests.
- S. African cabinet minister, Ronnie Kasrils, himself Jewish, denounces critics of his invitation to Palestinian PM to visit S. Africa.
- York University settles with Daniel Freeman-Malloy, the pro-Palestinian student activist barred from campus for his role in two protests.
Feature:
The feature was a special Eyewitness Palestine, with excerpts of the article by well-known Israeli journalist Gideon Levy about the brutal killing of a Palestinian teenage girl in Jenin refugee camp by an Israeli sniper. The article, carried in the May 6th, 2007 Haaretz newspaper, and entitled “Bushra’s final exam”, told the story of Bushra Bargis who was shot to death in her own home while studying for one of her matriculation exams. The story movingly recreated the last hours of her life and also shared the horrors of her mother who was the one to find Bushra in a pool of blood on the floor.
Feature:
The feature was a special Eyewitness Palestine, with excerpts of the article by well-known Israeli journalist Gideon Levy about the brutal killing of a Palestinian teenage girl in Jenin refugee camp by an Israeli sniper. The article, carried in the May 6/07 Haaretz newspaper, and entitled “Bushra’s final exam”, told the story of Bushra Bargis who was shot to death in her own home while studying for one of her matriculation exams. The story movingly recreated the last hours of her life and also shared the horrors of her mother who was the one to find Bushra in a pool of blood on the floor.
Focus on Zionism:
Highlights of a May 8th, 2007 story in the Israeli Haaretz newspaper about the visit of U.S. airport directors to study Israeli airline passenger screening i.e. racial profiling.
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